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Hello Everyone! My name is Marie and for a long time I have been aware from my family I have EDS. I was also born with the other comorbidities such as club foot, sprengal anomaly, chairi malformation, scoliosis, and all the other common symptoms of skin elasticity, hyper mobility, piezogenic capsules, POTS, etc. However, one of my symptoms has just progressively gotten worst to where I wanted to research if I could improve this. My translucent skin has gotten extremely noticeable lately. You can see very bright blue markings all over my chest, stomach, and legs, to where I have to hide it. So I googled it and basically scared myself. All of my symptoms I have correlate with vascular EDS. I don’t know if I’m being over reactive, but I’m kindof scaring myself into thinking I should get testing to make sure I have it or not. Would you guys recommend this? Should I relax? I’m going off the symptoms from here
https://thevedsmovement.org/veds/what-are-the-signs/
I apologize if this seems like any type of self diagnosing nonsense. I’m very lucky enough that EDS hasn’t drastically impacted my life.
I’m 16 (F) and getting my genetic results back on Monday. A doctor called about some genetic anomalies and it doesn’t sound too good.
They’re trying to make sure I don’t have Vascular EDS but I do have 3 official diagnoses of hEDS. I went to a heart doctor awhile back and they said I didn’t have any issues or POTS (they never tested for POTS)
They said I might have heart issues, they found a marker for Marfan’s Syndrome, and they think I might have sticklers syndrome. I’m scared shitless and I really don’t want Vascular because my doctors made it sound terrifying. (My grandmother died from an aneurysm.)
I’m 5’2 with long arms but my dads side is very tall. It’s actually my birthday today! I don’t talk to my dad often but hopefully he’ll respond because they need his genetic testing. Also kinda sad because I’m the youngest all my brothers and sisters on my dads birthday are 20-30 but he’s never wished me a happy birthday. Just kinda sucks having unloving dads! Hopefully everything will be okay!
At my 19 week + 5 day ultrasound, my baby was diagnosed with a persistent right umbilical vein (PRUV). I was told this is rare (2/1000 pregnancies) and that it can be associated with a number of other anomalies in various organ systems. The doctor seemed to tick off most associated problems, but wasn't able to see all views of the heart, which is a big concern related to PRUV. I have to go back in two weeks for another ultrasound in 2 weeks. She also suggested I see a genetic counselor and get an amniocentesis, because there is a low chance of associated chromosomal issues. We were completely shocked to hear this news. While it's only been 4 days out of the 14 days we have to wait for the next ultrasound, we can't think about anything else. For anyone that is going through this or has experienced it in the past, what were your experiences?
Edit: For anyone out there who is going through this now or in the future, I will post updates about our experience.
12/27/21: I reached out to the MFM doctor that we talked to at our anatomy scan and asked her if she was able to tell if the PRUV was intrahepatic or extrahepatic. She believes that it is an intrahepatic PRUV, which has a better prognosis. This was so relieving to hear! I also went ahead and requested a referral for a fetal echocardiogram, since both a detailed ultrasound and echocardiogram are indicated with a PRUV finding, according to the research articles I found.
12/29/21 Update: I saw a genetic counselor this morning who was very reassuring and did NOT have concerns about chromosomal abnormalities. She said that the baby is big enough at a 20 week scan that other markers would have been identified if there were concerns about chromosomal abnormalities, even without having all the information about the heart. The current ultrasound information combined with our low-risk/negative genetic blood screening results on the NIPS gave the genetic counselor confidence to suggest that the PRUV is vascular anomaly that is more like a variant. She felt that our next ultrasound will result in an isolated finding of PRUV and that we can think of it as another chance to see the baby. If, for some reason, the MFM notes any other soft markers or abnormalities at our follow-up ultrasound, I will be prepared to do an amniocentesis that same day. PRUV + other anomalies can indicate a slightly increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities. Greater than 15 weeks, the risk of miscarriage from an amniocentesis is 1/1000 (a
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Hello everyone,
I'm from Germany so excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker.
I've recently set up a GoFundMe page because my two year old Swissy James suffers from an intrahepatic shunt and I cannot finance his surgery. An intrahepatic shunt is a vascular anomaly that does not lead the blood through the liver, but forwards it unfiltered into the bloodstream. The result is a gradual intoxication that causes both neurological and physical ailments and severely affects James' life.
His surgery is scheduled for August at the Gießen veterinary clinic in Germany. I've attached some additional official details from the veterinary clinic below. Until then, my girlfriend and I will be monitoring him around the clock at home. He receives a special liver diet because he is not allowed to eat any animal proteins. He is also on medications daily to reduce symptoms and keep him stable for surgery.
As long as the intraheptic shunt remains untreated he is very susceptible to illnesses, so we hope he remains stable until the surgery. Before the shunt diagnosis by our vet he was about 13kg underweight, but by changing his diet several times, we were able to increase his weight from 27kg to 39kg, which we hope will remain the same despite the new liver diet and his "fussy" eating habits. Ultimately, he'll need this surgery to live a normal life.
In order to finance all this, I'm asking for your support, because the liver shunt operation alone will amount to approx. 5,000 euros, plus regular blood tests, special food and medication.
Thank you for your support ❤️
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/78bbeebb
Picture of James: https://imgur.com/WhP3k9m
Surgery documents: https://imgur.com/a/bLgdReC
New spot on the left eye, yay.
For a bit of reference, I am using this here, and a dozen other pictures like it, to determine if there "is something" or not.
Now, how did I notice? Woke up after a long nap, you know... it was new years some days ago, we were hungover for a bit, ya know how it goes. Taking it slow, chatting talking laughing til early morning for a few days, then sleeping.
I noticed a little "blue" spot on the left eye that appeared when I blinked. I immediately looked around and noticed the typical Cotton Wool Spot / Ischemia behaviour; strange color/missing spot + follows the eye movement without any delay + does seem to go away once you focus on it + comes back once you blink or look another way or at another object + is most easily seen against a computer screen because of the backlighting.
Now, in my test picture, you can verify if you have spots, by using your mouse cursor, and moving it from the bottom, to the top, and vice versa, and looking at the cursor, all the time, with one eye closed. If you see strange "lines" appear at the intersections of one yellow bar connecting with the blue, those may be arterial shadows, those are 'normal'.
If you in any point of your visual field see small dots and a sudden bright tiny microscopic small light, then keep your cursor where it is, and move it up and down a little bit. If you consistently see a bright silverish "blob" where the the yellow bar meets the blue filler, then you have a spot in that spot, or something at least. Dirt on your glasses or a vein/arterial thing in that spot of the eye, something.
I can definetly see my 2-3 year old cotton wool spot in the distance of the right eye at the 8 o clock position. Now what I can also see, is a similar spot at the 8 o clock position, but a quarter of an inch closer.
This of course depends on your positioning, how far you sit away from the screen when looking at it, and how well you are aware of what to look for.
The test uses "royal/cobalt blue", since I somewhere found that a certain light wavelength can be used to detect anomalies in the eyes, usually in combination with fluorescent material like eye drops applied. But I found that the contrast of this "soothing blue" in combination of bright yellow, brings the best results.
I have the same pictures in black and white, with black being the smaller bars [i call them 'Reference bars'] and white for the "filler".
... keep reading on reddit ➡When I had my 13 birthday party and it was a pool party. All my friends were here and I had my period (I started my period at age 11) I had never used a tampon before. With it starting the day of my party, I decided I had no choice. After I tried, and telling my family I couldn't, crying, both my sisters, who were 10 years older than me and familiar with the vagina and tampons,... and my mother tried to help me insert this tampon and none of us could!! Eventually by age 15 or 16 I didn't have the issue and could use tampons fine.
After puberty, As a minor, I had to get reconstruction surgery along with labiaplasty (though it was my clit too) but the reason wasn't entirely aesthetic, my genital area had grown and was large, discolored, and painful to sit, and I was constantly havin to "tuck" my extra skin. When I finally opened up to my parents about it, I was surprised I didn't get told "you're beautiful the way you are, that's normal honey" or "lots of women have this!" and instead we were driving 3 hours away for me to have the surgery., No physical issues after that, and the bonus, I got to have a cute-looking V and I was proud of it!!
That same year, I wanted to become sexually active so I started combo birth control 1/20 and I was fine on it from age 18-21, from age 19-20 I was constantly at the doctor for vulvovaginal pain, inflammation, etc. Some doctors made me take continuous antibiotcs in abcense of infection, accused me of having sex and reinfecting myself with ureaplasama, and at 21 I started getting insane symotoms when I would be on the week of my placebo pills where I would fall over in pain and wanna vomit, shit myself and pass out all at once. So my NEW doctor who was a lot more compassionate advised I do continuous birth control, and so I did that from 20-26. It was actually amazing. My body was amazing. My already larger than average breasts grew into really large perky breasts, I had a full head of hair that was 5x thicker than it is now, I smelled like a woman, and my skin was clear and acne that I had battled as a child were gone!
Fast forward to 2019 at age 24 or so, I began having odd autoimmune-like symptoms and have been battling with different specialist and different diagnosis since. I had hormones checked by functional medicine doctors, and my test, progesterone were less than 0.5. My DHEA was a roller coaster, from high to low. High SHBG, high prolactin, and estrogen was in the lower normal range, I think they did estridol
... keep reading on reddit ➡Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
And now I’m cannelloni
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
