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Auntie Maim (T'Rina)
@auntie-maim.bsky.social
Elder Goth - Part time adult
est. 1968
Artist, Craft Witch, 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA, cis♀️ 💗💜💙
🐈‍⬛Cat Addict🐈
Intersectional Feminist,
Autistic ADHD
Fibro fighter
Childfree by choice
Agnostic
Aqua Tofana
One of the weirdos



ENRAGED AND UNFORGIVING

I miss being hopeful
January 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
January 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Exactly
Also many people with #fibro have Insulin resistance which can cause Fatigue, inflammation and increases your cravings

Part of why I'm desperate to get off of Opioids is they increase my thirst and sugar cravings
January 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Since I have gone down the "Post stuff about diet to fight pain" info dump road here is some info on

Diet for #Fibro relief

Note that a lot of it is the same as for #Anti-inflammatory
January 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I made this in 2022 and it's not so much the craft projects because I finished most of those but organizing the craft supplies has been a couple decades long process
January 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I made this on 2022....I still haven't finished any of it
January 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Now if I even suspect it has #MSG (Free glutamates) chances are I won't even touch it
And yes the fact is it makes food taste better partly because it literally perks up your taste buds which is why touching my tongue to it I can tell

But no food is worth the agony of a #fibro #flareup
January 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I'd avoided #MSG for years
Since I can't eat a lot of things I seldom ever went to places where I was likely to get it
About 5 yrs ago I forgot to ask that the takeout portion of our meal not have MSG in it
Later after 4 bites I was crying w/ a massive migraine & My knuckles visibly swelled
January 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
To be called #MSG it must be 98.9% pure free glutamate

Anything less can go by dozens of other names

Often there are handfuls of these multiple ingredients that are full of free glutamates that combined make up very high quantity of what is basically MSG in food
January 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
One thing that you find in a lot of foods that cause as inflammation in people with chronic health problems like pain disorders is #MSG
And while it doesn't affect lots of people The people who it does affect suffer a lot
January 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Take it slow, give yourself time to figure out if the changes are making a difference & it can take 3 to 4 wks before you see any difference
If it's not super obvious within 4 wks you might try re-adding the food to see how it affects you

Sometimes it's so obvious so fast when you try it again
January 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
After you remove the most obvious candidates for #inflammation in your diet, processed foods, sweeteners, nitrates, wheat etc... start making changes to #anti-inflammatory foods
Switch ham for lean meat, work with different seasonings, try different vegetables and grains see if it makes a difference
January 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you make a lot of changes at one time it's very hard to tell which ones are really making a difference

Not knowing which things you cut out are actually affecting you tends to make it really easy to cheat on those changes

Once you know for a fact it will make you sick you can avoid it easily
January 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
To test whether your diet is causing Part of your #inflammation One of the best things to do is start taking out the easiest things to remove such as artificial flavoring & sweeteners & process foods

After three or four weeks see how you feel

Then try bringing back a little bit & see what happens
January 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A lot of times when drs talk about an elimination diet they are literally saying cut out almost everything & slowly bring it back

That's not reasonable for most people

If you know the problem is inflammation then pick a category of inflammatory foods, remove it for 3 weeks & see what happens
January 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
January 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
When amazing painters are amazingly bad at painting #cats
January 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As an artist one of my best suggestions for people who want to get art gifts for their kids, Don't buy cheap kits
Nothing even more frustrating for a kid then trying to make arr than having pins run out, pencils not color well
Look for fall clearance sales, slowly build a kit of decent supplies
January 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#Caturday
My partner Alex wore a Black Watch kilt and Sporran at our handfasting
After we opened some gifts he walked around the party afterwards with a Cthulhu plushy sticking out of it
January 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's #Caturday and I need a day of Pawsitive energy

There are not enough #Gothic #Cat memes so I made some

(Not my #BlackCats)
January 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's #Caturday and I need a day of Pawsitive energy

There are not enough #Gothic #Cat memes so I made some

(Not my #BlackCats)
January 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's #Caturday and I need a day of Pawsitive energy

There are not enough #Gothic #Cat memes so I made some

(Not my #BlackCats)
January 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's #Caturday and I need a day of Pawsitive energy

There are not enough #Gothic #Cat memes so I made some

(Not my #BlackCats)
January 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's #Caturday and I need a day of Pawsitive energy

There are not enough #Gothic #Cat memes so I made some

(Not my #BlackCats)
January 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM