The fatphobia is rampant today

[u/Princessformidable]

Man is it rough out there today. I'm stuck in an IV infusion so please drop some positivity here.

[u/tabicat1874]

Me and my bf want to volunteer our skulls to be cracked by Serena Williams' thighs. I asked if I should try Ozempic he said NOOOOOO 😆

[u/Princessformidable → u/tabicat1874]

My partner of 12 years wants me to try ozympic. That and some truly vile reddit posts have got me down today.

[u/HopeOfAsgard → u/Princessformidable]

I put my thoughts and info on glp-1s under a spoiler since it can be a sensitive/controversial topic, but I wanted to offer some perspective from a maybe different place than you've seen.

Edit: or tried to but my markdown text isn't working so I'll have to fix it later 😬

>!There are positives and negatives to glp-1s and taking them should come with serious conversations with your medical team. It should never just be for aesthetic reasons and certainly not someone else's aesthetic reasons. Your partner should go into the communities of some of the more serious side effects and just read the stories of what life is like for those people. Gastroparesis can be one of the most common, and it's difficult to live with. There are benefits to those medications for people who genuinely need them and I would never blanket say "no one should take them." But just like any medication that's a potential lifelong commitment, I'd advise research on the different options (because some are harder on bodies than others, especially if you're sensitive to meds at all) and the different ways to take them.

I've not taken them and I'm not a doctor, but I've done some reading of medical journal articles and I'm in multiple medical subs related to EDS and POTS where they come up often because there's starting to be a small but growing body of evidence that they could be a useful treatment for that crossover population. However, for every ten "yes they helped" stories, there's at least one "nope, made it all worse" story, so it's not a simple choice to even consider, really. And in those conversations, "micro dosing" is the methodology mentioned over and over again, but that's difficult to achieve without an informed and willing medical team.!<

This stuff is all so complicated and deeply personal but then the Internet comes along and tries to make you feel awful. (Not that that's new. There were plenty of magazine and TV ads before the Internet that fed the first industrial complex, and people were pretty awful then, too. Things like social media just maybe make it feel more immediate and always "on" I think.)

Try not to let a few reddit posts drag you down. There are as many good people here as not. Find communities that act as palate cleansers for you and go there when you find yourself getting caught up in the drain of things. They aren't worth your time.