good morning, #firecrotchfriday came early health update be..

good morning, #firecrotchfriday came early health update below: so as you know i’ve been struggling with health issues. primarily joint pain, acid reflux and a host of other gi issues. my strict acid reflux diet hasn’t helped and i have felt like i’ve been getting worse and worse the past few months. i have also been dealing with a migraine with aura and some things i haven’t shared, extreme fatigue and brain fog and neuropathy. the neuropathy is something i haven’t talked about, in the past two years i have developed carpal tunnel in both my wrists and my shakiness has worsened considerably. and worst, i seem to be losing motor function in my hands (dropping things or missing contact with items i try to grab and extreme muscle weakness). this has also been happening in my legs and feet, albeit less obviously since i don’t regularly use my toes to grab things lol so two days ago i had a follow up with my gi, i explained that i felt like my reflux and other gi symptoms were staying the same no matter what i did and he requested a test for celiac disease. the results will be back next week but after taking the bld test i cut gluten out of my diet, just to see. sure enough my acid reflux and other gi symptoms have subsided but so has my extreme fatigue and brain fog and my joint pain and carpal tunnel symptoms have gotten way better. regardless of if i have celiac or just non celiac gluten intolerance, i know that gluten is the main culprit. which i used to roll my eyes at anyone who told me to try cutting out gluten - so i’m feeling a little ridiculous for not just trying it. i am shocked at how big of a difference i feel and i’m shocked that i was in so much physical pain and discomfort for my whole life and i never noticed. i just assumed i was lazy, and that’s why i wanted to sleep all the time and struggled to do the simplest task without feeling like i’d run a marathon. or i thought i was weak and that’s why my joints hurt, i was a ballerina so i was told to push through the pain. and that is the worst advice i’ve ever gotten lol. i have been working through the pain for my entire life and it has fucked me up. so from now on i will not be doing that and that means sometimes content is gonna take longer to produce or i won’t have as much time to answer messages but i can’t handle feeling like i’m straight up dying every morning so i gotta change something i know the majority of you will be happy to hear that i am taking more time to heal myself and i appreciate your support so much. you’re the only group of people who hasn’t tried to tell me that i’m lazy or exaggerating my discomfort, and i appreciate that so much. i see other content creators that express how rude their followers are when they have to move deadlines to accommodate their health issues and i have NEVER had a follower treat me like that. y’all are the best and i couldn’t have ever dreamed of having such a wonderful and supportive group of people. i am so excited for the things we can create in the future - especially now that i will be able to think straight and have the energy to do more in depth projects!