Students with food intolerances deserve a safe, free lunch too. Failing to provide that because you think it’s unnecessary is just ableism. “Eating this food causes them pain because their body can’t digest it, but it’s not life threatening so we don’t need to accommodate it” is such a bad take. Yes, let’s just make them sick every day instead of giving them the option of safe, free foods to eat. So poor kids will have to choose every day if they’re going to starve themselves or if they’re going to be in excruciating pain the rest of the day when they’re trying to learn. Makes no sense.

Furthermore, I don’t think people realize what food intolerances entail. It’s not just, “oh, eating this food gives me a stomach ache.” It is often caused by the body’s inability to break down the sugars in the food because the pancreas and/or the small intestine doesn’t make enough digestive enzymes. People with food intolerances can have a number of disabling conditions, especially because of malnutrition and malabsorption. I am dependent on digestive enzyme supplements, as well as vitamins because I can’t eat and/or get the nutrition I need to thrive without them. This is disabling. Yes, even if it’s not going to immediately kill me if I eat the wrong thing.

Don’t put people in places where they’re required to work, promising that food will be provided for free, and then only provide foods that will make them sick.

I love being told that the help I'm given means I owe something to the person who helped me 🙃 Like don't help me, then.

The reality of whatever the fuck is wrong with me. Is it endometriosis or sever ibs c? Who knows. I cant see a gynecologist until July so im just waiting and hoping at this point.

This is me after spending an hour on the toilet this morning, unable to fully empty my bowels despite lactulose taken in the early hours. It has been working for the past few days, but this morning it decided otherwise. I am getting my period on friday, currently on day 2 break of the pill. I am convinced this is all related to my menstral cycle as diet does not change my issues.

This is a major flare up and im stuck in the office today so have another 11 hours before im home. I dont feel comfortable using the toilets at work bc it takes me so long.

Just ranting and showing the reality of constipation and chronic illness. Please do not send me advice or ask if i have tried x, y, z.

Do you ever find yourself getting really emotional about something only to later find out that you just really had to poop?

… Or is it just me?

Took a laxative bc IBS-C is kicking my ass here’s hoping it works the way it’s supposed to and I can finally stop feeling shitty (pun kind of intended)

When you realize this isn't a casual read on your phone bathroom break, it's a fight for your fucking life bathroom break 😭

Having IBS is not very clean girl aesthetic.

Girl help I’m dying in the Walmart bathroom 🚽

People underestimate burnout, but if you consistently press through burnout like I did for 20+ years, you can end up with stress related illnesses that last forever and don't go away... Stress can 100% unalive even the healthiest of people. You could be in physical pain the rest of your life. Rest now. Anyone being mean to you about it can get lost.

do people really have lives that arent focused around their bowels and digestive system?

Look guys, if you’re thinking about being constipated, don’t do it

It’s not worth it

I fucking hate IBS I spent half a fucking hour trying to shit and now I feel like I need to lie down LMAOO

Current mood: Everything is flaring at once. I should've been in bed an hour ago, but I was trying to treat a migraine with Cefaly Acute in the hopes of not needing to do that in the morning. I actually need to be up at a vaguely reasonable hour to go visit my in-laws. I knew my body was gonna crash like a freight train when the adrenaline from my grandma's passing, funeral, etc. was over, but holy hell, 4 migraines in a week is just too many! Is my bladder flaring because my food has been too spicy and/or acidic the last few days, or is it just random because this is how my body works? Is my new psych med constipating me, or am I just dehydrated, or is this once again just a random flare because this is how my body works?

Whatever. I'll take tomorrow (today? what even is time) as it comes. Hopefully I'll be semi-functional.

Me: *takes 4 servings of miralax*

My body: *poops the tiniest single poop ever*