Some fun trivia about me: I can CONSIDER eating macaroni and cheese and then NOT eat mac and cheese, but then get diarrhea. Phantom mac and cheese diarrhea. Like clockwork, substantially more reliably than after actually eating mac and cheese. - ThreadSky

damnyouwillis.bsky.social • 56 days ago

Some fun trivia about me: I can CONSIDER eating macaroni and cheese and then NOT eat mac and cheese, but then get diarrhea.

Phantom mac and cheese diarrhea.

Like clockwork, substantially more reliably than after actually eating mac and cheese.

Comments

abbylark.bsky.social•56 days ago

Ah the nocebo effect

initiala.bsky.social•56 days ago

Mine does this sometimes with Tums. I hate them so much but sometimes it’s the only cure for a sour stomach that you can’t fix any other way.

So if I think “I need to go take a Tums” or just ruminate on it, sometimes the problem goes away?? “Nah, I’ll just leave thanks, no yucky chalk thing for me”

damnyouwillis.bsky.social•56 days ago

while in colorado, i tried a place called "i heart mac and cheese" that was about 20 minutes from joel's house, and on the drive home, while holding the yet-uneaten mac and cheese in my lap, i suddenly needed to take a shit

bodies are garbage

bodies and brains

(i guess brains are parts of bodies)

jibbi.bsky.social•56 days ago

I can't believe you psychosomatic'd lactose intolerance, I'm going to have to forget cheesecake exists or I'll just randomly explode one day

damnyouwillis.bsky.social•56 days ago

anyway, typing this from my phone on the toilet

Fixed some mac and cheese for dinner, for kid and not for me

so

dirkgrundy.stringtheorycomic.com•56 days ago

Miasma theory turns out to be correct. But only with mac and cheese, and only for you

cyranic50.bsky.social•56 days ago

The next time you're in Wisconsin, you should check out Macs.

https://macandcheeseshop.com

docebrown.bsky.social•56 days ago

Man, getting old sucks. I had to switch to oat milk in my coffee this year for the same reason...

benpaddon.net•56 days ago

And yet, when you walk into a Barnes & Noble? Nothing.

goronamber.bsky.social•56 days ago

I can't believe you were right around the corner from me at one point

damnyouwillis.bsky.social•56 days ago

do you live in this weird trapezoidal space ark

goronamber.bsky.social•56 days ago

No but I wish I did

tom-mcnally.bsky.social•56 days ago

I suspect that, 50 years or so from now, when more is understood about the relationship between the enteric nervous system and the gut microbiome, this will no longer be a mystery.

steveisdamages.bsky.social•56 days ago

I guess it's not too soon to update the DSM so it can include "pseudomacandcheesesomatic psychogenic diarrhea." I'll call the APA in the morning and let them know. This'll be the third cheese related diagnosis added to the manual.

hasufin.bsky.social•56 days ago

For a long time I was like this with yogurt. Even dairy-free yogurt was an act of extreme violence against my digestive tract. I guess eventually my guts learned that not all yogurt had dairy, but it took a while.

wakethebirds.bsky.social•56 days ago

Surely then you should just always consume the mac and cheese, the rest will happen anyway

tulipacid.bsky.social•56 days ago

there's a whole thing about libraries and bookstores giving people an urgent need to poop

my thing these days is the GROCERY STORE, formerly the library/bookstore. Surprised Amazon doesn't make me want to poop.

I mean SERIOUSLY???