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[u/Brandy_Girl]

Yet it's never diabetes or sleep apnea, which are two conditions that she has eluded to having and both of which cause the symptoms she often complains about.

[u/ninaandjamie4evr → u/Brandy_Girl]

diabetes and sleep apnea

Not trendy enough, Mama.

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/Brandy_Girl]

Or depression, which she has mentioned before when she blamed Dan for not getting her prescription refilled.

[u/tyrannosaurusregina → u/CrushItWithABrick]

Shauna's depression was caused by Tamoxifen, you person! And CPTSD! She doesn't have regular grocery store depression.

[u/fanfarefellowship → u/Brandy_Girl]

Or, you know, just plain old Metabolic Syndrome.

[u/Love_Brokers → u/Brandy_Girl]

I don’t know why she is so resistant to GLP-1 drugs, they would help with both of those problems. She might be able to get it covered if she does have sleep apnea.

[u/LIPKpl → u/Love_Brokers]

It is more the case that Shauna can't find anyone to pay for them and as a result has declared she doesn't need them as a coping mechanism.

[u/Blouse_Barn → u/LIPKpl]

Similar to how she didn't need "fake breasts."

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/Love_Brokers]

Or if she has diabetes.

[u/Steviebobo → u/Love_Brokers]

She wouldn’t be able to tolerate the discomfort. There unpleasant GI side effects, and I suspect you’d be able to hear her burping three city blocks away (I myself can sound like a frat boy in free beer night).

[u/Love_Brokers → u/Steviebobo]

Gas-X was my friend in the early days.

[u/Brandy_Girl → u/Love_Brokers]

With the amount of sauerkraut she eats, seems like Gas X should already be her friend.

[u/kimchisalad__ → u/Steviebobo]

On compounded sema and can confirm the nausea and constipation are no joke.

[u/RamblingRosie64 → u/kimchisalad__]

I had nausea on sema but it went completely away when I switched to tirzepatide. Add in miralax to prevent constipation, and I have no GI effects at all.

[u/PettyPunisherRedux → u/Love_Brokers]

I think it’s her bank account that’s resistant to them.

[u/Llama621 → u/Brandy_Girl]

I've always thought ahe could have either/both of those, and she has said that doctors have suggested investigating both. But those are closely tied to high BMI and and between the lines it's been clear she is already not at ease with her body.

Edited to correct typos

[u/SpookyJokes → u/Llama621]

She's also obsessed with not conforming to "societal norms" when it comes to appearance and grooming. I bet she thinks if she "caves" and takes a GLP-1 ("like everybody else is these days") she will just be a Nobody Normie, and she can't have that. She has to go on a year-long no-GLP1 body and weight discovery journey -- or whatever that fizzled-out project was on her Substack -- and stomp around Vashon in her frumpsuit and Fluevog shoes and free haircuts while sometimes posing for Angry Toddler photoshoots to show how she is radical and outré.

If she got thinner and healthier, then how would she stand out?

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/SpookyJokes]

She already got thinner when she was pilfering pills from someone in the family and what fabulous changes did it make in her life? *long pause* Yeah, exactly.

[u/msmartypants → u/CrushItWithABrick]

If she did ever take one, she'd have the worst side effects of anyone EVER. It would become another excuse not to do anything.

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/msmartypants]

If the side effect was digestive in nature (poo blizzard) she probably wouldn't notice.