I hope you get rid of it quickly!

Yep. Aquaphor, especially at bedtime, is my solution. I think it works best at night because you're not talking, eating/drinking, licking your lips, or otherwise doing things that remove it quickly. That's also why I don't think anything used during the day will last for hours.

I don't think any moisturizing lip balm is going to last for hours.

I think dental health is mostly a genetic thing. Consider my two (now grown) sons. They grew up having been taught the same level of dental hygiene, seeing the same dentist and orthodontist, using the same brand/type of toothpaste, brushes and floss. Oldest DS has always been prone to cavities, and (now in his mid/late 20s) has already needed a crown. He's always eaten much healthier than youngest DS (for example, he never ever drinks soda or juice and eats very few sweets/sugary foods, and youngest lives on soda and juice and eats a lot of sweets). But youngest has only ever had one cavity in his life, and that was after his braces were removed. I suspect youngest got lucky with better/stronger tooth enamel, but that's just a guess.

If he has a portal the results should be posted there as soon as they're available. DH's CT scan results typically take anywhere from 4 to 24 hours to get posted.

I don't think there is any "best." I use Colgate Sensitive. It works for me, although I'm sure most other toothpastes for sensitive teeth would work equally well. DH uses Biotene because his cancer medicine causes mouth issues, and it works best for him. DS uses . . something else. I can't remember. He has no dental issues at all so he uses whatever he likes.

I'd take Florastor while on an antibiotic and for a few days afterwards. I'd also try to eat some fermented (probiotic rich) food everyday.

Yay!!

FWIW--We're old and have excellent credit scores and high limit cards and are never anywhere close to 33 percent utilization. We've made multiple scheduled payments per month for a long time, since it became easy to do that with apps and online checking. We do it just to make life easy and to ensure that we're never hit with any interest charges. I don't know if it has helped our credit scores, but it certainly doesn't seem to have hurt.

I'm not on Reddit, but as I understand it someone posts about a scenario/situation they've been in and then asks AITAH. The implied question is "AITAH or is the other person(s) involved in this the AH?" We get similar posts here. We're just a smaller, more intimate (and probably a lot more civil) group.

I don't know anyone (of any age) who smokes cigarettes. And I live in the heart of tobacco country.

You're not crazy. You're absolutely normal. Sometimes just realizing that is comforting, at least in a small way. I have no experience with BC, but my DH has been living with stage IV cancer for almost seven years now. So I do know a bit about that. "Scanxiety" -- waiting for results of scans (or biopsies or any kind of high stakes testing, really) is an absolute beast. It's a very rare person who can handle it with equanimity. We've been through it dozens of times now, and it never really gets any easier. More familiar, but not easier. You're not crazy, you're a normal person experiencing a very high level of anxiety. Hugs.

I bought a TR-5 in November after my very well liked Maytag bit the dust much sooner than it should have and repairing it didn't make sense due to the cost. I decided to go with a SQ hoping for the raved longevity. I despise needlessly filling up landfills. I can't say that I'm "in love" with it as many people claim, but I've never felt love for any appliance. 😉 I'm happy enough with it. It certainly seems well built. The size isn't as limiting as I worried it might be. It easily handles my California king blankets. I don't think it cleans quite as well as any of the other machines I've had (certainly not as well as the Maytag). I'm using more stain pre-treatment products and adding in more stain fighting products to entire loads than I've needed to in previous machines. But it's not a huge deal, we don't have that many stains. I haven't noticed that it's rough on clothes at all, but I've just had it a few months. And I don't really know how I'd tell, honestly. The cycle times, even on the heavy duty setting, are much shorter than my other machines have been. I wonder if that's a big reason why I have to pay more attention to stains? But although cycle time has never been an issue I've cared about, it is kind of nice. Most of our loads don't involve stains, so the quicker wash times are okay for those. I went with the TR-5 because we're on a septic system and I like the sensing feature/not using more water than necessary. The sensing feature works fine, but I've never had an issue with stuff not getting clean because of lack of water in any of the machines I've had. ETA: It's fairly quiet as far as washers go, and I like that. Ours is on a slab, so I can't say how it would do upstairs. But if your current machine is upstairs and works okay I really don't see why a SQ wouldn't.

I have no idea.

Hang around on autoimmune forums for awhile. It's not uncommon at all for people with seronegative AI diagnoses who (for whatever reasons) need to change providers to have that new provider say "No, I don't think you have X disease" or "I think you never had X, I think it's Y." And the patient has no recourse (except to go doctor shopping) even if they were doing well on a treatment plan for the disease the new doc insists they no longer have. But I know (IRL) of a case where someone was diagnosed with RA years ago and now the person has a new provider saying no, I don't think you ever had that. In this case my guess is the new provider is absolutely correct. So I guess it can work both ways.