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[A_B]

Only dealt with concussions with the kids but there was no definitive “you have this level concussion” diagnosis or test. And they recommended not taking painkillers because it could make you feel better than you really are. I assume they told you that if they want you to monitor for a headache.

Where were you when I was talking to the nurse today?

[Steve of phpBB]

(btw i went to PT for vertigo and the guy was amazing - 3 visits in a week and he fixed me up. Something called the Epley maneuver.)

That Epley maneuver is amazing. One treatment of like a minute remedied dizziness that I'd had for more than four months.

[MaxWebster]

fuckin rights - couldn't imagine feeling how i did for even a few days longer but for you to have it for four months is unthinkable, Steve - jeez.

question is: have you ever tried it (Epley) yourself? It seems so relatively simple and this past week i've actually felt a tinge of dizzyness coming back and I've been wanting to try it on my own before one of those massive spin-attacks comes back... but i'm a little gunshy about it.

(btw i went to PT for vertigo and the guy was amazing - 3 visits in a week and he fixed me up. Something called the Epley maneuver.)

That Epley maneuver is amazing. One treatment of like a minute remedied dizziness that I'd had for more than four months.

[Steve of phpBB]

fuckin rights - couldn't imagine feeling how i did for even a few days longer but for you to have it for four months is unthinkable, Steve - jeez.

question is: have you ever tried it (Epley) yourself? It seems so relatively simple and this past week i've actually felt a tinge of dizzyness coming back and I've been wanting to try it on my own before one of those massive spin-attacks comes back... but i'm a little gunshy about it.

(btw i went to PT for vertigo and the guy was amazing - 3 visits in a week and he fixed me up. Something called the Epley maneuver.)

That Epley maneuver is amazing. One treatment of like a minute remedied dizziness that I'd had for more than four months.

I only had it done once, and it was by a physical therapist.

My secretary had dizziness and tried to do it herself, and it just didn't work. But when she went to a PT, that took care of it.

[DaveInSeattle]

GOUT!

god damned it....Big toe has been hurting for over a week now. Started when I was in Boston, and I was thinking it was from walking so much, and having an oyster and a lobster roll my last night for dinner. But I've been good since I've been home, and its not getting any better. What's weird is that is starts to feel better, and then like yesterday afternoon, last night, it just got worse.

I've been doing the allopurinol for years, and been taking indomethacin since this flare up started, but its not working. And I've been drinking cherry juice, to no avail. Only thing that really helps is putting my foot in a bucket of ice...and that only lasts so long.

[Giff]

Ugh, that sucks. I started to get that familiar pain in the big toe the Thursday before meeting AB, so I was extremely relieved it was either just a quick flare-up or something else. Hope it gets better soon.

[A_B]

Ugh, that sucks. I started to get that familiar pain in the big toe the Thursday before meeting AB, so I was extremely relieved it was either just a quick flare-up or something else. Hope it gets better soon.

Just a toe with sympathy pain for Carlos.

[Pruitt IV]

I've been taking allopurinol for a year and a half and have had two flareups, one which was absolutely horrible.

Have you tried colchicine?

[DaveInSeattle]

I've been taking allopurinol for a year and a half and have had two flareups, one which was absolutely horrible.

Have you tried colchicine?

Many years ago (13?)...did absolutely horrific things to my gut.

[sancarlos]

Ugh, that sucks. I started to get that familiar pain in the big toe the Thursday before meeting AB, so I was extremely relieved it was either just a quick flare-up or something else. Hope it gets better soon.

Just a toe with sympathy pain for Carlos.

Wut? I may look like a war refugee with my shoulder sling and my eyepatch, but my big toe is good!

[Giff]

Ugh, that sucks. I started to get that familiar pain in the big toe the Thursday before meeting AB, so I was extremely relieved it was either just a quick flare-up or something else. Hope it gets better soon.

Just a toe with sympathy pain for Carlos.

Wut? I may look like a war refugee with my shoulder sling and my eyepatch, but my big toe is good!

Haha no, I had a huge burn blister and had it for 10 days by the time I met AB in Nashville. Kelli and I named him Carlos (I got it by picking up a metal ramekin that had been sitting on a fajita skillet...seemed appropriate).

[brian]

Think I might be dealing with my first battle with gout. Thought it was from walking around New Orleans all weekend but now I’m worried it’s gout. If it is hopefully it improves enough by Friday so I can drive.

[sancarlos]

Maybe it was the copious and repeated amounts of green chile. Maybe it was my father’s undercooked sausage. But, I just arrived back at home and I’m on my fifth day of diarrhea. Not nice. Luckily, I drank a large amount of Imodium before flying.

[rass]

Yuck. Def get yourself checked out if it lasts through the weekend.

[mister d]

Maybe it was my father’s undercooked sausage.

[DaveInSeattle]

Anyone gotten a Shingles vaccine? My father came down with a case of shingles about a month ago, despite having the vaccine, and he's been pretty miserable, so I decided I should do it. I'm getting it after work this evening, and just wondering how miserable I'll feel tomorrow.

[Nonlinear FC]

I didn't feel anything, and I doubled up with the flu vax.

[Steve of phpBB]

I didn't feel anything, and I doubled up with the flu vax.

Same.

[sancarlos]

The old vaccine was just one shot, and was less effective. The new one is two shots and said to be much more effective. I did it a couple years ago. It can cause some queasiness, like a covid shot. But, worth it, because nobody wants shingles!

[bfj]

Did the shingles shot series. Second was no picnic, but not horrible.

[DaveInSeattle]

But, worth it, because nobody wants shingles!

My father had it so bad at the start that he couldn't wear his regular pajamas to bed because of the waistband. He had to borrow one of my Mom's nightgowns.

[mister d]

Routine throw into the IF tonight and something happened (not a pop) where I now feel it from the back of my index finger up through my forearm but *not* into my elbow?

[garyclark]

Did the shingles shot series. Second was no picnic, but not horrible.

I've had my first. Was going to get my second today. But prioritized a covid booster, given the current spike and how much I travel.

In two weeks, it's time for round 2.

[A_B]

Routine throw into the IF tonight and something happened (not a pop) where I now feel it from the back of my index finger up through my forearm but *not* into my elbow?

Pinched nerve. you're gonna die.

[Giff]

So I went to bed Monday night with all my limbs feeling normal. Woke up yesterday morning to a pain in my right knee and it was very swollen. The pain isn't really there any more, but it is still very swollen and I can't fully extend my leg. Any ideas?

[Nonlinear FC]

And you didn't bang it or fall or anything? I had a bursa sack rupture on my hip many years ago, but that came from diving on very bad astroturf.

You don't have any history of gout? I forgot who on here has to deal with that...

[Giff]

I don't recall bumping it on anything and I was even sober that night! I do have gout, and I'm reading that could be it. But if it is, it's not nearly as painful as when I get it in my toes.

[Nonlinear FC]

Yeah, for that to be an injury thing... You would remember the precipitating event. My ruptured bursa was easily the most painful thing I've experienced. Had to have a surgery to repair.

[Giff]

So the swelling went down through the week and probably felt close to 100% starting Monday. Woke up this morning and my ankle on the other leg is killing me. Not swollen though. So frustrating.

[mister d]

I'm pretty certain I have some level of misophonia. I've hated/reacted to unpredicted noise my entire life, but a certain new-ish dog has an insanely loud and abrupt and all too frequent bark that sends me into a (usually internal) rage almost every time. Its not as bad outdoors, but indoors I can go from perfectly normal to incensed in an instant. Everything I read says there's really no treatment or cure, but I assume someone here has advice that can top "wear your noise cancelling headphones at all times".

I didn't know there was a term for it other than "Why the fuck did you do that-itis".

Following up ... the barking (and aggression) is under control with medication but, possibly related, he now makes incessant mouth noises. Just the most annoying shit and gives me flashbacks to college where a friend had a similar habit while eating and I'd just have to quietly leave except I can't quietly leave my house for the next decade. Bad enough that I tried Zoloft which sometimes can have the positive side effect of taming the condition a bit but no luck. Anyone else with any experience here?

[The Sybian]

I'm pretty certain I have some level of misophonia. I've hated/reacted to unpredicted noise my entire life, but a certain new-ish dog has an insanely loud and abrupt and all too frequent bark that sends me into a (usually internal) rage almost every time. Its not as bad outdoors, but indoors I can go from perfectly normal to incensed in an instant. Everything I read says there's really no treatment or cure, but I assume someone here has advice that can top "wear your noise cancelling headphones at all times".

I didn't know there was a term for it other than "Why the fuck did you do that-itis".

Following up ... the barking (and aggression) is under control with medication but, possibly related, he now makes incessant mouth noises. Just the most annoying shit and gives me flashbacks to college where a friend had a similar habit while eating and I'd just have to quietly leave except I can't quietly leave my house for the next decade. Bad enough that I tried Zoloft which sometimes can have the positive side effect of taming the condition a bit but no luck. Anyone else with any experience here?

Maybe if you take the Zoloft you won’t fixate on the noises.

[Jerloma]

Oh, I definitely have misophonia and it's mostly the mouthy shit. Chewing like a cow, any saliva-swishing, talking with a mouthful. This why I have a really hard time being around large dogs. I don't know what they're doing in there but they never fucking stop.

The other thing that sends me into a rage is the crinkling of potato chip bags.

[The Sybian]

Oh, I definitely have misophonia and it's mostly the mouthy shit. Chewing like a cow, any saliva-swishing, talking with a mouthful. This why I have a really hard time being around large dogs. I don't know what they're doing in there but they never fucking stop.

The other thing that sends me into a rage is the crinkling of potato chip bags.

Doesn't everybody have this?

[Nonlinear FC]

Was in an all-hands meeting with the GM this week and they (inexplicably) had cookies inside of plastic bags available. 2 or 3 folks, multiple time with the plastic crinkly loud enough to be heard by everyone in a smallish auditorium.

I had a really tough time not saying something.

Also in that meeting, no less than 5 instances of cell phones going off... Like, fuckin' A... That's usually fixed after the first one... after the 3rd I was about to lose my mind.

[P.D.X.]

It's a degree thing for sure.

Mine is someone eating a pastry right out of the little white paper bag. The combination of the crinkling, chewing, + the sound of loosened crumbs against the paper. I just started sweating typing this.

[A_B]

This why I have a really hard time being around large dogs.

I've had an alarming number of dog parents be flabbergasted recently by the fact that I don't care much for large dogs.
"Why don't you like my dog, he's sweet! LOOKIE AT HIM HOW SWEET."

Sorry if I don't regale you with my not-so-fun large dog experiences from my youth, Janice. Small dogs I can punt at least.

[mister d]

Oh, I definitely have misophonia and it's mostly the mouthy shit. Chewing like a cow, any saliva-swishing, talking with a mouthful. This why I have a really hard time being around large dogs. I don't know what they're doing in there but they never fucking stop.

The other thing that sends me into a rage is the crinkling of potato chip bags.

Doesn't everybody have this?

Yeah, its difficult to explain why I get more annoyed than you do without sounding like someone who just cares more about their own shit. But if you read enough about it, you can see where the line is crossed between "this is annoying" and "this is actively fucking up my life". And if I wasn't clear, I did Zoloft for two months to no change and decided to bail before I built up a dependency on something that isn't helping me.

[mister d]

Mine is someone eating a pastry right out of the little white paper bag. The combination of the crinkling, chewing, + the sound of loosened crumbs against the paper. I just started sweating typing this.

Yeah, I have some of these too, but they're one-off deals where its happens relatively infrequently and I can just get myself away. From talking to the doctor, a lot of my OCD stuff doesn't seem too bad because its all stuff I control (either because its easily controlled or I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford dumb little matching shit). This dog one is the first I haven't had any recourse against and definitely affects the home life. During the work day, I can just throw the headphones on but once work is over, its a lot tougher to just retreat from the family.

[The Sybian]

Oh, I definitely have misophonia and it's mostly the mouthy shit. Chewing like a cow, any saliva-swishing, talking with a mouthful. This why I have a really hard time being around large dogs. I don't know what they're doing in there but they never fucking stop.

The other thing that sends me into a rage is the crinkling of potato chip bags.

Doesn't everybody have this?

Yeah, its difficult to explain why I get more annoyed than you do without sounding like someone who just cares more about their own shit. But if you read enough about it, you can see where the line is crossed between "this is annoying" and "this is actively fucking up my life". And if I wasn't clear, I did Zoloft for two months to no change and decided to bail before I built up a dependency on something that isn't helping me.

Ah, I thought you were saying you gave the dog Zoloft to stop his behavior. I didn't quite realize the extent of how disruptive this is for you, I get it, and I definitely see the varying degrees of how disruptive this can be.

[mister d]

No, the dog has been on prozac since shortly after that initial post for impulse control shit including near daily "attacks" on my wife. We had a specialized trainer who explained it as his brain only had two states: 100% on and impulsive or sleeping. Untrainable, undisciplinable and aggressive (but never with the kids which is why he's still here/alive). Typical lab.