🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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If it's a disease, what treatment are you undergoing?
I have to take medicine for it multiple times a day. It helps, but it isn't perfect.
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I have to take medicine for it multiple times a day. It helps, but it isn't perfect.
It's a testament to the completely arbitrary, unscientific nature of psychopharmacology that I can't even guess what you're on. SSRIs? Atypical antipsychotic? Mood stabilizer? There's no "right" treatment. They just reach in the bag and give you some pills.
And they do this for everything. Got to 100 different psychiatrists and you'll get 100 different medication regimes. It's incoherent. There are doctors who will tell you never to prescribe antipsychotics and ones who will prescribe only them. There's no rhyme or reason.
BTW, "Aspergers Syndrome" no longer exists. It was cut from the DSM-5. You're "autism spectrum", now. (Does that not show how arbitrary and unscientific it all is?)
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t's a testament to the completely arbitrary, unscientific nature of psychopharmacology that I can't even guess what you're on. SSRIs? Atypical antipsychotic? Mood stabilizer? There's no "right" treatment. They just reach in the bag and give you some pills.
For all you know it could be Ritalin.
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It's a testament to the completely arbitrary, unscientific nature of psychopharmacology that I can't even guess what you're on. SSRIs? Atypical antipsychotic? Mood stabilizer? There's no "right" treatment. They just reach in the bag and give you some pills.
This is true for U.S. medicine in general. Every time I've been to a doctor, after a 2-minute chat they prescribe a random different medication that apparently does nothing yet costs a ton of money. They even make it sound like they don't know what they're doing..."Well let's try this prescription, if it doesn't work come back and we'll try another until we find something that works for you."
I'm not even talking about psychiatric medication. This is for a chronic and persistent sinus/nasal/eye infection I've been battling for a year and a half now. No one can tell me what's wrong and no one can find an antibiotic or anything that actually does anything. All we know for sure is it's not cancer because a C-T scan showed nothing abnormal. My bank account isn't happy either.
Also a good thing that it's relatively minor except for the times it gave me pneumonia and the other time I had pinkeye and the other time I had severe laryngitis and all the times it makes my ears ring and causes dizziness and hearing loss, and that I'm sucking down and swallowing globs of mucus produced in my nasal cavities every few minutes. Nothing debilitating, just tons and tons of annoying that I'm actually starting to forget about and ignore when my hearing isn't being affected too badly.
Well that turned into more of a rant than I intended....all I really meant to say is I don't particularly trust doctors because even the weatherman is right more often than doctors.
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Nice segue.
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Microsoft disagrees:
They say it was a new feature in 7.
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Norway books 'first drunk Segwayer'
Why is this a bad idea?Or did you mean drunk segwaying?
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I went to try it on Windows 8, but then I remembered I'm on Windows 8 and I can't find a second desktop app installed on the whole fucking machine.
Where the hell is Notepad?! Everything goes fullscreen except Chrome when I remember to launch it from the start bar, because this is a shared machine and Chrome profiles are kind of important to me.
Oh, notepad isn't in the alphabetical list of applications. It's on page two. Whatever that means.
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Healthcare isn't free. Neither are paved roads,
You're just a Solar Freakin' Roadways Denier.
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That feature threw me a few times too when I did it by accident.
Has anyone ever done it on purpose?
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Not realising that your advert looks like a venn diagram
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Racist status updates
So, can anyone explain why "Who's Asian? I'm bored -_-" would be racist? Specifically? Should Asians or non-Asians be offended?
Filed Under: I really can't keep up with this shit
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It's hinting at a particular racial slur that involves the eyes
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Ah...totally didn't catch that, since it's next to bored.
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It's a testament to the completely arbitrary, unscientific nature of psychopharmacology that I can't even guess what you're on. SSRIs? Atypical antipsychotic? Mood stabilizer? There's no "right" treatment. They just reach in the bag and give you some pills.
This is also one of the treatment approaches for chronic migraine (which, BTW, has a perceivable physical aspect if you are using an fMRI). When I started suffering from chronic migraine 20 years ago, they first started trying different interrupt medications - at the time there were no approved prophylactics for migraine - to halt the progress of an existing attack. I'd try each for a few months and then move on. After I ran out of interrupt meds to try, they started running me through other medications that had off-label uses as migraine prophylactics. At best, a medication would actually work for 6 months, and then it would suddenly just stop working. I'm actually at that point with my current medication, and I'm hoping it breaks the record.
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My wife has been taking potassium and magnesium supplements. Her migraines don't sound as bad as yours, but since she started taking them the migraines have pretty much stopped.
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My wife has been taking potassium and magnesium supplements. Her migraines don't sound as bad as yours, but since she started taking them the migraines have pretty much stopped.
Has your wife (or abarker) tried ergot derivatives? Ask your doctor about DHE45 or Migranal. My wife gets migraines with auras that can last for weeks at a time, since she was in a car accident years ago. DHE45 can stop migraines cold in some people for up to a year.
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magnesium supplements
Reminds me of another big failure with doctors.
I went to the ER in the middle of the night with some strange heart arrhythmia stuff going on. It's scary when your heart isn't acting like it should, so yeah...ER trip. They hooked me up to an EKG, then gave me a portable EKG to wear for the next 24 hours for monitoring purposes and sent me home. After all the testing they said "Yep, there's some weird stuff going on. No idea what it is, but don't worry about it. Here's your $1500 bill and have a good day."
I visited several other doctors over the next few months and they basically said the same thing. "Yep, your heart's being a bit weird. It probably won't kill you. Pay us $100 and have a nice day."
So I just lived with it for about a year, never quite knowing what was going on and if I was going to die of a heart attack. Somehow this topic came up when I was chatting with a friend who happened to be a carpenter and not a doctor. And he says "Oh yeah, I know exactly what that is. Take some magnesium supplements." I went and bought some magnesium supplements from the vitamin aisle and have been taking it daily ever since. And my heart rhythm is now completely normal. If I miss my supplement for a few days in a row, the arrhythmia returns.
Why is it all the expensive doctors and all the expensive tests couldn't figure this out, but my friend who hangs drywall and builds decks for a living was able to help me?
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Has your wife (or abarker) tried ergot derivatives? Ask your doctor about DHE45 or Migranal.
Not sure. I know she had some sort of prescription. Well...the supplements seem to be handling it for her.
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My wife has been taking potassium and magnesium supplements. Her migraines don't sound as bad as yours, but since she started taking them the migraines have pretty much stopped.
Has your wife (or abarker) tried ergot derivatives? Ask your doctor about DHE45 or Migranal. My wife gets migraines with auras that can last for weeks at a time, since she was in a car accident years ago. DHE45 can stop migraines cold in some people for up to a year.
After 20 years, it's really hard to remember everything I've tried. I mostly remember the odd side effects. Like this one that gave me seizures which didn't include convulsions, and caused frequent short term memory loss. Thanks to that one, I don't remember most of high school trig.
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Why is it all the expensive doctors and all the expensive tests couldn't figure this out, but my friend who hangs drywall and builds decks for a living was able to help me?
A cynic would say they want the money. More realistically it probably didn't occur to the docs to look for a simple deficiency, but your friend knows someone who this worked for.
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After 20 years, it's really hard to remember everything I've tried.
Oh, that sounds like fun! My wife spent a couple of years on Verapimil to deal with migraines and one day in the middle of the night she woke up screaming. I called 911--her heart had slowed down to 20bpm or so and her blood pressure was so low it was almost unmeasurable. Several hours in the ER later and they got her heart beating more or less normally again, but it came close to killing her.
Anyway if the supplements work for you, awesome. DHE45's strong stuff, but it's for people for whom regular things don't work. For example, imitrex/treximet's awesome stuff...but not if you've ever had a stroke.
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Oh, that sounds like fun! My wife spent a couple of years on Verapimil to deal with migraines and one day in the middle of the night she woke up screaming. I called 911--her heart had slowed down to 20bpm or so and her blood pressure was so low it was almost unmeasurable. Several hours in the ER later and they got her heart beating more or less normally again, but it came close to killing her.
Anyway if the supplements work for you, awesome. DHE45's strong stuff, but it's for people for whom regular things don't work. For example, imitrex/treximet's awesome stuff...but not if you've ever had a stroke.
Yeah, I've tried Verapimil. Pretty recently, actually. IIRC, that one's off label when prescribed for migraine. It's a blood pressure medication, isn't it?
As for imitrex - tried it. It falls in the interrupt category. I first tried it as a pill, then my doctor had me try it again when they came out with the shot version.
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Yeah, I've tried Verapimil. Pretty recently, actually. IIRC, that one's off label when prescribed for migraine. It's a blood pressure medication, isn't it?
Normally. But it's also a vasodilator, and the neurologists' theory was that the migraines were caused by constriction in the vein draining the back of the brain.
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FrostCat said:
imitrex/treximet's awesome stuff.That sounds familiar.
The chemical name is sumatriptan. Treximet is one of those obnoxious reformulations to get around patent expiration: it's nothing more than imitrex and an nsaid.
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As for imitrex - tried it. It falls in the interrupt category. I first tried it as a pill, then my doctor had me try it again when they came out with the shot version.
Yes, that's true. DHE45 functions both as an interrupt and a prophylactic. Usual way you take it is 6 shots over a 2-day period. It's fun stuff--comes in a glass ampule instead of a reasonable package like an insulin bottle. You have to break the glass, and then use a filter needle to draw it so you don't run the rist of injecting yourself with glass shards.
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Yes, that's true. DHE45 functions both as an interrupt and a prophylactic. Usual way you take it is 6 shots over a 2-day period. It's fun stuff--comes in a glass ampule instead of a reasonable package like an insulin bottle. You have to break the glass, and then use a filter needle to draw it so you don't run the rist of injecting yourself with glass shards.
That sounds f***ing retarded.
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That sounds f***ing retarded.
It absolutely is! And what's worse is when the doctor orders 20G needles for you instead of 30G.
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That's how it comes.
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Wow. I guess there are some good reasons, but...damn.
Glass Ampoules: Risks and Benefits
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" Some authors have investigated the
use of filters in needles, as well as the use of smaller caliber
needles. These studies did not demonstrate any evidence of
protection. "Gulp!
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Just to make it more fun, DHE45 is a 2-dose ampule. Like I said before, I don't see why they don't abandon ampules in favor of the same mechanism insulin bottles use. The bottle comes with a plastic cap that you twist off. It's attached to the center of the metal lid, which tears off with the plastic, exposing a fine rubber mesh in the middle that you can put a needle in.
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Like I said before, I don't see why they don't abandon ampules in favor of the same mechanism insulin bottles use.
...and pretty much everything else that you get by injection.
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I've even used printer cartridge refill kits that work that way.
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Yes.
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@Intercourse said:
Which is why I make mine in a pint glass. Go big or go home.
I once got served Brandy in a pint glass...:/me: "I'm waiting for my beer!"
bartender: "A decent Pils on the draught takes its time!!"
bartender: takes a pint glass, fills it up with brandy from the bottle he had in hand from serving another customer about 3/4
bartender: "Here, drink that while you wait!"Memorable evening...
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That bottle looks familiar...
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My wife has been taking potassium and magnesium supplements. Her "migraines" don't sound as bad as yours, but since she started taking them the "migraines" have pretty much stopped.
Potassium and magnesium are aphrodisiacs?
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That was just the first google image result from "insulin bottle" or whatever.
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Slavic-style graves
Can confirm, I've seen shit like this with my own eyes.
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What's with the car obsession? Were they driving when they died?
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I think that's just a special case of "lack of taste."
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That appears to be pretty much a given, but why cars?
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Ah. Well, I'll admit I don't know, but I'd guess it's because people like cars. For all I know there's MLP or Star Wars headstones we just didn't see.
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A status symbol probably...
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That's pretty much what I was thinking, but aren't the graves ostentatious enough anyway? Sheesh!