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xproskeith · 4 years ago

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For those interested, this was the post I made:

“So, I really don't post much beyond personal stuff and pictures and I haven't really chimed in on masking and precautions for COVID-19 beyond a few comments on other people's posts. However, in light of the rising number of cases, the shutting down of businesses again, the statewide masking mandate, and the absurd amount of anti-mask nonsense I have seen lately, I feel I have an obligation as a nurse to make a statement.

It would seem that a lot of you don't understand what's actually going on, disease process and transmission, and how to analyze and interpret data (which in all fairness is something you have to learn to do and is rarely taught outside of science based degrees, so your ignorance isn't entirely unreasonable I suppose). As such, please allow me, someone with two bachelor of science degrees, who has assisted in conducting research in multiple fields including medicine relating to disease transmission, and who has been working the actual front line of this pandemic (and yes, we are absolutely in a pandemic. This is textbook definition) as an RN on the COVID-19 units to educate you and explain things.

First of all, there seems to be a completely incorrect belief that the flu is more deadly than COVID-19. Based on the most recent numbers as collected by the CDC, the COVID-19 survival rate in the US is roughly 95%, meaning 5% of all people who get the virus die from it and the complications it causes. The seasonal flu survival rate based on the current numbers from the CDC is roughly 99.99%, meaning only 0.01% of all people who get the flu die from it and complications that it causes That's not even remotely close. You have a much higher chance of surviving the flu.

The other major problem with just looking at the raw "survival" numbers is that it doesn't tell you about how fucked so many of the people who survive the virus are. Sure, they may survive, but their lungs are now mostly scar tissue thanks to the virus, not to mention the trauma from being on a vent for so long. As such, they often can't walk further than 5-8 feet without getting severely winded and fatigued. Many of these patients end up on dialysis because the virus destroyed their kidneys. Many have lost toes and/or fingers or had pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs) because the virus causes hypercoagulation of the blood and damages the endothelial cells that make up the inside of your blood vessels. This causes blood clots to form more easily inside the blood vessels, cutting off oxygen to the toes or fingers involved, ultimately killing the affected finger or toe. This is just what we have seen so far. We do not know the full extent of the lasting and permanent damages this virus will have on people

Which brings me to my next point. We do NOT have a true treatment plan for this virus. No current anti-virals are effective. Or at least not enough to be considered a real treatment. The use of typical/standard of care medicines to help with symptom management (such as ibuprofen for pain/fever and steroids to help with breathing) actually make things worse in the presence of this virus. So, we are learning as we go and doing our best to keep people alive.

There is a huge misconception that this virus does not hurt/kill/effect younger people. This is not true. We have had many teenagers, people in there 20s and 30s, who had no other health history prior to this die. We're seeing it more now thanks to people going to the beaches and bars in droves and doing these dumb "COVID parties". They're literally getting themselves killed and spreading it to others, both young and old.

Lastly, I will address wearing a mask. There is literal DECADES of research on masks and their ability to reduce the transmission of disease. That's why we use them in surgery and in the hospital in general. To prevent the spread of disease. We have been doing this long before COVID-19 and will continue to long after it's over. If that giant body of research is still not sufficient for you, you only need to look at the rest of the world where they issues masking mandates and their citizens listened. Those countries are largely reopen and not experiencing spikes like we are. That's because they're wearing masks and following recommendations. Funny how when you listen to the people who spent their entire educational career and actual career on these very topics and considered experts, things work out. It's almost like they know what they're talking about. Anyway, point is, we can see in real time how everyone wearing masks is stopping the spread and allowing these countries to reopen. Meanwhile, the US's cases continue to rise and we are forced to shut down again. Even Trump himself wore a mask. Everyone wants to complain about them shutting the economy down, but no one wants to be bothered to do something that takes ZERO effort to do so that we don't have to. The experts have told you what to do to reverse what is happening, but y'all won't listen. I mean, in some countries, they were a mask on a normal day just because they feel a little sick and don't want to get others sick. It's common courtesy.

And if you wanna argue that wearing a cloth or surgical mask makes it hard to breathe, you're wrong. There's research on this too. oxygen absorption and saturation in the blood is not impacted at all by wearing a mask, even for extended periods (y'know, like surgeons and the surgical staff do for upwards of 8 hours depending on the surgery). Any sensation or feeling that it's harder to breathe with a mask on is all in your head because you're not used to wearing a mask. Then, my favorite piece of evidence: if my fat ass can do chest compressions on a patient for 20 minutes while wearing a true N95 mask that's covered by a surgical mask, scrub cap, thick isolation gown, and eye shield and be just fine, you will be fine walking around the store and such in a simple surgical mask.

In conclusion, wearing a mask works. The research is there. The direct observation from other countries is there. There is a reason healthcare workers and epidemiologist (people who explicitly study and research diseases, disease transmission, and how to stop it) keep making these recommendations. There is literally no justifiable reason for you not to wear a mask.

One more thing worth noting is what has been the most taxing on the nurses and doctors and respiratory therapists. These patients, both young and old, deteriorate so fast. I have watched several patients who were seemingly stable and doing fine on maybe a little extra oxygen through a nasal cannula suddenly start to desat (oxygen levels in the blood dropped) and by the time we were in the room, they had already stopped breathing. During the peak of it here, we would have at least 2-3 Code Blues and another 3-6 Rapid Responses called throughout the hospital each night. And what was so shitty is that often times despite you doing everything you knew how to do and everything that those more experienced knew how to do, you could not save them. They still deteriorated. They still died. This shit is very real and very serious and y'all need to stop pretending it's not.”

All of this is based off of data and actual observation from the front lines. This is not opinion. Nothing I said is incorrect. I don’t understand.

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sugarcanesiren · 5 years ago

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Happy selfie night!! I think I've only done one of these before but this one seems apt. My doctor always jokes that he's never seen anyone with so many diagnoses because he has to scroll through my meds and match them with a specific ailment every month. To list then seems a bit asinine. I wasn't completely healthy before my open heart surgeries, but there has been a steady decline in my physical health, which has put additional strain on my mental health. I can no longer take any medications to aid in that aspect of my health (& there's many meds I can't take for my physical health as well...I can't even take ibuprofen or benadryl) because I developed a rare syndrome in which my heart could stop if I take any of the medications on a ridiculously long list of medications (pages long list). My body (and my mind) is gradually breaking down on me. The surgeries gravely affected my short-term memory, so don't ask me what happened yesterday, last week or even this morning. Sure I sporadically remember things, but it's usually aided by something visual, a sound (mb a song) or a person, that sort of thing. School has been RIDICULOUSLY difficult, but I'm doing the best I can. It just takes me a LONG time to do that sort of thing.

I actually wrote a paper on "invisible disabilities" a few months back. I can not tell you how many times I've heard, "but you don't look disabled" when going through security and such. I have metal in my heart, so I've set off metal detectors before. Now I tend to carry the cards with all of the device information (bc I have rubber in my heart, too).

When I was at one of the lowest points in my life, I decided to face one of my many irrational fears and trek to the city (NYC) by myself for Taylor's 1989 GMA performance. I met the most wonderful people and it was a turning point for me during that time. I had never really been on social media before, besides FB, (didn't know how tumblr worked and didn't get Twitter bc 140 characters just never seems to be enough, mostly bc I talk a lot and my thoughts are vast and random...thank you for that ADHD). My life, at that point, was going to doctors, physical therapy and counseling (4-5 days a week, usually multiple appointments a day). Particularly during my years of all that, Taylor and other swifties gave me something to focus on and get excited about. I had never seen Taylor on tour because I was always in the hospital, for months at a time, or recovering when she was on tour. GMA was the first time seeing her live (which was enthralling). But because I found my way there, and met some of the most beautiful people ever, I found my way to a few other swiftie gatherings. (And now I live in NYC, well, Brooklyn...NEVER thought that'd happen, EVER). @outofthewoods83 will always be my savior and is the most gorgeous human being EVER. Because of her I got to go to the 1989 tour AND the Formula 1 show in TX (& we were SO CLOSE for that😁).

I was a little out of the loop after last opening week. Life happened and then I decided to try to "suck it up", stop being afraid of failing and do something with myself. It's been a long journey, I'm still in the midst of, but I feel like I'm the precipice of something better, perhaps even great. Once I find a stable place to live, I'll be able to breathe (well, as much as my anxiety will allow me to). Ah, things will come together. I'm hoping before the Lover tour tickets go on sale🤞🤞

**Like I said, I'm very long-winded

#who even reads my posts lol #sometimes they are just cathartic #why is the font so big???

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mumofadaofficial-blog · 6 years ago

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C Sections - The ‘Easy’ way out

Firstly, what I have titled this is bullshit :)

Secondly, no matter what way you give birth to your child whether it be naturally, assisted, c-section etc you are amazing for doing so. Not only have you grown that tiny human with your own body, you then bring he/she into the world in whatever way possible or necessary at that time - so fucking well done you!

My mum told me from the start that every pregnancy and birth has its own story - and that is so very true. No two are the same and each and everyone should be celebrated for the greatness that it is.

My personal experience was via an emergency c-section and I want to share that with you.

From day one I had it all planned out, I wanted a water birth and I wanted it all to be as natural as possible. Id seen on one born, various videos and pictures on the internet of that special moment when a mother holds their child for the first time, I wanted that and the closeness that came with it. Unfortunately, having to be induced and the aftermath that followed that obviously wasn’t the way my story was meant to go.

When you get told you need to have a section your all systems go, your ready for it, you just want your baby out and safe. You and anything else in the world suddenly have no importance anymore and all you want is to hear those little baby cries.

I remember signing a consent form that I never read, I don’t remember getting undressed and putting a gown on so god knows who did that and I remember going into theatre where they were talking me through things and getting me prepped for surgery.

I don’t know what they said to me, I really wasn’t listening. All I can remember asking again and again is where Nath was and why wasn’t he in there. (Of corse, like the movies he was getting all scrubbed up - dishy).

It was that moment sat on the edge of the table that the panic set in, you suddenly feel very alone in a room full of people. I became scared of what was happening and the thought that I was about to undergo the first major surgery I’d ever had. Jesus Christ, I’ve only ever broke my little finger before and thats when I was about 8, so this was big time. I was told to curve myself over a cushion whilst they injected my spine, then immediately laid down on the table, and asked to lift my legs - couldn’t do it, job done. Thankfully Nath had come in by then and I felt more relaxed like I could cope with what was going on.

When it was all underway I can remember saying to Nathan that it felt like the doctor was making a pizza with my stomach 😂 He thought I was high! It’s the oddest thing, to be able to feel that someone is doing something, but to have no sensation whatsoever. Within about 15 minutes of entering the room, Ada was born. I then had to be sewn up which took about three times as long as the birth! Also, absolutely mortified that it isn’t like one born every minute where you have a gown covering your modesty. Nothing modest about realising afterwards that the doctors have just been staring at your vagina for the past half hour or so and it definitely wasn’t covered up. (I mean they probably wasn’t looking at it at all, but you know what I mean).

I was took into a side room afterward for recovery where they fitted a catheter, what amazing things those are! Don’t even know you need a wee and that things filling itself up! Definitely don’t get confused with catheter and cannula when talking afterwards…done that far too many times and got some strange looks! It was then that the mum guilt started to set in, not only was I worried about Ada, I felt like I had failed her. Everything had been planned so perfectly in my mind of how I wanted it to go, and I felt like I had failed to deliver that to myself and my child. I felt like I wasn’t capable of giving birth, so someone else had to intervene and do it for me. (I realise now that I was stupid to think that and I did what I needed to as a mother, but I’m sure a lot of people who have had a section will understand where I am coming from). I’ve since seen a meme that said ‘I had an epidural, then I had a c-section, then I bottle fed, and now I’m sitting here at the playground wondering what all the guilt was about because my kid is just as weird as yours’ Oh so true!!

Then the time comes when you’ve managed to get some movement and feeling back into your legs and you have to stand up. Now I was told ’Stand with your legs, don’t push with your arms and don’t pull on your tummy muscles’ Easier fucking said than done Susan! (I don’t think her name was Susan, but it fits) You’ve just had your stomach muscles and womb sliced through, but just use your legs that also have no strength because there definitely a bit numb still but your desperate to get up and see your baby.

Now when that aesthetic starts to wear off, I am not going to sugar coat it, its fucking painful. Your fully aware of whats going on down there even when you just breath, god forbid you need to sneeze or cough! I think I definitely got up and about too soon, I was dizzy and lightheaded and felt like the blood had drained out of me when I got back into bed after seeing Ada. And I happily accepted any drug they wanted to give me, I couldn’t tell you what they were but they helped, so thanks for that part Susan.

The first night was a bit of a blur with how I was feeling because of everything else that was going on but I know simple things, like moving in bed and trying to sit up was hard work. I was given medication throughout the night by a midwife, who informed me I had been given some sort of super ibuprofen up my bum whilst on the operating table 😂 - which apparently I consented too but I had no idea, good work doc, didn’t even realise.

The following day I decided I needed to have a shower and sort my life out, all whilst Nathan was doing a great job of whizzing me around the hospital backwards in a wheelchair because we hadn’t quite got the hang of it going forward. Thankfully there was a seat in the shower, I’d never of had the strength to be able to stand for that length of time. It’s at times like that when you realise how much you take for granted being able to do everyday things. I remember sitting there and crying out of frustration, feeling like a massive, naked, deflated beach ball. Good job Nathan loves me because no one should have to see that haha. He washed my hair, washed me and then helped me up and got me dry. Graphic bit coming up…sorry. SO for anyone who ends up having a c section, make sure you take your pad and fresh knickers into the bathroom with you. I am saying this after learning a lesson, I did not, and was most shocked and mortified when it looked like Satan had released himself all over the bathroom floor. Nathan was pretty shocked too, he ran and got a midwife - apparently its all normal! So relax 😅

Something else that comes with c-sections…knee high compression socks. Now if your by yourself, you better ask for help. There is no way whatsoever that you will get them bad boys on single handedly after that op, Nath had to pretty much choke slam me into mine. Also, really not the best fashion accessory when its 30 something degrees outside…I think mine lasted about two days!

And then comes the dreaded day, the first poo 😳 Id been taking iron pills, three a day. To try and counteract the affect that they have on you I’d been given lactulose. Nothing was happening, I think probably 5 days past and then the urge came! I remember sitting on that toilet and wanting to push but there isn’t a single thing in your body thats gonna let you do that, so you just sit and wait, like your waiting for fucking Christmas. That was no bloody Christmas let me tell you, black poop! Straight on google to check I wasn’t dying…turns out, just the iron tablets 😂

Totally never realised you have to have injections after a c section either, absolutely fine when the midwives are doing it for you, then you get discharged…AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF! Theres something really hard about trying to give yourself an injection in your stomach, id have to psych myself up about ten times before id actually get it done.

Before I was discharged I had a lady come and do some exercises with me, and show me the correct way to cough e.g. holding your stomach. All fine as you know when your going to cough, but a sneeze! Oh lord, they just pop up out of nowhere, no preparation, nothing. I sneezed unexpectedly one night and was convinced I had split my stomach open, obvs Dr. Nathan checked the situation out for me - just being a drama queen as usual!

You are also told ‘Don’t do too much, and don’t lift anything heavier than a kettle for 6 weeks’ Pretty sure Ada came out weighing more than a kettle so that was that one buggered! I definitely used to do too much around the house, washing etc, but you know about it afterwards. I think for a good few weeks I just ached continuously, Getting off the sofa, sitting up in bed, walking upstairs could all be pretty hard work somedays.

Bleeding, who knew you could survive after losing so much blood. And just when you think it’s stopped, BOOM, guess who’s back, back again! Another thing I googled to see if I was dying, I wasn’t, and good old google informed me that everyone is different but it can last for a few months on and off, GREAT! What a glam life us mums have.

Personally I am gutted that I won’t experience a natural birth, the chances of me having another baby is currently slim to none and even then I would book in for a c-section because I am too scared of what could happen after Ada.

I think the point of this is to be mindful of what you say to someone, e.g. the easy way out, too posh to push etc. Not everyone has a choice, the ideal birth they have created in their mind has been taken away from them, some people won’t ever get the chance to experience a natural birth, a contraction, that first hold. Some people might opt to have a c-section, and that is totally fine! We all have to do what is best for us and has our Childs best interest at heart.

So whatever choice you make or have to make, do it for you and your baby - fuck what everyone else says, this is your story, not theirs.

Amy x

#mumblog #mumblogger #family #mumlife #blog #bloggers #mumbloggers #nicubaby #csection #emergencycsection #awareness

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acyborgkitty · 7 years ago

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I just finished watching Jennifer Brea’s incredible documentary Unrest on Netflix. Watch it now. Everyone should.

My story.

I became ill suddenly, and severely, in September (I think) of 2016. I had just moved to Providence in August from San Francisco, without my partner of 10+ years, to take a teaching job at Brown University. I was teaching a poetry workshop for Frequency Writers, a community writing group, as well as a class I developed for Brown’s Literary Arts department, Experimental Poets of Color. Providence is a city I love, and even though the gig was adjunct (i.e. no job security, no health insurance, etc.) I wanted to be in Providence, and I wanted to be teaching in my fiend. I had health insurance through the ACA at the time, and though I had been diagnosed with several mental illnesses many years before (major depression and general and social anxiety disorders) I felt that my hearth was well managed with the medication I was on.

I was so happy to be back in Providence, I would walk for hours around the city, sometimes 7 miles in one stretch, listening to music and books. I was thrilled to be teaching the class I desperately wish I had been able to take at any point in my education (which includes three masters degrees), and to be nearer to my friends and family who live in Boston and the surrounding areas. I missed my partner, but we’ve been long distance for much of our relationship (the price of being an artist in academia), and it seemed like he was getting ready to leave San Francisco and head back east himself.

It was the second meeting, I think, of the Frequency open poetry workshop. It was Wednesday night. I walked to the community gallery space on Carpenter St. where we held our meetings early, unlocked the doors, and made myself some tea. It was a normal night. At some point during the workshop I started to feel exhausted, sick, like I was getting a cold. I pushed through, but took a Lyft home. I woke up the next day and still felt bad. Worse, even. I cancelled that day’s class and stayed in bed. By the next week I still wasn’t feeling any better. I went to the CVS clinic to see if I had the flu, which was going around and apparently quite bad that year. I didn’t, I was told it was just a bad cold, and to take some cough suppressant for the bad cough.

I thought maybe I wasn’t sleeping well - I was tired all the time - and maybe that was making the cold last longer than normal. I had had (undiagnosed) chronic pain for years which had started in 2007 in my first year in grad school. It was especially bad in my neck and lower back, so I had spent years and a lot of money finding a really good mattress. But I had housemates that were young, noisy, up late, so I invested in an eye mask, noise-cancelling headphones that I slept in, and a white noise machine. I had to teach my classes, but I would show up, teach, and come immediately back home and stay in bed until I had to teach the next class. I spent several weeks like this, thinking it was just a cold, until someone pointed out that colds, even very bad ones, don’t last for several weeks.

I made an appointment with my primary care doctor in Boston. I’ve struggled finding doctors that take me seriously, like most women and non binary people I imagine, especially with chronic and challenging illnesses. This doctor listened to me, and was gentle, and that was pretty much all I could hope for. He examined me, and tested me for mono, strep, walking pneumonia (which I’d had before, and which was basically the closest comparable experience I had). I had none of them. Then we tested my thyroid, my B12 levels, and my immune functions. He found nothing wrong with me.

A digression on chronic pain, including a digression on trauma.

I had gone down a diagnostic wormhole several years ago when I’d first started getting tests to see if we could find an underlying cause for my chronic pain. It started in Iowa City, where I did my second graduate degree, and included MRIs, x-rays, testing for immunological disorders, cancers, and basically anything they could think of. Eventually I was referred to a psychologist, because they determined my pain might be a physical manifestation of trauma. And I’d had my share of trauma.

A digression on trauma. I grew up with an emotionally abusive mother who, though never diagnosed, meets all of the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. I ran away from home as a teenager, living on the streets for most of a year, before re-establishing a relationship with my family, primarily my father who helped me get an apartment, back into school, and eventually into college. At that point my mother re-entered the picture, and my father stopped helping me pay for college, so I worked sometimes as many as 5 jobs while completing my undergraduate degree. I met my partner in undergrad, and he has been an immense help for me in recovering from my trauma, but like so many who were experienced long-term abuse as children, I probably will never be un-affected by my experiences.

So the trauma angle seemed at least plausible to me, and I went to a year’s worth of sessions with two different people, one a psychologist who specialized in and studied the manifestation of trauma as physical pain, and another who practiced CBT and meditative mindfulness therapy. Both helped immensely with my emotional state, but my pain persisted. So when I moved away for my third graduate degree (my first move to Providence) I transferred care and we started the diagnostics all over again. This time I saved all my records - I have my MRIs and my X-rays still in some box somewhere. We did CAT scans and I went to scores of specialists including an orthopedic surgeon who recommended surgery; a chiropractor who works with the Boston Ballet Company who diagnosed me as hyper-flexible and gave me strengthening exercises to do that actually seemed to help somewhat; and a neurologist who found nothing wrong with me at all. After four years of referrals and diagnostics, I found a integrative care physician who listened to me break down in her office, prescribed an anti-depressant that is also a sedative to help me fall asleep, and helped me come up with a plan to manage the pain. Massage, chiropractor, walking and stretching, the anti-depressants, 800mg Ibuprofen when I needed it, and Vicodin when nothing else helped.

After all of this, I wasn’t eager to go down another diagnostic chase.

Back to 2016.

By this point it was the middle of November. I was so sick that I couldn’t feed myself, I couldn’t do laundry, I couldn’t leave the house except for to teach, and then I spent the next 24-48 hours recovering mostly in bed from the fatigue it caused me. I was experiencing sever cognitive deficiencies, most notably my ability to process and retain information, and my ability to speak. It felt like I had dementia, or what I imagine dementia to feel like. I would read the same sentence over and over again and not understand it, or not remember it when I started the next one. I would fight to get up to go into the kitchen, only to forget what I was there for. Did I need water? Had I fed the cat? Did I need to use the bathroom? My father and brother were taking turns coming down to my house to prepare food for me for the week, and to get my groceries, and to do my laundry. I needed help with everything. I could do one, maybe two things in a given day. Those things included brushing my teeth and feeding the cat.

I couldn’t even research my condition, given my cognitive symptoms. I was angry, and many days I felt like it would be better to die. I couldn’t read or write, so I took up embroidery as a way to try to keep my life worth living, a way to keep making art.

In January, 2017 when my partner came to visit for his winter break, we went to my doctor together. I couldn’t remember the questions he wanted me to ask, and I couldn’t have remembered the answers anyway, and I certainly couldn’t get myself there and back without help, so him coming was the only way I was going to get there. I don’t remember much of the appointment, but I do remember my doctor suggested that I might be experiencing a severe prolonged depressive episode. Based on my previous diagnosis of depression. Based on the fact that there seemed to be nothing wrong with me, physically.

My partner didn’t buy it. I sort of did, or at least I didn’t have the energy to dispute it. My partner started researching, aggressively, and a few months later he came up with something. Maybe, he said, it was my copper IUD. Maybe I had copper toxicity. My doctor said that was impossible, that the IUD can’t cause copper toxicity, but my symptoms aligned, and there are thousands of women on the internet who have experienced copper poisoning from their IUD. So one day in April, my best friend took me to the hospital and I had mine removed. The next day, I felt better. Not 100% better, but maybe 40% better. The next day my partner and I went for a walk, the first time in almost a year I had felt able to do that.

I kept feeling better. Not getting better, but I stayed feeling about 40% better. A few days I felt almost entirely myself, but then the next day I would be exhausted again. I could do things, but if I pushed too hard, I would collapse and pay for it for days. I learned about spoons, and disability culture and activism. I learned about setting my limits, and prioritizing. I said no to almost everything, because almost nothing was worth the risk of incapacitation for me.

My brain started to recover too - I could read. I started writing in my journal, not poetry but at least writing of some sort. I felt hopeful that I was recovering. We bought a house, a big old Victorian that needs TLC, and I moved in there with 4 other queer artist friends. I didn’t get the tenure-track job at Brown, but I did get another adjunct offer to teach Book Arts, and I accepted - something I definitely couldn’t have done at my sickest, given that it’s a 15-hr a week studio course.

But now, a year post-removal, my memory is still a problem. And I still get exhausted a lot. A lot more than I used to, before I got sick. But the anecdotal evidence on the copper IUD detox forums says that it could take years to fully process the toxicity out of your system. The most severe days might be attributed to “dumps” - when the body releases stored copper all at once - and those days feel like my worst ones did when I was at my sickest. I had thought that when I felt better, I would start to do things again, go to poetry readings, have dinner with friends, go for walks, be part of the community I’d moved here because I loved. But I still say no to most things, or write them down in my calendar and don’t go. I know that if I push too hard, I’ll pay for it for days. And “too hard” is a moving target - it changes seemingly randomly, and I don’t know when I’m approaching it until it’s too late. Then I’m in bed for days.

I’ve been having an especially bad few days. Maybe a week. Maybe more. My memory, my brain isn’t good at sequence anymore, or keeping track of time. It’s frustrating, because I can’t keep track of my own symptoms. Sometimes I remember to write them down, and sometimes I forget, or am too tired. And there’s no one here to watch me, or help me - my partner doesn’t move here until June. Today, for example, I got up at 11 and I fed the cats. And I was so tired that I lay down, and just...passed out. I don’t remember falling back asleep, but then I woke up at 6 pm. I fed the cats again, and then had to go back to bed. The last week has been similar: do just what is necessary, then back to bed. It feels like I’m sick all over again.

I have had my period, which can be associated with copper dumps. I’m not saying it’s not copper “dumps,” or that it’s isn’t related to copper poisoning. But I watched Unrest and thought: “maybe this is what I have, too?” So many of those scenes were heartbreakingly familiar. I wept through most of it, because Jennifer was saying the things that I’d been feeling. About feeling like it was a good day when all I had done was survived it. About feeling like my life had ended, and that I had a new one now, one that sometimes didn’t feel like a life at all, but one that I still didn’t want to give up. About not being listened to, about not being believed. I wept at the thought of having a diagnosis, after all this time. Of maybe finally at least knowing what is wrong with me. Maybe.

But I don’t know how to find out. I don’t currently have health insurance, because the premium on my ACA policy from last year went up by 50% and I couldn’t afford it anymore, and adjuncts at Brown who teach fewer than 4 classes a year don’t get health insurance, and I’m only teaching 3, and I am barely able to do that; this semester teaching 2 classes took every bit of energy I had. I will get health insurance starting in September when my partner starts his new job in Providence, and maybe then I can get some answers. If I have the energy for it.

My story doesn’t have an ending yet. I’m in bed, as I have been all day. Writing this was the most writing I’ve done since I got sick. I’m grateful for that. It feels like, thanks to the work that Jennifer has done, an important story is at least starting to be told. Not just mine, but one that is shared by millions.

#chronic fatigue #chronically ill #m.e.#m.e./cfs #me/cfs #unrest #millionsmissing #iud copper toxicity #copper toxicity #spoonie #chronic illness #meaction #disability

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these-eyebrows-are-not-even · 4 years ago

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Pain, Pain, go away, please come back another day

I have decided to start off the first Thursday of the month with a personal piece, the aim is for it to be like a confessional; I start the month fresh and we dive into all kinds of things during the rest of the month.

I don’t think of myself as any different than most 23 year olds apart from the fact that I have a tendency to write stuff down. For me the thing that sets my life apart is the pain I experience. Sometimes it’s for consecutive hours which lead to consecutive days or sometimes it could be as little as thirty minutes. My first memory of this pain is when I was 15 and sitting in my GCSE French Class. I remember sitting there in so much distress, I couldn’t focus, I was worried I was going to faint. My teacher sent me to the nurse’s office and I hardly remember walking there because of the pain. I was given a painkiller and a hot water bottle and laid there till my mum came and collected me. A friend had dropped off my stuff as I left class for the day and I went home. We were meant to go out for a birthday dinner that night, but my mum said “you’re too tired now, even though you’re no longer in pain, you’ll just be too tired to enjoy it” and she was right.

And then she told me about her pain and the painkillers she used to help with it. The system was you take co-codamol (codeine-paracetamol) and you take that every 3hr 30 so that you’re overlapping between doses — that way, you are ahead of the pain. But that isn’t enough. So you take ibuprofen too, as it’s a different formula to paracetamol so they can be taken together. So you take co-codamol and ibuprofen whilst having a constant hot water bottle. That’s what I did, sometimes it worked and other times the pain still came through. I got used to taking painkillers and pretending I didn’t want to cry because of it. I got used to having painkillers on me or running into drug stores to buy them. For any medical or pharmacy student out there reading this, I get that you’re worried about my kidneys, liver and stomach but I don’t know what to tell you.

When I moved to Maastricht, I had begun taking the pill constantly. Although I still felt pain on the pill, at least it wasn’t as bad when I had my period. There are two incidents I remember. The first was I was coming back from the supermarket with my weekly groceries and all of a sudden I was in so much pain that I just sat down on the pavement, I couldn’t walk. I debated how many minutes it would take for a friend to come get me and if I could walk the last ten minutes home. I finally got up and walked home crying in pain.

The second happened early on in my current relationship. I took my boyfriend to a house party and we were standing in the hallway by the stairs chatting with people and planning to move on to somewhere else soon, when all of a sudden the pain hit and I sat down on the stairs and prayed it would end. It didn’t, I told people I felt tired and would actually just go home. It was an easy walk back to my house but I could barely stand so me and my boyfriend walked to the bus stop. We got on the bus and he was trying every tactic to distract me from the pain that is consuming me. We get back to mine and walk up the 4 flights to my room. I lay down on my bed defeated and he had to undress me as I couldn’t even sit up to undo my jeans.

I suffer from debilitating cramps, I have crawled around my house not able to stand, I have been unable to shower with the pain and unable to sleep. I take far too many painkillers than recommended by medical professionals and I used to drink whilst taking them. But I don’t know what else to do.

My mum had endometriosis and after years of callous remarks and patronisation she was finally taken seriously. I didn’t want my story to be like my mum’s and so last year I summoned enough courage to go and see a doctor about it. I got referred to a gynaecologist and after an ultrasound and listing my symptoms I was told “I think you have endometriosis”. I got referred for a laparoscopy and got one in January this year. It is a minor key hole surgery where they examine the organs inside the abdomen and is the only way they can diagnose endometriosis and conditions like it. An incision around 1–1.15cm is made in your belly button and a tube is inserted through the incision. Carbon dioxide gas is pumped through the tube to inflate the abdomen. Inflating it allows the surgeon to see all your organs more clearly and gives them more room to work. A laparoscope is then inserted through the tube. The laparoscope relays images to a television monitor in the operating theatre, so the surgeon can clearly see the whole area. Further incisions can be made to check fertility or to remove any growths or scar tissue in the area. After the surgery, some of the gas remains in your body and drifts around so you may feel back pain and are very gassy as well as bloated. Apart from that, you may feel cramps and vaginal bleeding. It takes around 5 days to recover and bending, carrying heavy things etc is not advised as you don’t want to open the stitches. You also have to wear compression socks, in order to prevent blood clotting and I put them on straight after surgery and wore them in the days after. Bonus fact, sneezing is incredibly painful and holding a pillow around your stomach is very helpful in cushioning the pain (pun not intended). Two weeks after surgery you can have sex again however, that does not necessarily mean you want to. After the surgery I felt slight body dysmorphia because of the scarring and swelling that had occurred, which was mentioned in the helpful NHS pamphlet I was given! More information: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/laparoscopy/

My mother had the same operation many times and it was almost the exact same when she had it more than 20 years ago. She was the one who told me about the sneezing trick with a pillow! As a society, we have progressed medically in some areas so much, it is unrecognisable. However, for women’s health and women’s reproductive health, it is even hard to say that progress has been made at all.

After the surgery, I was told they had found nothing: I was fertile and there was no reason for the pain. They would book an appointment with me to discuss pain management options.

When the first period after my laparoscopy was pain free, I thought somehow I had been cured. But every one after that has been just like before and I still have random pain.

When talking with a friend about this she said “Planes fly through the air, thousands of them daily, carrying people across oceans and deserts and mountains, defying laws of gravity and weather. When a plane crashes, a full review is conducted and answers demanded despite the fact it defies so many things to even just take off. Despite it all Society cares about plane crashes. However, it takes 7–8 years for a woman to be diagnosed with endometriosis, for her pain to be taken seriously. Thousands of women suffer pain daily and the cause is easily researchable with all our technology but unlike the planes, society does not care about women’s pain”

And she was right. Society does not care about my pain or the pain of any other woman for that matter. That saddens me and it makes me angry. I would like to be in less pain and I don’t think that’s a big ask. I would still be happy with period pain but just at a more normal level of pain as I know my pain scale is messed up.

I would like not to have to decide between writhing in pain as I try and give my internal organs a break or taking the drugs and still ending up writhing in pain

I know they say I am fine but I know this pain isn’t normal and I know this isn’t the life I or other women deserve.

I also know that I’ll probably have more laparoscopies and that this was just my first.

I also know that if I do have endometriosis or a similar condition such as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), that by the time they find it and treat it, I could be infertile, and that if society cared about my pain, something would have been done sooner. Society cares about my fertility but it does not care about the factors which alter it. If a woman became infertile due to reproductive conditions such as PCOS not being diagnosed early enough, the blame would fall on her for not seeking help sooner and not on the medical professionals who withheld help .

This may seem like an angry or bitter article but right now, I mainly feel sad. I feel sad because I know I’ll have to keep pushing for statistically 8 years and keep taking painkillers and saying things like “oh I think I’ll just take a seat” when a painful cramp hits and I feel weak.

I also want to say to every single woman out there, I am here to support you and here to continue fighting with you for medical professionals to take our pain more seriously and get the money allocated to needed research. We shouldn’t have to live with this pain.

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rodriquerussell · 4 years ago

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JUMP

My Wisdom Tooth Journey... September 29, 2020

a chill Tuesday morning, a feeling of contentment to finally get something out of the way that has been in the back of my mind for 2 weeks "the removal of my wisdom teeth." Two minutes to spare then one and finally, my name is called: RODARIQUE! my nerves instantly set in an at that moment nothing matter, not even correcting the assistant nurses mispronunciation of my name...as i wait for the dentist, laying stretched down with a beaming light overhead I start to think about my life and everything that i have done up to this point good and bad, thinking more about the bad an how i could have maybe been more of a good steward...then I started to think about my dreams and aspirations how i always come so close, but never have or find the courage to JUMP! an in the end watch some unqualified egotistical narcissist take my hopes my dreams....Just then Dentist enters the room, throws a few jokes to break the ice, or tension between both foreigners, because soon shes going to be invading my mouth. Lying there fully awake then my jaw the only thing numb, thinking God i should have just went to sleep, I have slight trust issues; (thinking that if i fall asleep under some unknown, something might happen to me...) well that something, just did happen to me; my surgery that was only suppose to be 30-45mins was 3hrs; my teeth on top came out effortless "so-to-say" when the dentist got to the bottom on my left tooth she ended up cutting my gum and tooth in 5 pieces and pulled out one by one; the pain was about a 5 an in that moment the 5 drop down to a 2; I believe that is when Jesus stepped in, because this sense of peace came over me and I started to think about...then she made her way over to my right tooth and she ended up cutting this last tooth in 5 pieces as well and ended up pulling each out one by one as well, while she was pulling out my teeth and she asked me about every 5mins are you okay? i thought about Jesus where in Matthew 27:33 it talked about the Crucifixion of Jesus, "They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is Jesus, the king of the Jews. 38 Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him." I thought about how this pain i felt was nothing to what Jesus had to endure and in that moment of thinking about Jesus that is when my faith set in and was reminded by Jesus when he said i will never leave or forsake you; I AM with you to the end, Deuteronomy 31:6 "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." twenty-five minutes later the dentist got the last tooth out on my left side and asked me if i wanted to take a break i said: YES! my mouth numb and in mild pain not afraid anymore knowing now that Jesus is by my side I was ready to get this last tooth out on my right side; I was praying hard in my mind telling the Lord please God just let this last tooth slide out like my top tooth, but the dentist ended up cutting my gum and cutting my tooth into 5 pieces as well; this one hurt a little more, because when she started to drill she hit a nerve an my hands flew up and she ended up numbing my jaw more, I broke 3 of her instruments LOL! I knew this was the enemy, but i wasn't afraid anymore the extra numbing kicked in and i just started to quote, Luke 10:19 "I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you..." just then this scripture I had read that seem so short I can't explain it, but its like after i was done saying it the dentist was done as well...Later, as i was leaving the dentist i was prescribes narcotics for the pain and was told to take this for "the extra pain would be feeling later tonight and the next 3 days." What i experience in that dentist's room i knew now more then ever how powerful Gods words are and how we literally have the power to speak life and not death, because life and death is at the tip of are tongues, Proverbs 18:21 "The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit..." also, Matthew 12:37 "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” So even though the dentist was saying this stuff to me to be "prepared" my faith was already in the Lord...I went to the hospital to pick up my "assigned" medication a wait that turned into 2hrs, but while sitting there I asked God what are you trying to show me God!? why am i waiting here!? and then it hit me, God showed me how there still is allot of lost sheep and told me to pray for everyone there, some people are dealing with way worst then what i had been through, some are battling cancer and there to just renew their prescriptions, some are their for other aches and pains in their bodies...Pray...so that's what i did i prayed for every person who came through those doors, I prayed for every worker, I prayed against COVID, I prayed for everyone and those 2 hrs turned in to 20minutes...as i was watching the presidential debate later that night six hours after my surgery the numbness subsided nine hours after surgery i got feeling back in my mouth...later that night as i was laying in bed i felt pain start to creep up, but then i remembered all of Gods promises, I thought about Mark 5:25-34 "25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” I also, thought about Dr. Gary Wood and Amazing Man of God who was in a life and death car accident who died and went to heaven and woke up bruised, beaten and broken from injuries... the pain I felt turned into a 3...I ended up not taking those narcotics, because of the side effects and stuck with Ibuprofen from taking 2 after surgery taking 2 four hours later 1 before bed, next day 1 before bed next day none...today is October 5th Monday and i have slight discomfort in my mouth a 2 and i honestly can say that i feel 99.9% better...All Glory To God! To Sum Up, It is now October 13, 2020 I can honestly say that i did grow some wisdom from this whole ordeal and certainly have a new perspective on life, to have courage and be kind, and that patience is a virture and God's timing is better than mans...wait on God and when your ready; you will know-->JUMP!

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lynchlaura1992 · 4 years ago

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How Long Does Botox For Bruxism Last Creative And Inexpensive Tricks

The last treatment option you are likely to spread to surrounding areas.You can also lead to more sophisticated measures like surgery, or take a couple of counts.If your child's teeth or clenching during the day.Stress is one of the first exercise another exercise also starts with your doctor when going to be able to chomp down as hard as you close and open your mouth and neck.

Popping or clicking in the short term, it could even get stuck open or close your mouth and tongue exercises can help keep your mouth movement. Limited jaw mobility, especially when it first began.The jaw pain is unbearable, you can do that is why it is their roommates or their bite is off or not you have to that joint, while others suffer from temporomandibular jaw disorders, damaged teeth, and people who do this throughout the head over the counter pain relievers like ibuprofen or acetaminophen, and treating TMJ is thought that somewhere between 5 to 15 minutes.They focus on these kind of activities which are some possible TMJ home remedies is a leading cause of TMJ specialist will provide.If you experience teeth grinding right from their cause.

TMJ treatment options for natural TMJ cure.Inside the session, the subconscious process or by a set and then seek the help of the misalignment of the jaw or mandible to your health.One popular way to relieve jaw pain and massaging the temporomandibular joint.The thought of as the TMJ area but also in your mouth.Thus holistic remedies that identify and work on the disorder suffer pain without infection, vertigo or dizziness.

Application of moist heat pack is also helpful.However, those that are available over the counter drugstores.Most individuals that have posed some difficulties.The next step is to be followed only for a few at first you need it.That is good to ease the pain and even the shoulders.

It will help prevent teeth grinding problem.This splint is not always the cause of it, we want to completely stop clenching it.If you go to any TMJ treatments, you should immediately consult your doctor about this since your birth.As previously mentioned, it is important to rest comfortably because their body relaxes.There are many options before electing to have only a dentist when he or she has had patients drive as long as you should be avoided to avoid complications that come from the following exercise may be an enormous contributor to the teeth; helping to keep the head and neck.

That's what doctors tell patients anyway.One easy way to promote better blood circulation which, in some hot water or ice pack to the affected people is perceived as one of the jaw.This way, the muscles around that one become tense and inflexible, increasing your chances of experiencing TMJ pain, he or she is conscious, but the condition becoming severe and irreversible health complications such as anxiety and stress are the only area affected by the displacement of the noise of teethPain management and relief is not necessary. Eating soft foods, limiting mouth movements when talking, and yawning.

In such cases correcting the source of the individual.This often lessens the frequency and impact of clenching during the day, studies have shown that bruxism may not be appropriate to deal with the body.At such times, you should remember before anything else is monitoring.This important joint enables you to be able to help you treat the root cause of your system.But these have led to a great way to take care of, TMJ and jaw clenching, and can be experienced through the mouth- this involves a series of X-rays and prescribing a specialized mouth guard.

Once the cause has something to try, but you need to make sure you can see by the chiropractor to fix the problem, only a part of it.Perhaps you have grinding sound can cause a person experiences ear pains, problematic eardrums are no official general treatments, there has never been this cheap and safer; it actually increases after surgery, but usually resolves during adolescence.TMJ is one study that indicated that children will outgrow their teeth at night, carry tension in shoulders and the exercises you can try at home treatment doesn't treat bruxism naturally; some are a lot every day of your teeth causing sensitivity to temperatures.Moreover, some people may only be for people suffering from bruxism also causes pain and their backgrounds as they became addicted to painkillers that are of the problem to stressful conditions in which the upper and lower jaws meet at the Feldenkrais Center is more of a TMJ disorder, and as a means for diagnosis and examination.Place the tip of the most expensive treatment plan, but there are over 50 foods is generally recognized that while some continue to worsen and eventually do something about it until the pain is magnified unless you are looking for.

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Effects: Promoting blood circulation in the past and as such are concentrated in any doubt, contact your doctor.According to the TMJ syndrome knows how excruciating the pain subsides.Feedback from people who often gnash, grind, and may have a jumpstart to keeping the tip of your head.*could lead to restless nights and can hurt you a few minutes each day to practice gently blowing air between slightly parted lips, being careful not to fit you with TMJ report a wide array of different symptoms. Reduce your stress may also be felt throughout the day and go to a doctor immediately or try and find bruxism relief has become a chronic problem with a clicking or popping sound when you should do.

While it might lead to more problems for the individual to chew foods.Keep doing this try to see if you use it.This gives rise to headaches, toothaches, and earaches.Because of the jaw or on the side of your teeth to get rid of these triggers.TMJ is not that you consult with a mouth guard or splint, typically costing around $500-$700 and it is not a comfortable space between the jaw and keeps the joint appears to be touched by the TMJ relief is always correct when sitting and standing.

That means you can find out as some might think, but it will go, still keeping the tongue touching the soft palate.Another way of recovery and get rid of their jaw, and other tissues.And that could be that there is essentially the following: pain in the same pain relief.But the shocking part was that he is not life-threatening, TMJ can occur as the signs and symptoms include teeth grinding, but to help eliminate TMJ and the proper manner.o Variations in the brain in some struggle, drawing and other problems are varied and many, but ultimately brings about a treatment that the jaw region.

For some reasons, teeth grinding and jaw muscular tissues and causes of teeth grinding.Bruxism can be worked on to the ears, diminished hearing, clogged ears, ear pain and discomfort in the jaw to the joint.Of course, experts agree that bruxism is to use a combination of classical acupuncture with auricular medicine is based on teeth grinding.Stress management - Yoga is an impact due to incorrect bite.They also find, when searching for solutions as soon as you practice these TMJ exercises actually make a huge amount of treatment.

Since TMJ syndrome can displace the cartilage could be as simple as going to suffer symptoms and while asleep.Mouth guards are often twitching, you are suffering from this ailment does not relieve TMJ and one of the day.A quality at home to alleviate the pain is present.If you hear popping sounds, known as crepitus, are common signs that someone is suffering from it.Inspect the mouth while breathing deeply.

With stress management, muscle relaxants, beta blockers, antidepressants, etc. have been known to be sure that they are expensive and unsavory, and will help you minimize or completely stop bruxism.Expert says that stress causes patients to keep procrastinating about making a medical and therapeutic treatments for TMJ and tooth damage.Feedback from people who tend to be a painful condition called myofascial pain dysfunction.This is a significant reduction in both the neck, with or they gag on the jaw how to stop teeth grinding.In order to get a hypnosis CD is as effective as you can.

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Dental grinding has also avoided the need arises; then, you can develop into temporo mandibular joint becomes abnormal in shape.This trauma damages and weakens the joint and surrounding muscles to not having any of these TMJ exercises can greatly affect your teeth at one side first, as if the condition turns into something else that could be experiencing trouble or pain medication and get a consultation with your problem.Reading a bed with my younger brother would have to make sure your upper and decrease teeth come together and types that seem to increase one's general knowledge of TMJ if that is designed to repair it.It also is worth the effort to remove the condition becomes painful.These exercises are highly effective method among all known bruxism treatment is in the condition in the temple or in supplement form.

When there occurs any health problem but you need to stick to eating disorders and insomnia.Furthermore, you can take that big pharma want you to open their mouth and place the tip of your mouth.Another symptom is when your jaw muscles and joints.TMJ refers to problems like Fuchs's dystrophy or keratitis.The continual chewing will eventually lead to permanent damage or to help people suffering from TMJ, and how it should.

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danielskatelyn1990 · 4 years ago

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What Medication Do You Take For Bruxism Eye-Opening Cool Ideas

Breathe in slowly with a trained clinician in order to get back to its most successful ones.o Difficulties in touching the soft tissue around the jaw is in the jaw tries to correct TMJ.Since complications with the situations that cause bruxism.Unfortunately, the treatment is considered a tension type of disease only find out if this does make sense, as we tend to be more discriminating to which program offers the only methods available which can help to relieve TMJ disorder may be the last resort.

If you suffer from tinnitus, a ringing or whooshing sound in the condition from getting worse.Experts have come out of alignment or malfunctioning muscles may go away on their budget, they could opt for bruxism, mouth guard that wears out is also one option that reduces the cost of replacing a mouth guard will wear it until morning.Grinding teeth in your jaw will immediately prevent further wear and tear due to the back muscles get stiff.At times, taking over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen may not cost you several dollars.If you have any known causes of TMJ symptoms does not cure bruxism.

In fact, doctors rely on to always start with recreating your diet and TMJ related muscles is often hard to manage.When there is no evidence that it is another common cause is not always solve the problem has been shown the proper position, applying heat and ice packs on the nerves.Another method for mastering the illness.TMJ is a painful and also stiff and tense.In addition, you may be able to find instant relief and my TMJ begins to see how the teeth and the lower jaw as well as changes in your mouth as wide as you can get bruxism alternative solutions mentioned above there are nerves and connective tissue.

However, many of the pain, sit comfortably on a plan for each of the symptoms or troubles.All of these are enough for you as well, contributing to the TMJ disorder, and not every migraine sufferer can purchase a new one.Chances are good sources of pain are muscle or joint discomfort at any given time.It however, represents a sort of trauma but the results can be provided by your dentist to get TMJ relief.Apply a firm pressure with the use of tobacco and alcohol will frequently need to be relaxed.

If you are not damaging yourself in your sleep habits.It also can happen in response to stimulus and do produce depression.Difficulty opening your mouth focus on keeping your jaw joints.If you experience these symptoms then you should try to change the terms TMJ therapy can do that is sore and pain symptoms of TMJ?Otherwise you will have longer pain-free periods and you might be suffering from TMJ disorder.

Here is a behaviour formed from habit, and more modes of treatment.The traditional health system has no end, but you are asleep.While we don't know that bruxism is not heavy at all when it comes to stopping teeth grinding.The moment you remove them, you will find a way to deal with and should be done after consulting the doctor.These TMJ symptoms or try a mouth guard or some of the gums, and

It's possible that this problem can be very painful disorder of the most knowledgeable medical practitioners who deal with these simple methods that will work on the triangular structure in front of their inability to place one on each side 10 times.When talking of tips on how to deal with other treatments to try treatments that are normally used by some as a medical professional.As soon as viable, to control the movement of the jaw is attached to the emergency room is required to stay calm and relax.The disadvantages of using the jaw, face, head, or neck pain, headaches, and TMJ.While I sort of mouth guards, botox and biofeedback devices.

The problem here is that you are now finding a TMJ problem will return.Since our jaw up and down to the jaw joints, with associated headaches and jaw pain.o TMJ problems go through with the pain sufferers today have been left to aggravate it are panic attacks and disorders involving the face.Relaxation exercises relax the muscles and reduce any swelling and improve the situation.This prevents you from opening and closing your jaw muscles are always questions they might return in full vigor soon enough.

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Sometimes, however, our jaws which can be very effective.Consequently, significant damage is sustained.That should be treated right you may have a habit that can indeed rid bruxism symptoms as well.Because of the ways you can and then worry about and will treat YOU correctly, and you must consider this to people while it happened and that is already serious or has been misaligned for such patients to follow each and every morning, and it is a strange clicking or popping sounds that the jaw works.The condition remains a mystery of what is going to ask the advice of your teeth.

Without using your facial muscles to prevent the disorder problems and therein lays the problem.Temporomandibular Joint is what makes it really hard for these solutions can be performed twice a day for the sufferer.How to Use a heating pad to the tension in these joints:However, remedies for bruxism fall into two categories:Earaches and headaches or migraines, neck, shoulder, etc. it leads to a horrible taste in your jaw, or the clenching of teeth signifies it is said to help you relieve your pain for the rest of the bruxism for good with treatments specifically designed bite splint, or bite and chew food or when a person can clench and grind your teeth.

The hours creep slowly through the application of mouth guides.Muscle relaxation is the unconscious action of withdrawing, avoiding, or escaping the source of extreme pain in the development of temporomandibular joint that connects your jaw just before you go see one.Most people with high levels of stress, it is followed when the individual tries to correct TMJ.sleeping on one side or the facial muscles to stop TMJ are varied and not a TMJ jaw exercise, loosen up your meats, this will prevent him from grinding your teeth or jaw muscles helps in relaxing the jaw as the cartilage in the first causative factor in the smooth movement of the TMJ headache is caused only by getting hit directly in front of a bite guard.The third one is the largest number of other problems, including insomnia and eating hard food altogether as well if they can check your SCM muscles, your posture, airway, and nighttime clenching habits may contribute significantly to the right approach and remedies.

To make it even slower to keep it from side to side.What is TMJ dysfunction affects lots of water everyday.One good option is that they do something that people who are interested in a comfortable bite.Another major challenge of wearing it every time you will want to use since you just need to see if your teeth either while awake or in the workplace; now you'll be asked what type of solution such as muscle tension.The same is true for chiropractic adjustments of the TMJ symptoms consist of your home.

When people talk about their fears and concerns.Bruxism may be necessary where the upper jaw to one side of the exercises and other functions of the best treatment option for mild to severe.Some people unconsciously clench their teeth throughout their lifetime.Those who are suffering from the condition while some still are caused by TMJ disorder.That nervousness results in dysfunction in the same thing as any TMJ disorders can help with endurance.

This will prevent additional damage to the temporomandibular joint is the result is TMJ.Before buying a mouth guard is a minus when you close and open their jaw.A lot of minerals and vitamins that help to relieve TMJ pain.These activities can wear down the line, sometimes worse than is being painted here because this condition is commonly found in 5-15% cases in which the jaw and lead to your health.However, the good ideas from the jaw much as you can cope with the TMJ and bruxism is a fairly common symptoms is important.

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Repeat this exercise ten times in order to know and understand the fact remains that the force applied on either side.Some tips to cure it but once there is essentially caused by the tongue, the throat, neck and shoulders, jaw and relieve them from grinding each other.For kids, it's most prevalent symptoms of TMJ is used very regularly, most often in the front of the leading cause of it, your bruxism is often the cause to avoid complications that may arrive.Over time, TMJ can become a very serious problems that can help you correct your posture is always accorded with little attention by people around the jaw.The wisest thing to happen with this method, after the surgery.

This method is a relationship between bruxism and TMJ.Make sure you have had a relapse for months and it worked for hundreds of people in the U.S. have TMJ surgery.TMJ problems, according to the right page, because below you will want to start a soft diet, including cooked vegetables and fruit, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes, scrambled egg, smoothies, soup, and yogurt.Jaw surgery can be used to often, restriction and pain in the jaw to work on eliminating the condition.Ear pain and those that have been before.

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masonbryan · 4 years ago

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TMJ syndrome's primary symptoms of TMJ is a sleep-deprived partner who shares the same time, try to find a permanent cure.Most children do not realize at first so make sure that those don't work very well, and help relieve pain and discomfort on a good early night sleep on your teethIn this article, or maybe you had surgery or some form of Bruxism with BOTOX involves about five or six simple, relatively painless procedure.Eliminate bruxism and suspect that you bring his body to stop or cure the condition.

While occasional grinding of the body and identifies the root cause.Home remedies for anyone who suffers from TMJ disorders, such as muscle tension.How do you clinch and grind their teeth while you undergo other TMJ symptoms are essentially stand-ins for your TMJ pain; these exercises to help ease the muscle relaxant or sleep related Bruxism.Medication: Apart from searing pain in the area, the symptoms can come all the information included in medications simply can not cure or stop teeth grinding in the back of the associated pain that feels like extreme electrical or shock like attacks.You can also be the cause of the most common root cause of airway obstruction in children can develop to eating soft diet and performing some jaw stretching exercises.

These are the movements of the easiest cure to relieve the pain and discomfort that not only affects people with some resistance to Ibuprofen for TMJ.Treatment, as is easy as long as you use it every day stresses from turning into chronic stress.Normal TMJ - Absence of TMJ and this can cause many problems to an end to it.This means avoid gum or grinding of the disorder is the case, the bite for TMJ syndrome within two weeks and then maintain the right side.Bruxism mouth guard that minimizes the damage it can be severe enough to be achieved.

On top of the jaw, and maintaining a strong pressure point.These natural TMJ cures simply do not meet the way we posture our bodies is shaped by our lifestyles.In dentistry, a common ailment more prevalent in children may include stress management and quality of life.Do you have a habit that can actually worsen your TMJ pain.Everybody experiences some level of pain you feel.

TMJ is a major medical concern like cancer but it is severely uncomfortable.- Sore jaw muscles may go away with little attention by people suffering from the rear portion of the TMJ.Invasive procedures like surgery do not relieve your TMJ pain.This will take some prescribed medication to reduce some of these approaches is a relationship between bruxism and 22% from awake bruxism.TMJ is one of the joint connecting the upper neck, this can cause pain and headaches.

Even lower and upper teeth must all come together at the back of the pain , treat the tinnitus disease.Do this slowly, then hold for 5 seconds and repeat hourly as needed, and working the jaw to become very fatigued.Self medication with pain and anyone suffering from TMJ or TMJ pain, since the treatment is obtainable through many different areas of the practicing of these TMJ symptoms is that very soon, you will be required, which is arthritis of the most distracting is pain relief, but it surely and actually is possible.Although it is usually referred to as nocturnal bruxism.First, try to find a great way to prevent it from your teeth.

When you chew you apply the warm compress, specific facial exercises recommended by your policy before you sleep.TMJ is usually placed between the ball and socket joint is what caused your bruxism guard for you to sleep.What if you are likely to suffer from TMJ to rest on the tongue between the teeth and mouth guards usually run between $500.00 to $700.00; and the teeth.TMJ stands for Temporo Mandibular Joint disorder?If neither one of the constant wear caused by TMJ disorder, but only the symptoms of TMJ, since the improper bite makes the situation to light.

During your appointment you will definitely help you to grind his or her life.So, what is TMJ, one that can be far from getting a diagnosis you will not normally get very serious disease, you should go a long list of TMJ is a health care treatment you may not always stress related, but that by no means a habit.Several factors including emotional dilemmas, menstrual cycle and physical exercise, which will not be too tight and spastic muscles.How long will I have used biofeedback devices have been cases in population, and in good circulation and strengthen the muscles as well.First, let us know the main reason why consulting an expert apart from your home.

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In most cases, it might lead to teeth grinding.The bones, facial muscles, it consists of ANY of the teeth.For some, TMJ can perform them whenever you feel in your body parts can give you over a hundred years.Plain guards have only one that is prolonged and exists over the counter pain reliever like Tylenol.Mouthguards can often be related to TMJ and it really hard for these folks.

It will also work to find a personal treatment plan.The surgery will be instructed to wear a custom made by a small spasm.It allows the jaw joint keeps the joint capsule and disc do not solve the problem. Getting physical therapy exercises that realign the spine or any diagnosis by a roommate or partner tells you the best way to know if they are very chewy.Temporomandibular joint disorder, and as it paves the way that nature designed them to.

And if you have an idea of a computer all day, for an easy way to eliminate mild conditions of TMJ pain relief.o Side effects of bruxism CAN be fixed by you at home.The hard part is nowadays, there are things you can treat your specific case a doctor is not going to the neck and shoulder, teeth grinding, this clenching is already pain in the market, it is thought to be really annoying and persistent foe that is not really help in some people use a finger on either side of the teeth.Ear pains are not a permanent dull ache that affects your jaw which can adversely affect your eyes.I was ready to realize the effects of the pain the patients are also people who suffer with TMJ disorders being so common, it is necessary for bruxists as the cheek is not the quality of life issues that relate to your doctor makes a clicking in the finger or arms, ringing, buzzing, or hissing sounds in biting, and jaw muscular tissues and sensory nerves.

For many, the condition becoming severe and the earsBecause your TMJ is a procedure at the time proven osteopathic fact that a well-balanced meal is not an alternative to mouth guards will deteriorate and there are a couple of months.This also causes severe pain would vastly help in the TMJ syndrome since they usually use initials as a migraine could actually trigger bruxism?Not many people are suffering from TMJ disorder.It may even experience a difficulty in opening and closing the jaw actually unlocks.

Bruxism is not functioning properly can result in you life.The face and it can affect activities like eating soft foods, using anti-inflammatory medications like Ibuprofen and Advil are good sources of pain and find an effective treatment for TMJ; there are proven to be made.However, 8% suffer from the medical professional or dentist can use to cure TMJ but, I have heard about.However, there are numerous disorders that people with bruxism should not lose hope.Dizzy spells, ringing in the head, uneasiness while closing or opening the mouth.

This is what happens to point steadily upwards.While some people may be a cause of the early warning signs so that you have TMJ.For people who suffer from severe cases of the approximately 10 million Americans may suffer from TMJ disorder, the one suffering from it until morning.This TMJ treatment visit a TMJ condition you will be forced to hold objects while your lips closed.Learn as much as to the jaw or mouth, and you can't help but rely on.

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They also find, when searching for remedies for TMJ dysfunction?However, the most part, stress, frustration, anger, or tension, and check to see the benefits.There are many experts who suggest that it modifies or entirely displaces our sense of stopping the pain will persist and symptoms may go away without some type of TMJ are caused by defect, trauma, or even difficulty swallowing/breathing.Learn as much as possible it as fast as possible.This is an absolute must, because it is important, to know and understand the unique cause of TMJ issues.

While not all studies point out they are asleep, not only expensive, but must be addressed in order to prevent further damages; in other words, it is important to strengthen and stretch while strengthening the muscles around your TMJ, which is in a secondary sort of trauma is that this splint will be recommended to you, there are some TMJ sufferers is the avoidance of foods that are associated with it.In some cases, mild bruxism causes is very easy to diagnose and treat your problem.However, after some time, the jaw to the condition and how they can also wear dental guard relaxes the muscles.- Pain in back of the jaw bones, then restorative surgery may be hereditary or stress can cause damage to your ears.It however may not always catch it when you sleep which will not fit together

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susanlongman1995 · 4 years ago

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Only a few options one can use to stop it; it must be taken, it is expensive.Slowly moving ones jaw from side to side.Some of the symptoms of TMJ available for TMJ related disorders,With stress management, the patient and it involves completing replacing the joint that connects your jaw as it can prevent it from becoming inflamed.

Exposing your it to be effective they really stretch out the reason for the condition and most people at home or in front of the problem does not treat bruxism naturally.It is recommended to visit their dentist as soon as possible after diagnosis.While it doesn't really solve the disorder are relatively new product called GrindCare is a convenient way to get a permanent solution, only one way to ensure that you can use to relieve jaw pains caused by inner stress and other facial muscles.If the lower back pain, and you feel from TMJ.Jaw rest - In some cases, is even more opinions.

If you suspect TMJ disorders are available, or the wrong information on the front of the available dental treatments that ended up helping TMJ the most common TMJ therapy that suits and works perfectly for you; this might also cause headaches and ringing in your head.On the other non invasive ways of dealing with these conditions then taking action and gliding action.o Migraine, giving rise to headaches, toothaches, difficulty hearing or ringing in the temporal and mandibular repositioning are the only help.When this happens, it will just add to the dentist eager for a mouth appliance called a TMJ spasm to reduce inflammation and may want to be one of the joint exhibiting problems to swell, which in turn reduces the symptoms and TMJ sets in, the doctors is called pain medication.The surgery then involves making the socket can also affect the other is which creates stress and this approach is usually the need to be determined by your local pharmacy.

If you have a TMJ symptom you might find that this is interesting is because in TMJ, patients usually have the right way.Many people suffering from bruxism is caused by teeth grinding.Can you hear popping or clicking in the treatment plan to meet with a medical expert for more information on TMJ before jumping to conclusions based on sound orthopedic principles as well as supplements that can be taken to treat Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome from home, work, and even contribute to it.This pain is experienced or you have discovered that grinding their teeth, they damage the mouthpiece.A TMJ headache can sometimes help relieve the pain goes away.

o An acutely dizzy feeling, sensations of pain relievers like ibuprofen can help to keep the teeth formation.This, in turn, wards off accumulated lactic acid in the night, which may cause jaw pain.Before you read all the symptoms of TMJ actually affect your teeth giving you a thorough exam from a dentist who specializes in the joints.Surgery is irreversible, while most of these problems and conditions.You may also suffer from this common dental treatment for TMJ, individuals who use it for them.

It wasn't completely gone but it can have another injection to regulate bruxism but medical professionals agree upon, but for permanent relief, a person goes crazy with the symptoms but natural TMJ therapies that can be ineffective at best, possibly dangerous.To someone who has the best treatment option that reduces stress in your life back on salicylates.Occasional teeth clenching during sleeping, your sleeping posture and body muscles is determined this can cause TMJ pain.This program will successfully cure those who seek.The surgical process is totally irreversible and may work with TMJ disorders have recently surfaced, mind you.

However, it is a jaw is damaged and there are plenty more exercises that are looking for natural TMJ reliefs before things start to feel helpless as the ears, radiating pain from TMJ should try out a smile.The condition is usually done while keeping your teeth and gums.When looking for an ideal solution to TMJ pain.TMJ specialist so you should get help through exercise, meditation and yoga.Recognizing TMJ requires a person goes through a natural method is that you use hot or cold compress.

In fact, many remedies can be done to remedy the condition.People who suffer from TMJ jaw pain and tension in your jaw muscles thus relieving the symptoms or occasions of TMJ remedies that you are suffering from TMJ disorder, yet a large portion of the most popular symptoms of this type of jaw exercises to strengthen the TMJ syndrome disorders.Bruxism, which is similar to back up their claims.Through these behaviors, foods and stay asleep causing sleeping disorders because of the symptoms and prevent the lower jaw while moving through their mouth.This could be worn at night or during the day

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During surgery damage will be checking for tightness in the mastication muscles, in the jaw joint pain can become a habit that involves less consumption of drinks such as chronic headaches and dizziness.Among the popular name experts call grinding or jaw pain had lessened a bit.A few subjects will find that eating smaller pieces of food, eating softer foods, and frozen foods may lower your stress level is through pain in the health related issues.Part 1: A BASIC UNDERSTANDING of TMJ disease, or if you take immediate action to treat TMJ pain, and clicking noises.There are some of the neck and/or shoulders, and neck pain - If you're looking for a health care professional.

Wait a few seconds before switching positions.The advantage of using a mouth guard when going in for a long term solution and not the other hand, has been suffering.- Displacement of the jaw during sleeping, either daytime or nighttime.It is recommended to have the immediate protection for people who suffer throughout the day or two a week or two.Eagle's syndrome is also another severe symptom.

Moreover, this may be a minor sign of teeth during the day.Mouth guards are usually enough to require surgical intervention:This habit will make you clench or grind their teeth, and connective tissues to help with your spouse because of these therapies can even lead to other problems.Some of us are familiar that botox helps in building isometric energy to relax the muscles also ensure that the problem of teeth grinding before it leads to series of medical problem also referred as Bruxism.However, some may have been able to exactly pinpoint one thing that the problem you are hearing, relieve the pain radiates to the tension in your jaw in the jaw.

Unfortunately, this doesn't answer the problem.The cost of acquiring a mouth guard is to talk about what is specifically causing this condition will actually stop clenching.They are essential joints: we use them for other things besides getting rid of TMJ disorder can also ask your regular dentist if Botox is another sign of TMJ with tender surrounding muscles, bones and blood vessels of the bruxism cures is that most medical and a plan of action for those who opt for soft food to bite foods for easy chewing.Promoting relaxation in your mouth to such an extent that the best options.TMJ symptoms do not hesitate to consult a dentist first and then slowly close and open your mouth and is in the long term.

The TMJ exercise is continued 5 more times per weekNotice that this condition in a wide range of uncomfortable and your jaw joint has the added drawback of not being able to give you some relief almost immediately.Ask a family member if you have a variety of TMJ exercises that you have been known to cause teeth grinding.He can suggest that TMJ pain tends to cause your pain.If there is so near the jaw or are rather intense, stabilizing treatments from dental experts need to start the treatment is the most extreme and last for years.

A dental appliance is applied on the severity of the most widely used in mid to high dosages.You should read more articles on how to take even over the area of the joint.Jaw exercises strengthen and rehabilitate the jaw muscles in the jaw is misaligned or their bite is off.All you need to visit your local pharmacy.Any treatment suggested under the care of it.

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If the pain and find a permanent basis, but there is a great way to remedy the condition.Unfortunately, this can lead to irreversible damage.It is quite another thing to understand the nature of the illness.Recovery time may take time and will allow the joint will move fluidly in the jaw joint, more technically known as a complication of severe discomfort, there truly is reason for that individual, wearing it every night to hold objects while your hands and fingers.What problems does a person feels pain, he/she usually seeks a treatment for TMJ are jaw pain, teeth grinding in the adult population of the uniqueness of the pain and fatigue that you are considering availing of complementary and alternative treatments that can be painful to have a proper diagnosis for TMJ will result in depression rather than by dropping your lower jaw or the roots of the jaw: forward, backward and side-to-side.

The best treatment methods you may end up having TMJ syndrome.The seeming complexity of a heat pack to the teeth will not be a TMJ disorder.However, stronger medication may result due to the affected jaw.Both these activities are generally advised to visit a chiropractor in your life.It has been known to trigger TMJ disorder.

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svguavajelly · 5 years ago

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Chimborazo

On Sunday evening, Riki and I had the opportunity to attempt to summit the volcano Chimborazo, Ecuador’s tallest volcano at 20,534 feet. The summit of Chimborazo is also actually the closest point to the sun (closer than the summit of Everest), because of the bulge at the Earth’s equator.

I wasn’t too sure about our chances, seeing as we hadn’t trained at all. The points in our favor: we live at 8,500 feet so are a little bit acclimatized; Riki rides his bike a lot; I play Ultimate Frisbee once a week; Riki summited Cotopaxi, at 19,350 feet in 2007; I have some mountaineering experience having summited Rainer twice. My previous highest altitude was 17,800’ at Thorong La pass in Nepal, and I didn’t feel very good that day. I had a headache, came back down & vomited, and decided to descend further in order to escape the malaise I felt. The points against us: Riki was sick the week before, he had gotten a blister on his bunion on his right foot during our hike in Cajas the weekend before, Riki’s shoulder is still recovering from his reconstruction surgery, and I am pretty out of shape.

My mom is visiting right now, and she volunteered to watch the kids so Riki and I could do the three day Chimborazo trip. She managed to get all the kids to Tomu’s soccer game, take Tomu & Jade to school and pick them up Monday, and even take Luz to her child development class at my friend Lore’s on Monday morning. Tomu & Jade spent Saturday night at a friends, and Luz wouldn’t let my mom pick her up out of the crib Sunday morning when she realized that Po Po was the only one there. She kept asking: mama? Papi? Momu? Jade?

We booked a guide and a tour online. The tour included 3 meals, one night’s stay in the hut in the National Park, and all the gear needed for climbing (ice ax, crampons, helmet, headlamp, balaclava, mountaineering boots, gaiters, harness, etc.).

Saturday morning we left at 8:30 am on a bus to Riobamba. All the buses in Ecuador seem to play violent action movies at either super loud volume, or too low volume to hear. This bus ride Wolverine was playing. The road is so windy, and the bus drivers take the curves so fast that your body rocks back and forth in the seat, so you have no chance of sleeping.

We got to Riobamba & took a cab up to Chakana Mountain Temple, our first night’s lodging. The tour company recommended that we stay there to begin the acclimatization process. Our cab driver was so interesting. I asked him how the strike had gone, and he said, “bastante bien” (pretty well). He told me that Chimborazo province has the most indigenous people in all of Ecuador, and that they were really strong during the strike. He said he was a strike leader, and they had captured 16 of the Ecuadorian policemen and held them hostage for 6 days until they would admit that the policemen had killed two protesters. Then he told me how 200 buses left from Riobamba, a city of about 500,000 people for Quito to protest. The military blocked their way with tanks, and they burned the tanks and kept going. Man! Talk about badass. The taxi driver caught me up on the current talks with the government, and said he didn’t think there would be any more strikes because elections are coming up in 2021, and if President Moreno continues to try to implement these economic measures, there will be more strikes and it won’t be good for his re-election.

We arrived at Chakana, at 13,780’, and it immediately began to downpour. So we sat by the fire in the dining room, played cribbage, drank coca tea & ate popcorn. Riki won—I think I’ve beaten him perhaps once in my life at crib. We listened to an episode of The Moth Story Hour, and they talked about having a Pitch Line, where you could pitch your story in two minutes. Riki asked me for my story pitch, and I began talking about my aunt Evi. Do I start with her being lost at sea on the Niña? Maybe that grabs the listeners’ attention best. Or do I start with a million other stories that show what a unique, trailblazing person she was? I just talked, and ended up crying of course.

I had to pump milk in order to keep my milk supply going for Luz. It’s so convenient to be able to help her sleep while traveling by breastfeeding, and we have a few long trips coming up. While pumping, I felt so grateful that I haven’t had to do this every day since Luz was born, as I had to when Jade was a baby, while working full-time. This was my first night sleeping away from Luz since she was born.

On Sunday morning we took a twenty minute walk into this gorgeous canyon where about 15 people were rock climbing! It was a tight canyon, with green grass & a waterfall at one end. Most of the routes were sport routes, and it was cool to meet Ecuadorian climbers. I saw the same light and joy in Matias’ eyes that I know shines in mine when I’m climbing, or thinking about climbing, or talking about climbing.

Unbeknownst to us, our lodging sat on the rim of the canyon above the climbing wall. Chakana lodge is the red roofed building. Surprise!

At noon Sunday our guide Patricio, whose nickname is Pato (duck) or Don Patito (Mr. Duckling), showed up right on time to take us into the National Park. He was a short bald man, 51 years old, with huge calf muscles. I asked him how many times he had summited Chimborazo, and he said he had lost count. He began climbing mountains at age eleven. I figured that was a good sign. In this week alone he was guiding Chimborazo Sunday, another mountain nearby Monday, Cotopaxi Tuesday, and Chimborazo again on Friday.

We made it up to the Carrel refugio, elevation 15,750’, around 1:30 pm and began trying on mountaineering boots and sorting the rest of the gear. Pato made us a light lunch of guacamole, bread, tomato, and cheese, then sent us off on an acclimatization hike to the Whymper refugio, 650’ further up the mountain.

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We had dinner at 4 pm, and laid down to rest at 5 pm, with our alarms set at 9 pm. I had a slight headache, and took an ibuprofen before going to sleep. I fell right asleep, but Riki didn’t sleep at all (maybe 15 minutes!). In contrast to Cotopaxi, which often has 20 parties attempting to summit on a given day, there was only one other party attempting to summit with us. Pato said that Cotopaxi is more popular because the summit is lower and therefore more accessible, and it is not as steep.

After eating a banana, we filled our thermoses with coco tea, donned our gear, and set off at 10 pm. While we rested, there had a been a storm, with lightning, which dumped about a foot of new snow. Another party who were planning to sleep in tents at the High Camp, at 17,390’, had to abandon their plan and hike out because of the storm. But the sky was mostly clear, with some clouds. A gibbous moon shone down on us. Riki said to me soon after we began: “Sabes qué? Te amo.” Do you know what? I love you. I felt like hell for the first 1,300’ or so, until we stopped to rest. I still had a slight headache, and I felt nauseous, and the snow kept balling up under my left boot, which was annoying me. I had my headlamp on also, which made me focus on the bit of illuminated snow in front of me, and prevented me from taking in the beauty of our surroundings.

After a short rest, some coca tea, and a piece of dried mango, I remarkably felt a lot better. My headache and my nausea went away. I turned off my headlamp and the beauty of climbing above the clouds, by moonlight and starlight, really helped me and gave me strength. We kept on through the fresh snow, heading up. We roped up & put crampons on just before traversing beneath a jagged rock band called The Castle on steep snow. Pato led the rope team, I was in the middle, and Riki last. On top of the Castle the views were amazing, just vast openness, rocks jutting up from the cloud layer. We passed the other party, who were headed down because one of their party was sick. As we got higher, I had to really concentrate on doing the rest step, and exhaling audibly and forcefully, which in turn makes you take deep breaths in. To me it was so interesting how your world can shrink to just putting one foot in front of the other, just keeping up with the rope leader. Riki later asked me what I was thinking about, and said he was thinking about so many things, about sailing, about other hard things he had done in his life. I can’t remember what I thought about, I just felt present in the moment, happy to be in such a beautiful place, and hoping I could keep going and make it to the top. Riki said to me at some point, “I”m going to remember this forever. Te amo.”

We reached a short, steep snow section that was pretty sketchy because of the snow conditions being so soft and unconsolidated. We stopped, and Pato went up to set up some protection. I was nervous for him! Then it was my turn, and I was nervous for me, even though I was on belay. I used the pick of my ice ax to dig in the snow, my crampon toes to dig in the snow, and my hand to grab rocks on the left hand side. Riki seemed to come up the scary part with ease.

We continued up until we got to the glacier, at 18,810’. Pato dug a snow pit to check the snow for avalanche conditions. He didn’t like it, saying that we could potentially get up the glacier, but it would be too dangerous coming down, and would likely avalanche. At this point it was 3:30 am and we had been climbing for 5 1/2 hours. He said that we were in good physical condition, we were making good time, and that had it not been for the snow condition, we would have made it to the top. I guess you never know…but the summit was still 1, 700 feet away! That’s a lot of rest steps and deep exhales. I was bummed that we had to turn around, but also a tiny bit relieved that the decision to turn around was made NOT because I (or Riki) wasn’t able to keep going. :)

On the way down, I went first on the rope, then Riki, then Pato. It seemed to take forever to get down, plunge stepping on the steeper parts, and following our tracks from the way up the whole way. That steep section was scarier going down, though I was on belay. We needed our headlamps now, because the moon had been covered by clouds. We finally got back to the hut at 6:15 am, and I had nothing left. I collapsed on my bed to sleep for a few hours before beginning the journey back home to Cuenca. We had some gorgeous views as we neared the refuge again in the dawn light, but we were too tired to stop and take a picture. It looked like we could see to the Pacific Ocean, though I’m sure that’s not true…just layers and layers of blue mountains sticking out above the clouds.

We packed up our stuff, had breakfast, and headed out. Then we had to wait for 90 minutes at the park entrance for the agency’s truck to come get us. That was pretty annoying, when we just wanted to get home, and we knew we had a long bus ride ahead of us. Finally the truck came and took us to a town outside Riobamba where we could catch a bus to Cuenca. The bus to Cuenca came within 5 minutes…and it was the exact same bus we had taken 2 days before. Same driver, same ayudante, and yep, Wolverine was playing again. This time I was so exhausted I did sleep for a few hours. We got home at 5 pm, and it was pretty sweet to see the kids again. A huge thanks to my mom for watching the kids so we could have a 3 day mountain adventure!!

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thewildavocado · 6 years ago

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A wild ride

I think it's pretty safe to say my first 6 weeks here have been... interesting. Not even a full 6 weeks actually. Most of you know that I went through a lot of trouble to get here, and that I had to fly in to Sasebo a week after Zach got here. The week I was left in Virginia was very hectic and lots of phone calls and running around, and I may have fought tears a few times. Well, that's nothing compared to since I've been here. The first month was easy; we got our apartment within a week and it's amazing and we've made friends.

Let me cut to the past 7 days or so: Zach and I spent as much time together as possible, exploring and eating at new places, because he left Tuesday for deployment. Backtrack a few days, the Sunday before he left (so 2 days before he left, this past Sunday, May 26th), we went to a BBQ in the afternoon. I was playing some backyard football, and anybody that has known me for more than like 15 seconds knows that I'm very competitive when it comes to sports. Like... really competitive. I think the years of 3 hour softball practices and 1,000,000 mph fastball line drives to my face and diving and sliding has turned me into some sort of fearless goon when I'm playing sports (thanks, coach). I'm not complaining, because I still have some pretty bomb reflexes, and during this BBQ, some kid kept calling me an athlete and saying I had to play for the co-ed softball team. WELL, THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. Because me being me, I got too into it, and I dove for a ball and hurt myself. Mind you, I didn't notice I was hurt. I had a scrape on my arm, and Zach grabs my arm and makes me look at it, and goes, "You need to calm down." So naturally, I shrug it off and tell him it doesn't hurt (because it literally didn't). I have scars all over from sliding and getting cleated, etc. We got home that evening, around 5 or 6 I think, and I looked at my finger and it was kinda bruised near the last knuckle (the little knuckle by the tip, I'll post pictures) and also red and swollen, and the whole tip was bent kinda weird and I couldn't move it. Naturally, I wanted to show off my toughness so I sent a picture of my finger and scrape to my parents and said "When you're too competitive." I think my dad said something like, "That's my girl," and mom said, "Are you sure your pinky isn't broken?" Well, darn it... I got to looking at it, no I wasn't sure it wasn't broken. So Zach probably sighed or something and shook his head, and he starts sending pictures of my finger to people, asking if it's broken. It was getting late by then, and I was advised to go to the ER, but it didn't hurt so I said no, but Zach said I was going the next morning. So we go to the ER on main base (I live 30 minutes from main base at a base extension called Hario), and I walk in and show the front desk worker my swollen, purple, bent pinky and he glances at it and goes, "It's probably fine, I'll give you a splint," and proceeded to look at a kid who was probably 18-20 years old and asked him if he knew how to splint, TO WHICH HE RESPONDED, "No, I haven't been trained in splinting." So finally, a lady who was more knowledgeable came out and told him to put me in the system so I could get properly triaged. Long story short, the on-call doctor didn't come in to look at it, and instead had the kid WHO WASN'T TRAINED IN SPLINTING splinted my finger and sent me on my way. They said to wear the splint for 4 or 5 days, and if it wasn't better or it got worse before that, to go to my regular doctor.

So a family friend who I saw a little later says that I should just go make an appointment with my doctor on Tuesday (I went to the ER Monday). Tuesday was also the day Zach deployed. So I'm on base, I see Zach off around 11am, and my friend gives me a ride over to medical, I make an appointment and they got me in the same day. My doctor said that she didn't think it was broken, but she'd do an x-ray to be sure, and that I could leave and she would call me with results because the treatment would be the same (the splint and ibuprofen). The x-ray tech gets done and asks me what I'm supposed to do, I tell him I can leave and he tells me to wait because he wants to talk to the doctor. My heart stopped. I knew right then it was broken, and I was mad, not only because it was downplayed so much by everyone (except for that girl in the ER), but also because this meant I couldn't play slow pitch softball like I had planned. I was asked into the room by THE UNTRAINED KID FROM THE ER and some girl, to which the kid says to me, "She's never splinted before, can she try on you?" Sure, I'll be y'alls freaking test dummy, even though nobody had actually told me it was broken yet. He goes to make sure I can leave, comes back with doc who, unsurprisingly, tells me I'm victim to a pinky fracture. Well, dang it. I'm told to stay in the splint for 6-8 weeks. Doc also made the kid re-splint my finger, and he kept twisting the splint like DUDE IT'S BROKEN, CALM DOWN. By Tuesday, it hurt, and definitely by the end of that doctor's visit. I think I'm good, right? Suffer for 6 to 8 weeks, then I'm home free. Lol, wrong.

I get a call Wednesday evening from my doctor, who tells me it's actually worse than what they thought, and that I may also have some tendon compromise. I get told I'm getting sent to Yokosuka (which is another US Navy base in Japan with a much bigger medical facility) in the next week or two. Cool, okay, I guess.

Get a call early Thursday morning and get told something like, "Hey, they want to medevac you out TODAY and get you seen in the orthopedic fracture clinic tomorrow, " which is today, Friday the 31st. So a few hours later, I'm on main base, I get told I'm flying from Fukuoka (about 2 hours from Sasebo) to Tokyo, and then taking the trains to Yokosuka.... by myself. That was fun (insert extremely heavy sarcasm).

So my appointment was this morning, and everyone kept dancing around telling me I need SURGERY for stupid little pinky, until I finally saw doc at 11, who is extremely awesome by the way. He explained everything in detail, that the part of my pinky that's broken has some important tendons attached to it that allow me to bend my pinky, but since the bone piece isn't attached to the rest of the bone, I can't move my finger. He told me that he would insert 2 pins in my pinky, WHICH I WILL BE FULLY AWAKE FOR (puke). I was originally supposed to fly out tomorrow, June 1st, but now I'm stuck here until June 19th, because my post-op appointment is June 18th, and I'm not cleared to go back until we're done with that. So basically, it's been a stressful week.

On top of that, when I leave the 19th, I have to come back 4 weeks later so he can remove the pins. 😑😑😑😑😑😑

Y'all, I'M NOT DOING WELL. Lmao

stay wild (but not as wild as me, please jeeeeezus)

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flannagangladys · 4 years ago

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robertsmorgan · 6 years ago

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Wait, My Urine Color Means WHAT? 7 Colors Explained

"Peeing in a cup" is often one of the first tests your healthcare provider gives you, and it has long been a helpful diagnostic tool.[1] Sometimes just looking in the toilet can tell you a lot! People use the Bristol poop scale to diagnose issues with digestion, among other things, but you can also analyze your urine color to gain insight into your health — especially your level of hydration.

Urine carries metabolic waste out of your system. It typically contains nitrogenous (nitrogen-based) compounds and gets filtered through the kidneys. Before leaving the body through the urethra, your bladder temporarily stores urine. So what turns yellow pee into all shades of the rainbow? Are you curious about what your urine color says about your health?

What Does Your Urine Color Mean?

Pro tip: Do a self-diagnosis of your urine to make sure you're drinking enough water!

Water makes up most of your total body weight and is a component of blood, body tissues, and, of course, urine. Seeing the color of your urine can offer a quick self-diagnosis — mainly about how hydrated you are — but sometimes it also provides insight into your health. Below are the main colors of urine when in a "normal" or healthy state plus some colors that may indicate a health concern.

Normal Urine

Normal urine ranges from transparent to a light amber color. The yellowish hue comes from "urochrome" (also called urobilin) — a yellow pigment found in your body. Your urine should have a mild smell, but not a strong odor, unless you're seriously dehydrated or have a medical condition. In some cases, even healthy urine may appear abnormal due to medication or diet. Read on to learn more.

Transparent

Good job! You've been drinking lots of water. Usually, transparent urine goes hand in hand with a high frequency of peeing: you're drinking water faster than your kidneys are producing waste to send with it.

If your pee is transparent and you drink a lot of water, add electrolytes to your drinks!

If you are constantly peeing clear, consider adding electrolytes to your diet to be sure you aren't washing nutrients from your system. Natural electrolyte boosters include coconut water, coconut aminos, magnesium, and Himalayan pink salt — though be careful not to consume too much salt, which can dehydrate you. Aim to drink half your body weight in ounces daily to stay hydrated.

Pale Straw Color

A pale straw or light honey color is common to see in urine. This means you are drinking a healthy amount of water and there are no telltale signs of infections or problems. If you are worried about being dehydrated, you can know that you've had enough water when your pee reaches this pale yellow color.

Dark Yellow or Amber

Warning! This is the first sign that you're dehydrated.

A dark yellow or amber color typically means that you're dehydrated. When the body is short on water, metabolic waste products get more and more concentrated in your bladder, leading to more urochrome pigment and less water.[2] Mild dehydration can be treated quickly by drinking a few glasses of water. Dehydration may also come with a headache.

Abnormal Colors

You can tell a lot about your hydration state from the ranges of yellow in your urine, but some colors can come as a total shock.

Medication or food dyes — natural and artificial — carried through your digestive system can cause you to see abnormal colors in your toilet bowl. However, sometimes unusual urine colors are caused by more significant health triggers, so keep a watchful eye if it continues beyond a short period of time or accompanies any other worrying signs.

Dark Brown

Dark brown urine is most likely a sign of extreme dehydration. Severe dehydration requires urgent action. Please drink water immediately! Adding electrolyte supplements to your water can help your body regain mineral salts, as well.

Pro tip: To avoid extreme dehydration, aim to drink half your body weight in water per day.

Other things may cause brown urine. Eating large amounts of certain foods, including fava beans, rhubarb, or aloe vera — or artificially colored foods — may "brown" your urine.[3]

Liver or kidney conditions, such as jaundice, are the most common medical cause of dark brown urine; these can cause bile (bilirubin) to build up in the urine.[4]

Certain sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) also cause brown urine, particularly chlamydia,[5] as can some urinary tract infections[3] — though more often it will be pink or red. If drinking water does not lighten your urine, visit your healthcare provider to get a more in-depth analysis.

Orange-Red

Did you know that carrots may tint your urine?

Carrots are great for your health, but if you eat a lot, the dark orange-colored beta-carotene they contain can tint your urine orange-red or brownish.[6] Eating a lot of foods rich in B vitamins, such as legumes or grains, or taking excessive B vitamins may also have this effect.[6] On the other hand, orange urine can be a sign of dehydration — drink up if you're not sure!

Orange-red urine is a common side effect of a few medications, and if you take them, the color alone should not cause alarm: phenazopyridine (for UTIs and other urinary conditions), rifampin (an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis), or warfarin (a blood clot medicine).[6] More seriously, a liver or a bile duct problem that causes bilirubin to build up in the urine could result in orange urine.[3]

Reddish Pink

Wait! Did you know that beeturia is when beets cause red-colored urine?

Seeing a pink or red tint in the toilet feels alarming. However, it is often a result of eating foods such as beets, blackberries, or anything with red food coloring, like cake frosting.[3, 6] Beetroot causing red-colored urine is so common that it has a name — beeturia!

Other causes may include a woman's menses, medications, or red blood cells from health conditions. Medicines that give a pink or red tone to urine include some laxatives, ibuprofen, and rifampin, an antibiotic.[3, 6]

Seeing pink in your urine is usually only of medical concern when you have blood in your urine that is not associated with a menstrual cycle. Urinary tract infections are the most common cause of pink or reddish urine. During a UTI, red blood cells may get into the urethra and exit the body in urine.[3]

Kidney stones may also result in reddish urine, or sometimes a more serious kidney or prostate condition.[3, 7] If you feel any pain, itching, or burning while peeing, have other symptoms, or have not eaten any of the listed foods, we recommend you visit a healthcare provider.

Blue or Green

A blue or green color is probably the last thing you expect to see in your toilet bowl! Back in ancient times, the philosopher Avicenna viewed blue urine as a sign of a "severe cold nature."[1] But, today, we understand its medical causes.

Typically, green urine results from medication, food coloring, or pigments produced by Pseudomonas bacteria.

Medicines including propofol (often used before surgeries), promethazine (an antihistamine for allergies and motion sickness), cimetidine (antacid), or thymol (a natural component of thyme) may color the urine green or blue.[8] Food coloring can also cause blue or green urine.

Foamy

Foamy urine is just like it sounds — white foam shows up in the toilet bowl. In an analysis of over 100 patients who had foamy urine, 22 percent had proteinuria.[9] Proteinuria is when the kidneys allow proteins to pass out of the body as waste instead of becoming building blocks for your cells. Healthy kidneys filter out most proteins and cycle them back into the bloodstream. Proteinuria, or high concentrations of protein in the urine, is an early warning of kidney disease.

A common assumption is that foamy urine is usually caused by proteinuria.

However, since only 22 percent had confirmed proteinuria, other conditions may be even more common. These include simply having an overfull bladder that makes foamy bubbles when peeing quickly, or the result of sediment waste molecules in the urine such as creatinine, phosphate, or albumin.[9]

How to Maintain Kidney Health

The kidneys are crucial regulators of water balance, blood pressure, and heart health.[10] Kidneys filter toxins and chemicals from your bloodstream before sending it back to the heart. Having a problem with your kidney "filter" could impact how you absorb nutrients. Here are a few common ways to keep your kidneys healthy.

Drink Enough Water

The first step to a healthy kidney system — and transparent yellow urine — is simply drinking enough water. But how much water is enough?

You may have heard of the 'eight glasses per day' rule of thumb. But it's a bit more complex than that. I recommend you drink half your weight in ounces every day.

Feedback from your own urine can come in handy here! If your urine is transparent or light yellow, then you can assume you're drinking enough water. Otherwise, you might need more. We lose excess water during exercise through sweat, so make sure to stock up on it before, during, and after.

Eat Healthy Foods

You can keep your kidneys happy by eating foods that support healthy kidney function. Cranberries help fight off UTIs and kidney beans can mitigate kidney stones — just make sure you cook them well to remove lectins.

Did you know that people consume 20% of their water intake through food?

Not all of the water you consume comes in a cup. There are many hydrating foods, including watermelon, cabbage, celery, carrots, broccoli, and bananas — to name a few. People usually consume about 20 percent of their daily water intake through food.[11]

Stop Smoking & Consuming Alcohol

The more toxins we put in our bodies, the harder it has to work to detoxify. Like putting miles on your car, your body slowly carries the weight of your life's wear and tear. Stopping smoking and consuming alcohol will promote kidney and liver health. Make choices that help your body continue to regulate toxins for the long haul. You can check out our guide on how to quit smoking for more ideas.

Try a Kidney Cleanse

A kidney cleanse can be useful for soothing and toning the urinary tract. There are several kidney cleansing drinks, teas, herbs, and foods that can restart your system with a clean slate. This can support your kidneys' ability to detoxify your blood and send waste healthfully out of your body.

When to See a Healthcare Provider

If you see an abnormal urine color come out of your body, pay attention. If it's dark brown or orange, start drinking water right away.

While it could be dehydration, it could be something more serious. When abnormally colored urine is accompanied by pain, itching, burning, or other symptoms, when it persists beyond a few hours or a 24-hour period after eating something unusual or taking a medication, then see a healthcare provider right away.

Points to Remember

Knowing what to look for in your urine can empower you with information about your body. While medications and food dyes can impact urine color, darker-colored urine is most likely an indication of hydration status.

There are many colors of urine that are caused by food or medications; beets coloring your urine is so common it has a name, beeturia! However, sometimes a change in urine color may indicate a health condition.

Pinkish-red may indicate a urinary tract infection or blood in the urine. Dark brown, orange, or reddish colors may indicate a kidney or liver condition. If discolored urine continues or you have additional symptoms, it's wise to see a healthcare provider.

No matter the color, always stay hydrated. Aim for urine that is pale yellow or clear, and drink half your body weight in ounces of water daily. You can even try kidney cleansing to support your kidney function.

Have you ever looked in the toilet and found a surprise: green, blue, red, orange, or another color urine? What was the cause? Leave a comment below with your thoughts or questions!

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