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- 12 hours
There’s more truth to “you are as old as you feel” than you’d think. But you can’t get younger.
- 19 hours
Most of the time people want connection / to be heard, more than solutions to their problems.
- 20 hours
That you don’t actually have to do everything perfectly, doing more things but 80% correctly is usually better
- 9 hours
This is a good idea except when I look at my stack of unpublished novels.
I shattered my humerus (upper arm bone) badly, and needed major surgery, so I was in bad pain for a while, exacerbated by the fact that I’m a big whiney baby.
I absolutely refused any opiates for pain, knowing I’d get hooked, so I stuck with massive does of Advil, which worked okay. When I was near the end, almost out of it, I discovered that doctors were often recommending a combo of 1 Tylenol and 2 Advil for pain, claiming that the pain-killing power approached the level of an opiate, without any chance of addiction. I tried it, and the result was AMAZING! It really worked well. I wish I’d known about it when I first came out of surgery, instead of weeks later, when the pain had subsided for the most part.
Also, the Advil is processed by the kidneys, and the Tylenol is processed by the liver, so none of your organs are overtaxed. It’s still not a good idea for those who are taking blood thinners.
I’ve also noticed that Advil now sells their own combo with acetaminophen.
- 9 hours
Super admirable to take the safer path. Hope your arm is completely mended.
- 19 hours
…It’s still not a good idea for those who are taking blood thinners.
Can confirm. Every time I go in to get my INR checked, I am always asked if I have taken any tylenol products. I don’t fully remember why it’s not a good idea, but I wanna say it might increase blood thickness, which increases potential for a blood clot. And I don’t need to explain why that is a bad thing.
Edit:
I am wrong. Another person corrected and it’s NSAIDS like ibuprofen and aspirin that can cause issues. Specifically raising the risk of bleeding. I thank them for the correction so I don’t just spread misinformation.
You’d think I remember this considering I have been on blood thinners for over a decade, but my memory has never been the greatest for over a decade.
19 hoursI think you’re mistaken: it’s not Tylenol but rather NSAIDs, like Advil, Aleve, and aspirin.
Harvard Health Publishing: Bad mix: Blood thinners and NSAIDs
- 19 hours
Maybe I am mistaken. It’s one of those things I have heard enough that I don’t think about it and it becomes background that my brain kinda tunes out of my thoughts.
If you take blood thinners, you absolutely should think about it, otherwise you may be taking exactly the painkillers they’ve been telling you not to take.
- 19 hours
I really should think about it more. You are absolutely right. My problem is I almost never need painkillers, so I almost never need to worry. Not a good excuse in the slightest, though.
Good one. We also use NSAIDs (doesn’t have to be Advil/ibuprofen specifically) & Tylenol (AKA acetaminophen/paracetamol) in combination when needed.
It’s worth noting that Excedrin is a combination of aspirin (an NSAID), acetaminophen, and caffeine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine
- 2 days
That was really difficult to read/understand. I added punctuation to make it more clear, at least to me.
What is one of those “Oh my god, I wish someone had explained THIS system to me when I was younger” moments, that really sticks out to you from your experience?
- 2 days
Not sure what you mean by “system,” so I’m just going to answer a thing I wish someone explained to me much earlier.
Not everyone feels hunger cues, so “just eat when you’re hungry” can be bad advice.
I learned about anorexia nervosa as an eating disorder in middle and high school. People worried about me because I was thin and didn’t eat a lot, but I didn’t try to stay skinny and I ate when I was hungry, so I knew I didn’t have that. Ironically, learning about EDs made me sure I didn’t have a problem.
In college I took a class that defined anorexia as “a lack of appetite,” identifying it could be a drug side effect, from stress, or just how someone’s body is. It differentiated “anorexia” from “anorexia nervosa.” That opened my eyes that I did have disordered eating, but it was from physiology, not psychology.
I trained myself how to eat enough, but I still have to be careful not to fall back into old habits since I don’t have normal hunger cues. It’s constant work that might have been easier if I started building these habits from a younger age.
- 1 day
Yeah mine is a medication side effect so that’s been fun to navigate. But honestly I find it better than my previous issue of eating constantly all the time and feeling like I had no control over it. Turns out I was dopamine seeking. Ugh ADHD lol.
I am definitely one of those people who follows the “only eat when you’re hungry, and only until you aren’t hungry” plan, and it’s helped me lose over 100 pounds, while literally eating anything I want (in moderation), so I’m a believer.
We tend to dismiss underweight as a high-class problem that can be easily solved with a sandwich, but your perspective is a reminder to not be flippant. I still think it is sound advice for MOST people, but you have definitely made me aware of exceptions, and to be sensitive about it.
You’re slender, so I doubt I’d be offering the advice to you anyway. Not that I’m going around pitching it to random fat folks I see on the street, that would be weird, and an entirely different problem.
The vast majority of advice you will ever hear about anything is medicinal - it’s contextual to a specific set of circumstances, and is meant to deal with a certain problem or a particular type of situation. Most advice is not applicable universally, even if it is sometimes good advice.
Following from this, if you get someone sharing a piece of advice, consider if that advice suits your circumstances before following it. People have different lives, and not everything everyone tells you will be helpful advice for every situation. Like medicine.
- 2 hours
The flipside of this is what a friend once dubbed “terminal uniqueness.” Just because you aren’t in the exact same situation as others does not mean their advice won’t work for you, your life isn’t that unique
Marxists would agree that few things apply universally, and they always consider the context, or “material conditions.” When liberals say Marxists are dogmatic, they’re showing their ignorance.
- 15 hours
Liberals saying Marxists are dogmatic is meaningless. Liberals don’t even have a coherent ideology, their understanding of what constitutes a dogma is practically the same as a rock’s.
You can HEAR music by LISTENING to it and trying to imitate it.
Sheet music is as much a trap as a tool.
- 2 days
I am most definitely suffering from one of these that I still haven’t figured out yet. probably financial shit which is the most boring thing in the whole universe to me.
- 3 hours
Not sure how old you are or what stage of life you are in but if you really want to get on top of finances and hate dealing with finances, look into hiring a fiduciary.
They may require more overall worth before taking you on as a client but they can give you a plan yo follow to get there.
If you do qualify then they can handle all of the financial stuff for you. Note these aren’t just accountants or money managers but they are required by law to work in your fidicuiary interest. Usually charge by a percentage of worth so it is in their best interest to make you money because then they make more money.
The initial plan to follow is a stepping stone to get where you want to be financially with the goal of the fiduciary handling everything for you. I honestly wish I knew about them in my 20’s instead of decades later.
- 1 day
I wont lie, a good budget saved my ass. That being said, not enough income can’t be fixed by a budget but it might help you find where you can trim your finances.
