Forum: Story Ideas

@irvmull

Can a Jewish person become a Ham radio operator?

Do the fingers of a Ham radio operator get greasy?

@richardshagrin

Give me two recommendations, please.

1. Switch to decaf
2. Take your meds.

@Dominions Son

1. Switch to decaf

2. Take your meds.

1. I don't drink coffee. My beverage of choice is Diet Shasta Cola. "It hasta be Shasta."

2. My meds are too complicated to re-order. (Lisinopril, HydroCHLOROthiaz, ATORVASTATIN) I seem to be doing OK without them. Doctor Hogg will let me know if I need to go back to them. (It is pronounced Dr. Hogue). Ballard Primary Care, Robert Hogg, MD, Swedish (Hospital)

Thank you for your two pieces of advice.

@richardshagrin

I don't drink coffee. My beverage of choice is Diet Shasta Cola. "It hasta be Shasta."

Cola has caffeine in it too, and like coffee it comes in decaf.

@richardshagrin

(Lisinopril, HydroCHLOROthiaz, ATORVASTATIN) I seem to be doing OK without them.

Recommendations:
1: Check your blood pressure
2: Check your cholesterol

@garymrssn

(Lisinopril, HydroCHLOROthiaz, ATORVASTATIN) I seem to be doing OK without them.

Recommendations:
1: Check your blood pressure
2: Check your cholesterol

Yeah, because once your blood pressure gets better, you'll start feeling much worse!

@StarFleet Carl

Folic Acid
Atorvastatin
Baby Aspirin
Centrum Silver
Glucosamine
Vitamin C
Vitamin B12
Zinc
Zyrtec

Vitamins don't count as meds (though you still need to ensure they won't react with anything you're taking).

I finally quit all of my medications but the one I've been taking for the longest, and I'm doing much worse (unable to follow through of most things), but I can't get back onto that reaction storm again.

@StarFleet Carl

They do if your doctor tells you to take them, even they're available OTC.

Yeah, the infamous Dr. Atkins, bless his soul, did quite well taking that approach. For the rest of us, the U.S. medical community doesn't support or even allow that, and they pretty much condemned Atkins for that alone.

But, my comment wasn't concerning whether vitamins help or not, it was dealing with the conversation concerning their complications having a negative impact on your health. Vits and and do have a negative impact too, but only if you're a complete imbicile and use more than nature ever intended. If taken properly, they shouldn't cause any problems.

By the way, I take a handful every morning, including a (temporary) 2,500 unit vitamin C (since one medication I take prevents me from spending much time outdoors (increased sun sensitivity)). I'm also a believer in Green Juice supplements (since few of us are getting the proper nutrition nowadays).

@Crumbly Writer

If taken properly, they shouldn't cause any problems.

However, depending on what meds you're on, 'properly' changes. You can (quite properly) take a handful of assorted vitamins every morning for years. Get prescribed one of a number of meds, and if you are supposed to take them in the morning, you'd have to switch your vitamins to the evening. (Maybe a vitamin inhibits or enhances a medication's impact, or the medication blocks the uptake of that vitamin, or the body breaks down the medication (or eliminates the vitamin) at a different rate when both are present at the same time.)

@Crumbly Writer

By the way, I take a handful every morning, including a (temporary) 2,500 unit vitamin C (since one medication I take prevents me from spending much time outdoors (increased sun sensitivity)).

To compensate for less time outdoors you use vitamin D3. Apparently it also helps to defend against Covid, or at least a shortage of D3 makes it harder on your system to defend itself.

@Crumbly Writer

Vitamins don't count as meds

When I broke both my legs in May 2019 (almost loosing the right leg) my Doctor prescribed

Calcium - 2 morning - 2 afternoon - 2 evening
vitamin D3 - 2 morning - 2 evening
vitamin E - 1 morning - 1 evening
vitamin C - 2 morning - 2 afternoon - 2 evening

These vitamins are found over the counter and where used as supplements in the healing of the bones knitting and regrowth of bone in my broken legs.

My right leg was shattered and had 2 1/2in (6.35cm) of missing bone that the Doctor decided to weight and see if I would need a bone graph to bridge the missing bone. The accident was in May and when the Doctor took x-rays in October to make the judgment call if a bone graph was needed the bone was within 1in (2.54cm) of bridging the gap in the missing bone and I didn't have to receive a bone graph just needed a little more time for the body to finish the healing process and in January 2020 I was able to stop taking the vitamin supplements.

@richardshagrin

Give me two recommendations, please.

Link

Link

@joyR

joyR

Two good recommendations.

"Adam & Vivian Naked In School - Week Two - The Program

A Story in the Naked In School Universe

by caultron"

Week Two!

"Two and Two
Stacie and Cole, A Love Story
by Lance DeLonge"

Two more Twos! Does that make three Twos? It's not Too many Twos to read. Truly or twoly.