FGG

I'm so hungry :).

I think it being predicated on autophagy of damaged tissues you'd likely have to push longer than that for results, but that's just a hunch.

@GBB i was thinking more general anti inflammatory.

I have palatial myoclonus. Do you have a link?

Sorry! Wasn't able to comment earlier.

Here is the link:

https://t.co/3uu0tAw4wf?amp=1

But essentially, they concluded that Botox must be an anti-depressant because he felt less depressed after treatment. Couldn't possibly be that his symptoms were making him depressed.

Same, I think I may have done something wrong in my life and God is out to get me for payback.

Seriously, what would we do without pets?

So true FGGG! I have two cats and now a puppy and they truly help me forget about the pain and distress of it all. Animals can really teach us to live in the moment. I hope you are doing better today. :)

@LilSass . still in a lot of pain but I am noticeably better today than yesterday. I'm wondering if a lot of yesterday was an unfortunate metal dog bowl incident...

Sending hugs from across the pond <3

@Diesel , if it's not too much trouble can you keep reminding me of that periodically...

hugs from me too =)

Meniere's was a misdiagnosis (the fact that my vertigo episodes lasted up to 48 hours actually excludes Meniere's but my first ENT didn't know that). But sure, ask away!

What is the vertigo criteria Ménière’s.

@Forever hopeful , 24 hours is considered the upper limit. I had two episodes longer, with my longest around 48 hours of full rotational vertigo. Edit: post episode dizziness is not included in that.

My local otologist is useless. Last time I had to travel to another state and that doctor has since retired from clinical practice. I'm resting it because mine appears to be mostly TTTS related and I'm trying to help the muscle relax. After that period, I'm going to slowly reintroduce low level sound. This is my own plan and I'm winging it.

I lived near the Fisher Price headquarters. It was in a cheerful-looking section of the village of East Aurora, NY.

@Keith Handy , small town NE is so quaint. I'm originally from a small town as well but in the South.

This is simply the best comment I’ve EVER read!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Genius!! *clap clap*

Low key burn.

Ouuuch. That sting hit across borders!

Therapy certainly is a good way of unlocking and letting go of different emotional attachments.

This may not be any form of consolation, but so much of it all is luck. I don't mean to rub bad luck in your face, but you are not the problem. This forum is often a reminder to me that bad things happen to good people... It blows my mind how many good-hearted people are on this forum.

@Zugzug, I know what you mean. There are so many good people on here in bad situations they could never deserve. It completely solidifies my belief that karma doesn't exist.

What's really mind boggling is the amount of power it takes to generate one of the tokens art like this is attached to

It's true, @MrCrybaby and it is interesting but I can't think of better symbol of extreme excess and consumerism literally for its own sake than this.

@FGG I guess the snake can't help but eat its own tail... We've evolved past hoarding gold and into hoarding unique digital tokens lol.

@serendipity1996 . Yep. How's progress going on this?

Navega Therapeutics are working on this but they are in pre-clinical stages
https://navegatx.com/en
(Sorry for spamming you btw!)

@serendipity1996 , What? No. I asked and even considered tagging you :).

did you hear about the mysterious devices Brian Johnson now has installed in him? He signed NDA unfortunately. But all of a sudden he can tour again and hear guitar tones he hadn't in years

@TheDanishGirl , I looked further. She (the surgeon trying to pioneer this) is now saying 10-20 years (from 2017) but she's heading a national multi-disciplinary program to do this.

@Tweedleman , it's apparently a new kind of in-ear monitor that combines a hearing aid with a monitor for musicians.

How do he think people with panic attacks, will feel if they will be told: "if you think you'll die then that WILL happen" and if people dont get better then you can just shame people: "you just wont believe, you will get better, and thats why you have not gotten better"

I have personal experience with that mindset and its only been damaging to me and made my anxiety even worse and still do. It makes me scared of my thoughts, because Im afraid they'll create my reality. Thats not a good and healthy stradegy to change a mindset.

@FGG! I don't even know what to say except I'm sorry that your friend has such a flawed view on your situation. Whilst I believe in the power of positive thinking, it has it's limits. I like to keep an open mind but it is absurd to think that our thoughts control reality. Has he manifested his mansion yet? Life just is, IMHO. Not sure I believe in God, but I'll keep praying, can't hurt, right?

INTJ

I'd be happy for you to try and guess mine! :)

@kuromi , this is a *total* guess because i haven't seen too many of your posts but you seem to have high internal feeling so I'm going to go with ixfp (infp or isfp). My very distant 3rd guess is Infj because your statuses have this quality where you want to talk about your feelings but kind of don't (which admittedly is just a bad Infj stereotype).

Same girl. Same :(

It’s weird how on average it seems like most people are healthy and happy (at least in my day to day), but with joining support groups I was shocked how many people have horrible health issues, of all ages too :( it’s like a whole other side of life you’re kinda blind to when you’re healthy

Hang in there, this is going to be in the past some day, hopefully not that long from now

It's possible but not my first thought without other major symptoms. Do you have audiogram changes?

@FGG oh yes! Reading out loud is definitely my weak point. I can't follow a sentence. I guess I'm an academic (though that sounds pretty pompous) so I'm writing a lot. BUT, I'm incredibly slow at that too. Though it's more to do with concentration rather than anything else. Do you have concentration issues? What do you do for work?

It's so interesting to find out what careers people with "learning" disabilities end up in/choose. Actually, I like writing on Tinnitus Talk, as I have the chance to be informal, and don't have to worry about spelling/grammar too much - like I have to at work.

@Steph1710 , I was a veterinarian. Haven't been able to practice since my hearing issues. Funnily enough, when I was a kid, I dreamed of being a fiction writer. I have actually written probably 100+ short stories and even a novel I was in the process of editing that I just can't focus on now. My dyslexia isn't at all severe, just "annoying" but reading out loud is seriously the worst of it.

I have so many conclusions different from the authors. I think it's possible that the cats are so much smarter that they sensed the whole thing being an act. My cat senses everything. If I'm even a little sad, she stares at me intently. She's very attached to me and treats me like her biological mother (I'm also attached).

I find it funny that the authors are like "woah, let's not anthropomorphize cats and think they knew what they were doing." Yet, they are doing it themselves by thinking someone close to them would never stiff them like that.

@Zugzug I proudly anthropomorphize all pets.

I dont believe in the banana regime, for other health reasons Im on potassium supplements and naturally eat 2-3 bananas a day, I went 1 week with low potassium intake and no change in my T.

Gotta use DuckDuckGo

Dude was just lucky, imo.