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Well, the outcome for the ATV rider was known. The bear, not. And lots of people like bears (I prefer them at a certain distance).Typeminer wrote:Noticed that all the comments are about whether the bear is okay. ATV riders are popular there, too, apparently.
It's not all just about collisions, either. It's about secondary lethality.Typeminer wrote:Noticed that all the comments are about whether the bear is okay. ATV riders are popular there, too, apparently.
Having dealt with that sort of reaction to various and sundry meds my whole life, I can state that's typical with early stage anaphylaxis response...at least, that's how it starts with me.jwhouk wrote:Welp, the Bydureon experiment is done.
My doctor put me on this new medication, Bydureon exenatide injectable. The goal was to reduce my A1C score (long-term blood sugar count) by at least a point, and also help me to lose weight by making me feel "fuller" when it came time to eat.
Only a few problems cropped up:
1. The major side effect of the medication is bloating, nausea, gas, and possible vomiting. I have been having heartburn flashes and belch/gas issues for the last four weeks.
2. Another side effect - the other end of things, ifyouknowhatImean. Can you say "colon blow"?
3. The cost of the pens. You get four of them at a time (one month's supply, essentially). My co-pay for them is $50. You don't want to know how much insurance pays for the rest.
4. Injection site issues. After the first time I did it, each of the subsequent times I injected the stuff into me the area around it got red and welt-like. It was like having a really bad bug bite, and even now the first two haven't gone away.
And this is where the experiment ended. I did my weekly injection on Friday afternoon, this time slightly away from my mid-section. I went off to work, and by the next morning my left side where I'd injected myself felt like it was itching like crazy - along with the other two sites. When I finally got home, Sarah noticed that the one injection site was red - about the size of a baseball - and very puffy. When she touched it, it was warm to the touch - and I flinched like she'd slapped me.
I tried to get some sleep, but this thing kept bothering me. Because I live in MOFNW, Wisconsin, I had to hoof it down to Wausau and the Aspirus Hospital ER (where we waited for about two hours to be seen). They gave me some antibiotics to help with the swelling and redness, and told me to stop taking the stuff, and follow up with my doc next week.
Looks like I'm going to be playing doctor phone tag instead of having a nice anniversary day on Monday.
Ditto - though the only time i had something severe was way back in boot camp in 1968 when a reaction to penicillin put me in sick bay for three days.DinkyInky wrote:Having dealt with that sort of reaction to various and sundry meds my whole life, I can state that's typical with early stage anaphylaxis response...at least, that's how it starts with me.jwhouk wrote:Welp, the Bydureon experiment is done.
My doctor put me on this new medication, Bydureon exenatide injectable. The goal was to reduce my A1C score (long-term blood sugar count) by at least a point, and also help me to lose weight by making me feel "fuller" when it came time to eat.
Only a few problems cropped up:
1. The major side effect of the medication is bloating, nausea, gas, and possible vomiting. I have been having heartburn flashes and belch/gas issues for the last four weeks.
2. Another side effect - the other end of things, ifyouknowhatImean. Can you say "colon blow"?
3. The cost of the pens. You get four of them at a time (one month's supply, essentially). My co-pay for them is $50. You don't want to know how much insurance pays for the rest.
4. Injection site issues. After the first time I did it, each of the subsequent times I injected the stuff into me the area around it got red and welt-like. It was like having a really bad bug bite, and even now the first two haven't gone away.
And this is where the experiment ended. I did my weekly injection on Friday afternoon, this time slightly away from my mid-section. I went off to work, and by the next morning my left side where I'd injected myself felt like it was itching like crazy - along with the other two sites. When I finally got home, Sarah noticed that the one injection site was red - about the size of a baseball - and very puffy. When she touched it, it was warm to the touch - and I flinched like she'd slapped me.
I tried to get some sleep, but this thing kept bothering me. Because I live in MOFNW, Wisconsin, I had to hoof it down to Wausau and the Aspirus Hospital ER (where we waited for about two hours to be seen). They gave me some antibiotics to help with the swelling and redness, and told me to stop taking the stuff, and follow up with my doc next week.
Looks like I'm going to be playing doctor phone tag instead of having a nice anniversary day on Monday.
Contrast dye is naaaaasty. They pretty much had to do it on first try, dose me with adrenaline, then saline to flush it out. Made my whole body riot in minutes. Penicillin derivatives are the only antibiotics I can use, and everyone else in my immediate family except my son is allergic to penicillin.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Ditto - though the only time i had something severe was way back in boot camp in 1968 when a reaction to penicillin put me in sick bay for three days.DinkyInky wrote:Having dealt with that sort of reaction to various and sundry meds my whole life, I can state that's typical with early stage anaphylaxis response...at least, that's how it starts with me.jwhouk wrote:Welp, the Bydureon experiment is done.
My doctor put me on this new medication, Bydureon exenatide injectable. The goal was to reduce my A1C score (long-term blood sugar count) by at least a point, and also help me to lose weight by making me feel "fuller" when it came time to eat.
Only a few problems cropped up:
1. The major side effect of the medication is bloating, nausea, gas, and possible vomiting. I have been having heartburn flashes and belch/gas issues for the last four weeks.
2. Another side effect - the other end of things, ifyouknowhatImean. Can you say "colon blow"?
3. The cost of the pens. You get four of them at a time (one month's supply, essentially). My co-pay for them is $50. You don't want to know how much insurance pays for the rest.
4. Injection site issues. After the first time I did it, each of the subsequent times I injected the stuff into me the area around it got red and welt-like. It was like having a really bad bug bite, and even now the first two haven't gone away.
And this is where the experiment ended. I did my weekly injection on Friday afternoon, this time slightly away from my mid-section. I went off to work, and by the next morning my left side where I'd injected myself felt like it was itching like crazy - along with the other two sites. When I finally got home, Sarah noticed that the one injection site was red - about the size of a baseball - and very puffy. When she touched it, it was warm to the touch - and I flinched like she'd slapped me.
I tried to get some sleep, but this thing kept bothering me. Because I live in MOFNW, Wisconsin, I had to hoof it down to Wausau and the Aspirus Hospital ER (where we waited for about two hours to be seen). They gave me some antibiotics to help with the swelling and redness, and told me to stop taking the stuff, and follow up with my doc next week.
Looks like I'm going to be playing doctor phone tag instead of having a nice anniversary day on Monday.
More recently, i am apparently mildly allergic to the contrast die they use with CAT scans.
You've had your parotid glands modified to generate antihistamines?GlytchMeister wrote:I can spit it before she even notices anything.
Just gotta love spiel czech.Dave wrote:You've had your parotid glands modified to generate antihistamines?GlytchMeister wrote:I can spit it before she even notices anything.
Cool!
And once again this week, Dave has pirated the award for punishing aggression in proofreading.Dave wrote:You've had your parotid glands modified to generate antihistamines?GlytchMeister wrote:I can spit it before she even notices anything.
Cool!
Aggression? No... sheer admiration! It sounds to me as if GlytchMeister may have invented the best new Halloween character of the year, and just in time for the event.Typeminer wrote:And once again this week, Dave has pirated the award for punishing aggression in proofreading.Dave wrote:You've had your parotid glands modified to generate antihistamines?GlytchMeister wrote:I can spit it before she even notices anything.
Cool!
Have you ever gone to the head in the middle of the night and turned the super-goddamn-bright bathroom lights on? Hurts like hell. Plus, then your eyes will be adjusted to light and you'll stumble all the way back to bed. And you might have trouble getting back to sleep because of the circadian rhythm's senitivity to light.Alkarii wrote:I'm working on the night light toilet seats this shift. They have a small light in the hinge, because apparently it's too much of a hassle for someone to just turn on the bathroom light, or, if there's a power outage, to use a flash light and leave that on the counter when their hands are occupied.