In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Are you eating? And are you eating enough protein?
Do you have any digestion issues that would prevent you from absorbing your food?
How much weight did you lose unintentionally? If it's over 15 lbs, that's a lot.
How much weight have you lost since trying to reverse the trend?
If it's more than 5 lbs, that's significant.
Seeing your g'ma die recently of lung cancer, and being a smoker might weigh on your mind, but even among heavy smokers the chance of developing lung cancer at your age is almost nil. So while I would maybe take a lesson from the weight loss, cancer wouldn't be at the top of my list of worries
I'd see a doctor, and one of the things you might want to check for is parasites. I wonder if that water main break introduced something besides a bacterial bug.
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I hope we get to hear about that monster project, SIX!
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Out for my walk in a bit and the sun is trying to come out but computer says rain. Have to think about my umbrella.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Are you eating? And are you eating enough protein?
I'm eating. Should be enough protien by quite a bit since I haven't been super active, at least not every day.
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Do you have any digestion issues that would prevent you from absorbing your food?
Possibly. It's not all the time, but I can have some really bad bouts of (undiagnosed) IBS. That had always been the case though really... even dating back to when I was a kid.
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How much weight did you lose unintentionally? If it's over 15 lbs, that's a lot.
How much weight have you lost since trying to reverse the trend?
Depends on what time frame we're talking about. I can't say for sure, but I know I was over 170lbs back in November. It could have been pushing 180. That was after I started gaining weight after it got cold but I didn't lower my caloric intake.
About a month ago would have been when I realized I was down to 153, because that's when I was giving my aunt the other scale. The week before was when I had 3 people tell me I was looking skinny, but until I stepped on the scale I figured they were just seeing me in a tshirt without the bulky hoodie because I hadn't noticed it.
About 2 weeks after seeing 153, I stepped on it again and I was 146.5.
I've since gone back to eating my brown rice with 12oz of vegetables and 2 burger patties at night, and also adding 2 bananas, cereal, milk and some peanut butter during the day. I'm never hungry anymore because I'm eating twice a day instead of once (like I'd been doing for around the last 4 to 5 years), but I don't have any problems forcing it all down.
Since then I've fluctuated between 146 and 151 (trying NOT to weigh myself every day and obsessing over it), but yesterday I was down to 144.4.
I also started drinking a LOT of water at night. Enough to keep me waking up every night to pee and then grabbing another tall glass of it. I can't seem to get enough of it. This probably has something to do with it, because last night before I finished eating I was 151 but when I woke up before passing any bowel movement I was back down to 148lbs... and then 146 afterward.
I've only hit 144 once, but it has me worried that I could even possibly continue to lose weight when I'm eating so much as I am.
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If it's more than 5 lbs, that's significant.
Yeah. A lot more than 5 lbs... Under any metric. It's a chore right now just trying not to lose anymore, and it's not good for my wallet either.
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Seeing your g'ma die recently of lung cancer, and being a smoker might weigh on your mind, but even among heavy smokers the chance of developing lung cancer at your age is almost nil. So while I would maybe take a lesson from the weight loss, cancer wouldn't be at the top of my list of worries
I'd see a doctor, and one of the things you might want to check for is parasites. I wonder if that water main break introduced something besides a bacterial bug.
Yeah. That's what everybody is telling me to do. Shit.
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I hope we get to hear about that monster project, SIX!
Hopefully soon.
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Well, weight loss + thirst = (possibly) diabetes
You don't have any risk factors - you're not overweight and you're more than averagely active but you could have developed diabetes from some unknown factor.
Testing for diabetes is easy, you can buy urine test strips (I think they're called ketodiastix) in the store and check your urine for sugar (there shouldn't be any) and ketones (there shouldn't be any). More accurately-but more expensively- you can test your blood sugar with fingerstick drop of blood using a meter (They're pretty cheap, $25-$35) special test strips (that's where the expense comes in at about $1/strip) and a finger-sticker.
But treating diabetes isn't a do-it-yourself possibility.
Test your urine, but sorry to say you really should see a doctor.
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Took my umbrella for the rain when I went out and then come back in the dry. Oh, well. So much for Spring in my area.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, weight loss + thirst = (possibly) diabetes
You don't have any risk factors - you're not overweight and you're more than averagely active but you could have developed diabetes from some unknown factor.
Testing for diabetes is easy, you can buy urine test strips (I think they're called ketodiastix) in the store and check your urine for sugar (there shouldn't be any) and ketones (there shouldn't be any). More accurately-but more expensively- you can test your blood sugar with fingerstick drop of blood using a meter (They're pretty cheap, $25-$35) special test strips (that's where the expense comes in at about $1/strip) and a finger-sticker.
But treating diabetes isn't a do-it-yourself possibility.
Test your urine, but sorry to say you really should see a doctor.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I've only had about 1/2 a cup of coffee today. That's down from about 2 pots a day for 5 years. No headaches yet, but very low energy.
I'm also not doing intermediate fasting anymore.
I'm going to try going a week without coffee while keeping with my better diet and vitamins and see what happens before I get any doctors involved.
I'll see if I can find those pee strips in the meantime.
A quick search on diabetes does look pretty scary. I don't have all the symptoms, but I have enough of them to make me worry. The frequent urinating and always being thirsty has gone on for about 6 months now. Although I can say that without drinking much coffee today the thirst levels have gone down quite a bit already, and there haven't been any muscle and/or eyelid twitches today.
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Er... I needed to add something to my previous post. You shouldn't have ketones in your urine IF you show sugar in your urine AT THE SAME TIME. But people will normally show ketones if they haven't eaten in a while... That's the body switching over from burning sugar to burning fat when it runs out of sugar. So sugar in urine is no bueno. Sugar in urine PLUS ketones in urine is really no bueno. But low level of ketones by itself - especially if you haven't eaten in 8 hours or more- is normal, and just your body burning fat for fuel, which it does when it runs out of sugar.
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I think I'm dying.
I'm 143.8 lbs now. I haven't done shit today but sleep. Not one single activity that should be burning off any calories.
I guess I'll call the doctor on Monday so I can see what is going to kill me and how long I've got. Best get my affairs in order and make sure it all goes to my brother.
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I hate to do online diagnosis, but IMHO you sound too cogent to be in diabetic ketoacidosis. If you feel unusually fatigued it could be caffeine withdrawal,
Early symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis are
Being very thirsty
Urinating often
Feeling a need to throw up and throwing up
Having stomach pain
Being weak or tired
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetic-ketoacidosis/s
ymptoms-causes/syc-20371551
Emergency symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis include fast breathing (Blowing off CO2) flushed cheeks and confusion. Unfortunatelu, by the time you're confused you're prolly too far gone to call 911. So, out of abundance of caution, do something TOMORROW. Don't wait for Monday.
Either go to your nearest pharmacy and get those pee stix and test yourself. What you do after that depends on what you find, but may warrant a call to 911. Or go to your nearest urgent care. Or if you're in deep shit call 911. They have the capacity to respnd to diabetic crises (sugar too high or too low) right away, like. on the scene. It's one of the easiest things to treat.
If it turns out not to be diabetes that will require more sleuthing.
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I think I'm dying.
I'm 143.8 lbs now. I haven't done shit today but sleep. Not one single activity that should be burning off any calories.
I guess I'll call the doctor on Monday so I can see what is going to kill me and how long I've got. Best get my affairs in order and make sure it all goes to my brother.
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Looks like the Mario movie could make $200 Million domestic by Sunday night and already put it in the 3rd highest domestic grossing movie so far in 2023 after only 5 days in the theaters.
Disney's Lightyear made $118 Million domestic in total.
Disney's Strange World made $38 Million domestic in total.
It's amazing how much money you can make on an animated feature when you're not pushing an agenda to the parents and brainwashing the children with it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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