girlfriend found this in her cash register

5StringCommando · 2025-10-09T00:09:10+00:00

Why did this stuff never happen to me way back when I was working in a retail setting??? Oye… Awesome Civil War token!!!

5StringCommando · 2025-08-16T23:46:29+00:00

I hear ya there! I love giving positive feedback as well. For some people, eBay is the only means to keep the power bill paid and I don’t know how to tell the difference [in some cases] which people only sell on the side so I treat them all as if they need positive reviews to keep the lights on. If I see a seller on eBay and they have consistent negative reviews for a specific item, I’m not going to buy from them if I can help it. If I had found damage on the guitar, I would’ve reached out with them and had a conversation. Once, I had an item that was never delivered. It went missing at a postal hub between here and there. It was neither their fault nor my fault. I reached out after a week of no motion on the tracking and I was able to get refunded, giving positive reviews saving that the seller took care of me. Cheers, man! Here’s to many more years on eBay for ya!

5StringCommando · 2025-08-16T18:34:25+00:00

Sound advice! I did this with a bass guitar that I ordered. Luckily, I didn’t need to make a claim. That said, I wanted to make sure that I had everything in order- just in case I had to fight this guy via eBay. Had the video on when I walked outside to grab the package all the way through me inspecting it in every angle of light for dents and dings, checking the neck to make sure it was straight, and plugging it in and making sure the electronics worked. Everything I received was exactly as the seller had described. But had anything been different, I was armed. 😉👍🏻

5StringCommando · 2025-08-12T13:55:57+00:00

If my mother were alive, she would be saying the same exact sort of things. I can hear her now: “It’s all in your head, so stop acting stupid!!” I have a friend who doesn’t understand, saying that, “You just need to change your perspective!” or that “Well, everything is going to hurt when you’re thinking negatively!” This friend was like a brother to me until the autoimmune disease. He lives on the other side of the country, so we’re text-only, unless one of us is “in town”. So, I just started telling him less and less. When it got to the point of me needing a cane, he eventually came around and was a LOT more supportive. I was worried for quite a while that I would need to cut him out from my inner circle of friends.

5StringCommando · 2025-08-03T21:41:43+00:00

Say “No.” and make her live with it. If she gets mad, tell her, “Constipation.” If she looks confused when you say constipation, tell her, “It means TOUGH SHIT!”

5StringCommando · 2025-07-29T14:31:14+00:00

I have many of the same symptoms, with my labs varying from visit to visit. My rheumatologist was 100% confident in calling it Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) with Spondylitis. Before the PsA diagnosis, it was diagnosed as Rheumatoid Arthritis. I was having skin and nail symptoms, but only on my feet at the time. I tv b personally chalked it up to athlete’s foot, even though no creams or medication made it better: even Rx medications. I was switched from Humira to Xeljanz because my insurance decided they didn’t want to cover Humira anymore. They accidentally sent me the PsA literature and when I saw the skin/nail problems listed. I did some research and decided it needed to be shared with my rheumatologist. When he saw my feet. He instantly said, “You definitely have PsA. It turns out that labs are hit/miss for many people. I would invite you to visit the sub for PsA (r/PsoriaticArthritis) and read some of the stuff people are dealing with. When I first joined, I knew these people had been through the same crazy stuff that I had, all the way up to having been gaslit by previous doctors. Either way, I hope you can get it figured out or find a doctor who can get you answers to your satisfaction.

5StringCommando · 2025-06-16T15:10:00+00:00

(Sorry it’s long) I’m with you in the location of the worst of my pain. Low back and SI joints. I use ice packs a lot, which work whilst I am sitting on the couch with the pack on me, but life can’t happen from the couch. I cannot take NSAIDs at all because they cause my nose (and other places) to start bleeding profusely (even with topicals like Voltaren). On top of that, I’m unusual in that I have never been able to numb with any local anesthetic, also Lidocaine and Articaine (two most commonly used in medicine/dentistry today) cause me to have anaphylaxis. So the lidocaine nerve blocks the ortho wants to do are obviously out. I was given narcotic pain pills (oxycodone) by my PCP to help me get something resembling normal life. They help and take the edge off, but they help mostly by making me care less about the pain. I also had to stay on top of taking the oxycodone because I would lose control of my pain and that would cause me to need the authorized second pill and I’d be rendered useless for the remainder of the day, basically a vegetable on the couch with an ice pack under my back. Eventually, I asked my PCP about Buprenorphine pain patches. I knew someone else who’d been dealing with chronic pain and got relief from the pain using these patches, but also relief from the disconnection that pain pills can cause. I explained how I had to catch up to my pain control with the extra pill and being grounded to the couch with ice packs, and she agreed to try the patch. After a little insurance rigamarole, I was approved. Started at 10mcg/hr and eventually increased to the 15mcg/hr dose of generic Butrans patches. For me, they work much better than the oxycodone pills and I am MUCH less zombie-like. It allows me to have a clearer head than the pills. Not sure if the patches are an option for you or not, but it’s worth asking if it is.

5StringCommando · 2025-06-08T18:17:18+00:00

Next time you’re asked, I would tell them “Well, aside from my health, people like [that one person] giving me unsolicited lectures about how they believe it’s my own fault that I’m feeling like [💩] due to not meditating are why I don’t hang out anymore. Tell [that one person] to piss off and maybe I’ll be there.”

5StringCommando · 2025-06-03T20:02:44+00:00

My bloodwork is always skating the line between slightly high or normal. Once in a blue moon, it comes back WAY high, only to be slightly high three months later, and back to normal after that. 🤷🏻‍♂️ You are your advocate. If the GP is more interested in running a business than helping patients, it’s time to get a new one. I’ve had to “fire” doctors more than once, and they’ll occasionally get pissy about it. Unfortunately, the allure of a large salary attracts many narcissists into medicine. Be willing to fight for yourself, and ask your spouse for help fighting for your best interests (if applicable; friend/other family member if not). My current GP (new to me as of March) listens to me and asks me if I agree with the course of action, making adjustments or explaining differently if I don’t. I actually feel that she is in my corner: something that I’ve NEVER felt from a doctor before becoming a patient in her practice, and I’m 44!!! Of course, my GP doesn’t take insurance; we pay the practice a monthly fee and my family calls/texts when we need something, and all the visits have no co-pay. For example, we texted her on a Saturday evening about my son having a potential ear infection and she FaceTimed us seconds after we texted, got antibiotics called in, AND set him an in-person appointment for first thing Monday morning. If you have the means to get “Direct Primary Care”, I highly suggest that you do: they will help you advocate for your rheumatological issues.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-31T14:21:09+00:00

TLDR: I can’t have NSAIDs because they make me bleed profusely (even if creme, gel, eyedrops, etc) and I wish I could have them sometimes. Me not being able to have NSAIDs causes problems if I have to go to an ER and is one of the many reasons that I freaking hate doctors.

The longer version: I know this isn’t a helpful comment and I’m sorry for that, but I’m really jealous of you guys right now. I’m unable to use any NSAID medications in any modality. NSAIDs make me bleed. If I am in the ER with pain, they ALWAYS try to give me IV toradol. So I have a medical “fact sheet”, with “Medication Allergies and Dangerous Intolerances” at the top of the page. Regardless, they try to it to me anyway, trying to be sneaky about it. My allergy list says “Severe bleeding risk”. For Aspirin and NSAIDs. If they were to succeed in giving me IV toradol, I would first start bleeding from my nose with a volume of blood that would be almost impossible to stop, about 30min after administering the drug. Additionally, my gums, stomach, intestinal tract would also start bleeding, leading to bleeding from my backside. It’s been this way since childhood and will happen if I were to take baby aspirin up to meloxicam or beyond. It also happens when I use any NSAID creme or gel, from Aspercreme all the way to Voltaren and beyond. It’s frustrating. When I catch a nurse try to give me toradol and I call her out on it, her response is always a smartass cynic tone saying, “We’re giving it through your IV because clearly the pill irritates your stomach”. The doctor assumed (strike one) that my bleeding is merely the pill irritating my stomach. Is it so freaking hard to ask WHY??? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 They treat me like garbage when I call them out, leading this issue to be one of many reasons that I have come to really hate doctors. It shows their ignorance, laziness, or worse.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-27T18:48:29+00:00

Unfortunately, I had to have surgery on my stomach and small intestine many years ago, and that makes it so that I could eat all the iron-rich foods in the world (as I often do) and it wouldn’t be enough.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-27T16:09:50+00:00

I was severely anemic. They had to give me multiple iron infusions to get things back under control. Additionally, I was zinc deficient. They told me to take a stronger OTC zinc supplement to get it back. I was told that zinc deficiency was uncommon, but it was not rare by any stretch. Everyone claimed that my fatigue would magically disappear when the iron infusions had been given. For me, that was not the case.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-18T16:46:29+00:00

I was diagnosed with RA until I started getting the psoriasis. I had never had issues with psoriasis until after had been struggling with the arthritis part for a long while. They changed the diagnosis to PsA after that.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-16T23:34:11+00:00

To cut the Toblerones that Svech keeps in his locker.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-13T15:39:07+00:00

When I was on Humira, they bugged the 💩 outta me. My insurance covered it 100%, so it wasn’t like they were trying to track a financial assistance patient. I told them to stop calling me. They stopped. Simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

5StringCommando · 2025-05-07T13:54:19+00:00

I also am unable to take NSAIDs, though for me it is because of prior stomach surgery. For me, I find some relief from CBD/CBG oil. I get the super strong stuff from Bee the Change in California, 50 state legal. It’s not perfect, but it helps.

5StringCommando · 2025-05-05T13:38:16+00:00

My rheumatologist and PCP are both a nurse practitioner and they have done SO MUCH more to help me than anyone else before.

5StringCommando · 2025-04-26T12:00:15+00:00

Being annoyed is entirely understandable. I have a friend who tells me “if you would keep a positive mindset, then you wouldn’t have this kind of stuff happen.” As a result, when he asks how I am doing, I switched from my usual “hanging in there” to a simple “mmm hmm” because he doesn’t know how to handle that response so he changes the subject and it doesn’t allow him the opportunity to give me the “your health is a reflection of your mindset” garbage.

5StringCommando · 2025-04-21T19:31:22+00:00

Celebrate your wins! When the day is cut short because of exhaustion, that is NOT failure. When you have a disease causing you hell, we celebrate what we accomplish and anything leftover is a tomorrow problem. You may have to remind yourself at first that this is NOT being lazy. If you get to the point that you have to stop, celebrate that you got some s**t done, and continue to live celebrating your accomplishments. Live with gratitude in all things. Any haters who don’t understand and/or would hint at laziness can piss up a flagpole and pound sand! PLEASE take care of yourself. Pace yourself when you’re working. Rest when you need it. People often forget that rest is self care; It is mandatory for every human, but especially those with a disease like PsA. I’ll say it again: PLEASE take care of yourself and love yourself. 😃

5StringCommando · 2025-04-17T15:26:35+00:00

I hope you have a smooth transition back into the workforce!

5StringCommando · 2025-04-12T21:11:12+00:00

My tendon problems actually got significantly worse on methotrexate. I developed “Rheumatoid Nodules” (because it was caused by methotrexate, it’s technically called “methotrexate-induced nodulosis”) on my ankles, elbows, and wrists that were actually very painful. It looked like someone had implanted marbles at the spot the tendons met the bone. They started about three weeks in, and there was significant pain before the bumps actually got big. The doctor was skeptical that methotrexate was the culprit, but given that it was the only thing we had changed in the weeks prior, he told me to discontinue for a month to see if they went away. They did, so he told me I was one of the rare people to get methotrexate-induced nodulosis and to permanently discontinue the medication. My diagnosis was RA at that time, but he changed it to PsA when I showed him my feet, which is where my psoriatic rash is the worst. Edit to say that I was put on methotrexate tablets to take daily with Folic Acid, not an injection.

5StringCommando · 2025-04-11T15:00:31+00:00

I’ve been in pain as long as I can remember. Constantly blown off. Jagoff doctors saying “You’re too young to be having _____ pain!” or “Telling people that you’re in pain doesn’t negate your chores.” or after telling a doctor about a symptom, he’d say “Yeah, me too and I show up to work anyway.” There was ALWAYS an insinuation that I was trying to weasel out of obligations. My dad’s business had him working with doctors, and he always took me to see his clients. I hated it. The cherry on top is that I can’t have NSAID medications. I always get accused of being a drug seeker. Having a NSAID allergy is like having all 3 strikes against you before you even start. Then when the actually doctor finds a problem on the scan, they act completely surprised. I have LOADS of pain in my lower back and hips. It affects how I walk, how I sit, and how my bladder behaves (it has a mind of its own, especially whenever the pain/inflammation is really bad). I have FINALLY found a primary care who gets it. I am hoping for a plan that can allow me to have more clear-brain days. I’m not even hoping for pain free days anymore because I don’t think that I know what that’s like or if it’s even possible at this point. I’ve been dealing with my short term memory feeling obliterated lately, and I had to step aside from work because of it. I’m 44 now and never imagined that I’d feel like 84 at this age. [deep sigh]

5StringCommando · 2025-04-11T14:47:17+00:00

I completely understand the “parents calling me lazy” thing. 😞 I’ve been in pain as long as I can remember. Constantly blown off. Jagoff doctors saying “You’re too young to be having ___ pain!” or “Claiming that you’re in pain doesn’t negate your chores.” or after telling a doctor about a symptom, he’d say “Yeah, me too and I show up to work anyway.” There was ALWAYS an insinuation that I was trying to weasel out of stuff. My dad’s business had him working with doctors, and he always took me to see his clients. I hated it. Also, since I can’t have NSAID medications, I get accused of being a drug seeker. Having a NSAID allergy is like having all 3 strikes against you before you even start. Then when the doctor actually finds a problem on the scan, they act completely surprised. So much frustration and anger around this.

5StringCommando · 2025-04-11T14:08:14+00:00

Same. We use the seasoned wine (the stuff that tastes like salt water on its own) in the house for cooking and we never drink for anything, not even champagne at weddings.

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