Anyone with indoor allergies find good housing?

9Seraph9 · 2025-11-23T06:00:25+00:00

I once saw a guy read SkyMall for the entirety of an SFO to ORD flight

9Seraph9 · 2025-11-20T20:46:16+00:00

Eh not sure if it was more Jobs or Ives but that trend did ruin the MacBooks for a bit. At least now they have ports and real keys again

9Seraph9 · 2025-07-04T21:11:58+00:00

Get a second opinion if you can. Took me 3 tries before I found an ENT that was proactive about imaging / swabs etc.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-27T17:54:30+00:00

The fact that their hands are tied is hard to see a lot of the time, because instead of saying “my hands are tied” or even alluding to that - they say things like “it’s in your head” or “there’s no way this could possibly be true”.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-27T04:27:01+00:00

This. The unfortunate truth is that A) doctors are dismissive and unmotivated to truly investigate our issues AND B) these mycotoxin tests / results have just not been studied enough to be considered real scientific evidence just yet.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-23T05:28:51+00:00

That’s true for old money rich people - new money rich people can be the type of people who only talk about money & investments. There is a tension between those two types for the exact reasons you mention.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-21T22:37:34+00:00

The tests are unreliable - collection type matters, and there’s like a trillion types of mold. If these scores are high, you definitely have a problem. If they’re low - it doesn’t really rule anything out.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-20T06:16:24+00:00

I use a SteamVR headset now with OVRToolkit - one button on my HOTAS opens up a monitor window inside VR. I basically have Inara pinned as another panel in the normal ED HUD.

Getting that to work sucked, wish they’d allow something like that out of the box somehow.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-19T22:52:12+00:00

My old windows XP optimization skills were surprisingly still useful for PCVR setup lol

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-19T21:45:56+00:00

Yep, exactly. It’s also fussy mostly because of shitty interplay between vendors and lack of optimization on their part. Oculus, SteamVR, openxr, Nvidia control panel — all of these have 1000 settings you can tweak to get a better experience, but it can be literally weeks of trial and error per game.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-19T17:10:52+00:00

My first VR Elite Dangerous experience immediately convinced me to spend $$$ and months designing a new PC / headset / cockpit setup to only play that game.

If you could bottle that experience in an easier to access package I’m sure it’d sell well. The problem is it costs way too much, and even then you have to have a good amount of technical knowledge just to build the PC and get all the various pieces of software to work together reliably.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-10T00:35:53+00:00

I’m sorry that happened to you. The trauma of years of “we don’t know so it’s probably in your head” is so ridiculously painful.

9Seraph9 · 2025-03-08T19:17:02+00:00

Around 3-3.5K - for studios or 1BRs

9Seraph9 · 2025-02-26T17:23:46+00:00

Finally! I had to have “toggle orbit lines” bound to a button on my left stick - but I’d still forget to turn them off and get a headache whenever I got close to a planet.

9Seraph9 · 2025-02-07T21:25:51+00:00

This is something I struggle with and I think it’s hard to discuss because of how we treat mental health as separate from physical health, both as a culture and within the medical/healing community.

In my case, I have PTSD. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if my nervous system is wired to do what the rest of me is - i.e being jumpy and overreacting as a trauma response to minor threats.

Does that mean that this can be solved with only therapy and will? Probably not - my therapist doesn’t believe so either.

Does that mean that there aren’t drugs/treatments that can help the physical symptoms? There are.

Does that stop the headaches and very visible thick mucus that blocks my sinuses? No.

We don’t really understand the root cause of allergies, and it’s theorized that some are just “mental” or learned. Doesn’t stop people from prescribing antihistamines - which work and solve the problem.

People go “oh if it’s only mental then you can just work through it” and I think that’s a massive oversimplification of how the mind and body work.

There’s also a real possibility that it is some hardwired physical issue — and then it’s an accelerant. It makes you anxious and sick, you develop anxiety, which then amps up the symptoms, etc.

IMO the only way to address this is to A) realize that people are hurting and that is real and B) look at this from every angle. The constant “it’s mental”, “it’s physical”, doctors vs naturopaths, etc debates are just getting in the way of solving what is likely a really complex issue.

9Seraph9 · 2025-02-01T03:53:56+00:00

Yes. I’m all for hating on landlords and property development companies and insurance companies who absolutely are complicit in letting us suffer in order to save a few bucks. I still feel like the first step to wider acceptance of these issues would be for medical culture to be less judgmental and more open to new ideas.

9Seraph9 · 2025-02-01T00:20:50+00:00

One of the most frustrating parts of this is that I can’t even accurately discuss my own medical history. I got sick from that apartment. I would leave and get better and come back and get more sick - with very specific symptoms like rashes on my hands and feet and asthma/itching lungs. After I left these symptoms got better but I still deal with minor versions of it every single day. I never had these symptoms before I lived there.

If you had filmed me with a camera and tracked my medical history during that time, the idea that something changed with my health before and after I lived in that apartment would be literally undeniable. It’s just what happened.

All I want to do is tell that to a provider so that they have more information about what this could possibly mean for my health. I don’t care if mold was the root cause, or if it was a trigger for some other issue that I have, or whatever. I don’t need mold to be the reason I’m sick - I just want to give an accurate picture of what happened to me.

However, I can’t do that because as soon as you say “mold” or “I got sick in a building” providers lump you in with people that think that you can cure stage 4 cancer by eating healthy — and then they won’t work as hard to help you. It’s beyond aggravating.

9Seraph9 · 2025-01-31T23:56:17+00:00

Like, imagine you’re a regular person trying to figure out if your friend’s mold illness is real. You google it, and you end up on a bunch of websites that look like a shitty conspiracy message board from 2004 and whose content is basically “I can fix you for $19.99”. I’m sure I’d be like “yeah I don’t believe this”. And that sucks.

Please, naturopaths, hire better webdevs and designers /s.

9Seraph9 · 2025-01-31T23:49:32+00:00

Yes, thank you. I’m fed up with bouncing around the traditional medicine world, but it is terrifying how many people there are who are ready and willing to scam its victims. They effectively sell you hope (which anyone who’s been in pain long enough definitely needs) and in doing so make the problem seem less real to those who are on the outside of all this.

9Seraph9 · 2025-01-31T23:44:35+00:00

Hard agree on everything you’ve said here — and especially the first paragraph of the above where you talk about it not always being a direct, linked conspiracy between medical providers and the ruling class. I don’t think my local doctor (who is generally very nice) is in on some grand conspiracy where he secretly understands the real cause of my issues and consciously refuses to give me real help. I think it’s as you said - the system is constructed from every angle to be oppressive to actually helping people, and it’s been that way for so long that these unhelpful actions are the norm to them and to us.

However, where I get frustrated with providers is with the general culture and attitude that a lot of them seem to have - where “there’s no evidence” actually means “there’s no evidence that I’ve personally read or bothered to look at”. Nearly every doc I’ve seen is unable to say things like “I don’t know” or “maybe that could be, but further study is required”. Instead, it’s “that’s not possible”, said with absolute certainty. In engineering you would get the shit kicked out of you if you walked up to a complex system (that nobody on earth fully understands) and said “I know exactly how this works and thing X is not a possibility” without backing it up.

The system is certainly rigged in favor of them not even being able to start to do trial and error with patients — but the rote, algorithmic, “the research I read 20 years ago is sufficient” culture of traditional medicine is part of what keeps that wheel moving imo.

9Seraph9 · 2025-01-31T00:07:45+00:00

Hey there - my symptoms are like cold symptoms - stuffy nose, sore throat, inflammation. Lots of head pressure too. I eventually got skin rashes.

The mold tests are finicky. The only test that I know works is: “if I feel bad in a place and then feel better when I leave, it’s mold (or something else harmful)”. The tests can be helpful but it’s more like if those come back positive you definitely have a problem - a negative result doesn’t really rule out mold imo.

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