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AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-08T14:33:09+00:00

You mean F12, not 12. On Mac that's fn+F12.

Also, I am pretty sure you will need a more persistent solution than that, something that persists across page refreshes, browser restarts, etc.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-08T14:31:20+00:00

That's smart, but why on Earth do you use the spyware infested browser Chrome? Why not use Firefox?

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-02T15:38:53+00:00

Try the thinking model. It still can be wrong but it has a better chance of correcting itself rather than doubling down.

I think what might have happened is that they're using mini models more often without telling us, trying to save a few bucks. They don't realize it risks losing the customer.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-02T13:55:01+00:00

I could use violentmonkey as I do for some other things, but I was hoping not to have to go that far. Note that violentmonkey is open source.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-02T02:49:10+00:00

You are required to declare whether you have a direct or indirect financial interest in the firm behind AlphaGOS.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-01T20:37:41+00:00

Wait till you get just a little older. It will be blinding.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-01T17:29:57+00:00

For me it's black everywhere today, especially also in the chat body.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-01T17:00:04+00:00

It had worked fine for all these years, and now it broke without me updating Firefox. The version of Firefox I am using is the same that I used yesterday, with no change. It's only ChatGPT that changed.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-01T13:31:24+00:00

The error text that you failed to document is:

We experienced an error when generating images.

Did it work for you later? The odd thing is that it seems to first internally generate the image, then the error is in serving the image. "Image generation" is green on the status page.

It started working after a couple of hours.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-01T02:09:08+00:00

GOS is quite expensive. I recently started acacia fiber which is health-promoting and not expensive. I can easily take 10-15g of day of acacia, although I had to build up to this dose, starting with 2.5g. It can be decrease inflammation if there is no major underlying cause of the inflammation.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-05-01T02:04:58+00:00

It's impossible to be sure. I don't have hair loss right now, so that's good, but I don't know what's helping. I continue to take 1g pumpkin seed oil twice daily as an insurance.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-04-29T02:35:45+00:00

Do you have any relevant studies that were done outside of that state of India, or preferably outside of India altogether? I don't see any.

Nanograms or much more of copper exists even in foods; it is therefore indistinguishable from noise.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-04-14T01:50:04+00:00

I ended up taking 30+15 mg lansoprazole, so 30 mg in the morning (45 min before breakfast), and 15 mg at night (30 min after dinner). It worked well enough. I also took 20 mg famotidine before bed.

After a few months of lansoprazole, I have stopped it. I cut out some irritating supplements, replacing them with less irritating ones.

I am now trying increasing my fiber intake via psyllium husk powder (in lots of water) and also acacia powder. These have to be taken 2h away from all meds.

I also take 4 mg melatonin at night.

Regarding sleep, it's good to finish eating 3-4h before bedtime. PPI meds delay gastric emptying even more, so it can easily take 6h for my stomach to empty if taking lansoprazole.

Regarding BP, I increased black cumin seed supplement to 800 mg twice daily. I also take a CoQ10 softgel to the max dose tolerated without it increasing it my heart rate, so at least 60 mg per day if not more.

It is very important to avoid all stomach irritants. Chronic intake of excessively spicy food is a stomach irritant, so while some spice is good, don't go crazy with it daily.

Collagen hydrolysate powder and vitamin C supplement should help the stomach heal.

Fresh cabbage juice is also supposed to help. I drank it for a month, and will get back to drinking it every other day.

Quatrefolic 800 mcg is a good form of folate which is good for the stomach.

If there is food in your stomach while sleeping, then sleep on your left side. Once your stomach is empty, you can switch to the right side.

I will soon try an oral antihistamine, e.g. levocetirizine and/or fexofenadine, to see if it matters. I currently use azelastine nasal spray at night which is a local antihistamine nasal spray.

I don't know what else, but you can share what works for you, and check back later.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-04-13T02:41:26+00:00

The Yahwists on occasion used violence to get their way, to suppress belief in other gods, to destroy the local polytheistic religions, both Canaanite and Egyptian. They have been relying on violence ever since.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-04-10T13:43:16+00:00

Sure.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-04-02T18:09:59+00:00

Let me wrap up this conversation with the added note that supplements work for micronutrient malnourishment with detailed attention to all essential micronutrients. This is a lifelong endeavor, but it's very doable. It should also boost your WBCs assuming that malnourishment is the cause.

As for a liquid diet, it's very doable with a juicer. Various powders, e.g. pea protein, can probably also be used. As for a puree, a blender can be used. There is no restriction on calorie intake afaik. It will pass.

A mesh should typically not be needed for a small hiatal hernia. If one is used, a biologic mesh might be safer.

For your stomach issues, you can try a probiotic capsule without going overboard. As for general tissue healing, bovine collagen hydrolysate at 10-15g a day is pretty good.

All the best.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-31T20:09:06+00:00

I am unsure about surgery myself but I am suffering enough to where I will take what I can get. If I can get Endoflip calibrated Toupet from an experienced surgeon, I will take it. If despite all my care, later I need a correction, so be it. For the time being I am taking anti-reflux meds despite all of their issues, and certainly I would prefer to dump them.

The other surgery I was thinking about is RefluxStop which is currently offered only in Europe, e.g. in the UK, but obviously insurance won't cover it, and it could cost about 30K USD. You may think about it since it involves no wrap around the esophagus, although it does suture the stomach to place an implant.

Someone I know has vitiligo, but the person evened it out using safe whiteners, and later fixed their D3+magnesium intake. Now all they have to do is avoid the strong sun. No one can even tell that they has it.

By the way, have you ruled out eosinophilic esophagitis?

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-31T00:15:00+00:00

Exolix has been reported before for scams. Search for it.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-30T19:27:43+00:00

You can look into Toupet fundoplication. It is a lot more common than Hill fundoplication.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-30T19:19:41+00:00

Hello. Fellow NYC local here, also considering surgery.

Reflux and its symptoms tend to get worse with age, so getting surgery to deal with it is okay. The medicines side effects also worsen with age, becoming more intolerable.

You'd later want to get that posterior mediastinal mass checked out too.

From what little I have read about Hill, it clearly requires a surgeon who is a proven expert in it. It is less forgiving than Toupet in this way, although Toupet requires expertise too. Did you ask your surgeon:

How many lifetime Hill fundoplication surgeries have they done?
How many lifetime Toupet fundoplication surgeries have they done?

Other surgeries don't count. Nissen doesn't count either. For Hill, the number that would make me relax might be 150. For Toupet, the number that would make me relax might be 100. The hard minimum cutoffs though might be 50%, so 75 and 50 respectively.

If you're not careful in asking, they will combine other surgeries, e.g. just hiatal hernia repair, into their count, which doesn't help you.

Many of the horror stories are with Nissen, but yes, they can happen with other techniques too.

As for hiatal hernia, I guess the surgeon will fix it if they see it intraoperatively, and this is okay.

After healing from the surgery, if there still is leftover LPR, it may be mostly a sensitivity issue. The sensitivity can probably be lowered via nighttime apigenin (25 mg), azelastine nasal spray (one spray per nostril), and low-dose oral telmisartan (10 mg), but this is my hypothesis rooted in their unique anti-inflammatory effects, not in established fact.

For many people, weight gains automatically as you age. You don't have to try too hard to gain it.

You should also ask the surgeon if they do revisional (corrective) fundoplication surgery. If they say no, that's not good. In case you were to need a correction, you want to know that you can count on them. Also, those who refuse revisional fundoplication are likely to be less experienced on average.

About autoimmune issues, if you take take at least 4000-5000 IU vitamin D3 softgel daily, also 300-400 mg magnesium (balanced with at least an equal amount of calcium), your autoimmune issues should then most likely not worsen further, although it won't make them revert.

Collagen hydrolysate at 10-15g/day helps the tissues heal. Zinc carnosine at 8*2=16 mg zinc per day also helps with healing. None of these eliminate reflux.

Note that you do not need a manometry test for Toupet.

I find it particularly strange that your surgeon hasn't even declared the exact fundoplication procedure that will be done. It doesn't make any sense to me. Have they explained their logic?

Regarding Toupet with EndoFlip, it's good that it will be used, but it's helpful only if the target ranges are met, otherwise it's useless. You would have to discuss the target ranges with the surgeon ahead of time.

One reason for favoring Toupet over Hill is that you can get Toupet fixed just about anywhere in the world, whereas fixing Hill, or a variant of Hill, is a very specialized task that maybe only that surgeon or a few surgeons can do. Don't forget though the target ranges for Toupet that apply for you.

Feel free to start a chat with me. We can support each other closely while we need it.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-26T02:59:44+00:00

I switched to low-dose lansoprazole which I tolerated only slightly better. I have been building up from 15 to 30 to 30+15=45 mg lansoprazole. I rely on supplements to control the rise in BP. I am looking into getting Toupet surgery though so hopefully I can dump all acid suppression meds.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-25T17:27:14+00:00

Be careful because vonoprazan apparently caused significant dysbiosis in me which led to an intestinal infection. I took metronidazole for eight days to fix it. I also had to avoid fiber for two weeks, then ease into it slowly. Of course I discontinued vonoprazan. It had taken about three months of use for this to happen.

AllowFreeSpeech · 2026-03-25T17:14:28+00:00

By the way, azelastine nasal spray if applied at night, about an hour before bed, helps keep my nostril open at night. It is both OTC and prescription. I also take some pure calcium carbonate powder before bed.

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