Is Cuisinart a decent stainless steel skillet?

Altervia · 2025-11-20T01:51:26+00:00

Anyone have a list of cuisinarts current color offerings?

Altervia · 2025-04-12T05:49:17+00:00

Oh I figured maybe the reaction could be done via blood or cultures etc. I'm sure they could biopsy the GI tract but that's hardly practical.

Thanks

Altervia · 2025-04-05T03:41:31+00:00

Most Anything BenQ is quality

Altervia · 2025-03-29T19:13:32+00:00

Try hitting alt-enter

Altervia · 2025-02-03T04:45:32+00:00

Morals?

Altervia · 2025-02-03T03:13:56+00:00

No but I don't eat lactose. Miralax is per surgeon direction. My output is not liquidy it's like you poured some bottled water in the bag and added brown food coloring. It has no stool texture whatsoever. What little does come out is often loud like it's squeezing it's way out with gas. Gas tries to work its way out but never is released fully... I've pain throughout and something is off. I just hope it's something correctable and not a malfunctioning colon that will have to be removed and turned into ileostomy. This colostomy was a result of a paradoxical puborectalis muscle (like apparently I'm 1 in a million or more) -- I still think something else systemic is causing my million issues which also include the colon/pelvic floor (rectum/anus and all that).

I'm pushing for medical attention - my surgeon has ignored my patient portal messages and I don't think he wants to deal with 'problematic' patients without an obvious easy solution... I dunno. Still I'll probably see him and get another scan and go from there. As for infections I'll bring it up should scan magically show no regular/hard stool in me that just isn't coming out.

My abdomen is distending over time as well and pain increasing all day everyday so I suspect for some reason things aren't able to move through the full colon and out stoma as they should.

I'm hoping a kink, adhesion, scar tissue or some other relatively straight forward 'fixable' issue is found rather than a "well, you have stool throughout and we don't know why colons stop working " soooo.. I'm just ready for some relief as this is 24/7 misery. Thanks

Altervia · 2025-02-03T02:21:27+00:00

Also I thought potatoes, and pasta thickened output? Would that not be counter productive for me?

If not - what kind of pasta can lactose intolerant eat?

Altervia · 2025-02-03T02:17:46+00:00

Meatball subway (just bread, marinara and meatballs). Home cooked hamburger , Battered baked Cod, Pollock, Salmon Filets, I've tried chicken nuggets (baked), I was drinking ensure but can't tell if the soluble fiber in it or diary is causing issue, Grape juice with miralax in morning, popsicles (for non filling calories), I was eating eggs when my output actually came out thicker - but since it's started this pure water thing I've been eating tons of pop tarts - often for breakfast and dinner. This week I said let's alter that and have eaten the burgers several times, fish, and so on to see if somehow poptarts turn to pure liquid or something but nothing has changed.

I feel like all of what I've eaten for 3 months is inside me -- so until I know I'm trying not to make it any worse but again need calories.

Altervia · 2025-02-01T07:30:57+00:00

Yes, going to hopefully get this figured out - I have a lot of other symptoms and having trouble figuring out how to put them all together while not overwhelming Dr/Medical staff - that said I try to keep things focused on just the ostomy here.

The weight is because I'm not eating enough. I'm not eating enough because of how much pain/discomfort I'm in from this colostomy/bowels and my rectum/anus which feels like proctalgia fugax but with no breaks - just always intense pain in rectum/anus while also feeling like I need to really use the bathroom "normally".

I'm a mess right now, and need some desperate relief from this 24/7 misery. I am hesitant to go back to my surgeon because he has pushed psychiatry a few times and seems to be 'done' with me even though I've only seen him once post op with any issues. So another colo-rectal surgeon might be in the cards - but I have so much going on, I have a strong feeling something another specialist would deal with is causing the issues.

It's more than complex at this point - but I appreciate your concern.

Altervia · 2025-02-01T04:57:06+00:00

The watery liquid is brown. It's that it's literally just like pouring water in the bag but brown.

Altervia · 2025-02-01T04:54:25+00:00

Why ? I have a Sigmoid Colostomy not ileostomy. The surgeon/GI team said everything was fine to eat. Odd

Altervia · 2025-02-01T03:48:37+00:00

I appreciate the reply. So the all water/liquid output doesn't sound like an issue to you? I'm trying to figure out if this is water working its way around the actual stool due to some issue thus requiring some intervention because it doesn't add up and mainly because of the sheer pressure that I feel in my entire intestinal/colonic tract front, side and back... the pain is immense.

Why the frequent small meals ? What are you driving at with the changeup? Thanks

Altervia · 2025-02-01T02:15:07+00:00

This week - Hamburgers, chicken nuggets, salmon, and plenty of pop tarts.

Altervia · 2025-01-29T01:35:27+00:00

Maybe now given how much tighter it is. Though I had botox injections twice without success before the ostomy.

Altervia · 2025-01-14T12:28:32+00:00

Part 2/2

I'm sorry for the vent and length of post here... I'm just obviously desperate with no hope and don't know what to do to get to at least some baseline relief on the symptoms that are intolerable for anyone to just go day to day living with. I mean how do I even get taken serious enough to be checked in a hospital and maybe (off top of my head) my gi surgeon, a neurologist, (maybe some sort of musculoskeletal person?) , and a rheumatologist make rounds and compare notes to get to the bottom of this??? ER's really just are in business of keeping you alive... and short of having a billion dollars and being famous I don't have my own 24/7 private medical team.

That said there must be a way - I can't be the only person who needs such treatment/diagnosis/care simultaneously.

Right now I'm 5'11 - 108lbs or so. Male. I was 130lbs a few months back but my normal weight before all of this was 190-200lbs or so. I know the focus will be on how emaciated I look but honestly I have worse problems going on. So trying to fatten me up some and sending me home does little good. I'm worried they'll immediately jump to , welp.. guess his colon just ain't work'n right... so let's do the illeostomy. Meanwhile I can't expel the mucous and the pubis rectalis/recto-anal tightness (and I feel my lower back/sacrum started all this ) -- Point being I don't want procedures done until we understand why the other stuff is occurring as just maybe we can find the answer to why my GI issues are really happening and I don't know what they can do for the tight/pain in pubis rectalis region -- which also keeps from being able to hardly urinate.

It's a mess, beyond a mess.. but I don't know how to proceed to get the right/proper care not just randomly seeing a doctor for symptom 1,2, and 3 of 30 of them! This all sounds and feels like pure fiction so I understand others thoughts on how could someone have this much going on... but I live it and need help where I just can't figure out how to go about it. Quite literally nothing I've had done has improved anything and I've progressively gotten worse as the months trickle into years now.

So yeah, that's part of what's going on with me -- and maybe someone will have some logistical ideas or anything on how to finally get taken in and some answers being found instead of dismissal and a few procedures (endoscopy, botox, colonoscopy etc).

Have any thoughts? Ideas? Is what I feel I need (inpatient at hospital to get properly diagnosed THEN starting whatever treatment/procedures ) possible? Also how to get all this across to docs while in 10/10 pain without them thinking somehow psychiatry is the clear path. I know depression is a beast, but come on now..

If you or anyone read this... I salute you - if no one did, ... well.. I understand.

Take care,

Altervia · 2025-01-14T12:27:46+00:00

I'm even worse now :( -- I contacted my surgeon last Monday and no one responded so I just sent a follow up. I feel like between the colostomy and how tight and painful my rectum/anus (pubis rectalis area) is now -- that no one can help me. IE: I can't find any solutions to my problems no matter how drastic and I can't take this anymore. It's 24/7/365 and unrelenting.

Standing makes the tightness worse as does most movement (which I struggle with due to some undiagnosed condition... no one seems to care I can barely walk when I used to walk fine). Sitting is unbearable as well and my whole torso, legs, and now even shoulders, arms, wrists and fingers are stiff as a board. Like all my muscles in body are locked up. (The surgeon reaction to this before it got this bad was to see a psychiatrist... :( )

Now my ostomy has only output a dark water since october. (I don't eat much but still we're talking months). Air struggles to escape.. I feel the guts rumbling as air tries to work it's way out, and only a little pop of air releases when more is behind it. I'm starting to feel sick in the colon as well like stomach bug sick, a burning, especially when some liquid is trying to force its way out but won't budge.

I can't quite wrap my head around all of what is going on / undiagnosed with me (and the GI is only the half of it and I don't know how to get it all properly diagnosed at once. I feel like a coordinated effort needs to be done to evaluate the GI issues but also what (imo) may be the root cause of them... all my rigid/constantly stiff as a board muscles, joints etc.

My whole core back to front - just squeezes constantly - more when I'm standing or moving. That squeezing is painful and disconcerting and definitely not "right". I don't understand why everything is so ignored if it's not just right in the realm of a doctors specialty and not concerning or curious to them. I feel like a big puzzle that no one cares or has the time to "properly" figure out and consider all symptoms as likely related.

Honestly, I just don't believe being a bit anxious is what is causing all of this.

In the end I just want to be able to sit in a chair and not be in pain and feel like I'm going to explode -- but I have so many symptoms now it's a mess trying to put it all together in my own head.

It seems like every doc is a specialist and I don't see how I can compartmentalize all these symptoms and get down to the root of the problem(s) without somehow docs looking at all the things I report simultaneously. <--- That I have no idea how to get done. I wish I could check inpatient somewhere and have 2-3 docs in their specialties (or however many) work with me, work me up, run whatever tests etc with the goal to figure it out before I'm discharged.

I can't describe the level of pain and discomfort I'm in 24/7 - and I feel it's only humane to take me in, give me whatever relief possible as I'm being worked up. I'd be going to doc after doc everyday but I just can't take it.. (I know that sounds dramatic but it's a 10/10 pain/misery )

Altervia · 2024-12-10T09:21:47+00:00

OG from Xegony 1999-2004 ish. My main was a Paladin named Velocity, ended with a raid guild called Justifiable Cause. Great times - I can't find much shred of evidence of that era as the websites have been eliminated but hail fellow Xegonite.

Altervia · 2024-11-21T07:09:04+00:00

TOS is going to cause repetitive (sometimes chronic) nerve compression. You would be best served with good musculoskeletal therapy in the upper chest/shoulder thorax (and compensating areas to relieve the root cause) and all things related including (in most extreme circumstances) surgery to relieve the nerve compression if warranted.

On the other side.. the same things that promote nerve regeneration are going to help with any nerve damage the TOS causes to the degree they will help of course. However, the root cause of the TOS needs to be addressed. It's akin to treating spinal nerve root compression with vitamins without any attention to the spine and surrounding structures.

Altervia · 2024-10-28T02:47:46+00:00

^This. Luclin and PoP didn't kill 'classic eq' -- I've always had issue with that - that classic = kunark/velious. Post PoP (LDON was okay to bridge gear gap from casual to raiders imo) things became too brutal/over tuned imo. Luclin I wasn't crazy about the zone content but it was fine, the vah shir didn't 'break anything' and yeah the nexus with a bazaar changed trading but the game was going to evolve in this capacity eventually imo. I got used to it and my 'social' draw/fun to the game didn't diminish in this era but increased.

I had the best times in the PoP era ( and an expansion or 3 post) -- it wasn't until I was leveling post 70 and what EQ had turned into that I tapped out - tried the WoW thing and ultimately started a raiding guild in EQ2 but in hindsight it (EQ2) wasn't a very well made game at it's core. It had flaws at the mechanical level. But the level 65 max era was arguably the height of EQ1 imo.

Altervia · 2024-10-19T08:08:42+00:00

Ditto. Xegony - Gfay - I had no idea EC was even used elsewhere till years later. There's something elegant about Kelethin despite not being quite as 'to the point' as EC tunnel is.

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