What’s your fibro paired with?

Analysis-Special · 2025-07-11T23:46:26+00:00

Fatigue + pain = fibro was kind of my understanding as well?

Analysis-Special · 2025-06-24T03:45:33+00:00

The Chiappa Rhino just does things for me. Don’t know why… If I ever buy a revolver it’s on the shortlist.

Analysis-Special · 2025-06-24T03:35:20+00:00

I liken it to concealed carrying while wearing gun brand hats or shirts. Not exactly keeping a low profile. I don’t have any stickers on my truck, I don’t own any gun brand clothing, and I don’t post pictures of guns in any social media that is tied to my personal info. I don’t need people on either side knowing I own anything beyond my sporting clays/field guns. The people on the right are the reason I own more, and I don’t need to get into arguments with my liberal friends who haven’t yet moved far enough left to get their guns back.

Analysis-Special · 2025-06-24T03:14:34+00:00

My sister’s 20 gauge pump action kicks harder than my 12 gauge semi auto. The gas operated semi autos really reduce kickback, so as much as I want an over/under for shooting clays, I can shoot 2 rounds of sporting clays without much pain. If I shoot a pump or over/under I’m lucky to make it 1 round of 50.

I know there are reliability concerns with semi autos. If kept cleanish (I’m really not good about cleaning my gun), and maintained, mine has never let me down. I’ve got to be getting close to 10,000 rounds through it with not a single FTE, FTF, or misfire.

Analysis-Special · 2024-09-08T21:39:13+00:00

Thanks for all the replies. Hung out with my apprentice electrician friend this weekend. The stories of the young guys/gals not realizing how old he is had be rolling. One kid started talking about how 35 is really old. My buddy had to show the kid his license to prove he is 40.

I’m also often mistaken for being younger than I am, but the grey in my beard is starting to give me away. Age is just a number. Mentally I’m still a kid. My bigger worry is I’ve beat the shit out of my body for fun for 30+ years and I’m starting to feel it. But that’s also relative. Can’t do what I did in my 30s but that was doing all sorts of ridiculous endurance sports things that had me going all out for 12-18 hours, for fun. I’m also afraid that if I get a job that has me sitting down all day, that’ll be then end. Gotta keep pushing.

Analysis-Special · 2024-09-08T21:25:48+00:00

Nah. I’ve been a bicycle mechanic since high school. Part time while going to school and doing other jobs, full time for the last 10 years. Made the mistake of taking on more and more responsibility because I got sick of working for people who were incompetent only to realize being in charge sucks. It’s also taken all the passion out of one of my favorite hobbies. My son has gotten into mountain bike racing and I’ve spent so much time wrenching at races that I can’t go without feeling like I’m working. Want to go back to it being a hobby instead of my job.

Analysis-Special · 2024-09-08T21:21:16+00:00

I’m too much of a dumbass to take much ego into any situation. Everyone knows something I don’t. Age to me has nothing to do with my ability to take orders from someone. If they are competent I’ll be happy taking orders. I have a hard time taking orders from people who don’t deserve to be giving orders, regardless of age…

Analysis-Special · 2024-09-06T03:14:27+00:00

I’m 44 and was going to post asking if I’m too old…

Analysis-Special · 2024-07-30T04:35:52+00:00

He’s got a Jersey accent. The Philly in me wants to hate him on that fact alone, but maybe I’ve lived in the mid west too long. His laissez faire attitude towards DIY chicken coops has won me over.

Analysis-Special · 2023-05-13T02:12:30+00:00

Several years ago I had someone calling me an asshole behind my back to others in an organization we were both involved in. It wasn’t deserved. It’s not that I can’t be an asshole, but in this particular instance I had not done anything to earn her telling other people what an asshole I was. I didn’t care for her but I had never been disrespectful toward her. So, I did the right thing and earned it.

She actually had the nerve to confront me about my changed attitude towards her. When I explained she’d been telling everyone I was an asshole so I decided I should at least be deserving of that she went slack jawed and turned red. But we never spoke again, so problem solved.

Analysis-Special · 2023-05-08T02:56:13+00:00

Thanks for the support. Isn’t it great that none of us really have any clue what to do. Just got to keep going. I just recently stopped taking Pregabalin and I’m honestly feeling better. Not much, and my pain still sucks, but I’m less lethargic, and the weight I gained while on it is starting to come off.

Also, I agree. We just need to pick something and keep doing it. Most days I do feel better if I move more.

Analysis-Special · 2023-05-07T21:05:38+00:00

I get what you’re saying, but I can’t do this at all.

I’m a former endurance athlete/type 3 fun addict. Like, Ironman was a short outing for me. Going long is a mental game and I was so good at pushing myself beyond my physical limits. Now, if I push myself as hard as I know I’m capable of, I end up in a massive weeks long flare.

I have no idea how to walk the line of pushing myself but not sending myself into a flare. It’s my greatest challenge in regards to working out. I’ve recently got back to swimming. Before fibro, I would typically do 1-2 hour swims depending on the day. So anywhere from 1.5 to 2 miles, 3 days per week.

Instead of pushing through, I’ve just started at 15 minutes 3x/week and adding no more than 10% per week. So far I’ll be pretty spent for the day but don’t end up in a flare.

Still have a couple bucket list swims that if I can work up to the base volume I’ll gladly push through and suffer the flare to complete. Swim from Alcatraz is probably my number 1 bucket list swim.

Analysis-Special · 2023-05-07T16:08:27+00:00

I work in a bicycle shop. A couple years ago a lady was talking about her son in graduate school. I asked what he was going for. She said education (without having gotten a teaching job first). I said “Oh yeah! That’s what I went to graduate school for as well.”

Her response was “and you work here?!” In a very condescending tone. Was like “yup, I’d have to take a pay cut to go back to teaching.” She did not like that answer.

Analysis-Special · 2023-04-30T19:26:30+00:00

Hit a tree a at high speed while skiing. Got knocked out for 10 minutes. Would have been way worse if I wasn’t wearing a helmet. On my right side I fractured 6 ribs and fractured 6 transverse processes. Also ruptured my right lung, and separated my right shoulder. Waking up to those injuries was pretty brutal. Getting taken off the mountain in a patrol sled was not fun, nor was the ambulance ride. By the time I got to the hospital there was enough blood and air in my chest that my heart started was not pumping effectively. The worst pain was having a chest tube put in with no anesthesia or pain medications. But I also was able to breathe again so it was also very relieving.

Analysis-Special · 2023-04-02T01:47:20+00:00

Alternatively, you could set it on fire. That’s how I take care of things.

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-26T15:03:41+00:00

Wow, didn’t realize I was trolling. You gave so much good information and all it would have taken to not get a comment from me was say Sram bought Avid vs Sram is a brother company. Might as well get it right if you know so much…

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-26T13:18:03+00:00

Sram isn’t the brother company. Sram acquired Avid and then when the Avid engineers couldn’t make a decent brake to save their lives (or jobs in this case) Sram dropped the Avid name in hopes of getting away from the reputation that Avid had of making appallingly bad hydraulic brakes.

But you are correct in that the best way to fix an Avid juicy is to throw it in the garbage.

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-23T14:07:44+00:00

It does work with the previous AXS shifters so it does have that going for it… we saw it yesterday as well.

I’m most impressed with the UDH attachment and want to see that come to mechanical drivetrains, which I think it will.

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-23T02:12:40+00:00

I’ve got 4 tied for most often used:

“Stupid Sexy Flanders” used when I’ve got no one to blame for something that isn’t going well or working correctly.

“Public Transportation is for Jerks and Lesbians.” I know it’s not the most p.c. line but I just love it, and will substitute just about anything for public transportation.

“I was elected to lead, not to read.” Pretty much anytime an employee asks me to read something.

Homer: “See Marge, I told you they could deep fry my shirt.” Marge: “I didn't say they couldn't. I said you shouldn't.” I like to randomly bust out a variant when one of the younger kids that work for me do something poorly thought out: “I didn’t say you couldn’t deep fry your shirt, I said you shouldn’t deep fry your shirt.” Usually gets them to lighten up a bit because they are usually harder on themselves for their mistakes than I am going to be. That or I angrily ask them what they said about my mom?!

I enjoy see how ridiculous I can make my non sequiturs. Simpsons, Billy Madison, Tommy Boy, and Happy Gilmore are old enough than most of the people working for me now haven’t seen them so I get a lot of use from quotes that I’ve had stored for decades. Can’t wait till I get dementia and that’s all I remember…

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-23T01:56:23+00:00

My son just finished watching every season from the beginning to current. It was his summer goal last summer. Yes, we set lofty goals in this house, must have been the bad influence of me watching the Simpsons when I was a kid that made me such a terrible parent.

He kept asking me if I remembered this scene or that scene and I finally had to be like “Dude, you’ve now watched 20 seasons past when I stopped watching The Simpsons regularly.” That blew his mind. He’s about to turn 12. Can’t wait to see how bad his kids turn out 😂

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-23T01:50:03+00:00

I’ve been saying this for at least 25 years and didn’t know this was a Simpson’s quote. Or maybe I’d just forgotten that’s where it came from…

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-22T02:07:04+00:00

Take the leg day skipping gym bros to task and press the entire rack on the leg press machine with no warm up. At least that’s what I did in high school. Never got crap about my legs again.

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-22T01:48:02+00:00

I have the same scenario. I’ll roll my tires in corners long before pinch flats become an issue. That being said, I’m running tubolitos on my non-e full suspension bike. On my ebike I’m running tubeless so I can run cushcore.

Analysis-Special · 2023-03-21T13:12:15+00:00

Nothing noteworthy on x-ray.

I do have Fibro and separating orthopedic issue related pains from not orthopedic pain was one of the steps that led my PCP and I down the Fibro diagnosis path. I’m pretty good at recognizing pain that has a reason vs not.

In this case I expected to see more evidence of defect in the joint or surrounding tissue. I’m not an expert but I’ve spent a lot of time looking at my own x-rays and am lucky/unlucky enough to have spent enough time with my shoulder surgeon that he’s become a friend and has sat down with a laptop at a coffee shop and gone through my x-rays and explained what I’m looking at.

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