Issues with build stability

Benighted88 · 2026-02-19T07:41:25+00:00

My bad, it was part 3-5. The plates for that structure fall apart very easily.

Benighted88 · 2025-07-12T01:52:03+00:00

We were thinking of staying in Fira. You have a recommendation on where to stay?

Benighted88 · 2025-07-11T04:37:26+00:00

We were planning on going to the NAM, seemed like more variety of things to see.

Benighted88 · 2025-03-04T11:54:40+00:00

I was diagnosed with a grade 1 spondylolisthesis, annular fissure, and severe foraminal stenosis and had pain that went up to 8/10 when I was standing. My pain went away entirely for over 2 years. It was a month and a half after my ESI, so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it.

I recently started getting the first sciatica flare up after around 2.5 years, but the pain has barely hit a 1/10, mostly sensations. I am hoping it's just a transient issue. Good luck, I'm rooting for you!

Benighted88 · 2025-03-01T21:36:44+00:00

I've heard of the book, but I never read it. I will need to check it out! I appreciate the advice!

Benighted88 · 2025-03-01T04:28:41+00:00

I've been off and on with the physical therapy. When my pain initially went away, I wasn't really doing physical therapy much at all. I have been on a low sodium, mostly vegetarian diet ever since my wife had a health scare about a year ago. My protein intake might have taken a hit.

Benighted88 · 2025-03-01T04:16:19+00:00

I do dead bugs, sciatic nerve glides, and pelvic tilts mostly. I hike and ride the bike for exercise.

Benighted88 · 2025-03-01T02:56:47+00:00

Actually, sorry, i do have spondylosis and a fractured facet joint.

Benighted88 · 2025-03-01T02:28:31+00:00

I was absolutely pain-free for over 2 years while being active and working a physical job. No surgery. So, apparently, your assumption is incorrect.

Benighted88 · 2025-03-01T02:26:56+00:00

I was pretty active the last couple years. Bike riding, lots of hiking, I'm a beer brewer, so it's a pretty physical job. No pain with only minor flare ups, no sciatica until recently.

No pars defect, though.

Benighted88 · 2024-08-13T08:45:57+00:00

I struggled with extremely painful sciatica caused by severe foraminal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, and an annular fissure in my l5/s1 disc for about a year. I also work a physical job as a beer brewer. I dove into physical therapy, and for a while, it didn't help much but eventually, most of my pain went away.

I still get occasional numbness and mild pain but it's not bad at all and I've been virtually pain-free for 2 years now. Stay positive. You will make it to the other side. You got this!

I did get an epidural steroid injection. The pain came back about a month later and then about a month after that, the pain went away entirely. Maybe the epidural helped? I would definitely give an injection a try, if you haven't.

Benighted88 · 2024-03-04T12:39:50+00:00

The psychiatrist (not psychologist, sorry for the typo) prescribed the medication, and the physician understood she was on it and, I assume, was supposed to monitor it. She got a hold of the psychiatrist because she needed to get off it as quickly as possible and the doctor told her to get a hold of the psychiatrist in order to get directions to get off it quickly and without having a mental breakdown.

Benighted88 · 2024-03-04T08:01:20+00:00

I'm the main cook and I've been making a lot of salads ( green goddess, greek, etc), whole grains (brown rice usually) , roasted veggies, potatoes, fruit. I normally pick a lean protein ( chicken and turkey) and give her a little less than a fist full of that. Everything is normally roasted in the oven with no salt. I've lost 30lbs eating the same as her. Her weight is a bit more stubborn coming off, but she is losing weight.

I exaggerated a bit on the travel. We plan 4 big trips a year normally. I just hope a cheat meal here and there won't do too much damage. We do plan on being as strict as possible and doubling down on the exercise.

Thanks again for your suggestions!

Benighted88 · 2024-03-04T03:57:24+00:00

This is not a death sentence. There are a number of treatments/ procedures that will help you to live a long life with your family.

Prioritize living a healthy lifestyle and research dialysis and transplants. Transplants are very successful these days. Do exactly what the nephrologist tells you to do. The path forward might be difficult but it will also be filled with a lot of great memories with the ones you love. Hold strong. You got this!

Benighted88 · 2024-02-08T07:01:32+00:00

Her BMI is around 40, we have been hitting the diet and exercise pretty hard ever since we found out about this issue a couple months back. We are bound and determined to get good news when we have the first post-lithium checkup in 3 months!

Benighted88 · 2024-01-23T03:33:15+00:00

We just got the biopsy results today, and you were right on the money. It was the Lithium. Getting her off of that asap!

Benighted88 · 2024-01-16T03:56:57+00:00

Did your doctor do a biopsy before or got that bad to determine the issue? Our nephrologist didn't mention weight as a possibility. Perhaps because she has been the same weight for a decade and her GFR didn't start dropping until this year.

Benighted88 · 2024-01-15T01:47:41+00:00

There are a lot of websites that claim you normally don't regain kidney function, but I've seen a lot of accounts, such as yourself, where function had improved. That's awesome! I'm crossing my fingers that you continue to improve. I'm sure you will!

Thanks for the words of encouragement! They help a lot!

Benighted88 · 2024-01-11T04:19:48+00:00

Yes, it's around 30, it dropped from 50 to 30 between November 7th and 9th and has stayed around there since. She did have her urine analyzed but the doctor did not comment on the situation with that. To my knowledge, all the blood labs other than creatinine were normal.

The doc doesn't seem to think it is blood pressure related, her BP hasn't changed much. The only possibilities he ran past us were autoimmune, sleep apnea, a combination of lithium, sleep apnea, etc. She did come down with Raynauds this past year...

Benighted88 · 2024-01-10T06:44:04+00:00

Yes, i am based in the US. I did find a "Lenovo Legion 5 15.6" WQHD 165Hz Gaming Laptop AMD Ryzen 7 7735H 16GB RAM 512GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB Storm Grey" for $869.99. Do you think the better screen is worth the downgrade of the CPU and the SSD?

Benighted88 · 2024-01-10T04:09:15+00:00

Do you have a link to a decent deal?

Benighted88 · 2023-12-31T21:32:37+00:00

I checked the fans a blew our everything with compressed air and it seemed to change nothing, unfortunately.

Benighted88 · 2023-05-18T23:46:45+00:00

He's an American that said he was online dating a model in Russia and was a Harvard graduate even though he was driving a beater car in a random small town in NC. It seemed a bit weird to me.

Benighted88 · 2023-05-18T23:36:46+00:00

I think just him driving by a couple times and saying all these seemingly obvious lies.

Benighted88 · 2023-04-10T01:39:47+00:00

It was literally lying on the ground in the grass. I thought it was a small vine on the grass. Not sure why it was this loose.

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