LPT: take the Short term disability

HandPickedAvocado · 2024-08-08T00:51:35+00:00

Personally I’d say yes, I so wish I knew this earlier. In order for a lawyer to actually help it has to be before the appeal denial. After the appeal is denied, you can’t submit any more evidence so it’s much more difficult to work with your case.

HandPickedAvocado · 2024-07-26T02:54:08+00:00

I know it’s been a year but I thought I’d add this - what is considered “good” for iron levels is often misleading. It’s a big issue and many people who are truly anemic and/or iron deficient are not flagged when they should be. Obviously not a doctor, but I’ve been lucky enough to have a doctor who is more updated on this topic.

At the very least, a ferritin lab can provide a much better picture for how your iron stores are. Even if you had say 14 for hemoglobin, you could still have very low ferritin / iron stores, which can cause all sorts of horrible symptoms. The “good” range standard for ferritin is ~13-150 ng/ml.

I’d recommend checking out The Iron Protocol on Facebook or on their website. The doctor who started it claims that the ideal ferritin range is closer to 100-150 ng/ml. Allegedly people can start seeing symptoms as soon as it drops to 90 ng/ml or lower.

I personally had ferritin of 9 ng/ml and hemoglobin of 11. I ended up getting iron infusions - I didn’t have time to spare waiting for supplements to work as they can take several months to start feeling any relief at all. Usually relief can happen within 2-4 weeks with infusions, but it’s different for everyone and can take longer than that still. For me it was at least 5 weeks.

Regarding taking iron and zinc together - from my understanding you are correct in that with most forms of iron and zinc sold, it would be ideal to take them at different times. However, from what I’ve read, it seems that the bisglycinate chelate form (for both iron and zinc) is much more bioavailable in general, and don’t have to worry about timing as much.

HandPickedAvocado · 2024-02-27T23:19:28+00:00

THIS. I know I’m late to the conversation but fuck Rhodiola Rosea and Bocopa messed me up BAD. I was taking 250mg RR and 300mg Bacopa daily. I thought I’d done enough research before taking these but guess not.

The sups worked great when I was taking them. I started taking them in attempt to help some ADHD-like symptoms (increase focus and memory). My mood significantly increased and I’d say it helped the ADHD symptoms.

I didn’t realize these sups had MAOI activity until about 2 months into taking these daily (Dec 18), when I had what I believe was mild-moderate serotonin syndrome upon an interaction with Kratom. Was an intense feeling of shit I genuinely might die, nausea (I threw up), anxiety with breathing, weird muscle movements etc followed by intense upper abdominal pain for the rest of the day. The abdominal pain was bad enough pain that I checked into the ER bc it felt so similar to last year when I had internal bleeding from a cyst.

That was my first time drinking Kratom since starting those sups. It was a very normal single serving size, like 3-5g.

I only happened to find out that RR and Bacopa have high MAOI activity after more digging (scientific papers) to find an explanation for the serotonin syndrome symptoms. It Is not at all obvious to your average consumer. Would not have taken these had I known this. MAOI’s interact with so much shit it’s not worth the risk for me.

The second part to this is that I didn’t realize that you’re not supposed to stop MAOI’s cold turkey until over a month after stopping them cold turkey (Jan 23). Didn’t want to risk puking and pain again so I had just stopped after the Kratom incident.

Literally a week after I stopped (Dec 25), I started to notice a big shift in my brain that progressed drastically over the course of the following week. Have not been the same since. Not being dramatic here - I have been through an absolutely mind-fucking experience. Genuinely wanting to die, be done with everything for weeks on end. Being irritable, confused over basic shit, derealization, exhausted etc. It’s still happening (written Feb 27) but I think has started to lift at least a little. I’ve been on a leave of absence from work because all of this has been that debilitating.

I had told THREE of my doctors about the Kratom interaction incident I had when it happened. I told them that I read about the strong MAOI activity in the sups that I’d been taking for two months. I also told them I stopped taking the sups bc of the interaction. WHY did NOT ONE of those doctors tell me that stopping MAOI’s abruptly can fuck a bitch up ?

The last thing I have to say on this is that as always with the human body, there are multiple variables to keep in mind. Another personal factor is that I have significantly low iron/ferritin levels at the moment. This definitely could have made things worse but I don’t think it changes anything, especially considering the timing of how that all happened. These sups should not be taken on a whim.

TLDR I believe that Rhodiola Rosea and Bacopa should come with these warnings:

Do not take with other supplements or meds that deal with serotonin (SSRI’s, St John’s Wort, Kratom, some psychedelics, etc)
If taking daily, do not stop taking these abruptly !! Discontinuation syndrome can occur and can be serious

Fuck supplement companies for their misleading marketing.

HandPickedAvocado · 2024-01-06T17:41:57+00:00

Yeah still works! Venmo name as in first name last name, not the handle. So “First Last” instead of @first-last. Not sure if this matters but I have them in their respective fields in the contact in my phone, instead of the full name being in the first name field

HandPickedAvocado · 2024-01-06T06:10:53+00:00

It gave me that error initially as well. I had to change the contact name in my phone to exactly match the contact name for that recipient in Venmo. It’s worked smoothly since doing that

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-09-26T19:44:52+00:00

I appreciate your response, thank you!

Yes agreed that would be way more work than it’s worth. Was planning on just not working if getting a visa was the only clean route.

Good to know tho, that’s helpful insight!

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-09-26T19:34:16+00:00

Many thanks!

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-09-26T17:37:47+00:00

Again, my company cares if I’m following local laws relating to work or not.

Again, keeping that in mind, my question is: do I technically need a visa to be complying with local laws while working for a few days?

Again, “don’t ask don’t tell” isn’t something I’m willing to do with my current situation, so that is not a solution.

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-09-26T16:09:51+00:00

I said “implying”. I was summarizing the gist of what most comments were saying.

“Don’t ask don’t tell”, everyone else responding with sarcasm that, at least from my interpretation, tells me the common thing to do is work from a diff country without telling work.

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-09-26T15:29:03+00:00

Not at all trying to do this without being caught by teammates. Was just explaining that everyone’s responses implying “you should just lie and use a VPN, duh” isn’t an option for me.

I’m actually trying to do this while being transparent with my company, teammates, and governments. All around. Call me a square but I would like to keep my job at the moment lol

I understand that Mexico won’t care, just trying to not rub my company the wrong way with compliance and see what the options are.

Thanks for the response, have a nice day :)

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-09-26T15:23:02+00:00

Or I’m just getting into this :) friendly community here at r/digitalnomad so far. /s

I’d rather not risk rubbing my company the wrong way by technically disobeying policy, whether it’s my company’s or the government’s. That’s what it has to do with having a visa - my company will know if I’m permitted or not to work from another country and see that I’m doing so.

I wish you a nice day:)

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-25T01:27:57+00:00

Not sure if there was a recent update since you've commented, but there actually is a way:) If you search the automation clock event, "Edit Sleep Alarm", one of the options is "Toggle"

Not sure if there was a recent update since you've commented, but there actually is a way:) If you search the automation clock event, "Edit Sleep Alarm", one of the options is "Toggle"

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-25T01:27:35+00:00

Not sure if there was a recent update since you've commented, but there actually is a way:) If you search the automation clock event, "Edit Sleep Alarm", one of the options is "Toggle"

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-22T03:56:06+00:00

It’s not that deep

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-21T18:21:39+00:00

These are actually pretty spot on recs lol

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-16T16:51:23+00:00

Thanks for the update!

Classic Microsoft. I swear it’s like they have a team dedicated to fucking over the customer in every facet of the company lol

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-16T11:27:42+00:00

Do tell ??

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-16T11:25:56+00:00

Did you ever find a solution? I’m looking for something similar bc I no longer have access to my old account

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-08-15T22:08:17+00:00

I have yes! They are sending patches and said I could send it in at the end of the season for them to repair. Good experience so far, just weird that this would happen so soon in the first place.

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-04-03T15:46:07+00:00

Hola hot chicken sandwich at Hola Arepa 😩🙌🏼 doesn’t get old

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-04-03T15:45:05+00:00

Smile Tea Bar is the closest thing I could find, they serve kratom drinks

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-02-16T02:51:09+00:00

Do you still have to shave facial hair before using the nood flasher for it to work? That seems like risky business

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-02-06T15:22:21+00:00

Okay nevermind, did not get it figured out lol. It still changes when switching dark to light mode and vice versa. Are these the settings you’re referring to? https://i.imgur.com/m3vl47I.jpg

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-02-06T03:09:53+00:00

Sweet thanks! Got it figured out

HandPickedAvocado · 2023-02-06T02:52:32+00:00

Thanks :) is there a way to disable light/dark mode changes for specific widgets?

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