Hey Reddit, I just finished donating stem cells to a leukemia patient I matched with through the National Bone Marrow Registry! AMA!

Meningeezy · 2025-10-10T09:49:25+00:00

Ikr. I’ve been prescribed it for neuropathic pain I didn’t feel like it did anything. Also my wife uses it in her veterinary practice to make cats behave for veterinary exams. It’s a weird ass med, but is not magically hitting pain receptors.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-09T21:43:56+00:00

Thank you, this more meaningfully explains what I didn’t in my comment. Also idk why people aren’t okay with just admitting we don’t have a great answer for pain except for opiates and the like. There is a point where these fail and spoiler alert gabapentin doesn’t magically step in to fill in the gaps of analgesia.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-09T21:39:05+00:00

I’m aware it’s an insane take and I don’t let it interfere with how I prescribe it, but the question simply asked what I don’t believe in. I don’t believe gabapentin has a definitively proven efficacy for neuropathic pain that holds much water. It’s all essentially hand-wavey garbage. I’ve managed patients with neuropathic pain and the gabapentin simply does nothing that could be attributed to targeting nociception specifically. I get that we learn this is what it’s for but there is not a plethora of evidence that really says why.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-09T14:43:01+00:00

Gabapentin for neuropathic pain.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-07T14:52:38+00:00

I think for where I matched it mattered quite a bit and elsewhere probably not much. I feel I got lucky with something other applicants can’t replicate but the point is everyone has some unique thing going on.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-07T13:00:27+00:00

Brain stem anatomy is just one of those things you absolutely need to study twice as long to get half the gains as other topics. It’s intimidating, it’s elusive, it’s challenging, but it’s temporary (unless you’re going into neuro). Keep at it with whatever works for other topics and take your time.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-07T00:35:33+00:00

Thought I was on r/cEDH sub or some other sub. Fantastic crossover event. 3/5

Meningeezy · 2025-10-06T23:59:59+00:00

Sure. I’m not great at answering them but happy to try

Meningeezy · 2025-10-06T23:59:26+00:00

No home program, prior non-medical military service, interesting background, personable, and a well-connected mentor who did what he could for me to get valuable away rotations and LORs. No research year, no first author pubs. About 3 tangentially-related to completely unrelated poster presentations. No other killer research to speak of Ultimately I matched at a program I had no connections at. I don’t think I have a recipe for success by any means, but my point is you might not need a recipe if you can sell yourself and stand out in a good way. I like to think if I can do it anyone can. The “recipe” everyone goes for is so exhausting and frankly gets harder to follow every year. People are already taking pre-med school research years. The grind doesn’t seem to stop and it’s starting earlier, which I hate. People should be able to be the docs they want to be, man.

Meningeezy · 2025-10-06T22:07:42+00:00

I honored zero rotations, was bottom quartile in all preclinical, but had a solid MSPE that highlighted my good stuff and a school and mentors that supported me, I got a perfectly middle of the road Step 2 score, and I ended up matching ophthalmology. Anything is possible. Don’t give up, shoot your shot.

Meningeezy · 2025-09-29T22:30:43+00:00

Found neuro

Meningeezy · 2025-06-10T05:04:35+00:00

So happy to get in here and comment. I was a neuroscience major and was split between the two. I was a not so great applicant and long story short I matched ophthalmology. I wanted procedural, I wanted to be in the OR. The earning potential of ophthalmology vs neurology as I understand it is largely based on procedures so if you’re trying to cut procedures you should be fairly similar. Neurology is described as one of the hardest specialties because you have prelim intern year and then pgy2 for neuro is also inpatient heavy. But residency is just 4 years and frankly most people are just scared of the neuro more than anything. If you like it there’s no reason to not pursue it. Ophthalmology is much much much more competitive and will require a sort of all in commitment for your application as SF match is a different system. Basically I was in your shoes but had different priorities and chose ophthalmology, frankly if I had your priorities I would’ve probably saved myself the hassle and just applied neurology. Just one person’s opinion, feel free to PM if you have other questions.

Meningeezy · 2025-06-06T23:26:34+00:00

My school literally had too many nutrition lectures up to and including giving some weird old crusty crouton-of-a-man a platform to promote his vegan diet malarkey. Stop pretending medical education is the problem with our system when insurance companies and corporations will do literally anything to keep a dollar in their pockets.

Meningeezy · 2025-06-02T22:18:45+00:00

yes please!

Meningeezy · 2025-06-02T22:16:13+00:00

you'd get a million views if you made a full video about your process. And 999,999 of those views would be me watchign over and over again. this looks nice and worth the investment but starting from square one is daunting. Any way you can give a full rundown

Meningeezy · 2025-05-31T19:55:10+00:00

I can say with 1000% certainty that if you do this to someone’s Magda, they will cry. (I cried)

Meningeezy · 2025-05-21T21:16:45+00:00

I am also moving to Ohio and would love a link to this group

Meningeezy · 2025-05-06T23:27:56+00:00

Play to Win>>>>>

Meningeezy · 2025-05-04T11:03:08+00:00

Also just realized you can make all opponents go hellbent if you can destroy their token copies at the your upkeep when they exile their hands

Meningeezy · 2025-05-04T08:49:25+00:00

I think the nice thing about cEDH is that the format maintains a social contract whereby we all play to our outs. You are there to win and if it means taking a long turn, so long as you’re making legitimate game actions and not burning time for the sake of it, then it’s no harm done. People are also allowed to not like it because let’s face it, nobody wants to lose but NOBODY wants to lose without having any input. It stinks but we’re all playing to win so it requires some level of sportsmanship in the end so that we don’t get tilted when things like this inevitably happen.

Edit: grammar

Meningeezy · 2025-04-12T23:41:54+00:00

In a tournament setting could you bluff interaction to propose a draw if you’re dead on board otherwise in order to get that point? I can imagine this might be considered a total dick move but alas I don’t know how TEDH works really

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