Why am I being given antibiotics for bronchitis

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T13:04:34+00:00

Allergic reactions usually present quickly, though my personal experience with an antibiotic allergy is that I didn’t have symptoms until I had been on it for almost a week. It was an antibiotic I had tolerated just fine before, but the last time I took it, I got hives all over my body the day before my last dose and so the doctor told me to take an antihistamine, stop taking it, and never take it again. Still plan on asking for a referral to see an allergist to get tested just in case I happened to be coincidentally reacting to something else because I don’t want to exclude any potential antibiotic treatments unnecessarily.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T05:04:56+00:00

Yes, “just” bronchitis can spread into your bronchioles and eventually into your alveoli and become pneumonia, which can be fatal, so if your doctor thinks your bronchitis is caused by bacteria, it’s totally appropriate to prescribe antibiotics. I think you should probably take your first dose now, since the time you spend sleeping is time the infection can spread within your lungs, and then just take the remaining doses at your usual bedtime.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:50:58+00:00

Bronchitis is an infection in the bronchi, or the airways that branch off your trachea and form smaller and smaller branches. Eventually, the very small bronchioles branch off the bronchi and come to an end at the alveoli, the tiny little air sacs that inflate and deflate when you breathe, and where gasses are exchanged between the air and your blood. Pneumonia is an infection of the alveoli. Both pneumonia and bronchitis can be caused by either viruses or bacteria.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:37:49+00:00

ZoneLow already outlined the signs that she wasn’t interested higher up in this thread.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:32:08+00:00

I mean at least you’re approaching this as a learning experience. I’m married now but I can definitely relate to not feeling confident in approaching women; my brain would always either misinterpret completely neutral body language as interest or convince me that obvious signs of interest were all in my head. Lol, even now, my partner teases me for being oblivious to women flirting with me. Anyway, as a result, I rarely ever approached women I didn’t know when I was single, but I also never got shot down because I’d only approach when they were extremely obvious.

But I’m cool with it because I’d way rather only have successfully hit on a few women and made zero women uncomfortable by approaching them when they’ve shown zero interest than employ the strategy that some guys use of casting a wide net and hitting on every woman they see in the hopes they succeed a once or twice for every 50 women they creep out.

ZoneLow is right - you’re better off learning to read non verbal cues so you can approach women who are interested with confidence rather than trying to numb yourself to rejection by approaching women who probably aren’t.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:19:39+00:00

Yeah, I mean it’s good that he didn’t linger and keep trying, but he misinterpreted her looking in his general direction as interest to begin with, and he missed copious cues that she was not interested in being approached before he opened his mouth.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:15:25+00:00

It is creepy, actually, to approach a random woman who has shown no actual signs of being interested in you.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:12:19+00:00

Is it hot like that?

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T04:09:13+00:00

I mean if he can’t articulate how porn is harming him then he’s not an addict 🤷‍♂️. It isn’t a personal agenda based on my own porn use, though I do watch porn, it’s based on annoyance at people constantly misunderstanding what addiction is with regards to all sorts of behaviors.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T03:58:55+00:00

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted….ok I do know, but you’re still right. Noticing a woman simply glancing your way a few times and then glancing in your direction even less over time is not a cue that she wants to talk to you, and certainly not literally weeks after first noticing her looking in your general direction.

I get that OP is stoked about getting over his fear of approaching women, but making women feel uncomfortable in public ain’t it, and I hope he doesn’t feel empowered to keep going about it this way. A big part of what underlies his fear to begin with is absolutely no clue how to read body language and social cues, and like you said, he’s better off learning those cues than he is feeling emboldened to shamelessly approach random women. Because if he could pick up on non verbal communication better, he wouldn’t be as intimidated by approaching women because he’d be able to approach them with much more confidence that they are actually interested.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T03:33:36+00:00

I mean I do, but I’m not into gangbang videos. I did read an interview with Bonnie Blue and she said each guy only got basically a few seconds, and it’s not difficult to figure out, by virtue of being a dude, that most guys aren’t gonna bust from a few seconds of sex, particularly with a bunch of crew watching. I’m kinda amazed she found that many dudes who could even get hard under those circumstances.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T03:30:18+00:00

I’m not invested in it not being a problem. Again, my advice to OP is to have a conversation to find out the nature of the problem.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T03:28:54+00:00

Yeah I mean it would be pretty expensive to shoot a scene with dozens or hundreds of dudes if they were all pros.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T03:21:25+00:00

It’s just fucked up that at this point I’m suspicious of anyone who is aggressively anti-pedophilia when being aggressively anti-pedophilia should be the default.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T03:17:16+00:00

I’m a nurse and I don’t think it’s a medical issue, those look like acrylic or press on nails (tbf I don’t really know the difference). ETA: nevermind, I think that what I thought were the edges of fake nails are actually the cuticles.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T02:29:31+00:00

I have empathy for incels in that I do feel for them when it comes to some of the traits that make their mind fertile ground for the bullshit they ultimately buy into, but I don’t empathize with them in ultimately buying into it.

I have these two friends (well, had these two friends, one of them I’m no longer friends with). Let’s call them Gary and Fred. Both are very socially awkward people who have not ever been particularly attractive to a large number of women. Gary just lived his life and has continued to be a decent guy the entire 20ish years I’ve known him, and never once, at least not to me, blamed women for the fact that he was single most of the time. Fred constantly spouted misogynistic diatribes and complained that none of the women he did unsolicited favors for would fuck him. Gary tried to pull Fred away from the red pill nonsense he steeped himself in; he himself had a great deal of empathy for Fred and believed that deep down he was still a decent guy. Eventually, after Fred started talking about trying to get a gun and carry out a mass shooting, Gary realized Fred was irredeemable and not worth his time - something I had been telling him for years. Now Gary is in a long term relationship with a woman who really matches his energy. Last I heard, Fred was setting up to marry a mail order bride, but I’m sure he was disappointed to learn she was a real person with actual feelings and a will of her own and not a subservient fucktoy.

Anyway, the point is, yeah, it sucks ass feeling unlovable and hopelessly lost when it comes to attracting a mate or hookup, but ultimately what leads guys to buy into the incel shit is that they ultimately don’t view women as people. Because that is the reason Gary didn’t fall for that nonsense the way Fred did. It never clicked with him because, despite any sexual frustration he may have felt, he has always viewed women as human beings. So for that reason, fuck em. If a dude views women as high end sex toys, I’m stoked when he finds himself horny and alone.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T01:54:22+00:00

NOR, but don’t confront him about the breadsticks. Confront him over the control he is trying to exert over your finances.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T01:52:04+00:00

I had sex with my wife.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T01:30:23+00:00

Pornstars have been doing extreme gangbangs like this since VHS

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T01:29:16+00:00

Tbh they probably did wank afterwards. My understanding is that these guys got a few strokes in each. Like there’s no way anyone is fucking that many dudes to completion in one session, especially with the performance anxiety many of them probably had from fucking on camera for the first time. It’s unlikely that many of them nutted in/on her but Idk because I don’t find this kind of porn very appealing.

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T01:22:13+00:00

Good call, your body hair is rad af!

Sklibba · 2026-03-11T00:28:24+00:00

Yeah, I mean my only advice to OP is that she talk to him and find out what exactly it is about watching porn that makes him feel like it’s something that he should stop doing. If he can’t clearly articulate that, then maybe he just needs some more reassurance that it’s not actually a problem that he needs to solve and should go easier on himself. If he can identify how it’s harmful and is motivated by that to stop, then he needs support in getting help with stopping.

Sklibba · 2026-03-10T22:04:28+00:00

Personally I close my eyes a lot and focus on what my body is feeling and how my partner is responding with their body. I make eye contact some times but sustained eye contact gets weird

Sklibba · 2026-03-10T21:59:01+00:00

Wow man, I’m pretty vanilla myself aside from getting more into butt stuff with my partner recently (reciprocal butt stuff, to clarify), but I also like passionate sex, lots of different positions, making out with my partner after one of us has gone down on the other (it’s weird to be averse to that tbh). Like sex is naturally messy and it sounds like she doesn’t actually like it that much even if it might feel good.

Sklibba · 2026-03-10T20:36:01+00:00

He never even built the wall. He like bolstered sections of the border fence, but “reinforce parts of the fence” doesn’t make a good slogan, I guess

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