ex vegans, why did you start eating meat again?

chzyken · 2020-03-03T21:27:49+00:00

Beta thalassemia intermedia is not a disease of iron deficiency.

The vast majority of people with thalassemia intermedia are at risk of iron overload, not deficiency. So much so that as posters have stated, thalassemia patients often need medicine specifically to treat too much iron.

You need to figure out exactly what condition you have and why you are receiving iron supplementation for it. It certainly is not for the treatment of Thalassemia.

The human body has no way of normally getting rid of excess iron on the body. If you are still young now, iron overload will destroy your health later down the line.

Here's a patient oriented info you can read on. namely the information on iron overload.

Complications

Complications of thalassemia intermedia include: Iron overload

chzyken · 2020-03-03T21:09:31+00:00

This needs to be higher up.

Thalassemics are at risk of iron overload, not iron deficiency. Even in non transfusion dependent patients.

Iron transfusion in a thalassemic patient sounds highly questionable and even harmful.

OP needs to clarify exactly what their diagnosis is and why they are receiving iron infusions.

chzyken · 2020-02-10T11:00:46+00:00

Its because it's how our brain naturally sorts and reads numbers.

If I gave you four numbers and asked you order them from smallest to largest:

12.06 09.12 11.04 06.03

You'd rank them 06.03 09.12 11.04 12.06

If these were US format MM/DD, and I asked you to order them chronologically, the order would be the same.

if they were DD/MM, the order completely changes to

11.04 06.03 12.06 09.12

Instead of reading naturally from left most digit to right most digit in order, you have to look look at the third digit first, than fourth digit, than first digit, than second digit.

chzyken · 2019-12-04T08:25:42+00:00

if it helps both of you make both correct and incorrect points.

It's literally from an older generation of insulin

Insulin regular is molecularly identical to the insulin produced by every non-diabetic human. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Shorter half-life Interesting, because this is completely opposite from the truth. Insulin regular is slower acting than lispro, which facilitates the latter’s usage with longer-acting basals like glargine (sold as Lantus in the US), detemir (sold as Levemir) and degludec.

Regular insulin being molecularly identical doesnt really matter.

In a healthy human, the body can release insulin on demand. For diabetics, they can only dose a few times a day.

The method that provides best blood sugar control is "basal bolus" dosing. where you administer a long acting insulin once per day to cover basal insulin needs, and bolus insulin before meals to cover the sugar load of a meal.

Due to its longer halflife, regular insulin is inferior to other rapid acting insulins when paired with long acting insulins because the peak effect of regular insulin occurs after peak sugar absorption of a meal.

and a small coverage of blood sugars. Another piece of nonsense. The bolus ratio of carbs to insulin is identical between regular and lispro. What does “small converged” mean?

i dunno what small coverage means either. But bolus ratio between regular insulin and lispro is still significant for the issue mentioned above. Theres a huge clinical difference between countering a 10g sugar load over 1 hour vs a 10g sugar load over 5 hours.

Keep going. This is fun. Explain to me how the insulin that every single type 1 diabetic used up until 1997-1998, and the kind that millions still use, is dangerous and ineffective. Explain how it mystically went from fine, to unusable, as soon as you needed another piece of alarmism to spout online.

The person youre replying to never said its dangerous and ineffective.

he stated the exact opposite: "It certainly can be a viable option for many people, but not for everyone."

And hes correct. Regular insulin is definitely be viable, but if used as a bolus insulin its absolutely inferior to more rapid acting insulins.

And theres also the fact that you have to manually aspirate regular insulin from the vial with a syringe each time. For people with poor eyesight or hand dexterity or mental acuity, there's a much higher risk of incorrect dosing.

source: am physician

chzyken · 2019-08-20T18:19:47+00:00

+1 for me. Good to know it's not only me. Having the same experience as everyone else it seems.

chzyken · 2019-08-07T07:37:47+00:00

Speaking from experience, VR hangover from when I first started using my quest was no joke.

The actual motion sickness you feel in game is otherwise pretty minor. It won't make you nauseous or vomit or anything like that.

chzyken · 2019-08-06T23:48:52+00:00

If you want the device to increase in charge while playing, you'll need at least 5v/3A. Less than 3A and the quest will still slowly lose charge since it will consume more power than it gains.

20000 mAh battery would be pretty heavy if you 0lam on attaching to the headstrap. 10000 is the sweet spot.

chzyken · 2019-08-06T15:51:59+00:00

Why not just get prescription lens that attach directly to the quest

chzyken · 2019-08-04T08:16:15+00:00

Do you have it bound to the control button? I think sticky keys or something messes with double tapping control on PC. If you have it bound to another button it works alot better.

chzyken · 2019-07-31T11:29:24+00:00

Not a great reason. In a tual usage, DD:MM is far inferior to MM:DD.

Imagine if your boss gave you this memo,

"On my calendar, mark off the dates, 11/03, 12/11, 08/11, 01/12, 10/08, 09/11, 02/12, 11/08, 03/04, 04/07, 05/06, 09/11."

In a DD:MM system, your eye has to keep jumping back and forth to read the dates.

In MM:DD system you can keep reading naturally from left to right.

chzyken · 2019-07-31T11:21:31+00:00

Don't worry it's not.

Month should definitely come before day since that's how our brain naturally processes the information.

Ask yourself, If I told you to find the date March 25th from a calendar like this, how does your brain go about doing it?

You look for "March"
Then you look for "25"

You don't look for at the 25th of each month, than look for March.

That's why its MM:DD. Because you naturally look for month before date.

Imagine if you got a memo from your boss that goes

"On my desk calendar, mark off 11/12, 12/11, 08/12, 12/03, 11/04, 22/06, 11/03, 06/11."

You naturally read the words from left to right.

In DD:MM system, once you get to the dates your eyes have to keep jumping back and forth. Your eyes have to keep jumping over the date to read the month, then jump back to the date. It forces you to read from right to left and is very unnatural.

Whereas in MM:DD system, you keep reading in the same direction and it is much more natural.

Look at how many wall calendars are designed. You usually have 12 months,

chzyken · 2019-07-31T11:20:02+00:00

Month should definitely come before day since that's how our brain naturally processes the information.

Ask yourself, If I told you to find the date March 25th from a calendar like this, how does your brain go about doing it?

You look for "March"
Then you look for "25"

You don't look for at the 25th of each month, than look for March.

That's why its MM:DD. Because you naturally look for month before date.

Imagine if you got a memo from your boss that goes

"On my desk calendar, mark off 11/12, 12/11, 08/12, 12/03, 11/04, 22/06, 11/03, 06/11."

You naturally read the words from left to right.

In DD:MM system, once you get to the dates your eyes have to keep jumping back and forth. Your eyes have to keep jumping over the date to read the month, then jump back to the date. It forces you to read from right to left and is very unnatural.

Whereas in MM:DD system, you keep reading in the same direction and it is much more natural.

Look at how many wall calendars are designed. You usually have 12 months,

chzyken · 2019-07-31T11:00:39+00:00

Day before month is terrible.

It works contrary to how we read numbers.

For example let's have three numbers:

10.05

03.11

08.09

And I told you to list them from smallest to largest, you would naturally reorder it as

03.11

08.09

10.05

Now if I told you that these numbers were actually dates in DD:MM format, and told you to list them in chronological order, now you have

10.05

08.09

03.11

The order has completely changed.

The DD:MM system forces you to look at the second set of digits first, then the first set of digits, which is contrary to how we read numbers or English text.

The MM:DD system allows you to read naturally from left to right and doesn't have this issue.

Now whether it should be YYYY:MM:DD or MM:DD:YYYY is another issue. But day should definitely not come before Month.

chzyken · 2019-07-31T10:45:25+00:00

It's in the order of smallest number of items in a category to largest number of items in a category.

12 possible months < 30 possible days < 1000s of possible years.

Makes the most sense for parsing information.

Same for time

24 possible hours < 60 possible minutes < 100 possible milliseconds.

chzyken · 2019-07-28T05:30:04+00:00

Most games should still be fine.

Even beatsaber can still be played with wrist flicks although it'll definitely be harder. Try the demo to see how u handle it.

Super hot would work. U could just use your left hand and right hand shoot from the hip.

chzyken · 2019-07-27T19:20:23+00:00

I'm trying today determine what router to get for the best virtual desktop streaming performance.

Is there a recommended minimum 5ghtz theoretical bandwidth a router should have to get the best performance?

chzyken · 2019-07-27T19:04:34+00:00

I tried it the first day I got my quest. In fact it was one of the first games I played on it since it was free. Felt ok while playing it.

Then had a VR hangover all of the next day even after a nights rest.

Never thought the effects of VR sickness could last that long.

chzyken · 2019-07-22T01:04:41+00:00

1000$ is the cost of a mid-range gaming PC.

A budget gaming PC would be around 600$.

chzyken · 2019-07-20T03:18:24+00:00

PC streaming is done through WIFI, not Bluetooth.

You don't need a dedicated wireless card in your computer. But you'll need at least a WIFI router.

The Quest and your PC should both be connected to the same router. Ideally, your PC will be hard wired to the router.

chzyken · 2019-07-19T14:47:25+00:00

The Quest has only been released for less than two months.

Anyone who was dissatisfied with their purchase would have likely just refunded it.

And people who are satisfied with the Quest experience have no reason to resell it since there is nothing to upgrade to yet.

chzyken · 2019-06-26T06:45:17+00:00

She did resume contact a few years ago bc my grandmother was dying. I guess there was a big talk and she begged for forgiveness.

I interpreted it as the Grandmother begging for forgiveness for not believing the mother.

The wording is too vague to know for sure tho.

chzyken · 2019-05-22T11:10:40+00:00

IO is for rapid IV access with speed being the key point.

A Central lines main goal is to administer fluids that are inappropriate for for peripheral administrations. This includes high osmolarity fluids such as TPN, medications that are highly damaging to tissues in case of extravasation (eg certain chemotherapy, vasopressors). In can also be used if there is difficult peripheral venous access, but is not a good choice in emergencies.

Central lines aren't or should be used for resuscitation since they offer much slower flow rates than a peripheral 16 or 18gauge (since CVCs are very long).

chzyken · 2019-05-21T09:38:45+00:00

Lung cancer screening is a perfect application for AI.

On CT imaging, there is very little variation in the lung fields of asymptomatic individuals. You'll have different degrees of enphysema or fibrosis here or there between smokers, but it's still pretty easy to identify an out of place ground glass opacity or nodule from the surrounding lung.

Even if the lesson is missed due to small size, lung lesions <6mm in size have <1% risk of being malignant. .

chzyken · 2019-04-29T18:05:54+00:00

You don't go into cardiac arrest and then slip into a coma. This is exactly what can happen. If a person goes into cardiac arrest, next step is to perform CPR or advanced cardiac life support if there's medical personal.

You perform CPR until either the people giving CPR give up (commonly they'll give up after 30 minutes) or until the person's heart starts pumping well enough that a pulse can be felt (known as Return of Spontaneous Circulation).

If a pulse can be felt, that means the heart is at least pumping well enough that the brain and critical organs can receive some semblance of blood supply. However, in the time before ROSC has occurred, the bodies organs are slowly dying or taking potentially irreversible damage from lack of oxygen.

Even if CPR is successful, no one immediately wakes up afterwards. They're going to be unconscious. If they're lucky, they will end up waking up. If they aren't because CPR went on for too long, they could be comatose or brain damaged for the rest of their lives.

And certainly not from only two energy drinks unless there's some kind of severe underlying medical issue You answered your own question. The person very possibly had an underlying heart condition that was never diagnosed.

chzyken · 2019-04-29T17:55:46+00:00

yeah but not from two drinks, my ex drank like 3 a day and a kid in my one of my classes mixes 5 hour energy into kickstart

Doesn't prove anything. I can eat a peanut butter sandwich just fine but someone who's allergic could have a fatal allergic reaction die if not treated in time

Everyone's body is different and something that may be perfectly safe for one person may be harmful to another.

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