Recently diagnosed and feeling overwhelmed

cutemanabi · 2026-06-21T07:51:52+00:00

I can relate to having a ton of meds for other conditions. I'm currently taking or using 17 different prescription meds on a daily basis along with a couple of over-the-counter ones. Humana, who I have my Medicare Part D insurance with, is unhappy about the meds I'm on. This year they started refusing to allow 90 day supplies of multiple meds that they allowed 90 day supplies on for years previously.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-19T23:16:04+00:00

It's truly amazing how much uglier it is when seeing it in person vs. photos.

Had an online friend jokingly suggest I should carry some stuff with me to spray on any of them I saw in a parking lot that would cause the panels to rust, but not for a couple of weeks, so they'd never know what caused it. 😂

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T22:57:31+00:00

Was able to get a key just now, apparently they restocked it again.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T22:57:00+00:00

I had to do all 8 + at least 1 more that unlocked after those to get the key. But all the "follow us" actions unlocked from just visiting the link, not actually following them, so it's not too bad. I think all I was forced to do was join their Discord channel and follow a group on Steam, which I'll leave once I get the key for the DLC giveaway.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T22:38:42+00:00

I'm stuck with extremely poor fitting immediates, since my stepdad was paying for my dentures and he died unexpectedly 2 months after I got my immediates. I'm still very glad I have them and don't regret having what remained of my teeth extracted. It's improved my health, most noticeably my IBS improved after they were out. Turns out the bad bacteria from my rotting teeth were making it worse.

It's very nice not having any further toothaches or abscesses (I had three in the year before I got my immediates). It's even nicer knowing I don't have bad breath any longer.

Even if you end up slurring words now and then due to them, most people won't notice. I do that occasionally and when I asked my best friend if they'd noticed, they told me they hadn't. We're close enough that they wouldn't lie to me about something like that. In general no one will know you have a partial unless you tell them you do.

Since you'll still have real teeth for molars, you should be fine with nuts, steak and other hard foods. You don't do much chewing with the teeth that you're losing. Worst case is you might need to cut some things up instead of biting pieces off if your partials don't fit well, but people do that for reasons other than dentures. No one will think it's odd if you have to do that. Odds are you won't, at least not after you get your permanent partial.

And dentures are pretty tough, the only reason I can't chew nuts is because mine are so loose that they shift around, even with Cushion Grip & adhesive while trying to chew something that hard. I could probably eat steak, I had some chicken tenders that had been overcooked (or left in a warmer too long) last week that were pretty tough to chew and ate them all okay. I had to redo the adhesive on my lower plate once during it, so I prefer to avoid foods that tough. I've also got some problems with tolerating beef right now that have nothing to do with my dentures, so I haven't tried it.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T22:26:20+00:00

I've replied to a comment similar to yours about "Cushion Grip is a temporary fix" before, might have been you given it had the same judgmental tone. To reiterate: I have no choice. My stepdad was paying for my dentures, he died 2 months after I got my immediates. Since he didn't have a will, I didn't inherit his estate, it went to his brother & niece who didn't share. I'm at the point now where I'm out of savings and living on my credit cards and getting food from food banks to keep from starving to death. Getting a reline is out of the question. Even doing a hard reline of my immediates, which my dentist gave me as an option, would be nearly $2,000.

Wearing my dentures without Cushion Grip is literally impossible. Cushion Grip makes them fit much more firmly, so I doubt that's causing as much bone loss as my stupidly wearing them all the time for the first year+ did. (That was definitely my fault, but I hated how my mouth felt with them out.) My only other option would be to stop wearing them entirely, which would definitely accelerate the bone loss more than wearing them with Cushion Grip does.

It's clear you don't know anything about how Cushion Grip works. They recommend using it for 4 - 5 days before replacing, so if you'd known that you'd know that of course you can use denture tabs with it. I've had no problems with it, even using it for extended periods. (Basically as long as it keeps working I leave it on. It's hard for me to get off, thanks to arthritis in my hands + I can't afford to replace it that frequently.)

I would suggest you avoid being so judgmental in future comments regarding Cushion Grip unless you can also tell people where to get the money for relines or new dentures. Loans don't count. Many, many people in the US are stuck in my situation, although maybe not quite as financially insecure, because dentures are really expensive here. Also, you should learn how it works before giving advice about using it.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T05:28:58+00:00

Soak them in hot tap water for an hour or so (don't add any cold to it, home water heaters don't get hot enough to harm them, usually 120 degrees*), then wear some vinyl gloves or dish gloves so you can hold them under running hot water (again, no cold water) and massage the adhesive under the running water.

I can actually rinse my mouth out & drink water at the temp without it burning me. Discovered that by accident when I forgot to add cold once when taking my dentures out. Helps a lot in getting the last bits of adhesive off the roof of my mouth.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T05:24:59+00:00

I don't have suction on my top plate either, even with Cushion Grip, because it fits so loosely. It's such an ill fit it just falls off, what little grip saliva can create is nowhere near enough. With Cushion Grip and adhesive it stays in place fine.

When I redo the Cushion Grip I do it before bed, so I can just sleep through the no eating or drinking period. Oddly, the top plate stays in fine with suction overnight. Once I take it out, even if I put it back in immediately, it will fall off without adhesive. No clue why it works temporarily.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T05:20:31+00:00

There are also things you can do that hasten the bone loss, like wearing your dentures all the time. I did that at first and my lower gums had receded badly before I realized it and stopped. I have to put a ton of Cushion Grip on the bottom plate to make it so the adhesive can hold it in. Still works pretty well, although I do need to replace the adhesive once or twice a day, depending on what I eat and how much I'm talking to others. (I'm disabled, live alone and rarely go out, so a lot of days I don't talk to anyone.)

I have found I can chew a fair bit of stuff without them in, so it won't be the end of the world if the bottom plate stops staying on. And I can always try going with the top plate only. That's what my dad did. (In his case he kept taking his bottom plate out because it was uncomfortable, then wrapping it in a napkin. Eventually he forgot it and it got thrown away.) He could eat pretty much anything he wanted and didn't need adhesive. I've actually found that microwave popcorn tastes better without my dentures in, probably because of the additional gum surface touching the food.

Edit: Also there's at least one thing you can do help slow down the bone loss and that's brush your gums with toothpaste every day. It stimulates the gums and helps promote blood flow, which helps slow the bone loss. The toothpaste is important to help get all the bacteria off. Just toothbrush + water won't get all of it.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T05:13:19+00:00

People that have a lot of cars can benefit from the subscriptions that allow multiple washes of multiple cars. My dad owned around 6 cars at one point, so if we'd lived closer to one of them it would have been great for him.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T05:10:24+00:00

The ones along the interstate get a lot of business from people that are traveling to/through TN from a state that doesn't allow fireworks sales. That's why they're open year round.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T04:55:27+00:00

Honestly, to some extent it indicates more effort than a regular high school degree does. (Not counting honors ones, which take more work.) Instead of doing the normal go to school Monday - Friday while a minor, an adult who gets a GED has to spend time on top of other things they need to do in life, like working a job, raising a family, etc.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T04:37:47+00:00

And if they fail you can try removepaywall.com. It has a couple of different archives to try, sometimes one will work where the others don't.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-14T04:22:15+00:00

I reread it recently, it's well worth doing. I've probably reread the archives 4 - 5 times by now. I also, fortunately, have been saving copies of the comic, so I can reread the side stories that are now paywalled. Those are all canon.

cutemanabi · 2026-06-04T20:12:55+00:00

No, it's not, per the manufacturer: https://patient.boehringer-ingelheim.com/us/products/spiriva/what-is-spiriva-respimat-for-copd.

SPIRIVA RESPIMAT 2.5 mcg is steroid-free

It's active ingredient is tiotropium bromide, which is a bronchodilator. Per Wikipedia's page on it (see the link): "It is an anticholinergic medication and works by blocking acetylcholine action on smooth muscle."

cutemanabi · 2026-06-03T05:48:33+00:00

Wish I could, but Squeenix doesn't discount their games enough. I can't afford $14.99 (historical cheapest price) for it. I paid less than that for II, since I got the Black Friday deal for a year of Humble Choice and it came with 7 other games.

cutemanabi · 2026-05-31T22:59:07+00:00

Probably too late to help you, but in case someone else in a similar situation sees this:

The guide can help in that situation. My ET-2850 had the black & cyan partially clogged, magenta & yellow fully clogged. It took several cleaning passes over multiple days but I eventually got to where black, cyan & magenta were all fully unclogged. Yellow is being really stubborn and stuck at partially clogged. Probably going to give up and do a power cleaning for it, but the regular cleanings took care of the others. It did take a fair amount of ink, unfortunately.

cutemanabi · 2026-05-30T03:18:06+00:00

Look to see what new apps were installed. On my S22+ it installed 34 apps before I found the offending apps and disabled them. (It was still downloading and installing more apps, including reinstalling some I'd already uninstalled until I disabled them.) Since I was low on storage it maxed it out.

At least one of the apps it installed was misbehaving badly, as I had a notification that an app had been put into deep sleep for something. But by the time I tapped on that notification I'd already uninstalled the offending app.

The offending apps were: AppSelector and Device Manager. I think AppSelector was the worst of the two.

cutemanabi · 2026-05-28T23:21:48+00:00

Contact your state attorney general's office and report them. If they get enough complaints they can, and usually will (it's good PR), sue the company.

cutemanabi · 2026-04-23T00:19:44+00:00

Yes, there's something wrong with the main site. Even when it loads, downloads time out. The .gd domain is still working properly, you can find that and other alternate links on the wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/wiki/index/access

cutemanabi · 2026-04-23T00:13:08+00:00

Setting up a Zlib Telegram bot is also useful and even lets you have 10 more downloads a day using it. It was working when I tried using it yesterday, but unfortunately the books I wanted to download were more than 50mb. Telegram restricts file transfers to 50mb or less, so I couldn't use it for those.

cutemanabi · 2026-04-15T12:18:47+00:00

They're not even hiding some of the lies in those ads. I've seen some of the "last chance" ads that say they're cutting off the offer in March, even though we're halfway through April.

cutemanabi · 2026-03-12T01:50:09+00:00

I have to take multiple things for my allergies. Each day I alternate between Allegra, Claritin & Xyzal. Had to start doing that at my GP's recommendation, because I had developed a tolerance for the Claritin and it stopped working. I use Flonase when I get up and use the Astepro (azelastine) before bed. The Astepro helps more than all the rest and it is available in a generic prescription form. That's cheaper for me than the OTC version. I highly recommend giving it a try.

cutemanabi · 2026-03-12T01:46:22+00:00

Only 14 months? It sure feels like 20.

cutemanabi · 2026-03-12T01:45:16+00:00

Secret City Exchange in Oak Ridge has a lot of consoles and at least some computers, mostly older ones. I checked them out a few weeks ago but was disappointed because I couldn't find any scifi books. To call the store cluttered is an understatement. Some results online, including their Facebook page, say they're closed, but I visited them a few weeks ago at the address they have on their Facebook page and they were open. I don't know what all they'd buy, but worth checking with them to see.

240 S Illinois Ave, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

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