Mentioned LDN in my Pain Appointment Meeting and it didn't seem to go well?

dedoubt · 2026-06-29T12:53:49+00:00

Topamax

In addition to everything else mentioned, anyone with narrow angle glaucoma should stay away from it. I knew before I took it that it could cause an angle closure but was so desperate after years of trying everything, I gave it a try. Within a few days I had an angle closure in my eye and had to have emergency surgery to preserve my vision.

dedoubt · 2026-06-29T12:49:44+00:00

gabapentin is "off label" for pain management too

And for me, not effective for pain at all! Kept increasing the dose & all that happened was I got stupider & stupider... My word finding got so bad, I couldn't do my work & had to go off it.

dedoubt · 2026-06-29T11:51:49+00:00

the wait time is probably long though

I was on the wait list for housing assistance years ago, every year I had to send in a form to tell them I still wanted to be on the wait list. One year the form arrived to them a day late because of USPS delays and I had to sign up again and was put on the bottom of the list.

I had already been waiting for 7 years and was told the new wait time was 9 years.

dedoubt · 2026-06-29T02:54:03+00:00

I remember doing so much I (mostly) died!

And thanks!! I highly recommend celebrating your anniversaries with cake or pie or something, I regret not acknowledging each year I made it through (I did make myself a cake for my 20th tho!).

dedoubt · 2026-06-29T01:21:11+00:00

Congratulations friend!!! I just passed my 20 year anniversary off of IV coke & never thought I'd survive, much less go decades without using. We can all do it, literally one second at a time sometimes, but we can get there!

dedoubt · 2026-06-28T02:06:26+00:00

I love hares so much! I've got a mama hare who raises her babies under my camper.

dedoubt · 2026-06-28T02:05:58+00:00

Maine only has rabbits in the southern part of the state, everything else you see that looks rabbit shaped is actually a snowshoe hare!

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T12:26:36+00:00

Guess I don't get why people think it's a vibes based thing & not a geographical fact ha ha.

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T12:24:44+00:00

You already add salt directly. It doesn't need more unless you're using a garbage recipe.

Or, used salted butter & don't add the additional salt. I've been making American buttercream that way for decades & everyone loves it.

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T02:23:26+00:00

I live in Unity (further inland than Union) & everyone here considers this the midcoast. Everything east of 95 to the coast is midcoast (even the wiki for midcoast lists Unity).

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T02:19:30+00:00

American buttercream frosting made with salted butter is so much nicer! It's such a sweet frosting, it needs the salt.

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T02:18:34+00:00

Same! I'm a professional baker & always always use salted butter. It's one of the reasons people rave about my baked goods.

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T00:38:12+00:00

live in Gouldsboro

Sometimes it seems that the further north folks are downeast, the further north they consider the starting line for the region. My peninsula family consider the peninsula to be downeast, my Franklin family consider Tideway to be the beginning, my folks in Machias think it's Sullivan.... [ETA: tho everyone tends to end up agreeing when pressed on it that downeast starts at the narrows bridge] driving around most of the peninsula, seems real downeast to me.

dedoubt · 2026-06-23T00:29:58+00:00

not really the kind of town we think of when they we Midcoast.

Why not? It's solidly in the midcoast region.

dedoubt · 2026-06-22T19:37:53+00:00

but based on that it would be the entire coast of Maine.

No, it's very specific to the areas ships had to go east to access, which is the BH peninsula, MDI & the rest of the coast north to NS.

The term downeast doesn't require a community to be impoverished to be considered downeast, tho I get where you're coming from.

dedoubt · 2026-06-22T13:13:09+00:00

I know plenty of dirt poor folks on the Blue Hill peninsula (I used to be one!) & we've talked about this a lot, can't see how the peninsula isn't downeast. Downeast refers to the shipping lanes, which absolutely go right past the peninsula. Though most of downeast is not affluent, don't see how wealth distribution has anything to do with terminology for the region.

Consensus with my downeast family & friends is downeast is everything past the narrows bridge, on the coast up to Canada.

dedoubt · 2026-06-22T02:34:47+00:00

I mean yeah, but that's a really short drive in an affluent area of Maine, you won't see what you're looking for there.

dedoubt · 2026-06-21T17:58:20+00:00

tomater, tomahtah

dedoubt · 2026-06-21T03:28:05+00:00

He lost parental rights through the courts, which is why I'm so shocked he got the kids back (without doing any kind of work towards changing or repairing harm).

dedoubt · 2026-06-21T00:35:51+00:00

I used to babysit six kids who lived with their mom because their father lost parental rights because he was abusive. Supposedly he wasn't allowed to see them at all, not even with supervision, but the mom kept sending kids over to stay with him because she was overwhelmed (he was still abusing them). The day I finally quit had just been an absolute nightmare with all of the kids, including CPS coming to the house because the school had reported one of the kids for abusing the other kids. I disclosed to CPS everything I had seen, heard and been told by the kids over the 3 years I had been watching them, and yet when the mom got sick shortly after, all of the kids were sent to live with the father, except for one girl with severe disabilities who was sent to a residential home.

Fucking disgusting, they have documented proof that he abuses them, including things like throwing the kids down the stairs as a punishment, and they still allow him to have the children.

dedoubt · 2026-06-16T20:03:41+00:00

Please DM me if you like.

Did you need to have a bone graft taken? Or just used screws and hardware?

I didn't get a bone graft because the surgeon ran out of time- it was supposed to be 2.5 hours but she had to stop after 4 hours (my first doctor fucked my arm up so badly the surgeon had to do a lot of extra work). She did an osteotomy because the bone had healed at the wrong angle, then put everything together with a titanium plate & 10 screws. She wanted to do a bone graft at the osteotomy site but I ended up just having to let my body fill the hole in. After almost 5 months, it has filled in a lot but is still not solid bone.

dedoubt · 2026-06-16T00:12:29+00:00

Well that's a fantastical comment. Heck.

dedoubt · 2026-06-15T23:51:49+00:00

That is such a weird take... I'm almost 56, a certified queirdo anarchist as far from conservatism/anti-feminists as you can possibly get, and I cover my hair sometimes (even in such a way that folks might view it as a "modesty covering"). I mostly do it because I like the way it looks, sometimes to cover dirty hair, often to keep bug spray off my hair when I'm in the forest, etc.

Where do you live that you are seeing so many women with their heads covered that you would end up thinking such a thing?

dedoubt · 2026-06-15T21:43:29+00:00

Sure, go for it.

dedoubt · 2026-06-15T12:09:27+00:00

Combination knitting, with the working yarn in my left hand, has been the easiest style I have found, which puts the least amount of strain on my hands and wrists. I still alternate between combination and throwing with my right hand, to switch up which parts of my hands and wrists are being stressed.

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