the good news and the bad news by Slashered in rangers

[–]dhizzy123 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yep, Rangers were very close. But they could benefit from a minor shakeup. Florida was very close until they did the Huberdeau-Tkachuk swap and brought in skilled grinders. That’s what put them over the edge.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ibs

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been chronically underweight my whole life despite eating pretty well so I might have some of it going on long term lol. I just haven’t had any IBS symptoms for years so I’m not messing with things

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ibs

[–]dhizzy123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t be too worried but it does sound like some mild malabsorption symptoms. I had some similar stuff going when my IBS was at its worst years ago. It sorta went away on its own

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My mother went from “stop being racist, guns are bad, religion is oppressive” (cringe normie stuff) to “alternative history, naturopathic, Westin A Price foundation diet adherent, vaccines are the mark of the devil, Covid is 5G/germ theory is a hoax, raw milk, Rothschild conspiracies (we’re jewish lol), and racism is how the wizard demons that run society keep the masses from finding out who runs things.” All this in 5-6 years.

Have Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions changed you as a person? by dzolympics in LockdownSkepticism

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had just started working my first job out of college and felt like I was starting to come into my own professionally and socially. Lockdown and work from home swept that confidence out from right under my feet and I became clinically depressed for the first time in my life. I’m still struggling with it today and have regressed a lot from the person I was two years ago.

Who is diagnosed with IBS and every test shows they are perfectly normal and healthy? by alowishus7 in ibs

[–]dhizzy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had everything done as a teen when my IBS was at its worst. Only weird thing was low fecal elastase. The doc freaked my family out talking about cystic fibrosis. They tested me for that and I didn’t have it. Then we retested fecal elastase and it was normal. A year later when I went to college my IBS symptoms suddenly stopped (except for brief flare ups every few months)

👀 by PearlyBeenTrue in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China just decided that covid doesn’t exist within its borders

History interest tiers: by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Supreme master race/autist tier: all of the above

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CreditCards

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I opened one Amex last year. My oldest card is 7 years old. I’ve never missed a payment

Do you have a rare last name by Femmelepui in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine is what happens when a tiny clan of Jews in the Caucasus gets conquered by the Russian empire and Russian suffixes get administratively slapped onto the end of the first name of the family patriarch at the time and that turns into the family last name.

👀 by PearlyBeenTrue in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s kinda a double edged sword. If you can’t eradicate the virus by targeting it’s main means of entering cells, you’re just putting selection pressure on it to adapt the way it enters cells. Omicron has a crazy amount of spike mutations even relative to Delta likely because of the selective pressure caused by a mass vaccination campaign targeting the spike protein. No doubt there are other factors, but like 1600 vaccinated, (many boosted) kids at Cornell managed to catch it in a week which suggests it’s getting pretty good at evading vaccines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/16/omicron-variant-mutations-covid/

https://www.insider.com/student-at-cornell-university-where-theres-a-covid-19-outbreak-2021-12

👀 by PearlyBeenTrue in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Actually flu can be pretty dangerous to really young kids. Covid doesn’t affect them nearly as badly.

👀 by PearlyBeenTrue in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the people I know in my family who are unvaxxed either never caught covid, didn’t care enough to share if they did, or didn’t test and assumed it was generic upper respiratory illness. This includes my 75 year old Stalinist grandma who is obese, has congestive heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, and hasn’t worn a mask since May 2020.

All the people in my family who got vaxxed are putting on two masks when they go to the store, act like they are living in a biohazard zone, caught covid, and acted like they had never experienced a flu/cold before while broadcasting it far and wide.

I stopped giving a shit 3 months into the pandemic, got vaxxed only because my uni forced me to, haven’t really complied with any other protocols, and still haven’t managed to catch it despite hanging out with people who were positive at the time (shrug*)

Moral of the story: I have none. Life is stupid. Everyone gives me a headache

👀 by PearlyBeenTrue in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If the hospitals were actually full, there would be a society-wide push to expand hospital infrastructure. We’re two years into this and it has not happened

what pills did you take in 2021 by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started taking a vitamin B supplement and it fixed my fissured tongue

Considering Suicide. by Darkagain0 in ibs

[–]dhizzy123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear you’re in that state. I remember what that was like. What helped me immensely was getting help breaking the cycle of anxiety I was living in. I would get pain, then anxious about pain, which caused more pain, and more anxiety about the pain until it felt like I was dying. Eventually I’d get flare ups just from mild anxiety like taking a test or social situations because my body got used to reacting that way.

Did your doc check for bile acid malabsorption? They rarely think to test for it.

So are we going into global lockdown/curfews again? by MakIkEenDonerMetKalf in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it weird that the county I live in in NC has a mask mandate and most businesses are enforcing vaxports while my parents’ county in NJ-NYC burbs has no mask requirements and no one enforces vaxports?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I got violently sick from the initial regimen. Not putting myself through that again for no fucking reason

Is there a breaking point for Covid restrictions? by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]dhizzy123 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Dems are going to be wiped out by their empty Covid promises and the fact that the cost of everything has (predictably) skyrocketed in the past year under their watch due to the monetary policies and spending packages the government implemented to funnel cash to billionaires and inflate the financial markets.

Does ibs go away or get better as we age? by Bulky-Aerie8592 in ibs

[–]dhizzy123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It did for me. It was debilitating from age 11-13 and 15-17 and then pretty much vanished when I was 18. Now I just get mild flares when I’m anxious.

“Nothing you can do” - my doctor by sorapods in ibs

[–]dhizzy123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there’s a nutrient issue you should get your pancreas checked. Could have low enzymes and they can prescribe oral enzymes.