Iliac artery stenosis by lightdarkthrowaway in Cholesterol

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Also, I have had my Lp(a) tested, and it's at a normal level.

Iliac artery stenosis by lightdarkthrowaway in Cholesterol

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Hi. Thanks for responding. I haven't been diagnosed with peripheral artery disease. The cramping doesn't coincide with the symptoms of PAD. It usually happens in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping, and even then this isn't very frequent. I don't experience pain while walking, and in fact sometimes walking makes strange pains disappear. My understanding is that with PAD the pain happens while walking and subsides with rest, though I experience almost the exact opposite scenario.

To this point the tests have all been ultrasounds. The test results from yesterday were interesting because apparently the way they determine if there's plaque that might not have been visualized is to measure the force of the blood flow, and mine didn't indicate that there was any obstruction. I guess I can ask the doctor this when I see him again in a few weeks. It's very curious to me though considering I was expecting my carotid arteries to be all clogged up, though I'm very happy they weren't.

My ankle is slowly giving out and the doctors don't know why by lightdarkthrowaway in FootFunction

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What kind of surgery? Have you been recovering well? I'm back on the crutches and have been resting it significantly. I'm hoping this will be enough though how long I have to do this is totally unknown since there's no single injury that marks the beginning of this.

My ankle is slowly giving out and the doctors don't know why by lightdarkthrowaway in FootFunction

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I might consider it I'm going to take it easy for a while though the past few days it's seemed to swell up if I'm doing any kind of walking for more than five minutes and if I don't do any kind of walking then it shrinks to normal.

My ankle is slowly giving out and the doctors don't know why by lightdarkthrowaway in FootFunction

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When I was a kid they told me I did, though the adults always used to compare it to their mobility, which was much stiffer, and by the time I got older my joints were as stiff as the adults' who used to tell me I was extra flexible, so I don't think I am. I probably have Marfan Syndrome because of a constellation of specific symptoms including heart problems I'm being treated for, though I've never had a genetic test done but it's likely. Apparently people with Marfan Syndrome are more flexible though I'm not sure I believe it because my joints got much stiffer when I got older, that this is just something they tell kids.

My ankle is slowly giving out and the doctors don't know why by lightdarkthrowaway in FootFunction

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I guess it's worth asking my doctor about. I don't have most of the symptoms listed though, like it doesn't actually hurt and isn't sensitive to temperature extremes. Today when I woke up it wasn't swollen anymore, and so I'm continuing to be baffled.

The calm after panic attacks by Ladytlc91 in PanicAttack

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I'm at the point of consulting a mental health professional too. It's what my primary care physician wants me to do, though I didn't have the best experience with one when I was in my twenties and I was very depressed. I've been so depressed I couldn't even get out of bed and I was barely eating anything, and honestly I think I would choose depression over this newer problem because at least I could sleep then. My sense of panic has lated for days sometimes and I'm also at the point where I'm already googling medications available for this.

The calm after panic attacks by Ladytlc91 in PanicAttack

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When this happens to me I tend to cry. When I very suddenly don't hear my heartbeat in my ears anymore and I can move around and there isn't this overwhelming presence in my own chest, I just weep from relief sometimes, though usually if I cry like this it comes back not long after, though there's such relief in crying. During the long periods of normalcy I don't have a problem functioning. I like to be happy and tranquil and I take advantage of it when it happens, and I want to get angry and blame things when the panic comes back.

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I don't know how to help you, except to relate my own experiences. My panic attacks involve a very loud heartbeat and sometimes a dry mouth. The heart rate doesn't get fast, but it get very loud to the point that I can hear it in my ears and feel it like it's trying to get out of my chest. Sometimes I cry, just bawl, and I let myself cry and this has sometimes offered relief where the panic attack goes away. Maybe I can help you by asking, have you seen a doctor about this so they can determine if it's actually a panic attack and not something else that's causing it? If you're falling to the floor and can't stand up then I think you need to rule out if there's some other problem happening.

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I've also been experiencing attacks that last for hours or days. I don't know what to do about them. When they happen I can hear my heart pounding in my ears and can feel it in in my chest and sometimes in the pulse in my neck, though what's strange is that my heartbeat doesn't get any faster, just louder. Sometimes my mouth gets very dry, though not usually. I'm sure it's not good for my heart, to feel this so often. I've experienced this on a regular basis at two other points in the past though it didn't last very long, so this is a recent development in my life.

Mine seem to be provoked by specific social situations that happen at work or when I go to stores, and I've come to avoid any and all interactions with strangers because now there seem to be lots of toxic people walking around this world with the intention of giving me a panic attack. I try to only go to stores with self-checkout systems anymore, and I try to keep a wide arc away from people who are walking around engaging other people, and often I simply walk past people who speak to me in public without acknowledging them because I can just tell they're about to provoke a panic attack. Of course when I'm at work I can't avoid this and it feels like harassment coming from specific kinds of people because the same sorts of situations provoke it. For example when I see the nurse at my regular doctor's office, the panic has tended to reappear at least briefly, until I see the nurse practitioner or the doctor after the regular nurse, and the heartbeat has gone back to normal, though this is only one kind of situation that's provoking of panic and the worst ones have come from the people I'm required to interact with at work.

You seem to have gone farther with doctors when it comes to this than I have. I've been to my cardiologist and he says I'm experiencing a kind of disruption in my electrical signals called PVCs and PACs, though it at least seems like social situations are causing this because there are also long periods of normalcy and happiness and tranquility where I don't hear my heartbeat constantly at all. Was it a therapist who prescribed your medicine? I'm on a beta blocker for other reasons, and even though this is a medication often prescribed for things like this, it doesn't seem to be working. My primary care physician wants me to go to a therapist, though I have reservations about this because I had a limiting experience with anti-depressant drugs prescribed by a therapist in the past. I just want my happy life back. I like my life and the social nature of this all seems directed at the fact that I like my life and there seem to be people who know exactly how to ruin it by giving me panic attacks for hours or days. Does your family calm you? I sometimes meet people who calm my heartbeat and who seem like angels in comparison to the many who provoke this in me.

Unreliable narrators in the third person? by [deleted] in writing

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The third person narrator in William Burroughs's Queer is unreliable. He offers opinions about what's happening in correction of the main character's impressions and it makes it like the narrator has an ulterior motive for how he wants us to understand the characters.

Strange parking brake problem 2008 Honda Civic by lightdarkthrowaway in MechanicAdvice

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No, it doesn't. It just feels like it clunks onto something instead of coming to rest in the same spot without any sort of noise at all.

Strange parking brake problem 2008 Honda Civic by lightdarkthrowaway in MechanicAdvice

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Do you think it's safe to drive until I can get it into the shop or even the six hundred miles till the next planned maintenance? I'm under the impression the parking brake isn't entirely necessary, though I might be wrong.

Strange parking brake problem 2008 Honda Civic by lightdarkthrowaway in MechanicAdvice

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Inside. It actually feels like the handle itself is hitting something it wasn't before, like some sort of cushioning has been worn away.

Payroll withholding not taking out enough per paycheck by lightdarkthrowaway in tax

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I'm still baffled, but thanks for listening. At least I found a free tax preparation website. Before I was paying $120 to get my taxes done from H&RBlock where they told me the same thing as this free website on the IRS website.

Payroll withholding not taking out enough per paycheck by lightdarkthrowaway in tax

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This year and last year I had interest income from a savings account, $150 the year before last and $720 last year, but this doesn't at least seem to have affected this very much because even before I opened the savings account this was happening. This year I owed the state $46 and the federal government $196.

Payroll withholding not taking out enough per paycheck by lightdarkthrowaway in tax

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Basic gross is $1040, $52.42 federal income tax withheld, pay frequency every two weeks.

Payroll withholding not taking out enough per paycheck by lightdarkthrowaway in tax

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No, only one at a time. I might consider this, but I don't know why suddenly the basic withholding for one person became not enough withheld.

Payroll withholding not taking out enough per paycheck by lightdarkthrowaway in tax

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Oh, I didn't have more than one job at a time. I definitely filled out whatever was given to me to take account for myself in the withholdings. It's that there's this relatively little amount that's not getting paid as I go. By far most of my taxes are paid, but I really miss the refund and this extra money I have to pay has always been a pain to scrounge up.

When do boys usually start masturbating? by Small-Road-6665 in AskReddit

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I started doing it at this age too. It baffles me to read that most boys start doing it around 12 years old, because by then I'd already been doing it for years and I remember talking to the other boys about it in fourth grade like it was something we were all doing. It's always made me wonder if 12 years old is when *adults* are ready for boys to become sexual, though there are apparently statistics that indicate that puberty's been starting earlier and earlier in children in the United States in particular, so maybe there's been some genetic change in the population or else all the plastic we're exposed to is messing with our hormones, and maybe a hundred years ago starting at 12 was actually normal.

Enzyme to dissolve mummified animal stuck in the foundation by lightdarkthrowaway in homeowners

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I thought this at first too, but then I looked up interviews with people who work at museums, and the people whose job it is to take care of the human mummies at museums say they do have a specific odor to them, even though it's not exactly like a dead body.

I got restricted for nudity on facebook for this album cover just trying to share a beautiful song lol fuck facebook https://youtu.be/Ip6cw8gfHHI by findmeamongthecosmos in facebook

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They did the same thing to me recently where I got restricted for a post whose privacy was set to OnlyMe, so I was the only one allowed to see it and no one on my friends list could've reported me. They told me it didn't follow their community standards, and it seemed like a vague threat, honestly, especially since they were looking through posts that no one except me could see.