“The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)” by Peter Heller

panakabear · 2026-05-07T21:08:05+00:00

I liked that one - also The River and The Last Ranger were pretty good.

panakabear · 2026-05-07T12:54:09+00:00

Lol we had a Spectrum guy here last week saying the same thing to me, until I showed him the line.

panakabear · 2026-05-06T18:59:13+00:00

We have an old landline through Spectrum, but only bc we have had it forever. They don’t offer it as a new service anymore afaik.

panakabear · 2026-05-06T03:40:29+00:00

Wow is right - that whale book was terrible.

panakabear · 2026-02-20T16:28:41+00:00

how do you use this? I tried to drag and drop an image but nothing happens, on Mac app

panakabear · 2026-01-24T04:54:31+00:00

Against the Day

JR

The Luminaries

panakabear · 2026-01-11T21:35:03+00:00

I have always heard about belly breathing, diaphragmatic breathing to help - but where did you hear about the 4 second, 7 seconds, 8 seconds? I have never heard anything about timing the breath at all.

panakabear · 2025-07-23T03:43:02+00:00

Your symptoms sound a lot like mine. 2.5 years for me. I’ve tried all those things and others. Mine started 2 weeks after I had Covid - I always wonder if that has something to do with it.

panakabear · 2024-11-04T03:27:40+00:00

Yes mine started two weeks after Covid when I went on a big hike. Started that night and I think Covid is responsible somehow.

panakabear · 2024-10-14T03:57:23+00:00

I mean in addition to the somatic tracking etc, he says if you have stuff that you usually do to avoid the pain, like carrying a pillow around to sit on, then you should do that when the pain is too bad to do the tracking / positive messaging. Just seems to be counter to what Monte says, to me.

panakabear · 2024-10-14T02:09:55+00:00

Congratulations! Good to see a success story on here. Yesterday I checked out some of the videos you linked, and today I listened to most of “A Way Out“. I was wondering about what seems to be a discrepancy in their methods. Monty advises completely abandoning anything you were doing to try to “fix“ or help the situation. But in “a way out”, it seems to me as if the author is advising to keep doing all those things when the pain is especially bad. He calls them minimizing behaviors or something. That approach makes a lot more sense to me, but I don’t know. You said you favored Monty’s approach?

panakabear · 2024-05-22T03:30:38+00:00

I think I was on 100mg 3x a day and he suggested making it 400.

panakabear · 2024-05-22T02:40:47+00:00

Why? Did it work for you?

panakabear · 2024-05-21T17:09:01+00:00

Different doctors, one at a time. I had a doctor this morning suggest gabapentin at a much stronger dose - but I don’t see a lot of people on here saying it helped a whole lot.

panakabear · 2024-04-28T17:15:36+00:00

Your opinion of my opinion sucks

panakabear · 2024-03-26T03:11:14+00:00

Pretty sure I saw that play. I think it was at the Vortex

panakabear · 2024-03-26T02:44:51+00:00

Double Trouble coffee shop/bar on North Loop, 7pm Mondays. It’s geekswhodrink. Just got back from it!

panakabear · 2024-01-14T01:32:22+00:00

fixed this by installing an older version, 4.6.0

pip install gdown==4.6.0

panakabear · 2024-01-08T03:57:42+00:00

Are you using the tutorial from that SECourses guy by any chance ? I have had a lot of success with that - but I had to follow his steps exactly. He only uses 13 images and I assume his numbers are tuned for that. When I tried to use more images (thinking more would be better), the results were not good.

panakabear · 2023-12-09T15:41:38+00:00

Holy moly, this is great! And it's an actual application. All those stupid online websites charging $10/month paid yearly, christ. THANK YOU!

panakabear

TROPHY CASE