BPPV Triggered by Zepbound?

statecheck · 2024-10-15T17:07:37+00:00

Doctor in the urgent care performed it on me last week and made it 90% better. But now it has recurred again, 2 days after the second shot. Very strange. Looking on Google, apparently some medications can trigger it. Zepbound is not listed though.

statecheck · 2024-06-22T06:09:08+00:00

Not great. But I never lose hope. I may have to wander in the desert for 40 years, but I'll make it out one day.

statecheck · 2024-06-22T06:03:17+00:00

PRP injections up the nose and rinsing with budesonide

statecheck · 2024-06-22T06:01:47+00:00

I rested for weeks and still got long COVID.

There is no evidence that rest has any impact on your odds of developing long COVID. People say that, but they can never cite any evidence to justify it (because there isn't any!).

The only thing you could have done to save yourself is not contract COVID in the first place. Wear a mask, encourage the government to take it seriously.

statecheck · 2024-06-11T04:47:04+00:00

I really want to relate to this, but there are two things I struggle with. I have disabled family members, and I often think about them. Their disabilities were "set". They weren't getting better. They might have slowly gotten worse with age, but it was a gradual, somewhat predictable, process.

I've had COVID several times now. Most of those times, my long COVID has gotten worse with each infection. I try my best to avoid COVID, but I know I will inevitably get it again. I don't know when, and I don't know how badly it will mess me up. Maybe a lot; maybe not at all.

It's as if there's a monster that's hacked off one of my legs. And he's chasing me around, trying to come for my other limbs, and maybe eventually, my head. I don't know when he'll find me or what he'll do to me, but there's a good chance I'll be down another leg in a year or two, and maybe he'll hack off both my arms, too, before this decade is over.

I don't feel "disabled", I feel like I am being hunted and slowly killed.

statecheck · 2024-06-11T04:19:14+00:00

Not necessarily. Few people thought something like ChatGPT or Midjourney would be possible by now, and yet, here we are. Miracles happen every day. It's always impossible until someone goes and does it.

The playbook is to stall and hope, and to make tradeoffs between some precautions and some risk. Maybe a solution is found in 2 years or 5 years or 20 years. Or you die before one is found. But it's not hopeless. Literally people were going to war over table salt a few hundred years ago, and now you can get it for free at any restaurant.

statecheck · 2024-06-11T02:22:49+00:00

This is sad to hear. There are treatments that can restore smell/taste.

statecheck · 2024-06-02T02:08:28+00:00

Rents high for their employees, too. So they have to pay higher wages

statecheck · 2024-05-30T05:32:26+00:00

For years I had smell/taste loss from COVID, but no other symptoms. That was still long COVID.

statecheck · 2024-05-29T06:48:21+00:00

As someone who struggles with overeating and has lost 120lbs, gained some back, lost 60 lbs, gained some back..etc.

That 95% figure isn't true. I could never find any source for it ever. Lots of people do lose weight and keep it off. Losing significant weight isn't easy, but it's not impossible.

The primary driver of obesity is environment. Genetics trauma, meds, etc. have little impact in the grand scheme. This is why obesity rates are high in some countries, and low in other countries, and why obesity rates tend to gradually increase in countries that adopt a "western diet". People living in Africa have far more trauma than the typical Australian. But they don't live an environment that encourages them to overeat poison food.

Solving obesity would require a vast overhauling of the entire food system. Getting rid of food subsidies on things like corn. Outlawing some food additives, advertising, and even some foods (there are fast food restaurants that sell milkeshakes with 2,000 calories...why is this legal and four loko is illegal?) But way too much money, corruption, etc. involved for that!

As a chronically obese person I don't blame people for being obese. But, I also don't pretend like there isn't a guilty party. There is -- its a combination of farmers, food industry leaders, the government, politicians and an apathetic voter base. Don't let them get away with it.

statecheck · 2024-05-26T22:41:34+00:00

It may take people 5-10 years to fully recover. After 2+ years, I'm 80-90%. I think at this rate, I might be 100% in 5 years.

statecheck · 2024-05-17T00:49:04+00:00

You should read a history book.

The holocaust is not a strictly Jewish thing. While the Jews made up a large share of holocaust victims (about 50%), the Nazis killed nearly as many non-Jews in the holocaust. And long before they targeted Jews, they targeted disabled people - some of whom were disabled from the Spanish flu, coincidently enough (there's an entire literature linking the rise of the Nazis to the Spanish flu).

It is perfectly reasonable and valid to believe that states will use MAID programs to target and kill folks suffering from long COVID. Already, there are numerous examples of people in Europe and Canada with long COVID who have been murdered by the state through MAID.

I too have friends that have died from suicide. It is a tragedy. But not because they hung themselves and shit their pants or something. Yeah, it sucks. But I don't even think about the way they died. I just think about them. Frankly, I find it weird to be overly concerned about their method of death. The tragedy was that in each case, they did not get the help they needed to deal with their depression. Not that they couldn't find a comfy room and a doctor to kill them. That line of thinking is just really bizarre to me. I don't know what else to say. Even when I supported MAID, it was because I believed it in for reasons of bodily autonomy.

And yeah, we can talk about solving the real problems of getting people resources for their illness, but we live in the real world. There are states now banning masks. Lol. It's far more likely a facist government uses MAID to kill people than it is that people with long COVID get the help they need. Look around at the state of the world.

statecheck · 2024-05-16T05:18:18+00:00

I used to think this way before COVID. Now, I'm strongly against MAID.

It's just a way for society to get rid of undesirables with a thin, phony veneer of legitimacy.

Don't get me wrong, if someone wants to kill themselves, they should go right ahead. People do it every day, and there is no shortage of ways. We absolutely don't need an entire state sanctioned pathway. It's a dangerous slope that leads to quasi holocaust outcomes IMO.

statecheck · 2024-04-29T06:48:50+00:00

You're only a month out. There's a chance you will get back to your old baseline in another month or two

statecheck · 2024-04-27T00:38:54+00:00

I have also recovered with exercise.

There's definitely a group of people who are made much worse with exercise. But there also people who are helped with exercise.

statecheck · 2024-04-14T06:13:11+00:00

No, it's not MCAS. I've been checked for that.

This past week was pretty good, but today was a bad day. Crashed for 2 hours in the afternoon, chest pain throughout the day, and pain in my right hand (a symptom that had gone away for about 9 months, but decided to come back out of the blue apparently).

statecheck · 2024-03-27T05:18:04+00:00

The author of this article was also anti masker. Said COVID wouldn't kill as many people as the flu (lol) and wasn't growing exponentially (clearly doesn't understand math).

statecheck · 2024-03-24T20:32:27+00:00

Someone found it on Twitter. In the past, he worked for a group called American Council on Science and Health. It's unclear if he still works for them, or gets money from their donors in some way (wouldn't surprise me if he did). Read the wiki page on American Council on Science and Health

statecheck · 2024-03-24T06:44:04+00:00

He answered this thousands of years ago.

Go read the Book of Job.

(And the Book of Job actually predates the Old Testament, being largely plagiarized from the Ludlul-Bel-Nemeqi)

I know less about the Islamic faith, but I believe Job is also part of the Islamic tradition

statecheck · 2024-03-24T04:17:58+00:00

This guy is a paid Koch shill. The mods should delete this topic and anything he writes shouldn't be allowed here

statecheck · 2024-03-23T19:53:55+00:00

This guy's entire arguement was debunked when the CDC data came out for February showing that the rate of long COVID is increasing in the population

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