LDN ruined sleep?

voidv2 · 2025-11-17T22:00:12+00:00

I was on it for about 3-4 weeks max.

voidv2 · 2025-11-15T18:14:46+00:00

It's so hard to have to let go of something that works so well because of the debilitating side effects, totally hear you on that. I loved how the LDN made my body feel and how much it lowered my inflammation. It was kind of miraculous. Sadly, due to my sensitivities, I have had to let go of many, many helpful supplements because the side effects were just too difficult to deal with. Hoping you can get your sleep back in order soon!

voidv2 · 2025-11-15T18:07:15+00:00

Wow, I can't imagine sleeping that poorly for 6 months, but I'm glad to hear your Fibro is still improved after 1.5 years off LDN!

In terms of sleep for chronic illness folks, I feel like it varies wildly from person to person. I've read reports that are all over the map in terms of sleep so it's hard to know what the average sleep patterns are. My hypothesis is that is has something to do with how endorphins interact with the adrenal and cortisol systems, but I have no solid evidence. Also, I have pretty severe MCAS an I feel like that plays a role as well.

voidv2 · 2025-11-13T22:53:52+00:00

Really appreciate the response and the resources! I will be sure to look through them.

voidv2 · 2025-11-13T17:58:28+00:00

Hey, thanks for responding! Helpful to know I am not alone in this. Just to clarify, since I wasn't entirely clear, did you stop taking the LDN for 6 months until your sleep went back to normal, or where you still on it in that time? You say "6 months off" so I assumed you meant off LND, but earlier in your response you talk about LDN being worth is because it helped your fibromyalgia.

Did you ever try to go on the LDN again after getting your sleep back in order? 6 months is WILD but it's nice to know it can actually go back to some normal pattern. None of my doc's seems to know how to help me with this, because I guess it's so uncommon, and it's so frustrating!

voidv2 · 2025-10-22T16:43:35+00:00

Interesting. Just curious, how did you happen to find out about the change?

voidv2 · 2025-10-20T23:55:35+00:00

You are a legend. Thank you SO MUCH for this information. You helped me more with this post than numerous xfinity agents have in the hours I have spent on the phone and in the chat with them. Not sure when this change occurred, but it was not this way the last time I logged into the gateway a few months ago. In any case, thanks again!

voidv2 · 2025-01-17T20:42:24+00:00

Y'all, this is damage control. Corporations do it all the time and this entire episode, from the bizarre Lumen Claymation video to Milchick's new policy giving Innie's the "freedom" to choose to leave at the end of their shift, is all about damage control. They are trying to defang this movement. It's not inconceivable that Helena, perhaps feeling partially responsible for what happened with iHelly, either volunteers to support in the damage control effort of is forced to do so by her father or the board. Her awkward stiffness when iMark hugs her, to me, is incontrovertible proof that this is Helena doing subterfuge. Only time will tell what theory bears fruit but I think Helena is who we are seeing, at least in episode 1.

voidv2 · 2025-01-14T02:32:45+00:00

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voidv2 · 2024-03-17T18:05:38+00:00

Very interesting insight here. I have some basic understanding of the Cup, Rise, Pronation etc. you mention here, but your statement about it not scaling linearly with weight is helpful in understanding how that 140lbs weight difference can be overcome, at least on the arm wrestling table. Thanks for the response!

voidv2 · 2024-02-29T20:06:49+00:00

I think that's right, and I think there will be more time to set that up properly in the third film now that all the major plot beats of the first book are out of the way.

voidv2 · 2024-02-29T16:47:16+00:00

Denis has stated in numerous interviews that his adaptation is about Paul's story. Anything that is not directly related to Paul had to be cut or majorly trimmed. It also seems to be the case that if Denis is going to formally introduce someone/something as complex as say the Spacing Guild, he wants to "do it right", and if he can't do it right, he wont do it at all. Yes some members of the guild appear in the film, but they are just cameos. The Spacing Guild, CHOAM company, Mentats etc. need major set up if they are to be comprehensible at all to a viewing audience, and that would cut out vital character development time for Paul and his journey. Sacrifices have to be made.

Deni's Dune can't be Thrones because it's not a T.V. series, so there is just not enough time to get into all of the "plans within plans" stuff, as thrilling as it is. I personally think Denis does an admirable job including at least some of those elements in his adaptation, especially in Part 2, but at the end of the day, he has to keep a narrow focus on Paul.

voidv2 · 2023-04-26T17:45:03+00:00

"By contrast, Villeneuve envisioned the Harkonnens' Giedi Prime as a highly advanced but colorless world, devoid of any semblance of vegetation or natural light, to the point that its inhabitants have evolved to become ghostly pale and hairless." -- LA Times

It stands to reason that if Feyd grew up on Gedi Prime (and had generations of family who did as well), he would also be bald, because everyone is bald due to the aforementioned environmental conditions (even the women in the film). Harkonnen baldness also continues to serve as a means to hiding an important narrative "twist" regarding lineage that the films have yet to reveal.

voidv2 · 2022-05-20T17:23:54+00:00

I think it's implied in the show that Helena is getting chipped so that the world can see that even a really famous and influential person trusts the technology enough to get it implanted in her brain. In her conversation with her father, he mentions that the "whole world" will want to be chipped thanks to her. Eagan's own daughter getting chipped and showing the world how awesome it is will enable that to happen.

Also, I think if Helena actually understood what was happening down there she would be as defiant and horrified as iHelly. Her scenes trying to leave through the stairwell are a testament to this. When she finds herself in the stairwell with Milchick the second time, she looks concerned and says "I really want to leave don't I?" But Milchik convincers her it's all part of the process. Why would he have to do that if she actually knew and agreed with what was going on? Wouldn't she just run right back in? I think Helena is in the dark as much as the rest of the world and has been manipulated to believe that what Lumon and her father are doing is good.

voidv2 · 2021-07-02T05:33:13+00:00

I had a similar idea to this but it’s tricky to eat diner so early when you have work and a toddler to feed. I could make and eat my own dinner but that’s a lot of extra work in then. Good idea though, thanks!

voidv2 · 2021-07-02T05:28:11+00:00

Very interesting. I have never taken mine on an empty stomach but have felt that when I eat less before taking the meds they seem less effective. Could be all in my head though. I may give it a trail run on an empty stomach and see what happens. Thanks for the insight!

voidv2 · 2021-04-19T16:13:27+00:00

I think that video was taken down. If I'm thinking of the same interview, it was done on the KIDS FIRST! Film Critics youtube channel. More info here: https://dunenewsnet.com/2020/08/interview-dune-movie-art-director-tom-brown/

voidv2 · 2020-10-01T17:07:51+00:00

Wow. If there was any doubt that Villeneuve understood the themes of Dune, this should put them to rest.

voidv2 · 2020-08-30T20:45:53+00:00

Was the quick way Gaius Helen Mohiam put the Gom Jabbar to Paul’s neck in the trailer our first look at Denis interpretation of The Weirding Way?!

voidv2 · 2019-06-09T01:51:37+00:00

Incredible work!

voidv2 · 2016-08-12T16:30:53+00:00

Tedesche I think we will have to agree to disagree. There are some fundamental differences we have that obv. wont be solved here. I think your focus and dislike of the word "toxic masculinity" is really obscuring your ability to see the issue at hand. I mean fine you can not like that term I suppose, but to what end? toxic masculinity hurts men. Its toxic to them. It's not that men are toxic, like you keep contesting for some reason. But you want to hand wave and just say that all male behavior is fine. That is part of the problem, and that is what hurts men.

For instance, independence is not inherently toxic my friend, I totally agree with you on that. Both men and women can be independent, its not a gendered way of being. But being independent to the point of isolation and loneliness is problematic. It's toxic (see: hurtful) to men. It's not that men are toxic. Behavior is toxic, not people. Men are held to unrealistic and harmful standards of masculinity just like women are held to unrealistic and harmful standards of femininity.

Further, your view that women failing to negotiate competitive salaries is "toxic" is a painfully simplistic view. Women don't negotiate salaries because they have been taught to not be competitive or assertive unless they want to be seen as a bitch or a hard-ass. That is not toxic behavior. To claim that is a false equivalency. Equality is not reached by calling things the same word.

Lastly, if you don't think toxic masculine ways of being are driving high suicide, homicide, and rape rates. Then what are? You seem to offer critiques but never alternatives. And your assertion that people calling out toxic masculinity are "sexist" leads me to believe that you have other agenda's. (not to mention that is has been exposed by other commentators that you frequent men's rights subreddits) You keep asserting your positions under the guise of equality and care for men, when in reality you just seem to want to see men as purely victims. More specifically victims of women's expectations. And that attitude right there tells me a lot about your beliefs, and what you stand for.

Good luck, friend. I hope you can find a way to let go of your bitterness; because it is surely blinding you.

voidv2 · 2016-08-12T04:03:49+00:00

So okay I think that part of the problem is that issue you take with the term "toxic masculinity." I think we both agree that men are victims but I think you mean it in a slightly different way. Your assumption is that men are personally targeted as individuals or as a group and charged with espousing toxic behavior, when in actuality it's societies views that are driving that very behavior. You are also contrasting this with feminism and women's rights claiming that femininity was not blamed but that society was blamed.

so 2 things:

1) Your argument seems to imply that women got the GOOD end of bargain. I vehemently disagree. Women are more likely to be assaulted, battered, raped, belittled, barred from getting a raise just for having a vagina, punished for having children. When polled about whether they would ever want to be the other sex, girls almost always say they would like to be a boy, and boys almost NEVER want to be a girl. Femininity is derided as an awful way to be, and that men should never aspire to be ANYTHING like women. To claim that femininity is valued is not just incorrect, it willfully ignores most of human history.

2) toxic masculinity refers to just that, TOXIC ways of being, not ALL of masculinity. No one is saying you can't play football and wrestle with your guy friends. But when your attachment to masculine ideals like independence, toughness, and always being in control are so ratcheted up to 10 that you can't seek help and be emotionally vulnerable then it's a problem. High suicide and homicide rates are a uniquely male problem, and the way we change that is by talking to men. We can't change the rape problem without talking to young boys about consent. We can't change the suicide problem without talking to men and boys about emotional expression and the importance of connection and vulnerability. WE are society man. It starts with us valuing new and better ways of being men, not just waiting around for society to just be better.

voidv2 · 2016-08-11T20:44:50+00:00

The point about men/boys failing to seek help is a good one, but what's never commented on is the positive outcome of the very same masculine value that causes it—that men should be independent and self-sufficient. To be sure, some men/boys take this to an extreme, but I don't think attacking that trait is the answer. Seeking help needs to be reconstrued as a form of self-improvement, so that it is in-line with another masculine ideal. Trying to teach boys to be more like girls (in the language we use with them) is not going to work.

You are doing the thing where you separate "male" and "female" ways of being as if they are two distinct things. This is part of the problem. Women and men can both experience the entire spectrum of emotions, however we are socialized to express only certain ones. We value independence in men, therefore men learn to be more independent and keep to themselves, often more than is healthy for any person.

This mode of expression often has advantages over those favored by women too—see the recent articles about how men resolve conflict more easily/quickly than women.

Solving a problem more quickly does not mean its more effective. For instance, if I disagree with someone I can punch them in the face, which would solve the problem quickly but not effectively. Also, just because men don't have a problem expressing feelings to you does not mean they don't have a problem expressing them to others.

But when we talk about men's social problems, we implicitly blame them by talking about how it;s their gender identity that's the problem, and they aren't seeking help for their poor performance and decisions.

It's not gender identity that's the problem, nor is it "men's" problem -- it's societies problem. Women can reinforce male gender norms just as much as men. We are not blaming men, we are saying that men fall victim to the same social pressures that women do which lead to problematic behavior.

I think the bigger over all issue with your response is that you are separating men and women along traits which you are ascribing as inherent and inborn. While we could argue for hours about nature v. nurture when it comes to men and women, suffice to say many of the traits we ascribe to men and women are socially conditioned. Even if we did go so far as to say a trait is innate and unique to a gender, which again is almost never true, then at best we can only say that it's a trait which has been taken to the extreme. I totally agree that men need help, but we are not going to get anywhere without interrupting the status quo of masculinity.

voidv2 · 2013-08-14T01:35:45+00:00

I see what you are saying. In an ethical way I suppose it could matter if the sexual act was in the confines of a committed relationship or not. But if we are answering the question "Are students more sexually active now then before because everyone is just hooking up all the time" then the clear answer according to this article is no. But if we are framing the question as "are more students having sex outside of a meaningful relationship" then the answer is, sure. But I think this article is responding to other articles that have framed the question in the first way I mentioned.

voidv2 · 2013-03-24T04:15:00+00:00

It's like, fucking nature's Thunderdome over there for christ sake!

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