Posts by rustymoose54

Walter Foster87 said:Let's go, kiddos...

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Walter Foster87 said:The whole point of his story is that he isn't helping people who are already on insulin.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you don't know the first thing about diabetes... seriously.

If you're really gonna start a thread about this, maybe try doing a little homework first? 😉

Look, there are two types of diabetes, and they come from totally different places—completely different origins. The only thing they share is the symptoms (like having high blood sugar).

Type 1 is an autoimmune thing, where your body basically nukes the cells that produce insulin in a pretty short window. Symptoms hit fast and they're pretty intense. People with Type 1 have to start insulin IMMEDIATELY just to stay alive. There’s no cure for Type 1, period—it's a lifelong, daily insulin dependency.

Type 2 is usually down to two things:

(a) the cells becoming less sensitive to the insulin the body actually makes (and remember, insulin's job is to move glucose from the blood into the cells so the body can actually use it for energy).

(b) the insulin-producing cells losing their mojo—basically, the pancreas getting "exhausted."

People with Type 2 usually deal with oral meds that either help those cells respond better to existing insulin (that's effect 'a') or meds that kick the pancreas into gear to pump out more (effect 'b'). Sometimes that's not enough, so yeah, they might need external insulin shots too. But it's not the same kind of dependency as Type 1 folks. High blood sugar will still wreck their organs, sure, but it rarely leads to that sudden hyperglycemic coma or death that hits a Type 1 patient who misses their dose.

With Type 2, you might see some blood sugar drops from using "natural" supplements, but let's be real—for most people, just dropping some weight is way more effective 😁 and, obviously, working closely with a doctor who tweaks the treatment as you go.

So, yeah, all those magic beans and miracle juices might nudge your numbers here and there, but they aren't curing anyone. Plus, it's impossible to tell how much any given supplement will actually do, and honestly, I don't see the point in even trying those "cures."

DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor...🙂

he washes with that "everyday" shampoo every single damn day
sorry, tell your buddy he’s out here washing with that "everyday" shampoo every single day

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Sorry if this is totally off-topic, but is Benjamin Moore some kind of car part? 🤣

Don't hate me, just asking...

I'm still getting by, I guess—though I swear my IQ scores have been tanking lately. I'm starting to suspect there's some weird connection there...

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Oh, please... who actually goes out and checks their intelligence anymore?

quietfox17 said:I have zero clue what you based that decision on—like, why on earth would you need an ultrasound?
It honestly feels like every single person on this thread thinks they’re a freaking surgeon or a medical researcher... Honestly, you might as well just go buy your own ultrasound machine at Target and scan yourself!

Look, quietfox17, you're totally right that the patient shouldn't be the one calling the shots on diagnosis (or "demanding" it, if we're being picky about the wording 😁), but man... it's just not okay when doctors treat people with that "everyone thinks they know everything" attitude. It's so dismissive, you know? Instead of just brushing people off, they should actually take a second to explain *why* a certain test isn't necessary or what else a person can do for themselves...

I get it, most of them are slammed and barely have time to breathe, but seriously—a few words of actual explanation goes a long way. 🙂

Most "regular" folks kind of view doctors as these sort of wizards or oracle figures—they subconsciously give them way more power than they actually have. I guess that's why it hurts so much when they get shut down or treated like they're being annoying...

Kyle Nelson2 said:Alright then... so is there actually any non-toxic substitute for aspirin?

Look, Tylenol isn't exactly toxic—unless you decide to chug X%^& tablets all at once (honestly, I don't even know the exact threshold where things go south)

You could always brew some willow bark tea... you'd still be getting salicylates, which is basically just the molecular cousin of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), but hey, at least you can call it "natural"...😁

Acetaminophen—but seriously, don't go overboard with it. Like, at all. If you push past the recommended dose, you start dealing with totally different metabolites that are straight-up toxic to your liver...

And look, as long as you aren't allergic and don't have any issues with blood clotting, you can just take some aspirin.

So, I was digging through some ancient thread from ages ago—you know how it is, just falling down those rabbit holes—and someone was raving about this Dr. Dmitrovic lady, who used to be over at Siget back in the day. Does anyone actually have a clue where she’s landed now? Maybe working some high-profile clinic in Boston or something...

Yeah, we’re talking Type 2 diabetes here—which, in most cases, isn't even insulin-dependent.

And look, people with Type 2 aren't necessarily going to crash into a coma from one bad meal... maybe they won't ever, but they *will* be sick. Oh yeah, they definitely will.

Anyway, the whole deal with the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 comes down to how it starts. With Type 1, those specific cells in the pancreas just suddenly stop pumping out insulin—they basically just die off because the body’s immune system goes rogue and attacks them like they're some kind of foreign protein—it's an autoimmune thing.

Then you’ve got Type 2—these folks actually have plenty of insulin, sometimes way too much if we're being honest, but their bodies just can't use it because they've become resistant to it. That's why cutting back on calories helps so much; it lowers the total demand for insulin, making it easier for the body to manage the mess. As weird as it sounds, Type 2 is actually a much more complicated beast than Type 1, even though Type 1 usually hits in childhood and Type 2 is linked to obesity—so everyone loves to jump to conclusions and blame these people for their own illness, which is only half the story...

Ugh, sorry, I'm back in professor mode again, I'll shut up now.😁

So, diabetes.

Look, I’m perfectly healthy because—thanks to a little help from insulin—my metabolism is basically identical to yours. Everything else too: my ability to actually live life...

The only real catch is if, for some crazy reason, insulin just vanished from the face of the earth. Then yeah, I’d be in deep trouble. 😁

I’ll grab about 4 ounces of meat for lunch since I still have to eat dinner later, and honestly, since I’m a bit of a knockout, it’d be a crime to let myself pack on the weight. 😎

Most women with my build and frame find that 4 ounces at lunch is plenty—assuming they’re eating breakfast and dinner, obviously.

As for my whole thing with fries: it’s about the principle of the thing. If other people overeat, that’s on them and their own lack of knowledge. Though, not everyone is clueless—take driftinggull13 and nimbledriver81, for example. They know just as much about nutrition as I do, yet they don't have diabetes.

And where on earth did you get the idea that someone with diabetes is going to "fall into a coma" just because they eat junk for three days straight? A coma from high blood sugar usually happens after months of *extremely* high levels, which rarely happens now that insulin was invented back in 1921. In other words, I could feast on pure junk food for years—massive amounts, really—and as long as I balance it out with enough insulin, I'll be fine. Aside from looking like an elephant, but that’s a problem for another day... 😁

If you ever saw someone with diabetes slip into a coma, it was probably a hypoglycemic coma, caused by having too much insulin in their system relative to what their body actually needed at that moment.

Anyway, hope I wasn't being too much of a bore with this lecture... 🙂

Megan Morales5 said:Isn't it just... I don't know, more normal—for a healthy person, anyway (not commenting on anyone with diabetes, that’s a whole different ballgame and I don't know enough to weigh in)—for an adult to eat some soup, fish, and maybe some steamed veggies instead of (calories notwithstanding) a tiny serving of fries? I mean, assuming you balance the meal so the calories match that portion of fries, the first option is still way more diverse, easier on my stomach, etc.

No hard feelings, but I've got Type 1 diabetes and I'm perfectly healthy.
Which actually makes it even more important—my diet doesn't look any different from what any healthy person, diabetic or not, should be eating. The only things I dodge are alcohol and super sugary stuff because it's just easier to stay balanced that way, but if I really wanted to, I could go for them.

Eating fries doesn't mean you're skipping the fish and veggies, since we're talking about totally different food groups here. If you grab a side of fries, you're hitting carbs and fats, while fish falls under "meat and substitutes," and veggies... well, depends on the veggie. If it's leafy greens and you aren't inhaling more than like 150-200 grams (without adding grease), you're looking at maybe 40 kcal max.

So, on those days when I randomly decide I need fries for lunch—when my usual spread is 200g of boiled potatoes, 90-100g of meat, some greens, and 15g of oil for cooking (you gotta factor in the oil in the soup and the starch in the broth, which then gets subtracted from the potato count)... yeah, I have to carefully measure out enough fries so I don't blow past that 15g fat limit. That ends up being a pretty small pile of fries, honestly... you'll get used to it. But the meat, the veggies, the soup? They stay. I'm not tossing those out.

Megan Morales5 said:I find it impossible to believe that any woman eats chocolate just once a month...

Believe it or don't, but I'm a woman and I don't touch chocolate at all. Honestly, I don't even like it. 😎

The whole thing with French fries is kind of a joke—you really have to know what you're putting in your body and how much... if you want to indulge in some fries, you basically have to sit there calculating the starch-to-fat ratio in that serving and then try to balance it out with everything else you plan on eating that day. If you tried doing that math every single day, you'd end up having to eat tiny, pathetic amounts of food just to keep from gaining weight, and you'd be starving most of the time. But hey, there are definitely people out there (women 😁 ) who actually live their lives that way...

You can grab some Monistat cream over the counter at any CVS or Walgreens... honestly, even just the regular stuff might do the trick—I think the main difference is just how much clotrimazole they pack into the vaginal version compared to the skin cream, but hey, whatever works

Just do a quick Google search, you’ll find tons of solid advice on dealing with yeast infections from gynecologists online (WebMD)

Megan Morales5 said:Ahem... excuse me, can I jump in here for a sec? Look, I don't know what your actual expertise is—you mentioned food is your thing—but honestly, that last comment kind of totally undermined your point. There’s a massive difference between some whole-grain brown rice you cooked at home and a pile of greasy French fries fried in God-knows-what kind of oil.

But wait, nimbledriver81 didn't even say that brown rice and fries were the same thing.

I mean, look—cooked rice (usually the glazed kind, where the starch concentration is actually higher than in the whole-grain stuff) and boiled potatoes—basically anything prepared without adding fat—fall into that same category, you know, the "bread and starch replacements" group.

If you're more into the whole-grain rice vibe, fine by me. Totally cool. But let's not pretend they belong to different universes... starch is starch is starch.

Trust me, if you actually had diabetes and had to count every single gram of carbs just to stay alive, you'd get exactly what I'm getting at...

Antibiotics basically just wipe out everything living in there—including all those "good" bacteria your vagina actually needs to stay balanced. Once they're gone, you end up with a massive overgrowth of stuff like yeast (Candida albicans), which leads to that annoying itching and all that white discharge. It’s not the end of the world, though... if you can grab some Monistat, that usually does the trick.

But honestly, you should probably still swing by the OBGYN. A messed-up pH or a broken flora balance isn't always caused by meds; it could be something else entirely that just flares up after you finish your antibiotics. Plus, topical creams don't work for everyone—sometimes you just need to take Diflucan, and you definitely can't get a prescription for that without a doctor's note.

Good grief, what is this thread even doing to people's mental health?

It belongs on a billboard, honestly... 🙄

I mean, why bother playing these games instead of just taking some unpaid time off? Like, seriously... 👎

s3v3n said:man, you idiots really need to look at the weather forecasts in the winter versus any other time of year

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I’m dying to know... do you just walk up to people you meet in real life and call them "idiots" whenever they have a different opinion than yours? Because wow... ☕

Linda Hernandez15 said:yeah, sure, just spit on everyone immediately—I guess that's what makes life so thrilling for you people...😢

😕 look, I wasn't the one being disrespectful here. if you're sitting there assuming swiftviper6 has zero clue what an exam actually looks like, why don't you try actually describing your own experience? you know, maybe using slightly more professional terms than "shoving that thing in"...😁

and honestly, I am never going to get why people lose their minds just because med students have to watch or participate in a procedure.

Linda Hernandez15 said:that’s just some college campus vibe, man—and the doctor is about as gentle as a wrecking ball. I’m not trying to freak you out or anything, but do you even have a clue what an ultrasound actually looks like?

well, why don't you enlighten us then... 🙂

btw, which doc at the Mayo Clinic are we talking about?

Hey, the world is calling out for dodo-a 😁 like I said before—immunology is an exact science.

All those things I typed up to you about vaccinations? Those aren't MY theories or anything...

But all that stuff you wrote regarding the whole situation—those are YOUR theories, and honestly, they're mostly just wrong. Sorry.

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Megan Morales5 said:rustymoose54, look, I’m not trying to win an argument or talk you into anything—honestly, everyone does their own thing when they get sick, we all have our own way of dealing with a fever or whatever...😁

No hard feelings, really, but it’s just a little ridiculous when people start lecturing me on stuff I actually went to school for, especially when they studied something completely different...🙂

I’m not asking you to change my mind, and I’m definitely not trying to push mine on you, but immunology? It’s pretty much an exact science... not really a matter of opinion, you know?😉

Anyway, just don't go jumping to conclusions without checking in with some objective, actual expert first.

Honestly, it would be better if you just asked the person who told you there was "no point" in getting vaccinated why they think that. I’m pretty sure the explanation won't be that first thing you mentioned—you know, that whole idea that a vaccinated person spreads the virus because they "just received it from the shot." Total nonsense...