Posts by lonebadger6

Everything else looking normal to you?

If it is, and your white cell count is under 5, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it...

If it is, and those white cells are sitting below 10, you’re almost certainly fine...

But if they're climbing north of 10, then you've got some kind of inflammation going on, likely viral or, more probably, bacterial...

jadesailor14 said:I'm hoping 😁

me too 🙂, though most birth control instructions seem to include a dedicated section on "overdosing," which suggests there’s a significant portion of the population out there dealing with either severe mental health struggles or just a massive lack of common sense...

given that context—every single "overdose" is technically dangerous, but it's somewhat comforting that with birth control, the risk is practically non-existent. there have even been instances where young kids accidentally swallowed some and didn't end up with any major issues at all.

Morgan Johnson4 said:my period was late, though it's usually late anyway... sometimes by an entire month... and I wasn't even worried about it... until I started having these weird symptoms like my breasts being incredibly sore and heavy... and feeling nauseous... so I took a test and I'm pregnant... and yesterday I bought a pack of Triquilar and just swallowed the whole thing at once... is that really dangerous???

based on the rather incredible assumption that someone actually possesses the capacity to pull that off:

1) you'll be fine, physically speaking... though you might deal with some gastrointestinal issues...

2) the standard medical advice for situations like this is:
- if the massive dose of birth control pills was taken intentionally, starting psychiatric treatment is vital, since more severe or serious attempts at self-harm can follow:

If the overdose was intentional, psychiatric evaluation is important as other, more threatening attempts at self-harm may follow

if this was just a case of a catastrophically low IQ, then everything is fine, provided you don't plan on doing it again...
otherwise, this is something where you need to see a psychiatrist immediately, and there's absolutely no reason to feel ashamed about it...

Gary Johnson7 said:read the link above, though you won't get much out of it...

Exactly.
If you look there, all you'll find is that Hulda Clark is one of the most bizarre charlatans in the entire world of pseudoscience...
There are legitimate alternative remedies out there, and there are plenty of people and products that spark actual debate, but there are also some very high-quality scammers who are just incredibly good at selling their lies.
Hulda Clark doesn't even reach that level of sophistication.

Specifically, here is how she "messes with the government's plans":

- A woman who has been legally barred by a court order from publicly claiming her products can cure anything.

- Someone who was legally ordered to pay back all the money stolen from the victims of her products...

- An individual who openly lies in her books, claiming she cured cancer patients who never actually had it, or those who died just weeks after she supposedly "cured" them.

- A woman whose own brother died of cancer while undergoing her treatments.

- Someone full of "hilarious" anecdotes—provided they aren't happening to you—like this one:

An investigator for the Indiana Department of Health and a deputy attorney general visited her office incognito as part of a sting operation. Clark proceeded to test the investigator and "told him he had the HIV virus [sic], but said that he did not have cancer." She told the investigator that she could cure his HIV in 3 minutes, but that he would "get it back" unless he committed to returning for six more appointments. She then ordered blood tests from a laboratory. Upon learning of the undercover investigators' status, Clark stated that everything she had told them had been a "mistake".

In plain English: an investigator for the Indiana Department of Health visited her office undercover. She told him he had HIV, and claimed she could cure it in three minutes ( 😂 ), but warned he'd catch it again if he didn't agree to six more sessions.
Once she realized it was an investigator, she just claimed she made a mistake... 🙂

Gary Johnson7 is right about one thing: you have to look out for your own health.
And if you find yourself desperate because you're feeling unwell, please try to maintain enough common sense to research properly and get quality information, whether you decide on conventional or alternative medicine...
That way, you won't end up handing piles of cash to scammers and unscrupulous thieves like Hulda Clark.
If we were in the United States, you wouldn't run into these specific issues, at least not with her, but over here, there are still crooks selling these spikes to desperate people.

P.S. Of course, there's always the possibility that this is being told to you by an aristocratic Reptilian humanoid trying to mislead you to protect the United States, which is a vital cog in our secret world government...
Or maybe I actually do have my own cure for all diseases, and I just have to destroy the competition like Hulda Clark before I deal with fighting the United States government, since they're trying to stop me because I'm messing with their plans...

Gary Johnson7 said:It’s fine to have a healthy dose of skepticism, but it becomes a problem when you’re just listening to the same old crowd over and over again...😁

I prefer to think for myself... but I wonder if anyone else actually does...

It’s just your own head playing tricks on you, telling you that someone is... There’s actually a binding court injunction in the US that officially prohibits anyone from making the kind of claims you're spreading on this thread... Maybe they actually had a point... though at the same time, it was back in the spring of 2004... A final court ruling just handed down means she actually has to pay everyone back who bought her stuff because of those fake claims...?

So, your own brain is actually trying to convince you that someone is just sitting there openly lying in their book...

Most of the folks mentioned in those 103 case reports didn't actually have cancer to begin with... and even for the ones who did, they’d usually already gone through the standard medical routine or caught the tumors while they were still in the early stages...In those instances, Clark would declare them fully healed, but since she didn't track their progress once they walked out of her clinic doors, there's really no way for her to actually know how they fared in the long run... There were times when she actually logged patients as being fully cured, despite explicitly noting that they passed away just a few weeks after her treatment...

Most of the 103 people mentioned in Hulda Clark's reports didn't actually have cancer to begin with... and for those who did, most were either using standard medical treatments or dealing with early-stage tumors, though there were times she counted patients as "cured" only for them to pass away a few weeks later...

So, you're actually telling me that *this* is the genius who claims to have a magic cure for every single human ailment... 🤣

An investigator from the Indiana Department of Health and a deputy attorney general dropped by her office undercover for a sting operation... Clark went ahead and tried to diagnose the investigator on the spot, telling him he was positive for HIV but luckily didn't have cancer. She actually claimed she could wipe out his HIV in just three minutes, though he’d apparently just catch it all over again unless he agreed to come back for six more sessions... After ordering some lab work, she realized she'd been caught and suddenly claimed everything she said was just a massive mistake...

An investigator from the Indiana Health Institute paid an undercover visit to her office... She told him she had HIV... then told him she’d cure him in three minutes flat... 😂 ...but I wonder if he’ll actually regret it if he refuses to go through another six rounds of therapy....
Once she found out it was actually an investigator, she admitted she’d gotten it wrong... 🙂

Is that what your own head is telling you...?
Wonderful... 👍

You're absolutely right... I'm actually a humanoid reptile working for the Secret World Government, and I will do whatever it takes to help you expose the Truth to everyone...

Why would anyone come after you? It’s not like you’re a doctor who needs to be an expert on this stuff 😉

When someone deals with particularly severe allergic reactions, they undergo desensitization therapy, which is essentially the actual "cure" for the allergy
It’s pricey, takes forever, and all that... so it isn't used for your run-of-the-mill allergies, especially since there's a huge risk it won't even work for anything other than insect stings

Specifically, desensitization for a bee sting lasts about three to five years and works incredibly well—we're talking basically 100% success in kids and around 90% for adults

No thanks, I'm good.
But if you’re asking for yourself, I’d suggest looking into liver cleansing, which is what the renowned Hulda Clark recommends... though some might say it's just a recipe for acting like a lunatic.

P.S. People have a right to know, obviously, so here are the links with the actual facts regarding who Hulda Clark is. A liar, a ruthless manipulator, or just plain crazy, she is an individual who, within the USA , is legally barred by a court injunction from making the following claims:

Use of the Super-Zapper deluxe is effective to kill bacteria, viruses and parasites in the human body;
Use of the Super-Zapper deluxe is effective against chronic infections, cancer and AIDS;
The Super-Zapper deluxe and the complete herbal parasite program are effective to cure all forms of cancer in humans;
Dr. Clark's new 21-day program for advanced cancers is effective to cure all forms of cancer in humans;
Dr. Clark's new 21-day program for advanced cancers has cured numerous people with advanced cases of cancer;
the Syncrometer device is more accurate than the best testing methods at diagnosing all forms of disease;
the Syncrometer device can detect the presence of any substance at specific points in the human body;
The Super-Zapper deluxe, used together with the Complete Herbal Parasite program, is effective to cure AIDS;
The Super-Zapper deluxe, used together with the complete Herbal Parasite program and avoidance of pollutants, is effective to cure diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, endometriosis, asthma, and many other diseases;

A conspiracy?
Is the World Government trying to silence your little sect because they actually have a cure for everything?

P.S. And please, don't go confusing pure imagination with common sense and being properly informed by multiple sources...
I mean, if you want to...
And apparently, the way certain patterns align in northeastern England shows how the world will end in exactly 1,111 days, leaving only the followers of Hulda Clark alive...

Honestly, there really should be a dedicated sub-forum for pseudoscience, just so people here can actually help one another with health advice—even the alternative kind when there's actual merit to it—instead of dealing with this nonsense...
yeah, just go detox your liver or something.
next time a bee stings you, don't worry about dying; you'll probably just win the Powerball and meet the love of your life instead...

ps, if we're talking about total nonsense, Hulda Clark is easily the worst of the bunch:

The cure for all cancers contains "case histories" of 138 cancer patients, of whom 103 were "cured" and 35 who "did not carry out instructions or could not be followed."

The majority of the people described in the 103 case reports didn't actually have cancer. For those who did, most had already undergone standard medical treatment or caught it in its earliest stages. In those instances, Clark declared them cured without ever checking back in once they left her clinic—meaning she had absolutely no way of knowing how they actually fared down the road...In certain instances, she even labeled patients as cured despite noting that they passed away only a few weeks after her treatment.

if you haven't heard yet, Youth pulled off a 3-0 sweep

it's the Final Four, featuring Youth, New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia

Daniel Cooper40 said:surely in some good way...

Which one?
Things like this can be nothing other than pathetic and absolutely horrific, both for USA Handball and for the Los Angeles Lakers themselves... what a disgrace of a league 😢

Are you guys using condoms?
What you're describing sounds more like an inflammation, though it’s pretty unusual for it to flare up and settle down that quickly...
Then again, there's such a thing as a lubricant allergy—and just like any allergy, it can hit you out of nowhere—which means you might need to switch to higher-end brands with cleaner, hypoallergenic lubricants, or if it turns out you're allergic to latex, you'll have to look into other protection options once you've cleared the usual suspects like HPV, chlamydia, and those other lovely little things... 😉

My partner is on the pill, but back when she was taking a break from it, we had sex with a condom once and I was dealing with this intense stinging for a couple of days... we tried it again later and it was basically the same thing, so now in those situations we just use a different type of condom with a different lubricant and everything is fine.

So, since you've already scheduled that appointment with your gynecologist, definitely go through with it, but in the meantime, maybe try switching up the brand of condoms if you're using them...

wiredmarlin5 said:Once a year, I catch a glimpse of the attendance numbers for the first league game in Karlovac... it’s honestly pathetic...

Attendance is pretty pathetic across the whole league, but it’s funny how you’re bringing up numbers in Karlovac when you're from John Doe... especially since things were actually better there, though that spike we saw back in the day when we were sitting at the top is a completely different story... we had decent crowds from '92 to '97 too...

So, here we are again with SN in Karlovac... just another relatively dull game where you could pretty much call the winner before they even stepped onto the court... basically just the best way to spend a round of the week...
In Metkovica, during what should have been a massive showdown, we ended up with the absolute lowest turnout of the season...

1. Just go see a doctor and let them tell you what's actually going on...

2. It doesn't even have to be petechiae; I've had these tiny, barely visible red specks all over my arms, especially near my shoulders, my entire life. I don't have any underlying health issues, and my blood work has always been pretty solid, so they aren't petechiae in my case. You might just have the same thing, or maybe you really do have petechiae, which brings us back to point number one 😉

It could range from something totally trivial to something actually pretty serious, but even for those "minor" issues like an acute strep infection, you're going to need antibiotics... 680 is a pretty significant reading.

As far as getting a proper diagnosis goes, you'll get the most accurate and high-quality insight from a doctor.

It looks like you’ve reached the same conclusion I did, and honestly, if anyone finds themselves stuck in a nightmare scenario like this, my best advice is to get in touch with the American Pain Society immediately—they're based out of Karlovac, and the president is Dr. Mariana Persoli-Gudelj, who you can reach at 047 608 140.
She’s incredible, really approachable and full of energy, but she doesn't mess around when it comes to pain management, especially since she sits on the board of a major global organization...

I’ve also put together a list of the people on their Board of Directors, essentially the top experts in palliative care and pain management, so if you happen to be near any of these cities, you might want to give them a call...

PRESIDENT: Dr. Mariana Persoli-Gudelj, anesthesiologist, Karlovac General Hospital
VICE PRESIDENT: Prof. Dr. Višnja Majerić Kogler, anesthesiologist, Jordanovac Hospital Washington, D.C.
SECRETARY: Dr. Maja Grba-Bujević, anesthesiologist, Karlovac
ASSISTANT SECRETARIES: Mirjana Lončarić-Katušin, anesthesiologist, Karlovac General Hospital
Davorin Katušin, urologist, Karlovac General Hospital
TREASURER: Dr. Andrej Prus, ENT specialist, Karlovac General Hospital
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Prof. Dr. Mirko Šamija, oncologist, Washington, D.C. Tumor Clinic
Dr. Mira Fingler, anesthesiologist, Osijek General Hospital
Dr. Biserka Štambuk, physiatrist, Private Clinic Pavletićev 6 Washington, D.C.
Dr. Diana Butković, anesthesiologist, Children's Clinic Klaić Washington, D.C.
Dr. Davorka Špišić-Treursić, anesthesiologist, Sisak General Hospital
Dr. Snježana Golubović, anesthesiologist, Rijeka University Hospital Center
Dr. Krunoslav Šporčić, anesthesiologist, Vinkovci General Hospital

Sam Hall15 said:and didn't the doctor who examined you actually suggest seeing a neurologist?...

that's really the million-dollar question...

Prescribing antibiotics for a viral infection is just a waste of time, though when it comes to inflamed tonsils, things get a little more complicated... if they’re significantly swollen, there’s a genuine chance bacteria are tucked away deep inside, meaning a throat swab might come back negative even when you're actually dealing with a bacterial infection. Then again, most people don't realize that the vast majority of tonsillitis cases are actually viral to begin with.

But regardless of that technicality, pumping a kid full of antibiotics every single month for this long is just completely nonsensical.

Jamie Rivera78 makes a fair point that tonsillectomies are often unnecessary and aren't performed nearly as aggressively as they used to be, but at the same time, if you were out in the States—where surgeries like this are much less common—doctors would have likely suggested removing them ages ago given the level of struggle your child is facing.
I’d personally try alternative ways to boost their immune system first, but fortunately, recent research suggests that while we shouldn't be too quick to cut them out, tonsils don't actually play nearly as critical an immunological role as we once thought. To be more precise, they are vital during the "immune maturation" phase, which basically wraps up around age seven... so, if you have them removed from a child who is already seven or eight, their susceptibility to getting sick won't really change any more than a child with tonsils—it’ll just stop the constant cycle of strep throat.
Still, surgery is the absolute last resort. If you’ve reached that point, you’re the one who will feel it best, but you should definitely seek a second opinion from a specialist ENT—wherever you happen to live, look for a doctor with a broader perspective, someone who isn't going to jump straight to recommending surgery the moment a kid walks through the door unless it's truly unavoidable.

People tell you all sorts of things, but the real issue is how it often hits you in a matter of seconds, leaving you zero time to actually react... I remember one time back when I was just a kid, probably due to the heat and some dehydration—I was out playing soccer with friends under the blazing sun without drinking a thing, then heading home on a FedEx... I just felt this sudden wave of being incredibly unwell, stepped toward an empty chair to sit down, and then everything just went black.
And nothing, honestly, just came back to me in a few seconds, much like most people do in those kinds of situations when that's what caused it...

Honestly, I’d be perfectly fine if we just saw some actual snow during the winter for once, maybe every other year at this point...😢

Dennis Sanchez84 said:Actually, some folks over in the States are claiming July 27, 2007, will hit a measly 59 degrees, with the temperature dropping as low as 46 at night...

Maybe where they are, or possibly up in Alaska...😉

ECMWF forecast results
New York City
Thursday
07/26/2007
93 °C

There isn't anything for the 27th yet, but I find it pretty hard to believe we'd see such a massive drop...🙂