Are you talking about taking them at the exact same time or spacing them out?
I drink occasionally, usually when I'm prepping for medical tests. I get super high-strung then, so I'll have a drink beforehand to take the edge off. I've been on Decortin for quite a while now. I haven't noticed any issues or side effects, and I don't think the label says they can't be mixed—it probably just suggests checking with a doctor first. My physician prescribed this stuff, so she knows exactly what my routine looks like; she wouldn't have given it to me if there was a conflict.
Check the pinned PDF files above; they clearly outline what you can and can't post here. Homeopathy and Ayurveda fall under alternative medicine since they aren't officially recognized as standard medical practices in the USA. Therefore, any remedies used in those treatments belong on the Alternative Medicine board.
It doesn't matter how customs handles it. The point is, we have an agreement among ourselves to stick to conventional medicine on this board. If you want to talk about anything else, there’s a separate board specifically for Alternative Medicine where you can discuss all of that freely.
Is it actually normal to just slap one of those clear, waterproof bandages over a wound and stitches without any gauze underneath? And am I really supposed to wait until it starts peeling off on its own before changing it?
This feels insane to me. Either my skin and the wound can't breathe under there, or if there's even a tiny bit of blood, it just sits trapped under the patch—which seems like a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. Plus, the tape sticks to the sutures, so every time I move, the bandage pulls on the stitches and threatens to rip the wound open. These are the actual instructions from my doctor, so I’m wondering who’s the crazy one here. I know back in the day, they used to use waterproof dressings with gauze underneath and you'd change them whenever they got soaked with blood.
Wait, hasn't Bivacyn powder been pulled from the market? Besides, you can grab Tyrosur powder over the counter—it’s basically the same antibiotic anyway.
I think rustymason82 is getting you all mixed up with this idea about grabbing sedatives and antidepressants without a prescription. It’s just not happening. You aren't getting those without a script, period. These drugs are heavily monitored because the tranquilizers are straight-up addictive. Honestly, I don't think anyone is stupid enough to risk their entire career just to score a single box on the black market.
I totally blanked on people with disabilities and the elderly who can't get around easily. My grandma used to go to Mass every single Sunday, but she hasn't been able to for years now because her balance is just shot—she gets so dizzy, she can't stand up, and honestly, she’d probably just end up breaking a hip trying to get out the door. It's like she isn't a "real" Catholic anymore. She just watches the service on TV on Sundays and prays the Rosary every day, but she isn't physically sitting in a church pew. Watching a livestream doesn't count. 😁
I haven't seen any posts from shtefy yet! I'll be sure to keep an eye out for them. kaže: When kids hit those teenage years, home life isn't the only thing shaping who they become. I’m certainly not trying to say that parents aren't important—I know there are plenty of times when what gets said at the dinner table doesn't quite match up with how things are actually being taught, or how the kids are reacting to it all. It’s complicated! But I just wanted to bring up that old saying about how it takes a whole village to raise a child. It really does take more than just one household to guide them through those formative years. I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that! It looks like your message was just the letter "A." Feel free to send over whatever you need me to work on, and I'll get right to it! Since the whole point of religious education classes is to instill certain "moral" values in kids, I honestly feel like they’ve missed the mark big time. It just feels like a huge letdown when you look at the results..
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
So, if you don't get those first three posts in, does that mean you're locked out of everything else too? Just curious how the rules work here! That’s an interesting point. I don't really hold much respect for those three specifically since they just don't mean much to me, but the rest? Those are my core values—the principles I actually live by every single day.
I used to think all the commandments were on equal footing, but it definitely feels like some carry more weight than others within the Catholic Church. You know, you’ve got a point there. It’s funny how often we see those folks we recognize from Congress celebrating the Lord's Day—you see them on the news via PBS—only to catch them later heading straight to a local pub or settling in for a nap after a long afternoon at the tavern. It’s quite the cycle! Ah, values. It’s funny how much they really matter in the long run, isn't it?
I really hope you realize how heavy that statement is. If we’re teaching kids in school that God is more important than people and our relationships with one another—things like not killing, stealing, or lying—then the blame for the rise in violence lies squarely with the Catholic Church. I wouldn't go so far as to say that's what drives the whole thing, but honestly, if you just head into the confessional, get your penance, and say a few prayers, the priest will grant you absolution for your sins. It really makes you wonder about that priest and how much the seal of the confessional protects him from having to report violence.
Good God, it's common knowledge that if you don't go to church every Sunday, you'll be out there murdering, stealing, and sleeping with other people's spouses. 😁
It seems like in Catholicism, the most important thing is how many times you show up to Mass. Everything else is tolerated, but if you don't go, they'd nail you to a stake if they could. Some people completely missed the point of everything. By the way, you can pray at home too, Timma. In this day and age, when people work Fridays and Saturdays without days off, or Sunday is their only free day and they have a mountain of chores to do (you know, food doesn't cook itself; you have to buy groceries and prep them, not to mention everything else, and if you're meal prepping for the week, you're busy all day), this whole counting who went to church and finger-pointing about who is a "real" Catholic is honestly hilarious to me. And get this: just because a lot of people don't attend Mass because they're disgusted with what the Church has become as an institution, doesn't mean they aren't believers. They just can't stand watching a Pope who steals, drinks, and sleeps around—which is an open secret (oh yeah, there are plenty of them, so I guess one should just show up to Mass and listen to lectures on morality from people like that 🤮).
Sorry nosorog, I know this is slightly off-topic, but I had to. This kind of thinking gets under my skin—counting who's right and who's wrong. Next, we'll have to start arguing about Nazis and partisans to wrap the whole story up. It's just exhausting. 🤦
edit: and it's not just violence; I think they don't even have to report murder.
Not in any of them. It’s either a standard prescription or something private; no sane person is going to sell you prescription-only meds without a script.
shadownomad43 said:What would I tell her? If I were Dr. House, I’d probably just tell her: "Look, honey, your clock has run out." But since I'm clearly not Dr. House, I’d go with something a bit more human: "Listen, friend, life can be incredibly cruel. Forget about the radiation, skip the chemo, and honestly, screw the whole pharmaceutical industry. Just hold your husband tight, grab your kids by the hands, and soak up every single second left with them..."
As for you, I’ll offer this: there is a curious little psychological quirk tucked away in our brains. It seems that once we finally stop obsessively agonizing over the things that weigh us down, the problem somehow begins to resolve itself. The power of self-suggestion really does work wonders.
So, you'd basically tell a mother of two to just give up because they'll find a new mom once she's gone? 😬
Aside from being against organ donation, chemo, and radiation, what else are you against? Do you skip antibiotics for a bacterial infection and just let nature take its course? Because that sounds like the advice you're giving everyone else. 😁 I'm guessing after all those major surgeries, you didn't turn down the antibiotics. If I were a doctor, I certainly wouldn't operate on someone who refuses the necessary meds to prevent life-threatening complications post-op.
Grace Richardson24 mentioned she used surgery to manage pain, and in another thread, she mentions spine issues—so I don't think we're talking about minor cosmetic tweaks here. She even had an ulcer surgically treated. Maybe all those procedures were corrective, who knows. 😁
I think some things are just impossible to wrap your head around until you're actually standing in the middle of it.
Take kidney failure, for example. You’re faced with a choice: spend the rest of your life hooked up to a dialysis machine, or get a transplant. Some people are stuck doing dialysis four times a week. You can't plan anything; your entire existence just revolves around that schedule. Traveling? Forget about it. And don't even get me started on the other complications that come with dialysis. Just the thought of having a catheter shoved into your vein constantly gives me the creeps, and that's just one small part of what these people endure. Imagine being thirsty and not being allowed to drink water whenever you want because your fluid intake is strictly limited between sessions. To me, that sounds like torture. I don't know about you. If you have a transplanted kidney, you can live a normal life. Sure, you have to watch what you eat, stay on top of your meds, and show up for regular checkups, but your quality of life is worlds better than it was before the transplant when everything was reduced to just home and dialysis. Look at Klassnić as a current example. The guy played soccer for the national team, traveled the world, had kids—he lived like a normal person thanks to a transplant. I'm sure he preferred that over his situation now, having to deal with dialysis several times a week where everything depends on it. He can't travel easily, and he can't do the big things he used to do when he had that functioning kidney.
And yeah, those organs have an expiration date. If someone asked you if you wanted to die today or in ten years, you'd probably say, "Whatever, let's go with today." Is ten years nothing to you? 🤷 And don't even get me started on when children are involved. No one could tell me they wouldn't dig through dirt with their bare hands and feet—they'd agree to anything just to give a child a fighting chance at life.
Where are you getting this idea that people aren't respecting choices? I respect them. Period. Everyone has the right to decide what happens to their own body and their own health. If someone doesn't want to receive or give anything, that is entirely their prerogative. I haven't noticed anyone attacking people who think like you and wouldn't donate organs—and look, sorry, I don't read every single thread from page one in chronological order, so I missed what was said in the first post. Besides, you managed to find that specific post to reply to, which was written 13 years ago. I'm not okay with that approach either, just so we're clear.
Why are people reacting to your posts and claiming they're judging you or rejecting your view? It's because of how you jumped into the topic and the way you wrote it. If you had just calmly stated, "I wouldn't donate my organs," nobody would have even blinked, let alone started an argument with you. You're the one who started in with this aggressive talk about "artificially extending life." People were annoyed by that, not by your stance on not donating. Your body, your rules.
John Baker, where exactly are you seeing a lack of respect for anyone's views here?
I wouldn't even be weighing in on this if I hadn't read how people involved in organ donation—both donors and recipients—are actually just being selfish, artificially dragging out life and living in pure agony. And then you have someone like you, who is literally going under the knife to ease your own pain and improve your quality of life, turning around and judging everyone else who chooses to do things differently.
If someone wants to donate their organs, let them. What's with all this preaching about who gets to do what with their own body or the body of their next of kin? If you find yourself in a position where you need an organ, feel free to say no. Nobody is going to force you at gunpoint; in fact, there are so many people on those waiting lists that nobody cares whether you take it or not.
And as for who is a sick person, who is bouncing between hospitals, who is suffering through pain, or who has stared death in the face—you have no clue. You don't know who the person on the other side of the screen is, so using that as an argument is just plain stupid.
Benjamin Rivera4 said:My son received a liver from a young man who passed away around age 25. I find myself thinking about his parents all the time—how, in the absolute darkest moment of their lives, they chose to show such incredible humanity and ended up saving several lives in the process. It feels like a moral duty to me, a real obligation, to make sure I sign my own donor card too.
On another note, regarding pediatric transplants... there are people out there today living perfectly healthy, normal lives because they underwent liver transplants as children twenty years ago. We don't see many older recipients because, frankly, those procedures weren't even attempted much back then. But transplant medicine today? It’s nothing short of miraculous—the techniques and medications have come such a long way.
I’m not going to waste much breath on user "shadownomad43"... I'll just leave this here. ☕
shadownomad43 says:
If the One who created us had intended for us to have the ability to swap or donate organs, He probably would have thrown in some patented zippers along with everything else He gave us—or maybe He would have just given our organs the ability to regenerate so we wouldn't even need donations in the first place.
Maybe the One who created us actually wanted us to learn how to step up ourselves—as human beings—and figure out how to replace an organ when it starts to fail.
I read your story over at RiD and I am so glad everything went well and your son is doing fine. 👍 Don't pay any mind to these kinds of stories or the judgments that come with them; there will always be people with all sorts of twisted perspectives.
Taking any kind of therapy or undergoing surgery is apparently "interfering with nature." Fine. By that logic, we should just toss out everything modern medicine offers and head straight back to the Middle Ages where we can all die from a simple infection.
So, for those of you who are against organ donation, do you actually have that in writing? You need to realize that under US law, if you haven't explicitly opted out, it’s basically assumed you consent. If you don't make a formal declaration, they can take your organs after you pass. 😁 On top of that, if there isn't an official statement on file saying you're not a donor, your next of kin can still make the call to donate your organs once you're gone.
Since you claim to know these cases, then I guess that's just how it is. There aren't people out there getting better because shadownomad43 doesn't know any. 👍 Honestly, for someone claiming to be a sick person, you show zero empathy for anyone else dealing with different conditions that don't look like yours.
And I'm done arguing with you. Whatever, go ahead and decide everything for yourself—as if everyone else gets a say in whether your life is artificially extended just so you can live in agony. My God, this forum... you really have to love it. 😁
I’ll let you in on a little secret. This is an online forum. You have zero clue who is actually sitting on the other side of the screen, what their life story is, or what kind of hell they’re dealing with every single day. 😉
Look, it's fine if you're getting surgery to manage your own pain. But apparently, it's "wrong" for someone battling leukemia to receive a bone marrow transplant to cure them and finally stop hurting? That's some top-tier logic right there. 🙏 It's the same deal with kidney failure—people suffer immensely, and a transplant can fix it. Does that not count? Or does the math only work when it's your pain on the line?
Where on earth are you getting the idea that transplant recipients are living in some kind of constant agony? People live perfectly normal lives—they work, they have sex, they have kids, they hit the gym...
In what way is their quality of life any worse than yours? You’re out here saying you’ve got twelve more surgeries ahead of you. It seems pretty selfish to extend someone else's life with a donated organ, so how exactly is what you're doing not selfish? I'm quoting you here: but actually, the selfish ones are those who try to "forcefully" and "artificially" extend that expiration date we were all assigned at birth, at any cost, including through organ transplants. So why undergo surgery? Why bother improving your quality of life or extending it at all?
Look, let's be clear: I'm totally fine with someone choosing not to donate organs or refusing to receive one. But this whole stance of yours feels a bit hypocritical. On one hand, you're calling others selfish for wanting to stay alive and feel better, yet on the other, you're doing the exact same thing just through a different method.
shadownomad43 said:Here is my take on the matter... To be perfectly clear, I am firmly opposed to any kind of explantation, implantation, transplantation, or amputation. And before anyone accuses me of being selfish—which would be quite the contradiction, given that (believe it or not...) I am a regular blood donor. Why limit myself to just blood? Because blood is something the body can actually replenish.
If the Architect who designed us had seen fit to include a mechanism for replacing or donating organs, they probably would have built in some sort of biological "reset button" alongside all our other gifts; perhaps organs would simply regenerate, making the whole concept of donation obsolete.
Instead, we were left with the umbilical cord. It’s a bit poetic, really—we are essentially living on a timer that starts ticking the very moment that cord is cut at birth.
So, I don't see people who agree with me as being selfish. If anything, the true selfishness lies with those who try to bypass the natural order through transplants, desperately attempting to artificially extend a deadline that was clearly set long ago.
Would you really feel the same way if it were your child dying, and they could be saved by someone else's kidney, liver, or bone marrow?
You mentioned you're against implants and stuff like that. So what, you don't go to the dentist? No fillings? No crowns? That's basically just putting something artificial into your body to extend the lifespan of a tooth. It's the exact same thing.