Posts by Jose Miller3

Emergency. URGENT!

Rather than cluttering up all the different threads on the forum...

Who gives a damn.

Just do your job—get that paycheck, build up your 401k, and honestly, that old hag can't touch you in any real way... screw her ☕

So, what exactly are you looking for from this forum? 🤷

Look, there's no way you're passing these exams while dealing with concussion symptoms that serious—and let's just pray that's all it is 🤷 . Your memory might snap back in a few days, or maybe it won't... who knows? But if you don't go see a doctor, you're flying blind. You won't know what's actually going on, and you'll miss out on whatever treatment could help you bounce back faster and hopefully dodge the worst of it.

Honestly, nobody on this board can give you any advice that's actually going to help you pass these tests while you're dealing with something this intense—hopefully just a concussion. Repeating "tests take forever, but I have to pass" isn't going to magically fix your memory.

Like someone already mentioned to you, if you've got enough cash for a ski trip, you definitely have enough to book a private appointment at a clinic with an MRI machine and a neurologist who actually knows how to read the results properly. I'm guessing if you book something today, you could probably get in for an MRI and see a specialist by Monday... maybe for a couple hundred bucks to start.

So, this guy's been a whole week now—right after finishing his degree—just crashing for 11 hours a day?

I swear, we’ve officially crowned a new heavyweight champion of overdoing it 😬
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I mean, look, in my honest opinion, it’s totally worth hitting up a doctor just to make sure you aren't dealing with hypothyroidism or maybe some anemia 🤷

because honestly—whether it's one or the other—we're talking about stuff that's pretty easy to manage... but if you ignore it, things can get messy fast 🤷

Either they're just being lazy, or they're dealing with some nasty hypothyroidism...

Honestly, they should just go get their thyroid levels checked 🤷

There’s just nothing on Meta 🤷 to actually get an email address or some kind of "real" way to talk to them...

Why is he acting like this is some massive emergency that just can't wait until Monday? 🤷 And honestly, it's for such a tiny amount of money, too.

I wouldn't even think about sending him anything on a Saturday—I’d wait until I actually see the cash hit my account first.

bluecyclist64 said:I think Angela Merkel should be the one handling pension payouts for those Wehrmacht remnants. After all, they were the ones fighting for the Reich anyway.

Just picture little Zoko trying to explain the whole situation to her... 🤣 🤣 🤣

come on, does Leah seriously look like someone who could actually manage to sign up for and navigate an online forum? :besmisleno vrijeđanje bareta:

nah, she really isn't 😬

So, look, I actually know quite a few public figures who hang out here using pseudonyms—just like everyone else—and who end up getting insulted in various threads 🤷

I can name at least ten of them... and honestly, none of those situations have anything to do with my former role as an admin 🤷

The guy got banned because he decided to take some incredibly stupid thread on Reddit way too seriously—trying to tell chickens they needed to go get their eyes checked just because they commented that Rihanna has thick hips 🤣

Man, you really see some weird stuff on here sometimes... 😬

bluecanyon643 said:Let's at least try to maintain some sense of class here...

Well, I think we're definitely keeping things classy 🤷—honestly, this community has done a pretty solid job of balancing that out for years now, if not forever...

Do I really need to provide examples for this?

Yeah, you do. Because if that one "total lowlife" is your go-to example, then you're completely off base. If there are way, way worse people out there than that, then you're right—but then I don't get why you aren't just reporting those even worse cases to the mods, who have always been the ones cleaning up
the place...

But I truly expected more from you....

Sorry I let you down 😬

And honestly, I'm also sorry you still aren't catching my point...

honestly, this whole thread needs to be handled one way and one way only:

Michelle Alvarez8 and I are totally on the same page here.

that's more than enough proof—it's bulletproof, really—that anyone who isn't with us is just dead wrong... completely and utterly wrong ☕

bluecanyon643 said:I don't buy it. If someone actually had the guts to drop a comment like that using their real full name—well, then maybe it’d be appropriate. And saying stuff like but this is just a forum isn't some kind of valid excuse. Look, if you're gonna talk trash and want to be a coward about it, at least have the decency to do it under your own name.

I honestly expected more from a regular like you, especially since your posts are usually pretty solid.
So, maybe try applying that logic to something like the PZ subforum... then it might actually click for you. 😉

I mean, seriously—if I call you a total Neanderthal, you're gonna take that as a "negative comment" instead of a straight-up insult? Give me a break 🤣

You completely missed the entire point of what this forum is as a medium 🤷

Just picture the forum like a local pub where we're all hanging out, grabbing a beer or a hard cider.

And yeah, in a pub (just like on a forum), it's totally fine to say that Mark Twain is a complete idiot 🤷

Asking for that to be banned is just insane—it's just as crazy as that rule where you can't go over to the politics section and just write "Banditić" when talking about the Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Luckily, there are still subforums where people haven't lost their minds yet and we can actually have some fun 🤷

(btw, did you seriously just compare the banter on ŽK to the stuff posted over in natural science? because if you did, I don't even know why I'm bothering talking to you if you can't tell the difference between actual trolling and just messing around 🤦 )

EDIT: Just realized you don't get the distinction between insulting other users in a debate versus insulting public figures like Mark Twain... just another 🤦:

bluecanyon643 said:So, calling someone a total lowlife is somehow okay in your book?

calling someone a lowlife🤷 is pretty much what anyone aiming for a public profile needs to be able to take lying around...

just part of the job, honestly. It's a perfectly valid way to react on a forum like 🤷
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And please, what "facts" did you actually use to justify that in your post?

Since when does having an opinion on anything require you to back it up with hard facts just to justify it?

An opinion? A stance? Just a vibe?

Btw. there's a massive difference between being critical and straight-up insulting someone. I'd think a moderator/admin should know that.

Yeah, well, calling someone a lowlife definitely falls on this side of that line... 🤷

vividsailor7 said:I’ve been sitting here scrolling through these posts, reading every single word, and I honestly cannot believe my eyes. Am I misreading this? Did I miss something huge? Because if I didn't, I am absolutely floored by these responses. Just... wow.
I’d go so far as to say that, out of practically nothing, a pheochromocytoma has managed to manifest right here.

Why don't you guys actually lay it all out? I mean, give us the full picture. Tell us exactly why you ended up needing a CT scan in the first place—what were the symptoms? What did your blood work look like, and what was going on with your urinalysis? Don't just leave us hanging; we need the specifics.

You aren't providing a single shred of actual evidence, which makes it crystal clear to me that you're intentionally burying the results.
There’s really no point in getting an ultrasound for adrenal gland issues. It’s basically a waste of time.

Are you kidding me? Go ahead, go straight to surgery! She hasn't provided a single shred of actual data. Honestly, everything she just laid out doesn't even qualify as "information"—it’s absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch.
First off, you absolutely need to see an endocrinologist. Honestly, the fact that you’re even bringing up surgery right out of the gate tells me everything I need to know about how little you understand this situation.

I mean, seriously, how on earth can you be throwing around a diagnosis of pheochromocytoma without a single CT scan, or blood and urine tests for catecholamines—adrenaline, noradrenaline, metanephrines, VMA—or any other adrenal hormone panels? We need the full picture: cortisol, aldosterone, ACTH, DHEA K, sodium, potassium, glucose levels, and so on.
Other possibilities exist, like Cushing's syndrome (hypercortisolism) or Connov syndrome (hyperaldosteronism), but in this case, we're most likely looking at an
INCIDENTALOMA—which, quite frankly, translates to "nothing." These are typically small, well-defined masses with lower absorption rates than actual glandular tissue.
A pheochromocytoma, by contrast, is usually larger, around 3-5 cm, and almost always originates in the adrenal medulla.
Now, adrenal carcinomas are hormonally active about 50 percent of the time, but those present as massive tumor masses with very specific characteristics, like irregular calcification or necrosis.
And don't forget, metastases are always a possibility—most commonly spreading from melanoma, breast cancer, lung cancer, or kidney cancer.

You're not wrong 🤷

I'm just sitting here in regret...

I don't know why, I guess I just blindly trusted that diagnosis—even though looking back now, I can see it was super vague and, honestly, kind of a total shot in the dark.

My bad.

But look, I still think if someone is dealing with those kinds of horrific, unexplained pains, they should seriously consider exploratory surgery 🤷 provided that the cause for the pain really hasn't been found yet—not just when someone says, "well, I saw a bunch of doctors and my tests were fine," when they actually just went to their GP for a basic checkup and then hit up the ER for an EKG and some heavy-duty painkillers before being sent home.🤷

just go get the surgery done 🤷

maybe that pain is actually coming from it—so once the surgery is over, you might finally be free of it...
or maybe it isn't, but honestly, there's no way to know for sure until that tumor is gone.

try to track down a really sharp surgeon—someone who won't just rush through it, but will actually take a look and see if that pain is being caused by something else, assuming it isn't just the pheochromocytoma on your adrenal gland.

Honestly, you should just head to your primary care doctor... they’ll probably have a much better idea than some random anonymous people on a forum about which tests you actually need to figure out what's going on.