October 2022 archive

23
Oct
2022

I told you all that I would get around to these posts…

categories: personal; word count: 358 words

Most people do this the other way — they claim that kratom (why did WordPress try to auto-correct this to tomato? why?) is less safe to take than phenibut, and they attempt to sell people on how much safer they think phenibut is. But that isn’t something that I do, nor is it something that I will ever do. Continue reading.

I will never recommend phenibut to anyone for any reason. It has shown up on people’s death certificates as the primary cause of death — phenibut toxicity, or polypharmacy with phenibut as the primary contributor — cascading from there, but phenibut is the primary problem in these cases and has been the primary cause of death. For those of you who don’t know what phenibut is, it is a nootropic that is currently legal in all states in the United States (where I live) and is commonly taken for anxiety, depression, and in some instances insomnia to help people sleep. Although many people claim that phenibut is well-tolerated, it is a full agonist of the GABA-B receptor — this means that it crosses the blood-brain barrier — and tolerance is very easily developed to this drug, meaning that people inadvertently add more to whatever dose it is that they are taking, and this quickly has the potential to become dangerous. People can add one pill to their regimen and swiftly pass out, go into a coma, and then die. All of this can happen over taking one more pill.

Some people also have seizures before they get to the point where they enter a coma and… you know.

I’m actually surprised that more research hasn’t been done into this by the FDA and that more movement hasn’t been made to schedule phenibut. When I get to writing about kratom in here this is probably going to make sense to more of you, but the heightened risks in comparison to almost everything that I could and more than likely would write about in here coupled with the failure to even take interest in phenibut (other countries have) continues to boggle my mind. Sadly it might take more deaths to get the States’ attention.

22
Oct
2022

This is what I got for my European heritage!

categories: personal; word count: 202 words

I wish I had the foresight to make the screenshots the same size when I took them, but one of the few pitfalls about the Genomelink site is the ease at which these were… not, to screenshot. However, at least my blog lets me shrink them down to size to make posting about them easier… I’m thankful for that. (And this gives me another chance to play the game of “laugh at the British heritage that I have little to none of, because I am primarily Scandinavian and that is very likely Scottish and Welsh heritage lumped into the British percentile. Multiple other tests that I have done have not picked up detectable British DNA, and of all things, GEDmatch did not pick up British DNA in my ancestry. I could write a completely separate post on “the British thing” that some ancestry apps and websites… do, but I have other posts that I want to write when my migraines consistently recede even just a bit, so I will get to that in due time. All in due time, my friends.)

These posts will be fun to come back to and make when my migraines are even a bit more under control!

21
Oct
2022

Just saying things for the sake of saying things.

categories: personal; word count: 448 words

At some point I’m going to want to go back into some of the about me pages that I have on here (which I don’t look forward to, which isn’t going to be fun because of how subsequent WordPress updates have changed how you can edit pages and widgets… what happened to set it and forget it?) and update them with new genealogy results, although WordPress making things less intuitive and more difficult to navigate isn’t going to make that fun at all. I like the fact that a lot of things are matching up running the same file (Ancestry) through various tests, because that speaks to the accuracy of the results and increases the likelihood that those results are accurate. I’ll get into those in later updates to this blog, because some of the results of those were surprising — as it was, I found out that one of my parents was adopted by their grandparents to try and hide the fact that their mother got pregnant with them while they were a teenager (and I’m sure that the wording of this makes it completely obvious which parent that was, although I’m not going to come out and say it for the sake of maintaining… some kind of civility on this blog, as that side of the family has not directly contacted me in some time now and I would personally like it to stay that way).

I am currently dying my hair colors that I have wanted to dye my hair for several months, and when the dye has completely settled in — for this round, as one of the colors is extremely light and will quite likely have to be re-dyed at periodic intervals to get it to “stick” — I may trim my bangs and split ends as well, and I may shorten my hair for the sake of shortening it. That will certainly make it easier to brush and deal with, and that will definitely help me avoid some of the migraines that I might otherwise have had and caused by virtue of brushing longer hair. Not only is this something that I want to do because it’s something that I want to do (even though my hair has been impervious to bleach and dye in general, for as many years back as I can possibly hope to remember), it makes me snicker in a bit of a petty way because of the petty people that complain online about the people who “burn” and “fry” their hair and “dye it funny colors”. Sometimes I wonder what business it is of theirs what colors other people dye their hair, but for the most part I don’t care.

20
Oct
2022

I mean, I should have expected this at some point.

categories: personal; word count: 393 words

I found out that the urgent care clinic that I had been going to for a decade… no longer takes my insurance.

So there’s that.

Strangely enough, I am feeling better, but I did make several calls in the interim to try and figure out where I would go if I needed to go to urgent care, or where I would take the kids. Right now, we have the same insurance, just… different kinds if that makes sense. The good thing is that more urgent care facilities in this area take the kids’ insurance than do mine. I’m glad for that. The bad thing, of course, probably doesn’t need to be spelled out here — not as many facilities take my insurance. I’m sure that I’ll find a facility that does, though, even if I have to commute to one of the smaller satellite cities around this city. I might just call my insurance themselves and explain this situation to them though, as they have generally been extremely helpful making sure that I have and retain access to services in the past. Right now all my pain management clinic has been having to do is to fight my insurance to get approval on an MRI (or, failing that, some kind of scan) on my neck and shoulders to ensure that I am not developing arthritis, osteopenia or osteoporosis — this is something that I am at risk for due to necessary oral steroid use and me simply being me. I’d rather know about it now if that actually is the case (even at the “ripe old age” of thirty-six) so that it can appropriately be medicated, especially as it relates to head and neck or shoulder pain. Just tell me now.

The light switch in my bedroom had to be replaced because it actually arced out of the blue, too. So I got to dodge that — literal arcing. That was fun, and by fun I mean not fun. I came into my bedroom one afternoon and went to turn the fan on, having turned the overhead light off choosing to rely on my lamp and ring light to reduce migraine pain, and that was when it arced at me. I immediately turned it off. Several hours later, it was fixed. That could have gone a completely different direction though and actually hurt me, or worse…

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