The Vent and Rant Thread

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The worst part is that I can't safely eat onions or garlic.

Oh, mine isn't quite that pissy. Normally, I can eat rather a lot of foods (although I take an acid-reflux pill daily). But for some reason, man, this morning, everything was not happy.

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[PeterT]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The worst part is that I can't safely eat onions or garlic.

Sounds like IBS?

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[Hitch]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Sounds like IBS?

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Oh! You are so right. I also DO keep Bentyl around, just in case--and @ownedbycats, if you don't have Bentyl (or the generic) it's the...well, the cat's meow, so to speak, for IBS. (It's been so long since I had a problematic attack, I actually forgot that I do have that and hell, you could be right, Peter, it could be that. Dang, I'm getting senile.)

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[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Sounds like IBS?

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Yeah. Alliums have a lot of fructans, which is a FODMAP (I can't spell it all, but carbohydrates that don't digest too easily).

[PeterT]

I'm not an IBS sufferer but my wife is. So challenging trying to keep track of what I can and can't use when making meals


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[Hitch]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Yeah. Alliums have a lot of fructans, which is a FODMAP (I can't spell it all, but carbohydrates that don't digest too easily).

Originally Posted by PeterT

I'm not an IBS sufferer but my wife is. So challenging trying to keep track of what I can and can't use when making meals


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I've been really fortunate. I get "distressed" from time to time but now, after 45-ish, it's very rare and I don't see to have any single food or thing that triggers it. Mine was all stress, all the time, not the foods themselves--and even then, it had to be some remarkably huge amount of stress, not the usual.

Today, my damn stomach hurts, in the upper stomach area. Doesn't feel like IBS at all. More like...it's just damned angry at me.

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[graycyn]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Oh, mine isn't quite that pissy. Normally, I can eat rather a lot of foods (although I take an acid-reflux pill daily). But for some reason, man, this morning, everything was not happy.

Hitch

I used to suffer from acid-reflux rather badly. But I didn't want to take a pill. Things that helped:

1) Not eating late.
2) Avoiding eating foods containing fat AND sugar before bedtime.
3) Having a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with lemon juice in water before breakfast every single day.

The last bit has been so effective that even if I occasionally do the first two *bad things*, I rarely have any issue. I talked my husband into the apple cider vinegar (eventually) and now he rarely has any issue either. He looks forward to it, to the point he makes darn sure we never run out of it!

Now, here's how to make the apple cider vinegar bearable.

Take a glass that contains 2 cups of liquid.

Add the juice of a quarter lemon squeezed into the glass. Remove seeds!
Add 2 cups water, (filtered if ya got it)
Add 1 TBSP apple cider vinegar with the mother
Add a pinch of Himalayan pink salt or other salt. (KEY INGREDIENT)
You can also add a pinch of NoSalt (for potassium)
Sweeten with 8-9 drops of liquid Stevia, or other sweetener you prefer. STIR!

Drink through a straw to protect your teeth and rinse your mouth after consuming. Don't brush teeth for a half hour afterward. My concoction is more dilute than some but play it safe.

You can also make lime/lemon infused water overnight in the fridge and substitute that for plain water as a way to make it taste better!

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The worst part is that I can't safely eat onions or garlic.

My mother had that problem, lifelong. Onions in anything was a real treat for the rest of us - and merest hint of garlic would have her heading for the bathroom.

BR

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by graycyn

(snippage for length)

Now, here's how to make the apple cider vinegar bearable.

Take a glass that contains 2 cups of liquid.

Add the juice of a quarter lemon squeezed into the glass. Remove seeds!
Add 2 cups water, (filtered if ya got it)
Add 1 TBSP apple cider vinegar with the mother
Add a pinch of Himalayan pink salt or other salt. (KEY INGREDIENT)
You can also add a pinch of NoSalt (for potassium)
Sweeten with 8-9 drops of liquid Stevia, or other sweetener you prefer. STIR!

(snippage about straws and dental protection)...

You can also make lime/lemon infused water overnight in the fridge and substitute that for plain water as a way to make it taste better!

I'm allergic to citric acid. I can drink the odd bottle of water with some lemon, or I can put a squeeze of lemon/lime on a serving of fish--but I can't drink that much lemon juice daily. Or lime, or oranges, etc. I feel the effects of even a small amount--but if I drink/eat it in an ongoing fashion, it really gets me. (For anybody who gives two s**ts, I get this horribly itchy mouth and if I persist, like an idiot, my skin starts to hurt. Weird, right?)

But thanks! I'm sure that even though I shan't benefit therefrom, others will.

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[PeterT]

Another month, another eye appointment


Just back from another followup post eye surgery.

I went in feeling depressed in that I still can't see clearly from that eye, what I do see as a blur is not aligned with what I see in the left eye.

I come home slightly cheered I'm that it seems the gas bubble injected to hold the retina in place has still not dissipated, and that dissipation can take two months!

So next appointment is mid August (day before my birthday) so let's see how things are then.

In the meantime back to just using the left contact lens, and my eye patch.

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[CRussel]

Glad to hear it's just the bubble being recalcitrant. Hang in there!

[mlewis78]

I had a dentist appointment and was disappointed at first that my usual hygienist was not there. After the cleaning I met a different dentist. The hygienist was having a procedure and my dentist was on vacation. I would have liked to have known so I could reschedule. I had already rescheduled from June 23rd because I'd had Covid starting on June 7th.

The good thing was they the dentist did not find some work that could do on me, but she told me about an upper tooth being fractured and asked what I had eaten that was hard that I bit on? Her guessing was all wrong. No carrots or apples. No bagels. I don't think this is something new. I'd slightly chipped one tooth years ago when I was flossing. So I will have to be careful and eat on the other side. I told her I'd had an omelet the night before for dinner, which was true. I had yogurt for breakfast before I went there.

Tuesday they called me and woke me up to ask me if I could possibly come in an hour earlier than my appointment time. I said that I could possibly but asked why and then I told them I would come in at the time I had scheduled. There is a reason I make afternoon appointments!

[ApK]

If two occurrences in one week can count as a trend, then I've encountered a disturbing new trend:

I received two marketing emails from sites I may have legitimately visited. I would call them spam, but I honestly can't recall if there was opt-out I missed, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

So I use the provided "unsubscribe" links to get off the email lists...and for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to unsubscribe. The forms seem to be specifically designed and worded to confuse and lead to the wrong choice, manipulating consent from people trying to opt out.

Look at the attachments and tell me what I'm supposed to select to unsubscribe from everything.

[issybird]

For the second time this summer that I’m aware, the local pool was cleared for what is technically labeled a fecal release but is popularly called poop in the pool.

It seems overwhelmingly likely it was a daycamper, as they were hanging out in that end of the pool; it wasn’t in the zero-level entry end where it might actually have been an accident from the toddler contingent. When I think of how one smartaleck ruined the day for so many people, I’m thinking a ruined summer might be the appropriate response if the culprit were identified.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by issybird

For the second time this summer that I’m aware, the local pool was cleared for what is technically labeled a fecal release but is popularly called poop in the pool.

It seems overwhelmingly likely it was a daycamper, as they were hanging out in that end of the pool; it wasn’t in the zero-level entry end where it might actually have been an accident from the toddler contingent. When I think of how one smartaleck ruined the day for so many people, I’m thinking a ruined summer might be the appropriate response if the culprit were identified.

Jeeze, that's just disgusting. I sometimes wonder if it's small children, whom can of course have control issues and the parents just don't know what to do, so they run away. I'm with you on the toddler contingent--which is why they REALLY need those sealed-sort-of swimming britches/diapers.

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