Untitled Blog #2046

- I drink a lot of gatorade in addition to water because I strongly suspect I also have POTS (which is likely related to the migraines) and the sodium & electrolytes help with those symptoms. But it doesn’t really seem to do much for my migraines.

- Partner noticed I tend to get migraines, and particularly ones with visual aura, an hour or two after getting back from one of my really hard weekend morning workouts. (I get migraines other times, too—recently, just about every day in the late afternoon—but getting really sweaty was a strangely consistent trigger, especially for auras.) I was making sure to rehydrate with plenty of gatorade and water after, so it probably wasn’t just dehydration.

- Hot & sour soup is a large quantity of sodium-rich fluids that is easy for me to get down even when I’m in pain, so it makes sense that that would be good from a POTS standpoint, but crucially, it also supplies magnesium. Not a ton of it, but guess what gatorade doesn’t have any of? That led him to an article on the American Migraine Association’s website about the suspected link between magnesium and migraines, especially ones with aura.

- So our hypothesis is that on the workout days, I was losing more magnesium than usual, drinking a ton of fluids and electrolytes to recover, but not doing anything to replenish the magnesium. And I can see a pattern on weekdays too, where I forget to eat breakfast, maybe don’t do so great at eating a balanced lunch because my ADHD meds nerf my appetite, and then by 3 or 4 o’clock, after a day of drinking only water and gatorade, the headache starts (and sometimes abates after dinner, depending on what I eat.)

- So far, taking a daily 500mg magnesium tablet with lunch + switching from gatorade to gatorlyte (which does supply magnesium) seems to have helped massively with the headaches, but also with my energy levels and mood? (That could also just be the effect of consistently not having a headache for the first time in weeks, though.)

I’m not a doctor, don’t do anything I say without talking to a medical professional first, etc. However, I did just get back from my first appointment with a new doctor, and she told me magnesium (and vitamin B2) is normally her first recommendation anyway since it has fewer side effects and risks than migraine preventive medications. So since the supplement route seems to be working for me so far, she wants me to start with that and reevaluate in a month or so.

In other words, per doctor’s orders,

The weird Oreos don’t sell… but the weird Oreos just being around and visible make people buy more regular Oreos.

It is once again a thing that was good in a certain situation and then leftists beat it to death.

It comes from "silence equals death," WHICH WAS ABOUT THE AIDS PANDEMIC WHEN RONALD MOTHERFUCKING REAGAN WAS REFUSING TO MENTION IT EXCEPT TO LAUGH ABOUT IT

It literally meant "we, the affected community, have to talk about the fact that it exists because a generation is dying"

Piglins are able to find water in the Nether through condensation and harvesting it from crimson and warped vines, but of course in very little amounts- so its very precious. It's used for potions and in some cases hydration, but Piglins usually don't need that.

Yours is a rare and baffling talent

Image description copied from alt text: the famous "Thou Shalt Not" poster created by Paramount photographer A. L. “Whitey” Schafer. A sexily-dressed woman stands over a cop's body, pointing a gun and smoking a cigarette. A text box in the upper right corner reads:

Thou Shalt Not

Law defeated

Inside of thigh

Lace lingerie

Dead man

Narcotics

Drinking

Exposed bosom

Gambling

Pointing gun

Tommy gun

pretty incredible that google went from this bountiful source of information to just trotting out blatant factual inaccuracies every time you try to use it. i do not use she/her pronouns. GREAT JOB AI

its funny because when i first posted about my non-dysphoric trans way i was VERY hesitant because its complex and nuanced and i was worried people would take it out of context and flatten it into something incorrect. turns out the people were fine. MACHINES on the other hand cant figure it out

to explain again and help the broken AI machine and then i wont have to talk about it anymore: my preferred pronouns are he/him. my real pronouns are she/her. i prefer to use the wrong pronouns

the reason i do this is because i am not dysphoric and dont need every conversation i have to revolve around gender and my spiritual beliefs about gender. i love my male body even if it does not match my soul. it is a VERY COOL SECOND PLACE and i am pumped as heck on it

1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)

2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.