Giving 5/3/1 a try, it's a very barebones minimalist program. If anyone wants a copy of the book, lemme know, I've got the pdf. My current version of it >Monday (Overhead Press day) >OHP 5/3/1 >Lat Pulldowns 5x10 (will become chinups as I get better at chinups, right now I'm heavier than I am strong) >Dips 5x10
>Tuesday (Deadlift day) >Deadlift 5/3/1 >Bulgarian Split Squats 5x10 (these are absolutely brutal, highly recommend) >DB Side Bends 4x20
Kroc Rows, btw, are a gosh darn manmaker. Good Lord, approaching the end of your set, your grip's been failing for the last 6 reps, you've got 3 more to go, your lats feel like they're gonna just blow clean off, it's a beautiful lift.
Dips twice a week is pretty brutal too, I'd never really done them before, but they give a really nice pump.
>>405399 Same as getting stung in the abdomen by a bluebottle, I suppose? It also feels like you constantly need to use the bathroom but stings as well.
Ayyy, managed 5 reps at 95% of last month's one-rep max. Means a roughly 35 pound improvement to my ORM in 3 weeks, not shabby at all. Still babyweight though.
>>405582 Don't feel bad about using 'baby' weight when doing Olympic lifting. That shit is intense and baby steps is how you get better, you should already know that.
>>405880 Spot-reduction is a myth, your genetics dictate where your flab ends up and what order you lose it in. I have very lean, defined arms and legs, a slight gut, and then huge disgusting love handles. Sucks brah.
But yeah, if you've got fat in an area you don't like, only way to lose it is to lose fat. Eat less or move more.
>>408335 I had to pop in for a minute at like midnight because my elbow cancer was seriously flaring up from all the pressing i do and i skipped curls earlier. Really nice. Very quiet.
I hold a weird simultaneous state of self-deprecation and self-confidence, so I feel I really need a reality check or two. After exams, I think I'll make a post in /soc/'s "rate" threads. Any other suggestions?
Also, been skipping the gym for over a month due to exams (I tell myself) and probably lost a kg or two due to mild stress. Fug.
Starting two weeks from today, I begin BUILDING THE MONOLITH https://jimwendler.com/blogs/jimwendler-com/101078918-building-the-monolith-5-3-1-for-size Including the diet plan (at least 1.5 lbs of beef + 12 whole eggs per day). Probably gonna get fat. Probably gonna get some serious tendinitis from all that volume. Definitely gonna get stronker. I'm so excited.
>>409038 True confidence can only come from within. Exercise might be helpful in building confidence only in the positive effect it will have on your mental state--external validation from things like /soc/ won't make you feel any better other than for a short and ultimately hollow moment. Exercise and eat right because they make you feel better, or to look the way you want to look, not to become "attractive" which is a nonsensical and subjective thing anyway. Learning to love yourself will do far more to make you attractive than getting rid of your love handles.
If you can't find internal validation from self-improvement and becoming the person you want to be, you might want to talk to a psychiatrist about your confidence issues as well, since they could be indicative of depression or anxieties that should be treated with drugs. But keep in mind that you'll generally feel an overall improvement of mental state from healthier lifestyle, too.
Starting a loose diet, more of just meal planning. I under-eat, so I've planned out times to have meals and a few choices of things to have for those meals.
My appetite has decreased to a point that I eat only 1 or 2 meals a day now. I still don't have the energy to get back to the gym to work on my cardio.
One black pooping isn't a sign of impending critical health issues is it (Just something you should watch out for continuing)?
Been sick the past weak with a kidney/bladder infection or something and on the antibiotics, not been eating so much so I wasn't pooping, only a couple of tiny lumps put out like twice (which were the normal brown color) during that period.
Today, its the end of my course of antibiotics, not totally 100% but feelings much better than back then, has an actual meal and everything to herald my return to health. Had a proper lengthy shit this afternoon and just had another one tonight which not overly painful but a bit of a strain after so long without, and I look down noticing the water is too clouded/dark to see the leaving but you think maybe that's partly the urine as well. I wipe and take a look at the paper and the smear on the paper is a really dark brown-black which is worrying.
Black poop is sign of blood in it right, but is it possible to just have this sort of thing as a one-off without a serious cause? Like maybe its just something that happened from all that illness and now my body is starting up again its the dross getting worked out of the system?
>>416086 >Black poop is sign of blood in it right, but is it possible to just have this sort of thing as a one-off without a serious cause? Like maybe its just something that happened from all that illness and now my body is starting up again its the dross getting worked out of the system?
It is entirely possible for poop to be black without being full of dried blood. For example, pepto bismol will turn poop black.
The water should probably be turning a little red if the poop is full of blood, even if the poop itself is black.
That said, the age doesn't matter much--ulcers are one of the number one killers of young men, but on the other hand, antibiotics would be the prescription for curing an ulcer, so if you were on antibiotics you don't need to be as concerned.
But talk to your doc if you're concerned. Also, if your urine is so dark it's making the water hard to see, you should probably be drinking more water--diarrhea and other stomach bugs often get you dehydrated quick, so if you haven't been drinking extra water to compensate, you're probably low.
>>419070 Cheese is made out of milk, so it should have some A, D, and B12 vitamins, plus calcium. It should be healthy for your bones. However I do not recommend too much of it, since cows are fed a lot of estrogen to make them produce more milk, and this filters down the food chain - if you drink a lot of milk or eat a lot of cheese while your body is developing, it will give you a more womanly figure. It's one of the reasons why Japanese women went from flat as a board to being titty monsters in the last generation, since estrogen was introduced into cows' diet sometime in the 80s I believe.
Either way if your problem is struggling to stay awake and feeling tired and irritable, then I'm guessing you need more C vitamins. It is most commonly found in citruses, so eat more oranges, orange/lemon juice, etc. Also, around here early winter is tangerine season, which I personally really like (they are mini oranges, like a snack version of them, and the Clementine variant is seedless and very sweet too). B6 and B7 vitamin also helps, for that you just need to eat more meat.
>>419073 Japan is effeminate sissies because they got fucked in the ass so hard by AMERICA, which is still an improvement over being cannibalistic imperial gremlins.
>>419090 People in the west can grow mustaches and beards and they eat way more of the stuff, I don't think you can blame chemicals in the food that turn the freakin frogs gay.
>>419260 Gay frog water is also turning more and more children hyper allergic to fucking everything. Instead of making everything glutten-free, solve the actual problem. That being what the FUCK causes all this sickness in people for no reason.
>>419274 Don't take it too srsly, I mean you cannot have more and more hyper allergic children being born for not reason at all. It has to be the food.
>>419276 Or maybe it's just poor upbringing and an unhealthy diet? I mean I had eczema for years as a child, and it turned out to be an allergy as well - I was allowed to eat so much cocoa products that I got allergic to it. It took years to diagnose. I grew out of it eventually, and in the mean time developed a taste for white chocolate (it was cocoa free).
I happened to walk 4.5 miles back from the main city from a mental health appointment (because I was frustrated and confused by buses) and apparently even if you do that daily it isn't worth shit.
seriously though, the coronavirus is insanely overblown by the media. It's an epidemic in china because it's an incredibly overpopulated place where they eat the dogs off the streets they shit on. Anywhere else, it's not worse than a seasonal flu outbreak.
>>419750 The scaremongering is indeed real. The news site I frequently read had something like 5 pages worth of coronavirus related news only, on the front page. It's a left-wing "liberal" portal, though. The conservative ones only had 2-3 articles out of 10-20. Truth is that so far this virus only killed about as many people as regular flu does every year.
Getting everyone freaked about cities getting quarantined is a way to make people buy excess food and supplies. So in the end fucking nothing will happen, but the supermarkets will make a killing after the panicking people clean them out.
The bad part about that is that you only need a handful of crazies buying up everything; other people will follow suit out of necessity once the aisles go empty (once food goes scarce, you'll have no other choice than to stock up, due to the shortage). This is a self-feeding cycle that does the market good.
>>419752 Well newspapers/outlets do it for the same reason clickbait exists, sensationalism about a thing gets people to buy newspapers or click links and draw attention rather than more light-handed coverage.
Your personal feelings about it seem rather American tribal
>>419810 >>419811 The important bit isn't that both are from china, it's that coronavirus is a strain of SARS. It's why China handled it so fast and brutally, because they have experience with it.
>>419816 Who know, I can understand people who are buying lots of hand sanitizer or antibiotic soap but...
Maybe its just part of general hoarding? Maybe they are also buying alot of non-perishable food and bottled water thus expecting not to leave the house at all for a lengthy period of time.
Shopping sprees seem to have started over here, but I go to a slightly more expensive store and that one is practically untouched. The cheaper stores have more empty racks than I've ever seen - they are not COMPLETELY empty, but you can notice that one or two spaces are cleared out, which is something I haven't seen ever.
>>419835 Things are quite similar to that over here.
The slightly more expensive supermarket doesn't have any loaves of bread or other specific items but the cheaper one has way way more empty shelves. Newsagents still have day-to-day essentials on the shelves despite being so much smaller.
>>419835 Grab an extra item or two every trip. Panic is irrational, you're lucky you still have the expensive stores untouched. t. i just want to cook some pasta, man
My mum was going to visit today but I e-mailed her last night asking if we should put put it off, just got in contact with her and she had been thinking the same thing.
Left the house this morning and there was a crowd of people at the big store across the road all clustered together waiting for it to open, twits, if they are so scared they are panic-buying to stock up they should at least realize they shouldn't all be standing together should-to-shoulder in a group of strangers.
I don't get the panic spending. The fuck are you gonna do with 20 kilos of flour? It'll go bad before you have the chance to use it, unless you plan on cooking stuff every single day, and in that case you need a lot of other stuff that will go bad even sooner.
And it's not like stores will suddenly close or go empty.
>>419838 >twits, if they are so scared they are panic-buying to stock up they should at least realize they shouldn't all be standing together should-to-shoulder in a group of strangers. Literally this. >>419839 >And it's not like stores will [...] go empty. Parts of it can, the panic spending creates a feedback loop. Probably not 'going empty', but creating a perceived shortage, prompting more hoarding from those who didn't buy earlier.
>>419842 The British government has ordered the closing of pubs and restaurants to combat the spread (not sure who was dumb enough to still be going to them). Presume that also includes small takeaway places? Maybe they still deliver.
Reporting no cases is very misleading. If a country does no tests, it will report no cases. For example: - New York does the most tests, so they have the most cases. - Germany counts deaths as those only caused by COVID-19 and nothing else, if the victim has another illness next to coronavirus, they will count it as a death caused by (some other illness). Consequently they have the lowest death cases in Europe, even though they are not faring any better.
An african shithole of a country will most likely just have no tests done, and the amount of deaths caused by this virus won't even register next to the death tolls caused by a near constant state of civil wars, famine, ebola, HIV, etc. Same reason why China only reported a hundred thousand cases (they stopped tallying and started cremating people) or India not getting any cases so far.
Fact is that as of now the virus is everywhere, chances are even you might have it.
>>419918 >An african shithole of a country will most likely just have no tests done, and the amount of deaths caused by this virus won't even register next to the death tolls caused by a near constant state of civil wars, famine, ebola, HIV, etc. I got curious and looked up a list of recent epidemics. In 2000 onwards, the epidemics which had over 1000 reported deaths affected: >2008: Zimbabwe, cholera >2009: Worldwide, swine flu/H1N1 >2010: Haiti, cholera (ongoing) >2011: Congo, measles (ongoing) >2013: West Africa/Worldwide, ebola >2015 : India, swine flu/H1N1 >2016: Yemen, cholera (ongoing) >2018: Congo, Uganda, ebola (ongoing) >2019: Congo, measles (ongoing) >2019: Asia-Pacific, Latin America, dengue fever >2019: Worldwide, COVID-19 (ongoing)
>>419920 Those are just the reported deaths. Do you think every illness related death in Africa gets reported? They don't even get diagnosed. Things like malaria there are like the common cold over here.
My fitness is suffering because I can't do my full daily walk each day. Even in the times of Lockdown there's too many other people out on the streets or the beach for me to be comfortable being out long.
So /baw/ I just finished a course of Omeprazole and was not aware of the "rebound acid hypersecretion" that hits you after you stop taking it. Right in the middle of this bullshit about a super flue I'm being fucked by my guts ejaculating acid and it apparently lasts for 2 weeks after you stop. More than a week and a half to go then before it should settle down.
>>420007 Well, Covid is just a super powerful flu that attacks your lungs, while ebola liquifies your insides, so that's kind of expected.
And when the fuck did Soul Calibur turn into Dragon Ball Z? I used to like it because it had the most realistic and fluid character movements I've ever seen in a game (not counting the stupid shit like Cervantes teleporting or the gimp moonkwalking on all fours). This anime posing is pretty fucking stupid and kinda breaks up the fluidity of the game. But then, I haven't played it since maybe Soul Calibur 2, so what do I know.
Why do so many retards not understand the need for social distancing? Had to leave the house today to pick up a prescription and I could see so many people walking along the beachfront.
Actually, I take that back. It's not a matter of stupidity. Most people just have so much going on that they can't accept to change their daily course of life, they just want to get on with it. They can't be arsed to deal with changes like that.
The virus and everything is just some shit they read about in the news.
>>419181 So the medical companies blatantly gouge the populace for essential life-saving medicines
While the citizens are so fucking stupid poison control has to deal with a rash of calls where people have injected kitchen cleaner into their veins because they heard their president suggest it
>>420149 Some politician on the radio just said the likes of social distancing will remain in place until next year. Seems pretty fucking pointless when so many people don't even bother.
>>420181 It depends on place to place, up a bit north from me I heard young adults were heckling old farts for not keeping their distance. Whodathunkit, the young are often the wise. I've generally noticed people locally taking it seriously, either that or they're all holed up working from homewhenever I'm out...
I'm sick of being sick all the time, the pills the docs hand off to me keep things alright for awhile but it just goes back to how it is when they run out. Can't get any help in these times.
>>420352 I wouldn't know about gut problems, we have several strong local type of drinks as well as many thermal waters - both which are effective against it. I get panic attack induced nausea more often than actual stomach issue induced ones (which was a problem in itself, and I only realized it was all just a "fake" stomach ache when I got actual stomach problems that forced me to threw up).
As for sweating while sleeping, that only happens to me if I drink too much water before going to sleep, or if I wake up in the middle of the night to drink some water. More water intake = more sweating, basically. No idea how this relates to your case, however.
>>420354 Do you actually have diarrhea or vomit, or all you do is feel nauseus, weak on your legs? The latter is one of the many ways how anxiety manifests. Feeling cold, sweating, and shaking legs are some others I've experienced. When I get the chills, I immediately know I'm having an attack, then I will get nausea. I only had shaking legs once, at which point I said to myself that this is getting ridiculous and willed myself to go on, after which the anxiety faded away.
I've went to all sorts of doctors for a period, thinking I had stomach illness, but nothing was found. Then many years later I finally figured out I was actually having panic attacks. This helped me get over the problem. The other was a time I had an actual stomach ache that forced me to wake up midnight to vomit; it was a completely different gut feeling than just the standard anxiety-induced nausea, which made me realize the difference between the two. Since having stomach problems is one of the things I fear, and in turn what gives me anxiety, I sort of "faced my fears" on that one, and actually did not have panic attacks for a while after that. Eating in public is still what gives me the worst anxiety, due to the fear of having stomach problems.
>>420356 And the medicine helps? Sounds you got something more serious than just anxiety attacks. Don't know what else to say but to experiment with changing your eating habits. I know that most of my stomach issues are caused by my bad eating habits (I have 1 or 2 meals a day, but then I gorge on it like a pig, and I do not eat much if any fruits).
>>420362 I don't just mean not eating certain things. Time your meals differently, or try eating different things you usually would not, see if it makes a difference.
>>420446 Yeah, stores are allowed to open and quarantine has been scaled down mostly everywhere. Over here you still require to wear face masks in stores, but in two weeks they'll remove that too.
The streets are fucking PACKED around here now the past few days. Went out for food shopping and my throat feels bad, probably just psychosomatic or discomfort from another source than THE PLAGUE.
>>420560 Just general people, there's been no protesters around here. Now that the lockdown has been reduced everyone has decided its business as usual.
>>420586 What did you expect, they have been rioting in masses for the past month. Easy way for the virus to transfer like that. Even if they weren't, they are generally not adhering to quarantine rules either, unlike Europeans, so it would transfer faster regardless.
People are saying hoe Corona will kill as many people as the Spanish flu, but keep in mind that that happened when most of the world was war-torn, and the total populace of the world was significantly less. We'd need to hit a quarter billion in dead to get the same relative numbers.
And honestly? I hope we will reach that. The world is too overpopulated.
>>420741 It's going to stay fucked until all the stupid people catch it, after that it will be limited in how much damage it can go. So expect it to continue for quite a bit more. Until the end of the year minimum. Unless the virus mutates and re-infects, things will get crazier if that happens.
Also note that significantly more people already caught it, and healed up from it - on many people, it has the symptoms of a mild flu. I had two flus this winter, back to back, so I wouldn't be surprised if I already had gotten it way back then.
>Would anyone here actually go out to a bar or sit-in at a restaurant today? I would not because I have agoraphobia.
>>420743 No sickness will make you immune to it, they just force your body to produce antibodies to defeat the sickness, which is how you recover; after which your body still "remembers" the virus for a time, and upon detecting it, it will start producing antibodies before it can get severe enough. But this is not permanent immunity, it goes away with time, otherwise people wouldn't catch a mild flu every year. Vaccines work the same way, they contain weakened viruses that "trick" your immune system into producing antibodies. It's why you have to take some vaccines again and again, because they only last so long depending on the virus.
COVID is like a turbo flu. It's much deadlier, much faster acting, and your body has less time to work on passive antibodies (the early warning system of your body) because it is too busy producing active antibodies that combat the already raging illness. So you can get it again faster.
That's not the real problem though. The real problem is that it spreads so fast that it overloads our healthcare system (not enough intensive care units), and it may even leave permanent damage in your body. Our aging populace can make the entire effect much worse too.
Live next to a shitty beach, slept in and had to go food shopping early afternoon, the streets were fucking THRONGED by careless idiots in a neverending crowd. Would have wished nothing more to gun them all down.
>>420769 Well, it IS summer, so it is inevitable that people want to enjoy that. That and its 30-40C over here so I understand if people want to visit the beach.
>>420935 I don't even get how this is supposed to work. Is it saying that dying of covid-19 is a good thing? Also, why are the elderly not in the same line when covid-19 is more likely to kill the elderly?
Popped out to the shops to pick up a few needed items, thought it would be okay being that it is late at night, no. There were fucking crowds of retards out in the streets or standing infront of pubs. Notably there was this big group of people blasting music in a playground.
Someone walked up and stood right next to me when waiting to be served in the store, asked them to move back and they gave me shit and told me to fuck off.
>>421240 People are just selfish and only give a shit about their own thing. I didn't consider the mask thing serious when they first became required either, and got some shit over it, but at last I understand that I deserved it.
don't worry though, those assholes will likely get covid and die - it's fucking natural selection at work. And as long as you wear a mask, the chances of you getting it is significantly lowered.
>don't worry though, those assholes will likely get covid and die I wish. Some of them will but not many, the death/hospitalization rate is low overall. Hopefully it's enough to meaningfully affect communities and shake them into understanding (like if two friends or relatives got it).
The very concept of germs/viruses has never been proven: https://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/you-cannot-catch-bugs-germs-bacteria-or-candidafungi/
COVID19 is fake and is being used to create a new world order, a one-world government: http://tapnewswire.com/2020/09/ultimate-proof-covid-19-was-planned-to-usher-in-the-new-world-order/
It seems like lockdown state will be lowered around here, restaurants and bars will open again etx. This is actually the annoying part, where instead of remaining consistent the degree of response keeps moving up and down.
>>421491 >Is it possible to be woken up by it being too cold? Indirectly but yes. The cold will lead to discomfort, so if you throw yourself at night you'll be more likely to wake up.
>My arms which are the only parts really exposed are tingly like my body was cutting off the flow of blood to them to maintain core temperature. I think that's more likely to happen because you slept in a pose where pressure was put on a blood vassal, slowing down the blood flow. I usually sleep on my side and every once in a while, if I rest my head under my arm, it will completely cut the blood flow and I'll wake with a numb arm. It becomes heavy, I cannot move it, and when the blood circulation goes back it will hurt a lot, plus it also makes my heart beat like a jackhammer until it is done. I've been trying to avoid that if I can since I'm older now and I'm worried that my heart will only be able to take so much.
>>421649 No, I look at computers and see videogames/porn. Things have been kind of bad recently moving into the winter months and guess I've been comfort-eating to deal, thus the most likely cause. (These aren't my first, original ones developed in my younger years on my fat fucking thighs. This is just the first time I've seen them on my torso thus the shock)
I may have acid reflux issues. This couldn't have come at a worse time, since we are in a crunch at work, and me failing right now could result in losing my job.
>>421750 I'm not even sure I have such problems, I just looked up the symptoms online. For the past week, no matter what I ate, I had a vomituous taste left in my throat, plus my stomach has been feeling weird lately (feels all swollen but empty). After eating, I always tended to cough up a lot of fluids but a few days ago the tea I drank came up spontaneously as well.
I need to see a doctor with it, problem is that due to the Covid crisis, I'm not even sure if that is even possible.
So, I should probably ask a better source at some point, but to toss it around here too: Last year, I had what seemed to be some serious allergies, so I got perscription allergy medicine. This January or Febuary, after we first heard of Covid but before the lockdowns, I had a day where I had a lot of trouble breathing all of a sudden.
Going outside seemed to help for some reason, but I my breathing didn't feel comfortable in the house long until after I took both allergy pills, and had to keep taking those for a while. Soon after that, I read that one of the ways Covid causes damage is by inducing a cytostorm, which to be seemed to fit a similar description to an allergic reaction.
Also, more recently, it seems like there's some research into using allergy medecine for covid along somewhat similar reasoning of it preventing inflammation.
But in general, what I'm asking is, should I tell people I know who have Covid to try using allergy medecine, be it over the coutner or whatever else they can get?
>>422024 What sort of allergy medicine? There are many different allergies, and I have pollen allergy myself (hay fever is what the brits call it I think). The pills I take for those prevent me from having nonstop runny nose, which not only makes my days... livable, for one, it also allows me to sleep properly. But the best effect is that, since I don't have nonstop runny nose while sleeping, the junk does not pile up in my nasal area, from where it does not empty for weeks or months.
In fact I seem to be having that latter effect for the past month or two, despite allergy season being over. I may consider taking the hay fever pills during winter too. I suspect it's because I do not clean my place often enough, so the pollen gets stuck in the dust in my room, so it affects me even during winter.
On another note I also seem to have some breathing problem right now, which gets better when I move around or have a window open. I'm hoping it's just placebo with what the covid test I'll have to take. But it sure is odd that I have a bunch of minor, seemingly unrelated issues jumping up from seemingly nowhere. Plus I have no idea from where I could've gotten covid either, considering that I don't go around people to begin with, other than the stores where you have to wear masks.
>>422026 Yeah, I was also thinking maybe I was just having some sort of panic response. Also having ongoing sinus issues past allergy season, especially draining as phlegm, but my sinuses are just like that a lot for who knows what reason anyway.
>>422031 >Also having ongoing sinus issues past allergy season, especially draining as phlegm, but my sinuses are just like that a lot for who knows what reason anyway.
That's what I described too. Since I can't blow my nose when sleeping, the phlegm builds up and takes a while to drain. Actually it seems to build even when my nose isn't runny. Maybe it's just another issue that comes with age.
My breathing seems to have improved after eating a bit, I guess it was just the pizza I had earlier, the one I ordered tends to make me feel extremely dehydrated even when I'm not. That and sitting all day long probably did not help (and would also explain why I didn't have it when going out to the store or opening the window - what helped wasn't the clean air but just that I got off my ass.
Had to nip outside to buy food, it was such a wonderful feeling to see the streets completely barren. Compared to during the runup to Christmas when the streets were absolutely heaving.
>>422510 See now that actually makes me want to do some exercises. I used to love Mortal Kombat, if my parents told me to work out by practicing bicycle kicks, I probably would've done that regularly for years.
Scratched my ankle on the bed a couple of days ago and slapped a bandaid on it, took it off today and there was quite a bit of pus in the lining and the wound looks a little larger if anything. Might need to go pick up something at the store to give it a proper cleansing.
I'm having neck/head pains for a while now, and I can feel the tension in my neck when turn my head a lot. I can also make my neck "pop" every once in a while. It's probably time to visit the chiropractor, but I'm not sure if I can during the lockdown bullshit.
Also I'm have a slight dizzy spell right now, which I'm attributing to a combination of my attempt to normalize my sleep cycles this week, plus being very late with my dinner and also being tired and sleepy due to being awake for so long. I hope it's nothing serious and it will go away after I sleep it off.
>>423069 Do stretches and twists every day with no exceptions. That includes your entire body (especially shoulders). When you sit change positions constantly, and rotate your chair (if you don't have a rotating chair what are you doing with your life??) Neck "pops" are mostly due to a relative lack of smoothing fluid in your joints, some people are just like that. It will never fully go away.
>>423069 Sorry for double reply. If you are not a strict materialist, I have an answer for your second concern. One of your chakras is malfunctioning/leaking. Find a way to fix that. Short term solution is taking short naps whenever possible. If you are a strict materialist this will sound like bullshit.
I may have either an issue of the bladder or type 2 diabetes. Probably don't and am just getting anxious over random temporary changes my body is going through, but would certainly love to be able to get a general checkup from the docs.
Is it a plus or a negative when it comes to maintaining the health of your genital region. (always remember hearing your pubes are supposed to be part of the natural system of hygiene somehow, like hair in your nose and ears?)
>>423600 It is a no-no subject, but the human body is actually imperfect. The hair in your nose catches a lot of junk to prevent it from getting into the lungs. Good. The pubic hair does fuck all, and when excessively long makes it harder to keep clean. Bad.
They do make your smell stronger due to all the stuff that gets stuck in them, but humans don't rely on smell like that. They also protect the area a bit, but we have clothes for that. So whether you shave it or not is entirely down to personal preference, that is whether you enjoy the feeling or not. And washing your genitals properly should be something you do either way.
My oldest friend is a fatfuck with various mental issues who doesn't give a shit about his health. He refuses to drink water, eats too much sugar and doesn't actually seek help for his health problems. Even his the medical support chick despairs when she finds out how much stuff he doesn't bring up with her.
Like I try to get him to make basic positive changes to his life but would have to constantly browbeat him and physically force his ass to do the bare minimum. And I can't take control of his life when I've got issues of my own issues that mean keeping healthy life habits is a full-time job of my own.
Basically this is just me venting that I can't believe the degree to which some people disregard their own health, even when they are constantly complaining about pain in their various body parts caused by their fatness and lack of exercise. How the fuck can someone ignore chest pains while simply writing it off as anxiety or no-sell one of their teeth breaking while eating a candy bar.
Got an itchy rash along the top of my stomach, presumably happened while I was sick and bed-ridden sweating away. Its not like its oozing and pus-ridden or anything and is basically just a line across the torso but it itches quite often and is annoying that it won't go away.
Not enough of a problem to warrant getting a doctors appointment about it and am worried it got this prevalent in the first place because I put some expired medical cream on it so don't want to just try slapping something else at random on the area.
Why are people so ready to slam themselves full of any random bullshit just to avoid the vaccine. Especially when it comes to buying animal medicine (meant for animals much larger than a human) you are still giving money to the same general entity.
>>424275 When they're slamming themselves full of random bullshit, it's generally too late to for the vaccine to help them, at least unless and until they survive their current infection, in which case the vaccine could help protect from another variant getting them later.
Though I would have thought that more of the desperate scrambling would at least center around something with a sense of cause and effect behind it that's at least somewhat more plausible sounding than horse dewormer. Like, why isn't there nearly as much attention given to using antihistamines in an attempt to stave off cytokine storm?
Oh >"Everyone over the age of 18 must now show - if asked - that they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to certain venues and events. These include:
>- Nightclubs and 'analogous venues' >- Adult entertainment venues >- Unseated indoor events with more than 500 people, even if some are seated >- Unseated outdoor events with more than 4,000 people >- Any event with more than 10,000 people in attendance" So that's a thing now
>>424434 Eh need to get around to being vaccinated at some point. Originally passed on it because the place they wanted me to go was across the entire city and wasn't going to get on public transport and be around everyone else.
Its not like I go out further than the nearby supermarket but still should stop putting it off.
>Adult entertainment venues Imagine visiting a strip club or massage parlour during an epidemic
So I got my first covid vaccine shot. How long until I die?
The arm where I got it hurts a bit, it's like when I lift too much and I get muscle fever. Annoying. Hopefully I'll sleep it off and it'll be better by tomorrow.
Don't you have to get multiple jabs for the Covid vaccine, then boosters on top of that? Would be alot easier to deal with if it was just doable in one shot.
>>425003 nearly all shots require a booster from what I remember. What's bullshit is that they are telling you to take third, fourth, fifth shots, and then the newest covid variant has different spike proteins, and since the existing vaccines targeted that, the shots don't protect against that one.
The people at the hospital were practically herded like animals too. No one even asked if you have any problems or issues, you just had to fill out a questionnaire, they popped the injection into you and off you go.
I've got this strange black dot under the skin of a callus on my big toe that was damaged recently. Been there a couple of weeks.
Obviously have concerns and been reading up on all sorts of things, since it hardly looks like a regular little mole and any strange skin blemish makes the mind think OMG CANCER.
has anyone here actually had a brush with covid-19?
my breathing feels a little restricted at times like when out walking to the shops and after. could be ill or could be some other factor like stress maybe.
Elizabeth is a very old woman, such a thing will be rough on her. I'm actually going to be sad the day she dies, literally the only member of the British royal family that is neat in any fashion and has been a constant for longer than pretty much anyone living in her country has been alive.
Perhaps when she passes on there can be built a great pyre on which to burn all her worthless relatives in memory of the last great Queen, none of them deserve the position in her stead.
Had a bout of some goddamn SPICY diarrhoea last night, felt like it was mostly acid. My asshole is still sore even now. Could be a symptom of a larger illness since my stomach has been bothering me on an off a bitty for days now but damn yesterday was way worse.
My roommates throat is fucked, he's always making this choking cough to try and clear his throat. Its gotten worse and I've even been woken up hearing him from his room across the hall. Can't fucking stand it, the piece of shit does so little to take care of his health, had to accompany him out to the shops so he'd go to the pharmacy and get at least some medicine to sooth his neck hole.
Dunno if its a bacterial thing because of his shocking oral hygiene, acid reflux from his poor diet and anxiety or maybe his lungs are also fucked and its to do with them too. Want him to get it checked it out but beyond his laziness he's been stuck transferring between two doctors offices.
>>426011 Yeah, you have to try different pills for that. The type I took for a long time ended up becoming useless and I changed to another one a decade back, which has been working great.
>>426030 You think eyedrops from the pharmacist would help? Be easier than getting a doctor's appointment (my current pills are a prescription) nowadays.
Started walking slightly further each day to be healthier and seem to have developed a blister on the underside of the (Joint?)/(Hinge?) of one of my big toes. Somewhat annoying. Anyone got any home tips for dealing with them if this becomes more of an issue?
>>426536 For the time being, put some cotton or sponge or anything soft under your big toes. Big toes in humans are kind of retarded like that, the designer was selectively retarded. Hard bone joint in a spot you put your weight on.
Was shocked awake an hour or more ago, my left arm numb and feeling bereft of blood, some chest pressure, was feeling horribly scared and a bit sick. Think it was just a panic attack, stopped feeling so bad after enough time passed.
Have a really annoying itchy rash on left of torso between chest and stomach, don't think that has anything to with the rest of it unless its just yet another thing contributing to the stress I've been feeling that caused the attack. But might as well let it out while I'm venting.
My left wrist and pointer finger are kind of fucked, before that the finger next to my pinky on my right hand was similar. Dunno if this is meant to be minor carpal tunnel or what. Not like I can get it examined by the doctors with how fucked the medical services are nowadays. This would actually be my first brush with it at 35 despite being a neet always on my computer machines.
>>427104 Actually went to the doctor to have them examine my hand. The fucking things were fine while I was there but a couple of days later they started hurting again. What the fuck.
>>427401 These are real medical issues mind you, and it can be triggered not just from videogames but pretty much anything that can trigger rapid heartbeat.
It's not that dissimilar as epilepsy, which rapid lights can trigger - be it a campfire or lightning or a rave or playing Vectorman on a 50Hz Megadrive.
Wisdom Teeth are stupid. Got one that is slightly erupted at the moment pushing up a flap of skin and putting pressure on the gum but isn't going to push all the way through. Its not agony when I'm not taking painkillers but is a glaring neverending discomfort. Washing it in saltwater solutions to try and keep to uninfected. I'm a grown man and this is the most real problem I've had with one, got another removed years ago as a preventative measure, not looking forward to having to travel to the dental hospital to get this one out.
>>427828 I had one removed and it was weird as all hell for weeks until I got used to it. The worst thing was that, even though it was bad, it wasn't the reason why I have a pain in my teeth. It's one of the other teeth you use for chewing.
How do you identify chilblains? Think I've got a couple of mild ones on my big toe after coming in from a long walk, the streets are particularly cold and coated in frost tonight.
Its important, I really need to get back into drinking water regularly. Just fell off at some point.
Kidney stones are a constant threat for all mankind amongst other probelms. Doesn't matter if not be having them, an ounce of prevention is worth a lifetime of not pissing shrapnel through your dick.
My goal is to be on the treadmill until I both (a). visibly sweat & (b). at least reach 300 calories burned (yeah, I know the calorie tracker is bunk but it's a nice measurement, nonetheless).
I can't claim that I've seen consistent weight loss yet (it's only been 8 days) but it was more than what I was doing before.
Are humans meant to run or are we biologically designed for just walking over long distances (which was the primary method advantage when it came to hunting prey, walk after faster creatures until they burned themselves out). Hear conflicting information over this.
The amount of sexually transmitted diseases going about is terrifying.
And that they can be completly asymptomatic, you can have them and pass them on withouit knowing. Then suddenly years later, cancer, caused by the STD.
Voice actor had that happen in his tongue, managed to beat it after having part of his tongue amputated. Is having to re-train his voice acting skills as you can imagine after that.
Got an inexplicable headache/migrane/brainpain on half of my forehad, not something I usually get so is exceedingly annoying. Probably has something to do with the cold or changing weather. General advice?
Feel like I get a bit sick so much more often in winter, might be getting older or that the house we live in can never seem to reach a properly comfortable temperature during the particularly colder days, its always slightly off in one way or another.
fell in my room and busted both knees, one of my wrists, and my head. not a fun start for the weekend. put ice packs on them, but after 1 hour of not moving my legs they new feel like they are on fire. nothing seems to be broken and there's no swelling, I can move them fine, they just hurt a lot. ironically, hitting my head felt the worst, I seriously thought I split it open, but there's no pain whatsoever there now. I always had a hard head...