I have been diagnosed with...

I wanted to apologies and give you an explanation for failures in 2016.

The middle of last year I had 100% Kidney failure and spent two months in the hospital and it took me a while to get back to work. My kidneys shut down and I went into congestive heart failure, my body dumped all proteins and urine into my legs, feet, butt and lower back (edema). I had started developing fluid pockets near my heart in just a few days of failure.

My problem was caused by sinus medications, Claratin, Zyrtec, and sinus sprays. These meds cause the blood vessels and capillaries to constrict thus stopping drainage. It was prolonged use of these meds entering my kidneys that caused the shut down.

After biopsies I was diagnosed with FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. The blood vessels in my kidneys were damaged but recovery was possible.

Today, my kidneys are fully functional and I have to be careful what meds I take and a low sodium diet.

During this time I did my best to fix issues but I could not go to backups as weeks were slipping by.

For 2017 I will dedicate more time into XS, I asked Stym to start some contests for the teams.

New ads are going up, revenue is coming in, new sponsor have confirmed, full throttle with Intel, repairing damage with AMD, monthly contests, and I hope more.

I will show you action and far less of what I want to do.

WOW Charles I didn't know any of this, good to hear you are doing well now !!

stay healthy... :up:

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My problem was caused by sinus medications, Claratin, Zyrtec, and sinus sprays.

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Hi and keep on the good health!

What's the sinus spray that U used?
Also I'm a little addict of "Olynth"...
Thanks for answer.

Flonase or prescription Flucticasone and Nasacort mainly, Sinex didn't work for me.

I had a deviated septum and chronic sinus infections.

I had sinus surgery to correct everything a few years ago and stopped all products and this came out of nowhere.

I would like to say I know what you've been through and I pray that you stay healthy from here on out. My wife lost a kidney due to something entirely different, but I know firsthand what it feels like scared about kidneys and so on ... hang tough my friend!

Ouch!

Take care of yourself man.

Yo Charles,
nice to see back on board again. Just bring our ship into a smooth ocean again.

Glad that everything is ok, boss. Take care of yourself. We believe in you :up:

stay healthy mate :up:

That sounds terrifying - glad to hear you have recovered!

Also, thanks for sharing some very personal info with us.

Hmm, I could go a giant rant about the medical industry, but you don't wanna hear it and I don't don't feal like ranting about it lol.
They actually piss me off sometimes.., they're pretty stupid actually... (that'll never heal unless you do surgery..., a few months later I'm healed anyways... stupid doc doesn't know anything outside there books, and the nurses..., oui, the docs have no clue what you just told the nurses, I hate that, I really could go on and on, it's so pathetic :( ...)

I'm no doc but...
Eucalyptus might of helped.
Not the "lemon (grass) eucalyptus", which is a pesticide... (which I use along with Bacillus thuringiensis serotype israelensis (bti), in water, power aid bottles and old bins in my back yard, to control mosquitoes).
The bti is something that controls the larvae, and the lemon eucalyptus I rub on my clothes to keep what's left of them away.

...
If you still need help with it, ask your doc about eucalyptus, he/she will either know about it, or won't know anything about it (often...).
Either way it's something you should ask about before you jump head 1st into something that could be bad for ya ^^.


Offtopic wise:
Sodium/salt.
I can't eat normal salt anymore, it really messes up my jaw and right eye (tmj).
I'm fine though with sea salt.
I'll go out and get fast food with fries, and after eating the fries I have togo bed right afterwards to get rid of the pain.

I've found that sea salt is ok, it was recommended to me by some nurses while I was checking out of my docs one day.
They thought it was a strange symptom and they didn't really understand what the heck, but that suggestion worked.

That helps prevent me from being out for a day or so after eating lol.
Another thing I do is take glucosamine hci, and that helps prevent my jaw from snapping/popping.

As for pain relief, on that one, I use any kind of hot pepper I can get ahold of, even if it's the queen's own red pepper extract..., or some habanero pods I found the other day (the seeds woks great too..).
This gets rid of the pain for about a half hour or for good some times.

The only other one I know of is cloves, nasty stuff, don't swallow it or in the long term it'll mess you up.
They used to use it in the dentists along long time ago I guess.
It's lot like jiffy tooth ache med's, the liquid or gel.
I think it works better though, I got the liquid jiffy stuff in my bathroom which I don't bother with anymore.
I only used the cloves twice, it's pretty nasty lol.
Also the peppers work better.

I'm gonna try my hand again this year at growing some peppers, I want my thai dragon's, I wanna see if it works for wrapping wounds or not, or if it burns the skin like some other peppers do.
I also gotta try again wild ghost, and reaper, I screwed up last year, darn chipmunk ate them, or bunny, I kinda wonder if it was the chipmunk, he's a giant mofo for some odd reason :D.
And million bunnies around the yard. :)

I wanna plant some sakura's in my back yard, and some herbs, etc.
You don't learn it until you live it ^^.


Anyways...
Hmm, I guess I'll add what else I know really quick
Calcium, good for pain relief for broken bones (yes it does work...).

Uti... (probably lol)
Palmetto, not worth a darn, period.
Cranberry, seems to work..

Antibiotic. ???, I dn on these lol
zinc oxide
Ti oxide ???, I think my cat likes this stuff, not sure yet.
Selenium, radioactive lol, but it's the only cure I know of for botulism (bad canned goods) (don't use this :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana: on your hair !!!, use tea tree instead or something, or asperin).

That reminds me, one nut was really really bad for your long term health.
Ah here we go:

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Brazil nuts (especially the ones grown in Brazil) grow on trees with deep roots, which reach down to soil high in natural radium, a source of radiation. The roots absorb the radium, which then makes its way to the nuts. As a result, the radium levels of Brazil nuts can be 1000 times what you'd see in other foods.

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There's a bunch of other things but whatevers :), one thing I was thinking about growing is a yew tree for dragon's blood, but I don't need people getting delirious around my neighborhood :|, nor do I want the animals dieing off or going nuts either.

I'm studying mostly essential oils right now, along with biofuel.
I can't be dumping my used vegi oil anymore..., got a new neighbor and I can't be dumping it in his yard ...
So I'm storing it, and processing it into diesil 1st, then I'm gonna try some experiments on preheating and using in a petrol engine (briggs and stranton).
Or something like that, gotta make use of it somehow.
Other then that my kitty litter, I was thinking of making concrete but d@mn, I honestly don't wanna sort through it lol.

I will try sea salt, salt is something I must avoid.

Thanks

:banana::banana::banana::banana: man, glad you're okay. My mom takes that :banana::banana::banana::banana: daily for the past few years to avoid 'unpredictable allergies.' I'm calling her to tell her to stop right now.

Keep strong Charles , stay healthy and take care my friend !

I love hot peppers, I grew a ton last year in my garden and need to get the new place setup for growing.

I am not a fan of the super hots tho., just seems to extreme for cooking. I do follow many of the growers tho., much of the final product is bought up for cancer research.

Not 100% sure but normal table salt has a lot of iodine added, while sea salt has very little. Either way its best to get off as much processed food as you can.
Fresh garden grown veggies are amazing, when you first start growing and getting your first harvest its like discovering food all over again. So much of the produce we find at the store comes for south America in the USA anyway, picked before it ripens and they use ethylene gas before it makes to the store to ripen, it just doesn't compare to fresh vine ripened veggies.

Its not just salt in fast food, its tons of other items added. To this day I cannot eat McDonalds, I feel like I have a fat plug stuck in my throat after and feel like crap. If I do I usually eat breakfast meals, Jack has about the best IMO, not much they can add to eggs right ? well I am sure they can.

LOL look at me talking about eating right, after all the over the top meals I cook and post on FB HAHAHA :)

@FUGGER
I use sea salt as a replacement for table salt, for fries and other odds and ends, I don't use it for inhaling or nothing lol, just saying.
It does help for me, it's still salt, and it does effect my jaw still, but not as near as much.
:)

@Buckeye
It could be the iodine, I'm not sure ^^, I dn, that's something to check out, I can get non-idiozed salt.
If kinda screws me over, if anything I can use it to clean my pipe :) (salt seems to work pretty good on that, I think it's a ph thing).

I love peppers too :).
Cancer research indeed, it's interesting :).
I like them period, I also like that it works darn well for my tooth aches, for at least a half hour at a time, alot of time it doesn't come back for a day or 2 :).
I also think it might work to clean out your eyes, you put the pepper stuff in your mouth..., and if your got something in your eye it seems to get it right out when it waters up a bit.
Not really sure on that one, but it does seem to doit.

Mcdonalds lol...
I cannot eat there breakfast sausage, it gets me sick for hours, I literally throw up.
Twice I've tried working afterwards (yard work), you need food to work you know..., only to get extremely sick of it.
I used to love there fries but they seem diff now, I don't know.
There nuggets, ehh, ever since that all white meat thing they went downhill.
My buddy can't eat them at all anymore since that change.
They supposedly changed them again recently, but he won't touch them.
He got sick of there breakfast sausage last time he went there too.
His gf got sick off there chicken sandwich.

Detroit... I saw the news the other day a worm was found in a ladies fish sandwhich.

I used to prefer bking, but I don't go there anymore, they hire illegals to cook now, they're not trained, they don't clean the grill.
I complained about it, my grandpa used to take me to that exact one every weekend, when he was still alive.
They ruined my childhood memory and I was pretty pissed off, I told them it was the worst burger I had ever seen, and I had been going there for over 20 years.
It was so charred it was crazy.
The lady got an attitude with me, so I said is it because you're hiring mexican's?, you don't even train them right?
And she flipped the heck out on me, called my racist and told me to never come back, stupid millennial, so I flipped her off and never came back, thought about calling there management but never did.

I had some bad wendys the other day, just garbage.
That's kinda rare though.
And taco bell, which I used in replacement of bking lol, well, never again.
I'm not even allowed to talk about it, I made a verbal nda agreement with there corp not to talk about that instance.


Oh and btw, mcdonalds uses something called pink goo for there nuggets and burgers.
It's actually dog food sterilized with acetone ^^.

Hamburger sold in stores is that way too btw.... ^^, if you get plain humburg that is.
To get real food, you have to get round, or sirloin, or chuck (I get chuck, I've have bad round to much recently, poop smell/taste).
I just found that out a month or 2 ago, and it's actually a pain in the butt to get good burger her right this sec.
Plumbs is seemly going out of business, and mejiers, well, last 2 times I bought meat from them they had these black specks in them, didn't think anything of it, it's an occasional thing.
I took a close look last time, I went to take the black speck I saw out with a plastic fork before cooking, and realized it was a dead fruit fly ^^.
They wanted me to return it for a refund but I can't..., I'm not actually allowed on any properties own by mejiers, at least after complaining about there milk that one time that did fix it.
I did noticed yesterday all there hamburg was reduced price, so hopefully in a week or 2 some decent burger will show up.
I gotta try to expand my diet lol, I usually eat one or 2 things over and over again, but if I can't get hamburg, them I better start figuring out other things to cook :).

My and my buddy were just yesterday, joking about the crappy quality of american food these days.
That reminds me, there's some nastyness going on with mountaindew, well actually, any sort of lime soda, they all seem to have it.
A ton of floaties, every store too.
Some bottles have it, some don't.
I don't buy pepsi anymore because I've had a few bads ones these last 2 years.
Bad water I think, the ones from ny were ok, the other bad.
But that was like a year and a half ago or actually could be longer now, I drink sprite now lol (recently though, probably 3 days ago, one tasted and smelt like burned steel, it's a 2 liter...).


I know I'm picky, but sometimes it's just like wth.
Any of you guys eat dinty moore beef stew?
I used to love it when I was younger, when it had real gravy of sorts in it.
Now it's just gelatin, then a few years go by and it gets worse, rotten veggies.

I don't why they would can black carrots and potatoes.
But I see it on almost every single can of stew I buy regardless of brand.
You're not even supposed to eat a blackend/blightend potato...

Then there's the gmo's, yay pesticide on my candybar lol.
No joke, 3 musketeers, gmo now lol.
There's alot of misc foods popping up using gmo's now.
90% of those gmo's are pestiside mods.
And btw, if your immune system is having issues, temp or not, if you happen to eat the carrier of the gmo mod, it will mod your genetics.
The 1st gen of modded plants are never supposed to leave the building they are made in, but if they ever did, well, that's when it's possible for people that are compromised immune systems to get screwed over by it.

Don't get me started on GMO food :(

In the canneries here in my town, central valley of California, cans of veggies like tomato sauce have codes on the cans. These codes relate to the number of permissible bug parts allowed. Certain codes are shipped local (higher number of bug parts) as its cheaper to do recalls.

Generally I do not eat fast food sausage. Years ago I worked at a label company, we did labels for just about every food product, soaps etc in our local stores... S-Mart, Luckys, VONs etc. Sausage was one that had several different types of labels for the same product... ie hot links, etc. What would happen is slaughter houses would mix in all kinds of junk when they had surpluses of things like pig cheeks, lymph nodes, salivary glands etc. When you read a label the first item there is the most of. So when it starts out with that stuff beware. Always read the labels ! LOL

Talking about food and diseases is nice to read.
Y'know, my python boot is too tight. I couldn't get it off last night. A week went by, an' now it's july. I finally got it off. An' my girl-friend cry. You got stink foot! stink foot, darlin'. Your stink foot puts a hurt on my nose! Stink foot! stink foot! I ain't lyin'. Can you rinse it off, d'you suppose? Now scientists call this disease bromidrosis. And well they should. Even napoleon knows that. But us regular folks who might wear a tennis shoe or an occasional python boot know this exquisite little inconvenience by the name of:
Stink foot

Back to the problem:
When will you moderators or administrators fix these issues?
This forum puts a hurt on my mind!

Glad to see you back 100%

Hope 2017 will treat you better Charles!!!

I wish you good health and success in all you do Charles

Holy smokes, wish you all the best. If any help is needed, or you need any other help let me know. I have dealt with enough of the medical industry to never wish that on anyone.

Hopefully 2017 treats you better!

Bloody hell mate!!! not been on here for a while so only just seen this. Sounds like you had a rough ride in 2016.

By the sounds of it you are well again thankfully & I wish you stay that way.

CN

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Talking about food and diseases is nice to read.
Y'know, my python boot is too tight. I couldn't get it off last night. A week went by, an' now it's july. I finally got it off. An' my girl-friend cry. You got stink foot! stink foot, darlin'. Your stink foot puts a hurt on my nose! Stink foot! stink foot! I ain't lyin'. Can you rinse it off, d'you suppose? Now scientists call this disease bromidrosis. And well they should. Even napoleon knows that. But us regular folks who might wear a tennis shoe or an occasional python boot know this exquisite little inconvenience by the name of:
Stink foot

Back to the problem:
When will you moderators or administrators fix these issues?
This forum puts a hurt on my mind!

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this is already fixed... :up:

Yo StyM!
Thank you for your good work. :banana: :clap: I really appreciate your help in the name of all the users here. :party3:
Are the avatar pictures irretrievably gone? :(

P.S. Sorry for my stink foot posting. Is wasn't meant being respect less about a serious disease anybody else has or had. I was just a little p.o. about the long-time-nothing-happens. Can ya relay to that?

Fugger fixed the issues... :up:

@StyM
Seems to be in order, looks like I can edit my profile and stuff, the profile view seems a bit diff though but it's fine.

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Yo StyM!
Thank you for your good work. :banana: :clap: I really appreciate your help in the name of all the users here. :party3:
Are the avatar pictures irretrievably gone? :(

P.S. Sorry for my stink foot posting. Is wasn't meant being respect less about a serious disease anybody else has or had. I was just a little p.o. about the long-time-nothing-happens. Can ya relay to that?

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Notta biggy dude, at least I'm not directly on my way to getting supper to eat, like the other night, my roomate/buddy start going on about his hole in his mouth, it's something I don't wanna hear lol, (you don't brush or rinse, ever, please stop talking about it...), :|.

Sounds more or less like athlete's foot.
There's spray for that, there's also supposed remedies like apple cider or old school mouth wash (mine has thymol, eucalyptol, menthol, and alcohol and other misc ingredients, it's a dollar store brand).
You're supposed to soak your feet in a solution.
I assume it's a ph thing, or it's plain anti this or that in the solution (obviously alcohol is one thing that would kill fungus or bacteria..).
In that sense even a bottle of wiskey would probably work, or help., maybe...
If it was a big prob, you should look it up ^^.

If I remember right, menthol was one that killed candita/dandruff on the scalp, saw it in some youtube vid lol.

Besides, it happens I guess, though I don't think I would wear my boots for 2 years without taking them off every day lol.
I once went without a shower or bath for 2+ months because I was in the middle of changing to an elec water heater.
The dude that was installing it just never showed back up, so I eventually just did it on my own, that was fun btw, racing to the opposite side of my house and getting into the crawl space to shut off the main.
Those auto sealing joints are messed, they work, but I swear someday the pressure will hit one of them just right and pop it off.
I honestly think it would of been better off with pipe sealant and tape...
I still have 2 rashes from it, one is 99% gone, the other 75%.
Going on 3 years now I think.
My advice in that situation, if know someone is taking there sweet time, just doit yourself...

Years ago, when still in high school, I got miliaria and had that for about a year.
Got it from putting my back against the wall and letting the heat form the heater duct rise up my back, it was a habit of mine since I was little, I would sit on stoves and so on.
I like heat...
Melted my coat once lol...
Anyways, I did it a few times a day, since forever..., during winter times usually.
One day I noticed my back feels a little messed up, I look in the mirror and my entier back was covered in mostly reddish spider webs, it kinda looked like spider webs.
I never thought it was gonna go away but eventually it just did.

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Fugger fixed the issues... :up:

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Ups...
Thank ya Charles for repairing the forum:clap:

@NEOAethyr,
ya sound like a real black dude. So ya take on ya shades an' jump into ya wheels to slide down the road?

Lol, nah I'm white ja ;).
Heheha, thanks for the cheer up yo :).

I just got done doing a trash and storage run for my grandma, went to get lunch for me and my buddy and sat at the freaking bking drive through for 5 mins, never took my order, when I decide to give up and goto the window I had my buddy jump up and down saying something goofy while I yelled at them calling them lazy ..., (insert expletive here).
I always feel bad afterwards when complaining about fast food, but I think they deserve it.
Man I can still the lady's look in my mind, jeez..., lmao
:O ... :)

Thx for sharing CW. Happy you're making a successful mend. Live long and prosper :)

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Thx for sharing CW. Happy you're making a successful mend. Live long and prosper :)

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+1 Glad to hear you are on the uptick Charles

Keep on rockin Fugger :up:

Who would have known that such basic meds could be that harmful. Glad to hear your better and thanks for fixing my account.

There might be a little thing left. The post counter seams to be out of order.

how so ?

I just realized the post counter is workIng correctly

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Originally Posted by FUGGER

I wanted to apologies and give you an explanation for failures in 2016.

The middle of last year I had 100% Kidney failure and spent two months in the hospital and it took me a while to get back to work. My kidneys shut down and I went into congestive heart failure, my body dumped all proteins and urine into my legs, feet, butt and lower back (edema). I had started developing fluid pockets near my heart in just a few days of failure.

My problem was caused by sinus medications, Claratin, Zyrtec, and sinus sprays. These meds cause the blood vessels and capillaries to constrict thus stopping drainage. It was prolonged use of these meds entering my kidneys that caused the shut down.

After biopsies I was diagnosed with FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. The blood vessels in my kidneys were damaged but recovery was possible.

Today, my kidneys are fully functional and I have to be careful what meds I take and a low sodium diet.

During this time I did my best to fix issues but I could not go to backups as weeks were slipping by.

For 2017 I will dedicate more time into XS, I asked Stym to start some contests for the teams.

New ads are going up, revenue is coming in, new sponsor have confirmed, full throttle with Intel, repairing damage with AMD, monthly contests, and I hope more.

I will show you action and far less of what I want to do.

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Woah... haven't visited XS in ages (been out of OC'ing/hardware scene for ages) and come back to this bad news and news of Dave/Movieman passing away :(

Hope you recover Charles - my aunt passed away from Kidney failure last year brought on by chronic diabetes. Didn't know anti-sinus and antihistamine meds could cause kidney failure too ! My mum and I use antihistamines too for Hay fever ! Scary !

Frig, looks like we're all heading for the crapper. Doc's gave me a cancer scare and biopsy today was put off until March 9, girl messed up the appointment. Finding it hard to dump the cancer sticks.

Anyways, chins up everyone and all should be fine!:up:

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StyM, thanks for all your help brother! You gave me posts to read which I appreciate, Thanks!:up:

Wow looks like you had a really bad '16 fugger, I'm so glad you recovered and I hope you have many more healthy years in front of you

I will drink a Guinness to your good health :up:

Old member popping back in to say I'm glad you've recovwred. Praying for you man. This has been a singular reliable community to turn back to every so often over the last decade for me, and I'm glad it's still here.

It wouldn't be the same without you man. Take care.

WoW Fugger, I'm glad your better, that's a tuff thing to go through. I too am having tuff times, VA say I have advanced parkinson's and some other problems. While in service I got hurt and led to it, hopefully I can still pour Ln2 when I get better. :) techjesse

I hope that things are better?

I am much better now, my weight has returned to 175Lbs and I can eat normally again.

Thanks everyone, I do my best to keep the lights on.

Damn Jesse

Charles

Great.

Good deal FUGGER :up:.
Could you give a heads up of what kind of diet you used or whatever?
I'm curious.

I can't get past 130 pounds, I'm lucky to get that far.
I noticed the other day i was losing more weight... (I notice it in my hands, I don't have a scale)


techjesse
I hope you get better dude :(


As for me...
I was in a coma in 2011, had a bump on the left side of my nose ever since.
I finally got rid of it last month, it was a combo of diff home remedies, not sure what did it.
If I picked it off, it would bleed like crazy and come back.
This time I noticed it was a bit smaller, I haven't messed with it in a few years.
I picked it off, didn't come back this time or anything.
It's back to normal lol :D.

I'm still experimenting with diff oils and ingredients to shower with, I'm interested in making custom soaps, been so ever since I've learned a bit about aleppo soap and diff fountain of youths are the world.
There's a story of Napoleon and some queen, that would not lay with him until he bathed in rosemary.
I don't know if it was Josephine, or Queen Elizabeth of Hungary...
I was trying to find the quote for you guys, but this one will do I suppose.

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Perhaps one of the more amusing tales of rosemary's magic involves Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1305-1381). 
Suffering from severe rheumatism and gout the Queen (aged 72) turned to the healing powers of the rosemary
plant.  She began using a variant of Rosemary Water, also referred to as Hungary (Budapest) Water, allegedly
given to her by a hermit who claimed that "it would preserve her beauty and health until her death."  In fact,
legend claims, the treatment so enhanced her health, vitality and appearance that she, using her own words, "was
not only cured, but recovered my strength, and appeared to all so remarkably beautiful that the King of Poland
asked me in marriage." (from a text by John Prevost, published 1656).  By the way, the King was 26 years old. 
Take from this what you may.

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Stuff like this fascinates me.
As I get older I find myself wanting to learn more and more diff oddball things.
And medicine is something I never thought I'de get into.
Because why doit yourself right?
Well, the docs aren't that great these days.
It's not the healthcare so much that is the prob, it's the doc's themselves.
Even if you find a good doc, it can take a dozen visits for them to figure out anything at all.
Take my heart for example, it's missing a valve.
It took them like 5 years for them to figure that out.
So I'm trying to figure diff odd things out myself, from hair to skin care, to bug repellents, and how they all work.

Home remedies can work if you know how they work, going in blind is like overclocking without knowing why the limits are there.
It's a shot in the dark.
If you have no idea what you're doing, it can make things worse, again liek overclocking, sometimes you just need to clear the cmos and start over eh ;).

Hello there Fugger,i would like send you my sympathy and good to hear you are doing well.I dont know you but i have been a member of you internet child for a long time and i really enjoy what you have accomplished here,therefore i would like to invite you for a week of free holidays in Greece in my small hotel starting from may untill octomber.If you feel like coming to Greece for summer holidays i really want to invite you and your familly for free just because i like helping each other.PM me for the details.take care and believe me there are a lot of people who appreciate what you have done for xtremesystems.org.

holy crap just now seeing this... i hope things continued to look up thru the year.

hope F can find ways of dealing with sinus without horrible meds. happy new year for 2018. :yepp:

Just seeing this also. Hope you are able to find relief. Get Well.

After a few days in and out of the hospital and doctors visits I find out that Aspertame can kill me.

It causes my hands, arms, legs and feet to lock up. It is very painful to move or use my hands for days.

My kidneys are not filtering it out and it is entering my blood stream causing havoc. I was also warned that MSG is also on my list now to avoid.

Good news is I am down to 175lbs, I was at 225lbs this time last year.

Not a fun way to lose weight.

Good to hear you have a handle on it and are doing well!

Fugger, glad to hear you have recovered from a very serious and scary condition... crazy that some fairly innocuous meds can have such an effect :(

Wishing you (and the XS community!) a positive 2018 :)

I haven't visited in a while, but wow Charles. That is crazy that those OC meds did that. Scares the crap out of me too. My wife uses Zyrtec every day. It hardly does anything to her symptoms. I'm going to have to get her to a doctor (been trying for a while, but time is difficult to come by).

Really glad you're doing better. :up:

I've been gone for a long time but have just come back, mainly for the wealth of info and the community that you facilitated here during the golden era of overclocking, when I was just a kid. Thanks for putting up with me, F!

I'm shocked to hear you've been so unwell, but it's great that you've recovered and I hope that your health continues to improve. I'm glad you've managed to keep this site going for so long when so many others have failed, that is an achievement more impressive than any overclocking record. I'm sure XS will be back on top soon but your health is the most important thing!

Thanks I am doing a little better now, edema is under control as long I do not have too much sodium.

XS will stay alive, too much legacy info here to let go.

Hope things keep on the uproute for you.

been gone a long time too, glad to hear things are getting better

godspeed
steve