As an atheist vegan, I.... fuck I've done it again.

This "your evidence has no power here" is exactly the energy I was looking for lol.

I suppose you don't HAVE to. But I find it unhygienic to eat before brushing my teeth as soon as I wake up. Might just be my personal issue. 🤷‍♂️

I'm no medicinologist but, anecdotally, I am convinced that anti biotics help recover from the flu much much faster, and can also help prevent complications.

My home country was pretty lax on drug enforcement, and doctors would prescribe antibiotics if your fever hadn't broken in ~3 days (or sooner if you nagged them enough). Getting started on anti biotics would lead to recovery in a day or two at most.

The govt. bodies are getting stricter now, and it's harder to get antibiotics. Pretty much everyone around me has longer and longer recovery times. In just the last two years, 3 people I know (granted, they're 60-70 year olds) have had to be hospitalized (2 pneumonia, 1 I don't remember) after their condition deteriorated.

I know that's it's widely accepted that antibiotics don't help fight the flu, but it's my pulled-it-out-of-my-ass hypothesis that it does help ward off all the other crap allowing the immune system to fight the viruses more effectively leading to faster recovery.

Also, in my home country we used to get paracetamol/acetaminophen injections when the fever spiked too much. But I'm currently in Canada and the recommended "just eat soup and hydrate" is BS. We're just left to fend for ourselves with no option minimize harm /discomfort/symptoms unless you're on deaths door. I'm guessing that most of the rest of the developed world is like this too?

Sincerely, Suffering from flu

Yup, this makes sense.

Just made a non-news post aboot a personal interaction in the city, because you called out the state of the community. :)

Have you tried growing the hell up?

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Yeah, I know that it sounds ridiculous. I am almost certainly wrong lol. I just want something to make this coughing stop though -- I don't care if it's opium like I'm in the 19th century, or if it's a sugar pill pretending to be an anti viral.

Yeah, I kinda agree with this. The usual argument against this is usually something along the lines of "but you'd probably die of dysentery by the age of 40". But I think I'd be okay with that. Better to have lived a short life outside an office than to live to be a 100 spending 45 years in an office.

Not what I am currently looking for but this will come in handy later (get it, get it?? 😁)

How much over use of anti biotics (and related issues) is from humans and how much of it is from farming? Is a human taking antibiotics for 3 days a year really the issue when farmers use it like it's straw on a daily basis?

I totally get all of that. Wouldn't all of that hold true if you were having breakfast on a table/kitchen island too though? I'm specifically confused about what makes having it in bed special.

In addition to what the other commenter said, when the outside is cold and 95% humid, the inside of a building would be warm and far drier. So the inside humidity % is much lower than 95%. Maybe this contributes to the issue?

• HbA1C was at a pre-diabetic level and has gone back to a safe level.
• Probably a side effect of not drinking so much anymore- some liver test numbers look good now.
• knees don't ache as much
• TMI alert: I can now sleep through the night without waking up to pee multiple times. (Early thirties fwiw)

My mental health had improved a ton, but it went to shit after the layoff, and am still working on that. 🤷‍♂️

I can fit into old clothes from uni again, does that count lol?

Sounds interesting. What other organs do you think fall under this category?

There was construction going on every fucking where in Calgary, so I didn't get to experience much of their city driving itself, so I can't comment on that. Drivers were lovely outside of the city and in Edmonton though.

Yes, I did and still do stress eat.

While I was on ozempic, I literally couldn't eat and would feel nauseous if I ate anything after my meals. So I found other non-food based coping mechanisms - some healthy, some not so much, but that's a battle for another day.

It still happens, but at far lower volumes. Like, I would destroy a large bag of chips in under 5 minutes back in the day while stressed about something. But now I sort of stop after like 10% of it because I feel physically sick at that point.

Do you have any examples?

5' 8"/173 cm

I did, over a month ago.