I have banned Keystone because he contributes little to this forum, aside from trolling.
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I have banned Keystone because he contributes little to this forum, aside from trolling.
What a Bad Beat!
I have no idea who Keystone was. ;) :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
I used to see JungDaeWoo and K.Stone around from time to time at VCT, and I heard some about them from the regulars, none of it good.
Woo and K.Stone hated MDawg only as one gambler can hate another. "MDawg keeps winning at that casino. I can’t figure out how to win, how does he. It burns me up to see someone make it big when I can’t even manage to clear a roll of nickels." His toothless mouth was twisted with hate.
Archiving posts from 7 years ago...typical productive behavior from this life long loser....yet another reason he is full of shitQuote:
Originally Posted by MDawg
Did Tasha hijack Mdog’s account?
Dumbass forgot you don’t put quotes around shit you’re making up that no one ever said.
Marbury v. Madison is 222 years old and remains good law. So do the reasons for banning K.Stone remain intact, as evidenced by the very posts made by the offenders in this thread.
This applies to Jung and K.Stone same as theywontpay,Quote:
Originally Posted by MDawg
Why isn't this retard out winning 80% of his tie bets?
Did you learn this approach from Rob Singer?Quote:
Originally Posted by MDawg
Well at least Keystone isn't banned. Keystone is the man imo.
It's the one thing we can all agree on. I think of Keystone as the linchpin of the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by theywontpayontuesday
You, twpot, and the mice in your pockets are all that agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Perignom
I ran Keystone off of this forum at least twice before any of you faggots joined.
He's the leachpin of this forum, probably a sock.
Druff's gonna ban him again.
Bro you never ran anyone off anywhere stupid lololol…..you’re a virus on this forum. Only useful when Singer and MPussy want some online headQuote:
Originally Posted by coach bellyYou, twpot, and the mice in your pockets are all that agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Perignom
I ran Keystone off of this forum at least twice before any of you faggots joined.
He's the leachpin of this forum, probably a sock.
Druff's gonna ban him again.
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Originally Posted by Keystone
But wait...there's more, leachpin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Druff did, not you, Squidward….now take that apron off and quit washing dishes and honor the veterans that provided you the freedom to cyber fellate Singer and Habib as you are prone to do….just remember to zip them back up for God’s sakeQuote:
Originally Posted by coach bellyQuote:
Originally Posted by Keystone
But wait...there's more, leachpin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Honestly, I forgot I ever banned Keystone.
The date is interesting to me.
On August 16, 2018, I noticed an annoying "lump" sensation in my throat which I couldn't get rid of. For whatever reason, it bothered me to no end, and I started highly stressing over it.
I went to an ENT that week. It was some incompetent old fart who looked in my throat a second, diagnosed me with "LPR" (a syndrome, not a disease, usually related to reflux), and told me to go buy Nexium and take it.
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Unbeknownst to medical science at the time, that class of medication (PPIs) cause crippling anxiety in a small-to-moderate percentage of the population. Unfortunately, I was part of that group. It is now acknowledged, but in 2018 it was not yet known.
Within days, the anxiety took hold, and it was the worst thing I ever dealt with in my life. I was also told to quit caffeine. Another moronic piece of advice. Caffeine wasn't causing this, and in fact its abrupt cessation brought on severe depression on top of the anxiety.
I also had other issues. The lump in my throat was causing a choking sensation whenever I would lie down, so I couldn't fall asleep. Every time I'd start to fall asleep, I'd choke and wake back up. It was the worst thing ever. Eventually I solved this by a fluke. I had mentioned my throat was also dry, so my girlfriend bought me dry mouth rinse. Amazingly, that took care of the choking sensation as well, and that was that. Huge relief to discover this.
Eventually I brought my mind back mostly to normal. I quit the Nexium, brought back the caffeine, and was taking Xanax once every 96 hours just to normalize my brain. None of this was suggested by a doctor, but it worked. First the depression abruptly lifted, and then the anxiety slowly lessened. It took about 3 months to get all the way better.
Turned out I didn't have reflux anyway, and this idiot was wrong. The lump was from a combination of dryness in my throat and general postnasal drip. I eventually just got used to it.
Anyway, my ban of Keystone was during the very beginning of this, which is probably why I don't remember it. I find that my brain has blocked out a lot of details from that time period.
At best, you are a groupie.Quote:
Originally Posted by coach bellyYou, twpot, and the mice in your pockets are all that agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Perignom
I ran Keystone off of this forum at least twice before any of you faggots joined.
He's the leachpin of this forum, probably a sock.
Druff's gonna ban him again.
My messages sent don't go back to 2018, but IIRC, I PMed you after hearing of your symptoms, and suggested it might be LPR. That must have been before you were diagnosed with it. I have battled LPR for a decade. A lot of people (including doctors) think it is just your run of the mill acid reflux. IT is not! With LPR, reflux gets past not just the lower valve (LES) as is common with regular reflux, but also past the higher (UES) which is at the top of the esophagus. This is a much bigger deal because the acid in the reflux then hits your throat, which unlike the esophagus is soft tissue, ill-equipped to handle the stomach acid and the damage it can do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
The body's immediate response is to create more mucus to coat the damaged throat area. That leads to a sensation of choking and coughing, worse after eating and when lying prone. Sleeping on a little bit of an angle with the head of your bed elevated 6-8 inches helps.
As for medical intervention, a lot of people who are eventually diagnosed with LPR are bounced around between ENT and gastro doctors until you finally hit on someone who can help. There are so few that are knowledgeable about LPR and the difference between regular acid reflux. First course of action is PPI's. these are drugs that reduce stomach acid. They are terrible, terrible drugs to be on long-term. Reducing acid effects digestion and can lead to other stomach issue. They also have a number of bad side effect, some of which you mentioned. Long-term use is also believed to effect bone density as well as cause dementia. But some of these PPI haven't been around long enough to really know all the long-term effects.
The final problem is that if you get your LPR under control, through use of medications, identifying and avoiding food triggers, and lifestyle changes like losing weight and elevating the head of your bed, eating smaller meals more frequently and NEVER within 2-3 hours of going to bed, and you decide to try to get off these PPI's it is damn near impossible. There is a horrendous rebound effect. People claim you can tapper down and eventually get off them. I have tried probably a dozen times with no success.
As I said, the medical profession is still learning about LPR (the L & P stand for Larynx/pharynx). Most of what I have learned has been from simply reading some home type remedies that have eventually helped others. One that really helps me during bad periods is sipping high PH water throughout the day. The enzyme in the stomach acid, called Pepsin, that does the damage in the throat, is neutralized when it comes in contact with liquid with a PH balance of about 9 or above.
Even still, sometimes I have weeks or even a month where I am good, and sometimes days or a week that it flares up. I haven't heard of your dry throat home remedy, but will give it a try. Anything is worth a try.
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Originally Posted by pinchingyourballs
kewlJ:
Yes, we discussed my situation. You mentioned having LPR, and believed I had it.
However, I still don't believe I have LPR. This is for a few reasons:
1) Subsequent examinations of my throat did not find any significant irritation consistent with LPR,
2) I did a "PepTest" by mail, where I spit into a vial, send it to the UK, and they analyze it for an enzyme consistent with LPR. It came back negative.
3) At the time, I did not have any known reflux issues in general. I could eat/drink something very acidic, lie down, and not have any heartburn. This is also true for everyone in my immediate family.
4) I went to have a special instrument used on my throat, which takes a video. It goes in through your nose, and produces a clear picture. There's another version of this which goes through your throat, and you gag horribly, but I drove the extra 50 miles for the nose-insertion machine, as it's far more modern and there's no gagging or any significant discomfort. This study did not produce any symptoms of LPR.
The only sign of anything reflux-related was that, about once every year on average, I would wake up with a reflux event where I couldn't breathe. Within 30 seconds, after standing up and gasping for air, I could breathe again. This was scary, and left my throat burning, but ultimately harmless. I first had this in Vegas in 2008, and it freaked me out. I did notice that it was far more common to occur when visiting Vegas (the last one as recently as 2024) than at home in LA. However, again, this doesn't occur often, even when I'm in Vegas.
Anyway, I determined that this lump in my throat feeling is primarily from dryness, and somewhat from just general irritation from postnasal drip.
That's why using the dry mouth rinse made such a dramatic difference. Without it, I would go into choking mode whenever I would lay down, even at an incline. With the rinse, I could easily fall asleep. This was discovered by accident. I was trying the rinse on a night because my girlfriend had bought it for me, and my mouth felt particularly dry on that evening. I woke up in the morning and said, "I don't know if this is significant, but I somehow didn't choke at all and fell right asleep!" That was the first step in getting better.
The second step was having enough time off the PPI meds.
The third step was bringing the caffeine back.
The fourth step was taking low dose Xanax once every 96 hours, in order to "remind" my brain what it's like to feel normal. I feel like this is an underrated strategy in mental health. Some mental health issues are a vicious cycle. Your brain gets used to feeling a certain way under certain circumstances, and it's difficult or impossible to override with logic. Xanax somewhat breaks this cycle, as it somewhat suppresses the fight-or-flight mechanism, and generally slows your thought processes. The more your brain is used to feeling normal, the more it will end up being normal.
This entire process, while unorthodox, was successful. I was seeing a psychiatrist at the time, who admitted he had never heard of this process before, but said it made sense in theory, so he didn't mind my trying it to see if it worked.
Aside from the throat thing, my first real breakthrough was one night in mid-October 2018. I was walking my dog Otis (RIP) at 2am, and watching a Steven Crowder video on YouTube just to keep my mind occupied. At the time, I had both severe anxiety and severe depression, and the depression also caused something called anhedonia, which is the complete inability to feel any positive emotions. You don't feel joy about anything, nor do you feel love, nor do you feel excitement, nor can you enjoy good food or good music. Negative emotions still come through, but positive ones are completely muted. During this walk, I laughed at a joke Crowder made. This was my first laughter in 2 months, and seconds later, I knew it was a great sign. About a minute later, I laughed at another joke made by one of Crowder's co-hosts. As dumb as this sounds, it was one of the best moments of my life. I said out loud to my dog, "Did you hear that, Otis? I laughed! I actually laughed! I think I'm finally starting to come back."
Within a few days, the entire depression was gone. The anxiety took another month to dissipate, and got to about 85% better. I never got 100% back.