Chaotic Coffee Klatch (tea also available)

[Strixaluco]

That’s amazing. You’ve had such success with it! I don’t think I’d be eligible for it now.

My strokes mostly affected the vision centre in my brain. I have a couple of lasting deficits, one being that I have no peripheral vision. You can sneak right up on me. My kids love it, tiny cute terrorists.

Maybe later then? I think they do cataract operations even to people who have had a stroke, and that's a bit more invasive than an ordinary laser treatment, as they actually switch the lenses to artificial ones.

 

[Mika1215]

Maybe later then? I think they do cataract operations even to people who have had a stroke, and that's a bit more invasive than an ordinary laser treatment, as they actually switch the lenses to artificial ones.

Yes. You can (usually) have cataract surgery pretty much forever. My stepdaughter works in for an eye practice, so I know all sorts of weird shit.

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

That I was gay. I took my gay buddy to meet her.

Wow, you have an amazing strength, I'd be too cowardly to bring it up. Actually, I am cause I never told my dad

 

[cheekygirl75]

Morning lovely people

Morning! Love the new title!

Yeah it’s crazy. There are so many different treatments. it feels like painful guess work when you’re in the middle of it with little success or end in sight.

Ugh, sounds like trying to find the right medication for depression. Another reason why I think commercials for prescription drugs should be illegal - it gets patients’ hopes up that this new thing will solve all their problems! But it’s still always a trial and error

 

[jaF0]

I can cite the moment I was in sight of the site.

 

[Strixaluco]

Ugh, sounds like trying to find the right medication for depression. Another reason why I think commercials for prescription drugs should be illegal - it gets patients’ hopes up that this new thing will solve all their problems! But it’s still always a trial and error

Here they are. No advertizing prescription meds.

And depression meds are a PITA. Either they don't really work, or the side effects are too much, or both. At the moment I have one that doesn't really work, at least not with the amount I can take it - but the doctor wants me to use it anyway. So damn stupid.

 

[cheekygirl75]

I only just heard that they do commercials for them over there. They don’t over here.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous that they do

 

[Mika1215]

Here they are. No advertizing prescription meds.

And depression meds are a PITA. Either they don't really work, or the side effects are too much, or both. At the moment I have one that doesn't really work, at least not with the amount I can take it - but the doctor wants me to use it anyway. So damn stupid.

Here you can advertise prescription meds, but you also have to put all of the warnings in the commercials. So it's a little surreal, usually lots of happy pretty people and then MAY CAUSE DEATH AND SEIZURES or something. I have mixed feelings. Patients are often not well-informed about available options, and it's always better to be better informed about what is available. On the other hand, well, I don't even have to explain that part.

I think that if your AD med is not working for you, and you know that, you are a better judge of that than your doctor, most of the time.

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

Wow, you have an amazing strength, I'd be too cowardly to bring it up. Actually, I am cause I never told my dad

Aww you guys don't be sad, I'm at peace with that decision. My dad was the kind of person my Aunties would call over to beat my cousins up until they decide they're straight after all.

I had to be a bit more strategic, subtly convince him that love comes in different forms over the years. Cause I like my nose the way it is, not broken

 

[Mika1215]

My colleagues often enjoy it also. Cunts.

I'm just convinced that I'm a truly terrible person, because I loathe being startled, and I loathe practical jokes, and yet I've been sitting here laughing my ass off at all the possibilities that your mom not having peripheral vision could open for a kid.

 

[htobeme5]

I am the same.. I wear Transition Glasses that change into sunglasses outside.. And they are getting better at changing back quickly once you go back inside again
Without being on the pill of course... LOL

my ex was on the pill, off the pill so often due to migraines, never knew when we were protected or not.

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

Morning pervs!
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[cascadiabound]

Here they are. No advertizing prescription meds.

That used to be the rule in the US until Reagan administration decided the pharmaceutical companies ought to direct market. It's stupid and terrible for the public imo.
I have SO many complaints about prescription commercials. So many are misleading, are for *problems* that are so rare it is irresponsible to advertise to the general public. My current pet peeves are on the ones to treat Tardive disconesia (the culprit meds that cause this are rarely prescribed any more) and the floating bent carrot commercials for pirones disease. In 30 years of family practice I don't recall a patient presenting with a penile fracture. I'm not saying it doesn't happen (it does) it just doesn't rise to a general, prime time TV marketing campaign.
I wish they would just stop. One of many reasons healthcare in the US is both expensive and broken.

/rant over

 

[jaF0]

I only just heard that they do commercials for them over there. They don’t over here.

Yeah, you get 10 seconds of what it can do FOR you and 2 and a half minutes of what it can do TO you.

 

[Mika1215]

Morning pervs!
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Hm. I'd reconsider the backyard chicken idea if it would serve me coffee.

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

my ex was on the pill, off the pill so often due to migraines, never knew when we were protected or not.

Now that is gambling

 

[cheekygirl75]

Aww you guys don't be sad, I'm at peace with that decision. My dad was the kind of person my Aunties would call over to beat my cousins up until they decide they're straight after all.

I had to be a bit more strategic, subtly convince him that love comes in different forms over the years. Cause I like my nose the way it is, not broken

Still, that doesn’t sound very fun to grow up with

my ex was on the pill, off the pill so often due to migraines, never knew when we were protected or not.

Welcome to the chaos!

 

[Mika1215]

Yeah, you get 10 seconds of what it can do FOR you and 2 and a half minutes of what it can do TO you.

This is SO true.

I will say, it was much worse when they just got to advertise *without* having to put any kind of warnings in, or maybe it was just not at the level they have to now.

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

Hm. I'd reconsider the backyard chicken idea if it would serve me coffee.

Would you really want coffee served by a chicken though?

 

[Mika1215]

Would you really want coffee served by a chicken though?

Well, no, but if it could make my tea...

 

[jaF0]

What do you call he rooster in charge of the henhouse?








Peckerhead.

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

Would you really want coffee served by a chicken though?

I dunno... this looks delicious

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

Well, no, but if it could make my tea...

But then thats less tea to throw in a harbor

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

I dunno... this looks delicious

Crock pot chicken is delicious we just did some pulled pork in one...

 

[drobert44]

Wow, you have an amazing strength, I'd be too cowardly to bring it up. Actually, I am cause I never told my dad

We raised our kids to be tolerant.