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Old 02-10-2013, 12:58 PM   #31
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Good words, Foot.
They speak to me too. But I have a reversible health condition.
I'll take on board what you and Tora and Sarge say and remember I need to sort myself the fuck out while I still can.

NB - no sarcasm in the above post. Sorting out is needed and kind words help.
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Old 02-10-2013, 01:07 PM   #32
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I'll vouch for that shit. I'm having a blast.
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Old 02-10-2013, 02:45 PM   #33
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Jim, you are my current hero and role model. (Not sure if that is a good thing or not)
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Old 02-10-2013, 03:03 PM   #34
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I'll vouch for that shit. I'm having a blast.
rAmen brother.
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Old 02-10-2013, 03:07 PM   #35
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That sounds awful. Cluster headaches are apparently the most painful thing a human can endure, if wikipedia is to be believed.
I'll put an intestinal blockage against cluster headaches on the pain-o-meter. Especially since a blockage can go on for 24 hours or more.
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Old 02-10-2013, 03:15 PM   #36
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Old 02-10-2013, 03:45 PM   #37
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I'll put an intestinal blockage against cluster headaches on the pain-o-meter. Especially since a blockage can go on for 24 hours or more.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but day-um.
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Cluster headache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. I know that's quite a strong remark to make, but if you ask a cluster headache patient if they've had a worse experience, they'll universally say they haven't. ... Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anaesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight or ten weeks at a time, and then have a break.[1]

Many cluster headache sufferers have committed suicide, leading to the nickname "suicide headaches" for cluster headaches.
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Old 02-10-2013, 10:13 PM   #38
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Oh yeah. Constant pain will make you rethink having been born.

Well I might have to give a little on this one. But I'd say it's a close race.

Women I know who have Crohn's also say that they'd rather give birth than have a blockage.
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Old 02-10-2013, 10:23 PM   #39
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Ow. What causes the blockage, do things just stop moving and get impacted or super dessicated? Or is it an almighty inflammation that closes up the pathway?

In either case it must not be good if it comes on after you've had a few meals. Would it make a difference if your GI were empty?

going to do some research now.
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Old 02-10-2013, 10:33 PM   #40
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I'm back from researching.

You win. I'd rather have cluster headaches. I don't even know where I'd start if I had Crohn's. I'm never going to complain again. I guess I need to find a new hobby, then.
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Old 02-10-2013, 10:39 PM   #41
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Inflammation causes your intestines to become a teeny tiny pathway. Along comes some roughage and you've got a plumbing problem. It's too far along the digestive path to throw up. So your system keeps on trying to push it past tissue that is already inflamed and painful. The roughage will eventually pass once it has rotted.

The chest burster scene in Alien was inspired by the author's Crohn's disease.
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Old 02-11-2013, 11:09 PM   #42
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When we were young and invincible. I know the thing you speak precise.

Sarge, not to make light of what you are going through but you could re-frame your experience in a positive light. In many ways you are in an enviable position; you are a clean slate and free to re-invent yourself. Obviously, you have a more limited set of choices than you did when you were young and invincible, but you are now older and wiser and in a better position to see what didn't work in the past and make new choices based on that.

The hardest part is letting go of what you want or wanted, letting go of the desire for something you can't have.
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I'll vouch for that shit. I'm having a blast.
that's what I was vouching for. I just realized that I forgot to quote you in my post.
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Jim, you are my current hero and role model. (Not sure if that is a good thing or not)
I'm assuming you understood for what I vouched. verily.

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rAmen brother.
and you?
you seem to be having a fun time, in general.


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Old 02-11-2013, 11:16 PM   #43
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After reading all that, I think I'll just go bang my shin on the tow bar of my car, just to experience how little it hurts.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:03 AM   #44
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I banged my shin on the door frame of the car the other day, and hit my head on the roof almost simultaneously. My great thanks go to the parcel delivery lady who pulled up where I couldn't see her - and didn't hear either - and then tooted the horn while I was trying to strap the baby in her harness.

It hurt. I still have a lump on my shin.
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