>I went in for bronchitis, and I came out with a prescription for a generic antibiotic, and a prescription for Prilosec.
Mazarin5, if you use Google to search for bronchitis and acid reflux, you will find pages that mention acid reflux as a possible cause for bronchitis. It's possible that the doc who treated you thought that your bronchitis was caused by GERD or stomach acid making its way up into your esophagus. He wasn't trying to give you random pills just to make the drug rep happy. There is a connection between acid reflux and bronchitis. I am not an expert on this topic so I encourage you to do your own research with Google.
>Seriously man, once you cure your crap taste in music you'll sleep like a newborn babe.
Dude! Please tell me that you did not just rip on The 80's. Who can have a bad day when they are driving down the freeway singing along to "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo?:^)
"Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) is repetitive cramping or jerking of the legs during sleep. It is the only movement disorder that occurs only during sleep, and it is sometimes called periodic leg (or limb) movements during sleep. "Periodic" refers to the fact that the movements are repetitive and rhythmic, occurring about every 20-40 seconds. PLMD is also considered a sleep disorder, because the movements often disrupt sleep and lead to daytime sleepiness."
Holy cow! Legs jerking at night, daytime sleepiness...that sounds exactly like my symptoms!! Oh wait, this whole "designer disease" was made up by GlaxoSmithKline just to sell more Requip (according to my good friend Causality)...
>It's a condition in the USA caused by taking too many meds.
Frosty, I know you were going for the +5 Funny (hey, even I appreciate your sense of humor) but there are medications that make RLS worse. If a person does not get the sleep problem diagnosed correctly, other meds they are taking may intensify the problem.
Oh shit! That's the one thing the docs have not tested for. I will print your message and talk to the docs on Monday. I will need to do some research on what sort of dietary changes I should make if the tests indicate that I really am a sheep. I am indebted to you, Anonymous Coward.:^)
I'm glad that I brightened your Saturday, Clang Jangle.:^)
"high strung people get jimmy legs". Cut back on the caffeine, alcohol, tobacco,
On a serious note, I have tried changing my diet to see if that has an effect on my legs. I have gone completely off caffeine for a couple of weeks. No change. I drink very little alcohol so there isn't much for me to cut out. I have never used tobacco. There are other dietary changes that RLS suffers can make like cutting back on high-carb foods at night. I have also tried supplements like magnesium. None of the dietary changes have helped me but that doesn't mean other people should not try them.
Actually, I do have a reason: You posted a message on/. saying that you think RLS is a "designer disease". You are spreading mis-information that could potentially have a negative affect on someone who is searching the web for info on RLS. I don't want a person to read your "opinion" and think that you actually know what you are talking about.
>for if you do that, the suffering is yours and does not affect me in the slightest.
Do you do this passive-aggressive shit all the time? It's slightly annoying.
>I'll give you some friendly advice.
Free advice is often worth exactly what you pay for it...
>calmly explain to that person why you believe they are misinformed. You may even convince them.
I don't want to convince you that you are wrong. You are a nutcase and you are spreading mis-information that may have a negative effect on someone else's health. I suppose you are also anti-vaccination because the guvmint uses the annual flu vaccines for mind control.
>What you're doing here, however, has no chance of working.
And, once again, you are presenting your opinion. Personally, I think you are a douchebag and I don't care what you think will or will not work. My only concern is that your comments will harm someone else who reads them.
But I can't be a "sick boy" because Dr. Causality has learnt us that there ain't no such thang as the Restless Legs.
I guess the sleep docs have been lying to me and this "sleep disorder" stuff is all made-up. Maybe Dr. C was right about my problems being caused by my daddy never being home and my momma didn't hug me enough.:^)
>Now I have already said that this is my personal opinion and I am not a medical practitoner.
Great. Thanks for letting everyone know that you are not a specialist in sleep disorders. So your opinion regarding medications used to treat sleep disorders holds as much weight as my opinion on how well someone speaks French (a topic I know absolutely nothing about).
Here is my opinion: You are still a dickwad.
Please continue to insert your comment about RLS being a "designer disease" into the orifice I mentioned in my previous message.
That's why you have so many "designer diseases" like Restless Leg Syndrome.
I have been diagnosed with that "designer disease", you dickwad. How did the doctor determine that I have Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)? I have had two sleep studies at a local hospital. During the studies, dozens of electrodes connected to my body monitored everything from my brain waves to the movement of my calf muscles. The summary reports from the sleep studies show that I shift between different stages of sleep much more frequently than "normal" people. While reviewing the results of the first sleep study with me, the doctor pointed to a section of the sleep stage vs. time graph and said that I moved my legs 66 times per hour and awoke 22 times per hour. I don't get restful sleep like "normal" people because my legs move while I am asleep. The sleep doc that I was working with did not fabricate those results just to sell me more Requip or Mirapex.
Please stick your "designer disease" comment for RLS up your ass.
>Time Warner Telecom [twtelecom.com] is a level 1 provider. I think that they own Time Warner Cable (or are their backbone).
No, Time Warner Telecom (AS4323) and Time Warner Cable (AS20231) are two different companies. In fact, Time Warner Telecom changed its name to "TW Telecom" to differentiate itself from Time Warner Cable.
I am connected to both TW Telecom and Time Warner Cable at work. There is a *world* of difference between the tech support at the two companies. One is an Internet Service Provider and the other is a cable company that happens to offer cheap Internet connectivity.
I think that most Slashdotters are referring to Time Warner Cable when they say "Time Warner is teh evil!".
>perhaps one of the best one-liners Arnie ever delivered
what about this classic Ahnold line?
Low Life #1: So who are you, man?
[Kimble racks his shot-gun]
Low Life #1: Shit!
[he scrambles out of the way just before Kimble blasts the couch apart]
Detective John Kimble: I'm the party pooper.
Except when Ahnold says it, it's more like "Ahm the pahty poopah."
> For example, previously the customer had to purchase software AND hardware from us, now they can purchase the software standalone and bring their own hardware to use.
Medical software vendors sold packaged hardware and software systems because the profit margin on the hardware was very healthy. I've dealt with scumbags like this in the past. The vendor claimed that their software would be supported *only* on hardware that they've certified. Bullshit.
The days of buying hardware from the software vendor are gone (thank God!).
In days gone by, I used to do a lot of work with VAX and Alpha systems running VMS in healthcare environments. We'd get quotes from the software vendor for new hardware, laugh heartily and then buy the VAX or Alpha hardware (and storage!) from somewhere else at a greatly reduced price.
You've got it backwards. Asthma is linked with excessive cleanliness. People who are raised on farms and exposed to a lot o dirt don't get asthma. Google "hygiene hypothesis asthma" sometime.
I call bullshit. Living on a farm does not cure/prevent asthma. The more likely theory is that people with asthma find jobs other than working/living on a farm. The people who don't have asthma and choose to live/work on a farm end-up having children that don't have asthma.
GUI in routers do provide a quick glace as to what is going on. High end Cisco routers do NOT have a nice web-gui as it is entirely CLI based except for some home versions of the PIX.
Well, the PIX isn't really a *router*. But as long as you mentioned the Cisco firewall product line (which includes the ASA), have you tried ASDM? It's maturing into a pretty useful way to admin a Cisco firewall through a GUI.
When you said "home version of the PIX", I assume that you are referring to the PIX 501 and possibly the 506. Those devices can run the PDM GUI interface which is kinda clunky.
The *first* Cyberknife? No, it's the first Cyberknife in the *UK*. We've had a Cyberknife for more than a year and ours was not the first in Southeast Wisconsin.
I can't believe that it doesn't matter to you that, piece by piece, we are descending into a police state, where it's okay to trade freedom for security.
Soon, you won't be able to get any government services without a national ID card. You won't be permitted to leave the country without applying for an exit visa.
Ohmigod, copponex! You better get out while you still can. I'll watch for the all-seeing eye of the repressive US government while you pack. Hurry, I think you will be able to slip across the border (into Mexico or Canada - your choice) before the sun comes up.
Believe it or not, some of us actually like living here (the US).
Wow, copponex, you sound really unhappy living in the good ole US of A. Maybe it's time for you to start looking for somewhere else to call home.
Ignore the cries of injustice in the inner city.
That sentence made me laugh. You really dug deep for that one. The "cries of injustice in the inner city". Tell me, what do "cries of injustice in the inner city" sound like? Does it sound like this: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed?"
There is no such thing as a good reason to join the military. At least in America you have the choice NOT to. I boggles the mind that any country without a conscription law actually HAS any military AT ALL. Are people really that fucking STUPID.
PS. Sorry, I usually don't swear so much in posts - but I have seen this too much... I get very angry at the people who still pretend soldiers are heroes. I think the people who refuse to join up are the real heroes. Human life is worth more than having your college tuition paid off.
1. So you think that US should not have any military at all? Are you really that fucking stupid?
2. Like I said to the other retard who made a disparaging remark about the brave men and women who *volunteer* to protect your freedom, your rights and your saftey, don't let the door hit you in the ass. You are free to leave the US any time you like. I hear the free health care in Canada is really swell. Send us a postcard once you get settled in your new country...or not.
Last time I checked, it's my own government that distresses me and tries its best to keep me down. Never once has any Muslim extremist bothered me personally. The U.S. government does so every single day though.
1. You are free to run for office and change the "government that distresses you and tries its best to keep you down".
2. You are free to leave the country any time you like if things are really so bad here. I hear Canada has really great free healthcare. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
Taking a cheap shot at people who voluntarily choose to serve their country by joining the armed forces is just wrong. The military does not set foreign policy and does not decide which country to invade. Those decisions are made by politicians (the same ones trying to keep you down). The people that you are mocking with your "Anyone that joins the armed forces doesn't think" comment would give their life to defend your *right* to continue trash-talking.
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>I went in for bronchitis, and I came out with a prescription for a generic antibiotic, and a prescription for Prilosec.
Mazarin5, if you use Google to search for bronchitis and acid reflux, you will find pages that mention acid reflux as a possible cause for bronchitis. It's possible that the doc who treated you thought that your bronchitis was caused by GERD or stomach acid making its way up into your esophagus. He wasn't trying to give you random pills just to make the drug rep happy. There is a connection between acid reflux and bronchitis. I am not an expert on this topic so I encourage you to do your own research with Google.
>Seriously man, once you cure your crap taste in music you'll sleep like a newborn babe.
:^)
Dude! Please tell me that you did not just rip on The 80's. Who can have a bad day when they are driving down the freeway singing along to "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo?
>Do you also have nerd rage syndrome, Scott?
:^)
Calm down.
You could have nailed the +5 funny if you had just added:
"It sounds like someone needs his nap."
Gaspyy, teh Google is full of good information on RLS:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=rls&fp=0_TDBcSQxa0
Another term I have heard used when talking about RLS is PLMD:
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/periodic_limb_movement_disorder/article_em.htm
Holy cow! Legs jerking at night, daytime sleepiness...that sounds exactly like my symptoms!! Oh wait, this whole "designer disease" was made up by GlaxoSmithKline just to sell more Requip (according to my good friend Causality)...
>It's a condition in the USA caused by taking too many meds.
Frosty, I know you were going for the +5 Funny (hey, even I appreciate your sense of humor) but there are medications that make RLS worse. If a person does not get the sleep problem diagnosed correctly, other meds they are taking may intensify the problem.
>Scott, you're a SHEEP.
:^)
Oh shit! That's the one thing the docs have not tested for. I will print your message and talk to the docs on Monday. I will need to do some research on what sort of dietary changes I should make if the tests indicate that I really am a sheep. I am indebted to you, Anonymous Coward.
>You also seem to suffer from Restless Mouth Syndrome (RMS). I suggest yo try some BSD.
;^)
Thank you for the suggestion, Mikkeles. I am downloading it right now. I will give it a shot tonight.
http://www.freebsd.org/
>Dickwad, LOL
:^)
I'm glad that I brightened your Saturday, Clang Jangle.
"high strung people get jimmy legs". Cut back on the caffeine, alcohol, tobacco,
On a serious note, I have tried changing my diet to see if that has an effect on my legs. I have gone completely off caffeine for a couple of weeks. No change. I drink very little alcohol so there isn't much for me to cut out. I have never used tobacco. There are other dietary changes that RLS suffers can make like cutting back on high-carb foods at night. I have also tried supplements like magnesium. None of the dietary changes have helped me but that doesn't mean other people should not try them.
>You have absolutely no reason to hate me
/. saying that you think RLS is a "designer disease". You are spreading mis-information that could potentially have a negative affect on someone who is searching the web for info on RLS. I don't want a person to read your "opinion" and think that you actually know what you are talking about.
Actually, I do have a reason: You posted a message on
>for if you do that, the suffering is yours and does not affect me in the slightest.
Do you do this passive-aggressive shit all the time? It's slightly annoying.
>I'll give you some friendly advice.
Free advice is often worth exactly what you pay for it...
>calmly explain to that person why you believe they are misinformed. You may even convince them.
I don't want to convince you that you are wrong. You are a nutcase and you are spreading mis-information that may have a negative effect on someone else's health. I suppose you are also anti-vaccination because the guvmint uses the annual flu vaccines for mind control.
>What you're doing here, however, has no chance of working.
And, once again, you are presenting your opinion. Personally, I think you are a douchebag and I don't care what you think will or will not work. My only concern is that your comments will harm someone else who reads them.
>Calm down Scott. Please take your meds.
:^)
Well played, Frosty. I'd give you a mod point for that one if I could.
>You're the one that's fucked up, stfu sick boy
:^)
:^)
Thank you, Anonymous.
But I can't be a "sick boy" because Dr. Causality has learnt us that there ain't no such thang as the Restless Legs.
I guess the sleep docs have been lying to me and this "sleep disorder" stuff is all made-up. Maybe Dr. C was right about my problems being caused by my daddy never being home and my momma didn't hug me enough.
>Now I have already said that this is my personal opinion and I am not a medical practitoner.
Great. Thanks for letting everyone know that you are not a specialist in sleep disorders. So your opinion regarding medications used to treat sleep disorders holds as much weight as my opinion on how well someone speaks French (a topic I know absolutely nothing about).
Here is my opinion: You are still a dickwad.
Please continue to insert your comment about RLS being a "designer disease" into the orifice I mentioned in my previous message.
Thank you,
-Scott
That's why you have so many "designer diseases" like Restless Leg Syndrome.
I have been diagnosed with that "designer disease", you dickwad. How did the doctor determine that I have Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)? I have had two sleep studies at a local hospital. During the studies, dozens of electrodes connected to my body monitored everything from my brain waves to the movement of my calf muscles. The summary reports from the sleep studies show that I shift between different stages of sleep much more frequently than "normal" people. While reviewing the results of the first sleep study with me, the doctor pointed to a section of the sleep stage vs. time graph and said that I moved my legs 66 times per hour and awoke 22 times per hour. I don't get restful sleep like "normal" people because my legs move while I am asleep. The sleep doc that I was working with did not fabricate those results just to sell me more Requip or Mirapex.
Please stick your "designer disease" comment for RLS up your ass.
Thank you,
-Scott
>Time Warner Telecom [twtelecom.com] is a level 1 provider. I think that they own Time Warner Cable (or are their backbone).
No, Time Warner Telecom (AS4323) and Time Warner Cable (AS20231) are two different companies. In fact, Time Warner Telecom changed its name to "TW Telecom" to differentiate itself from Time Warner Cable.
I am connected to both TW Telecom and Time Warner Cable at work. There is a *world* of difference between the tech support at the two companies. One is an Internet Service Provider and the other is a cable company that happens to offer cheap Internet connectivity.
I think that most Slashdotters are referring to Time Warner Cable when they say "Time Warner is teh evil!".
>perhaps one of the best one-liners Arnie ever delivered
what about this classic Ahnold line?
Low Life #1: So who are you, man?
[Kimble racks his shot-gun]
Low Life #1: Shit!
[he scrambles out of the way just before Kimble blasts the couch apart]
Detective John Kimble: I'm the party pooper.
Except when Ahnold says it, it's more like "Ahm the pahty poopah."
Energy Secretary addresses large coal pile:
"I Chu-Chu-Chuse you."
> For example, previously the customer had to purchase software AND hardware from us, now they can purchase the software standalone and bring their own hardware to use.
Medical software vendors sold packaged hardware and software systems because the profit margin on the hardware was very healthy. I've dealt with scumbags like this in the past. The vendor claimed that their software would be supported *only* on hardware that they've certified. Bullshit.
The days of buying hardware from the software vendor are gone (thank God!).
In days gone by, I used to do a lot of work with VAX and Alpha systems running VMS in healthcare environments. We'd get quotes from the software vendor for new hardware, laugh heartily and then buy the VAX or Alpha hardware (and storage!) from somewhere else at a greatly reduced price.
You've got it backwards. Asthma is linked with excessive cleanliness. People who are raised on farms and exposed to a lot o dirt don't get asthma. Google "hygiene hypothesis asthma" sometime.
I call bullshit. Living on a farm does not cure/prevent asthma. The more likely theory is that people with asthma find jobs other than working/living on a farm. The people who don't have asthma and choose to live/work on a farm end-up having children that don't have asthma.
> HIPPA
HIPAA
GUI in routers do provide a quick glace as to what is going on. High end Cisco routers do NOT have a nice web-gui as it is entirely CLI based except for some home versions of the PIX.
Well, the PIX isn't really a *router*. But as long as you mentioned the Cisco firewall product line (which includes the ASA), have you tried ASDM? It's maturing into a pretty useful way to admin a Cisco firewall through a GUI.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6121/index.html
When you said "home version of the PIX", I assume that you are referring to the PIX 501 and possibly the 506. Those devices can run the PDM GUI interface which is kinda clunky.
The *first* Cyberknife? No, it's the first Cyberknife in the *UK*. We've had a Cyberknife for more than a year and ours was not the first in Southeast Wisconsin.
For more details:
http://www.prohealthcare.org/services/cyberknife/index.aspx
I can't believe that it doesn't matter to you that, piece by piece, we are descending into a police state, where it's okay to trade freedom for security.
Soon, you won't be able to get any government services without a national ID card. You won't be permitted to leave the country without applying for an exit visa.
Ohmigod, copponex! You better get out while you still can. I'll watch for the all-seeing eye of the repressive US government while you pack. Hurry, I think you will be able to slip across the border (into Mexico or Canada - your choice) before the sun comes up.
Believe it or not, some of us actually like living here (the US).
Wow, copponex, you sound really unhappy living in the good ole US of A. Maybe it's time for you to start looking for somewhere else to call home.
Ignore the cries of injustice in the inner city.
That sentence made me laugh. You really dug deep for that one. The "cries of injustice in the inner city". Tell me, what do "cries of injustice in the inner city" sound like? Does it sound like this: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed?"
There is no such thing as a good reason to join the military. At least in America you have the choice NOT to. I boggles the mind that any country without a conscription law actually HAS any military AT ALL. Are people really that fucking STUPID.
PS. Sorry, I usually don't swear so much in posts - but I have seen this too much... I get very angry at the people who still pretend soldiers are heroes. I think the people who refuse to join up are the real heroes. Human life is worth more than having your college tuition paid off.
1. So you think that US should not have any military at all? Are you really that fucking stupid?
2. Like I said to the other retard who made a disparaging remark about the brave men and women who *volunteer* to protect your freedom, your rights and your saftey, don't let the door hit you in the ass. You are free to leave the US any time you like. I hear the free health care in Canada is really swell. Send us a postcard once you get settled in your new country...or not.
Last time I checked, it's my own government that distresses me and tries its best to keep me down. Never once has any Muslim extremist bothered me personally. The U.S. government does so every single day though.
1. You are free to run for office and change the "government that distresses you and tries its best to keep you down".
2. You are free to leave the country any time you like if things are really so bad here. I hear Canada has really great free healthcare. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
Taking a cheap shot at people who voluntarily choose to serve their country by joining the armed forces is just wrong. The military does not set foreign policy and does not decide which country to invade. Those decisions are made by politicians (the same ones trying to keep you down). The people that you are mocking with your "Anyone that joins the armed forces doesn't think" comment would give their life to defend your *right* to continue trash-talking.