u/Dead_Phish812

I was diagnosed with FND 3 years ago and most of my symptoms deal with movement, balance, and loss of muscle strength. I do have to use a rollator to walk to keep my balance. The reason I'm writing this is that I have been on a diet and have lost nearly 20 pounds, and now my core muscles keep overcompensating to stabilize me after I do almost anything strenuous. I read that it is natural for your core muscles to work harder when you lose weight, as they don't have the extra fat to help stabilize you. However, because FND is in the mix, the signals are going haywire and I'm constantly flexing my core. It feels like my core muscles won't disengage and end up turning into spasms. It is really painful. Has anyone dealt with this or have any advice?

So I just bought a copy of House of Leaves, and I am just curious about the difficulty of the read. The most difficult book I have read is The Silmarilion and I had to have maps, family trees, and other resources to make sure I understood everything that was happening. Is it something similar to that, where I need to take notes and have some sort of preparation for it, or is it more of a purposeful confusion to dissorient the reader?

Thanks!

So I made the switch about a month and a half ago because I can't hold onto picks anymore due to neuropathy in the fingers. I have been playing for around 20 years, and everything is going ok as far as the switch goes. I'm learning a lot of my already known material slowly but surely. My main problem is when I try to play anything with a few quick notes in succession using PMI or just PI, my thumb is always grazing against the string above it ( example: playing the G and grazing against the D), which makes it ring out. No matter how I adjust my hand or my thumb, I can't get it to go away. I was wondering if there is a certain technique I should be working on to help this go away, or if this is just something par for the course in terms of learning this new method? I also do not have fingernails, and I'm not using a thumb pick.

Thanks!