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I just wanted to say, first and foremost, that I apologize for any information that may sound like I am misled on because I don’t quite understand this stuff as much as my mom does, but I’m just trying to help her out by reaching out to this subreddit. She’s always busy and I have tons of time so I will help out.

My mom is 60, and has been on Wegovy since around August 2025. Every shot she has taken, which has been weekly, she has felt absolutely horrible with no sign of getting used to it, and her doses keep increasing before she has any chance to do so. Her symptoms are mostly nausea and her mood down.

She used to go to the gym all the time, and became really fit around 2014-2017 and her energy and mood were at its best, but I guess as she has gotten older, hormones have taken over and have made it really hard for her to maintain her weight loss. I’d say she started to experiment with weight loss medications around 2020-2021. I believe it was Red Mountain weight loss and that did wonders for her. She didn’t get sick off of them and saw results, but they became super expensive and outpriced her so he had to stop.

We used to go to the gym in the mornings around 3-4 years back, and we carried that on for a few months, but she didn’t really feel it. She never sweated and she just didn’t feel like she was getting much out of it even though she wanted it to so we just gradually stopped going. She did go for morning walks every morning around the same time but that started to cease somewhat before she got on Wegovy and when she got on Wegovy, she didn’t want to go at all.

There’s a lot of stuff with her diet that I’m not totally well versed on so I will refrain from speaking on it, but I know she has had to adjust based on her Wegovy intake. On the days she gets the shots, she’ll eat a small dinner or won’t eat dinner at all. And on the days after the shots when she’s feeling the worst, she’ll eat smaller meals like crackers and such. She really only feels the worst on the day after the shot, and a little bit into the day after that, and then she feels better until she has to do it all again.

It’s gotten to the point where she really wants to ween off of it. She has only been able to get 23 pounds shed from the medication and she said she should really be close to 40 by now, a year after starting. It really feels like the negatives are outweighing the one semi-positive result at this point.

She also has a problem with heartburn and indigestion, and she really thinks her gut microbiome is out of sorts, which I guess is commonplace everywhere but I thought I would mention it.

We have explored doctors and such, and she has insurance but a lot of the places we feel are best in terms of functional medicine do not take insurance, instead opting for direct cash pay which can be very expensive. We live around the Houston area and she has been with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic with doctors there, but they don’t seem to be as hands on with this kind of stuff as we would think. She really doesn’t like doing all of the weekly telemedicine visits and checkups haha.

Her biggest fear, of course, is regaining all of the weight back, unable to do anything about it, along with all of the other potential risk factors getting off GLP-1s even if she starts committing to exercise again, along with calorie counting and diet watching.

I know this was long, but I’m coming to the people of Reddit hoping there may be anything we can do for her to get off Wegovy without misery, if that’s even feasible, which hopefully it is.

I’ve gotten spammed with notifications about Sid this and Sid that and I guess I’ve only brushed the surface of how passionate this fanbase can get

Just enjoy the music man. Every one of the remaining original members are all cranky old men. Bands break over time. I’m just glad for what they have given us. Everything else beyond it is a bonus. I like all of the new members. I like their sound outside of self-titled and Iowa, yada yada yada.

Anyways, good day.

So I’ve been using my Seestar S30 Pro and it’s been great. Taken a few images so far. I’ve gotten this thing pretty keyed in when I’m at my mom’s house, and I go out to the backyard every night depending on clouds.

What I’ve noticed is that every time I try to go to a new place and image, like my stepdad’s house or my real dad’s house, I’m always having issues with dropped frames.

I use EQ mode now after learning how to set it up, and I do it twice just to be sure. I also use a little dew shield since I’m around Houston.

I’m thinking that it’s more a problem with something I just haven’t figured out yet, because the scope always remains successful at my mom’s so I don’t think it’s an issue with that. I just can’t pinpoint why my frames are getting dropped all the time in other places. I always make sure my tripod is on a stable surface, and my bortle 7-8 area has really not caused a big issue for me.

Things to note, I don’t use a weight on my tripod, and I’m still open to any potential EQ alignment tips since I know just the basic setup. Maybe the humidity is an issue even with my shield? I have no idea. My lens never looks fogged nor does it appear that way on the camera.

I’m also not saying this is a location based issue, regarding mentioning my family’s houses. I am just saying that because it’s the only variable that’s happening.

Anyone that can help will be appreciated.

YYZ, La Villa, Where’s My Thing?, Leave That Thing Alone, Limbo, The Main Monkey Business, Hope, or Malignant Narcissism?

My favorite is La Villa, but Leave That Thing Alone is a very close 2nd.

This is no way a criticism of anything, because I don’t need to. Anika has done a phenomenal service for Neil, filling in for such a heavily scrutinized position. As a drummer myself, I have two positive notes I want to elaborate on.

1 - is that she’s having fun and has revitalized an energy within the entire band that was there when Neil was with us. We didn’t even know if Geddy and Alex wanted to perform anymore, or at least under the Rush name. At least, that whole time of inactivity felt uncertain, but now they are back out there and it’s everything we could’ve imagined and more. I just have to say, any DRUMMER being able to do that for any band is unbelievable and it speaks to how well Anika’s chemistry has instantly connected with Geddy and Alex for all of us to see through their performances.

I saw a comment once about the Anika decision that went along the lines of: “When they announced Anika Nilles, I wasn’t worried at all because the last time Geddy and Alex chose a drummer, they chose Neil.”

2 - is how well her nuances fit within the parts of the songs and how she is able to feel the freedom to expand beyond just doing a 1-for-1 recreation of the original recordings. Her fluid and lyrical approach and style to the kit fits in so well with what Neil did. Every drummer will change things up when playing live, but it’s obvious Geddy and Alex made her feel very comfortable in such a high pressure situation, so she can play as Neil and herself at the same time. Textbook professionalism all around.

I can’t wait to go see them in September with my dad. It will be his 22nd time seeing them and my 6th time (I’m 23 y/o)

I am 23 years old. I got into Rush at a very early age, around 7, because they are my dad’s favorite band and I was taken aback instantly by what “that guy in the back” was doing. I was always keeping rhythm with anything all the way back when I was 2 or 3, but realizing the concept of drumming exists was so cool to me.

I started playing drums myself around the same time at 7, when my parents got me a little electric kit and I remembered I wanted to play just like NP. My favorite song was YYZ and my parents always wanted me to play that whenever friends would come over. The Trees was also up there, and 2112.

Fast forward to now at 23 and I’ve transitioned to playing acoustic and I’ve had real experiences playing live gigs with a band I was in for about a year and a half. Now, it’s mainly just a hobby as I look to other ventures, but it’s my most abused hobby and I make sure to play almost every day.

When I heard that Rush was bringing on Anika to play for their new tour, I was already pretty confident because I knew of her already through the drumming community and I knew that girl could play. Her style actually reminded me a lot of NP already fluidity wise, so I was over the moon about it but I knew that it might have been a shock to the masses because she was never that well known. Now she is, and I’m so glad that everyone gets to see her skill on a huge stage.

I memorized a lot of Neil’s parts through a bunch of songs and seeing her execute all of that flawlessly during the Monday show was so awesome that I almost got emotional. Neil Peart will always be one of one, but if you didn’t think he’s smiling down on Anika right now, I am almost for certain that you’re wrong. I’m sorry. Watching that whole show on YouTube was one of the most unbelievable feats I’ve ever seen in drumming and I just couldn’t stop being giddy about her nailing every recognizable part as well as adding her own character in. From Xanadu, to Tom Sawyer’s solo, to 2112, Freewill, The Trees, and ESPECIALLY LA VILLA STRANGIATO.

She has honored Neil in the biggest way by playing with two of his best friends, who specifically chose her, for an entire tour, and maybe more?

I am very new to this, and the videos I’ve found on youtube have been kinda hard to follow. I’m using a Seestar S30 Pro, but I think the polar aligning process is generally the same on every Seestar scope (I think?)

So the process is pretty straightforward on the app. I followed the steps, matched the ground level with the current latitude, and chose the appropriate scope point based on where the obstructions were since I’m doing it in my backyard. I chose 3 at the zenith because directly above me was the clearest out of the very few clouds that were present.

After I tapped “get polar alignment deviation” it came back with two red arrows indicating the deviation was off so I readjusted the scope/head (not the stand) until both numbers went green and the checkmark appeared. I hit refresh and it came back with the same red arrows. It kept doing this over and over again and I just couldn’t figure out why?

I don’t know if my scope was unstable in some way, or there was some obstruction that the camera was seeing straight up that I couldn’t see, or if there is anything else I’m missing in process?

One more note, the red arrow numbers were never egregiously off. They never came back above 10, so they were small adjustments I was making.

Any help would be appreciated!

I am 23 years old, so I wasn’t around for all of the old forums like toolshed and such -

but I’ve always wondered why Tool has such a huge catalogue of bootleg recordings from past shows, 1992-2007 (and even more) when they’re usually pretty strict on their recording policy? I thought the irony in that was pretty funny.

Was bootlegging live shows with any artist in general a big thing back in the day? Or was there a huge community of Tool fans who gathered in these forums and agreed to try and film as many shows as possible from those tours? I ask my second question in regards to the existence of the Tool Drive Project website, and I like to go there a lot to listen to recordings.

My favorite band is Tool, and I never was a big music theory guy but they’ve definitely spearheaded that as an interest for me.

One thing that I love they do, and specifically for the vocalist Maynard James Keenan, is using unexpected notes to “clash”, or go against the tuning.

You develop a sense of the tuning as you listen throughout the song, which for Tool usually sounds rather haunting and melancholic, and then there’s that one note that seemingly wouldn’t fit but it does, in uplifting sort of way. I don’t know what you would call this in music theory?

Examples in songs are:

The Patient, line starting at 4:02-4:14 when Maynard says “by now”

Jambi, line starting at 3:36-3:45 when Maynard says “gone”

Right in Two, line starting at 2:38-2:50 when Maynard is elongating the “twooooo” and he’s playing around with the notes

Pushit, line starting at 6:17-6:30 when Maynard elongates the word “again”, but this time, Adam and Justin join Maynard’s tonal shift instead of staying with the initial tuning like the other examples.

They also have more examples I have heard, but these were the most obvious examples I have heard.

We all know it’s great live. Danny likes to change it up with different synth rhythms and freestyles, but what is everyone’s reaction to the track when listening to the album going on 7 years later? Stay to listen or is it a skip nowadays?

As a drummer, I absolutely love it every time it comes on. I love listening to Danny’s flow on the kit. But I know for a lot of others, the synth track might be a bit jarring and there’s overall not a whole lot to the track other than just the same Danny drum solo they’ve heard a thousand times over since it can’t be changed like a live show.

I have generally fared well with counting most Tool songs after a couple of listens but one part that’s always stumped me was Eulogy from 5:05-5:18 after Maynard says “nine-one-two” before it goes into the little drum roll leading into the next part where he’s whispering. Does anyone know?