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I’ve loved these Sleepbuds since the original Bose ones, but like everyone suffered battery issues with the first generation, and sound issues with the second.

When my Sleepbuds 2 finally died, I jumped on the kickstarter for Ozlos where I got just over a year out of them before my left bud started losing volume. I tried playing with the volume, the Bluetooth connection, firmware updates and there was also no wax blocking any of them either but they wouldn’t fix.

I contacted support just in case there were any known bugs with the kickstarter versions, and they were kind enough to swap out the unit for me.

Six months have just gone by and the left bud has gone again over the last week or so. Again, tried the volumes, firmware, no wax blockages. It’s well and truly gone after six months.

I’m in two minds about seeing if I can get a replacement again, or shopping around for new brands. I’m happy with my Ozlo buds but six months of life this time round has really put me off now

I’ve been trying to recover from my emetophobia for a while now, and I feel like I’m making progress, but I’ve been studying Post Infectious IBS for a while now after struggling with frequent nausea long-term after stomach viruses.

I’ll try and keep it as short as I can, but I fell ill with a sickness bug in September 2013 aged 17, and was the first time I’d had sickness since I was a young child. I was out of action for a couple of days but then mostly fine.

But then I started suffering with frequent nausea on evenings and all night. It started off as once a month, then twice, then multiple nights a week and it became debilitating. After being tested at the doctors, he diagnosed me with anxiety and prescribed me propranolol.

A few months into the medication I was starting to feel better and thought that it must be anxiety. I’ve had emetophobia since I was young and so I started practising better hand washing and keeping my mind calmer about stomach viruses. It eased off around January/February 2015 when I started feeling myself again and the nausea disappeared.

March last year, my little boy fell ill with a sickness bug, and kindly passed it onto me. I was fine after about 24 hours. But then six or so weeks later I started suffering with random waves of nausea again during the day.

I thought it was anxiety. Then in the Summer it became really bad and debilitating again to a point I had to cut back on my hours at work (thankfully I’m self employed)

I had a moment during the worst wave of nausea, where I was begging my body to throw up and was ready for it to happen, which is a new one for me but made me realise that this was genuine nausea that wasn’t induced by anxiety. And made me wonder what was going on physically.

The closest diagnosis I’ve come up with is PI-IBS, which I was diagnosed with IBS as a whole when I was a child. It’s got me wondering if it’s been PI-IBS all along, where I’ve had a stomach bug and it’s made me stomach sensitive long term afterwards. But this has sparked a new fear for me. Not the throwing up itself, more now getting sick and suffering with long term nausea for 18-24+ months.

I’m wondering if anybody else has experienced this or similar? And if you’ve managed to find any diets/treatments/medications helpful?

In England. My partner was insured on my car and took her mum to the supermarket one day back in 2024. Security read out the number plate over the tannoy and she found an elderly gentleman had scraped the back wing of the car.

They exchanged details, he admitted liability straight away to his insurance company and they arranged and authorised repairs of my car immediately.

This time last year, I had a second policy elsewhere for Hire & Reward insurance for a van, which got renewed at my usual price I’d been paying years prior. But I decided to take a break and go work full time for a company in September where I sold the van and cancelled the policy.

I’ve decided to go back to self employment and bought a new van last week, where I’m pulling my hair out trying to insure it. I’ve got it insured to be parked up but not working for the time being.

I’ve been getting quoted the same average prices I used to pay from comparison websites and brokers, this is with me logging the no fault claim on the forms. But then all insurance providers have been asking me to call them to discuss the policy before buying, where they’ve been asking me about this incident and I’ve explained, they’ve then all been increasing the premium by about £3,000.

I spoke to a different broker today, where she was the first to tell me on their database, it’s flagging up as £14k was paid out for pothole damage. But she couldn’t tell me anything further when I asked. But to me, pothole damage suggests to me that this has gone through as being my fault? £14k for the repairs sounds about right, it was an expensive car in a rare premium colour and was damaged pretty badly.

I accept that this does increase my premium as it deems me as being more of a risk, but surely not £3k extra?

Where do I stand and where do I go with this?

This guy comes to self serve, had beer and my colleague looked at him up and down, and approved. He went to find a manager and my colleague got a warning. The guy was 35? I thought they sent in people who were young or looked young.

Anyway, he came back yesterday, same guy, same colleague. She asked for ID he laughed and said he wasnt working and she still asked for ID. He didn’t have it, he’s kicked off but we all know what he looks like now, definitely doesn’t look under 25. He’ll be getting ID’ed every time he comes in now

I’m a rookie on day 2 and already starting to feel better in myself already, but I am struggling to fight the urge.

I’m a few months away from turning 30 and have been masturbating daily since I was 13. It’s my morning wood that’s the killer for me and I need to release it every single morning which the older I’m getting and the more life responsibilities I have, it’s becoming more of a chore than a pleasure.

But I’ve been exploring my spiritual side over the last ten or so months after an extremely vivid and lucid dream I had that I’ve been trying to go back to and explore ever since. And I saw somebody post on a Facebook group a few weeks ago how certain species “release their seed” and then die, and it was referring to how we as male humans release our seed, which releases our spiritual energy into the wrong place. And I realised they had a point.

Yesterday I didn’t get time to relieve myself in the morning, and thought to myself I was going to give this a go. My partner is exhausted and run down due to early stages of pregnancy so we’re not sexually active at the minute, and I know myself I need to strengthen my mind in various ways.

It gave me breathing time to think yesterday about my spiritual journey, my life in general and what I hope to achieve. Back to the lucid dreaming, I used to be able to do it all the time when I was younger, and apart from the one last year, I haven’t been able to. It made me wonder if sex and masturbation have been what’s been stopping this energy and ability.

But more so I’m hoping it will boost my overall physical energy, help me build up my testosterone, help build muscle, help my hair grow back thicker as it’s been thinning a lot for some time now. And just overall strengthen my mind, boost my moods and get everything under some sort of control.

I crave sex and releases constantly, to a point I find myself begging my partner for it often. I’m also really fed up of masturbating taking up my mornings and being the only thing I think about. If I’d like to achieve anything from this, it would be the ability to wake up on a morning, get showered and dressed and enjoy my mornings without needing to tug.

But I’m on Day 2 and absolutely bursting to masturbate. I’m trying to keep myself busy and distracted but I’m struggling. I’m just wondering if it does honestly get easier over time? If you do typically think about it less and genuinely get it under control? I know I’m not going to be a “day 100/200 clean” guy as I am in a relationship and we do have sex every once in a while. But I know just being able to wind down the masturbation in general would change my life