u/TraditionEmotional82

Years ago, I had yet to have gotten the virus at all. Never had caught it. But the summer of 2021 I got the J&J vaccine (and we all know these vaccines indeed, induce the body to create spike protein, and there has been literature linking the spike protein to the degeneration of the the exracellular matrix, whether from vaccines or from actual infections)

Well. I had gotten the vaccine.

Minths later I started noticing both facial skin/fat tissue, and torso skin changes. Not only that, but my joints would undergo multiple subluxations over and over and over. I remember being in my couch and mov a few inches and my knee DISLOCATED. Extrenely painful. If that was happening to my joints, then it helped explain what was happening to my other cinnective Tissue. In this case my facial and torso skin.

Within months I had noticed that my back had started sagging around the love handle area, and I had an extremely strict consistent diet and no weight loss. No change to my workouts, no change to water retention. I was an athlete and tracked everything that went in and out of my body, especially for weighing due to competitions

I get full blood panels for myself twice a year, and and have done so for years. My doctors and I tried to figure out if anything had changed. It had not….

Even skin around my chest started sagging and becoming extra stretchy

As as far as my face, I remember shaving, and during shaving was stretching the skin, as I always do, while shaving to get a closer shave. As I did this I felt one of the most painful things I’ve ever felt, deep in the face and it felt like something literally tore off my face. It was, according to the doctor I had gone to when I went to the ER, likely the trigeminal nerve that I damaged from putting “too much pressure”, while shaving. Absolutely bullshit. Makes no sense. I always shaved that way. Then minimal stretching of the skin induced so much force and movement that I damaged a nerve??!!!

I watched certain parts of my own face change rapidly, seemingly little by little each time I put any moderate force into stretching my skin

By the end of a few months, my lower face was far more bottom heavy. And my cheek bones became more visible, and I have tons of photo proof of this for all the physicians I went to after noticing this. To the point they were like, “At first I thought it may be something else but it’s clear you’re experiencing facial changes”.

I went to a facial reconstructive surgeon as they know the anatomy of the face, the nerves, the skin and fat tissue, etc, and he said it look like a sudden rapid onset of the things generally seen with aging, which is, descending of the fat tissue (making the bottom of the face heavier, and the cheek bones more prominent as the fat that used to be higher up, was now descended no longer covering the bone adequately. He said he has no idea how mine progressed so quickly. He said the changes I saw in just eight months were absolutely not normal

In addition after the vaccine I had developed a milk allergy. I had drank milk every day my entire last ten years. And after the vaccine, suddenly would get extremely itchy and get an upset stomach

I guess I’m sharing this because, I’m assuming nothing will ever fix this…

but I just….. I just wanted to share what happened to me….

It’s extremely strange to rapidly not recognize your own face in the mirror. The physicians I have seen have acknowledged that something is going on based on my photo evidence…. and these photos were taken years ago before AI editing. I had nothing to fake. I was scared and wanted evidence for any doctor I saw….

I wanted to also know what was going on with the constant joint sublixing that has been going on and hasn’t stopped… I’ve had to give up competing in sports, because running too hard now, for my body, is simply running at all….

If I run at a decent paces I almost always get a slight dislocation or sublixation in my knees….

never EVER happened before the vaccine years ago…That began happening a few days after the vaccine. It was fucking terrifying and still is

So I’ve largely lost a big part of my identity. Don’t recognize myself I the mirror anymore

Dont recognize myself from the neck down athletically either

Seems this spike protein clearly did something horrible to my body and it will never reverse

Huge shame

Sometimes I wonder did this vaccine induce a dormant Lyme disease I may have had? Which I know can destroy connective tissue?

or did the spike protein itself single handedly destroy my connective tissue?

Whoe knows… but I am always especially scared of this getting even worse and making it impossible to walk…..

And just for the record, I had noticed my eyes seemed way deeper in their sockets than before. It was shocking. Went to my ophthalmologist who I have seen for years and THEY REMARKED On it. Without me having said anything. They sent me for a CT scan and found my eyes had literally shifted backwards into their sockets, (a condition known as enopthalmos)

Im completely defeated and just wanted to vent

perhaps it is ultimately related to spike protein/covid gut dysbiosis…..

I just wanted to share

Every day is a struggle to try to remain happy but I’ve been utterly physically destroyed by this whole ordeal.

I use earplugs when I sleep.

Recebtly an earplug impacted wax in my right ear, which has happened before, causing sudden hearing loss from being clogged

I I haven’t gotten around to unclogging it for a few days

Well a few days ago, my right ear when laying down can hear the swooshing effect.

So I am going to unclog my ear with some hydrogen peroxide to see if it goes away entirely.

If it doesn’t then it will be time to see a doctor to figure out if I have venous stenosis

wish me luck!

Definetly hoping it’s just earwax though

Havent had any produce of any kind literally since April. Outbreak then hit the news and I’ve avoided any produce continually. A week ago had some bananas. Stomachs acting up now and not sure if that means I got it but my stomach is way off. The people stocking the produce obvioisly handle other produce then touch other produce. wondering if someone transferred it to the bananas or something by touching lettuce/basil first

Many of the big brands that have been extremely good staples for purity and a good product have gotten way worse over the last year.

Not sure why, but many supplements I’ve used for years that have been extremely reliable in the past have changed formulas, or kept the same formula but gotten me or others (according to recent reviews), sick, when this wasn’t an issue before

ive had to cut out using Quercetin as well as NAC based on this and any alternative brands I’m now researching seem to have people reviewing them showing their third party testing has showed toxic levels of different things in their products now, or people just straight up getting extremely sick from many of these suppliers

Horrible and disappointing honestly

My credit card payment is due tomorrow.

I always manually pay it within the app the day before it is due or the day.

Bow the app says my credit card information is currently down meaning I can’t pay.

Unbelievable.

This is obviously some kind of attempt to literally force me to miss my payment against my will so they can not only force a late fee, but even if it’s not intentional, I will inevitably miss my payment due tomorrow because of this “glitch” and I guarantee they will pin it in me

F$&$& bs

Hey everyone.

I’m almost 35 years old and it’s time for a change

Due to health issues I haven’t held a regular job for years, but now I want to get into pilot carring.

in fact ever since I was really young I always wanted to become one when I would see them on road trips.

Luckily with my health conditions I would still be able to do this. I entirely forgot about it until my dad reminded me of it.

I am in NJ and have a clean license and own my own car. I’d really love to do this, but I am not sure where to start.

I wonder if it would make more sense for me to simply try it first as an independent contractor, or getting hired by an actual company.

Once I get the momentum, I’ll be okay I’m sure, I just don’t know where to start as many resources online have conflicting tips.

I really hope I can join the pilot car community soon.

I want to be productive again, while doing something I always knew I wanted to do anyway, well before my health took a dive.

I have seen talk, as well as mentioning of studies, mentioning that tetanus vaccines and booster last longer than the usual ten years that is given by modern medical science.

I am curious, as to if it is indeed true that tetanus shots last much longer as far as protection, in most individuals.

I myself am about to go ahead and get a tetanus booster, as I accidentally got punctured by a toothpick on my floor. So I personally wanna be safe (I got my tetanus shot when I was a little kid, a booster at 22.5 for nursing school, and now I’m 34.5 years old)

I was able to wash it with soap and water for a minute before it clotted so I guess it is time to get my booster, just to be safe.

But I have to ask, if it’s indeed true that protection from tetanus lasts, in most cases, longer than 5 years/decade, then why is the recommendation for boosters specifically for every five to ten years?

I’m genuinely curious.

I think of ghosts very often as I’ve had many many unexplainable things in my house happen.

well, I’ve to ought about that a lot. But I have also thought that, well, I feel bad for ghosts. Imagine dying, and now you spend decades/centuries/millenia, in one general spot stuck, unable to go to the next realm. I think that helps explain poltergeists. If you were trapped for so long, psychologically you would probably break and lose your patience

My sleep stack has changed over the years and these are the things I’ve landed on that really help me

first and foremost

1. Glycine. This is the biggest one that has helped. Shits my to lights off and gives me more restful sleep. Literally everyone I’ve told about it takes it for life now for the same reasons and thank me. Took it for joints then realized it helps my sleep immensely

2. magnesium, but you all probably are aware of that one

3. taurine. Some people have paradoxical reactions to it, but it increases GABA in most. It has an extremely strong effect on me

4. Chamomile tea for the apigenin content in it. Oncreases gaba and has a long half life

5. rooibos tea. It has specialized compounds in it that inhibit cortisol. When I have this tea and brew it very strong with a few rooibos tea bags, it has a serious impact on how often I wake up

These are all things I take together and darn do they work

6. Honorable mention is Apple coder vinegar. I think it indirectly helps as it reduces my blood sugar spikes and blood sugar spikes can disrupt sleep. Every time I take this before bed my sleep quality improves even more.

Anyway yeah that’s my sleep stack

maybe it will help someone here

Hey everyone. 34 year old here with my first acne scar.

what happened? Well I had a pimple which healed but during the healing phase it developed a scab which took a while to fall off. Eventually it fell off, and now I had a pitted acne scar that is also slightly red.

my question is it’s only been a month or so. Is there any chance of it filling in over time?

I should have been smarter with treating it with zinc oxide and other actives when I had the acne as well as the scab.

lesson learned!

any tips? I’m allergic to retinoids so o can’t use those

As the title says, I’ve visited every single one of these parks. I did this for fun but also sort of as an experiment.

I wanted to see first hand how bad the ticks have become. I went to each state park, and every time I went I would spend one day there without tick repellent and one day with tick repellent on.

In every single case, the lack of repellent led to me getting those line star ticks on me. They’re extremely aggressive and I would watch them literally crawl back to me if I flicked them off.

When I wore repellent (permethrin), it led to much less ticks on me, but I ALWAYS ended the day with at least two on me. And sometimes the ticks were insanely tiny.

When I say every single state park I went to, I mean every single one, I had ticks. And I NEVER went off trail, and in some of these parks I literally would just hang out on a bench for a few hours and there would ticks on me.

I ended up having three species of ticks on me. Deer ticks, lone star ticks, and a couple times I even found dog ticks on me.

If this is the risk going outdoors to these parks now, and even repellent isn’t working that well, well then I think I’m done even trying.

I made sure to do extremely thorough tick checks at the end of each outing. Always had some number of ticks on me, repellent or not. Ticka of the lone star species literally were hunting me, and I was bitten seven times total, 3 times by deer ticks (which I removed carefully the same day so lower risk of Lyme disease due to early removal)

Bitten four times by the Lone star tick so waiting for alpha gal syndrome to hit

Ive acceoted I will get a tickbourbe illness by some point living here so I ran this experiment. I will likely regret the experiment though.

The lone star ticks bit me in days I was using my permethrin, strangely enough.

And one of the bites occurred on a day I was in a local park in Sayrevill, literally sitting in a bench watching the skateboarders (there’s a park with a skatepark next to it). Sat there a couple hours, got bitten. The thing must have come to me because there was no tall grass or bushes or woody trail. Just grass and a paved path

We aren’t safe anymore

the government should step in and do something about this but they obviously won’t

I’ve run into a few classical musicians who tried to break into the local music scene.

Every one of them, and I mean every one of them I met, had ALOT to say about the music scene, and how it should be.

The thing is. Classical musicians go to school for almost slave-like level study and performance, obsessing over dynamics and stuff like that. And I understand that makes them extremely good at reading sheet music and basically being highly efficient human Juke boxes. And I respect that because it takes an insane amount of effort and discipline to do. But the thing is, that approach is mainly important for classical music scenes and performance.

However, and I don’t want to to say what exact music scene I am involved in, but let’s just say it’s begins with an N, and ends in Asheville…..

The classical musicians I’ve met in the last three years, every single one of them, had a similar story. They studied classical music for a Very long time, and music theory and such, so they would rant about how they understood music at a seriously deep level….

They would follow up with how they came to this city to make a transition into more contemporary modern and pop music, and would constantly complain about local non classical musicians, not staying, “focused”, and basically that there was too much improvisation during their shows (despite the fact that the crowds loved the random jams in between songs, and the impromptu solos from musicians involved in said shows)

They would harp about how that ruins the music and in reality, in my opinion, the truth is their ego is challenged, because they learned how to basically be human music theory performance robots, without actually developing good social skills and having absolutely no ability to think outside the box and improvise.

Basixally the clearly love the smell of their own farts and love telling people how great, smart, advanced, and prophetic they are in terms of understanding music, yet they ironically cannot understand that many music circles use improvisation as part of the process and that intimidates them because they know that is an incredibly important part of music they completely have no real experience doing.

They can’t understand or accept the fact modern music has tons of improv and off the cuffness to it, and can’t accept that modern music has left them behind despite their desire to come into OUR local music circles and spout off how good they are

Yeah maybe in a specific bubble they’re incredible

But here in the non classical, real world of music, they can’t compete and that makes their ridiculous egos want to explode

They constantly miss the fact that there are different approaches to music that WORK and that they can’t compete with and they HATE that

Classical musicians in my experience have been incredibly pompous and I silently laugh at them throw their passive aggressive tantrums (the ones that decided they’re so “amazing”, they think they can just walk into modern music scenes and their studies are going to automatically apply and make them levitate over everyone….

I used to respect classical musicians much more from a distance, until I’ve met several of them trying to infiltrate OUR local music scene and tell us “how it works”

Like gtfo

Theyre so uptight and self-important they’ll never make it here and everyone is laughing behind their backs. That goes for any musicians who comes in and says how great they are and telling people that certain things that work, don’t work.

Of course I woudnt say this to any classical musicians who come into the space realizing there’s room for improve and a different approach to music than what they were taught….

But specifically for the classical musicians I’ve met in the scene that are super pompous and self important……Go play in an orchestra somewhere

Hey everyone. Well for the first time ever, I ended up with a special kind of zit. This one did not have a white he’d to it. Nor did it have a black head. Instead it was totally red, white a red head so to speak.

Well in the past any time I have had a zit, if I didn’t squeeze it and empty its contents, it would surely heal over time on its own, but it almost always left me with a red mark that would last for around a year.

So with that said, I squeezed this fully red one. Thankfully it did NOT explode, because I learned from some other people that I actually had blood as the head of this particular zit. I know this because the top was very squishy, like a blood blister.

After squeezing I applied ice to it and everything of the sort to get the swelling down. However the very top of the zit is now black and crusty. I am guessing that is oxidized blood and has essentially gone from being a zit with a red head with blood trapped beneath it, to a red zit with a black scabbed head.

My question is how do I know it’s simply a black scab and not necrotic tissue?

For what it’s worth there is absolutely no foul smell, no drainage, or anything. The base of the zit is still red but the top half is totally black.

I am unsure if I should head to the doctor to get it checked out. Luckily ever since squeezibg it two days ago it has continually shrunk. the only difference is that instead of having the red squishy blood blistery head that I had before squeezing it, now it has a totally dry black scab like head

I’ve got a 2024 violin DLX 012 that I love. The but could be better and the pickups are surprisingly good for being ceramics.

super playable and comfortable guitar. I just don’t see much a reason to switch to the 112v. maybe just upgrade the nut and call it a day?

I have busked with this for a while with great success and it holds tune very well.

Obviously though it may be a good idea to upgrade

I live in NJ.

Early April was the first one I saw in my basement. Far too early for it to be a worker wasp so it obviously was a queen waking up from hibernation.

I could tell by the timing and also her movement. She was very sluggish almost drunk, if I had to describe her movement. Plus the day I saw her, it was the first warm day we had after a stretch of months of winter cold weather.

the hot weather seemed to wake her up, she probably had spent the whole winter in the walls of the basement. Killed her.

It got cold again for weeks straight after that day. Then suddenly, we had an eighty degree day Super late April. Another wasp shows up, this one also seeming kind of drunk. Perhaps another queen waking up from hibernation. Killed it. Hopefully it wasn’t a worker wasp and was simply a nestless waking_up Queen.

After that the weather was warm cibsistebtly with no issues for a couple weeks. Then mid May, a third, sluggish, drunk seeming wasp shows up. Killed it

From what I’ve read worker wasps are typically very direct with how they move and forage so the timing plus the drunk mush behavior of the wasps that showed up and the timing of the year and weather makes me think they were three separate queens that I killed

Keep in mind the entire time this occurred, the basement ceiling panels, well half sold them were off, meaning I guess any insects could easily fly or crawl from the inside of the walls into the basement pretty darn easily. Perhaps we have queen wasps emerging every year but simply never notice them.

At any rate after this I’m now afraid there is a brewing nest somewhere in the walls

my hope is that I killed theee different queens which means I stopped three nests before they got started by killing them early. But who knows if there were other queens I didn’t catch and they’re making and growing their nests in the house right now?

The species was definetely not a paper wasps it was some sort of yellow jacket, looked to be a German yellow jacket

Anyway, worried and scared everytime I go into the basement now. Never knowing if I’m gonna get ambushed by a bunch of angry young worker wasps due to an unknown wall nest

I have arthritis as well as small hands.

i recently had a Yamaha F335 that I LOVED the playability of, but it just didn’t have enough projection for what I needed it for.

It literally had the perfect neck and string tension with its 25 inch scale

I found an Alvarez Regebt RG26ce that I love the feel of too. Super slim neck and despite its 25.5 inch scale length it somehow requires less effort to fret than other 25.5 inch scale acoustics with twelve gauge strings. I don’t know how they did this but it’s super comfortable to play.

Only takes slightly more effort than the Yamaha f335. And has I would say, 15-20% better projection than the Yamaha f335.

Only downside is the one I played sounded slightly tinny. Perhaps it just needs new strings. Have not bought it yet

My last option seems to be the Yamaha FG800J, which apparently has the 25 inch scale length which is great as far as wanting an easy playing guitar for my tiny hands.

I also hear that it has slightly more projection and volume than the Yamaha F335

So it seems like the perfect guitar for my needs perhaps.

Here is my list

- Yamaha f335 had perfect playability, great sound but not enough projection

- Alvarez RG26ce: Slightly less good playability, yet still great playability. Way better projection than the f335. Great sound overall but with a tiny hint of tinnyness to the sound (specifically on the high e string. If that’s fixable I’d likely buy it

- Yamaha fg800j apparently has the same neck profile as the f335 meaning incredibly playability like the f335. And I’ve read the projection is slightly better. Perhaps this is my best option

Anyone has played these theee please let me know what you think

Theyre within my budget entirely and I’ve tried about a hundred different guitars and landed on these (but still haven’t found an FG800J locally I could try

I booked an airbnb in California. Had a great great time. I’m always incredibly respectful of a host and their living space.

I showed up, and there was hair and debris in the shower.

Messaged the host about it and the host got defensive and claimed they spent hours cleaning.

Maybe they did and maybe their effort is true but there was still a dirty shower with hair in it and stuff.

I have messages of when I arrived then ten minutes later upon entering the room and seeing that dirty shower I videoed it for evidence. It was gross.

I cleaned it though

The host continued to be eyeing me badly everytime I left the room to the point I went up to them and said no issues at all I cleaned it up

The host seemed relaxed.

After that the host left me a negative review saying I left garbage that I didn’t, and stains that I didn’t. And I still had left them a positive review all that considered.

I videoed myself leaving the room as I always do for proof of me leaving it clean and spotless.

I was only leaving them a positive review out of courtesy because I didn’t want them to feel bad about the mess they had me initially walk into, with tons of hair in the shower.

Then they turn around and make a false review about me.

Now I’m considering showing my video evidence to Airbnb about what I Really walked into at the Airbnb when I got there.

I am also considering replying to their review of me publicly.

This rubbed me the wrong way.

Ive never had any type of negative review against me. Clearly this is retaliation for them being embarrassed for being called out for leaving such a dirty shower area.

I live in a suburb near New Brunswick, NJ

we have never had a single tick at all on our property. We aren’t near any woods at All

finding tons of deer ticks in my backyard now.

37 years never had a single one. Now there are tons. This is insane

Long story short, I had a lot of issues with my Airbnb.

I paid a total of 584 after taxes, for this Airbnb for five total nights where the break down is 101.20 per night x 5 plus 78 in taxes…

I was told by the host that I would get a full refund for a the first night of the Airbnb stay for all the issues. Meaning, I fully expected to get back 101.20 (the cost of a single night before any taxes) plus some of the taxes. Instead I received 84 dollars.

I reached out to Airbnb and they gave me some Bs about how they can’t forward me to a supervisor, and how I need to wait for them to escalate it and call me back.

I contacted the host in the messages and they said they only received 84 per night which is what they refunded me. Then the host told me it’s out of their hands, and to contact Airbnb directly Literally makes no sense. these types of issues are literally ruining my vacation.

iI obviously should be getting back 101.20 but I didn’t and now they are giving me the run around