u/ocelocelot

I want to reduce my dose of venlafaxine because I think it's worsening my hyperadrenergic symptoms and my extreme thirst. I'm currently on 225mg venlafaxine, at which dose it has somewhat strong noradrenergic effects and is probably making me more wired etc.

I want to do it in very small slow steps of about 10% by bead counting (reducing by 12.5mg each step, to begin with - later even smaller), holding for a month between changes, because I'm worried about withdrawal effects causing my dysautonomia to flare up and therefore causing my ME/CFS to flare up - PEM

But they want to (a) make the initial step 37.5mg (a whole prescribable amount, not bead-counting), and (b) they only want to hold for 2-4 weeks per step. This seems like a very optimistic "healthy person's taper schedule" but I think it will cause my body a lot of strain

Has anyone got away with such a quick taper and not had severe withdrawal effects?

I would like to know which people's wills are written on this page on FamilySearch please (only available at an affiliated library - which I can't currently visit):

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-996F-R99R?view=fullText&lang=en&groupId=

I don't need an image - I would just like the names of the will(s) featured on this page spread (including any will which starts on the previous page spread and continues onto this page spread)

Ideally I would also like the page number of the above-linked page spread.

Thank you!

We're currently holding the provisional record for the hottest temperature in June in the UK, broken both at Wattisham and Cavendish, the latter hitting 37.1°C.

How are you surviving?

All you need is a zero-plural animal (like bear, in the context of hunting), that is also a verb and a place name (or adjective)

Bear bear Bear bear bear bear Bear bear

(Bears from Bear, Delaware that bears from Bear, Delaware carry, carry bears from Bear, Delaware)

Badger badger Badger badger badger badger Badger badger

(harass, place in Alaska)

(The famous one is Buffalo of course)

Any others?

Polly Proper-Lean 🦜

(Polypropylene)

He hit the roof!

tl;dr: society tends to view people as "ideal moral agents" who can be blamed for not trying hard enough and fails to acknowledge that underneath our "moral agent" façade, our bodies are actually "fallible meat machines" that can't always meet society's expectations for what all humans "should be able to do"

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Why do some people find it so hard to believe that in some people the body could have a genuine physiological deficiency in energy production? Do they think that the body is somehow magic and that just because everyone "deserves" to have a functioning body that Just Works ™️ that this would make the universe somehow guarantee every human organism has perfect health in this specific way (despite not making any other guarantees of this kind), so that if something "looks like a human" it must "produce energy like a human", and anyone who doesn't is wilfully faking or else not putting mind over matter enough to fix themselves??

My theory: it's one of a few ways that people can tend to fail to see through the "ideal moral agent" abstraction to the "fallible meat machine" implementation that actually underpins it.

They think the universe is fair and reasonable (Just World Fallacy) and structured so that if a particular collection of atoms is A Human then it automatically gets access to perfect energy-generating metabolism that can't fail (because that wouldn't be fair / because they can't imagine not being able to Just Try Harder to get more energy)

Obviously we as ME sufferers can understand very well that the body is not some magic machine that always works perfectly, and that society's expectations for what everyone "should be able to do" are not grounded in the reality of biology underneath their "ideal human moral actor" abstraction!!

End rant

Anyone get prickly hot/cold (at the same time) feeling in skin, particularly arms?

[TW: TMI] >! Sometimes it happens more around the time of bowel movement!<

It seems to be related to sympathetic activation

Anyone get prickly hot/cold feeling in skin, particularly arms?

[TW: TMI] >! Sometimes it happens more around the time of bowel movement!<

It seems to be related to sympathetic activation