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My shoulder is bothering me right now. I had an ultrasound scan on my shoulder a few weeks ago and found out the issue is Shoulder Bursitis. Very painful and caused by my line of work, as I type and use a PC for a living, so quite annoying.
 
Don Alaska said:
Upper back pain since early August. The Salonpas patches seem to relieve it when they are placed properly. Acetaminophen/paracetamol and naproxen seem to work as well, but taking a systemic remedy for a localized pain never makes sense to me if I can avoid it.
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I'm sure you get plenty of movement with the work you do ,garden, etc. I hope you get relief soon.
 
Don Alaska said:
Upper back pain since early August. The Salonpas patches seem to relieve it when they are placed properly. Acetaminophen/paracetamol and naproxen seem to work as well, but taking a systemic remedy for a localized pain never makes sense to me if I can avoid it.
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I use a lidocaine patch but it says to use one a day. I use two if I need them although I would like to wrap my whole leg.:cool:
 
Cindy and I both used to use the 5% ones too. Our Neurologist (who Cindy and I knew for almost 30 years) told me one patch a day, 12 hours on, 12 off. So I did that for years. When I was in the hospital in Sebastopol they would leave them on all day. When I called him to tell him about Cindy and that came up in our conversation. He said to stop using them as that could cause symptoms such as tinnitus, dizziness, blurred vision, or confusion, all of which I had been having the whole time I was there.

All of that except for the tinnitus went away after I stopped using them. I got tinnitus from playing in the band, which was nearly always close to the legal decibel limits. I also used Tegaderms to keep them in place as I moved around in my sleep, and they would come off. Between the Lidocaine patches and Tegaderms, neither of which were covered by my insurance, I used to buy them by the case. I got used to not using them anymore so I stopped buying them.
 
Annoying ads on streaming services. Most of them have weird stuff like most families mixed race, low-class women in heavy makeup riding in Cadillacs, gay men snuggling on a sofa, or maybe worst of all so many shoved at me in Spanish.

I thought they new how to target advertising? They clearly don't know me or my community. I come away ready to boycott many of these companies and their products. Then I click off and go watch something ad-free instead.

I'd like to believe they are just incompetent, but I suspect they are pushing the WEF agenda harder than ever.
 
Well, let’s see.
I have an achilles tendon problem that through vibration, massage and anti-inflammatory stuff seems to be getting better so I guess that it doesn’t bother me as much as it did.

Now, what does bother me, should I really think hard about it is this:
At my advanced age, is there anything left in my life that I have to learn the hard way?
I mean, I have already reconciled myself long ago to the fact that if anything seems too easy I’m probably doing it wrong but learning the hard way includes injury, something totally broken, embarrassment or all three.
In short, I really hope I’ve grown out of that phase of life.
 
We are always hurting ourselves and have cuts and bruises. Much of it comes from having 4 large dogs, 2 are very large. Then Jake working on fences, autos and fallen trees. I help with the trees and limbs sometimes, plus I'm a vine terminator.
It used to be what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger,
Now its, what makes you stronger is surviving yourself another day.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
Annoying ads on streaming services. Most of them have weird stuff like most families mixed race, low-class women in heavy makeup riding in Cadillacs, gay men snuggling on a sofa, or maybe worst of all so many shoved at me in Spanish.

I thought they new how to target advertising? They clearly don't know me or my community. I come away ready to boycott many of these companies and their products. Then I click off and go watch something ad-free instead.

I'd like to believe they are just incompetent, but I suspect they are pushing the WEF agenda harder than ever.
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Bobby and i have been discussing this also, @Jacob Petersheim . It really does seem like the companies are hiring advertising executives who have no clue who the buying base of the product actually is.
What happened with Bud Lite was one of the biggest examples, and Cracker Barrel just learned the hard way, too.

As you mentioned, they still seem to be pushing the Woke agenda, even though it only fits a minuscule amount of Americans, and alienates the majority of their customers. Until they start losing business, this never seems to dawn on the company, and sometimes, they realize it way too late, after they have lost most of their base by targeting customers who probably do not use the product anyway.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
Bobby and i have been discussing this also, @Jacob Petersheim . It really does seem like the companies are hiring advertising executives who have no clue who the buying base of the product actually is.
What happened with Bud Lite was one of the biggest examples, and Cracker Barrel just learned the hard way, too.

As you mentioned, they still seem to be pushing the Woke agenda, even though it only fits a minuscule amount of Americans, and alienates the majority of their customers. Until they start losing business, this never seems to dawn on the company, and sometimes, they realize it way too late, after they have lost most of their base by targeting customers who probably do not use the product anyway.
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More proof that "liberalism is a mental disorder".MS.
The society has changed so much ,our country is hardly recognizable anymore.
I can remember when even a child could take a bus downtown Atlanta to the theatre and be safe, now I won't even drive thru the area.
And we wonder why our youth are lost,
 
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