Anyone for Coffee? (no boys allowed)

The rock gym closest to me costs about $50 for a three month membership, which (when considering that a normal gym costs around $20-50 a month) isn't bad, especially since most usually have a small cardio and weights area as well. If you rent shoes and a harness, it costs a little more, but it's still a pretty good deal.
Bouldering is like rock climbing, but not really: the idea is that you have a much shorter (~15 ft?) wall and don't use a harness, but it's all about dynamic movements to get you up the wall a certain way. So, for example, a bouldering wall may have many holds on it in a certain area, but to get to the top, you have to only use 10 or so marked holds on a specific route to get up. It's very challenging. I'm not very good at it...on the scale of difficulty, which ranges from V0 to V16, I can do V1 at most, on a good day.

Strange question for you all but is it possible to get a form of mild concussion spread out over a few days? I had an unfortunate impact (well my head did) with a glass door on Monday night. Yesterday my head was hurting and i felt a bit sick and today i feel dizzy and lightheaded... with the headache and nausea. I've never had concussion before some i'm just wsondering. I feel a bit dopey too. forgetting what words i'm trying to say. :(

hmmm.. I wouldn't mess around with head injuries, go to the doctor.

Yes niamh it is possible, at least as far as I understand or rember from the endless lectures on the subject I had as a child, go see a doc!
*worried*

I normally have a tender stomach, but things have been really bad over the past 5-6 months. I've had so many bouts stomach upset that I've lost close to 10 pounds (not that the weight loss isn't good and all). Now it is almost to the point that I can drink nothing but water (again not too bad), but I am missing my morning cup of coffee or I regret it when I just drink it anyway I regret it. I can't eat fast food (Chipotle excluded), I can't eat fatty meats, and any sort of a processed food like TV dinners or instant noodles will cause me pain.

Any ideas what could be wrong, or maybe even better are there any ideas of a diet that I can eat to keep it from getting any worse? I don't really mind that I can't have fast food or that I need to eat lean protein. This is pretty much a normal diet for me since I prefer to eat healthy. I do mind that it is getting to where I am steadily dropping weight because of a lack of appetite. I don't know what could be causing it. I originally thought it was a preservative in the foods that I bought out or the volume of grease, but it just seems to keep getting worse.

I know some people have IBS and need to eat special diet for that to keep it controlled. I guess I'm hoping for something like that. I love food, and it is killing me that I can't hardly enjoy little things like a good steak dinner :(

mk - you would be the first to tell other forum members to go to the doctor! :yesnod: Please do go and see your physician - it may be nothing, it may be a little something that a course of medication will sort out, it may be something that requires further investigation and some life-style changes. You can't second-guess, go and see the professionals and set your mind at rest. (I had something with similar symptoms a few years ago - no, I'm not going to tell you the diagnosis but I will tell you a short course of medication, a change of diet and some emergency stand-by pills keeps the condition under control so that I am hardly aware of it now.)

Oh, and don't worry - if it's stress related, worry is the last thing you need! Good Luck, we're all behind you.

Meg i have ibs and it does sound awefully like it. Do you ever get such a bad cramp after eating something that you have to curl up because you just cant move?
Best thing is to go to see a doc and talk to them. they should sent you for an Endoscopy and a colonoscopy to out rule anything else. If it is IBS then i can give you some advise food wise.
Unfortunately one is to stay off coffee or maybe even find a decaf thats nice an only have it after you have eaten something.

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mk - you would be the first to tell other forum members to go to the doctor!

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You are right, but ugh!!! I really do hate the doctor when I know it isn't really nothing :(

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Meg i have ibs and it does sound awefully like it. Do you ever get such a bad cramp after eating something that you have to curl up because you just cant move?
Best thing is to go to see a doc and talk to them. they should sent you for an Endoscopy and a colonoscopy to out rule anything else. If it is IBS then i can give you some advise food wise.
Unfortunately one is to stay off coffee or maybe even find a decaf thats nice an only have it after you have eaten something.

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Only some days, and for the most part I've ruled out everything I can't eat. I just hate to go through all the testing and such when I have things under control 80% of the time. That other 20% is just miserable though. I'll think about the doctor, I really will. All I can say is stupid genetics. I swear I was healthy as a horse when I was a kid, and now it feels like I'm always broke. Isn't 25 a little young to worry about that :lol:

I was fine and then a few years ago i suddenly felt awful, just the way you did, only i put on heaps of weight. I found bacon was a killer for me! :(

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Originally Posted by mkhockenberry

I normally have a tender stomach, but things have been really bad over the past 5-6 months. I've had so many bouts stomach upset that I've lost close to 10 pounds (not that the weight loss isn't good and all). Now it is almost to the point that I can drink nothing but water (again not too bad), but I am missing my morning cup of coffee or I regret it when I just drink it anyway I regret it. I can't eat fast food (Chipotle excluded), I can't eat fatty meats, and any sort of a processed food like TV dinners or instant noodles will cause me pain.

Any ideas what could be wrong, or maybe even better are there any ideas of a diet that I can eat to keep it from getting any worse? I don't really mind that I can't have fast food or that I need to eat lean protein. This is pretty much a normal diet for me since I prefer to eat healthy. I do mind that it is getting to where I am steadily dropping weight because of a lack of appetite. I don't know what could be causing it. I originally thought it was a preservative in the foods that I bought out or the volume of grease, but it just seems to keep getting worse.

I know some people have IBS and need to eat special diet for that to keep it controlled. I guess I'm hoping for something like that. I love food, and it is killing me that I can't hardly enjoy little things like a good steak dinner :(

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you should probably go to the doctor. I went for stomach issues though mine were not as severe as yours (annoying - interrupted my job - seemed to be brought on by stress but not as painful it sounds like)... For me it was just constantly having a mild stomach ache all the time. Had heartburn too. tried to keep going wiht my activities but I think the psychological part of it was worse than anything. I had to have some tests done...they didn't find anything except for some inflammation in my esophogus to be controlled with prevacid and I have to take a probiotic everyday to manage the other end of the tube so to speak and I've discovered that if I eat natural foods I am not miserable. If I eat crap, I have crappy crappy symptoms. So, to sum up, I just have IBS and a hospital bill that I am paying on for all the tests when I could have just tried the diet and priobiotic thing to see if it improved. but I suppose they wanted to rule out any cancers so they put me under and shoved some tubes in. Oh and I had to lie in a machine for an hour and not move while some chemically treated oatmeal passed through my system...

but what you describe sounds worse. So I would go to the doctor i guess. good luck.

The worst part of this I think might be that the food that doesn't contain all the chemcials and processing is more expensive. There is no convenience anymore. everything has to be planned.

Soooooooooo, Has anyone else had their bra break while in a meeting?

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Soooooooooo, Has anyone else had their bra break while in a meeting?

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What kind of meeting?

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What kind of meeting?

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The bossman and I.

He heard the "pop" sound.

never but oh that must have felt uncomfortable!

I guess this is the place to post this... it's the first day of my period and I think I'm going to die.