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Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by speeder »

DanBC wrote: post #30

This is not medical advice: I have no qualifications nor registrations. Hypothyroidism is full of some really fucking harmful quackery on the Internet. Please avoid those bad websites. You're right that it needs careful monitoring to get the dose right. A general supplement of vitamins A,C, and D is probably not harmful. (Do not overdose on vitamins. They can be toxic and can kill.) And now some other stuff: Work tow…

Frankly, I am finding the doctors to be the quakers.

"the internet" helped me there loads more than any medic, this became painfully clear when I started to bother to read official documents that medics should have been reading, for example I saw on internet a study that was about specifically my case, all doctors I went refused to trust the study and said they only trusted the association and the lab numbers... I asked the lab their source, they pointed me a association-made document, I read the document, and behold, the official association document that the lab and doctors claim to follow, cite the study I was citing, and for precisely the same reasons...

I could only conclude that doctors are lazy, and like to take whatever number someone (their teacher, lab, whatever) spoon fed them, instead of reading the source of that number (including the endocrine association guidelines... seriously, I went to 8 or 9 different doctors in the last 12 years, some of them absurdly expensive, and not a single one read the guidelines, despite all of them claiming to follow them!)

What is CBT and IAPT? Google keep throwing me stuff on my own language, despite me using english as default (for example for Google CBT is the brazillian tennis confederation).

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by dublinben »

a8da6b0c91d wrote: post #23
at-fates-hands wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>> just eat at a caloric deficit and you'll lose weight and the overall health may improve considerably. This is completely true. I was a D1 athlete through college. Once I graduated and stopped playing, my weight went through the roof. I went from 160lbs to almost 190lbs. I started having back problems and my doctor said I already had some arthritis in my back from both hockey and soccer. I was having a lot of back…

If he's legit hypothyroid he's probably not even eating that much. Dropping calories under, say, 2500 will just make the problem worse.

Even a thyroid condition will not make you gain weight out of nowhere.

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by speeder »

patio11 wrote: post #39

If you're capable of being CTO at a mobile games company but have glasses which are an appreciable portion of your net worth, you are not being paid the global market wage for your skill set. Consider quitting and hanging out your shingle as an independent iOS/etc developer. Market rates are $100+ per hour even remotely. You being not exactly a paragon of physical fitness will not be a barrier to getting deals -- the…

I am not much sure how to do that.

First there is the issue that iOS pay much more, but I don't own a OSX machine, or a iOS device.

And last time I tried I only ended into those freelancing sites where some people from India are offering to do Android and Lua work for 5USD/hour :/ I don't know where I can seek more serious work in that field, neither how to prove I can do it (no github, lots of past jobs was on secret and proprietary stuff).

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by DanBC »

dublinben wrote: post #42
a8da6b0c91d wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If he's legit hypothyroid he's probably not even eating that much. Dropping calories under, say, 2500 will just make the problem worse.

Even a thyroid condition will not make you gain weight out of nowhere.

A thyroid condition can make the difference between "stable weight at this level of calories" and "weight gain at this level of calories".

Sorting out the thyroid problems will make eating sensibly and getting exercise much easier.

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by atroyn »

swombat wrote: post #6

May not be the advice you want to hear, but... you sound like you're in a country with a pretty terrible healthcare system (US? India? Ah, Brazil according to your bio on your site). The first thing I'd do in your position is move to a country with a proper public health care system - probably the UK. Do it via finding a job or any other method, but somehow do it. The startup itself doesn't matter. You write "I have…

It is very easy for good developers to get a Blue Card for the European Union, the member states of which have excellent healthcare systems.

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by DanBC »

JohnBooty wrote: post #31

The thing to remember about fitting exercise into a demanding schedule is that exercise is a net energy/productivity boost. You sacrifice some time to exercise, but gain energy and you will feel better and be better able to attack the rest of the things you need to do. You might even wind up with more free time than you began with.[1] ___________ [1] We all know we'll just use it to pack more work into the day. But t…

Yes! And some people find that they use the time that they're exercising to think differently about challenges they are facing.

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by patio11 »

speeder wrote: post #43
patio11 wrote: post #39

If you're capable of being CTO at a mobile games company but have glasses which are an appreciable portion of your net worth, you are not being paid the global market wage for your skill set. Consider quitting and hanging out your shingle as an independent iOS/etc developer. Market rates are $100+ per hour even remotely. You being not exactly a paragon of physical fitness will not be a barrier to getting deals -- the…

I am not much sure how to do that. First there is the issue that iOS pay much more, but I don't own a OSX machine, or a iOS device. And last time I tried I only ended into those freelancing sites where some people from India are offering to do Android and Lua work for 5USD/hour :/ I don't know where I can seek more serious work in that field, neither how to prove I can do it (no github, lots of past jobs was on secre…

There exist longer answers for building a successful consultancy, but in the short term, you just identify companies which do Android/Lua work, identify people who probably have hiring authority at them, and say "I notice that you do Android games. As it happens, so do I, and I am looking for work. Do you have 15 minutes free next Monday to talk about this?"

Websites are not where contract work exists any more than they are where source code exists. The wee little sample of both those fields which show up on the public Internet are a) tiny and b) disproportionately crappy. It is against the interest of engineers for us to think these are the totality of the market just because interacting with them is easy and doesn't require getting outside our comfort zones.

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by DanBC »

speeder wrote: post #41
DanBC wrote: post #30

This is not medical advice: I have no qualifications nor registrations. Hypothyroidism is full of some really fucking harmful quackery on the Internet. Please avoid those bad websites. You're right that it needs careful monitoring to get the dose right. A general supplement of vitamins A,C, and D is probably not harmful. (Do not overdose on vitamins. They can be toxic and can kill.) And now some other stuff: Work tow…

Frankly, I am finding the doctors to be the quakers. "the internet" helped me there loads more than any medic, this became painfully clear when I started to bother to read official documents that medics should have been reading, for example I saw on internet a study that was about specifically my case, all doctors I went refused to trust the study and said they only trusted the association and the lab numbers... I as…

Hi, sorry for using initialisms.

CBT is "cognitive behaviour therapy" - this is an evidence based talking therapy that is used for a wide variety of problems, from mild mood disorders through to pain management for cancer patients.

The Australian site "MoodGym" is a respected website that will teach you about CBT. https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

It's important to realise that CBT is not just about psychological problems. CBT can give you the skills to talk to clinicians about thyroid problems, for example.

IAPT is only relevant to the UK. It is a program to fund talking therapies for mental health problems. It stands for "improving access to psychological therapies".

Some really small changes to your life will build up over time to make significant differences. Small changes in diet and exercise will help improve mood and motivation; that will help you research the thyroid stuff and prepare documents to challenge clinicians; and so on.

I wish you best of luck.

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by fyrabanks »

speeder wrote: post #41
DanBC wrote: post #30

This is not medical advice: I have no qualifications nor registrations. Hypothyroidism is full of some really fucking harmful quackery on the Internet. Please avoid those bad websites. You're right that it needs careful monitoring to get the dose right. A general supplement of vitamins A,C, and D is probably not harmful. (Do not overdose on vitamins. They can be toxic and can kill.) And now some other stuff: Work tow…

Frankly, I am finding the doctors to be the quakers. "the internet" helped me there loads more than any medic, this became painfully clear when I started to bother to read official documents that medics should have been reading, for example I saw on internet a study that was about specifically my case, all doctors I went refused to trust the study and said they only trusted the association and the lab numbers... I as…

How certain are you that you understand those documents better than medical professionals?

Re: How to balance health issues with being a founder?

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Post by speeder »

fyrabanks wrote: post #49
speeder wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly, I am finding the doctors to be the quakers. "the internet" helped me there loads more than any medic, this became painfully clear when I started to bother to read official documents that medics should have been reading, for example I saw on internet a study that was about specifically my case, all doctors I went refused to trust the study and said they only trusted the association and the lab numbers... I as…

How certain are you that you understand those documents better than medical professionals?

The problem is not of conflicting interpretations, it is of medics claiming that I am saying bullshit, and that the correct thing is the document, when I am quoting said document... So either the medic is a liar (unlikely) or he never read the document.
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