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Yes I have gone through these, started with SS, saw basically no progress, then moved to 5/3/1 and did some other routines over the past several years. At my peak before a recent injury I was at 225 bench, 325 deadlifting and 275 squat.
"At my peak before a recent injury I was at 225 bench, 325 deadlifting and 275 squat." So you barely lift...?
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Or diagnosed as something they clearly are not, like depression. There are doctors who are willing and interested in doing the necessary investigative work to figure out what is going on, but they are an extremely small minority.
A bit of a tangent. My experience suggests that the transactional nature of modern medicine is part of what makes these types of investigations so hard. A doctor will be booked solid all day without time to reflect or investigate and that really only works with one-off problems. A chronic condition is not transactional, it's narrative. Someone needs to manage that narrative and mine it for insights. The only way the…
I'm only able to function because my partner is taking such great care of me. I would otherwise be toast. I can't drive like this. I can hardly walk due to road rash on my legs.
Take your health seriously. You can only truly realize how lucky you are once it is gone.
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My fiance had intercranial hypertension. Which is a complex way of saying "we don't know the root cause of why your spinal fluid is causing so much pressure in your head that you want to take a ice pick and poke a hole in it!" which also decreases EVERYTHING due to brain pressure, so more tired, less ability to think, less sensitive to all senses, less emotional control (especially because you're in constant pain / f…
> Which is a complex way of saying "we don't know the root cause of why [...]" A thing a lot of people don't seem to be aware about modern medicine. We can treat many things, we know a whole lot more than we used to, but a lot of this knowledge is often incomplete. Many of the body's systems are very badly understood. Treatment for most of those issues is symptom management more than anything else.
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I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. Means testing usually does not feel like an effective way to distribute services. I want millionaires to be using government aid to help their children: just like with free education, when everyone who needs help uses it, the richer parents will demand, and ensure we pay for, higher quality for all. Everyone who is…
> I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. The problem isn't the means testing the problem is it's applied with broad strokes like all well meaning but inevitably awful government work. First, everyone pays into disability. So everyone should be able to get their share when necessary. Second, means testing includes things like housing, retirement accounts…
Okay... how do you then prove this? Is preexisting medical issues considered legitimate? What about medication changes? What about [insert any of many possible causes]? What if you have one of those causes but are missing one piece of paperwork to prove it? What if what if what if? I worry that trying to put legitimacy tests on disability just leads to "you're not disabled enough to deserve health" the way it does now.
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Hi, this was enlightening. I'm a dude who has IIH myself for now almost half a decade and I was at no point told this could reduce my cognitive abilities. I take Diamox just in case (to reduce the intracranial fluid). It was a heering experience to get this diagnosed. One day all of a sudden my head started hurting and didn't stop, for months. But I had no other symptoms so doctors didn't take me seriously and my neu…
> It makes me feel like I'm just not worthy for life because hey, if they can make it, why can't I? Honestly though, nobody should have to earn a decent living, regardless of level of ability. They're alive, and not by choice, so they should be able to enjoy it. Meritocracy is just cruelty when extended to the conditions of one's life - we want those with the fewest intrinsic resources be made to suffer? I don't.
I once sat on a zoom call with a vision impaired user to do some accessibility testing on our site. First, it was enlightening for me to see how she navigated through our site using her screen reader. Second when she landed on our booking page we got so embarrassed because she couldn’t use our date picker. A basic HTML version would have done the job. But a few weeks back we had debated over which fancy jquery date p…
It's been a while, but I'm not convinced there is a truly accessible date picker out there. Allowing manual typing of the date seems like the best and only viable option.
I saw a lot of comments about squats. I gave up power lifting after college, and just do higher reps/lower resistance stuff, and a lot of variety. But when I had a meniscus tear in my other knee, the orthopedist told me I didn't need to go all the way down to parallel to get the strength benefits for the quads - just 45 degrees was enough. Since I'm in my late 60s, I probably should be a little careful anyway. Suggestions are welcome.
The point of the original article about disability hitting everyone was the big takeaway. Suddenly I have to think about hiring someone to mow the lawn and do yard work for a while. I can still get to the grocery store, but what if the injury had been worse and I couldn't? For me this will probably resolve itself in a while, but for some people disabilities are permanent. Injuries are humbling, and an opportunity for us to gain empathy for others.
Sometimes when you can't do some things it helps you appreciate the things you can do. So the time I would have spent running or working in the yard gets spent reading or doing math, or doing different kinds of strength work. Doors close, doors open - do what you can.
If you can watch a blind person use a iphone to call an uber, it'll etch in your mind how hard we make it.