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Me too. Tried all the things. No improvement. Turns out most of my anxiety, insomnia, etc sensations were caused by pinched spinal nerves. I say sensation because I believe, but cannot prove, that my physical sensation led to my mental state. Most diagnosis assume the reverse; that mental state leads to physical symptoms (restlessness, clinching, pit-in-stomach, whatever). I have not yet read anything or met anyone (…
is osteo something that isn't detectable with an xray? I ask because if i go to the doctor for back pain et al and they can't find anything wrong, i'd expect the next referral to be to imaging so they can see if it's skeletal. I have a slight curve in my spine, but not enough to be a clinical diagnosis of scoliosis. So i will just have "back pain" of all sorts my entire life and that's great, super. But if i get a di…
Getting a helpful diagnosis wasn't straightforward. More like a process of ruling things out and triangulation. Over the course of years.
My advice to all patients: Don't accept "No." Each individual doctor can only know so much. Just know that someone(s) out there has the puzzle peice(s) you need.
Of course, you've tried All The Things. Physical & occupational therapies, deep massage, sauna, magnesium, ruled out kidneys, pilates, general fitness (weights, HIIT), lots of walking...
(As an example: A buddy had a bad hip, terrible back pain. Was doing PT for more than year, no improvement. Was considering a hip replacement. Turns out he had late stage kidney cancer. FFS. Then was repeatedly told he had 6 months max. Until he found that one doctor who knew about a clinical trial for a new immunotherapy. Fortunately, it worked and 3 (?) years later was declared in remission.)
Also, I've gotten relief from unexpected areas.
Swedish Hospital's (Seattle) Pain Clinic has a whole program. Was transformative for me and better over time. I'm not healed. Just able to manage my pain(s). There are similar clinics nationwide.
I've even changed my diet. After much trial & error, I figured out that wheat (gluten), peanuts, and even just (too much) sugar were negatives for me. Cutting those out reduced my pain and improved my brain focus. Probably something about inflamation. I'm sure I have more to discover.
I encourage you to not give up. You're experiencing pain. So there's got to be a cause. It may not be treatable. But at least you'll know and can plan better.
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is osteo something that isn't detectable with an xray? I ask because if i go to the doctor for back pain et al and they can't find anything wrong, i'd expect the next referral to be to imaging so they can see if it's skeletal. I have a slight curve in my spine, but not enough to be a clinical diagnosis of scoliosis. So i will just have "back pain" of all sorts my entire life and that's great, super. But if i get a di…
Sorry, I'm not a doctor. I've had DEXA scans (for bone density), MRIs, and x-rays. For me, the MRIs identified potential nerve impingements (from bone spurs) and the weakened S1-L5-L4. Getting a helpful diagnosis wasn't straightforward. More like a process of ruling things out and triangulation. Over the course of years. My advice to all patients: Don't accept "No." Each individual doctor can only know so much. Just…
"Never stop seeking the answer"
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no need to root it if you have a decent "router" stack. fortigates can re-route even hard-coded IPs to internal services ;-) i am sure others can too, i just know we had to use the fortigate to fix a hard-coded IP that was breaking something. i think it was a fog device, even.
Do you know if this works with any vacuums? I would assume they used https and would notice that man-in-the-middle attack.
> it'll work for whatever ports or application you want since it's a layer 7 firewall
I got one of those indoor gardening systems. We thought we had an issue with them. Contacted support. Support checked and it was fine. Just needed time to adjust. They mentioned they checked the cameras (!). Later on I got a second used one and while cleaning it, noticed that the internals are just a raspberry pi. Took my micro HDMI and keyboard, and... this thing just runs Raspberry Pi OS. No updates. And ... VNC. P…
That's why I have a separate VLAN and wifi AP for devices I don't trust. And where possible, I use them over LAN only and block their access to the internet on the firewall. That's also why I like zigbee devices and why I am not very happy about Matter and "IP everywhere".
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I have a Gardyn 3.0 and 4.0. They run Raspberry Pi OS with some custom code. They have live access to the cameras.
Were you able to disable their remote access software once you were poking around the raspberry pi?
I'm debating writing a custom firmware, the GPIO pins are documented somewhere.
* Run pump.
* Turn lights on / off / %.
* Measure water in tank.
* And then they have a moisture / temperature which they use for their 'AI' / heuristics on whether to water more or less. You don't need that. You just water more often. The point of hydroponics is that the roots sit in water.
* Occasional photo (via USB).
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I also need white noise to sleep. At home I have a simple one that plugs in and generates noise with fan. Looks almost exactly like this: https://res.cloudinary.com/guest-supply/image/upload/f_auto,... When I travel I take this small portable rechargeable one: https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Babelio-Adults-Non-looping-So... I'm on android so I don't have the built in sounds that iOS has
I use the mynoise.net android app. They changed it a few years ago, not for the better, but it is still servicable. https://mynoise.net/
I used to use https://asoftmurmur.com/ for a long while. I prefer the separate device I have now instead of an app.
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That's why I have a separate VLAN and wifi AP for devices I don't trust. And where possible, I use them over LAN only and block their access to the internet on the firewall. That's also why I like zigbee devices and why I am not very happy about Matter and "IP everywhere".
I'd like to do this but I need some more hardware. I'm thinking to buy a Mikrotik hAP Ax3 Router WiFi 6 or a more expensive Turris Omnia or MOX... The standard home routers doesn't have those features!
Then I have a normal wifi in a ASUS PRIME N100I-D D4 x86 low power mobo which I also use as a media box. It has a Mediatek mt7916 wifi 6e-capable (but running wifi 6 currently anyway) M.2 card by AsiaRF in a short cable extender. I took a long time to find a well-supported wifi card.
Then I have a third box which is also a router and has normal 5GHz AP. It also hosts a radius daemon used by all APs which assigns MAC addresses to VLANs, optionally forces them to their unique passphrases. All boxes are connected by LAN cables.
It works perfectly with no issues but it took gradual smaller improvements over many days until I ended up with this setup. It would also be possible to cram everything into a single box if the area to be covered isn't very large.