Oh man, I liked Jeff Conaway, he was in a lot of my favorite shows. I made a trip to the pharmacy this afternoon and I stopped at the closest convenience store to get the largest Monster Energy Drink on sale there because I didn't want to pass out while driving. I despise taking drugs and take as little as I can get away with except for the antibiotics which I take on schedule until they're all gone. ^_^
TDD
This is an honest, non-hostile question. I hesitate to ask, given your reported medical condition, but couldn't a drink of orange juice have done as well as the "Monster Energy Drink"? Based on what research I have done, those drinks are loaded with empty calories and other "bad things", and count on macho advertising to sell their wares. I share your displeasure at taking drugs and avoid them whenever possible. Just had elective surgery for a torn meniscus in the knee, and do take some **** for the pain, but resent the hell out of it and hope it dies down soon.
Anyway, hope my q. was not objectionable, and wish you all the best that SHE up there can provide.
HB
If you snore (and living alone, that's often hard to tell - get a cheap tape recorder to be sure) you've probably got sleep apnea. During the night, your airway closes up and when the oxygen in your blood gets too low, you wake up. This can happen 100's of times in an evening. Stimulants will help, for a while, but eventually the nights of low oxygen sleep will get to you. My boss had it and drove off the road into the side of a local high school. Fortunately no one was injured, but he finally got to a sleep specialist that put him on a polysomnograph and measured the times he woke up from the mini-asphxiations. 141. His oxygen level dropped to near critical levels as well. Sleep like that is almost like no sleep at all. Some people actually go psychotic from the lack of sleep if it goes on long enough.
The put him on a CPAP (forced air mask system that keeps your windpipe open by pressurizing it) and he improved immediately. The people I know who've had their apnea cured say it's like getting your life back. It's serious business, Duf, get it checked out. The energy drinks are not the answer. They are actually making your overall fatigue worse as they squeeze out every bit of reserve power you have left.
-- Bobby G.
Dude, I think you should at least call the doctor and tell him/her the symptoms. Monster is sugar and caffeine. Both hit quick, and crash quick.
Oh man, I liked Jeff Conaway, he was in a lot of my favorite shows. I
Thanks for the question, I've never consumed an alcoholic beverage in my life or taken an illegal or recreational drug either and all my fellow hippies thought I was weird while I watched them bounce off walls and hallucinate polka doted elephants lecturing them on politics. I saved many of their lives just by being there and driving them home. Being a science geek from a young age I've always wanted to know what, why, when and what's in that. The Monster type energy drinks contain a lot of caffeine, taurine, ginseng, guarana and B-Vitamins along with a lot of sugar. I don't EVER drink more than one a day and may go months without drinking one but if I feel I need a kick in the butt from legal stimulants, I may consume an energy drink. I've never been a coffee drinker but being a Southerner I did drink sweet iced tea until cutting out a lot of sugar and switching to unsweetened tea and diet soft drinks. I do not recommend anyone of any age to consume large amounts of the potentially evil beverages. I have a friend who aggravated his heart condition and landed in the hospital because he was drinking a lot of those energy drinks to keep his energy level up. Drink Monster Juice with caution. I hope your medical condition improves also because nobody deserves to suffer that kind of pain. Believe me, as someone who has lived with and ignored more pain than most folks can tolerate, I know what pain is. :-)
TDD
Thanks Robert, I don't snore unless I'm in the wrong sleeping position and I can tell because my mouth will be dry when I wake. My lack of sleep I'm now suffering from is due to the respiratory problems I've had as of late. When I was in the hospital, the doctors changed some of my medication and I felt like I was drowning because I could get no air. It turned out I had fluid in my lungs so I was given Lasix intravenously and I peed out two gallon in a hour and could breath again. I may have to get on a steroid nasal spray because I'll wake in the middle of the night because my sinuses close up. I've always had trouble breathing thanks to those adults who exposed me to tobacco smoke from the time I was in the womb. I can't hate them for it because they didn't know any better back in the middle of the last century. I sure can resent it though. Nowadays there is no excuse to expose children to that sort of pollution because no one, not even the dumbest of people, can claim ignorance. Tobacco smoke is like tear gas to me. :-)
TDD
I have to go see my doctor friend who helps me out since I keep his
20 year old ultrasound machine working and build his computers for him.TDD
Your church says the same about caffeine, NoDoz has caffeine.
So, does this mean you're going to hell with all the other non-Mormon's?
Where's the prohibition on cola soft drinks come from then?
The "word" based on what I could find at the lds.org site seems to be based on the "commonsense" definition of what's good/bad for the body (which somewhat surprised me; from what had been told by those w/ whom had most contact I thought there was a specific prohibition on caffeine).
That being so, there's an apparent contradiction on the "hot drinks" of the original proscription being coffee and tea since both (and especially the latter) are often served cold in which case the original wouldn't seem quite accurate. :)
OTOH, given the apparent recasting, what about the recent studies that indicate there are actually beneficial results from coffee on various onset rates for disease? That would seem to lift the "ban"...
Ah, what tangled web we weave...
On a side note, grandfather was raised in LDS, when married she was from Irish Roman Catholic branch. Neither having a congregation where settled in SW KS, they "compromised" and raised all the kids as Methodists. :)
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I'll leave that for you to determine...
AFAIK, He said nothing about it...
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The Mormons are the only ones allowed in Heaven.
Jim
I'm uncomfortable around people who spam the internet with their religious beliefs. There's a place to dicuss religion, it's called a church. Leave it there.
You being uncomfortable does nothing to his Constitutional rights. The word of the day is "tough".
You can leave anytime you want.
Leave here. Now.
Or, in this case, more specifically, listen to somebody who says _they_ have the inside poop methinks...
Depending on who you ask, the answer isn't always the same, though, is it? :)
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Nope. Ask my wife if the Methodist Church is Christian and you'll likely not get the answer you expect either. ;-)
I hope you tell the truth and tell them it's really a kludged together bastardization of Christianity.
Wiki: "Under the doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus leads the church by revealing his will to its President, whom adherents regard as a modern-day "prophet, seer, and revelator." The current President is Thomas S. Monson. "
To subscribe to that faith one would have to believe the "boss" of the church has a direct hotline to God. No one else, only the "President"...(are you sure you're just not running a corporation?) gets to tell his minions what God wants them to do. Nice little cult you have there, I rank it right up there with Scientology. Both need to have their tax-exempt status revoked. It's all about the $$$$, right? That's why you force your children out in pairs to 'convert' people by knocking on my door all the time. Selling religion, what a concept.
I politely tell your missionaries I'm Jewish and close the door. They have not come up with a good come-back to that one (yet), it's probably being worked on in the sales dept. as we type.
I don't expect any specific answer...it's all anybody chooses... :)
But "official" doctrine is pretty mainstream Protestant, very little substantive difference in core w/ virtually any of other major denominations. Somewhat different in the social field, though, as result of the Wesley tradition.
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I understand all the ancient history. The more recent history of the church, or at least portions thereof, are suspect.
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