We Quit Cigarettes

[ShrekDawg]

There's only one person who keeps bringing it back to food, and it ain't Kiki.
You wanna talk about it? We're all here for you.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I have paid over $600 to be told I probably maybe have an irregular heartbeat that apparently everyone else in the world also has.

Yup. If you're on your own they charge full price, which is always ridiculous. I got charged $150 for "wound care" at the dermatologist. They put on a dam bandaid. Not going back.

My last treatment experience with a doc was thumb surgery 10 year ago.
Surgery was covered but removing pins came after cobra ran out.
They were going to charge me $800 for each of two pins.
I asked doc to only charge me what they would have been paid,
which from watching the bills roll thru was about half.
He looked at me long and hard, we had a good rapport,
told the admin to just charge me for one pin instead of two.
Went to a doc recently, asked about that, they told me they can't do that anymore.
I won't go back, would rather die.

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

Survive.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Sorry, been trying to separate the quotes lately so it’d be shorter but forgot that time :


they taste good though!! But I don’t eat them anymore.

I have been eating better lately but I was eating so bad for a while haha

I am quoting the shorter one .

I think we started talking talking vitamins when the question was raised about how strict carnivores get vitamins.
I really do believe everyone just wants you (and everyone else) to be careful with those and not take a bunch thinking if one is good two is better.

 

[Kiki]

On my third day of chantix... wish me luck. Already down from two packs a day to about a pack a day. This is the roughest part I think. When I get to this point my severe anxiety kicks in...

I think I smoked MoRE for the first day or two just because I knew I was about to quit.

Yeah there usually is but it’s just one question about it and I usually just say no. not really intentionally though. I just never really usually stick with any one supplement for long or even finish most of them and sometimes I am truly not taking anything when I go so I never really felt a need to.



Yes lol my doctor is really good and they always do bloodwork every single time I go and they always do blood pressure. I thought that was part of every physical???? At least I think it’s blood pressure. They wrap that thing around my arm haha

And yeah, I guess I could probably ask. Idk.



That was not my intention at all..... also my post wasn’t even specifically about you. You haven’t really done that very much if at all. But it just seems like sometimes everyone freaks over the tiniest things. Maybe not this time but still hah and by freak I don’t even necessarily mean mean or bad or anything. Just shocked/worked up/whatever the word. Idk. But yeah, maybe I did misunderstand you and/or everybody else. But it was not intentional or some evil and malicious thing like you seem to think it is......

But saying “you’ve never seen someone so careless about their body and health” or whatever it was you said was a bit rude or whatever. Especially since it’s vitamins. Not drugs or anything. Maybe you really didn’t mean it that way and if so I’m sorry, truly, but that’s how it came across. Especially because the very reason I’m taking the vitamins in the first place is to be healthy.

But if I misinterpreted it, I’m sorry. I really do like you.

But if that was not the intent and the focus was solely on me not telling the doctor, then why was everybody talking so much about vitamin overdoses and acting like I’m going to drop dead over them???

I am truly not trying to argue with that. I am genuinely confused.







thanks!



Nahhh. My doctor always checks all of that stuff every single time. And the last doctor I had when I was a kid did too. We always got blood pressure and blood work.



I will do it when I go in next. But there isn’t even much room there. It’s literally like one line.



That’s all part of the physicals we get. My doctor does that stuff every single time. He’s even ordered a second blood test a bit later to double check the sugar numbers when they were high. And he’s ordered ultrasounds and other tests too.

I was taking it to try to be healthy or whatever but maybe I do not need to.


An in home nurse is different though. So is a little tiny bottle of medicine or two. Bringing an entire apothecary of vitamins seems a tad much to me though. Idk. Maybe it’s not. But also these bottles are freaking huge which is why I was thinking it’d be embarrassing or ridiculous or whatever. It’s not like a discreet bottle I can hide haha I’d be walking in with several massive bottles. It looks a bit weird.





I don’t need to be tricked! I’m not a child.

I’m well aware I need all this stuff and my doctor automatically tests all of this stuff and also is good about noticing things and requesting extra tests if necessary so when I say “physical” I am meaning all of this stuff. It’s just easier to say physical rather than list every test.

And if the sugar is high again he will request another test or the A1C thing I am sure. He has requested several pelvic ultrasounds to check some weird thing I’ve got and even a heart ultrasound or echo or whatever the test is because he noticed I was supposed to go back 5 years after the last time just as a checkup so he got me in with him. He is very good about all of this. Don’t worry.

Also, just for the record, I do fully understand how expensive it is. I’m not an idiot lol that’s why I’m going ASAP before it runs out and same for the dentist and the therapy. I’m doing all of this now because I know it’s ending soon and I won’t be able to after haha



Okay, touché

Alcohol too!


I think so but idk. I thought vitamins were tested? I know most other supplements and stuff aren’t.


I won’t!!! I’ve made it this far.


mine does it all automatically!


I know which is why I said I was going this week lol I’m not an idiot. Hell, I’m the one who just brought it up to my parents yesterday that I was due for it. They didn’t even know/remember. I’m doing everything now before it runs out because I already know all of this.


she does that too. And text!


Thanks! I’m sure you’re right but it just seemed like everyone was like “ahhhhh overdose!! You’re gonna drop dead from taking so many!!” maybe not though lol

But you make good points... honestly though usually when I go, it’s not for a problem. It’s just for the physical and I usually feel fine so I don’t mention it. Also last time I wasn’t taking anything. I only recently started taking these.

Now that I know it could potentially be a problem, I will tell him haha



Well, that’s why I thought I’d start taking it. Because I eat like shit haha but then again even lucky charms are fortified now

But I actually only started taking the multivitamins and the B12 because my mom bought them but they’re gummies and I don’t really like them anyway and loaded with sugar so I think I’m going to stop taking them.

But I do take two other single ones that someone recommended for the migraines and said their neurologist won’t even see people for it unless they’re taking them so I got them and they do seem to help me a lot. But I haven’t told the doctor yet but mostly because I started taking them well after the last physical. Now that I know I should be telling them, I will at the next one.

You said the same thing twelve times Kdog.
You could have just said it once or twice.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think I smoked MoRE for the first day or two just because I knew I was about to quit.

You said the same thing twelve times Kdog.
You could have just said it once or twice.

wait did I really? Whoops

 

[aart]

You said the same thing twelve times Kdog.
You could have just said it once or twice.

Exactly!!

 

[Kiki]

wait did I really? Whoops

I stopped reading after the second time.

 

[aart]

I stopped reading after the second time.

Kdog makes my scroller finger sore

 

[Kiki]

I can't stand those novel quotes.
I usually just skip them.