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    • Jaded
      Jaded last edited by

      I love working from home. I enjoy it and it gets me paid without having to leave the house and deal with people or nature or my anxiety.

      But damn my boss needs to learn not to call my phone 15 times two hours after my shift because he thinks something needs to be done 'now.' Because at the point it is his 'now' my attitude is 'not my circus not my monkeys.'

      And I do not believe I am wrong in that. But I hate feeling like I am.

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      • Ganymede
        Ganymede Admin @Jaded last edited by

        @Jaded said in RL Anger:

        But damn my boss needs to learn not to call my phone 15 times two hours after my shift because he thinks something needs to be done 'now.' Because at the point it is his 'now' my attitude is 'not my circus not my monkeys.'

        Does your boss have a boss? If so, you should let him know that complying with his off-the-clock demands requires your overtime, so you'd appreciate it if requests are made within office hours.

        If he does not? Look around.

        “It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

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        • Jaded
          Jaded @Ganymede last edited by

          @Ganymede I am hired as a contractor so I do not get overtime. Just a salary.

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          • Sparks
            Sparks last edited by

            Yesterday, my mother's neutrophil levels were found to have dropped to the point that she had to skip her chemotherapy.

            Now, missing one session of chemo isn't the end of the world; it happens to plenty of people. I keep telling myself that.

            But it really doesn't help reduce the resulting stress.

            a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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              Paris @Sparks last edited by

              @Sparks the fact that I missed none of mine was considered to be unusual, if it helps. It's stressful but a common occurrence.

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              • Sparks
                Sparks @Paris last edited by

                @Paris said in RL Anger:

                @Sparks the fact that I missed none of mine was considered to be unusual, if it helps. It's stressful but a common occurrence.

                Yeah, I know. And mom's made it within spitting distance of the end of this cycle of chemo—which is a pretty rough one, since every third week she gets two types of chemo at once, one being the abdomenal wash—without having to miss a session. So rationally, I'm not too worried.

                Emotionally, however, that doesn't really help the stress reaction.

                a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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                • Faceless
                  Faceless last edited by

                  eye twitching intensifies

                  MSB free since 24/3/2018

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                  • Thenomain
                    Thenomain @Faceless last edited by

                    @Faceless said in RL Anger:

                    eye twitching intensifies

                    AKA: The OCD Test.

                    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
                    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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                      Paris @Sparks last edited by

                      @Sparks waves pompoms inadequately >< ❤

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                      • Auspice
                        Auspice last edited by

                        So going up to 150mg on the Trokendi seemed to finally cut my migraines back to 2, sometimes 3 episodes a week. Which made things pretty manageable. I felt human again. Or moreso than I had since February.

                        Except the paresthesia was bad. Real bad. It was constant throughout my face, sometimes up into my scalp. My arms, up to my elbows. And at night, in my feet, sometimes so bad it'd keep me awake.

                        So the neuro told me to take a week cutting back to 100mg.

                        It hasn't even been a week yet and the migraines are already back so bad that I'm back to barely functional and not eating. So I guess I have to just take that plunge to live with paresthesia in my face, arms, and feet... but less migraines or nausea. 😕

                        Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                        • Sparks
                          Sparks @Auspice last edited by

                          @Auspice

                          Sympathies. The dance of "will this migraine medication work, and if it does, will the side effects be tolerable" is ever so fun. 😞

                          a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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                          • Auspice
                            Auspice @Sparks last edited by

                            @Sparks said in RL Anger:

                            @Auspice

                            Sympathies. The dance of "will this migraine medication work, and if it does, will the side effects be tolerable" is ever so fun. 😞

                            Right? Like I definitely don't want severe migraines and nausea so bad I barely eat a meal a day... But I also don't enjoy tingling and numbness in my face and arms. 😐

                            Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                              I'm on tramadol right now for severe tooth pain. It makes my whole body itch, keeps me awake, and makes it so I can't go to the bathroom.

                              I prefer that to the pain.

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                              • surreality
                                surreality @Deleted last edited by

                                @Admiral said in RL Anger:

                                makes it so I can't go to the bathroom.

                                There was a thing on Shang, IC, that did this. Like some sort of... alien ass magic that just made everything not... there, or something. I dunno. I didn't ask. I didn't want to know the mental gymnastics behind it, because I bet there were some.

                                I do, however, recall many weird late night conversations with random people in which we'd debate whether or not we'd totally get that 'never have to go to the bathroom again' magic if it was really a thing. Nobody could ever come to a conclusion about this, but the observations were fucking amazing, like, 'you know, if it has no ill effects, wouldn't it just save money on toilet paper and ensure you never had to stand in long bathroom lines at airports?' or 'fuck that, when else do I get the chance to read?'

                                ...at least it isn't Shang ass magic. Which nobody ever actually decided on, as to whether or not it'd be awesome or awful if it was real.

                                Oh fucking well.

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                                  Paris @Deleted last edited by

                                  @Admiral unfortunately opiates don't do much for migraines, and often make them worse.

                                  Tramadol gave me way worse reactions than Oxy does and barely dented my (spine and neuropathic) pain, that was one of my worst months ever. Remember to taper off that one, too.

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                                  • Auspice
                                    Auspice last edited by

                                    Tramadol was like a sugar pill, for me. I'm constantly baffled by tales from people of side effects or it actually working.

                                    Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                                    • SparklesTheClown
                                      SparklesTheClown Creator Banned last edited by

                                      I don't see why having self-awareness is considered emo or self-depreciating.

                                      I thought Vaspider playing the victim all the time and pretending like she's being persecuted was considered a negative thing, and that Vaspider being self-aware would be a positive thing so that she can actually be mindful of her own behavior.

                                      Anyway, I just wanted to say that.

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                                      • Sparks
                                        Sparks @Paris last edited by Sparks

                                        @Paris said in RL Anger:

                                        @Admiral unfortunately opiates don't do much for migraines, and often make them worse.

                                        Barbiturates will sometimes block the pain, but I refer to it as a zoo cage. It's like the difference between standing ten feet away from a hungry lion on the veldt, or standing ten feet away from a hungry lion with thick zoo glass separating the enclosure from you. In both cases there's a lion ten feet away from you, but in one you can still perceive the lion even though it can't eat you.

                                        Unfortunately, they also only last a few hours, and tend to have plenty of other side effects. (And I'm not fond of the idea of becoming dependent on pain suppressors to function as a human being.)

                                        I've yet to find what truly works for me, either way. Topamax worked best so far to reduce the migraines, but made me feel like half of my brain was missing and the remaining half was running at a very high latency.

                                        a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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                                        • Tinuviel
                                          Tinuviel @SparklesTheClown last edited by

                                          @HelloProject There's having self-awareness, and there's wallowing in the result of that self-awareness. Playing the victim is bad, certainly, but shouting "I AM SELF AWARE" from the rooftops is just as selfish and stupid and off-putting.

                                          He/Him

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                                          • Catsmeow
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                                            @Auspice

                                            I'm sorry hon. I wish there was something I could do. When I went on my meds for my immune disorder, it helped my migraines. Can you maybe talk with your doctor about thinking outside the diagnosis box? Maybe there is a med that is not a 'migraine' medicine, but stops the pain, etc. I'm sorry.

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