Everyone is in a bad mood today

[Perknose]

I'm in a good mood and having tonzzz of summer fun. As the famous Python quote goes, "I'm not dead yet!"

Ask me why.

 

[Red Squirrel]

When I was a kid living in Fort MacMurray a few days a year were like that. It would barely get dark for an hour. It's still pretty far from the Arctic Circle. I suspect there it wouldn't get dark at all, possibly the Sun wouldn't even set.

Yeah Fort Mac is actually way more north than I am. I'm actually almost in line with the US border. Like if you look at a map and continue the line through Ontario it would pass near where I live.

I know someone who worked in Yellowknife and the sun does not really set at all, I imagine that is short lived though, probably dark for most of the year.

 

[sandorski]

Yeah Fort Mac is actually way more north than I am. I'm actually almost in line with the US border. Like if you look at a map and continue the line through Ontario it would pass near where I live.

I know someone who worked in Yellowknife and the sun does not really set at all, I imagine that is short lived though, probably dark for most of the year.

Ya, Winter is brutal. Wake up at dusk to go to school, go home in the dark afterwards and a months of -20- -40c temps.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ya, Winter is brutal. Wake up at dusk to go to school, go home in the dark afterwards.

Yep like that here too. That is the one part of winter I don't like. I can go for a week without seeing any kind of sun light. Especially on night shifts, since I finish my shift at 7am so it will be pitch black, by the time the sun comes up I'm sleeping, and then by the time I wake up the sun is down again. I might see the tail end of the day and that's about it.

I pop vitamin D tablets like candy from a pez dispenser.

 

[Charmonium]

Don't take more than 4000 IU's - and that's the upper limit. Too high a dose can cause bone loss (yes, loss), kidney stones and a variety of other problems.

 

[KMFJD]

Where the f*** do you live? The arctic circle?

The sun was only down for a couple of hours while i was in the Yukon, was driving me insane

 

[Red Squirrel]

Don't take more than 4000 IU's - and that's the upper limit. Too high a dose can cause bone loss (yes, loss), kidney stones and a variety of other problems.

I think I take like 1000, I'd have to double check the tablets.

 

[Charmonium]

If you ever want to check your vitamin d levels, you can get a mail-in test kit from the Vitamin D Council. Here is the link to the test kit (non-member price) - https://shop.vitamindcouncil.org/products/in-home-vitamin-d-test-kit

 

[Ken g6]

I'm in a good mood and having tonzzz of summer fun. As the famous Python quote goes, "I'm not dead yet!"

Ask me why.

OK. Why aren't you dead yet?

Don't take more than 4000 IU's - and that's the upper limit. Too high a dose can cause bone loss (yes, loss), kidney stones and a variety of other problems.

Funny. My doctor prescribed me a 50,000 IU weekly pill. Although I just take smaller pills.

 

[Charmonium]

Funny. My doctor prescribed me a 50,000 IU weekly pill. Although I just take smaller pills.

Did he test you d3 levels and are you deficient? D is fat soluble so if you have an excess it will build up over time. You can take that amount for a short period of time to make up for a deficiency, but it would be a mistake to take it long term. Not sure what long term would be and how long it would be before you start showing toxicity symptoms. But if you're on that for any length of time I would either get re-tested or send away for that test kit. That is way, way too high a dose if you have normal D levels.

edit: oh ok. Just saw that was weekly. So about 7k IU per day. That's still pretty high. I would get your levels tested after a month or 2.

 

[Ken g6]

edit: oh ok. Just saw that was weekly. So about 7k IU per day. That's still pretty high. I would get your levels tested after a month or 2.

I was tested a couple of years ago and I was deficient. But I haven't taken more than 5000 IU per day, and I'm quite bad about remembering to take it. So I think I'm probably OK.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's my issue too I don't take my vitamins every day, I take it whenever I think of it. No idea what my levels are though, I'd have to get checked, like for everything, just as a preventative measure. If I'm low in something I may as well catch it now. I find doctors tend to be reactive though, go for a check up and they just say everything is fine and don't really check anything.

 

[Charmonium]

That's true. And they're not trained to look for sub-clinical symptoms. So say your blood pressure is at the high end of normal. As long as you don't go over the cutoff, they consider you "well." But maybe you get symptoms of high BP. Well, too bad. He doesn't ask about those because you're "normal." Therefore you're fine.

BP probably isn't a good example since they're much more attuned to that being a potential issue. But take blood levels or magnesium as an example. Almost everyone is deficient in this but rarely does anyone even test for it. But it can cause all sorts of problems from muscle stiffness to an irregular heart beat. But if you don't have any symptoms, who cares. You're fine.

 

[cbrunny]

I'm in a bad mood today now. My turn. grump. grump grump grump.

that's all.

 

[Perknose]

OK. Why aren't you dead yet?

Last time they came around, the cart was full. I did find out how you can spot a king, though. But that's not important now. Have you noticed what a foul mood cbrunny has been in lately? I'm concerned.

 

[disappoint]

I heard that recently from some new study. I plan on looking into it. I'll be sure to post lots of pictures of me in my new yoga pants.

:^P

Here is a series of pics on what to do to alleviate back pain, some easy exercises:
http://imgur.com/gallery/D3OqE

 

[Murloc]

Where the f*** do you live? The arctic circle?

I was in scotland and it's about the same there and the climate is very moderate (in fact, too moderate, there's no actual summer).

 

[Ajay]

I'm in a good mood and having tonzzz of summer fun. As the famous Python quote goes, "I'm not dead yet!"

Ask me why.

Do you have a dog in your pocket or are you just glad to see me. Oh wai...that's your wife

 

[Perknose]

Do you have a dog in your pocket or are you just glad to see me. Oh wai...that's your wife

Not my wife. Also . . . not my dog, although, for a chihuahua, he's pretty damn cool. He's not AT ALL yappy. In fact, he's cool around people and other dogs. He goes right up to them, tail wagging, and says hello. For a ~ 6 pound beastie in a world full of lumbering 100-200 bipeds, that guy holds his own with ease.

Nancy and I known each other forever. We bond over our love of nature and animals, live music and having raucous fun. My late dog Cinnamon was the first congregant dog to attend my church, no leash. Now, Nancy's pookah has taken up her legacy.

The mighty pookah at Nancy's lakeside home.

 

[Ajay]

Not my wife. Also . . . not my dog, although, for a chihuahua, he's pretty damn cool. He's not AT ALL yappy. In fact, he's cool around people and other dogs. He goes right up to them, tail wagging, and says hello. For a ~ 6 pound beastie in a world full of lumbering 100-200 bipeds, that guy holds his own with ease.

Nancy and I known each other forever. We bond over our love of nature and animals, live music and having raucous fun. My late dog Cinnamon was the first congregant dog to attend my church, no leash. Now, Nancy's pookah has taken up her legacy.

The mighty pookah at Nancy's lakeside home.

Cool story dude

Oh, and since this is ATOT: