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As a petite female, I had to increase both my daily activity level and my purposeful exercise to get to the weight I wanted. Like you, I look and feel better toward the bottom of the healthy weight range, and I just didn't think it was a good idea to consistently eat under 1400ish cals. I started taking several short walks…

When I had a wisdom tooth removed, I lived off of those Bob Evans mashed potatoes (and ice cream lol) and they are pretty good!

My response is probably being pedantic, but this is the debate forum so why not :wink: I might be misunderstanding your first sentence, but if you were saying that the whole healthy bmi range is valid for everyone, that is not true. The idea of the healthy range is that the vast majority of individuals at that height will…

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/04/vaccine-related-blood-clot-mystery-must-be-solved/618623/ I thought this was an interesting article about some theories on the blood clot issues.

Yeah, there is a cost to any time lost with the J&J vaxx because there are a number of people for whom getting them in (or going to them) more than once is unlikely or at least difficult. It was kind of apropos that J&J was coming in late behind the first two in the US, as it was going to be most useful in disadvantaged…

My vague understanding is it's very treatable as long as a knowledgeable practitioner knows it's not a typical clotting issue, as typical treatment would be heparin and that will make things worse.

I'm totally plagiarizing this from a FB account called "your local epidemiologist" posting on what was discussed at the hearing about the J&J vaccine, so I haven't fact checked this. Hopefully it's accurate Considering the combo of CVST with low platelets, this is a bit higher incidence than in the general population. From…

Thanks yeah I'm not logically worried and I think the pause is an over abundance of caution. My inner hypochondriac will get a bit of a workout for the next week or two though lol. I'm glad I got the tip they were available and got in under the wire, it probably would be another month or so before I get called to make an…

So I ran a bit of a fever last night and felt generally achy. I woke up this morning and the fever is gone for now, but the news said the FDA is suggesting the US halt J&J because it's also seeing rare cases of this blood clot disorder. Oh boy :neutral:

My SIL texted me that her neighbor had gone to the health dept vaccine clinic nearby for her appt and heard they had a couple of hundred extra J&J shots that they were accepting walk ins for. I put on some real pants and ran down there and within 15 minutes I was vaccinated. I am on their mailing list and follow them on…

The difference between the covid vaccine and the birth control pill is that we are trying to get everyone to get the vaccine, so minimizing the risks is paramount. Women are not encouraged or even pressured to get on the pill by society. I was on the pill for 15+ years and in fact I had to constantly be reminded of the…

The A-Z vaccine sticks the covid-19 spike protein on an inactive chimp adenovirus. They wondered on TWIV if maybe this is a rare side effect of the chimp virus that either wasn't noticed in chimps or is a reaction only in humans. It does seem oddly coincidental that weird blood clot patterns is a possible issue with covid…

Players are supposed to be self-quarantining with their families when not with the team, and are tested I believe every time they show up at practice facilities or the rink. But the tests take several hours and meanwhile the player is with the team. But yeah, it's ridiculous to think hundreds of young men are going to…

Was just reading that the Vancouver Canucks have 15 players and 2 coaches out on covid protocol, many actually testing positive (not just close contact), more than one described as very sick, and the cases have been confirmed to the Brazilian variant which is spiking in Vancouver. They're not sure they'll be able to finish…

They discussed this a little more in the next episode, as they found a report with more data on the cases. It said out of 55,000,000 vaccinations, 9 individuals developed this clotting disorder around 14 days after vax, 4 of them died. So that would be 1 out of 6 million or so. They said the condition is treatable, and the…

What is different about the weekend that might be making it harder for you to eat right? Also, is it possible you're eating too little or trying to eat only food that you don't like? If you are forcing yourself to eat too little or to avoid the foods you like, then for sure you're going to run out of willpower at the end…

@33gail33 Interesting,thanks. I still think if my turn came up and it was A-Z I'd take it, but I'm not judging anyone for being hesitant until more is known. Easy for me to say of course, as A-Z isn't even an option here in the US. I hope they figure it out.

Here in VA you still have to be over 65, a frontline/essential worker, or a health risk to make an appt. And my health district specifically is still struggling to get the over 65 group done. So I'm still in my own little quarantine, hoping I'm vaxxed by the 4th of July at this point :neutral:

They discussed A-Z on TWIV in more depth this week. To boil it down, they said the incidence of blood clots was no greater than in the general pop, BUT acknowledged the fact that those few affected were under 55 women was unusual,as we're the specifics of the cases. They said that while it could be coincidental, it…

Cllicking through to their press release, it sounds like in addition to monitoring for sickness, they tested for antibodies one month after the second shot and got excellent results. Looking forward to the actual data when they present to the FDA in a few weeks! Considering it looks like virus shedding is minimized (if not…

And this is preventing infection, not just disease. :smile:

I have always eaten like 50% "healthy foods" and 50% convenience food, fast food, treat food. Before, during, and after. I gained 5-10 lbs over the last year so I'm trying to lose that again, but I'd been maintaining for a couple years before that. For me, healthy means eating enough protein and fiber, eating a variety of…

People die unexpectedly, and when you have the whole world getting vaccinated at the same time, you're bound to have some of those unexpected deaths happen soon after but unrelated to the shot. So there's good reason to think it was almost certainly unrelated, but you also want to err in the side of caution. But you also…

A tape measure can be really easy to mis-measure. Also, you have no control over what part of your body you lose fat from at any given time. Maybe you just didn't measure the spot where you lost from at first. Maybe the fat lost is so evenly spread out over your body that it's just a fraction of an inch over everywhere,…

Just wanted to add to this - I actually think it's a shame that we don't routinely mask during flu season and do more to inconvenience people who don't get the flu vaccine. I think it would be worth it to save the health and lives of some of the thousands of people who suffer long term health implications or die from…

Yes, respiratory illnesses of all kinds can have long-term adverse affects. What's not typical is for millions of Americans to all get a respiratory infection in the same year. If 25 million people were getting pneumonia every year, with half a million dying and let's say another half a million surviving but having their…

Vaccine development requires funding. Previous coronaviruses that were serious enough to possibly warrant a vaccine had limited spread, and coronaviruses that spread widely weren't dangerous enough to warrant a vaccine. There has been research done, but in the competition for research money, a coronavirus has never been…

I also think there are a bunch of people who are telling pollsters they won't get vaxxed, but once lots of people are and nobody is getting wifi reception in their teeth or growing a tail, they will just quietly scoop up an appointment. Some people I know have already been vaxxed, "just to get the government off our…

Totally not disagreeing with you at all, but I think it's kind of sad that it is unrealistic to expect people to pull together and do the right thing if they aren't being forced to. A little bit of naivety I guess I was still holding on to. There are ways we could moderate the sacrifice, focusing everything on getting kids…

My first guess is that it could also be that the variant viruses replicate faster and/or take longer for the antibodies to kill, so they can infect a person and start shedding before they are neutralized. Mind you, I'm no virologist but I have listened to some podcasts while staying at a Holiday Inn Express :wink: So don't…