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  1. 16 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Thanks to this thread, my order this morning included:

    • Astros peanut brittle ice cream (pint)
    • Burnt ends
    • Pickles
    • Tortillas
    • 2 more bottles of Mi Tienda salsa taqueira

    Hungry Food GIF

    Probably should have added a fiber supplement.

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  2. 8 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I think my plan is rewatch We Own This City again to laugh my ass at Bernthal

    He was genius in that series. I hope he gets more screen time in Season 3 of The Bear.

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  3. 56 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I'll try to give the short version from the weight loss thread.  Back in 2019, after having surgery to repair a torn biceps tendon, I ballooned up to 249 lbs.  Once my arm healed, I got back to working out and trying to eat more healthily, but couldn't get it kick-started.  I got a prescription from my doc for Ozempic (covered by insurance) and within no time, dropped 20 lbs.  From there, I stagnated for the next year.  You just get used to it.  After a year, we upped the dosage from 0.5 ml to 1.0 ml.  Over the next three months, I lost a couple of pounds, but no major changes other than even more heartburn/GERD.  Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I developed intractable hiccups.  I'm talking, hiccups for three hours (bad hiccups), which would abate for an hour and start again.  I was prescribed Thorazine, which did nothing to abate the hiccups and made me feel awful.  I stopped that after a day or so.  My doc said to discontinue Ozempic, but because it stays with you for a week or so, the hiccups continued.  After about 5 days of it, I stumbled onto a Reddit where the OP said he had this problem and resolved it (after an ER visit) by taking a probiotic (Lactobacillus).  Desperate, I picked some up, took two, and another two before I went to sleep, and it worked.  I had maybe one more bout of hiccups, which abated quickly.  I've been taking about 4 Billion cultures of Lactobacillus daily since then. 

     

    I worried about coming off Ozempic and putting the weight back on as most people do.  I got very serious about my diet (during the week) and, over the next four months, I dropped another 30 lbs and have leveled out at just above/below the 200 lbs mark.  Honestly, I'd like to lose a little more, but I'm not taking Ozempic ever again.  Intractable hiccups was quite convincing on that score.

     

    As with any medication, YMMV

     

    Edit to add that my non-medical opinion is that because Ozempic causes the amount of time food spends in your stomach to increase, over time, your gut flora/fauna gets pretty wrecked and a daily probiotic would be a good idea. 

    I'm no doctor, but I do believe that, as another side effect, it's possible you might commit murder a few years down the road.

    Link:  Hiccup Girl Jennifer Mee found guilty of first degree murder

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    Some jurors cried as the verdict was read, but all 12 agreed on one thing Friday: Jennifer Mee, once known as the "Hiccup Girl," is guilty of first-degree murder.

    . . .

    Mee's notoriety began at age 15 when she had a case of hiccups that lasted weeks. In 2010, she was arrested along with two roommates and accused of murdering Griffin, 22, in St. Petersburg.

     

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