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on Jan 27, 2009 @ 09:04 am
So i have been on and off the nuvaring since July. Its falls out sometimes during intercourse with my bf. and we either dont notice or forget to put it back in. This has happened quite a few times so there has been times when he came inside me w/ no form of birthcontrol. However i have always gotten my period. I had the ring in for Dec and got my period on the 10th i put it back in when it was due but it fell out on the 20th of dec. and i got my period again on the 23rd. I have not been on it since and have had many instances where he came inside me. Because that has happened so many times before i never think much of it. because i always end up getting my period and was a little discouraged thinking i could not get pregnant. I have not gotten my period in Jan and if i was going by my period on the 10th i would have gotten it early in Jan i am not sure if i am suppose to get it this month because i had it twice in Dec. I have had to pee more often, sometimes dizzy and faint feeling, very sore nipples for a week or so but i had that last time right before my period, even tho this time it never came. Also some feelings of sickness throughout the day. It could also be in my head. Basically my question is if i am suppose to suspect my period in jan and if so i have missed it and could potentially be pregnant. Thanks any info will help!
|Are you trying to get pregnant? on Jan 27, 2009 @ 09:58 am
I imagine I am pregnant every month. And I am a careful girl. If you're not sure if your symptoms are real or imagined, get a pregnancy test $10 should answer that question for you.
|Are you pregnant? on Jan 27, 2009 @ 10:21 am
Sometimes it can take up to 6 months to a year for someone who is TRYING to get pregnant (and sometimes it takes one accident), last year my friend got pregnant from using the "pull out method". If you don't want to get pregnant, I suggest you use a much more reliable birth control than this nuva ring that falls out all the time. I got pregnant by a one time accident, I'm now 6 months along.
It's definitely not something you want to play roulette with unless you're ready for the responsibility of a baby. A baby WILL change your ENTIRE life, I tell you this now! My friend was 23 and I'm only 21, just being pregnant so far has changed my entire world. Babies are hard work and a huge deal, remember that.
Okay, I know I'm more lecturing than answering your question... but if you aren't pregnant at least you have something to think about.
Anyway, the best way to know if you're pregnant, is a pregnancy test. It's always good to test 4-5 days AFTER your period was expected.
From what I gather you are late already, the only difference I had when I found out I was pregnant was: a) I wasn't as moody (but that could have been because I was on anti-depressants for the first time) and b) the areolas around my nipples turned a darker shade and c) I felt tired all the time.
Other than that everything else seemed like my period... that didn't come. I tested and it was postive.
Depending on far after your period was due, those can be symptoms of pregnancy, I had to pee lots after a couple of weeks and my breasts became so sensitive.
As said, a pregnancy test should tell you (although their are false negative), the doctor can give you a blood test that tells you for sure.
Either way, good luck! I hope however this turns out, you're ready for it.
|one more question on Jan 27, 2009 @ 03:17 pm
Hi again, and thanks for the quick replys and advice. Either way my b.f and I are ready for whatever the outcome may be. And i know a pregnancy test would be really the only way to tell for sure. And with past experiences I have taken a test, and always end up getting my period the next day! so it is very frustrating. My main question if anyone can answer it is whether or not I could potentially miss my period this month because of the problems i had with my birthcontrol in December when i got it twice. If there is a chance that is the case than i will not bother to test because i am sure i will get my period early Feb. However, if even though i had my period twice in Dec, it is unlikely that i would miss it in Jan than i kno that i should do a hpt for sure. Thanks again.
|pregnancy test on Jan 27, 2009 @ 03:46 pm
I was very paranoid about getting pregnant when I was in school. I knew I wasn't ready then and because of that, I never missed a pill. Not even once, I was that paranoid. My period was fairly regular once I went on the pill but once in awhile, I'd be late and I freak out. I keep thinking I got pregnant and I was super stressed out, which of course, probably made things worse.
My advice is, get a pregnancy test and confirm. There are tests out there that claims they can detect pregnancy as early as 2-3 days. If you are not sure of the results, then go see a doctor and confirm it. Meanwhile, make sure you eat healthy, don't drink any alcohol, don't smoke, no raw fish, no raw eggs...basically stay off anything pregnant women are not suppose to eat. Just in case.
Don't look too much into pregnancy "signs" such as increased urination, swollen breasts, morning sickness, etc. When I got pregnant, I didn't really show any signs except the increased urination which didn't come until I was already 2 months pregnant. Everyone woman is different, you may or may not show any symptoms. So get a pregnancy test and confirm.
If you are not pregnant, it's time to get on a more reliable form of birth control. This is the website my obstetrician point me to after I had my baby: http://sexualityandu.ca/adults/contraception.aspx. Check out their contraception Comparison Chart. Since I was breastfeeding, she recommended the IUD.
|Thanks on Jan 27, 2009 @ 04:05 pm
Thanks for all of the replys. It is helping and i will be getting a test sometime this week. My only unanswered question was whether i would evne be expecting my period this month because i had it twice last. Thanks
|Birthcontrol messing up periods... on Feb 01, 2009 @ 02:47 pm
Well with birthcontrol, if you were taking it and have stopped it, it can mess with your cycle making you temporarily irregular.
This can last up to a year from what I've been informed, so skipping periods and having 2 of them in a row are common problems (and obviously quite worrisome if you've had un-protected sex!)
If it's really causing you anxiety, getting a pregnancy test can help ease your mind... they are more accurate AFTER your expected period. As much as they claim it can be detected before, don't waste your money.
Otherwise, be healthy for another month and see if you get your period, if not I'd go see the doctor.
Hope that helps. ^_^
am i pregnant
|am i pregnant on Apr 02, 2009 @ 06:22 am
Actually to become pregnant you should count your ovulating time, the
time for ovulating is about ten days until seventeen days after your
first day period, so if you have sex during that time I quite sure you
could be pregnant. Good luck !
|Messing up your period on May 07, 2009 @ 02:11 pm
I've had that problem before, I've tried many different pills because I find some make me sick. Once I was one week into a new pack and found it was making me extremely nauseated so I just stopped taking it. I kept track of my days and just started taking a different pill again the same time I would of had to start a new pack. This messed up my period for almost 2 months I didn't get it (I think it was 6 weeks). So try not to worry, it could just be that from the ring falling out all the time screwing up your hormones and cycle.
ALSO, stress can keep you from getting your period regularly, you said that before you've taken tests and got your period the next day? That's because your tests came up negative and you had nothing left to stress about.
Hope this helps!
|Period Missing on May 08, 2009 @ 11:37 am
Your period could come on an irregular day or you can even miss a period if you worry.I know when I get worried or upset about something,it plays a role on your body and then my period is thrown off. If you have this worry,you may want to try an alternative birth control.
|welll on May 10, 2009 @ 08:07 am
I read somewhere that you could take the nuva ring out during intercourse, but you can't keep it out for more that one or two hours.I'd double check though, but I don't think that's the issue.


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Thanks, I will try to explain what I am trying to do. My project directory structure is something like this: MyContext/admin MyContext/admin/config MyContext/userdata MyContext/userdata/user1 MyContext/userdata/user2 ... I want to enable listing on admin and its subs and disable listing on MyContext/ MyContext/userdata I set the listings property on default servlet to false ( in tomcat/conf/web.xml ) and now i want all patterns with admin in it to show listings. What I tried to do is to create another default servlet, this time with listings=true and to map it to all patterns with admin/* I added this mapping in MyContext/WEB-INF/web.xml. ...but then I face this strange behaviour I described in the first mail on this thread. Even if this is not a good way to allow listings on certain directories I realy want to understand why I get the listing for http://localhost/MyContext/ when I point my browser to http://localhost/MyContext/admin/ Thanks again Adi -----Original Message----- From: Milt Epstein [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:53 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: URL patterns + directory listings On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, adi wrote: > Hello, > > I encountered a very strange problem with servlet mappings. > > > I have the following entry in my web.xml file : > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>MyDefaultServlet</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>debug</param-name> > <param-value>0</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>listings</param-name> > <param-value>true</param-value> > </init-param> > </servlet> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>MyDefaultServlet</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > > All I am doing here is passing all requests to the 'admin' directory > and its children to the default servlet with listings=true. A Well, that's not really what you're doing. The "admin" in your url-pattern is a virtual directory in the URL space that bears no connection to any real directory, and if there's also a real directory named "admin", that's just a coincidence (an unfortunate confusing one perhaps). > simple trick to allow listings on specific directories. The problem > is that when I point the browser to: > http://localhost/MyContext/admin/ > > I get the listings for http://localhost/MyContext/ That sounds like the right behavior to me. > Now, If I point the browser to http://localhost/MyContext/admin/admin/ > > ... I get the listings for the right directory. Well, you're not clearly indicating what's the "right directory", but I'm guessing you have a subdirectory admin under your MyContext. Again, this behavior sounds right to me for what you have set up above. > Any idea whats going on ? It's working as you have it set up? And that doesn't match what you want because you don't fully understand this stuff? (Don't worry, most don't :-). Why don't you say more clearly what you want to do, and perhaps someone can comment on that. > And more than that: > If I change the pattern from /admin/* to /admin/ > Everything works fine but than mapping will not kick off for > sub-directories of 'admin' That's because URLs you're using to reach the sub-directories of admin no longer match the url-pattern (without the '*'). Again, this sounds like the right behavior to me. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) firstname.lastname@example.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:email@example.com> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
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My friend Shelby that is currently staying here with her husband and their 2 kids, a 3 month old and a 1 year old. Her family has been without Air Condition since April of this year. They have made numerous attempts in contacting management to have their AC fixed. Since April, the management office has had their maintenance team come out to fix the problem and it was not resolved. They also had someone from corporate come out a few days ago to fix the problem and it was still not resolved. They had addressed to the management office of they could switch to another apartment that has AC and was told they would need to pay a move fee of $300. This is not right and unfair to this family
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The people at this office are the meanest, rudest and most incompetence that I have ever come across in my life. I am the most patience person you will ever come across. But after almost 2 years of dealing with them after moving out concerning an issue that is their fault, I have no patience left. The worse person there, believe it or not, is the supervisor, the person supposedly the most responsible because she is in charge. I have called and came into the office numerous times inquiring as to when I will get a check for an overpayment, 2 YEARS....2 !!!!! , still nothing !!!!! They keep telling me...."oh it is in the mail....oh i'm not sure why u haven't received it......then oh yeah it haven't been processed.....oh i see ... the supervisor and her boss need to sign it..." STILL NOTHING !!!! NADA !! ZERO!! The supervisor never once apologized and just keep giving excuses. When I asked to talked to her boss nicely, she went off on me and tell me to do what I want and hung up on me. Good thing, I have recorded some of our conversation to play back for her boss to show how rude she is. I'm calling her next after this. If anybody needs the boss number to complain...her name is Mrs. Eagle @ 757-369-0826. Thanks for reading :) p.s the only nice person there is melanie.....she was out to have a baby...... i like her.....nice, polite and smart.......not sure if she is back....she should be the supervisor
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Worst place I have ever rented from. Roach problems, mold in the closets. Had other apartments flood into mine 3 times, making the carpet smell so bad that it made my husband, myself and my 2 pets sick. When we finally moved they tried to nail us with a $900 bill for ripping out the carpet and installing a new one. Now I get to fight them over that while it marks my credit. Stay away from Monarch Crossing/ aka Morgan Properties in Newport News, VA!!
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On the towpath of the Oxford Canal, where the narrow boats moor near the centre of town, I came across a large, irritable, white swan. It was so out of place - being wild, and unregulated - that I couldn't believe it was legal. It was hissing and stretching its neck and making pecking movements at cyclists. That's surely not acceptable in a built-up area, is it? Shouldn't I call some Government agency to report it? Have its licence withdrawn?
That's what we've come to in Britain. A wild swan is so out of place on a canal towpath that even someone like me considers reporting it to the authorities for the sake of public order.
When you look around Britain, this Brave New World is everywhere you turn. We now live in a country where children can't have a pancake race without public liability insurance. Almost every sort of public gathering has to be supervised, overseen, marshalled. It all has to be permitted, in writing, by the police, the council the - I don't know - the Health and Safety Executive.
The numbers have to be limited by insurance. But why? Because any accident is liable to produce a court case to see if compensation is due to the person who was hurt, or to their family and possibly to the public-service workers who attended the accident.
The world changes, and not always for the worse.
People now have access to the legal system in a way we didn't when I was young. That's got to have a good side to it. The authorities are also a lot more careful about their relations with members of the public. They can get sued if they're not. We can hit back at our masters, our bosses, our administrative overlords. That's all to do with this compensation culture, so-called, that has sprung up in the last generation.
So, I'm not against it all, not by any means. Like you, I'm in favour of justice. But, if the law gets out of whack with what most people feel is fair, then there's a problem.
Here are a few stories, summaries, Parliamentary exchanges and extracts from depositions that show a compensation system out of whack with what most reasonable people think is fair.
As a nine-year-old child, Carl Murphy broke into a warehousing unit near Liverpool, climbed on to its roof, fell 40 feet and fractured his skull. He was partially blinded and had 17 metal plates fitted to hold his skull together. He and his grandmother (who looked after him while his parents were in prison for crack dealing) say the accident caused him to develop behavioural problems. It was unclear whether these problems included his shaving his head, making the scars more prominent, and intimidating local residents.
On turning 18 in 2005, he sued the owner of the unit. Damages were owing to him, he said, because if the site had had a better security fence he wouldn't have been injured. The grandmother was quoted as saying, "He never finished school because the teachers couldn't control him. He was a nice boy before the accident but ever since the injuries he has been difficult to control. He needs this money. That is him for life now. What is he going to do without it?"
"I deserve this money and I don't care what anybody says about me," he said. "I'm going to buy a big house so I have a place to live with me mum when she gets out of jail. I might buy a few houses - I'll buy whatever I want ... The papers just call me a yob and a thug because I've been done for robbery and assault, but those were just silly, stupid little things, like.
"I want to spend my money the way I want without people interfering and I want to have a prosperous future. I want to take my mates to Liverpool games and get a flash car. This money is mine now and I'll do what I want. I don't care about anyone or what they have to say about it."
His plans for the money have no bearing on the case. The money is indeed his and he is entitled to do what he wants with it. Although if he spent it all on cars and football and preferred not to work, then he would again be entitled to relief from public funds.
This background has been included only to sway you, the jury. But some of us can be tempted into hard-hearted argument. He infringed property rights, climbing high on someone else's roof. He courted danger for the many benefits that brings. After his fall, he was treated out of the public purse. He wasn't prosecuted for trespass, or charged for his treatment.
And then he was given half a million pounds because he had been grievously wronged. "That's him for life."
As a compensation comparison, the parents of James Bulger received £7,500 after their toddler was murdered by two older boys and dumped. The family of Damilola Taylor received £10,000.
An Ontario woman who got drunk at an office party and crashed her car successfully sued her employer for allowing her to drive.
The company had offered her a cab ride or a night's accommodation if she gave up her keys, but it did them no good in court. Linda Hunt won more than $300,000 (around £150,000) from her employers after arguing that she should have been stopped from driving home in a snowstorm after a Christmas party in 1994.
The judge assessed the lady's damages from the accident at $1.2m, but reduced that by three-quarters to reflect her own fault in the matter. She was mostly to blame for insisting on drunkenly driving into a car crash, but she got $300,000 because the judge declared that the employers were 25 per cent to blame as they had failed to monitor her alcohol consumption.
Earlier this year, six prison warders shared around £1m in damages and legal costs for "severe psychological injuries" suffered five years earlier.
They had responded to an emergency buzzer from a cell. They opened the door and saw what their solicitor called a scene of "Gothic horror". The living occupant of the cell, Jason Ricketts, had murdered his cellmate, Colin Bloomfield, by cutting him open and removing his liver, which he placed on a chair. He had also removed an eyeball. The prison officers ended up in the dead man's blood, and one of them tried, hopelessly, to resuscitate the corpse. Gruesome business.
But what was the money for? Was it to punish the Home Office or to compensate the officers? And what is a manager to do? When your officers' hands are on the doorknob and they know something terrible is on the other side, what do you, as their manager, do? Do you tell them to go in? And, if they don't go in, who does? And does the clean-up always take a tariff of £200,000 each? And how much would the cellmate have been entitled to, had he lived? Almost certainly less than £200,000. He would have got much less than those forced to witness the mess he had become.
A pupil was expelled from Churston Ferrers Grammar School near Brixham for selling cannabis. The boy failed to get into another school place within six weeks (schools are reluctant to take in teen drug-dealers). Torbay Council paid for the child to get five hours of home-schooling a week against a standard requirement of 25 hours a week. After eight months the boy was placed in a college of further education. The ombudsman ordered the council to pay £1,500 towards the boy's education and £250 for the father's trouble in chasing up the complaint.
If that juvenile drug dealer is sensitive, he has probably learned a life-changing lesson from this experience. Parents may feel it is not one that the taxpayer should be offering. Selling drugs in school is now part of the fabric of normal life. You say, "My son's comprehensive is full of drugs" - and other parents sigh, "They all are."
And, considering the official reaction to the drug-dealing and its consequences amounting to a cash payment of £1,750, it isn't entirely surprising.
The Michigan Lawsuit Abuse organisation runs a Wacky Warnings competition every year. Manufacturers hear about the wilder compensation cases and (whether or not the cases are true) decide to put warnings on their products "just in case".
Frankly, some of them are so preposterous that you naturally assume they're made up. But, at www.mlaw.org/wwl/index.html, they provide photographs of the labels.
Since 1997, the past winners of the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse have been the following:
* A warning label on a bottle of dried bobcat urine, made to keep rodents and other pests away from garden plants, that says: "Not for human consumption."
* A label on a kitchen knife that warns: "Never try to catch a falling knife."
* A cocktail napkin that has a map of the waterways around Hilton Head, South Carolina, printed on it, along with the message: "Caution: Not to be used for navigation."
* A popular scooter for children that warns: "This product moves when used."
* A flushable toilet brush that warns: "Do not use for personal hygiene."
* A digital thermometer that can be used to take a person's temperature several different ways that warns: "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally."
* A household iron that warns: "Never iron clothes while they're being worn."
* A label on a hairdryer that reads: "Never use hair dryer while sleeping."
In Russia, a French electrician died after drinking too much vodka. It was ruled that he was the victim of a "workplace accident" even though he wasn't at work, or even working at the time. He died of alcohol poisoning after a night of Russian drinking with indigenous colleagues in Nalchik, southern Russia.
His widow's social security fund refused to consider this an industrial accident, or pay her the pension she would have received if her husband had died in harness. But the courts concluded that the man's death was indeed an industrial accident because work duties had required him to attend the party. His employers should therefore share the blame for his demise.
The winners of the 2002 True Stella Awards (for the most perverse and annoying lawsuits) were sisters Janice Bird, Dayle Bird Edgmon and Kim Bird Moran, who sued their mother's doctors and the hospital in which she received treatment. Janice had accompanied her mother to a minor medical procedure. When something went wrong, Janice and Dayle witnessed doctors rushing their mother to surgery. Rather than malpractice, their legal fight centred on the "negligent infliction of emotional distress" - the distress caused to them when they saw doctors rushing to help their mother. The case was fought all the way to the California Supreme Court, which finally ruled against the women.
A drug enforcement agent, Lee Paige, picked up an "unloaded" gun during a school safety demonstration and pulled the trigger. He told the pupils: "I am the only person in this room professional enough to handle this gun!" He pulled the trigger again and shot himself in the foot.
The videotape found its way on to the internet and the agent sued because he "became and is the target of jokes, derision, ridicule and disparaging comments. Mr Paige has also been subjected to such comments made to his wife and children. Mr Paige has been frequently confronted with embarrassing comments from people both inside and outside the United States about the accidental discharge, including people at restaurants, grocery stores and airports.
"White supremacy organisations have used the videotape to ridicule black Americans in general and Mr Paige in particular. Because he became highly recognisable as a result of the disclosure of the videotape, Mr Paige has been unable to act as an undercover agent. As a result of the notoriety, Mr Paige is no longer permitted or able to give educational motivational speeches and presentation." Note: He is suing because he is no longer able to give safety presentations. And he is no longer able to give these presentations because people know he let off a loaded gun in front of a room of children, causing actual bodily harm.
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April 30, 2008
"The bottom line is pleasure"
What IS normal? And how do we get there? I really REALLY like the work and philosophy about family eating that Ellyn Satter offers. To over-simplify what is very well-reasoned and scientifically based thinking I would say the major take-homes are: being confident as parents when it comes to meals, and: "the bottom line is pleasure."
Modern life, and an eating disorder in the family, really messed with both confidence and pleasure for our family. Regaining both has been an evolving process. Satter has helped!
April 29, 2008
Is breathing optional now, too?
I asked her "What if you discovered that you needed more oxygen, or that you metabolized trace minerals faster than others?" Would it allay the feeling of "taking too much" or the guilt of need more?
She said no. It would apply to oxygen, too. It would apply to anything. Her brain made her think she "shouldn't need" these things, or at least not need them any more than anyone else.
She no longer thinks this way, much. But I thought of that conversation when I read about people learning to not need to breathe: Holding Your Breath.
Just because you can, does that mean you should? Eating, sleeping, breathing: why are we determined to make these things avoidable?
April 28, 2008
Shocked, SHOCKED
- Professor Pope weighed 30kg (66 pounds) at 4'10" (BMI: 13.8)
- Suffered from an eating disorder since her teens
- Did not eat anything but fruit and diet sweets in public
- Was socially withdrawn
- Lost 10kg (22 pounds), or 13% of her total weight in the past year
- Hoarded food and food magazines, brought her own food to people's houses, and cooked feasts for others and left the room as they ate.
It should be shocking that the SYMPTOMS of mental illness (an emaciated person being "incredibly energetic, enthusiastic and capable" "irrepressible and determined" "understanding, generous and loving sister and affectionate") are used as laudatory or mitigating facts.
It is tragic that loved ones are led to believe (by society and even clinicians) that the risk of damaging the relationship is greater than the risk of this crushing illness.
I don't blame the family or the colleagues. I blame us. Society. We think that patients must understand and choose recovery in order for us to do the one thing we all CAN do: STOP ACTING NORMAL.
Stop eating the food they make us and don't eat. Stop walking on eggshells. Stop praising symptoms like energy and selflessness and focus on work. Stop accepting the labor of an ill person who is unable to care for herself. Stop pitying and being angry or hurt. Stop acting normal until they are. It is the least we can do.
April 27, 2008
Disorderly conduct
- A sign that our society is sliding into collective anorexia/bulimia/binge eating disorder?
- Evidence that society is wicked?
- Proof that science education in schools is inadequate?
- One more sign of (choose your social cause)!
- Caused by a lack of food labelling?
- Driving people to choose eating disorders?
- Better than poking oneself in the eye with a sharp stick?
- An alarming trend that is fun to feel shame and gloat over?
- Just a condition of modern life?
- Allowing humans to unleash the powerful anti-anxiety drug of semi-starvation to save money on alcohol?
- Actually makes us healthier since now that we know, we'll all change?
- Pushing most people toward malnutrition that threatens cognitive, emotional, and medical health.
- Triggering mental illness in the minority of people with certain genetic profiles.
- Masking the presence of disabling anorexia and bulimia in individuals because the rest of us normalize being disordered about food and weight.
April 26, 2008
Shell game
If you say that it isn't about parenting, then you are accused of blaming the victim.
If you protest that it isn't about the media, you sound as if you are siding with size zero models.
Cite biology, and you are insulting patients who choose recovery.
I've been told that my belief that eating disorders are a biologically based illness is a pass for parents, ignorance of toxic media, denial, and discrediting my own child's work toward recovery.
We don't need someone or something to blame. We don't need blame. We know what patients need: they need food, they need unconditional support, they need a low-stress environment, they need skills to prevent relapse, and they need time.
April 25, 2008
Oh, like Kimkins is any better?
April 24, 2008
How does that make you feel?
We do not yet have biomarkers for the presence or severity of an eating disorder. But can it be far behind?
Study finds biomarker for depression
And in the recent past: OCD, Psychosis, Bipolar illness, PTSD.
April 22, 2008
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April 20, 2008
Bill of Rights for Families
1. Treatment must be family-driven and child-focused. Families and youth, (when appropriate), must have a primary decision-making role in their treatment.
2. Children should receive care in home and community-based settings as close to home as possible.
3. Mental health services are an integral part of a childs overall healthcare. Insurance companies must not discriminate against children with mental illnesses by imposing financial burdens and barriers to treatment, such as differential deductibles, co-pays, annual or lifetime caps, or arbitrary limits on access to medically necessary inpatient and/or outpatient services.
4. Children should receive care from highly-qualified professionals who are acting in the best interest of the child and family, with appropriate informed consent.
5. Parents and children are entitled to as much information as possible about the risks and benefits of all treatment options, including anticipated outcomes.
6. Children receiving medications for mental disorders should be monitored appropriately to optimize the benefit and reduce any risks or potential side effects which may be associated with such treatments.
7. Children and their families should have access to a comprehensive continuum of care, based on their needs, including a full range of psychosocial, behavioral, pharmacological, and educational services, regardless of the cost.
8. Children should receive treatment within a coordinated system of care where all agencies (e.g., health, mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and schools, etc.) delivering services work together to support recovery and optimize treatment outcome.
9. Children and families are entitled to an increased investment in high-quality research on the origin, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood disorders
10. Children and families need and deserve access to mental health professionals with appropriate training and experience. Primary care professionals providing mental health services must have access to consultation and referral resources from qualified mental health professionals.
April 19, 2008
Anti-pro-anti-pro-ana, or no?
But I find myself ambivalent and annoyed. First of all because the attention to the sites would seem to be a recipe for spreading them. Secondly because the media is perpetuating the idea that an eating disorder is about wanting to be thin and the solution is to stop talking about that. I also wonder why people think that the Internet is washable. Then there is the fact that the pro-ana materials are clearly far more symptom than cause. I'm also not at all sure where the line between Big Fat Loser/BMI report cards/the cover of Teen Vogue/and the morning talk shows' obsession with weight loss ends and pro ana begins. And I'm annoyed by the prurient nature of everyone's SHOCK over these sites.
But here's the bottom line. Someone I love dearly was once in the command of these thoughts - though I don't think she visited pro-ana online communities. My daughter was gravely ill, and those thoughts were horrific and imprisoning. Fining her for expressing those thoughts would not have helped her.
Pro-ana is like porn. (some even point out that a portion of it IS porn.) As parents, we are right to be wary about our children wandering the Internet. We are right to expect website services to shut them down when possible. We should all stand up against the sad images and sadder victimizations.
But criminalizing the behaviors of a mental illness doesn't help the victims. The sites are not the problem. Society's unwillingness to ensure treatment for ill people is a problem. Society's ignorance of the nature of brain disease is a problem. Untreated anorexia and bulimia are the problem.
Instead of anger and disgust, I feel sympathy and caring for people creating and visiting pro-ana/mia websites. These are our children, lost behind a wall of cruel (and anosognosic) illness. The hell they are displaying is nothing compared to what they are experiencing.
I guess I'm not as ambivalent as I thought.
April 16, 2008
FEAST update
Check out the preliminary website (to be replaced with a fuller site next month) at www.feast-ed.org .
You can read about our Parent Council, and also our Advisory Panel of clinicians and others in the ED field. You can see our statement of principles, and our goals.
In the coming months, FEAST will move forward with projects to support and inform families coping with an eating disordered child. Parents have unique abilities to reach out to one another - it is an honor to be part of this organization.
April 15, 2008
Dancing backwards with my best friend
One of my wedding vows was that I would never take my husband for granted. But once in a while in the dance of daily life I neglect to tell him that. I figure I've told him countless times how much I admire and adore him. I am loathe to brag in case others feel envious. I avoid speaking for him and end up mistakenly not speaking enough about him.
My husband is the bedrock of our family. He made my daughter's recovery possible. I did not and could not do it solo. Our marriage wasn't scenery - it was the music we danced to. Without his hand on my back, and our eyes on each other, we could not have helped her or our son get through the crisis or its aftermath.
Today, when it is not your birthday and not our anniversary (is it? uh, oh - better check) and not Father's Day, I want to tell you, darling, what a glorious duet this is. Night and day. Under my skin.
You are the Astaire of husbands, partners, and you are my best friend. You already know that, I trust. But it doesn't hurt to repeat it; frontwards, backwards, and in heels.
April 14, 2008
It is all in your head. Look in your mouth.
But this is new: the tongue itself may also be different: Changed taste perception in patients with eating disorders.
April 13, 2008
The spice of life
Anecdotally, parents report that variety and energy-rich foods improve outcome.
These parents may be right: those whose post-recovery diet includes less dietary energy density and diet variety appear to have higher rates of relapse. Even with the same caloric intake, the content matters. And this makes sense, nutritionally AND behaviorally.
So for the recovered anorexics who get enough calories but they are all in lettuce, and the recovered bulimics and binge eaters who live on cereal, we can say: variety is truly the spice of life.
April 12, 2008
Lobby Day report
Because so many of the parents on Around The Dinner Table sent support in the form of cheering, ideas, and donations.
Because that support allowed FEAST to sponsor the food for the training day "Meet and Greet" and the Lobby Day breakfast.
Because I stayed at Hotel Mother-in-Law and she fed and fussed over me. Yes, I do have an umbrella and no I do not need lipstick.
Because I got to meet E and his 11-year old daughter, S. E's family was one of the first on the forum. S was, by some reports, the most effective lobbyist of the day as she described the unique anguish of watching her sister suffer and her parents and extended family cope - and sucessfully support recovery.
Because I also got to meet C, a more recent dad on the forum and one of my trusted advisers as FEAST has gotten off the ground. C and my husband were fast friends at the evening reception overlooking the Capitol plotting the overthrow of Old School treatments.
Because my valued friends Carrie and her mom were there!
And wonderful D and her daughter - who brought their friend D who was such a wonderful partner on my Virginia lobbying team.
By my calculations, 10% of Lobby Day participants were part of the ATDT/FEAST community. You cannot imagine how happy and honored I was to be part of this event along with them. I did not get to spend enough time with any of them.
EDC does a wonderful job, and I believe it has an impact. Mental health parity legislation and the FREED Act were advanced a step this week. I am so looking forward to doing it again next year!
April 11, 2008
Too tired to speak
April 8, 2008
And I thought humans had problems...
Thank you, Carrie, for blog-scooping me on this one. I have blog envy!
April 5, 2008
What fat acceptance and eating disorder treatment have to do with one another
What has this movement and philosophy to do with treatment of anorexia and bulimia? After all, much of the message to eating disorder patients is "we won't let you get fat."
The fact is, recovery from an eating disorder involves Fat Acceptance regardless of the actual size and dimensions of the person. Our society has, like a boa constrictor, made 98% of the population feel "fat." We are told we have control of our weight, in defiance of our DNA, even though healthy weight ranges are as genetic as shoe size and height. We are not all going to be healthy at size 8, or 18 - we vary. And that is a beautiful, good thing that we've lost sight of.
The ease, or difficulty, of acceptance isn't really different based on what we look like to others, or what we weigh.
We need to stop fighting with our loved ones with the argument "you aren't fat." We need to accept that being healthy may not feel good or normal for a while, and you won't look like a Barbie Doll. We also must stop giving the message that self-loathing and self-injury is okay if you really ARE fat.
Measuring the scale
I hate the over-dependence on weight measurement and BMI in eating disorder assessment and treatment.
I hate the way our society uses weight measurement as a proxy for any number of values including morality, health, personality, even class.
That one-dimensional number shouldn't be a thing to fear or focus on. It is just one of many data points, like blood pressure and blood sugar and height and shoe size and cholesterol and DNA analysis.
If those measurements were as easy and cheap and accessible as a bathroom scale, would we perseverate about them in the same way?
April 4, 2008
What's our problem?
Since society has clearly become irrational and disordered about the importance of appearance, we've lost sight of the fact that some people truly have brain problems that distort their visual and physical sensations and they literally see their reflection and feel their bodies in distorted ways that are just as real to them as the distance to the end of our fingers is to the rest of us.
Like amputees who feel their lost limbs, brains can truly distort reality.
Malnutrition can trigger this delusion. It can maintain the delusion. And it can lock the patient into perpetuating the delusion by making them blind to it and unable to calculate the risks and rewards of continuing.
They do not choose this. The rest of us are choosing, however. Choosing to overvalue appearance, to perseverate about the shape of our body, to talk endlessly about the ways we are torturing our bodies in the service of some mythical perfection.
Some people have brain disease. What's our excuse?
April 3, 2008
Concentrating on eating
We hear a lot about mood disorders and anxiety disorders and personality disorders having a relationship with eating disorders. With all of these conditions, an eating disorder can mask the other illness, or it can be fed by it. In some cases, the full nutrition of ED recovery also resolves what seemed to be co morbid depression, anxiety, OCD, or BPD.
Time to add another condition to both watch for and discern from the symptoms of an eating disorder: ADHD May Boost Teen Girls' Risk for Eating Disorders
April 2, 2008
We can't ask, you won't tell
Proposal Would Clarify Law On Sharing Student Information: "The proposed regulation goes a step further, tweaking guidelines to make it explicit that parents are among the parties who can be contacted if a student is at risk."


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There are multiple kinds of grips. There are grips, dolly grips, key grips, and so on. A grip's job is to achieve the gaffer's desired effect when it comes to lighting. A dolly grip assists with the dolly. A dolly is a cart that rolls around. The camera operator sits on it and the dolly grip sets up the dolly track, pushes the dolly, marks the start and end points, etc. The key grip is the grip in charge of all of the other grips and works closely with the best boy, gaffer and Director of Photography to coordinate the shot.
The gaffer is in charge of lighting the scene. A gaffer will draw up the lighting plan as directed by the director of photography and tell the best boy and key grip what to do.
Best Boy
The best boy is your friendly neighborhood lead electrician. In other words the best boy holds all of the power. Muwah ha ha ha haaaaaa. Just kidding, but seriously. The best boy manages the electrical load on the generator and also manages the electrical cabling.
1st Assistant Director
The 1st assistant director, or 1st A.D., is in charge of the schedule for the day. Side by side with the director and production manager, the 1st A.D.'s job is to make the schedule as efficient as possible. His/her job is also to keep everyone on schedule. Everyone includes talent, equipment, and crew. If a production is large enough then the 1st A.D. will have a 2nd A.D. (the assistant to the assistant).
Cinematographer/Director of Photography
The director of photography is commonly called the D.P. and is in charge of everything the camera is pointed at. The D.P. works very closely with the director to achieve the desired shot. The D.P. brings to life what the director has in his/her head. Managing the camera movements, camera framing, camera crew, lighting design, and making sure to keep the lines of communication open between the gaffer and the D.P. and the director are all a part of this role. In other words, they stay busy.
Data Wrangler
The data wrangler is a relatively new position as digital video became increasingly popular and has now taken over the industry. This person is in charge of the footage that has already been shot: organizing, duplicating, labeling, and reformatting the footage for use on set or for the editors.
DIT (Digital Imaging technician)
The final role I will define for you is the Digital Imaging Technician (D.I.T.). Just as a data wrangler, this role came about only with the rise of digital video. Their job is dedicated to making sure that the director is getting the highest quality footage possible. They are also in charge of transferring the footage after it has been captured. Let me tell you, you don't want to be the D.I.T. who loses the footage or else, "No soup for you!"
I hope you found this interesting! Have you found any John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidts for names in video production? Let us know in our comments!


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oooch painful burning feet
Posted by
karen g
on 9/05/04 at 09:28 (159360)
hi my name is karen from liverpool, ive just found this site and thinks its great to no am not alone with this debilitating pain! ive had pain and burning in 2feet since nov 03, after lots of rest,ice, anti-inflammatories and arch supports the pain stopped a little.. My arch supports fell apart and it took the hospital 5weeks to make new ones and then they were made wrong, my pain and burning is really bad now i think this is due to not wearing arch supports, so am back to lots of rest and ice i wish i could cut my feet off!I feel like ive been robbed of my life and all the things i loved to do i dont do any more! this leaves me feeling deppressed, am still hopefully that someone will give me a magic wand and my feet can go back to the way they were!!! Has anyone read any books on coping with chronic pain and can anyone recommend a orthotic. Also any tips on how to stopp the burning and pain i would be so greatful...karenxxx
Re: oooch painful burning feet
on 9/05/04 at 20:02 (159376)
Hello Karen I am in the same boat you are in burinig feet now going on 19 months it has been pure hell. My pain is never ending not even for a second. My feet are always in burning pain in the arch. No doctors have been able to help me. They don't have a diagnosis. I just suffer and suffer in pain. Like you I have no live it is gone. I have tried everything nothing has worked. Sorry to hear about the pain you are in. Do you ever get relief if so how?? Michael
Re: oooch painful burning feet
john h
on 9/05/04 at 21:41 (159380)
Michael: Can you not get at least some temporary relief with ice packs? There are some that are like an Ace Bandage you just toss in the frig. When cold just wrap around the feet anyway you want. They use velcro to fasten and perhaps you can at least get to sleep without pain.
Re: oooch painful burning feet
on 9/06/04 at 02:20 (159394)
Michael, I don't remember all you have said, but have you tried to find a pain management clinic? There is medication to control severe, chronic pain, which needs to be prescribed by a pain management specialist. Ordinary painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs don't touch the degree of pain you've described. If you haven't been able to find treatment of the cause of your pain, it would help you now to find a doctor who will focusx on treating the pain.
Please forgive me if you have done this and have told us about it already. In that case, you probably need different or stronger drugs.
Brian G. who posted here for a long time but is now gone, used to give excellent information about pain management. Perhaps you could use the search facility (type in his name) to read some of his posts.
Re: oooch painful burning feet
Janice N
on 9/06/04 at 06:27 (159401)
I saw my pain dr last wk. He said he would be glad to change my pain med to a longer acting one but it would be very costly. So I left there with the same medication. What is amazing is the affect the weather has on your pain. I knew what sore feet were. And tired achy feet. But PF is something else.
Re: oooch painful burning feet
Kathy G
on 9/06/04 at 08:49 (159409)
Have you read Scott's
Heel Pain book
? It may have some suggestions that would help you. Once you find the right combination of treatments, hopefully you'll see some improvement. Getting your orthotics back should help, too.
I'm so sorry to hear of all of you having such pain. PF can change your life, that's for sure. I wish I could offer some useful advice but PF seems to be a very individual ailment and one has to use the trial and error method to find just what works for him or her.
Good luck to you all and may the pain, and burning, ease.
Re: oooch painful burning feet..for michael in pain
Linda V.
on 9/06/04 at 16:03 (159424)
you seem to be in intractable pain..my brother also has chronic knee pain..and nothing they have ever done at his pain clinic seems to relieve it..they have suggested a device that is implanted to give a mild stimulation to his spinal cord..sort of a buzz they say...they tell him that the brain and nervous system can only respond to one stimuli at a time..it sounds drastic...but makes sense..has anyone suggested that for you?
Re: oooch painful burning feet
karen g
on 9/07/04 at 07:25 (159475)
hi micheal i also have heel pain and pain in arch, do u have pain or just burning! i use lots of ice,it does work a little. I also massage my feet with camoile oil which is soothing and good for inflammation. Ive just started homeopathy for the burning and my low mood due to not being able to live my life the way i want.. Wouldnt be great if we could get new feet.... Hope you find something that helps. karen
Re: oooch painful burning feet
Janice C
on 10/12/04 at 22:20 (161377)
Also suffer with this problem, haven't had a definative diagnosis on it yet, tarsal tunnel was suggested. Had endoscopic plantar fasciotomy on the right foot in July, and that particular pain has improved 90%. Plan to do the other foot after Christmas, but in the meantime, I get up, feet gradually start the burning, I take Bextra 20mg daily, the feet both get red & puffy, tender to touch, can't stand for more than a minute without moving my feet. I can walk although lifting aggravates the burning, as does walking on concrete for more than 30 minutes at a time. I have been able to tolerate Mephisto sandals (with the cork footbed). I am not having as much luck with my custom orthotics and my Reebocks, which is all I used to be able to stand to wear. All of this started about 15 yrs ago, I was able to deal with it by getting supportive shoes, but over the years it is gradually worsening. I understand anyone who considers amputation. It is sad. Weight does factor in, I have lost 20#, helped, but am still dealing with pain & plan to lose more weight.


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Justin's journey into the Hand Brake Turn program started when he was in Year 8. Justin was never really interested in school and he never thought that he was any good at school either. Teachers would have to change the topic to cars just to keep his attention. He was at risk of dropping out but he was always good at working with his hands, "That was my talent and I was passionate about cars." This is when Justin heard about Hand Brake Turn. "Finding out about the program was a turning point for me. For the first time I was motivated and excited about completing something." He loved the fact that the course had a bit of everything, mechanical work, panel beating and spray painting to keep him busy.
At the end of each course an award is given to the most outstanding student during the 8 weeks. The winner receives a donated socket set or tool kit up to the value of $600. He remembers going home and telling his mum he wanted to win the prize. She told him to put his mind to it and there's no reason why he couldn't. It was the first time Justin could remember her setting him a goal like that.
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