Fight me on this one come on I ain't skeered
Waiting for this one to get locked and you to start a new thread about pooping.
This is very insensitive to the breathing challenged. Asthmatics, folks with deviated septums, etc. Taking breathing for granted is so entitled😬
What is that book... really sad. "When Breath Becomes Air." Shakes head at @pmvines . I'm joking but don't read that book unless you want to cry in the first sentence. Personally couldn't make it far at all.
On the other hand... you need to breathe for pin wheels and bubbles. Those are fun.
Preemptively saying if someone is taking this lighthearted discussion seriously and wants to “win” by using religion/politics/crimes against humanity, just know that your comment will be removed regardless of viewpoint. This should be obvious but apparently it isn’t.
As for the discussion, I am on the side of breathing being good, unless we are underwater.
@Charlie_Bear But if I do win what do I win? A trophy made of clean air?
Why are entire threads locked because some people can't follow the rules? Instead of just removing the offending comments.
@BoomerSpooner where are you going to find that? LOL... little pricy to be a trophy.
Such a joke. If anyone finds that political I'll take it down.
@stormydaycuddle Good point. I will settle for a HEPA filter.
@BoomerSpooner Perhaps @pmvines can arrange some canned air as a prize.
@Mike403 It's just a case-by-case thing based on factors like age of thread, number of participants, conversations still ongoing, effort/value behind the content.
I thought about starting a thread about canned meat, but I don't want to spam the forums.
I keep trying to tell people, breath alll you want but it’s going to catch up with you eventually 🚭
Hail no breathing ain't good and this is a hill I'm willing to dye on fight me ! lol
Breathing is usually a good thing. But there are a few individuals, whom if they were on life support, I would be ok with using their power outlets to charge my phone.
Sweetness and light, exiting stage left.
To air is human.
I'm reminded of the person about whom Ambrose Bierce wrote, "He had a little trouble breathing ... but not enough."
I take my breathing seriously as a breathtarian. This is no joking matter.
This might be a silly topic, but it is a serious matter. CO2 levels indoors are often in excess of 1000 PPM, which is high enough to cause people to become symptomatic.
I take my breathing very seriously, and have installed a CO2 sensor controlled ventilation system in my house. Our levels stay below 600 now.
The month I installed it 2 of my roommates stopped being alcoholics (this was unexpected), and I stopped having headaches, being drowsy, napping, and having brain fog.
Breathing is a big topic of discussion for me rather regularly, as I have permanent and progressive lung damage from my frequent infections (thanks rare genetic disorder that didn't get diagnosed til I was 30 and damage was already done! 👍) Add moderate asthma and I am one of the very few who legitimately had medical reason not to wear a mask during pandemic lockdown....but then again I'm also one of the ones who absolutely HAD to wear n95s all the time due to being highest risk for complications due to no antibodies to pneumonia and previously stated lung damage. Catch 22 💀 I was masking for a few years before it was cool, though, so I already had practice pressured breathing at less than ideal oxygenation 😂
So breathing is good for the folks fortunate enough to do so freely. Less fun for those of us with crappy immune systems and effed up lungs thanks to that old stupid medical school adage "hear hoofbeats, think horse not zebra." No, idiots, absolutely need to think zebra when the stripes are smacking you in the face for literal decades 🤣
@cuddlefaery I empathize deeply your permanent condition. I had chronic costochondritis, which I truly thought was a made up word when they diagnosed me🤣. On top of that my asthma makes for great time (sarcastic voice), especially living up in the mountains.
I agree with you that breathing is definitely a regular topic, for me specifically. I love to laugh and laughing at just about anything that tickles my dark sense of humor. so im always at a loss for oxygen as a result, but my inhaler is my best friend😅
@TiaErikaTeddy99 ouch, my sympathies! Mine is bronchiectasis, to throw another long word at the thread 😅🙄 Similar to COPD, caused by my multiple bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis every year. Thankfully it's still very mild and hasn't gotten any worse since diagnosis, but I'm about one more infection per year away from needing daily antibiotics....yay 🤣 but better that than having the damage get worse and have to do all the other lung crap like machines and hospital stays
@walking_xavier wow, that is so interesting. I wonder if there’s a correlation. What brand ventilation system did you install/use? I imagine plants do something similar in a household since they’re naturally occurring filters. Per code, most ventilation systems only let in 15% outside air every cycle, to maintain heating/cooling efficiency so co2 buildup is likely a real thing.
@TiaErikaTeddy99 idk if it might help but you guys might want to look into Boswellia pills, myrrh tincture mixed with a little acv water, & [Vit K-2 (as mk7), Vit D-3 & Zinc] - taken at the same time. The combination has apparently worked wonders for asthmatics, not sure if it might help you as well. Might also want to check out Dr. Christopher’s Sinus Relief and David Winston’s J. Kloss Antispasmodic. Feel free to dm for other brand recommendations.
Is it right...I mean if your ps5 controller is dead...how bad is sleep apnea anyway? Sooooooooo jk.
Also, @Bear breathatarian? Are you on a diet? Come to CO the airs thinner here. Hahaha.
@stormydaycuddle - My sleep apnea is so bad that before I got a CPAP, my AHI was 138 and anything above 30 is considered to be severe.
@PrettyLuv I know you are meaning well with your suggestions, so I hope you will take mine in kind: offering unsolicited medical advice to people with chronic illnesses is generally not really appreciated because we get it SO much and so much of it is either things we have already tried, things that are bogus/pseudoscience, or things that are downright contraindicated by our medical team. Unsolicited medical advice is such a ridiculously common problem that it's a daily meme in the community with a meme and even variations on the meme:
"Have you tried yoga?"
Most healthy or healthier people with good intentions don't realize the ableist implications these suggestions so frequently tends to mean to the person receiving them: that they are too stupid/uneducated/lazy to have tried such an obvious solution themselves, or that their medical team is too stupid/uneducated/lazy to consider some alternative treatment with little to no scientific backing found on the internet. It gets incredibly frustrating, especially if we act anything less than grateful for the suggestion because "they meant well" even if the net impact of their intentions was negative or harmful.
So I gently suggest for you and anyone else reading this to reconsider offering unsolicited medical advice, especially to people with chronic or incurable conditions, without first asking permission. When we want suggestions for our treatments, I promise - we will ask.
@cuddlefaery It’s not unsolicited medical advice since as I stated earlier, I’m not sure if it would help or not. Mentioning something that may have helped someone else in their ailment is not medical advice nor is it forcing you to take that information as medical advice in a medical setting. If you don’t think it will help then you can just as easily ignore it, and move on. The conventional medicine industry is known for putting medical profit over lives all the time. If you’d prefer to dismiss alternative remedies that don’t necessarily profit the conventional medicine industry but may actually help someone with a similar ailment to your own, that’s your decision, but trying to suppress others from talking about it is counterintuitive to discovering any solution at all, alternative or otherwise. I figured you would respond in the negative but I didn’t want to deliberately exclude your name from the post being that both you guys mentioned having experienced something similar, namely asthma related symptoms, but consider yourself removed from the suggestion here on out. Obviously it was my mistake to include you. Considering your response thus far, I’ve edited the comment to just be for Tia as well. Perhaps she’ll appreciate it more if it does turn out to be of help to her or anyone else that might want to look into it. You, of course, can toss it aside as you have already.
@PrettyLuv I'll take advice on how to deal with mental health things alternatively any day. If you've got them? I'm completely open to help but no pressure.
@stormydaycuddle read these forums with a grain of salt & some chamomile tea lol.
@PrettyLuv fair.