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Please put something in your stomach if you take the nsaids!!! You can get an ulcer in 3 days if you’re taking 800mg around the clock. Seen it happen to a surgeon I worked w,..

.....APAP, as the saying goes "don't do squat" for me much to the consternation of my back doc....careful of the NSAIDs if you are on blood thinners. Naproxen was the only thing that helped me with shadows (nothing for a full hit), when not even O2 or triptans worked for what i called "ha bruises"....

Well.....It may be time to start talking about something that some find a lower cost option to a typical demand valve. I can't take credit for the initial find. I was asked by someone to evaluate an Amazon buy to see if it could be adapted to our uses. Before I go on.....the following should be considered solely as information and not a recommendation for use by me or anyone else for that matter. In other words, if you try this and it doesn't work as intended, it's not my fault because I'm not telling you that you should do any of this. First....on Amazon we have this item. If you look closely, the provided hose is for scuba gear.....that's because that's what this device is sold as. BUT....if you happen to be surfing the web and end up here you will find a hose geared more towards our uses. If you find that one too short this one might be more your style. Now if you have a regulator such as this commonly found unit, your redneck, off label, completely unauthorized and not recommended by anyone demand valve setup is complete. Swap out the original hose for one geared towards our use and you're ready to roll. As with any O2 equipment, ALWAYS check for leaks and discontinue use until the leak is fixed. Never use pipe tape on O2 fittings. Never. Just don't do it. As with any set up....always turn the tank off when not in use. I've used it briefly and a fine fellow in the northeast have been testing one I sent him for a few months with no complaints.

I will be called the voodoo doctor and cooking up witchcraft for this one, but I refuse to use any OTC pain reliever, and Asprin is nasty, BUT, white willow bark extract (the precursor to Aspirin) is safe and has strong, superior analgesic properties. Here is something from the International Journal of Pharmacology https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pranay-Wal/publication/353070873_A_Comprehensive_Review_on_the_Medicinal_Plants_for_the_Treatment_of_Headache/links/60e698451c28af34585134ca/A-Comprehensive-Review-on-the-Medicinal-Plants-for-the-Treatment-of-Headache.pdf Here is the product https://www.vitacost.com/now-willow-bark-extract Butterbur regulates the Calcium Channel strikingly similar to drugs such as Toprimate (Topamax), without all the pernicious side effects. You need two 50mg doses a day. The link I provided will give you 75mg per day. It contains Feverfew, which in RTCs is more Bipolar than I am. In seriousness, the data is conflicting and impossible to discern. I would take one a day and not push it. As stated, the Butterbur works better than toprimate, it just doesn't have a pharmaceutical industry touting it. I hope that this helps. https://www.vitacost.com/now-foods-butterbur-60-veg-capsules

I'm out of likes LOL.. That is a funny little quirk? I get a notification when I try to like things on here sometimes that says "your out of reactions"

LOL yep Jon I actually feel quite a bit better this am (no more sore throat) and hey it could be much worse rt? I would much rather have this than a CH any day!

@BoscoPiko if you indeed have a cold virus, let's hope it's the one going around that I had a couple weeks ago, because it lasted a short (for me) 6 days then gone, never got super severe ,with none of the fairly typical (for me) bronchitis complications. When a cold gets a real foothold past the first day, my experience with trying to do anything about it with immune bolstering this that or the other, is "don't even bother, the virus just laughs at that". But that could just be my jaded and cynical attitude after so many complete past fails.

Hi! Welcome to the forum. You should be excited because life gets better with Cluster Busters.

As I suspected, a few years back there was a reason for the push to use only pharmaceutical grade omega-3, most of the market stuff is garbage. From the venerable Science, which I trust considerably more than Consumer Labs (I won’t disclose), Nordic Naturals and Carlson are the best. I swear by Nordic Naturals, especially the Nemechek protocol approved 2,840mg one (jackpot). Carlson is always sold out on iHerb, Vitacost, and Amazon. It will set you back $40 a month, but you get what you pay for, BIG TIME. The Nordic Naturals Ultimate Omega, Liquid, 2840mg is so potent that mainstream psychiatrists use it as frontline treatment in Borderline Personality Disorder. I know, after 25 years of polypharmacy and most likely a million or two billed to insurance, that in 3 months I am a brand new person that know one recognizes. That is the Nemechek protocol approved choice, even Dr. Amen approves, he produces his own FYI. If you read this far https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0889157519305137?token=C58EF8063CA3EE0CDCA9A292D5659882F55A2A8D63A7E4ED57F984890342B97D12E41EF47D1C64E9ED17EEE9782C36E5&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20211210000327

@spinyI prefer these two options, and it depends on the severity of inflammation. If mild, I use the first. If wild, I bump it up to 2,800mg. The second one. So I don't present bias, I will present other solid options. I love Vitacost but to each its own. The Nordic Naturals Liquid 1270mg Option https://www.vitacost.com/nordic-naturals-complete-omega-liquid-lemon-8-fl-oz-1 The Nordic Naturals Liquid 2,840mg Option https://www.vitacost.com/nordic-naturals-ultimate-omega-lemon-4-fl-oz-4 The Carlson Mega Omega 2800mg Liquid Option (Unflavored) https://www.vitacost.com/carlson-norwegian-medomega-fish-oil-concentrate Carlson Very Finest (flavored) 1600mg Option https://www.vitacost.com/carlson-the-very-finest-fish-oil-orange-6-7-fl-oz-1 Liquid (pet hypothesis) appears to have superior absorption properties. Sure, it has an unpleasant taste. Pick your poison, hoarse pills that stick in your throat and don’t absorb, or a simple spoonful? Remember that “a teaspoon of sugar.” https://www.vitacost.com/carlson-the-very-finest-fish-oil-orange-6-7-fl-oz-1

Which one do you use Juss?

Juss I love your post buddy . So interesting

And @spinyshared the real secret to cooking greens, but I don't eat bacon much because I have Scrapple. And not that nasty Rappa from Bridgeville, Hughes Delaware Made. That comes from lower slower Delaware, a different world than the president is from. Anyway, eat Scrapple it will make you happy. You fry the outer and leave it mushy on the inner. Cook it with some yardbird, and I better stop I'm getting hungry.

My oxygen demand valve came with a 6-foot-long hose. One end of the hose has a DISS connection sized for oxygen and connects to the regulator; the other end of the hose connects to the demand valve. The Oxygen flow is: Tank, regulator, hose, demand valve, mask, patient. Maybe another way to explain it is that the regulator needs to have the proper connections for both the tank and the hose; e.g., the regulator needs to have the DISS connection. DISS connections are sized for the gas that is flowing to avoid connecting to wrong gas source. Also, the DISS fitting for the demand valve should not be limited by the regulator setting. Scroll through this forum tread and I think that there are photos of a setup that might work for you. https://clusterbusters.org/forums/topic/6632-demand-valve-o2/?tab=comments#comment-65652 I use E-tanks with a CGA870 connection to the tank. Here is the regulator I use if that will help. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZVPR7NM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hope that helps and if not, keep asking......

Yup, From the bacon that is added to mine. Agreed!! Easy too. For the Ibuprofen, over the counter ones are 200mg. A 'therapeudic' dose is 800mg. So, double the OTC dose, just like anything that has gone from prescription to OTC. They whack it in half so people won't 'over do' it. And I also have used some of the suggestions Juss pointed out in the herbal treatment suggestions he mentioned. Some of that stuff has been in continuous use for eons it seems. After all original aspirin came from one! I hope that you feel a lot better soon!!! Did you get exposed to the flu or something? Hugs!!!

I hope that you feel better. Most will argue otherwise, but I will blast several journals, 500mg of APAP and 800mg of ibuprofen can be as potent as hydromorphone. Most opioid analgesics-surprise, surprise-are placebo power. Don't use Naproxen. It must be ibuprofen. The downside of this approach is that prolonged use destroys microbiomes, gut walls, the gut, and hepatic. Go easy. If that works, though I am strongly against it, bacoflin, tizanidine, and Mobiq all seem to help in the people that respond to the aforementioned. I am stating a fact and don't have answers just witnessing in more than a handful of people. It doesn't work often, BUT, when it does, lights out. Tizanidine will make you high off your ass, and knock you out. And baclofen doesn't fare much better. Voltaren targets both inflammatory markers, but it appears an expensive pharmaceutical gimmick. Meloxicam is best. Stay away from the Cox 2 Celebrex, the black box for strokes is there for a reason. Danger ranger, and it doesn't do a damn thing. I hope that you feel better. Sometimes rest is best. My new doctors agree that knocking yourself out is the best option when in pain (FYI).

Increase what? As for the immune system, echinacea is proven to be pseudoscience. Stay heavy on Vitamin D, and go up to 800mg in divided doses with the magnesium. I would push it higher if necessary. I don't know the exact amount that can be absorbed in one dose, but I would not push more than 400mg at a time. With ascorbic acid, your body can't process it or much, because it is synthetic and derived from GMO corn. Try eating fruits loaded with C or a plant-based C.

Uff so I'm sick. Sore throat started last night I thought it was because I left the window open for my older lab but no. Almost 9 pm here and still a Sore throat after peppermint tea all day and body ache I did increase the d and c but feel yuck. Shadowing bad anything else I should increase or just ride it out??

Here, watch this. It was a suggestion guys. That is all. Just use Oxygen or whatever is approved by Cluster Busters and nothing else.