it's official

[leah]

my body is falling apart.

i tore a muscle in my neck somehow and have wry neck. i can't move my head without blinding pain, and the muscle relaxers and darvocet have done nothing for the pain except knock me out.



hug me?

[Donnel]

/hug

[Goose_Man]

You need to stop with that kinky sex shit. No more swinging from the chandeliers and back flips off your dresser.

Either that or start going to the gym and get strong.

Er.. I don’t know if the two are related but didn’t you go on the Atkins diet and lose a bunch of weight really fast? Maybe you need to really work on eating balanced again and start a exercise routine to get your body back into shape? Just a thought I dunno…

[leah]

i do go to the gym regularly and eat a balanced diet, and have for the past four or five months since leaving atkins behind.

i just turned my head in exactly the right way to result in a torn muscle, apparently.... i heard (and of course, felt) the pop when it happened, too--i was in bed asleep and my phone rang and in my half-asleep state i moved to answer it in a really weird way and POP it's intense.

[Goose_Man]

Wow, I guess you can chalk that up to "shit happens" just don’t move it much and alternate between ice and heat through out the day. Give it a few days then stretch it ever so gently.

[Tikker]

get a neck collar

those things work miracles

[Jay]

Stop drinking Malk and drink real milk. It worked for Bart Simpson.

[Phlegm]

my body is falling apart.

i tore a muscle in my neck somehow and have wry neck. i can't move my head without blinding pain, and the muscle relaxers and darvocet have done nothing for the pain except knock me out.



hug me?

Wouldn't hugging cause more pain?

[Martrae]

low on potassium?

[leah]

physically, hugging might hurt more but it may heal my discouraged soul

i don't know martrae, my mom said something about that too. what do i do, just eat a metric fuckton of bananas and hope for the best?

[Harrison]

A metric fuckton of bananas will fuck with your bowels in epic battles of toilet bombing

[Martrae]

One or two a day will help enormously. I wouldn't eat more than that.

[leah]

hey thanks for the suggestion.

also, after about 30 hours since the neck-popping incident, i'm starting to feel much better. higher range of motion, less intense pain... and i think in that amount of time i've really only taken four muscle relaxers (i'm sposed to take three a day) and maybe three darvocet (i don't want to take them unless absolutely necessary, i don't like dealing with such powerful painkillers). here's to a hopefully speedy and full recovery.

[Arlos]

You can actually eat Oranges too if you need potassium. From checking the nutrition websites, the average banana has 451mg of potassium, and the average Orange has about 325.

I know that I generally don't like bananas much at all, so oranges are the much better choice in my case.

-Arlos

[Phlegm]

You can actually eat Oranges too if you need potassium. From checking the nutrition websites, the average banana has 451mg of potassium, and the average Orange has about 325.

I know that I generally don't like bananas much at all, so oranges are the much better choice in my case.

-Arlos

Eat potato. A potato has around 940 mg of potassium.

[Phlegm]

Food Potassium
(1/2 cup cooked vegetable, fruits raw) (mg)

Potato (1) 940
Sweet Potato (1) 540
Banana (1) 490
Halibut (3 oz. cooked) 490
Lima beans 490
Fresh tuna (3 oz. cooked) 480
Swiss chard 480
Acorn squash 450
Spinach 420
Salmon (3 oz. cooked) 390
Cantaloupe (1/4 melon) 370
Lentils 370
Milk (1 cup) 370
Watermelon (2 cups) 320
Grapes (1 cup) 310
Pork (3 oz. cooked) 310
Raisins (1/4 cup) 310
Pistachios (50) 300
Flounder (3 oz. cooked) 290
Parsnits 290
Pinto beans, canned 290
Beef (3 oz. cooked) 270
Wheat germ (2 Tbs.) 270
Brussels sprouts 250
Prunes (4) 250
Orange (1) 230
Zucchini 230
Artichokes 220
Almonds (20) 210
Chickpeas, canned 210
Collard greens 210
Chicken (3 oz. cooked) 200
Tuna, canned (3 oz.) 200
Peanuts (30) 190

[araby]

leah the neck popping thing happens to me usually every friday, or every other week sometimes. I think it's the same thing you're takling about , send me an im chickadee.

[Adivina]

Ugh I sympathize with you 100% The most painful injury I ever experienced was when I dislocated one of the vertebra in my neck, on its way out it wrapped around a cluster of nerves on the spine and pulled them. UGH UGH UGH. I did not weigh enough to get strong painkillers, so they just pumped me full of valium to keep me calm for a few days, but I could still feel the pain the whole time.

Rest it up, you don't want permenant problems.