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hi i'm alex — a human thing who definitely isn't just a bunch of snakes wiggling around in a trench coat — and this is my pinned post!!

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ao3 | bsky | twt

🐍 fic masterposts:

svsss - mostly zhuzhi-lang + tianlang-jun/su xiyan, though the occasional moshang and bingqiu can be found trigun - levash/vashgato and millionsummers tgcf - junmei and hualian

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futuristicson

#charmed #kaiqueue groupie

tzarrz

i listen to fog lake too much

#trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood

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the hot & sour soup from the chinese place in our neighborhood has a 100% success rate of improving or all-out ending my migraines. partner, scientist that he is, did some research into why that might be (and also anything else that might help me, since I try not to google my own symptoms due to my unfortunate tendency to WebMD myself into thinking I’m dying). that ultimately led me to try a daily magnesium tablet starting on saturday. I’m now 48+ hours headache-free for the first time in literal weeks. don’t worry, I’m keeping a level head about it. I know this isn’t a magical cure-all and it very well might just be a coincidence. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment scheduled for wednesday and I’m not canceling it. but holy shit, it’s incredible to feel like myself again. thank you partner. thank you hot & sour soup. thank you yummy minerals

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really taking all my mental strength here NOT to add that disco elysium Magnesium-Based Lifeform screencap

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…?

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in case anyone is wondering how we House MD’d our way from “hot & sour soup” to “magnesium supplement”:

- I drink a lot of gatorade in addition to water because I strongly suspect I also have POTS (which is likely related to the migraines) and the sodium & electrolytes help with those symptoms. But it doesn’t really seem to do much for my migraines.

- Partner noticed I tend to get migraines, and particularly ones with visual aura, an hour or two after getting back from one of my really hard weekend morning workouts. (I get migraines other times, too—recently, just about every day in the late afternoon—but getting really sweaty was a strangely consistent trigger, especially for auras.) I was making sure to rehydrate with plenty of gatorade and water after, so it probably wasn’t just dehydration.

- Hot & sour soup is a large quantity of sodium-rich fluids that is easy for me to get down even when I’m in pain, so it makes sense that that would be good from a POTS standpoint, but crucially, it also supplies magnesium. Not a ton of it, but guess what gatorade doesn’t have any of? That led him to an article on the American Migraine Association’s website about the suspected link between magnesium and migraines, especially ones with aura.

- So our hypothesis is that on the workout days, I was losing more magnesium than usual, drinking a ton of fluids and electrolytes to recover, but not doing anything to replenish the magnesium. And I can see a pattern on weekdays too, where I forget to eat breakfast, maybe don’t do so great at eating a balanced lunch because my ADHD meds nerf my appetite, and then by 3 or 4 o’clock, after a day of drinking only water and gatorade, the headache starts (and sometimes abates after dinner, depending on what I eat.)

- So far, taking a daily 500mg magnesium tablet with lunch + switching from gatorade to gatorlyte (which does supply magnesium) seems to have helped massively with the headaches, but also with my energy levels and mood? (That could also just be the effect of consistently not having a headache for the first time in weeks, though.)

I’m not a doctor, don’t do anything I say without talking to a medical professional first, etc. However, I did just get back from my first appointment with a new doctor, and she told me magnesium (and vitamin B2) is normally her first recommendation anyway since it has fewer side effects and risks than migraine preventive medications. So since the supplement route seems to be working for me so far, she wants me to start with that and reevaluate in a month or so.

In other words, per doctor’s orders,

goodieprocter

The rare two-punchline EWC comic (because both made me laugh)

Eridian Welcoming Committee courtesy of @justcakethanks

#project hail mary

goldensunset

per my last desperate howl at the heavens,

navy-leader

What if i miss you for the rest of my life?

#devil may cry #dante #vergil

churchyaoi

50 minute Carl study

#project hail mary

hard--byte

the hottest thing a guy can be is barely conscious on the floor while someone lifts his head up by the hair so that you can see his glazed out eyes and the blood running down his face