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    Curious About Nerve Surgery: If It Works for Hands and Feet, Why Not Ears?

    I live in a senior building, and many of my neighbors suffer from peripheral neuropathy. That made me curious because I’m an older guy and don’t have those issues, just a light tingling in my palms from decades of bike and eBike riding. The Cleveland Clinic website says: “Surgery (for...
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    If I Took Blue Chew Before Dying...

    ...would I wake up in Heaven, ready to go? Or would I be directed to That Other Place? (If you like warm climates, what’s not to love?)
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    Is OpenAI Just Hype?

    I've been reading many articles on OpenAI, and to me, it appears to be a thinly disguised excuse for more mass surveillance. Like most people, I have a home computer and use it frequently. Too frequently. This is where most of our lives are being tracked by companies like Google, which has...
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    Viagra Is Good for Your Brain

    I've been noticing two interesting side effects of Sildenafil, the main ingredient of Viagra (besides the obvious impact). First, it also works for many post-menopausal women. Second, my mind is sharper when I take it. It turns out that the drug is helping to delay the onset of Alzheimer's, and...
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    What's Your Favorite Homemade Healthy Meal?

    If I had my way, I'd eat 505 roasted green chili and chicken burritos every meal. Donuts too. Fortunately, the other side of my brain sometimes overrides that. This is a high energy soup recipe. Fresh pineapple, tomato slices, ginger, garlic, 1/2 lemon, jalapeno, Louisiana hot sauce, black...
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    Tinnitus Changes with High Humidity and Barometric Pressure

    Has anyone here found that their tinnitus increases or decreases with changes in humidity and barometric pressure? Everything I can find online says that this can happen. Going through my journal, the last few months in Tucson had not one mention of tinnitus. But after my move to Little Rock 4...
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    Can Atorvastatin Make Tinnitus Worse?

    My LDL cholesterol levels have been chronically high so my doctor changed my medication from Gemfibrozil to Atorvastatin 10 mg daily. I've heard of a LOT of issues w/ statins and tinnitus, and they all mention "of all the statins available in the US, only Atorvastatin is associated with...
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    Tinnitus from Antibiotics — I've Devised the Usual Coping Strategies

    Hi, I'm momus (Steve), and hope I'm doing this right. Just signed up today. I'm a Southerner from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and now in Little Rock. So... tinnitus. What can you say? It has changed my life, as it probably has w/ everyone here. It's better sometimes, worse sometimes, doesn't...