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so....see a doctor? this has been a problem for a long time and a medical professional has never given you any kind of advice or diagnosis?

THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O' MICE AN' MEN
GANG AFT A-GLEY

robert burns. that poem is awesome, the opening lines are just awesome:

wee sleekit, cowrin' tim'rous beastie,
oh what a-panics in thy breastie?
thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi' bickerin' brattle!
i wid be laith t'rin an' chase thee
wi' murd'rin' prattle!

doubt you've taken enough creatine to fuck with your kidneys that severely. how often do you measure BP? did you do the reading at home or was it done at the doctor's office?

if at home, take it again in the morning, right after you wake up. get up and pee if you have to go and then go back to bed and lie down for five minutes or so before taking it. 161/90 is high but it's not at danger level for someone your age unless it becomes chronic. about six years ago i got measured at like 150/90 at the doctor, repeated on a few visits. she freaked out a little and ordered lots more tests and shit: x-rays, MRI. then i left for chile and spent a whole year taking my own measurements like every two or three days. it was consistently 138/85 or so, which is still way too high.

but then i got back, went back to the doc, and my BP was 120/70. five years later, got it measured last week when i went in for being sick and it was 122/80. so it was just a false alarm.

TLDR: don't worry yet.

doc called again this afternoon, just to check in. i feel fine now. i actually felt fucking spectacular this morning but unfortunately it had worn off by the time i got to the gym tonight. still no word on the west nile, i'm supposed to call back on thursday if i haven't heard from them. my roommate is now sick, presumably with the same virus.   

BW = 176
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = right wrist feels like i jammed it (?)
FATIGUE = low to moderate

- warm up

- DLRVJ x 7
bad, mostly 31-32, one 32.5

- squat 275 x 8,8,8

- SS1: dip x 10
- SS1: inverted row x 10
- SS1 info: 5 rounds, minimal rest between exercises, ~30s between rounds. will up reps and decrease sets next time.

- hanging leg raise x 10,10,10

- ab pull down x 30

- stretch

pissed about the jumps, i felt pretty good but the explosiveness was just not there. oh well. squats were very solid.

vag did you post that again because it was just so awesome, or because you didn't see that raptor posted it yesterday?

lavender >>>>>>>> blue on the screen. if you're on the fence about changing it...don't. the place looks much, much classier in general. nice nice nice.

also, it's "bear" with me, not "bare" with me, unless you mean you want us all to get naked together.

  Cant really tell anything without an overhead angle/ fish eyes lens and slow mo/music edited in, birth certificate, social security card, and also get a muscle biopsy done. 

From first glance they look really good though. 




edit: its not mandatory, but if you can hook yourself up to a polygraph machine when squatting next time it will be easier to give proper feedback.

man, the next time i tape squats it's going to be really complicated. i'll do my best, man.

Good luck with your recovery, man.

thanks man. quick update on that: i went to the doctor this morning. threw up about ten minutes after getting to the office, which was new. no nausea the previous few days. she did some tests and i got blood drawn -- won't have the labs back until tomorrow so unsure about that. but she was concerned enough to send me for an immediate CAT scan. ever had one of those? it's kind of cool, very sci-fi. much more fun than an MRI. i realized that i've now had all the main types of medical imaging except a PET scan. fun times.

anyway, the CAT scan was negative. so that's good because:



but i still don't know what's wrong with me.

Do you speak Arabic?

beyond the arabic phrases that are universal in the muslim world (as salaam u alaykum/u alaykum as salaam, insh'allah, mash'allah, etc.), and a few other greeting-type phrases (ahlan wa sahlan/ahlan bik), nope.