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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Does an under-active thyroid affect blood circulation?

« on: 20/05/2018 02:43:28 »

First, thank you for your reply, its much appreciated. Yes, I was diagnosed about 7 or 8 years ago with hypothyroidism and take levothyroxine every day as my hormone replacement. It's just in the last 6-9 months my hands mostly but feet as well get tingly and numb to the point of being in pain. It sometimes takes me ten minutes of walking around and shaking my hands all over the place for the numbness to subside. The weird thing is once it is gone if I sit down it immediately comes back...stand up it starts to fade. I literally just had my doctor take blood a couple of days ago to check my t3, t4 (mostly t3) levels. It has been about a year since my last blood check. It just when I bring up certain things this being one of them to my doctor he seems uninterested and pretty much blames my underactive thyroid as being the culprit to my concerns. There are other things. Maybe they're not a big deal to my doctor but there very bothersome for me. I have had the same primary care doctor for close to 15 years now he is a good doctor and has always given me good advice. Maybe he is just getting older and lazier....or maybe I shouldn't be has bothered or concerned with these little things that pop up. I have also been asthmatic my whole life. My asthma does not stay well controlled because even with insurance and pretty good insurance at that steroid inhalers are insanely expensive. My doctor would like me to be using a steroid inhaler twice a day (which treats asthma).  That is 1 inhaler a month (not to mention the several rescue inhalers I go through) The cheapest steroid inhaler that we have come across so far is right under 300.00 or right over 300.. 5 years ago I could get them for 170-180.00 but prices have gone up. I cant afford 300. a mon plus about 2-3 rescue inhalers which run about 40-50.00 each. Could my asthma maybe be a culprit to numbness feelings?

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Is this fools gold or real gold?

« on: 20/05/2018 02:13:02 »

Any thoughts?

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Is this fools gold or real gold?

« on: 20/05/2018 02:11:55 »

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Is this fools gold or real gold?

« on: 20/05/2018 02:07:05 »

Thank you for replying and helping educate me a little. Ok after some reading and watching videos I decided to experiment. What the hell right most likely is fools gold anyways. On top of having fun I am learning on a topic I knew nothing about so plus plus for me. In the same area of this first rock, I found another rock that was darker with silver looking streaks in it along with a magenta pink color. Refer to pics. I read that hydrochloric acid will in no way harm real gold. I happen to have some industrial strength hydrochloric acid at 36.0%. I dumped some of the acid in two different containers and then put the two separate rocks in the acid about 12 hours ago. See pics. for results so far. My next step it to add the hydrochloric acid with nitrate acid to create the dissolving solution. Now the acid I have already used was clear when I started. In one of the containers, its color is a bright yellow and the other container is a yellowish green color with a rotten egg smell to it. The container that's is just a bright yellow color does not have an odor to it other than the slight acid smell. I took a small shot glass and dumped a little of the acid the rock had been sitting in and then put the rock in swirled it around and replaced it back into the bigger container. I also dumped the acid back into the bigger container.  Next, I took a little bit of distilled water and filled the shot glass about halfway swirled it around and am now examining the contents that have settled in the bottom of the glass. See pics. Any thoughts?

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Physiology & Medicine / Are there people who lack the ability to become emotionally attached to others?

« on: 19/05/2018 10:42:05 »

Are there people who truly do not have the ability to have any emotional attachments to others. I have been reading a bunch of emotional attachments vs. emotionally unavailable articles. There are some pretty credible doctors that claim some people do not have the ability to emotional attach to others, even thier own children. It is said that this is caused by some kind of trauma as a child. During this trauma, a bunch of sub-self's are created to protect the real self. Apparently, the real self is not strong enough to handle the trauma, which is why these sub-self's step in. I also read that if this happens to someone that they can only improve this condition by participating in very intense therapy, but once they lose the ability to create an emotional attachment and/or bond its gone indefinitely. Is this really possible? Going through life's motions pretending to care just to fit in seems like a lot of work to keep up. Not being able to have emotional bonding with your own children...is this, not a natural occurrence when reproducing? For someone who can't emotionally bond or attach to another human being, how can life be at all fulfilling? Isn't being able to bond with other so very important? I find it hard to imagine not being able to truly bond with anyone, which is why it seems a little far-fetched to me. However, by no means do I think this is completely impossible. Which is why I am asking. Thanks

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Physiology & Medicine / Does an under-active thyroid affect blood circulation?

« on: 19/05/2018 10:15:00 »

Does having an underactive thyroid affect one's blood circulation. If so is it majorly affected or just slightly? Can how well your blood circulation is be a culprit to daily numbness and tingling in the hands and feet or is this an underactive thyroid symptom? Are there ways to significantly improve your blood circulation? Also are there things you can do or ingest to bring an underactive thyroid into a normal working state without a daily hormone replacement. Any help is much appreciated.
 

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Is this fools gold or real gold?

« on: 19/05/2018 09:16:57 »

Hello, I found this rock which I presume to be some kind of fools gold. However, I know nothing about how to distinguish real gold apart from fools gold. I have attached a few pictures. Any help is much appreciated.

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