i'm quite happy to accept it as a psychological condition.
paranoia xoxos style account follows..
my mother, knowing my father's influence on me, used to work at a doctor's office.. "free drugs!" i used to walk there for a ride home after library. i figure she wanted some way to stop me "going indian" :p
never had a problem, but when i was ~12, the doc said "you've got athsma! use this!"
i never did, was just fine.
what i did do is i'd get there and my mum would say "you look puffed out! let's give you an adrenalin shot!" ..refuse that..
it's a real good handle on you when you need somethnig to breathe.. "welcome to mars.."
didn't start to actually use albuterol until i was in college and smoking loads, discovered it was a nice 'lung booster' rush. shortly afterwards, i started to "need" it.
cold weather freaks me out.. i live in tucson, it's either 'freakishly' warm or cold.. when it gets cold.. i get a huge pile of british candies to remind me where i came from.. and that freaks me out..
soon as it's warm, i can smoke camel hair til my lungs weigh more than me, no prob..
"..go..."
how many would consider themselves 'fit'?
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRist
- 339 posts since 9 May, 2001 from Greece
I am very health concsious though not very successful in putting it into practice.
I quit smoking (again, 3rd time) a few days ago. I always wanted to quit and with every cigarette I knew this habit had to stop at some point. Best way to quit is to make a huge list of what tobacco does to your body and read it with every cigarette you smoke. You need to really want something in order to accomplish it.
Diet cokes and artificially sweetened beverages/foods can be *very* unhealthy as well. Just do a search on aspartame on google. I cannot believe they sell this stuff.
I quit smoking (again, 3rd time) a few days ago. I always wanted to quit and with every cigarette I knew this habit had to stop at some point. Best way to quit is to make a huge list of what tobacco does to your body and read it with every cigarette you smoke. You need to really want something in order to accomplish it.
Diet cokes and artificially sweetened beverages/foods can be *very* unhealthy as well. Just do a search on aspartame on google. I cannot believe they sell this stuff.
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
this is annunaki homour.. "tha's part a me now?"Evan wrote:aspartame
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 9217 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Pequot Lakes, MN
I did have a rather nasty one for a few years during the '90s- I was down to 115 lbs. before I got my shit straightS_A_P wrote:Back when I had a large Coke habit I weighed 40 pounds less than I do now, but I dont think I was very fit.
actually, I neer had a coke habit, but considered it to lose a few pounds heh heh
( and I'm 5'10") 
ew
A spectral heretic...
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- KVRAF
- 3125 posts since 6 Dec, 2002 from Ljubljana/ Slovenia
Same here. Had two attacks as a kid, still breathe a bit harder on a sunny spring day, but it's getting better.whyterabbyt wrote:It gradually cleared up. I haven't had an attack since I was a kid. Which Im very f**king glad about, because I nearly died of it when I was an infant; stopped breathing et.c. But as I say, I still got no lung capacity.
As for lung capacity - mine was quite bad, but I took clarinet and saxophone lessons to fight it - it's totally normal now (and I've just finished my studies at a music academy - jazz sax).
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