[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by farah

what was the advice!! i wasn't paying attention

It was over email and pretty specific to her skin. If you have specific q's, you can pm me.

[the_only_one]

Originally Posted by farah

what was the advice!! i wasn't paying attention

i was gonna ask the same thing.


sometimes, talkng about marriage makes me realize how i am still an amateur. i need to learn to "scan people/situation clearfully" to help me make a proper decision. IA other times i feel that there is no pre-requisite knowledge required of me, what is to come, will come. iA and Allah Knows Best.

does anyone else feel that way?

[Bruinrab]

In other news, my mom is hilarious and slightly scandalous. I was (briefly) watching the world series of poker. I switched the channel, and she goes "put it back, I liked it!" I keep changing the channel and she keeps making me change it back!

Earlier today, I found a pic of my parents soon after they got married. My mom looks at it, smiles, then frowns and says (exact words): "wow... even then my boobs were huge!"


Alas, I don't think I inherited that gene.

[sally]

clearly no one gives a daaam about my super powers.

stupid girls i bet if i posted that in MPH all the boys would call me an xman.

[jaani]

Originally Posted by zzze

assalamu alaykum

Jaani are you Squeaky? The person not the sound.

Originally Posted by Asvi

Jaani is not Squeaky.

I'm not squeaky

Why? Do I have some squeaky likeness?

Originally Posted by Ilikemyscarf

Can I have a hug?

Originally Posted by sally

clearly no one gives a daaam about my super powers.

stupid girls i bet if i posted that in MPH all the boys would call me an xman.

You are awesome even without your super powers!!


____________________________________________

And for everyone who's been asking - NO, I'm not getting married or have a guy hanging around or anything related to that.......so no worries....yet


~j

[zakk]

i'm sick

[ChotooMotoo]

Originally Posted by Bruinrab

That sucks. I feel your pain.

Hope you feel better soon and it's over quickly.

P.S. Have you tried prophylactics? I tried propanolol, and that didn't work for me (weird side effects). I've since been on lisinopril for a while and that seems to have helped a lot. I went from 1-2 a week to 1-2 a month. Oh, and once I have one I take 3-4 advils, I no longer use a triptan (again, side effects).

Feeling kinda better, but not really. Gunna go back to bed.

I've had migraines since I was 12. They come and go, sometimes I get months of migraines clustered together, and sometimes I don't get one for months, and this time it's been almost a year since my last one. 90% of the time they last 72+ hours, and I end up going in for a shot of whatever, usually tordol. My worst migraine ever, I went to the ER after 4 days, and they gave me demorol or morphine, I don't remember what. I went to bed and after 2 days of sleeping I woke up, and it was worse than ever. I remember waking up from sleep just yelling, it was so bad. I had some other random drugs, I think vicodin and some tordol, and some immitrex nasal spray, took them all (in hindsight not the best idea but I was in crazy pain) went to sleep and it went away another day later. That was in 2001.

I saw a neurologist for a long time and did all kinds of different prophylactics to no avail. In the end I was spending a lot of money on drugs that had a lot of side effects and no relief. Amerge kinda works sometimes, but only if I get a prodronal, which I don't most of the time, and only if I take it the second I get the prodronal. This time it started in the middle of class with no prodronal. The cure: go home, go to sleep, and wait it out. If I still have it Thursday, talk to the doc and see what they will do for me. So far Tordol shots work the best, and the side effects (feeling kinda silly, tiredness, saying dumb things) are not nearly as bad as narcotics (nausea, rebound headaches, stupidness). We'll see though, docs have different ideas about what they like to give, and I'm in a new town now. Migraines run in the family, though I have them the worst.

[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo

Feeling kinda better, but not really. Gunna go back to bed.

I've had migraines since I was 12. They come and go, sometimes I get months of migraines clustered together, and sometimes I don't get one for months, and this time it's been almost a year since my last one. 90% of the time they last 72+ hours, and I end up going in for a shot of whatever, usually tordol. My worst migraine ever, I went to the ER after 4 days, and they gave me demorol or morphine, I don't remember what. I went to bed and after 2 days of sleeping I woke up, and it was worse than ever. I remember waking up from sleep just yelling, it was so bad. I had some other random drugs, I think vicodin and some tordol, and some immitrex nasal spray, took them all (in hindsight not the best idea but I was in crazy pain) went to sleep and it went away another day later. That was in 2001.

I saw a neurologist for a long time and did all kinds of different prophylactics to no avail. In the end I was spending a lot of money on drugs that had a lot of side effects and no relief. Amerge kinda works sometimes, but only if I get a prodronal, which I don't most of the time, and only if I take it the second I get the prodronal. This time it started in the middle of class with no prodronal. The cure: go home, go to sleep, and wait it out. If I still have it Thursday, talk to the doc and see what they will do for me. So far Tordol shots work the best, and the side effects (feeling kinda silly, tiredness, saying dumb things) are not nearly as bad as narcotics (nausea, rebound headaches, stupidness). We'll see though, docs have different ideas about what they like to give, and I'm in a new town now. Migraines run in the family, though I have them the worst.

Aww.

I've had them since I was about 9. Both my parents get them, and so do my brothers, cousins, etc. I've had some success in reducing some of the triggers (hunger/long breaks between meals, flashes of sunlight , dehydration, etc) but some are beyond my control (hormones, stress, sleep irregularity). Funny enough, one thing I noticed before seeing it mentioned in a journal article is that I'm very sensitive to light, even when I'm fine. What most people consider to be nice and bright is pretty close to painfully bright for me. That led me to turn down the brightness any time I use a computer, and that helps so much.

I think the worst ones I've had have lasted 2-3 days total, including the mental fuzziness or visual changes that persist after the headache is gone. I pretty much always have a visual aura, and I try to take advil asap (advil because migraines have an inflammatory component - and tylenol does nothing for me). I've also had a few instances of having an aura without headache. With me, the nausea starts with the aura and can continue for hours, until the whole thing resolves - and it's worse depending on how bad the pain gets. For me the speed of onset of the aura is a good predictor of the migraine pain. A rapidly developing, intense aura means a bad headache; a slowly evolving one means a milder one.

Other than the standard stuff (rest, quiet, dark room, etc), I've found that very focused relaxation can reduce the pain significantly. I think I'm probably doing my own form of biofeedback, although I can only sustain it for short periods of time. But it feels so nice to have even 10 seconds of relief from that pain.

Feel better soon, i'A.

Edit: I also get a true prodrome sometimes - I'll feel weird for a few days before the headaches begins.

[sumiyia]

migraines suck... feel better!!!

[Timbit]

Originally Posted by moonlightrose

I saw jodha akbar today. oh wow.
awesome. incredible.
sooooooo well directed!!!
they picked the right person to play akbar's role .
dunno about jodha though!

and I don't understand why its banned in some states in India. as far as I've heard, they tried to make it very historically accurate.

Funny thing is I just read your post today and I hadn't even heard of the movie... but my dad brought a copy home and we saw it (My dad is turning into a real Bollywood fan. There was a time when he was like "No Indian movies in my house" and now he's the one who brings them home).

After we saw the whole thing, he, of course, had to say that it was historically inaccurate and that those Indians are always screwing history up in their movies.

I dunno about that. I enjoyed it for the most part. And that's 'cause Hrithik was so good. I'm now a fan. I especially liked that one song... jashn-e-bahaara.

[iSHi]

Chootoo, inshaAllahall is well.

Timby, how could it take so long?! He's one of the best.

My dad's flight got delayed. He had to spend a night in NY. Duas he makes it home safely..

[DramaRani]

Originally Posted by zakk

i'm sick

and to any other ladies feeling ill !




Girls, please make duaa for me iA. Today marks my FIRST substitute assignment! I'm nervous. I've never been in a 2nd grade classroom before - to teach. And you know how students treat "the sub" . Ufffffff! Anyway, a small or big duaa will be appreciated! JazakAllah .

[Asvi]

Originally Posted by DramaRani

and to any other ladies feeling ill !




Girls, please make duaa for me iA. Today marks my FIRST substitute assignment! I'm nervous. I've never been in a 2nd grade classroom before - to teach. And you know how students treat "the sub" . Ufffffff! Anyway, a small or big duaa will be appreciated! JazakAllah .

i'A you'll do great

i'm in a dilemma and i need helpppp !!!
Our vacation choices:
1) go to florida at friend's place w/another couple and go to keywest, naples and miami. (around $700)
2) go to florida and take a few days cruise to Bahamas w/one couple and meet up w/the third later in the week (it's $1000 all together)
3) do our own thing..i found great all inclusive packages to Aruba and Hawaii which will cost us around $1200.

which one will you choose?