Category: Blog
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Some Goals for August
Here’s a list of things I’m working on and habits I’m trying to build this month: I’m trying to break the habit of just wasting time on my phone and do the things I dream of doing: art and music. I’m committed to doing 15 mins of music and sketching each day. I’ll do that…
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Treating the Smart Phone as a Landline
Yesterday I saw some success in fighting off the doomscrolling, distraction, and brainrot by treating my phone as a landline. When I was a kid we had one phone in the house. And it did only one thing. It rang, you talked then hung up. And what you did with the rest of your life,…
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The Ultimate Nostalgia
As someone just getting older, I often think about what was cool in the past. Or, what’s crappier now. There’s a lot of crappier things now and that’s really a drag. But there’s one thing in the past that I can actually still kinda sorta still have, but not really: a life before phones and…
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Love Yourself
I really enjoy coming across street art with a message. It reminds me of when I found “You can be anything on the playground”, written on a playground. What a great message. So fun. And little does the person who made it realize how often that pops into my head. It’s been years, and I…
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I Am So Lucky
It’s been a while since I thought about The Luck Factor. And it’s not every day we score big wins. And in my case, before I read this book, I almost never turned my bad luck into good. I was recently diagnosed with osteoporosis. The first stroke of luck came when I saw a doc…
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Pulling the Plug on Omeprazole
I’m two weeks in on 20mg omeprazole, down from 40mg. It’s pretty rough right now with coughing and irritation. And I’m considering quitting from here rather than transitioning every other day or so. Mainly because I just discovered Dr Jamie Koufman’s blog and searched it for rebound hyperacidity. It seems like her and Dr Jonathan…
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Proton Pumps Are On Overdrive
Wowzers. It’s Day 8 of reducing from 40mg of omeprazole to 20mg. The night before I had some coughing and I knew my proton pumps were coming back to life. But last night they were full of rage. My esophagus was on fire. And there was no stopping them. Sitting upright, Tums, and all that.…
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Proton Pumps Are Back Online After 6 Years
Today is Day 7 of me transitioning off of omeprazole after six years of a high dose. Currently at 20mg daily, down from 40mg. And last night I woke up in a fit of coughing. This is the first sign that my proton pumps are back online. This is also probably Rebound Acid Hypersecretion. Apparently,…
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I’ve Been Taking Vitamins Wrong
You read that right, I’ve been taking my vitamins incorrectly. TLDR: preferably with a meal. For years now I’ve been waking up first thing in the morning and taking a multivitamin, an omeprazole, and a cup of coffee. I made that a routine so I wouldn’t forget. Years. I’ve been doing this many years. Well,…
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Quitting Omeprazole Day 3
Today is day 3 of tapering off omeprazole. I’ve cut my dose in half and am at 20mg. And so far, I have not detected any rebound acid. Apparently when you quit a PPI, your stomach begins to make double plus extra acid. My doc prescribed me an H2 blocker to treat the rebound acid.…