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2024.06.09 17:31 Ancillary_Adam My back pain journey since 2007, failures and successes

Hi all, After reading a lot of post here recently, I kinda wanted to tell my story to give others perspective about treatment options. Obviously, this is MY story and everyone here is different. My experience will not be the same as yours, and I am not a doctor telling you to try these options. But I have had a lot done, and I think it might be helpful if people understand what they can try.
I appreciate everyone who reads even one section of this saga. I am happy to answer any questions that people might have. Again, this was my journey and these things might not be the best options for you. But I want to highlight that pain, itself, is not the disease. It is a symptom. Find doctors who will help you find the cause of it. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the source of pain, but there are options to try different things.
Part 1: How it Started
In 2007 I was 17 years old. During the summer, I got a job working as a bus boy at a reception hall. One night, I was sweeping the floor, nothing different than normal, but I suddenly had intense shooting pain down my hip and leg just from the way I bent down to sweep. That was all it took to set me off on what would be a long life of pain.
I remember the sciatica being really bad during this period. My parents and I were taking care trips to look at colleges and sitting in a car was torture. At some point they told me to see a chiropractor so I started doing that on a pretty regular basis. I went to college in 2012 and continued to have pain. There was always constant pain but I would always have times when it was much worse and it was painful to even walk normally. I recall having my parents visit and I was limping all day because I couldn't extend my left leg out fully.
I continued to see a chiropractor in the area for maybe two or three of the years I was away at school. Chiropractor never really helped though. During one of the summer breaks, I went to a chiropractor who had this decompression machine that would literally strap you down and pull you apart in an attempt to relieve pressure. It never helped. I am pretty sure by this time I already had an MRI done that probably showed some level of lumbar herniation so I guess that is why I wanted to try that type of treatment.
Chiropractics is not a legitimate science. I hadn't realized this until later in college (I was a biomed major). Their theories on spinal health do not align with known medical science. Some chiropractor align more with real medical science, but a lot of them only believe what the area of chiropractics says. I strongly recommend NEVER seeing a chiropractor, especially if you have back pain. It could be dangerous.
Part 2: The First Surgery and More Treatments
So when I graduated from college in 2012, I sought out an orthopedic surgeon. We did more MRIs. I can't recall if we tried anything more conservative first, but I did end up having surgery with him in 2013. We did a microdiscectomy and hemilaminectomy on both L3-4 and L4-5. Recovery from this was about what you would expect. Lots of bed rest for maybe 6 weeks or so, but I recovered well and went to PT for a couple of months. I think the surgery was successful in treating a lot of the serious sciatica I was having. But I was still having some level of back pain months and months after. I was then seeing the pain management doctor at the same office as the surgeon, and we tried a LOT of different additional things. Facet joint injections specifically, trigger point injections, medications. Nothing ever helped. I still have this pain in my low back and it was difficult to bend over without bracing myself, and there were times when I would get sciatic pain but not nearly as bad as it was before the surgery.
At one point I went to a rheumatologist because the pain doctor did some blood work and found I was positive for a gene that is related to ankylosing spondylitis. I was never actually diagnosed with this, but we tried to medications (I think maybe methotrexate but I could be wrong). The rheumatologist ended up putting me on humira, which looking back was a odd decision without actually officially diagnosing me with anything. Humira is a monthly injection, and I think after two months, my pain actually got a lot worse, and I stopped taking it and never went back to him.
For the most part after this, I was just taking Tramadol an naproxen to deal with my pain. I was going to the gym and doing what I could, but often the gym would exacerbate my symptoms. It was just difficult to do anything without feeling weak and obviously, it definitely contributed to some depression.
Part 3: New Pain Doctors and Spinal Cord Stimulator
In 2016, I got a new job that brought me into NYC and I now had access to great insurance and a wide array of great doctors. I found a new pain management doctor and tried a lot of things with him. He put me on Nucynta at some point, which is a narcotic, though I would only take it when I had break through pain. Pretty quickly, only a couple months after in 2017, we decided to try a spinal cord stimulator since I had already tried all these other things with other doctors.
I had to see a neurologist who would be doing the actual implanting of the device. I also had to see a phsychiatrist to get I guess "mental" clearance that I was in sound mind to be making this decision about a medical device implant. Not sure if that was just for the insurance or something the doctors also require. Before doing a full implant, they actually do a test run. I guess I had gone under general anesthesia for this, but they implant the wires (explained more below) and the wires come out of my skin to an external device and all of that is taped down to my low back. They do this so that they can make sure you actually get relief from the device before all the time, energy, and money is spent doing the full implant. I had it for a couple weeks, and decided to move forward. They had to remove the wires from me and scheduled me for just a regular office visit, and I was thinking well how the heck are they removing these wires from me. Well, it was very easy. They literally just pulled the wires right out of my back. Didn't feel anything. It was wild.
I have a Nevro brand stimulator impanted inside me shortly after. Surgery and recovery were as you would expect. I don't thinm recovery was as long as my back surgery was. There is a little 1x1 inch square box that sits above my right glute, around where my waistband would sit. There are two sets of wires that run over my spine to the left side (so I can actually feel the wires right under my skin at this part) and then they go between my vertebral space and then all the way up my spinal canal to my thoracic area. At the end of the wires (aka "leads") there are several evenly spaced electrodes and these are the functional part of the device. From what I understand, they send small electrically pulses very rapidly against my spinal cord and the idea is that these electric signals will over power pain signals coming from below, effectively making my brain blind to sciatic pain. It came with a remote to change the settings and a charger that uses a wireless pad that you hold over the box to charge. I had to charge it ever two or three days. The technician from the company does the initial set up (they device doesn't operate until you are recovered from the procedure and see the technician at your next office visit, I believe). The technician will turn the device on wirelessly and play with the settings and ask you to tell them when you feel something as the increase the magnitude of the stimulation. When you feel it, it does feel like a little electric buzzing in your back. But you aren't supposed to feel it at all, so they the turn it down just below where you felt the sensation. The remote has a couple different programs that I could change through that the technician programs, I guess changes in the frequency of the pulsing or things like that. I could also increase and decrease the magnitude within a set range, but for the most part I never messed with any of the settings. Nevro has a care team that I can contact at any time with questions or concerns and they will follow up with me occasionally to see how I am doing.
Part 4: Life After the Stimulator
I always had the stimulator on, and always said that it did help alleviate the residual sciatic symptoms I had, but I still had this low back pain that wouldn't go away. I continued to see the pain management doctor and we tried so other things. More trigger point injections, medications, etc. He had me on what is called "Low dose naltrexone" which is essentially a very low dose of an existing drug, used off label for chronic pain. It had to be specially made at a compounding pharmacy because the dose you need isn't commercially available. I tried that for a couple months and can't say it helped. In fact, I think it made me very nauseous a lot of the time. I remember I had to stop drinking coffee at one point because the taste of it would make me feel queezy, and one or two times I ran to the bathroom because I felt like I was going to throw up. I decided to stop taking it.
After that, I mostly just lived with my stimulator and dealt with any pain I had (hadn't seen the doctor since 2020). I was going to the gym someone regularly at this point, but like before it would often increase my pain symptoms so I would need to take extended breaks from exercise.
Part 5: Recurrent Herniation
At the beginning of November 2023, I started to feel something new. I was starting to slowly get sciatic symptoms again and was having flashbacks of my symptoms when I was in college. I was starting to get sciatica in both legs, and my right foot would sometimes start going numb if I stood for too long. It was getting more and more severe. Within a few weeks, I had to stop commuting into work because the pain was getting so bad. I contacted my pain management doctor who I hadn't seen in years. Their office was telling me how since I hadn't been there in so long I had to be treated as a new patient and the first opening for a new patient was like 2 or 3 weeks out. I was pretty angry at them about this. I mean, this doctor did the implant of the medical device that I have...should that not exempt me from this rule? Its not like this was an appointment for an unrelated issue. Anyway, the first available appointment was with a different doctor, but I was desperate so I saw him. He was not helpful. I was basically begging for pain meds and he was like welllll the other doctor should really prescribe you something because he knows your case better. It was such a a waste of time.
About a week or two later I did in fact see my original doctor, and he had the Nevro technician come because he thought it could potentially be an issue with the device. The technician found that there was "impedence" on one of the leads, a couple of the electrodes weren't working as they should. So she did some adjustments to compensate for that. I have it a week or so, but that did not fix the problem at all. I stopped charging the stimulator altogether because it wasn't doing anything for me. I had to start using a cane to get around because if I was standing, I needed something to lean on so I didn't have to keep my back straight. It was getting very difficult.
The doctor had me get a regular CT done, because I cannot get an MRI due to the stimulator (the stimulator itself is actually MRI safe and I think most of them are not, but because of the issue with the electrodes, my Nevro care team told me I could not get an MRI). So I and the CT and I could see it myself. It was absolutely clear that there was a herniation at L4-L5. Clear as day. So I had a video call with the doctors assistance soon after and to my dismay, they suggested treatment was to get an epidural to reduce the pain. Here I am, knowing full well that my symptoms and the results of the MRI are definitely worthy of surgery, and they want to give me just an epidural. I asked her about surgery and she said something about not opting for surgery until exhausting other options. I said okay. After the call, I immediately reached out to my friend who worked at the Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC. She actually works with the director of Spinal Surgery. Immediately, I was in contact with him and his entire team and they moved quickly to get things moving. I regret not having reached out sooner.
Part 6: Prep for Second Surgery
So the first thing to do was get better imagining. Since the MRI was out of the question, I had to do something called a CT Myelogram. Oh boy this was not a fun diagnostic procedure.
You need to be accompanied to the appointment because they will be giving you some very light sedative. You are hooked up to an IV, and they bring you into a room with a special x-ray table that rotates so you can be either laying flat or raised up so you are nearly standing, and the X-rays can be taken from many different angles. The doctor there take a couple of initial scans to find the location where they go in. I am queezy just talking about it right now. What they need to do is inject contrast dye right into my spinal canal. An epidural goes AROUND your spinal canal, but for this they need to pierce the dura and go in.
So they do local anesthesia and then take quite a large needle and go in. It is painful because it is going so deep. But God, you can feel the piecing of the dura layer when the needle goes through. I immediately feel my body hating it. Then they inject the dye, and you can feel that sort of cold sensation spreading across your back. And then he takes the needle out. I start to get VERY hot and am about to pass out, so they put some ice on the bacm of my neck and give me a minute to come back down. They also gave me some IV zofran to help with nausea and some IV sedative for the pain Thankfully it passed. But that wasnt even the difficult part.
Next, they have to make sure the dye gets into all the crevices. So the doctor rotates the table to different angles and has you try and bend in specific ways. It was incredibly painful to do. When he had me in an almost standing position, and the pressure of the dye was increasing my leg pain beyond anything I had experienced so far. It was really difficult. But once they are satisfied with the X-ray that shows the dye has spread well, they send you to the CT scan. Once I was laying down again the pain subsided and I was feeling better. They did the CT scan and then rolled me back to the recovery room, and by the time I was back in there I was feels 100% back to normal and had no issues getting up and walking. So that was that.
The image results were very telling (gunna try and include them here or in a comment if I can). The point of this type of imaging is that the contract dye with spread anywhere that the CSF can go. You should be able to clearly see the space all around the spinal cord, and if there are spots where you don't see the dye, you will be able to see what is causing some problems. It was plain to see how severe this herniation was. It was compressing my spinal cord and pushing it all the way to the back of the spinal column.
So the doctor said we have two options. A microdiscectomy or a fusion. We decided to do a MD though I would be okay with a fusion. Well guess what, two days before the surgery the doctor changed his mind and said that after reviewing the imaging again the best course of action would be to do a fusion. I was very excited for that.
Part 7: The Fusion
So at the end of Feb 2024 I had my fusion done. It was your standard surgery, nothing too crazy. Recovery was tough though. Basically with a fusion, they take out the herniation and most of the disc and they put this rubbery block in there that contains bone graft. That is what is going to grow to fuse the two vertebrae, but that process can take a year to fully fuse the bones. So they put in four screws, two in each vertebrae, and join them together with rods. This holds the bones together completely so that they do not move independently. They are essentially fused at this point, but only with the rods.
For recovery, the first couple days were difficult, mostly trying to stand up from laying down because I had like no low back strength. The pain was also pretty constant so I was taking a lot of muscle relaxers and narcotics to help me stay asleep as much as possible.
The surgery area was quiet large. There were two large bandages and two small bandages and the entire area was covered in a large adhesive patch to keep everything clean and dry (it was also very orange from the iodine). So I could shower without worrying about it. Within two weeks I was moving around a lot better. I might have stopped using my cane at this point, though anything that required me to reach forward, like washing my hands at the sink, was difficult because it would require back strength. By 2 weeks, the bandage had because really really frustrating. The huge adhesive patch was causing my skin to become itchy and irritated, and I could see they I was starting to develop some red bumps like pimples underneath. Thankfully 2 weeks was the point I could remove it (after my first follow up call with the doctors team). So I took it off which was not easy. The whole area was soooo sticky, I tried to remove a lot of the stickiness with either rubbing alcohol, soap, or Vaseline. I was able to get a lot of it off but some stickiness still lasted for several days. There will tiny bandages over the incision sites that covered the stitches and those would eventually all fall off themselves. I had two larger scars at the top where they did most of the work of cutting out the disc and putting in the graft, and then two tiny scars lower down where I assume they put in the screws for the lower vertabrae. My back does not look pretty.
I started PT at four weeks was doing better but still had a weak back and was very cautious with my movements. Did PT for 12 weeks and made a lot of improvement. I was back to how I was. The fusion 100% fix the issues that this new herniation had caused, and it was such a relief to finally have a procedure that was totally effective. However, the back pain that I had already had for many many years was and is still there and I am still not certain what is causing it.
Part 8: Now
I am about 20 weeks out of surgery and am still doing great. I still do not use my stimulator and don't plan to, but having to get it removed would be a really huge pain. I have started to actually go to a gym again and life weights to stay active. I am mostly convinced that this low back pain I still have is really muscle related, caused by the years of instability, and that I can address it by strengthly my core muscles and following my PT exercises. I think a lot of these muscles issues, like trigger points, can mimic sciatic symptoms. Knowing what REAL sciatic symptoms feel like again, this pain doesn't feel like I have a herniation pushing on my nerves. So I am going forward with that in mind and trying to deal with this pain muscularly.
As for the fusion, I don't notice any new limitations in my movement. I avoid rubbing the area because I could feel the rods if I rub it hard enough. But I feel normal. I had a follow up with the doctor with another X-ray and everything looks great. I am hoping that this can be a turning point for me to really live as close to a pain free life as possible.
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2024.06.09 17:30 dracoxhwir [offer] loving, caring and genuine gfe <3

hi! hope you’re doing well. i’m really bad at this so i don’t know where to start so here are a few of my interests: writing, reading, art, craft, swimming, gardening, movies, anime, travelling, long walks etc. im just a full time uni student trying to earn some money on the side to pay for my bills.
i understand that the gfe thing comes with a lot of judgement from some people but i promise you, this is a judgment-free zone.
you’ll have your safe space with me. i’d love to have long discussions with you on various topics, watch movies/shows together, send each other selfies or just listen about your day. i’m a good listener and if you’d like, i can give you advice too. if i click with someone, i care about them a lot and i’m not here to just do this with anyone but with someone whom i have a connection with. i want both of us to care for each other and have a lovely, unforgettable time together. so, i really hope we click. connection is very important.
i think the most important quality in a person is honesty and kindness. i try to inculcate them in myself too and i hope so do you.
i want this to be a genuine, authentic and beautiful experience for the both of us.
have a great day! xx
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2024.06.09 17:30 ChrystalV1123 Flutiful for bucket drums?

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2024.06.09 17:30 IntrovertMoTown1 My mostly ICUE driven battlestation

My mostly ICUE driven battlestation
My current battlestation in my PC gaming/spare bedroom. I call it my blue is soothing battlestation. I wish my phone's camera was better at accurately recording light. The color is off. Oh well. Most LED and that's most by a WIDE margin, is being run off of Corsair's ICUE. What isn't is the first neon rope above the mini fridge. Little lava lamp under the TV. G 815 keyboard. (How I got low profile fully backlit "pudding" keycaps for it here) G 502 X Plus mouse. Extended mousepad. Wall Hexigons. Wall lights above the black light Tool banner. All other LED including the 2 other lava lamps I modded LED rings into, the 2 desktop lamps under the portable AC. (Those had RGBW LED strips I yanked and replaced with ARGB strips.) As well as the 24v neon rope above the TV. (If any are interested in how to get 12 and 24v products to work off of Corsair's 5v controllers, I did a write up here.) lol I've made soooo many Corsair adapter cables which is actually fairly easy to do and drops the price to around only around a couple bucks per adapter. I'm happy with how things have turned out.
Full PC specs.
Anidees AI Crystal XL Pro case
Z490 Asrock Taichi MOBO
I7 10700K
32GB Crucial 3600 Mhz DDR4
Gigabyte Aorus Master 3080 TI
2 TB Adata M.2
2 TB Kingston M.2
1 TB Samsung Evo SSD
ASUS Xonar Essence STX sound card. (lol Yes it's "ancient" but it's still WAY better than the onboard sound despite the MOBO being Asrock's 2020 flagship. It has audiophile quality parts)
240 Arctic Liquid Freezer II AIO
Corsair RM850X PSU
I forget the Chinese brand, 5 inch touch screen HDMI sensor panel.
23 fans in total. 2 120 Arctic. 8 120 Corsair LL and 2 140 QL. 2 little Noctua 60mm on the outside on the empty PCIe slots and over the vertical GPU vents. 3 140 Noctua Chromax. 1 140 Nocuta Redux 1500. The rest are 120 Noctua Redux 1700.
Sound is Sennheiser 598 headphones. Mic is a magnetic attachable Antlion Modmic. (I only stick it on the Senns when I need it.)
Cablemod extensions on the 24 pin and the 2 8 pin EPS.
For the lighting in the PC.
8 Corsair LL and 2 QL
4 400mm Phantek neon strips
6 400mm Airgoo neon strips
Infinity mirror I had made up at Aliexpress. (Was going to be the sound card's backplate but I decided to side mount it instead.)
Thermaltake Pacific R1 RAM cover
Galax AIO vest
3 8 pin Lian Li strimer
Single 12v RGB LED "bubble" GPU brace
And finally, 1 partridge in a pear tree..... :)
Lighting mode running on everything except the fans is Alex Krastev's Aquamarine profile only the colors are modded to blue and white. Fans are running ICUE's pong mode.
These are all my Corsair controllers. 10 of the Lighting Node Pros are mounted outside the PC under the desk. Their power is from an old 650W PSU from an old PC. It was too underpowered for this build so I figured I might as well put it to use. USB is ran to hubs and then to the back of the PC. lol It's suuuuuch a rat's nest down there but it's "managed" enough that you can't see anything unless you lean down there at least. Or at least it was. I have to clean up the back again. I cut a bunch of zip ties off when I recently moved the 2 lava lamps. The jumper needed to fool the PSU into thinking it's getting a case's power signal is ran to a switch I mounted on the desktop. So I don't have to reach down there to turn it off and on.
https://reddit.com/link/1dbwete/video/0nfv0nmj9k5d1/player
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2024.06.09 17:30 RobertoHelvenky64 Stream Deck Mobile Do not show disconnection popups

I have a use case for stream deck where I need to force close and reopen the windows application due to it not update a plugins data properly. Whenever I do so I get a connection lost error on my mobile phone that I manually have to click through. Would it be possible to make a feature with a toggle in the settings that would disable these pop-ups and attempt to Auto reconnect to the same computer?
I believe I get the popup because the socket is closed. Here is the full message:
Connection lost Ensure Stream Deck is running on your computer, and your mobile device is on the same network (posix code 54)
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2024.06.09 17:30 Secret_Experience_47 Switched from Ointments to Cream & Finally have relief from hand eczema/atopic dermatitis symptoms

TLDR: Finally symptom free of decades long battle with hand eczema with a sustainable routine of rotating 2 wks clobetasol CREAM with 2 weeks elidel (pimecrolimus) CREAM after not getting fully clear from clobetasol ointment and protopic ointment. Used hyphoclorus spray and topical probiotics to initially reduce redness. Use Neutrogena Norwegian hand cream for moisturizing after treatment and throughout the day after hand washing.
Photos: atopic dermatitis hand eczema Pictures are from a few years ago and from a middle-place of healing before i started the creams to show that the ointments helped but were not every able to bring me to a place of full healing.
Long:
I've been on/off steroids and various treatments over the past two decades for severe hand eczema/atopic dermatitis. Broken, itchy, cracked/fissured fingers. It was extremely debilitating.
I've spent the last two years trying to treat this with more intention after being unsuccessful so often in the past. I had little to no results after months of treating with clobetasol ointment so I ended up doing 6 weeks of UV light therapy. Light therapy really did help, but it was extremely expensive and very time consuming so I stopped. The eczema came right back when I stopped (I stopped in summer thinking the nice weathehumidity might keep it at bay for a bit... but, no). During the light therapy time I was continuing to do 2wks on of steroid ointment, 2 weeks off.
The only relief I really ever experienced from the steroid is when I would apply the ointment under a band aid (this is very much not recommended but it would close the fissure though would not help heal the patchiness or itching so the fissures would just come back.
Around this time I tried applying elidel cream that I had leftover from my face (perioral dermatitis) and found it very soothing. I didn't have much left, but my dermatologist told me I could use that during breaks from steroids. Unfortunately my insurance changed and I needed to find a new derm and the elidel cream quickly ran out.
Visit the new dermatologist several months later and my eczema and perioral dermatitis are both back and flaring up (yay me!). I visit a new dermatologist and I tell her my expericene with the elidel. She says protopic (tacrolimus) will be better as it's stronger, but it only comes in an ointment which again she says is better.
I begin religiously doing 2 weeks clobetasol ointment 2x a day then 2 weeks protopic ointment 2x a day. I also switch to Neutrogena Norwegian Hand Cream per her recommendation which is truly great (in the white tube, I did get a fake one in a blue bottle once from Amazon so be careful).
Still having a lot of symptoms and started learning about treating this as a staph infection here and other places. I bought Hypochlorous acid spray and topical probiotics and started a round of strong oral probiotics. I did see an initial drop in redness and itchiness that was so exciting! Those additions did not help completely clear it up, though at this point it's the best it's every been except for after the light therapy.
"The best it's every been" was still quite a bit of symptoms though with regularly appearing fissures and cracking patchiness, and at my follow up the derm basically said I needed to slather ointment on my hands and then sit around with socks over the ointment to help it absorb.... Um, no thank you! Progress photos are from this time.
I asked about creams and she said ointment was better but if I insist she'd let me try clobetasol cream.
I did 2 weeks on the cream and the results!! So good! I tried the old bandaid trick on a particularly bad part and had to remove it within minutes because it was burning my skin. So, clearly the cream is being absorbed better into my skin as the ointment never once caused discomfort when I applied a ton of it and put a band aid over it.
I called the derm and asked for elidel cream instead of protopic (weaker than protopic, but I'm having such good results on the cream steroid that I wanted to try a cream in those off weeks as well and I want to stay with the recommendation to only use steroids for 2 weeks at a time.
My hands are nearly completely clear! I have no fissures and the most stubborn patches have been mostly resolving.
I wanted to share my experience here as I came to reddit so many times during my journey looking for experiences. I just wanted to share in case this can help someone else!
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2024.06.09 17:30 Thenebean17 Have vs Need 1v1

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2024.06.09 17:30 smallsjess13 Trading

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2024.06.09 17:30 lolalolagirl Colored Gemstones Jewelry

Colored Gemstones Jewelry
This is not a post about why you should stay off Etsy. In fact, this post may send you looking there because it can be a goldmine for inexpensive, simple, colored, gemstone jewelry.
I'm like most of you, dreaming about buying rings I've never even seen in person so, I can't really tell you how I got to the point where I knew I wanted a 9x12 green stone either in moissanite or a sapphire, but I said, "Self, don't be an idiot and spend a chunk of change on a stone you have no idea what will look like." So, with the encouragement of Ninifer, u/nifer317, who maybe said something like, "My cart is full of Etsy.' was enough encouragement for me to head over and search for a green sapphire, loose or in a ring. I read so many moissanite horror stories here on Reddit that I hadn't even bothered to spend any time over there, but trying to find colored gemstones on AliExpress did not yield what I was looking for so over to the dark side I went.
I didn't find any green sapphires that I fell in love with, but I found a number of vendors from India (gasp) who sold teal sapphires. Cue to me reading every single review on a number of vendors before settling on Kandu from KandusKeshwarCreations whose reviews demonstrated that initially he had some challenges with shipping, but he always worked with his customers to ensure his products got through. He now does tracking with his products so after they arrive to the US, you can track them. All of my purchases arrived within a few days of what was expected so I was content. Although, I did purchase some gemstone rings from other vendors, and I was happy with all my purchases, I was most pleased with the purchases from Kandu's store.
I started with I a teal Dutch marquise 7x14mm ring, 9mm earrings, and a 7x9 pendant (all photographed together in the last photo) all together costing me under ninety dollars. They arrived well made, sturdy, and beautiful. I packed them up and sent them to my nephew's fiancé for her bridal shower. To say she was happy was an understatement, she was thrilled! Huge points for Auntie!
I then commissioned Kandu to make this ring for me for a shockingly low price, $38, a 9x12 teal oval sapphire ring with double prongs and a band 2mm wide. Indoors, the color looks more emerald but under the brightness of the sun you can see the blue coming through. And unlike an emerald, being the klutz that I am I can wear it and knock it about, swim, garden, and do the dishes without having to worry about damaging the stone. I know I'll need to take more care in the future, but I'm still learning!
I was quite taken back by the color of the stone on this ring when it arrived. It is so rich and like the emerald I have so saturated. My green moissanite ring I purchased, reflects light so differently and I prefer the sapphire for the ring I had in mind. It's such a wonderful color and the light that bounces around is just fabulous. I know this is just an inkling of what a sapphire can look like, but it was enough for me to want to commit for my ring.
The faceting pattern of this oval is simplistic, a bit different than what I'm accustomed to seeing, but the color is still sensational. If you are looking for advanced faceting, you'll need to invest more money with another vendor. If you love color, this is the store for you! Kandu has so many beautiful gemstones pieces in stock tourmaline, sapphire, ruby, tanzanite, spinel, topaz, lapis, alexandrite, peridot, Amythest, garnet, onyx, citrine, ametrine, and more for $25-$40 and if you can't find what you are looking for, message him. He was so easy to work with. I purchased another pendant and earrings and am thrilled, also in teal sapphire. He has some great small baguette rings, dainty east to west pears, and for those who love huge chonking rings, he has those too.
So, for my next step, I've put money down for a precision cut forest green sapphire from Jim Budday, u/shinyprecious, who heads shinypreciousgems. Be warned before you head over to that sub, you will never look at colored gemstones the same and your jewelry budget just may balloon. All of the stones are precision cut which means the gems are shockingly beautiful, just stunning, small pieces ready to be made into wearable art! My only thoughts now are, is 9x12 going to be big enough and wishing I had enough money to buy a sapphire that would just cover my entire hand
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2024.06.09 17:30 nwrafter [W] [US-MA/NY] U.2 Server or Backplane

Hi all!
Looking for U.2 compatible or upgradable servers. Further Details below
Got an opportunity to grab some 1.2tb micron SSD with a U.2 interface, there over kill for my purpose but a great price. Looking for 4-8 drive bays, with compatibility, internal or external. Any option so feel free to send the most overkill or the most realistic. I will be considering Any option so feel free to send the most overkill or the most realistic.
Building a small server for storage and long-term archival of projects. Original goal was about 2-4 TB of rapid access SSD, and 40tb of HDD archival “cold storage”. Goal was single machine to simplify install, but maybe that’s not possible with the U.2 drives🤷
Thanks!
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2024.06.09 17:30 Thinks_of_stuff Interesting. Wonder if this still exists, hiding in someone's basement.

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2024.06.09 17:29 smallsjess13 Trade?

Trade?
Play MONOPOLY GO! with me! Download it here: https://mply.io/gnZ_Mw https://mply.io/gnZ_Mw
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2024.06.09 17:29 4Silenx 31 [M4F] Nerd looking for Nerd in Germany

I'm 31. 1,95m tall, a bit chubby, wear glasses, have short brown hair and have a full beard. A very Introverted guy who likes video games, plants and japanese culture. I'm very quiet at the beginning, don't drink and smoke and not a party person.
I've been suffering from mental health issues for several years and don't have a job.I mention it directly because it would put most people off.
Have no interest in casual stuff. Nerdy personalities are preferred, but not a must. I live near Frankfurt in a small Village. Feel free to text me if interested.
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2024.06.09 17:29 Visible_Intern4672 [REQ] ($325) (#Poughkeepsie,NY,USA) (Repay $400 7/15/2024) (Venmo, Zelle, Cash app, apple pay )

Feel free to message me to ask any questions, I can send anything including pay stubs for a potential lender to feel secure with the loan. I do have a current loan out and have been granted permission by the lender!
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2024.06.09 17:29 xalttInc What should be my approach ?

So me and my co-founder are developing an app, connecting service professionals to consumers basically a marketplace where consumers can find all services professionals, like barbers, tattoo artists, photographers, videographers, massage therapists and alike.
Along with a presentation as a pitch, I am sending it to service professionals asking them to "Join the Prexi" on the website, which means, filling a simple google form which helps us develop the app tailored to the needs of service professionals.
The aim is to get at least 100,000 sign ups. So i started reaching out to service professional influencers, asking them to help us spread the word in return to the free access of lifetime Prexi which otherwise would be around $25 a month. After sending instagram messages to at least 150 influencers i got two uninterested replies. But then after this, I thought of directly messaging service professionals and ask them to fill out the Google form and also attach the presentation telling them what we are building. After sending around 100 messages again i got three google forms filled out. The reason i can think of is that our instagram for the company has like 2 followers and 5 following which makes us look like a spam account. And it doesn't feel right buying fake followers.
So how should i approach problem and able to reach the aim of 100,000 sign ups? The product that we are building is the best, and probably will be launching this month or early next month. All our resources are deployed towards the development of the platform so that's why we were trying to barter.
And about our social media experience, me and my co-founder none of us has a social media account other than Linkedin and X so our approach may sound naive when you read it. less
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2024.06.09 17:28 Timeset_VC Flashback - Shady Joe’s Guide to Spotting a Fake Vacheron Constantin

THL, 17th of September 2007 by Shady Joe
There are some essential questions in life which rarely find an answer: "Where do I come from? Is there life after death? Can I wear brown shoes after 6 PM… is my Vacheron Constantin watch a fake?"
Seems like the last question of the list is a fashionable one here on The Hour Lounge and to help all those stressing about the genuineness of their watch and without further ado please let me introduce “Shady Joe’s Guide to Spotting a Fake Vacheron Constantin” :
1) The watch is a gift: if the watch was given to you by a grandfather, neighbour, grocer etc… chances are that it ain’t the real McCoy. This is the real world guys and chances that someone gives you a $10,000 plus gift just because you are you (no matter how well dressed you are) are remote!! Rule n° 1 does not apply if you helped your uncle Ned get rid of his nagging wife…but if that’s the case don’t settle for anything less than a perpetual calendar (a minute repeater would be de riguer if said wife had subscribed a substantial life insurance policy).
2) You had the deal of a life time: Imagine you see a restaurant offering you a full three course meal of caviar, lobster and cappuccino mouse topped with a Chateau Lafitte all for $15? Would you have any kind of suspicion that what you may be eating would be closer to meat from a hairy rodent (recently heroed as a chef in a cartoon) than what is advertised? Same with a VC!! At $200, $500, $700 etc… the guy selling you the crap is getting a good deal not you.
3) Unnecessary indications and useless push pieces: I know that it is very trendy to have useless inscriptions on the watch dial such as: automatic, chronograph, limited edition etc… but often on fake watches the counterfeiters are kind enough to go out of their way and actually print a users’ guide on the watch: so if you have a watch with quarters, minutes, tourbillon, chronograph, repeater, espresso machine written on the case back or on the dial, be warned! If you also have push buttons like a chronograph but there are no chrono functions…yup you got it, the watch is fake.
4) You bought the watch from Shady Eugene’s “Buy 2 Get one Free” shop: try to always buy from an authorised dealer or a reputable second had source. Always remember that you are not only buying the watch but also the seller and if the later has a shop downtown selling, cameras, TVs, kitchen appliances, post cards and watches, that should put a doubt in your head. And when he plunks the watch on the table and tells you that this is a “Vacheronne Constanteen and its better than a Rolex” then run out of the shop, don’t walk… run….
5) Rust and scratches are not part of movement finish: A huge part of the cost of a high end watch comes from the manual labor and a rusty, scratched up ugly movement is not a new finishing technique but just what it looks to be: a butt ugly cheap movement!
6) The funky case shape and wonderfully unique dial does not mean your watch is a valuable ultra rare timepiece: Vacheron Constantin designers never decided to take a rectangular watch and squish it on its sides and make the case look like a Cesar compression, nor did they decide to copy a Journe dial and place it on the watch. And if it was a unique piece then check to see if Rules 1,2 and 4 above apply.
What you should do: do your homework first, check VC’s web site or ask your question here BEFORE buying! And most of all if you have a doubt don’t buy. The rule of thumb being if it’s too good to be true then it ain’t….true!
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Further details and samples
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2024.06.09 17:28 Deep-Freedom8271 31 [M4F] #Houston, Texas Looking for long-term that leads to more

As the title says, I'm looking for something long-term that eventually leads to something more permanent. I prefer someone close, in or near Houston, as I'd much rather talk in person than over the phone.
About me: I am white, 6'1 with a slight dad bod. I spend my free time playing video games, shooting guns, and dreaming about cars. If I find a good book or TV show, I'll sit down and read or watch the whole thing. I prefer living somewhere more rural as opposed to urban. Politically, I am moderate, but lean more conservative. I am religious as well. Raised southern baptist, but don't go to church anymore.
Biggest deal breaker for me is kids. I want kids one day. Not immediately, but eventually. If you already have one, that's not an issue.
About you: close(ish) in age (maybe 25-35, not set in stone), non-smoker, and confident in what you want.
And while I'm not getting any younger, I'm not looking to rush into something. If you want to talk or know more, feel free to DM.
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2024.06.09 17:27 hallmt [GA] Previous employer asking me to resubmit travel expense report in their system.

I left my job on May 24, 2024 for a new position in another organization. I had been planning an out of state event and had already booked nonrefundable travel (their policy), so I decided to stay an extra week beyond the standard two weeks notice to attend the event and help out so I wasn’t leaving them in a bind. I returned from the trip on a Thursday, submitted my travel expense report first thing Friday morning with the help of the department’s travel expert, and was fully off boarded that afternoon.
I’ve been monitoring my checking account for the $370 reimbursement, but after not seeing it for 2 weeks I reached out to my previous supervisor. She informed me that my expense report was rejected because of policy changes the organization made on June 1, a full week after I off boarded and submitted the report. She then looped in the travel expert and IT to grant me temporary employee level access to the organizations travel system to update the report.
The only action that needs to be taken is updating one field with a new code. All other information in the report is correct. I do not know what the new code is because I never had to use it and left before it was officially implemented. Because I have been off boarded, I do not have access to the files with the new codes to update the expense report in their system. When I tried logging into the travel system with the temporary access, I was prompted to scan a QR code and download an authentication app to retrieve a code. I do not have a personal computer at home to do this and have already sent my computer back to them, so it was really difficult to do on my phone. I eventually gave up and was not able to get into the system at all. I asked if the departments travel expert who is still working there could update the report and submit it on my behalf. No one responded to my request and others on the email continued to send me instructions on accessing the travel system.
The travel expert regularly submits these expense reports on behalf of external people, so I do not understand why this person will not complete this for me. External people whose travel is sponsored by the organization are not given employee level access to the travel site and do not submit expense reports.
At this point, I have started my new job and have spent approximately an hour of my personal time trying to resolve this issue. I feel that by giving me employee access to their system and asking me to update information that was correct while I was employed there, they are treating me as if I am still an employee. At the same time, I really need this reimbursement because it has really thrown off our family budget this month.
My next planned step is to reach out to the organizations HR to get help resolving this but I am not sure if this would be a bad move. I had a bad overall experience working there, so I am concerned my attitude towards this situation is biased. I am not sure how to proceed in a way that is fair to me and reasonable. I welcome any advice.
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2024.06.09 17:27 snugglies [SELL][US to US] Arcana, Poesie, Moonalisa, and many more!

Hello! I am selling mostly full-size bottles. Everything is full and only tested a few times unless otherwise noted. Shipping is $5 for USPS First Class. Please comment to claim, and I will send a PayPal invoice. I will ship within 4 business days. Below is the list, please see my spreadsheet for notes and comments! Thank you for looking!
Bundle Deal! Spend $50 and shipping is free!
Here is the link to my spreadsheet.
Alchemic Muse
Alkemia
Arcana/Arcana Craves
Area of Effect
Moonalisa
Nocturne Alchemy
Osmofolia
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Poesie
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Stereoplasm
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2024.06.09 17:26 jadehaf they’re now selling individual guitar tabs for RTYWD

they’re now selling individual guitar tabs for RTYWD
don’t know if you’ve already seen it but yeah
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2024.06.09 17:26 LivingintheFreeWorld Good morning. I need Happy Stroll and True Idols. I have Beatboxer and Washboard Tunes.

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