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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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art-thropologist

This is pure art.

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For those curious, this was taken at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No DAPL protests in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The photograph is titled “Defend the Sacred” by Ryan Vizzions. I did not find the name of the subject on horseback.

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Her name was  Marissa Blacklance. #Dakota38 rider, & front line water protector at Standing Rock. She was killed by a drunk driver in January of 2018.  Her mother is using this tragedy to make changes benefitting our community with the Yellow Scarf tribute. 

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idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

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One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

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scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

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As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

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One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

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Hi! I know some things about using OTC medication for pain management, because I have chronic migraines and I didn’t have anything else to treat them with for most of a year.

1: ibuprofen, aspirin, and sodium naproxen (NSAID) are good at reducing inflammation but aren’t quite as effective for pain that isn’t inflammation (for migraines specifically, I find ibuprofen and aspirin don’t help much and often give me rebound headaches once they wear off so I don’t use them for migraines. I *have* found sodium naproxen helpful for my migraines tho and I would definitely recommend ibuprofen for pretty much any pain that is caused by an injury)

2: NSAIDs all get filtered out of your bloodstream by your kidneys. Taking too much of one of them, or taking more than one at a time, will put extra stress on your kidneys. If you have kidney problems I suggest you be extra careful with these and talk to a doctor.

3: Tylenol / Acetaminophen isn’t an anti inflammatory medication but it is useful for treating most any kind of pain. It is the go-to OTC for treating migraines and period cramps specifically, they even make specific pills that combine Tylenol with caffeine and other stuff specifically for the purpose of treating those specific things (excedrin for migraine, midol for period cramps).

4: Tylenol gets filtered out of your bloodstream by the liver. Taking too much can stress or damage your liver. If you have liver problems I recommend you be extra careful with Tylenol and talk to a doctor. A quick google says that it’s safe to use Tylenol and alcohol at the same time, assuming you do not do both everyday or in excessive quantities. If you’re an alcoholic, you should avoid using Tylenol very often (like, once or twice a month is probably fine, three times a week is probably not)

5: taking Tylenol with an NSAID is safe and is a very common pain management strategy for post surgery pain (take one, take some of the other before the first one wears off so you aren’t in too much pain before it’s time for another dose of medication 1, keep going like that until you don’t need to anymore)

6: how much is too much? More than the amount recommended for you based on your age and weight in one day, or if you use them more than half the days in a month (aka if you use them 15 or more days per month). If you’re at this point, you should see a doctor about your pain management options (and hopefully deal with whatever is causing you to need pain management so often). I am NOT saying that you should not use those medications if you need pain management that often, just that you should be aware of the risks and hopefully look for other things that can help so you don’t stress your system out too much.

7: it is worth noting that quite a few of the prescription pain medications are actually Tylenol plus something else, because the Tylenol can and often does make the other thing work better than it would alone. It is entirely possible that a doctor might tell you to take Tylenol every day if that is going to be better for you than the pain.

8: Pain is bad for you. Like, even if you have a high pain tolerance and ‘you can take it’ it’s still bad because pain is a physical stress on your whole body and too much stress IS NOT HEALTHY. Your pain doesn’t need to be unbearable to be worth treating, if you have pain, please do something about it. Pain is your body’s signal that something is wrong and you need to do something about it. Sometimes, especially if you have chronic pain, the pain itself is the thing that’s wrong and the inherent stress of pain can harm you all by itself.

9: how can pain itself harm you? I would like to say that I categorically do not know all the ways it can hurt you, but I do know for a fact that pain can and WILL raise your blood pressure (which can be a problem), and chronic pain can and WILL cause depression, anxiety, and PTSD like symptoms at minimum and give you those conditions at a clinically diagnosable severity at worse (not worst, the worst is if your pain drives you to suicide, which it can and does do to people). No I am not joking about chronic pain giving people PTSD, chronic pain is inherently traumatic in my opinion. It’s basically long-term torture that doesn’t (usually) have a human deliberately causing it, but torture nonetheless.

Even if you aren’t sure about the above paragraph, it is still self evidently true that pain occupies brain space and uses mental energy that you would probably prefer to be using on something else.

Treat your pain. Your suffering does not help anyone, especially not yourself.

Since I am not above using a little gentle emotional manipulation (of saying true things to make an emotional appeal to action) to convince people to be kind to themselves: I love you, random person on the internet, and I do not want you to to be in pain, especially if you can avoid it. I am sad, right now, thinking about all the people who feel like they should tough out their pain for whatever reason, and I am not the only one. Please don’t be one the people making me sad.

So take your fucking medicine.

amtrak-offical

Anonymous asked:

It's more expensive for me to take your train to university than to fly. What's up with that?

amtrak-offical answered:

Planes are subsidized incredibly heavily compared to amtrak, additionally we are required by law to become profitable but have to rent tracks and must keep all routes open (I support this part but it does hurt the profit goal).

amtrak-offical

There is more I want to add, airports are almost always public usually either city or state owned, and will never make a profit outside of maybe Louisville and Memphis. This is important because it means that air companies are significantly cheaper to run with the fact that they only need to pay for labor, planes and feul, which significantly cuts costs, meanwhile trains have to run on tracks which cost money while air is free and amtrak has to rent to them for even more money and thestations are all also owned by amtrak, all of this means that without full rail nationalization rail travel can literally never be profitable on its own.