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Putty?! I only have a crown for a front tooth, but I don't remember putty being used. This all sounds terribly painful and messy.

 

Also be careful when you get them, you might end up in this series of antics:

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Hmm, strange, I'd say the dentist needs to have a mold of your teeth before they can accurately recreate one for a crown. Perhaps the procedure is different for front teeth than molars?

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I'm not sure where to put this, but since it involves intermittent itchiness and hives, it might as well be here.

 

It's probably silly, but I'm going to post about it here because I would honestly, seriously like whatever advice that anybody could offer on this.

 

I work in a small studio, in very close proximity to my boss. My boss has developed a habit (in the last six months or so) of consistently and repeatedly making a heavy breathing / gasping sound. 

 

Before I go any further I just want to point out that I know this is stupid. I've tried articulating it to my parents, my friends.... the response is always the same; just a smile and a shake of the head. But to me it's profoundly irritating. My friends don't have to sit next to this guy for seven hours a day, five days a week, in a quiet office. 

 

Anyway! Recently I've been getting some nasty symptoms; constant breakouts of itchy hives, heart palpatations, etc. I went to see the doctor about the itchiness, her diagnosis was that my body was reacting to stress. So the question then became, what's causing it?

 

The workload is fine, nothing I haven't dealt with before. Relationships and general life stuff is going as well as it ever has. So that only leaves this issue with this breathing thing. It's hard to articulate just how irritating I find it. The best way I can describe the sound is, ''mouth fart''. He does these ''mouth farts'' dozens of times every minute, like he's just finished running a marathon. But he's just sitting at a computer. It's easily the most audible, noticeable sound occurring in the room at any given time. 

 

I've taken to wearing large headphones and blasting white noise into my ears to drown it out, but it's sort of getting in the way of work. 

 

So the question is, do I say something to him? I can't imagine how to articulate it in a way that would be tactful or helpful. He's my boss.. I don't want to drive a personal wedge in like this. I just know the response will be ''I didn't know I was doing that, I guess I can't help it, sorry''.

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There was a story about this on the guardian the other day. Some people have a condition called misophonia which makes hem hate certain sounds irrationally. I always thought my aunt was a bit odd about us crunching food, but a lot of what was said in the article describes her exactly.

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Antidepressants can help with misophonia, at least to the degree that depression makes misophonia much much worse.

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My jaws and hips are so sore these days. Waiting on appointment from rheumatologist.

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Ok after a couple of days trying to paint again I'm suffering from what I call "Artists Claw", I grip my brush waaaay to strongly and even with doing stretches for the tendons in my hand every 40mins or so after a full day of brush work my hands are often aches as all heck, (particularly my thumbs).

So do any fellow readers have any tips or tricks for avoiding this?

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Are you making all your motions from the wrist or fingers?  Try warming up with loose motions that come from the elbow or higher and see if you can incorporate that into your painting.

 

I get death-grip aches when I write too "tightly," i.e. controlling the pen entirely with my fingers/hand/wrist; part of learning Spencerian and other hands was to spend some time trying to break that habit (it didn't completely work).     

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Your artist's claw sounds like my "soldering thumb". I get it after doing any real amount precision work on electronics, and it effects whichever hand I'm working with the most. I can luckily switch hands for most things, but I can only solder with my right and it sucks. I actually use my girlfriends cramp pillow (like a weird cloth tube filled with either rice or beads with some aromatic whatever in there.) You microwave it for a couple seconds, and it's a nice warm, heavy and form-fitting weight, and the heat helps the aching. I'm not actually certain what they're called, but I do know that they are sold to help with menstruation cramps and such. I bet a sock filled with rice, heated and folded over the base of your thumb would do about the same thing. (Make sure the rice has time to cool first.)

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Ok after a couple of days trying to paint again I'm suffering from what I call "Artists Claw", I grip my brush waaaay to strongly and even with doing stretches for the tendons in my hand every 40mins or so after a full day of brush work my hands are often aches as all heck, (particularly my thumbs).

So do any fellow readers have any tips or tricks for avoiding this?

I know this seems obvious...but why such a tight grip? Im a painter as well and keep my grip really loose pretty much at all times. Seems like a death grip would kill flow

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So, the doc rang to tell me that my celiac antibodies were up. I have to ensure that i eat gluten for the next few weeks so that i don't mess up whatever the specialist tests me for (probs a biopsy). I eat very little gluten as it is, not through any attempt to do so, but because i don't like the taste of many wheat products - bread, pastry, pasta (not too bad, but i rarely have it) in particular. When i get a crepe, i get the gluten free option because buckwheat is so much tastier than regular. I like rice noodles much more than wheat ones. Is there anything else i can eat to make sure i'm getting gluten into my diet? I just checked the kitchen and my cereal bars don't have any wheat, and even my stock cubes are gluten free. I think my best bet is pasta, but i will get bored of it so quickly. Cake is probably a good option.

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Cookies, maybe? Breadcrumbs or batters on other items is another option.

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I'm going to the nurse tomorrow, i think i'll ask her for a note saying i am doctor sanctioned to drink beer.

 

Breadcrumbs are a good idea. maybe i'll make like chicken parm or something!

 

oh god, or KIEV. YES.

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Bread. Get some nice stuff from a bakery. I can't believe you'd turn your nose up at some freshly backed warm baps

Get some sourdough or like an olive loaf or something.

Iced buns! Doughnuts!

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Maybe I'll try and make my own bread or something. I did that once!

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Well, saw the specialist yesterday. Biopsy next week (Everything is so quick when you go private...). She is pretty sure i'm celiac based on my blood work and symptoms. Oh well.

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Damn, sorry dibs. :( Hopefully the biopsy brings better news.

 

Oh well, who likes gluten anyway? Every time people get gluten free snacks for a party I end up eating them because they're usually genuinely good.

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Damn, sorry dibs. :( Hopefully the biopsy brings better news.

 

Oh well, who likes gluten anyway? Every time people get gluten free snacks for a party I end up eating them because they're usually genuinely good.

 

I live on gluten. Sucks that you have to have an actual negative response to gluten, but at least you're in fashion now Dibs. 

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So, I have to eat as much gluten as i can before the biopsy on Wednesday (Aside: i'm eating a lot of nutella on bread which hides the bread flavor). I though, oh, if i can't have gluten anymore i'll go out with a bang, so i decided to get a M&S coffee cake (delicious) and basically just eat that all weekend. The only coffee cake they had in M&S was gluten free>< Super glad it is there, but exactly what i didn't need at that moment! Whats the bets they will be sold out when i desperately need one and i go to get one next weekend^^

 

I'm so glad i can cook for myself though, it will make life so much easier. I found a thread asking "is soup gluten free?". How do people survive?!

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"Hey, we think you might be allergic to gluten. EAT AS MUCH GLUTEN AS POSSIBLE."

 

Curious medical advice.

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Coeliac disease symptoms only happen in response to gluten in the diet. If you don't have any gluten, then you don't have the antibodies and the intestine damage goes away. I've have the blood test before, but it was negative, possibly as i eat not much gluten in my normal bread hating diet. To diagnose you need to aggravate the condition by loading up on gluten. They call it the gluten challenge and it is not very much fun. I have a pain in my belly for 2 weeks now and waves of bloating and nausea:/

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