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Exactly. It's similar to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: You cannot listen and do anything else simultaneously. Do you also have CAPD?

Merle,
I got to get me one of them chairs. Take a few spins for me to day.

I meant to respond to the multi-tasking and wife in the ear thing. When dh talk to me while I'm writing I many times won't stop because I "lose" the story, but I will feed it into my story. That happens with many things distracting me. They just get fed into the story and so do my responses. The funny thing is that when I took writing classes, those were the things people found made the story "real." LOL Thanks hubster!

I definitely have the multi-tasking issue about some things. Other things like work - I can keep track of 20 projects at a time and never lose my place or confuse them. Mine is isolated to my interests mostly.

Merle, I'm up and down too, in a brief 'up' right now. Ironically, for being in the computer biz, I have no clue about sound cards either. A week ago my video card failed & I put the old one back in so the machine would work, but: since then I've had no sound at all from it. And I realized, I don't miss it. Pop-up ads have sound now, besides movement - that is so annoying! (Yes, I distract easily; dx ADD.)

I can only attend to one thing at a time! But my sister can watch tv, do a crossword puzzle and converse all at the same time. I figure she has more channel capacity (aren't women's corpus callosum a lot better than men's...?) I really value quiet - I stopped watching tv decades ago and hardly ever have music or radio playing. And now the computer's silent; I can hear the ear ringing. And the birds outside, too; I like that.

[After looking it up: Central Auditory Processing Disorder] Maybe! I do avoid noisy places cuz I can't distinguish what people are saying...

Driving alone I'm fine, but when my kids are with me and they talk to me, I let the car slow down - and they complain, "Why are you driving so slow?"
It's because part of the brain I need for driving is distracted: it's safer to slow down (or don't talk to me.)

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Does anyone know anything about the vagus nerve or wandering nerve? Dictionary says: either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves arising from the medulla and supplying chiefly the viscera esp. with autonomic sensory and motor fibers. I think this is the crux of most of my symptoms.

That's definitely true of me and people that ride with me comment on it. Only my dh doesn't do that to me because he doesn't talk that much.

Sounds plausible to me. They should ask us what we think. They'd be further ahead with research. I always get so amused when the shrinks try to figure us out. They get stuck in the symptoms that they completely misread from their NT point of view and end up making things worse with their "interventions."


UBBY stick to your brain child and ignore them!! !! !!


We know more about ourselves than anyone but God forbid they would ask us anything. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ <yawn>

"I was cured all right."

Let me ask, how do you all keep up with this thread? I think we're adding 2 or 3 pages a day, and I don't get to do this every day, so it can take me a long time to catch up, so that I know what we're all talking about... And then I want to address a few things, so I make much longer posts than most (and I go back and edit a lot, so two people reading my post at different times will read somewhat different things... probly not a good idea.)

I just figured out what "dh" is: dear husband. (right?)


A great quote from a great movie!

I have to admit I was a bit put off by the same thing. But the only thing to do is jump right in, read a page or two, and post away!! ! Not everyone here in the Cafe responds to what is being discussed, so feel free to simply throw out a topic, or statement whether anyone is chatting about that sort of thing or not.

(Hope that helps.)

I've kept this smallish, so I hope it won't freak anyone out too much (it freaks me out quite a bit!)

It's fairly close to what I perceive when a full positive scotoma is going, assuming that you stare at the centre of the image, although it should be in some way "brighter" and "faster", except that it's also simultaneously not bright at all and completely static. (Hey! This is my brain talking - do you expect sense?)

Ideally, you might want to stretch the image out across your screen


I've also left a bit of space round it so you should be able to scroll it offscreen fairly easily.







OK?

That's pretty good. Mine are white, blue and yellow. Mine are also on the lower left, not the upper left of what I see.

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It means something like dear husband or darling husband.

That quote is from the book as well, although Burgess actually didn't end it there. They took out the last chapter in the version printed in the States. I like it better that way, but the author didn't.

Had to look it up. I'm slightly dislexic, I thought, till I looked that up. Geezus, I have so many letters after my name now, do I need more? Humor aside, I hit the majority of the "signs", so who the hell knows.

I don't know all that seems to be a malfunction, what over laps, what is seperate, what doesn't really exist, but I can think of a time when it was present and any other combo of stuff one can point me to. I do know this, when asked what do I want out of the med route, it took me 9 months to figure out the answer, 3 visits. One is to get the brain race under a more managable point and that seems to be on a good route, finally. The thing I have to weed out now is, am I drugged. Now that statement is loaded to say the least. Of course I'm drugged and this s**t works so minutely, so under the covers, sutule (sp, CAPD, or lack of practice? lol). I just need to get out from under the drugged feeling, I'd rather be under medicated, then over. There are certain things I won't give up, obsessions being one and to an extent I don't want to loose the brain race, thinking comforts me, umm that's a loaded statement too. But a little more peace in my life, less swings or easier going swings would be nice. The effect, so far, from this med, keeps me from the deep depressions, but the swings are still there, I don't mind little ones, but I don't want to go back to the mind numbing ones that leave me in a bad state for months on end. AS, well I've made it this far with it and maybe a few more coping skills to help out ones that have failed me now, might be nice, but what the hell, I've made it this far. I have been adding valium on a more regular basis and it seems to be cutting the anxiety down, I just didn't reailize how keyed up I was over the normal course of any given day. Less severe swings and a little peace, to sum it up.

Oh and they were warned along time ago, screw my wife, hit my dog, but don't mess with my coffee. I still look at all this as a gift, it is even more apparent to me as I have come to know you all. Believe it or not, even having Hep C is a gift, it may or may not get me, but I have faced my end and I know what I want to do with my life becasue of it. I want to make a better cup of coffee today then I did yesterday and I want to smell it better then I did the day before. Just wish I could remember to drink it before it gets cold, lol. One would tend to think you should rush around and see it all, do it all, before it gets you, much to my surprise the opposite is true. It also reminds me of an old attitude when in the army, when butting heads with the system, go for the throat. After all, what can they do to me? Draft me? I put a dirty cop into the fetal postion, when he went after my daughter with cop games, told em I was doing them when his mommy was wiping his butt, also added some other things, but was later warned not to mess with him, oopsie too late. They wouldn't want to draft me again, I'm their worst nightmare. Hell of it is, I would feel guilty about it, but would still do it and meltdown later because of it. They hated me when I was in, but I think the only thing that kept the lifers away from me was I saved a guys life, they seemed to respect that. Weird people, just did what most should do, but don't. I don't know where that trait comes from, but it happens all the time. Maybe becasue I don't multitask, he was on my mind and that was it, inspite of doing LSD at that minute. I was too embarressed to even say hello to his parents when they came to see their son and his sister was a knock out, what an idiot I can be. Some you win and when you loose one, it tears me up inside. Humans, I don't understand them and I don't like too many.

Humm, I think that was too much information. Sheezus, get me to talk about myself and I don't shut up. I don't learn very well I guess. And my coffee is cold.

Lau, that would be a "floater" to me. But I've never looked, like you really can't without looking to the side, at them for a color thing. Humm it would be like me trying to kiss my own ass (still working on that and closer, Merle) I'd need a microscope to get it into view better. But that shape is common for me to see, among others. Your verbal discription doesn't make it sound like the same thing though. I mean as a floater. Is that in somewhat of a proportion? If it is, then it would be a mighty floater. My migraine fringe is what is called an optical. Starts in one corner of an eye and migrates to the others corner. No pain. Tunnel vision is about as close to it as I can come. It can be so bad as the only way to see, is to look at things to the side of them. Even though I know what they are now it freaks me out big time. Vitaman E can stop them from occuring. They always last 20 minutes and will, when they're in a cycle of them, come at about the same time everyday, unless I break them up with E.

Too late. When I see DH now I think of the baseball term Designated Hitter.

Thanks, Professor, that helps.

Lau, I've had a very few "visual events" that looked like that, when my blood pressure was too high (and I think a bit too much ritalin, too.) Each time it started small, gradually grew to the approximate size and shape of a caterpillar, rippling and glowing, pulsing rythmically. You've captured the look of it very well. It would obscure what was behind it, and took maybe 15 minutes to go away.

??? So the American version is missing the last chapter? Please tell me what's in it.
Did the movie include that last chapter? (No, it ended with that quote, right?)