"One handed cartwheels" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: body

04/09/11 05:57 - ID#54005

One handed cartwheels

I can finally do a one handed cartwheel again. Next step: roundoff, back handspring.

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03/31/11 05:00 - ID#53950

Orange Tongue

My tongue drama continues. Ever since I got this new fake tooth ny ears have been ringing, my nose has been burning, my throat is sore and my tongue turned orange.

You can see that the porcelain tooth replacement is really just a cheap nickel tooth covered in porcelain and not covered very well.

Its hard to tell just how orange it is based on the pic with flash.

I guess other people have had similar issues.

I am so tired of this tongue freakshow in my mouth. I wonder what causes it. Do I have some underlying fungal infection.? Am I allergic to the cheap metal in my tooth?

I wish I could just start my life over and ate no candy from the beginning.

JakeBoston writes at 09:04:25 06/29/13 - Comment #70088: I know this post is a couple of years old LoL I'm not sure if you ever solved your "orange tongue" problem, but I felt I should share my advice... This is actually Xerostomia, or severe dry mouth. I have the same problem from a medication I take so I never sweat. If you had your tooth replaced rather recently from this photo then it is more than likely caused from the procedure and since the metal is more exposed it has drying properties. The location of the tooth can't be replaced with only a porcelain tooth because it would break too easily since you always would chew with it. I do not think it to be a good job of the dentist having the metal center exposed, this seems to only be a fitting issue though, so it could be easily remedied with one return visit that should be free. If the Xerostomia continues then your solution would be drinking more water, sugar free hard candy or gum, or what I use and is a Godsend is a product that the company Biotene makes called Dry Mouth Gel. It is a minty gel you place on your tongue and apply to your gums evenly. It is amazing. Also, never use any mouth wash with alcohol and use a fluoride rinse such as Act. And buy a tongue scrapper. All of these can be found at any drugstore or grocery shop and are all less than $5. Hope you solved this issue already man I know how terrible it can be.

flacidness writes at 02:34:14 04/02/11 - Comment #61585: My goodness paul. Can you feel it on your tounge?

tinypliny writes at 07:25:30 04/01/11 - Comment #61539: What were you eating? Maybe its not fungal infection... maybe its cheetos...

tinypliny writes at 07:24:53 04/01/11 - Comment #61538: Maybe it's an allergy to the metal. It looks like allergy compounded by a fungal infection. Fungi are usually vivid crazy shades... but I am stumped on why you are getting the infection in the first place. Maybe it's an allergy -> inflammation -> loss of function -> infection -> orange tongue cycle.

Have you ever had this orange tongue or geographic tongue symptoms BEFORE you got that nickel plated tooth?

paul writes at 01:38:52 04/01/11 - Comment #61533: I had all the metal ones removed in 1998. There were 11 of them. I had them replaced with the resin. They lasted a good 10+ years and some need to be refilled. Our insurance only covers metal fillings in back teeth according the my dentist. I said I would just pay the $300 to get the resin ones. Anyways, this was a different problem. I was told the cavity could not be filled and the tooth needed to be sawn off and replaced by a porcelain crown. What I thought was a porcelain crown turned out to be filled with metal. I can see the nickel colored metal at the gumline and it has a nasty metal taste. I think at this point it might be impossible to remove it without loosing the roots.

fing writes at 12:04:55 04/01/11 - Comment #61532: Did you get the poly-resin filling? I had several cavities as a kid and sometimes they get bad again. I have them filled with poly-resin which takes a while to harden but I don't think it uses any metal. From what I understand it bonds better with your tooth too.

uncutsaniflush writes at 05:49:53 03/31/11 - Comment #61530: I hope your mouth/tongue/teeth get better fast. Stuff that would drive me crazy.

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Category: body

03/21/11 08:59 - ID#53890

Bound Feet Are Insane

I had heard of Chinese bound feet but never realized what exactly it was until I was watching this documentary about Albert Kahn

where they had some early 20th century film of women walking with bound feet.

So I looked it up on wikipedia

- I just could not believe how totally deforming it was. I thought it was just bound as in toes pulled together or prevented from growing. Instead it is totally broken and reshaped in many ways. It looks kind of like high heels shoes on the outside and kind of like a pig hoof.

It was generally an elder female member of the girl's family or a professional foot binder who carried out the initial breaking and ongoing binding of the feet. This was considered preferable to having the mother do it, as she might have been sympathetic to her daughter's pain and less willing to keep the bindings tight. A professional foot binder would ignore the girl's cries and would continue to bind her feet as tightly as possible. Professional foot binders would also tend to be more extreme in the initial breaking of the feet, sometimes breaking each of the toes in two or three separate places, and even completely dislocating the toes to allow them to be pressed under and bound more tightly. This would cause the girl to suffer from devastating foot pain, but her feet were more likely to achieve the 7 cm (3 in) ideal. The girl was not allowed to rest after her feet had been bound; however much pain she was suffering, she was required to walk on her broken and bound feet, so that her own body weight would help press and crush her feet into the desired shape.

I took this picture from the wiki article references above. It seems hard to imagine this.

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Category: body

02/12/11 11:31 - ID#53593

dropping pounds

When I had stopped working out in August, I had gotten past 160lbs. When I weighed myself this morning I was 151. I refuse to go back into the 140s. I guessing I need to make the decision to work out again I will surely end up back at 145.

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Category: body

12/11/10 03:36 - ID#53236

Starting to wonder...

If I am going to die from this plague. I can't wait till my dermatology appt on Wednesday. It seems so ridiculous that I have money and health insurance and its taken two weeks so far before I can see a dermatologist.

Everyday I think its going to start going away and it gets worse. In a way it does seems like the original ones are fading but new ones are coming in places I did not have them before.

paul writes at 01:22:39 10/05/11 - Comment #65341: Oops I was wrong, it was not before the tongue thing. The red tongue thing started around 05/2010, 7 months before this. Its the painful tongue followed by the orange tongue that started after this.

paul writes at 01:18:35 10/05/11 - Comment #65340: Until I put this timeline together tonight, I never realized that this 3 week body rash from hell happend directly before the tongue issue started.

tinypliny writes at 11:30:53 12/23/10 - Comment #59908: Its SO unfair that you didn't post a follow-up yet!

tinypliny writes at 11:30:14 12/23/10 - Comment #59907: WELLL??? What did he say??? Come on! You have one faithful reader here who REALLY wants to know what the dermatologist's opinion was??? What was the diagnosis?? How are you now?? Has it gone down? Has it worsened?? Forget about the indirect inquiring minds... I WANT TO KNOW!!!

metalpeter writes at 10:48:19 12/12/10 - Comment #59655: Hopefully it is nothing serious, but what (e:libertad) said is true..... Sometimes it might not be a skin issue it is an infection issue that shows up on the skin... With out being a doctor I'm guessing that you being allergic to cats and other animals means you are having some kind of reaction to something you don't know about ...

tinypliny writes at 12:22:56 12/12/10 - Comment #59639: It's a kind of paint that is lightly applied and dries on your skin in a pinkish thin shell that you can just flick away later. But yeah, all that hair might be a problem. There seems to be many lesions where there is no hair, though.

Did you recently buy and wear some new sweater or maybe an animal origin coat of some sort... maybe cashmere or wool?

Also CMV/EBV may sometimes have very uncharacteristic presentations... I can't be sure. Do these bumps lose their reddish color/blanch when you press them? Are they tender when you press them?

paul writes at 11:03:04 12/11/10 - Comment #59637: (e:tinypliny) - I feel like taking two benedryl is way easier that trying to work any sort of liquid into chest hair. (e:libertad) - I figure at this point I might as well wait for a specialist.

libertad writes at 10:09:28 12/11/10 - Comment #59635: You could go to an after hours clinic. You don't have to see a dermatologist for skin problems.

tinypliny writes at 07:47:34 12/11/10 - Comment #59623: If you can get lactocalamine topical solution to apply, you could wean youself off benedryl. It is anti-pruritic (anti-itch).

paul writes at 05:21:12 12/11/10 - Comment #59620: No I don't scratch them. None of them have any broken surface. In fact they don't itch too much anymore and when they do I take benedryl which I am slowly becoming addicted to.

tinypliny writes at 04:42:47 12/11/10 - Comment #59618: btw, the mortality in dermatology wards is close to zero... unless it carcinogenic, which I think, its not.

tinypliny writes at 04:35:53 12/11/10 - Comment #59617: Are you scratching that area? I hope not. Maybe you should try an application of lactocalamine solution if they are itchy.

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Category: body

12/08/10 08:47 - ID#53224

Frickin rash illness from hell

Like two weeks ago I had this first spot on my arm. I thoight it was a bug bite. After a few days I got another then it spread all over my chest and neck. At first it was super itchy but bendryl helped figuring it was an allergy. Then days turned into weeks and it now seems like its not an allergy. I use hypoallergenic everything to start off with and I've introduced nothing new.

Now I think its pityriasis rosacea. It fits the description very well with hive like welts that have a cigarette papery center. Trust me I have researched like every skin condition under the sun and it seems the most plausible. They radiate out like a Christmas tree if looking at me head on. The unfortunate part is that takes a long time to go away. Here are some links

So I have money and health insurances but it seems like every dermatologist has a months long waiting list and no idea about anyone else to call. Luckily, I made a dermologist appoint for next week about 4 months ago just to get some moles checked out. Here is to forward thinking or being psychic.

And more luckily, thankfully my boss let me work from home while it was really bad this week.

The lighting in the picture don't really do it justice in terms of the redness.

The watery drip in this last pic is really just a water drip not some blister.

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11/11/10 01:36 - ID#53090

Back to 150lbs

I quit the gym back in August and since then I lost the 15 lbs I had gained over two years. I guess I was really meant to be 150. Here is the the blog where I had just crossed 150lbs (e:paul,45837) going the other way. And here is where I was at the weight I want to be but can't dedicate myself to maintaining (e:paul,51035)

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07/16/10 02:23 - ID#52179

Not eating sucks

For my stupid crohn's checkup I cannot eat for 24 hours. Unfortunately, the last time I ate was lunch yesterday and then a bucket of movie popcorn that (e:enknot) bought on the way home from Thursday in the square.

Now I am starving. This is just about impossible. How on earth do people diet? I am so hungry that all I can think about are high calorie snacks. I have taken to chewing up potato chips and spitting them out.

Today is so totally wasted because I don't want to do anything that takes any energy as it will just make me hungrier. I can, however, drink clear liquids and found that the wegman's branch lechee ice tea is amazing.

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07/11/10 10:31 - ID#52152

you cannot tell me carrot top is not on steroids.

I have this buddy who wants to look like him. I makes me throw up a little bit that carrot top would ever be a reference for what anyone wants to be. sorry, carrot top but you have taken the body modification thing too far and are starting to look like Marcia Cross and not in a good way.

jenks writes at 11:20:05 07/18/10 - Comment #57386: ugh. i hate that guy.
I hope those pix are photoshopped.

enknot writes at 10:58:18 07/15/10 - Comment #57312: This pic of carrot top is probably right after a work out and yeah he's prolly on drugs but what ever.. This guy is awesome he's taught me a lot for free and he deserves a plug: :::link:::

mk writes at 08:10:26 07/14/10 - Comment #57294: Wow...those pictures are horrifying...

metalpeter writes at 06:36:28 07/13/10 - Comment #57287: The Last time I saw Carrot Top (at the fair) he was bult then you could tell, oh yeah shirt coming off was part of the act somehow.

He Was Funny

being in shape has always been part of his act, he runs around and does all sorts of stuff, I'm sure with making all the stuff that helps keeps him in shape

So he looks a little crazy, it isn't like he looked normal before

In Terms of the face one should know that working out heavy and getting bult up like that does change the looks, look at all those body builder guys.

I don't think he is on roids, Hormones maybe? His face looks like how women who get really big look (Chyna, Nicole Bass), I'm not a pro but I suspect that is a hormone thing.........

mike writes at 11:07:30 07/12/10 - Comment #57276: I am disgusted by noone in the world as much as carrot top, this is just the topper on the disgusting nauseating carrot cake

tinypliny writes at 05:48:51 07/12/10 - Comment #57268: I am with (e:KeithT) in establishing a separate category for pushing the limits with the body under some medical ogling. If they want to do it, they must be prepared for the attention of all the researchers out there.

tinypliny writes at 05:46:43 07/12/10 - Comment #57267: You have to admit he has the perfectly shaped brows, though. I am willing to bet that's not because of "roids" but maybe a skilled threader.

enknot writes at 05:21:24 07/12/10 - Comment #57264: your sick (e:keef).

but so is this dudes fucking abs! Seriously. How many ladies out there aren't like "ooh, but that would be fun with cooolll whhhhip on it"

ok and a paper bag on his ridiculous head.

that's all I'm saying.

Ok and about the insecurities thing (e:jason). I work with a lot of people who make a decent living and instead of spending their cash on roids, or even a gymbership they spend it on mountain dew, by the the 3 liter, per day. that's gross. maybe he has an image problem (cosmetic surgery on your face kinda mails that one home), but then so do most women, most of them wear make up and choose clothes to hide some part of their unperfected bodies. I guess then you can fault everyone since I've gotta a fatty days hoodie chillin in my closet too.

At least he's trying to make his improvements a little more "real".

gawd he looks like a freak. I wonder if he's funny anymore.

KeithT writes at 09:41:17 07/12/10 - Comment #57258: Hahaha people may still mock him. Though I bet not directly anymore lol. That guy is massive these days! Remember when he used to be a skinny guy?

Im all about people using roids if they want to. Even in the olympics, but I think it should be a seperate class or league of some sort. Can you imagine the jumps in medical tech with people willing to do anything to their bodies to win? I can just imagine the head lines "Germany Wins High Jump at 26 feet 8 inches"

jason writes at 11:41:57 07/11/10 - Comment #57257: Poor Carrot Top. Using roids to mask his insecurity. Even in making an improvement he is mocked. Definitely unnatural, definitely.