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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Yes. Severe sleep apnea for years. Getting my CPAP for testing real soon now that I've been diagnosed... A third time. Long story. First time was not severe enough, second time my psycho ex said if I start sleeping with a CPAP, I better find another bed to sleep in and now I'm gloriously single and nobody can tell me to keep killing myself because the near quiet him of the CPAP is annoying.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

Just waiting for it to turn off by itself, one way or the other.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

I'm at the point where fixing me is impossible and I just keep going until I break down entirely and get sold to a scrap yard

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I actually used this to explain a concern of mine to my wife. We had a Subaru Forester that had some minor but expensive issue that kept the check engine light on, so we ignored it. And because of that missed something else that made the engine 'splode (not literally, just turned the SUV to SCRAP). About 8 hours from our house and two hours from the nearest rental car agency (and no trains). With our daughter in the back and me needing to be at work the next morning.

Anyway, I was talking about how everything hurts a bit, and because of that my general pain tolerance is way higher to the point I don't notice most of the time I'm hurt. Like the check engine light on the Subaru.

I imagine cancer is going to come along and when I find out at stage four, people will wonder how I possibly could have put up with it up to that point without going to the doctor. And I'll say I didn't even notice it.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Some people do be like that. My grandpa went to the doctor for a checkup because of pneumonia and they told him about his heart attacks that he'd just quietly had at home.

Needless to say, he didn't have much longer after that.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My entire life up until last year. Turned out to be biochemical gender dysphoria. Estrogen straight-up fixed it for me.

Your body knew

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, until I found that when you start ignoring the lights as a habit, at some point your body and brain just stop doing stuff. I got myself in a burn-out by ignoring tiredness, stress, and all kinds of random issues. Please listen before you get yourself there, it's not very easy to get out.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is so true. I worked at a callcentre for two years, doing crazy shifts for more money, with lots of overtime and short weekends...it was my first job. I liked the money and because I was young and stupid, I wanted to prove myself and did way more than I was paid for.

The people that worked there for many years saw it coming and told me to take it slow or else I'd burn out. I ignored them and the signs my own body gave me. When I was tired, I went to the coffee machine and made myself a triple espresso. "Here we go again!"

Then came the day where I tried to go to work and just...stopped functioning. I sat at my desk with the headset on and couldn't do anything anymore. I never felt so tired in my life and fell asleep on the toilet in the company bathroom. I still remember my dad driving me home and falling onto my bed, but not a lot else.

It took 1.5 years to get my energy back and the first few months are just a blur. I must've slept for weeks, with the occasional toilet breaks and some snacks in-between. Worst of all, I never regained all of the energy I had before that happened. Burnout is a bitch and what I did back then will follow me for the rest of my life.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I once had to take a test to "rule out cancer" and just ignored it for like a year. It wasn't but damn was that stupid as fuck.

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, turned out to be a brain tumour

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really hope you make it somehow

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No worries, it was benign and I had a gamma knife operation, but it's in a place where it can't be surgically removed without doing damage so it's just there.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

Glad you get to stay, and witness the apocalypse with us!

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Long as my oil remains fresh I'm good

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Juicy vagina keeps you running?

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Indeed it do

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is smoke coming from the engine compartment.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If only a diagnosis was as cheap as a $20 scan tool...

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Incidentally the first visit to a specialty doctor is 20€ and subsequent visits are free so that's about how much it costs here.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mine told me a cam sensor was having an issue, but the car's been driving like it always was and hasn't had an issue in almost a year.

(Watch my car explode now that I've posted this)

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bad cam sensor doesn't necessarily disable the vehicle but a bad crank sensor usually does. Bad cam sensor just means you're going to waste sparks.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's also not something you can just ignore. Eventually you'll damage/destroy your engine.

Cam position sensors are cheap and generally easy even for a beginner to replace, so if I were you I'd stop putting it off and just get it fixed.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Eh that depends on how the system is set up. If injection isn't based on the cam position at all, no real worries. If the car also needs precisely timed injection, you're in trouble. Variable valve timing and stuff will probably complicate this as well. I don't think I've ever had that in a car, my petrol engines have mostly been old beaters where the timing system is much simpler.

Personally I drive a common-rail diesel. It wouldn't even start with a bad cam sensor I suspect, because it needs to know the exact moment to inject fuel straight into the cylinder. But then my old Chrysler 300M was a car that, in my case had a bad crank sensor (so needed to be replaced for sure), but a lot of the guys who had bad cam sensors just kept driving till they got the new part. Which often took time.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have lots of sparks to give ✨️ Thanks for the info!

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More like "I can't afford to do anything about it, and the guilt tripping from that light is slowly driving me insane as I keep expecting the other (brake) shoe to drop any second now..."

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

My right elbow been in pain for months and can't afford the doctor. When this happened to the left elbow I did have insurance and saw the doctor. He just said your old and that was it. Like what the fuck! No xrays no checking for anything. So even if the lights on it wouldn't matter my doctor would just shrug and say eat better or some shit.

Think this is common how people end up with stage 4 cancer and didn't know. Because doctors don't fucking listen to their patients when they feel bad.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then find a new doctor. There are plenty out there seemingly just in it for the money, but there are enough decent ones that it's worth the hassle of going through several until you find one that actually takes your seriously. It's definitely a needless PITA, but the end result is what matters most.

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[–] Bonus@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

It's metal grinding on metal! You must have heard the noise for miles.

Yes, and...?

That's because none of us in the US have healthcare.

[–] Jikiya@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I do not think it will be fine. I just hope i can keep it together until my children are adults. Can imagine it hard core sucks to lose a parent as a young child.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago

I think it died, now I'm driving around as if I have unlimited gas and cocaine

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Check blood vessels, check large intestine, and check heart lights are all on and flashing angrily.

I think the "ohfuckwe'redeadadeadmanwalking" alarm also blares out at least once per morning.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I finally went to the doctor after decades of crippling shoulder & back pain. I know how to rehabilitate it myself, but what the world won't give me is TIME & MONEY to rehabilitate so I'm taking the official -medical-records-and-doctor's-orders route so the government & IRS & whoever the fuck is holding me as a slave to capitalism ...will grant me time & resources for physical therapy & stop buckling under this pain.

Ever since I turned 35. I’m not even worried about the check engine light anymore, that’s normal. A few other lights is OK too. As long as they don’t all turn on.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure there's a flat but I'm just.. I'm just driving in it.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Eh, that's a feature.

It’s not a real problem, you just gotta know how to drive it right, learn how to make it work, it’s not really broken, it’s fine…

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

CEL is usually emissions. Just fart, you'll be fine. If your CEL is flashing though, get yourself checked out, cuz you about to explode.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I'm waiting for the light to burn out so I can stop actively ignoring it.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I check the engine fairly regularly, and the mechanic says nothing's wrong, but it still feels like it's running kinda funny…

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps it is the road that is the problem --Krishnamurti, probably

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All the road is broken, my car twice broken, twice I goes mechanic, he say 500 euros. I go left, right

Tap for spoilerI'll buy the first person who recognizes the reference a beer

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like maybe Group X?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

It's actually an ancient Estonian meme translated into English (of course, Estonian grammar being as complex as it is, the full depth of the grammatical errors is hard to convey in English)

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Only every goddamn day (I have chronic pain)

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