Guest guest Posted August 24, 2002 Report Share Posted August 24, 2002 Hi Morningside and others, I agree with morningside. We are here to learn all we can, and try all we can. We are all big boys and girls. We can sift through sales pictches and links without it being a big deal. If it gets to be too much, that's why we have a delete key. I read through one of the explanations about the links and it's just silly. We can NOT get a virus just from opening an email that has a link in it. We can ONLY get a virus from downloading an attatchment. I have been on many lists for various reasons and I have been online since the beginning of the internet world. I have never caught any viruses in my computer. I do NOT open attatchments from people I don't know or trust. If I do want to open an attatchment from someone that I don't know well on one of these lists, I go into yahoo and view the pics from the yahoo website. Then the pics are being opened on their computer and not my computer. I am not downloading anything so I don't get a virus. All the people running around online telling us to beware of viruses are just causing undo panic. Sure email viruses do exhist, but they are always transferred from one computer to the next by downloading a specific infected file. We are not downloading anything just by reading the text part of an email. I wish I had a nickle for every time I tried to explain this to my husband. If we are not supposed to put links through on this list then so be it. It really doesn't matter to me one way or the other. If everyone is going to argue about it I may just unsub and look for a list that is not full of rules. There are many lists out there with no rules at all and they seem to run smoother because people aren't all caught up in bickering about the rules. This is not to say that I want to be inundated with sales pitches either. I have belonged to many companies that sold vitamins. Every company has their reasons for why they believe their vitamin is worth the high cost and why their vitamins work while most others don't. Most of these companies want to convince us that the other over the counter vitamins we buy just don't work and are passed through our systems whole. Why not just let people have a signature line or 2 or 3 sig. lines so that we can choose if we want to ask them for more information? Personally I want links to good sites. I joined this group because I want to get armed with all the facts I can about this illness. I thought I was going crazy for years and I never understood why I was so plauged with annoying illnesses. It's been hard to be always sick and never outwardly sick. To be considered healthy by the doctors has been an annoyance to me. If I am so healthy why do I feel so lousy? Wow that sounds like the title of a book doesn't it! LOL It feels good to finally have some information that just may explain everything. To imagine that all my problems could be tied to one illness. I firmly believe that there is a common thread and that there is a pathological reason for all of this. Just because they haven't found it yet doesn't mean it doesn't exhist. When they finally find the cause and the tests can be done to find out who has it and who doesn't, then we will be on the verge of a cure. You know another thing...sorry for rambling, but I don't know if I buy this mental attitude thing or not. I do believe that our own mental attitude can help in any healing proccess, but... real illness exhists. How can we be trying to get the world to stand up and recognize our symptoms as being real and not imagined, and then buy into the concept that we can think ourselves well? Is it in our head or not? I have read that some people believe that this illness is a result of our not being able to cope with stress. Again, that just sounds like another way to blame us for being sick! Anyway I don't want to step on any toes either. If any of you are on any Fibro lists that allow links and stuff let me know. I am not selling anything and I am not fond of just for fun stuff or jokes dirty, religious or otherwise. I just want to be free to pick and choose what I read without running into useless bickering or baseless rules that cause uneeded strife. take care Suzi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 24, 2002 Report Share Posted August 24, 2002 Hi Morningside and others, I agree with morningside. We are here to learn all we can, and try all we can. We are all big boys and girls. We can sift through sales pictches and links without it being a big deal. If it gets to be too much, that's why we have a delete key. I read through one of the explanations about the links and it's just silly. We can NOT get a virus just from opening an email that has a link in it. We can ONLY get a virus from downloading an attatchment. I have been on many lists for various reasons and I have been online since the beginning of the internet world. I have never caught any viruses in my computer. I do NOT open attatchments from people I don't know or trust. If I do want to open an attatchment from someone that I don't know well on one of these lists, I go into yahoo and view the pics from the yahoo website. Then the pics are being opened on their computer and not my computer. I am not downloading anything so I don't get a virus. All the people running around online telling us to beware of viruses are just causing undo panic. Sure email viruses do exhist, but they are always transferred from one computer to the next by downloading a specific infected file. We are not downloading anything just by reading the text part of an email. I wish I had a nickle for every time I tried to explain this to my husband. If we are not supposed to put links through on this list then so be it. It really doesn't matter to me one way or the other. If everyone is going to argue about it I may just unsub and look for a list that is not full of rules. There are many lists out there with no rules at all and they seem to run smoother because people aren't all caught up in bickering about the rules. This is not to say that I want to be inundated with sales pitches either. I have belonged to many companies that sold vitamins. Every company has their reasons for why they believe their vitamin is worth the high cost and why their vitamins work while most others don't. Most of these companies want to convince us that the other over the counter vitamins we buy just don't work and are passed through our systems whole. Why not just let people have a signature line or 2 or 3 sig. lines so that we can choose if we want to ask them for more information? Personally I want links to good sites. I joined this group because I want to get armed with all the facts I can about this illness. I thought I was going crazy for years and I never understood why I was so plauged with annoying illnesses. It's been hard to be always sick and never outwardly sick. To be considered healthy by the doctors has been an annoyance to me. If I am so healthy why do I feel so lousy? Wow that sounds like the title of a book doesn't it! LOL It feels good to finally have some information that just may explain everything. To imagine that all my problems could be tied to one illness. I firmly believe that there is a common thread and that there is a pathological reason for all of this. Just because they haven't found it yet doesn't mean it doesn't exhist. When they finally find the cause and the tests can be done to find out who has it and who doesn't, then we will be on the verge of a cure. You know another thing...sorry for rambling, but I don't know if I buy this mental attitude thing or not. I do believe that our own mental attitude can help in any healing proccess, but... real illness exhists. How can we be trying to get the world to stand up and recognize our symptoms as being real and not imagined, and then buy into the concept that we can think ourselves well? Is it in our head or not? I have read that some people believe that this illness is a result of our not being able to cope with stress. Again, that just sounds like another way to blame us for being sick! Anyway I don't want to step on any toes either. If any of you are on any Fibro lists that allow links and stuff let me know. I am not selling anything and I am not fond of just for fun stuff or jokes dirty, religious or otherwise. I just want to be free to pick and choose what I read without running into useless bickering or baseless rules that cause uneeded strife. take care Suzi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 24, 2002 Report Share Posted August 24, 2002 Hi Morningside and others, I agree with morningside. We are here to learn all we can, and try all we can. We are all big boys and girls. We can sift through sales pictches and links without it being a big deal. If it gets to be too much, that's why we have a delete key. I read through one of the explanations about the links and it's just silly. We can NOT get a virus just from opening an email that has a link in it. We can ONLY get a virus from downloading an attatchment. I have been on many lists for various reasons and I have been online since the beginning of the internet world. I have never caught any viruses in my computer. I do NOT open attatchments from people I don't know or trust. If I do want to open an attatchment from someone that I don't know well on one of these lists, I go into yahoo and view the pics from the yahoo website. Then the pics are being opened on their computer and not my computer. I am not downloading anything so I don't get a virus. All the people running around online telling us to beware of viruses are just causing undo panic. Sure email viruses do exhist, but they are always transferred from one computer to the next by downloading a specific infected file. We are not downloading anything just by reading the text part of an email. I wish I had a nickle for every time I tried to explain this to my husband. If we are not supposed to put links through on this list then so be it. It really doesn't matter to me one way or the other. If everyone is going to argue about it I may just unsub and look for a list that is not full of rules. There are many lists out there with no rules at all and they seem to run smoother because people aren't all caught up in bickering about the rules. This is not to say that I want to be inundated with sales pitches either. I have belonged to many companies that sold vitamins. Every company has their reasons for why they believe their vitamin is worth the high cost and why their vitamins work while most others don't. Most of these companies want to convince us that the other over the counter vitamins we buy just don't work and are passed through our systems whole. Why not just let people have a signature line or 2 or 3 sig. lines so that we can choose if we want to ask them for more information? Personally I want links to good sites. I joined this group because I want to get armed with all the facts I can about this illness. I thought I was going crazy for years and I never understood why I was so plauged with annoying illnesses. It's been hard to be always sick and never outwardly sick. To be considered healthy by the doctors has been an annoyance to me. If I am so healthy why do I feel so lousy? Wow that sounds like the title of a book doesn't it! LOL It feels good to finally have some information that just may explain everything. To imagine that all my problems could be tied to one illness. I firmly believe that there is a common thread and that there is a pathological reason for all of this. Just because they haven't found it yet doesn't mean it doesn't exhist. When they finally find the cause and the tests can be done to find out who has it and who doesn't, then we will be on the verge of a cure. You know another thing...sorry for rambling, but I don't know if I buy this mental attitude thing or not. I do believe that our own mental attitude can help in any healing proccess, but... real illness exhists. How can we be trying to get the world to stand up and recognize our symptoms as being real and not imagined, and then buy into the concept that we can think ourselves well? Is it in our head or not? I have read that some people believe that this illness is a result of our not being able to cope with stress. Again, that just sounds like another way to blame us for being sick! Anyway I don't want to step on any toes either. If any of you are on any Fibro lists that allow links and stuff let me know. I am not selling anything and I am not fond of just for fun stuff or jokes dirty, religious or otherwise. I just want to be free to pick and choose what I read without running into useless bickering or baseless rules that cause uneeded strife. take care Suzi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 24, 2002 Report Share Posted August 24, 2002 In a message dated 08/24/2002 4:25:04 PM US Eastern Standard Time, suzimcmullen@... writes: > Why not just let people have a signature line or 2 or 3 sig. lines so that > we can choose if we want to ask them for more information? > Suzi, This is a good Idea..never thought of it. Allicia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2002 Report Share Posted August 25, 2002 That's what I say too. I say it's like the flu all the time w/o the vomiting, the achiness. Then you see the bulb in their head go off. lol. Jimi > > > Hi..I am curious as to how you all answer the question What is fibromyalgia? It seems that whenever someone asks me and I begin to talk about this illusive illness that creates widespread pain, fatigue, fogginess, and a host of other conditions...all of a sudden, I begin to notice their eyes glaze over. > > My quick answer to people who really don't *want* to know the details is that it's like having the flu every day and how tired/hurting you feel when you have the flu. That's usually enough to give them a quick answer that makes sense to them. For those who want to know more, I'll give them more details. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2002 Report Share Posted August 25, 2002 That's what I say too. I say it's like the flu all the time w/o the vomiting, the achiness. Then you see the bulb in their head go off. lol. Jimi > > > Hi..I am curious as to how you all answer the question What is fibromyalgia? It seems that whenever someone asks me and I begin to talk about this illusive illness that creates widespread pain, fatigue, fogginess, and a host of other conditions...all of a sudden, I begin to notice their eyes glaze over. > > My quick answer to people who really don't *want* to know the details is that it's like having the flu every day and how tired/hurting you feel when you have the flu. That's usually enough to give them a quick answer that makes sense to them. For those who want to know more, I'll give them more details. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 > > Terri, > > Strawberries are legal, but I would have to say that it seems more > people have allergies to strawberries than other fruits. I'm not sure > why. > > I would stick with what you know is okay for now. You said you have > an appointment on Monday, right? > > > Jody > mom to -7 and -9 > SCD 1/03 Yes, our appt. is Monday. I was wondering about the strawberries for myself, not for dd. I'm afraid to feed her anything more than pears at this point! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 > > Terri, > > Strawberries are legal, but I would have to say that it seems more > people have allergies to strawberries than other fruits. I'm not sure > why. > > I would stick with what you know is okay for now. You said you have > an appointment on Monday, right? > > > Jody > mom to -7 and -9 > SCD 1/03 Yes, our appt. is Monday. I was wondering about the strawberries for myself, not for dd. I'm afraid to feed her anything more than pears at this point! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 > > Terri, > > Strawberries are legal, but I would have to say that it seems more > people have allergies to strawberries than other fruits. I'm not sure > why. > > I would stick with what you know is okay for now. You said you have > an appointment on Monday, right? > > > Jody > mom to -7 and -9 > SCD 1/03 Yes, our appt. is Monday. I was wondering about the strawberries for myself, not for dd. I'm afraid to feed her anything more than pears at this point! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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