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I have a limb movement disorder that wakes me up at night and all the docs can do is prescribe anti-seizure meds or enough of a tranquilizer to help me sleep through it.

Often, I found the dosages were inadequate, and I'd take more than I needed.

Eventually, I started seeing other doctors and explaining my symptoms, but never asking for any specific drugs, just something to help me sleep through it. One med would either lose efficacy or I would need more than was prescribed.

I did this multiple times, stupidly.

On my last trip to my original doctor, he informed me I now had a record in my file of me going to other doctors for sleep aids multiple times, which was illegal (I had no idea, honestly) and now the state would have that on file. He said he would continue seeing me, as long as I no longer went behind his back. I assume the fact I filled each RX on my insurance raised red flags, or there is some state database keeping track of this stuff. He said I didn't need the DEA knocking on my door, so I said I'd stop obviously.

My fear now is that they may pursue a case against me anyway, even if my doctor is still willing to treat me. What are the odds of this happening? I am stressing out because the meds were sleep aids (controlled substances) and I hear that's a felony, but part of me is saying don't worry because they probably don't go after everyone for prosecution. Plus the doctor didn't advise me to get a lawyer or anything.

Forgive me, I am a wine guy and always have been.

I've been experimenting with craft beers and found I LOVE them and they have more differences in flavors and complexities than most wines.

But I've always heard beer that's allowed to get warm never tastes as good again, even when re-chilled.

My local liquor store has plenty in the cooler, but lots of their selection is also out on the shelf. Does being stored on a shelf rather than a cooler affect the taste of the beer once you chill it again before drinking? I just don't want to spend $15 on one beer and have it taste "off."

The bottles usually all say "store at cellar temperature" but I don't know if the store is actually AT cellar temperature.

Sorry if it's a stupid question. As I said, I'm new to this beer stuff.

A woman on a for sale group on Facebook was selling modified Amazon Fire TV sticks she had hacked to be able to get access to movies without a subscription. I called her out and said this was illegal and she said all she is doing is sharing an open source file and no movies are physically contained on the device itself so it is legal. I insisted it was not and she said it's only illegal if you download the movies and then told me to expect a summons in court for disrupting her sales. Even IF what she is doing is not technically legal, can she find me from Facebook and take me to court over being misinformed about copyright laws?

I sold an item on eBay that requested the buyer pay the shipping. I sold it for $500 and on eBay it sold for $513 because the buyer paid the shipping. My PayPal had $498 after they deducted their fees and I went to "Print Shipping Label" and it asked me to purchase the postage. I thought this was going to be deducted from my pending amount from the sale but instead it deducted it from my checking account. So did I basically just pay for the shipping myself when the buyer also paid for it? I'm so confused about why I was charged for it. If I was, then what is the point of asking the buyer to pay? I assume I did something wrong.

I started seeing a new doctor who has a horrible bedside manner and is incredibly rude. I have been searching for another caregiver but in the meantime I am still seeing him as he is prescribing my blood pressure and Parkinsons meds.

I have an appointment tomorrow morning which I will be unable to make for certain reasons and this doctor has a reputation for dropping patients who don't give the customary 24 hour cancellation notice. I am not concerned about him dropping me, but I have two refills left on my blood pressure and Parkinsons meds and I am worried he may call the pharmacy and rescind those refills just to be vindictive. If he simply drops me as a patient, I have two months to find another doctor before my meds run out so I am not so concerned with that, but if he cancels my refills I am in deep you-know-what.

Can doctors do this?

I have a copy of the Qur'an that appears to have been accidentally printed upside down. You have to flip the book the book vertically to read it and the book's cover is then upside down. I assume it was just a manufacturing error, but is this copy supposed to be "tainted" now or something?

A year or so ago, my sister was admitted to a mental ward for suicidal thoughts and was clinically depressed.

I did a spell for her to get her life back on track. Before, she spent all day in her bedroom and even ate dinner in there, never coming out and not caring for even basic personal hygiene.

Now, it is like I got everything I wished for in the spell but to an extreme degree. All I wanted for was for her to have some structure and a basic will to not spend 24/7 in her dark room. Now, she has become so responsible and structured that she drives me and my boyfriend (who live with her) insane. She cleans constantly and is a total neat freak to the point she will disinfect the freaking dog bowl before she puts food in it, not to mention what she puts me and my boyfriend through with her cleaning rituals.

She has become so responsible that she tries to organize MY life to the extent that she tells me what questions I should be asking when I go to the doctor to telling me what time I should leave the house to make it to dinner with a friend. It has become completely overbearing and she has never been this way in her entire life. It's like the spell worked too well. Way too well. Now she is so "on top of things" around our household and so rigid and perfect that my boyfriend can't even stand living in the same house as her and wants us to move. It is that bad.

Is this what happens when you do a spell for someone else?

Was there like a specific moment where you said "This is BS" in regards to religion or were you always an atheist?

I went to my primary doctor for panic attacks and he put me on Paxil.

Eventually I felt better and asked to come off the Paxil and he told me I could just stop taking it. I had been on it for a year at this point, and everything I have EVER heard about SSRIs like Paxil is that you do not just stop taking them cold turkey. I've heard it can actually be dangerous. Sure enough, I went through the withdrawals from hell that week and when I told him this, he denied it was the Paxil's fault despite everything I have read on the Internet saying otherwise, and I even asked my pharmacist and she said stopping SSRIs cold turkey is a big no-no. My doctor just said I shouldn't be having withdrawals.

So I made an appointment with another doctor in hopes he would be more reasonable and help me wean off the Paxil slowly. I told him who had given it to me originally and explained the situation, but then he apparently called the doctor who prescribed me the Paxil and then I got a call from his nurse saying he found out I'd done to another doctor and he no longer wanted to see me. She said he said I can just go to him from now on.

This upsets me because I was on other things, too, like blood pressure medication and Nexium for my acid reflux, and he just dropped me once he heard I went to the other guy. But the only reason I did was to try to wean off the damn Paxil since he just made me quit!

Do you think this was right of him and should I complain to someone about this?

If language confusion was meant to be a barrier to working together, why are we capable of learning new languages? Tons of people are bilingual.

I suffer from insomnia and I'm a worrier, so I always fear if I don't get sleep I'll "go crazy" or something. Sometimes I can go for days without getting any sleep.

I asked my doctor if this was dangerous in any way and he said "Not unless you do something like fall asleep at the wheel or operate heavy machinery." I said "Yes, but I heard prolonged sleep deprivation causes hallucinations and psychosis, etc." and he told me "That's mostly seen with intentional sleep deprivation, like with prisoners of war. You aren't going to reach that level of sleep deprivation on your own if you're trying to sleep, so don't worry about that happening to you. If no one is intentionally keeping you awake, including yourself by not trying to sleep, then you aren't going to experience that, so don't worry about it."

I know he's a doctor so I should take his advice, but the worrier in me wants to double check: will someone really not reach the level of sleep deprivation where they start to go insane on their own? I think knowing this is not a possibility will just make me feel better about the nights I don't get any sleep and I can learn to stop stressing out over it.

The craptastic book "Heaven is for Real" says a little boy who went to heaven saw angels with swords. Why would something WE created in our world be in heaven? Did God look down upon the first human to make a sword and say to himself "Hey, what a neat idea! I could give these to the angels so they can use them against the devil!" and then steal the idea? Unless there's a missing passage of scripture that says "And after the seventh day of rest, God made weapons. The same weapons that his creation would some day make on earth." Yeah, because some random humans suddenly had an inspiration to make something on earth that already existed in heaven--how convenient.

What are human inventions inventions doing in a place God supposedly made? Does he sometimes like our ideas and borrow them? This is ridiculous.

My friend has gotten into paranormal investigations and said she has discovered she is a "sensitive" and can sense spirits. She said a medium told her she had "the gift" and since then she says she's felt spirits in some places and can often tell things about them.

She told me she went on a paranormal investigation to an active house and, while there, she and the other investigators and some mediums opened a portal and they saw a pig-faced demon.

Now I'm like "Ooookay..." and I'm not sure what to say, and then she says I should come along to their next investigation. She said there would be other sensitives and mediums there to protect me. I told her I'd get back to her on the offer.

I'm not exactly sure how to continue talking to her without admitting I think she is nuts. I highly doubt if I were to tag along on their next adventure that I would see anything at all, but she seems to want me to go. Do you think I'll see a pig demon, too? (Ha ha)

But seriously, is there a "polite" way to tell someone you don't believe them without outright calling them a liar?

I know some people in North America that worship the Norse gods like Thor and such and someone from Iceland asked how Americans can worship the gods of their land in North America. The comment seemed to imply that people should stick to the religion of their land because they were born there and have a connection to the traditions and the "beings" or "elementals" or whatever that are there. But what of white Americans whose ancestors came from European countries but who were born here on American soil--if they were to adopt their original religion, would that be the religion of their ancestors or would that be Native American religions, since technically that is where they were born?

I've been around some drunkards but what was Lot drinking, a bottle of Everclear? If you're so drunk that someone can arouse you, climb onto you, and make you orgasm and you don't even know they're there (Bible says Lot didn't know when his daughters came into his tent nor when they left) you'd be pretty close to alcohol poisoning. Could you even get it up and orgasm in that state anyway?

My boyfriend uses Tumblr and every time I see him browsing profiles, people label themselves to within an inch of their life. "I'm sisgender, heteroflexible" blah blah...I didn't even know what "heteroflexible" was and had to look it up. Seriously, why not just say you're bisexual? That pretty much covers it. Why do you need labels within labels? What is with this generation's obsession with defining and categorizing -everything-? Do we need labels for whether or not we pee first thing in the morning now, too?

I take a medication for sleeping and the other day I was across town shopping and decided to call my refill in at a location nearby. I used the same pharmacy chain. They told me they couldn't fill it because the law said they'd have to call and have it transferred to that location since it wasn't my usual pickup location. I wasn't even filling it a day early, it was exactly 30 days after I last picked it up. And it was within the same pharmacy chain! Can anyone tell me what difference it makes what physical location you pick up your medicine as long as it's in their system and they can see that I'm not getting it early? As long as the refill is due, who cares where I get it from if it's the same pharmacy? How could someone "work the system" and abuse their medication this way? They have records. This seems like ridiculous over-regulation.

I was in Target today and some girl was wearing a leather miniskirt up to her butt cheeks, black lacy stockings, stilettos, and a top that looked more like a bra. Some woman with kids kept giving her a look and she asked if she had a problem and the mother said "Yes, when you look like a hooker in front of my children." The girl said "Then don't take them out" and turned around. I was kinda floored. What would your reaction have been if she was talking to you?