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It seems everything that is wrong with me is wrong with my left side only. I have visual floaters in my left eye, none in my right. My left eye has a stronger lens prescription than my right (weaker vision in my left eye), I just passed a kidney stone that was in my left kidney, I have some weird mark under the skin of my left foot (dunno what it is, dunno where it came from, and it won't go away). What is wrong with my left side!? Is it possible for only one side of your body to be susceptible to illness when the other isn't?

I just don't seem to get hungry anymore, but when I try to eat I can eat just fine, abeit less than what I usually eat but I don't have trouble eating I just have no hunger. Is there a difference between the two?

Hey i'm asking those of you who have successfully passed a kidney stone without intervention this question. Anyway here is what's up. I have been passing a 3mm kidney stone the past week + 1 day and today all the sudden out of the blue (after normal clear urination the past week + 1 day) I started getting strange sensation in my penis, and much decreased urine output from what I did have. Now it is to the point where I feel the CONSTANT urge like I have to pee but like i'm holding it in (i'm not holding it in but it feels like what it feels like when you're holding it in). When I go to the bathroom to try and urinate very little comes out. Now all the sudden my last trip to the bathroom produced pinkish colored urine instead of the usual clear stuff. Is this an indication that the stone has reached my bladder? What do I do now?

Oh also, I had a urinalysis and bloodwork done on Friday and they told me saturday that both were normal (no infection)

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I had a chest XRAY about 20 minutes ago and they didn't ask me to remove my shirt and I put my sweatpants on a nearby chair. My question is, will this chest xray leave radiation on my clothes? Should I throw them away?

Question, one of my tires was destroyed (huge hole from hitting a rock or something, can't be repaired).

My question is, I can't find the same brand tire as the one I had, so I have to go with a different brand than the other 4 tires on my car. Does this matter at all? 1 tire will be a different brand than the other tires but the tire will obviously fit the car (according the the size, width, etc. on the other tires). So does brand make that much of a difference if it's only the one tire? It's my front right tire. It's a 4 door Sedan.

Bones???????????????????

I have started taking Melatonin to help me sleep, since I have insomnia issues. Problem is that the Melatonin I was originally taking (NatureMade 3mg) does not keep me to sleep. It'll put me to sleep fast but i'll wake up 1 or 2 hours later and have to try and fall back to sleep.

I replaced that with GNC Melatonin 3 Time-release tablets, bit same thing, it puts me to sleep no problem, but I wake up again maybe 2 or 3 hours later and have to try and fall asleep again. Should I exchange the GNC Melatonin 3 TR (Timed release) with GNC Melatonin 5 TR ? Do higher dosages help you stay asleep longer? Or perhaps it's not the dosage but maybe the brand? Should I try Natrol 3 or 5 TR?

Just trying to find something that will KEEP me asleep, I'm tired of waking up a few hours later and having to struggle to fall back asleep.

So I called to have it worked on because the warranty is still in effect and the repair person said they wouldn't work on it until it got warmer out. The reasoning they gave was that they will not run if it's too cold outside, something about a feature with window units where they won't kick on if it's under a certain temperature outside. Is this true, or was he just giving me a line so that he didn't have to work on it in the cold? Informed answers appreciated, links would be great if at all possible. Thanks.

Is this even possible? I haven't been able to figure out how so I doubt it's possible, but maybe someone else knows something I don't?

I have a hot dog cooker with a heating element below the rollers, well mold accumulated under the heating element and its hard to clean off so there's mold there and when the machine heats up the mold is cooking it smells awful. The rollers look mold free but I can't be sure, the last person that used it didn't clean it it'd appear. Would cooking on clean rollers (but above mold that is cooking) effect anything? Do I have to throw the machine out? I hate to throw it out because that'd be a waste of money but if I can't safely cook on it anymore due to the mold then I may have no choice :(

How many 80s do you have?

Is it possible for me to copy over my firefox bookmarks off of an old hard drive set up as a slave drive? I can't access the drive as a primary master, so I cant go open firefox ON the drive itself and export the bookmarks that way, but is there any way I can get them off of there with the drive they're on set up like a backup hard drive?

If I end up pre-maturely waking up sometime during my sleep I always seem to wake up incredibly thirsty. I have to grab something out of a fridge I have by my bed and guzzle down several swallows of it. I have battled with insomnia for a good long time, so I'm wondering if this issue with waking up thirsty has something to do with insomnia. The thing is I don't have problems like this with thirst ANY time during the day. My thirst level during normal waking hours is completely normal. It is ONLY when I wake up during sleeping that it happens. No other time. This is why I don't feel that it has anything to do with diabetes. Is it one of the symptoms of insomnia perhaps? I am thinking insomnia primarily because it only happens during sleep conditions and no other time. I also don't have problems with what I eat or drink. Like I can consume salt and sugar and other stuff diabetics can't consume and I have no problems, so that's another reason I am thinking it can't be diabetes.

I have a question, I just started cycling with a 7 speed mountain bike. Basically what I want to do know is, do I keep peddling non-stop, or do I occasionally stop peddling to let the momentum of the bike carry me til I need to peddle to speed it up again. I find that if I just peddle non stop my legs get tired really fast so I can't really ride very long. I was thinking I could probably ride a lot longer if I let the bike glide during rest periods and peddle when needed. Any experienced riders have advice for a beginner?

I have been considering getting this phone but I have a few questions for anyone who owns it.

1. Does the heavy back put a lot of pressure on the phone when using the keyboard attachment? It seems odd to have the back be so much heavier than the keyboard itself. Especially since when I text I hold the phone and keyboard up in front of my face so I don't have to look down at the phone.

2. How many text messages does the inbox hold? The one thing I hate about my current phone (The first enV) is that it only lets you have 50 text messages in your inbox at once. Once you get to 50 you can't get any more txt messages till you delete some texts. I personally like to save a good amount of text messages in my inbox, kind of like how you have a message history on a private message program (msn, aim, etc) so that I can remember important stuff about my txt conversations.

3. Call quality, its atrocious on my current texting phone. How is it on the versa? Right now I have to use speaker phone or I can't understand what the other person is saying, it's always muffled or something.

4. Do these still lock up if you don't answer your txts/missed calls for several minutes?

5. Does the keyboard attachment help protect the phone during drops? I drop my current a lot because it is just so damn slippery its almost as if they INTENTIONALLY designed them to slip out of your hand frequently.

6. How good is the touch screen keyboard? I have fat fingers and I don't want to hit different keys, while at the same time don't want to have to be super careful when texting to make sure im not fat-fingering the virtual keyboard. I want to be able to text fast with it.

I think that's the only questions I had.

I have a question, I watch my sodium intake and calorie intake each day, but one day a week when I eat Sushi I usually consume a fair bit more sodium than my daily recommended amounts due to the soy sauce, and probably more calories than normal due to the rice. My question, is this okay so long as it is only one day a week? I always have below my calorie RDA and Sodium RDA every day of the week but on the day I have Sushi. So my question, as I said, is it okay to go over these things if it is only once a week? Informed answers please, not personal opinions.

I haven't done a sit up in years and years and so its hard for me to do a whole lot at once. I've been doing 3 sets of 15 bicycle crunches (counting up after i've done both sides instead of counting up per leg) ie, after I do the right and left motion I count 1, instead of 1 on right and 2 on left. I wait 30 sec. between each set. After that I wait a minute and do 3 sets of 10 regular crunches. Is this a good place to start? And how many times per week? Also, am I counting the bicycle crunch reps correctly?

This is a question that has been annoying me for a LONG time about subway, and maybe it is just my subways around here and not all subway, so if that is the case ignore this question.

Why the heck do they have different types of subs on their menu, but then ask you to create your own? For example, I walk into my subway, and order a subway club. They ask me what break, then cut the bread and open it, and then ask me what I want on it. I want whatever is on a subway club, I don't know what they put on a subway club. I ordered a subway club because that is what I wanted. If I wanted to make my own i'd have selected the "build your own" option if they even have that. Same with everything else on their menu. The only difference is stuff that requires meat they'll put the meat on it and ask about all other condiments. I want to just walk in and order a sub off their menu that is built a certain way. I don't want to have to figure out everything they put on the Chicken onion teriyakki and tell them to put all those things on there. If it is done this way, then it begs the question, WHY THE HELL LIST DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUBS ON THE MENU THEN IF THEY ARE ALL BUILD YOUR OWN FROM THE ROLL UP!?

I'm about 160lbs, 25, and about 5'7, but I have a bit of a gut to me that i'm trying to get rid of, since according to weight/height charts for my age i'm just a few lbs over the ideal weight. So I don't know if I need to really start "losing" weight to get rid of the belly. So i'm wondering if changing my diet to include less calories and less fatty foods would help or if all I need to do is just walk or do crunches. I eat usually eat fast foods or pizza but never really gained weight from it, i've always been around this height and weight for years even with the less than healthy diet of food I usually eat. I've started eating whole grain breads, egg whites, counting calories a bit, and going to places like subway and eating their onion chicken teriyaki which is about 400 calories, loaded up with lettuce, onions, banana pepper, tomato, and cucumbers, as much veggie variety as was available there. So what would be your recommendations on getting rid of the belly? Any nutrition industry/trainers/etc etc on this site that can help? Trying to not just get peoples personal opinions but informed information that will help, usually opinions are just that, personal opinions, and thus always vary between person to person. Thanks in advance.

This may be a stupid question but seeing as I am new to xbox live I thought it needed to be asked so I could find out for sure. Does your xbox live time start when you buy the card at the store, or does it start when you enter the code onto your xbox live account on xbox live? I ask because im not going to be using this card right away, it was a gift for xmas along with my brand new xbox jasper unit (woohoo, confirmed via all 3 identification points.) Anyways, just asking to make sure. Thanks for answering. First who can post and has a link or something to where it states what I'm asking will get 10 pts.