Ahlusion LLC Chat Thread

[PennyLynn]

I had blepharosplasty (eyelid surgery) yesterday. I was required to ice for 20 minutes every hour -- Thank God for audiobooks! I just finished a hysterical segment from David Sedaris's book When You Are Burning in Flames about his smoking history (starting with Viceroys). Otherwise, I can see just fine, but I look as though I've seen Satan...as though I used bright red eyeliner!

 

[bigbob2322]

I had blepharosplasty (eyelid surgery) yesterday. I was required to ice for 20 minutes every hour -- Thank God for audiobooks! I just finished a hysterical segment from David Sedaris's book When You Are Burning in Flames about his smoking history (starting with Viceroys). Otherwise, I can see just fine, but I look as though I've seen Satan...as though I used bright red eyeliner!

Glad your feeling good.

 

[Apptiger]

IS anybody out there?

 

[bustamelon]

Yes? But not much to report. Still chugging on that CWW.

 

[Jingles]

I'm still here. My most interesting Ahlusion story lately is I recently got a new small eleaf istick Ammit. I wanted to put a little higher nicotine level juice in it, since it's not very powerful I found an old bottle of Apple Wild Wood in 18 mg in my stash. The bottle has a 2014 date on it. It has lost the Apple flavor, but it still vapes fine! I can also tell that it's a higher nicotine content than my usual 12, so I don't think the nicotine degraded that much over the years. I think I might have to get a fresh bottle though...Lol...

 

[Mr.Mann]

Yeah, I be here and there.

 

[bigbob2322]

AND EVERYWHERE.

 

[newyork13]

Yup, we're still out here. Just got a bit of Cafe au Lait and some Mocha. It's become really hard to find 50/50, so it's nice that vendors like Ahl are still alive and well. I keep getting emails from Vapecentric, Ejuices etc. etc. and they're almost all high or max vg, which doesn't work for me.

 

[Apptiger]

Yeah, I be here and there.

hello old friend, hope you are well!

 

[Apptiger]

Yup, we're still out here. Just got a bit of Cafe au Lait and some Mocha. It's become really hard to find 50/50, so it's nice that vendors like Ahl are still alive and well. I keep getting emails from Vapecentric, Ejuices etc. etc. and they're almost all high or max vg, which doesn't work for me.

I hear you too much VG is too heavy on the chest. I've gotten pretty boring, same three or four base vapes with an occasional outlier.
Godfather
Lychee Coco smoothie
Sleighride
Hawaiian Sun

 

[EleanorR]

Present.

Still faithful to Ahlusion, but really down to just two flavors: Autumn Mist and Saturday Morning.

My poor old brain can't handle much "diversity" anymore -- too complicated.

 

[newyork13]

Nah. It's good for your brain to have "diversity" and change and new stuff. Otherwise it will rot and mold. Embrace.

 

[EleanorR]

No longer possible -- it's a chronic illness thing.

 

[newyork13]

I'm sorry to hear that. I truly hope it goes well for you.

 

[Poeia]

Yup, we're still out here. Just got a bit of Cafe au Lait and some Mocha. It's become really hard to find 50/50, so it's nice that vendors like Ahl are still alive and well. I keep getting emails from Vapecentric, Ejuices etc. etc. and they're almost all high or max vg, which doesn't work for me.

I had a couple of flavors I liked that suddenly became 60 or 70% VG. Sorry, I like being able to breathe at the end of the day. So it's pretty much Ahlusion, some Plume Room & Alice in Vapeland. AIV will customize ratios. The first time I said I can't handle more than 50% VG and she made it 60% which is what I get every time now.

 

[newyork13]

For me it really depends on the juice, which I can't explain. Some at 70vg I can handle well. Others not. I kept trying some of the juices at 75+vg because everyone raved about them. I coughed, I sniffled, my throat burned. Strange isn't it.
That's made more difficult by the fact that I won't knowingly vape sucralose, as I don't think it's healthy to ingest in any manner. Many many juices contain it, and most vendors won't reply when you ask if they use it. Tough.

 

[Poeia]

For me it really depends on the juice, which I can't explain. Some at 70vg I can handle well. Others not. I kept trying some of the juices at 75+vg because everyone raved about them. I coughed, I sniffled, my throat burned. Strange isn't it.
That's made more difficult by the fact that I won't knowingly vape sucralose, as I don't think it's healthy to ingest in any manner. Many many juices contain it, and most vendors won't reply when you ask if they use it. Tough.

I like VG while I'm vaping it. If it's a secondary flavor for me & I vape a couple of ml early in the day, no problem. But if I really like it and make it my flavor of the day, by sunset it is hard to take a big breath. It's the same tightness I sometimes got when I smoked too much.

And, speaking of smoking, did you know the new protocol for testing ex-smokers over age 50 isn't an x-ray? It's a low-level CAT scan yearly for something like 15 years. I had my first one last month & passed. One 4mm nodule which is the equivalent of a cyst when checking your breasts. I don't know how I passed -- I was a freaking chimney for about 40 years. But I am not looking that gift horse in it's proverbial mouth.

 

[EleanorR]

Wow, annual Spiral CT scans for fifteen straight years??!! What an incredible -- nay, unavoidable -- scenario for false positives!

Oh well, no problem -- the accompanying fear, anxiety and ever-more invasive follow-up testing of each of those false positives is something we all deserve, as ex-smokers.

 

[Poeia]

Wow, annual Spiral CT scans for fifteen straight years??!! What an incredible -- nay, unavoidable -- scenario for false positives!

Oh well, no problem -- the accompanying fear, anxiety and ever-more invasive follow-up testing of each of those false positives is something we all deserve, as ex-smokers.

My previous doctor didn't know (or, since he did the x-rays in his office didn't want to send people out). So I skipped my first 9 of them. I had pneumonia about 6 months after I quit smoking & got an MRI afterwards. I assume that's the one that can really find little nothings & make them look like something.

Given a choice between a false positive and a false negative from an x-ray, I think most people would prefer the former.

 

[newyork13]

yearly CT scans for maybe the rest of my life?
that's radiation, even if low level, over my bod.
Not likely.
I guess what makes me more skeptical is, assuming no more smoking, why would one's lung health (tumors etc) deteriorate so many years after quitting?
That doesn't make much sense to me. But, I guess those folks need to make their money somehow.