Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 2

[3mg Meniere]

I started with a cig2o in February of last year. Didn't cut it, went back to analogs.
April I tried it again. Still not good! Let me see what's on the internet.
Found this forum and that ECBlends was just down the street.

Another Cig2O graduate!! Welcome. Not many of us around. I found these forums and went to Smokeless Image for a while, until I decided to make the transition from 808.

Next, that would be good on a ProVari. That works good, wait, he said that mech's are better . I better find out for myself. That Stingray looks cool. kayfun? What's that? .... Dripper's, vertical coils"........................ Patina?

I stepped out of shinyitis before I got that far. LOL. There has to be a slowing-down point somewhere. ..........................

 

[FlamingoTutu]

You bet ya!
About two years ago they cut a big incision in my groin to get to my clogged Femoral artery because smoking had destroyed the lining and it wasn't allowing blood to my leg enough. My calf was cramping a lot. Figured it was time to do something and Chantex wasn't working. Already a disabled vet, didn't need anymore problems.
vaping IS a better alternative!!!
Vape on!!!

8-o I'm going in Thursday to find out why my calf is cramping. Had the same thing on the right years ago but it was varicose veins. Had a stent put in near my right shoulder just over a year ago. It's pretty cool to have blood pumping into your brain instead of draining out. Did your leg feel like it wasn't getting enough blood (obviously it wasn't) or was just fatigued when you walked?

Envious of your collection.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

There has to be a slowing-down point somewhere. ..........................

Not what I heard.

 

[PapaSloth]

You bet ya!
About two years ago they cut a big incision in my groin to get to my clogged Femoral artery because smoking had destroyed the lining and it wasn't allowing blood to my leg enough. My calf was cramping a lot. Figured it was time to do something and Chantex wasn't working. Already a disabled vet, didn't need anymore problems.
Vaping IS a better alternative!!!
Vape on!!!

I would "like" this 100 times if I could.

 

[PapaSloth]

8-o I'm going in Thursday to find out why my calf is cramping.

I was just watching a Rip Trippers video, and he started getting cramps as a result of vaping (he thought). He talks about dehydration and potassium deficiency. So that's something to consider as well (but, of course, whatever your doctor says is more reliable than Rip Trippers ). He talks about it at the 4:28 mark:

However, it turned out to by hypothyroidism, which is something my wife also suffers from (she takes synthroid supplements, and that helps with the cramping).

 

[mekc57]

8-o I'm going in Thursday to find out why my calf is cramping. Had the same thing on the right years ago but it was varicose veins. Had a stent put in near my right shoulder just over a year ago. It's pretty cool to have blood pumping into your brain instead of draining out. Did your leg feel like it wasn't getting enough blood (obviously it wasn't) or was just fatigued when you walked?

Envious of your collection.

I would go out to mow the lawn, feeling ok and come back limping! We don't real have a big yard. The vascular surgeon said it was really bad. Couldn't do a stent because where it was. Had to open it up and clean it out. Better now! I am also hypothyroid and take med's for that.

 

[mekc57]

Another Cig2O graduate!! Welcome. Not many of us around. I found these forums and went to Smokeless Image for a while, until I decided to make the transition from 808.


I stepped out of shinyitis before I got that far. LOL. There has to be a slowing-down point somewhere. ..........................

Oh? I have slowed down! I don't order more that one at a time now!!!!
The stand I made. There is another half for my wife's stuff

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I was just watching a Rip Trippers video, and he started getting cramps as a result of vaping (he thought). He talks about dehydration and potassium deficiency. So that's something to consider as well (but, of course, whatever your doctor says is more reliable than Rip Trippers ). He talks about it at the 4:28 mark:

However, it turned out to by hypothyroidism, which is something my wife also suffers from (she takes synthroid supplements, and that helps with the cramping).

Holy macaroni! Thank you a million for posting that. OMG, how bizarre, I think I’m related to that guy. I’ve got a “sensitivity” to some flavors, fatal allergy to tree nuts, etc. No itching in the cramping area. It’s a severe cramp when exercising. We had to do a 16 mile run one summer and I didn’t cramp like that. I do drink a lot of water and don’t drink soda, coffee, tea or anything. Tried to up my potassium this summer though it doesn’t seem to impress the calf at all. I mix at 80/20. Guess the good news is I’ve tried everything within reason to fix the problem, sometimes without knowing I was doing it. The scan was done last month, the appoint is basically to confirm the bad news and how to proceed.

I would go out to mow the lawn, feeling ok and come back limping! We don't real have a big yard. The vascular surgeon said it was really bad. Couldn't do a stent because where it was. Had to open it up and clean it out. Better now! I am also hypothyroid and take med's for that.

I can relate to that. Any exertion above a moderate walk and it cramps. I’m sorry you had to go through that. I’ll hope for a simple stent placement. When they did the varicose veins, I wound up with something like seven large scars on my leg and weeks of pain. Stent, even though a highly specialized surgery for where it was, was in in the morning and out that night. Where’s Star Trek’s Bones when you need him?

 

[KnightDavid]

Don't shoot the messenger, but the full-size Nautilus is way too large in diameter to fit in a VTR. Even if you cut or grind the retaining ring completely off of the VTR, I think (but don't know for sure) that it still wouldn't fit. (Are my calipers still missing? I don't remember if I found them or not.)

Oh it is, but there's still the extender tube. I don't know how silly it'll look sitting way up above the VTR like that but it will be nice to have all that extra juice in the tank for long trips. I brought my son up to college in northern Maine last weekend and had to refill my Nautilus Mini twice during the day.

 

[DavidOck]

Oh it is, but there's still the extender tube. I don't know how silly it'll look sitting way up above the VTR like that but it will be nice to have all that extra juice in the tank for long trips. I brought my son up to college in northern Maine last weekend and had to refill my Nautilus Mini twice during the day.

Then you really ought to "travel" with three, all full, on your three favorite mods. And if you don't have 3, we'll be happy to spend your money

 

[mekc57]

Then you really ought to "travel" with three, all full, on your three favorite mods. And if you don't have 3, we'll be happy to spend your money

Yup, always take a couple along for the ride. You never know what might happen. Dead battery, blown coil, ops dropped it.

 

[mekc57]

I had my ProVari battery die on me once on a bike ride. Stopped and got a swisher sweet. Took one hit and through it away and bit the bullet till I got home.

 

[KnightDavid]

Then you really ought to "travel" with three, all full, on your three favorite mods. And if you don't have 3, we'll be happy to spend your money

hehe, spending money on vaping gear and juice is some of the best money I've ever spent. For the last few months I seem to be in a perpetual state of waiting for vapemail, because invariably right before one package gets to me I'm ordering something else. Really looking hard at that Clouper T5 mod.... hmmm....

 

[DavidOck]

Heck, I don't go out to cut the grass without two (or more, for flavor changes)...

 

[bigbells]

Oh it is, but there's still the extender tube. I don't know how silly it'll look sitting way up above the VTR like that but it will be nice to have all that extra juice in the tank for long trips. I brought my son up to college in northern Maine last weekend and had to refill my Nautilus Mini twice during the day.

I have no idea why with 3 VTRs I didn't think of the extender tube. (Only one of my VTRs works.)

Out of sight, out of mind, and all my extenders are in their "pirate chest" boxes.

I don't think it will look silly but I haven't been invited to judge any beauty contests lately.

 

[garyoa1]

I have no idea why with 3 VTRs I didn't think of the extender tube. (Only one of my VTRs works.)

Out of sight, out of mind, and all my extenders are in their "pirate chest" boxes.

I don't think it will look silly but I haven't been invited to judge any beauty contests lately.

Meh. Just looks like a bigger MVP. Which... most people like the look of.

 

[garyoa1]

Still hittin' the SVD while watching the doo wop marathon on PBS.

 

[KnightDavid]

Meh. Just looks like a bigger MVP. Which... most people like the look of.

Yeah, it prolly won't be bad at all. When the Nautilus Mini didn't fit in my VTR I used it for a little while on the extended tube and it worked fine and looked ok. I used my dremel and ground off the nubs on the airflow control wheel so that it would fit in the VTR without the extended tube mostly just to see what it looked like sitting in there flush, and I liked it. The Kayfun mini should fit perfectly without the extender tube also.

 

[Ken_A]

This is what you need for those long drives, and it will give your cigarette lighter something to do,

Variable voltage 510/eGo USB passthrough

 

[garyoa1]

This is what you need for those long drives, and it will give your cigarette lighter something to do,

Cig lighter? Oh, u mean that hole in the dash that if you stuck a cig lighter into it you'd burn yer car to da ground thingy.