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Territoo

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  • Jul 17, 2009
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    @Territoo that was really helpful actually. My pdoc has agree to speak to my next pdoc and like well, we'll see. I should get my records and well, it's not just that it's everything. I am on high doses of everything I rapid metabolize. Good for the waistline bad for the well, everything else. But I will ask GOD knows though my pdoc was the worst like documenter ever. I should like find someone who will at least book me an appointment.

    The only thing I have in my favor really is continuity of care. My pdoc CANNOT dump me or not write me scripts even out of state due to like, it's dumping a patient. Even if *I* leave. So worst case for him.... IDK.

    He should be motivated to help if you ask me.

    Anna

    I can relate to the high doses and rapid metabolism, of medications anyway, doesn't help me with my weight. I'm on the maximum dose of three antidepressants, plus two mood stabilizers. I had genetic studies that say I have genes that make me require much higher doses of medication. I remember that quack doc at MHMR tossing the lab report aside, stating he doesn't go by that and I was on too much medication. He stopped just about everything. He probably just didn't understand the new technology. Two weeks later I was so depressed, I was irrational and a month later, I was in the hospital. The hospital doc restarted all my meds and I was fine, my Medicaid then kicked in and I was through with MHMR.

    The trouble is in your case, that once you see a psych, your old doc isn't dumping you. If the new doc doesn't measure up and you don't go back, it's on you. Now, it sounds like you got a pretty good relationship with your old doc, and he won't leave you hanging, but he can't carry you for very long. He probably will still have to phone consult with your new doc, even if you show up with records in hand, but I can tell you for a fact, that having those records on the first visit will help tremendously, probably more than you realize. There was nothing I hated more than to get a complicated patient and no previous records.

    I'm wishing you the best in this transition. Finding a good psych is like winning the lottery.
     

    JCinFLA

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    It's so busy in here that I may have missed it.
    But what is Health Cabin? First time I've heard of it.

    Health Cabin is a Chinese website that sells mostly vaping related products, but other things, too. They ship from Hong Kong and from Shenzhen. They also have 2 US based warehouses that they used to keep pretty well-stocked. I'd buy from them when they had items I wanted because the S/H was much lower. Now, those 2 only have some batteries in them...but nothing else.
     

    markfm

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    Picture this. I’m going to mix a recipe with seven flavors. Seven small syringes, one for each flavor. Then I have to take the top off each bottle that the syringe won’t go through the dropper tip. So I get all my flavors added, add my premade base and then have to rinse out seven syringes and lay them out to dry. Or, I can put a bottle on the scale squirt my flavors in one at a time. Hit the tare button in between and add my base. No clean up. Unless you’re rinsing that one syringe in between adding each flavor then I don’t know how you’re not contaminating the flavor bottles.
    For me:
    I pour from each flavor bottle into the 15ml beaker, suck the liquid into the syringe from the beaker. I am pretty good at eyeball estimates, and purposely go slightly under, then add just a pinch more flavoring into the beaker so I end with the right amount in the syringe.

    Doing the above, with the pretty complex CLR mix I had one flavor where I slightly overshot, dumped the excess (small fraction of an ml).

    At the end I have one beaker and one 5ml syringe to clean.

    The above only works, of course, because my minimum batch size is 100ml. If I was trying for a multi flavor mix with a batch size of only 30ml I might drop back to using a scale, though I do have a bunch of 1 or 2ml syringes, find then pretty easy to clean.

    None of my flavors have narrow/dropper tops.
     

    JCinFLA

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    Picture this. I’m going to mix a recipe with seven flavors. Seven small syringes, one for each flavor. Then I have to take the top off each bottle that the syringe won’t go through the dropper tip. So I get all my flavors added, add my premade base and then have to rinse out seven syringes and lay them out to dry.

    OK, now I see why you say mixing by volume wasn't as easy to you, as mixing by weight is. If I did it the way you described above, when I mix by volume...I might feel the same way, too. But, there are other ways to mix by volume that are much easier, not removing the tips on flavoring bottles, and without having to rinse a bunch of syringes. I see that markfm has his own way of doing it by volume, too, that works for him. I'll explain my method in another post.

    Or, I can put a bottle on the scale squirt my flavors in one at a time. Hit the tare button in between and add my base. No clean up.
     

    rosesense

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    @rosesense , did you get the email from univapo about how the package got returned to them from EMS and that they have shipped dhl?
    Yes, thanks for telling me. It was in my junk folder which might be apropos.
     

    FranC

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    Good morning flavorers. And flotsam and jetsam (That's me etc.)

    Gonna have a GOOD Monday after driving the husband to my work so he can have the car. Belaugh. He freaks out about dying like THREE times per drive. it doesn't matte how far.

    Anna
    What is it with your husband and driving? He just drove cross country not long ago.
     

    *RJ*

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    Good morning. I am liking this Creamy Strawberry Malt. I do find it a bit weak though. My next try I am doubling the flavors just to see. It may be too much but we'll see. I'm finding that I'm OK with weak...not too bad whatsoever. But I used to vape unflavored all the time too.

    I ordered the black Smoant Battlestar squonker and more mesh to get to free shipping at eciggity. I do not have a dual battery black squonker and it was so dang cheap! Plus you get a so-so RDA as well. I loved the look of that gold and black of @Shadav 's yesterday. But I am also going to maybe paint the gold squonk pin black. We'll see.

    I also mix nothing below 100 ml except maybe tobacco flavors which I'll do at 30 ml or 50 ml as testers. I mix by volume. My favorites I'll mix 200 ml in amber bottles and transfer 100 ml to a squeeze bottle for vaping. The rest sits in the cabinet. I've explained my process before. But I find it so easy and very quick. I think if I mixed at low amounts like 10 ml I'd probably use a scale as well. One thing I'm sure of...once someone finds their own technique it would be hard to change it up. I don't see me changing.

    I'm also a non-steeper. Larger amounts will steep in the cabinet by design but I always SNV. My time is limited so I like to mix my favs in large amounts. Also, I am not picky and I think 30 years of smoking has scarred my taste buds so I can vape almost anything except floral. Any new weird flavors that I'm not sure of I'll probably mix small at first. But chocolates, creams, most fruits, vanillas, custards...I know there is nothing offensive there so I know I will vape it just fine. I can't discern subtle changes in recipes either. I like to just use everyone else's recipes. I don't have the time or desire to mix my own recipes. Yet.

    Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!
     
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