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[FranC]

Good morning random folks What was your first pv? I don't even remember what my first pv was called but it was a cig-a-like that took carts and atties. Real pain filling those carts every 10 seconds and replacing burnt up atties. Up next quickly came Green Smoke which was pretty decent for a cig-a-like until the quality went to pot. At that point I went into the local smoke shop. They didn't sell ecigs back in 2010 but they told me about Vermont Vapor. Up next came the egos,510's and cartomizers which was a big improvement.
I found ecf while searching for more info. It took me a while to join but here I still am.

 

[rosesense]

Good morning.

My first was a cigalike with prefilled carts from Volcano. Cost was over 100.00 lol. Soon I got a Phoenix from Truesmoker and then the 510 from Cignot. That Phoenix was so pretty, I still like pretty ones.

 

[DavidOck]

I started with a CE4 and 650 mAh Ego, fixed voltage. Tried to like cartos and tanks, but never took to them. Jumped on Spinners and Twists when they came along, and stuck with them and the CE line for my first year.

First vapeaversary was when I finally felt like it was going to work. Well, it HAD been working for a year!

Got my first real mod and tank then, an SVD (v1, of course, still works, soft fire button and all) and a KF3.1. Been a builder ever since, and, while I've tried a variety of other tanks, other than the Skyline, the KF2L series has been my topper of choice.

 

[hittman]

What she win?

An mvp5 and a tank

 

[hittman]

My first was the 510 cigalike. I bought two kits and good thing I did. They were around $50 each and I was constantly charging the batteries. It wasn’t long before I made my first 14500 box mod. I did eventually get a couple ego sets.

 

[NGAHaze]

Ditto, cigalike with those crappy cartridges. I think it was a Trio by Smoking Anywhere if I remember correctly. I hated it but at least but it was a start and the poor performance was what made me seek out information on how to improve it and ultimately how I found ECF.

Eventually, after about a year of lurking, I actually joined in because I needed to ask a question. Oddly enough, I never did ask that question, it had gotten answered by the time I logged in as a member so I fell back into anonymity for another couple of years, lol.

 

[FranC]

My first real mod was a Buzz which was considerably bigger than an ego. I still have one around somewhere I think, maybe. I had a stint with the 801's also. It's been a long and twisted road and it's been fun. I'll be sad to see the day come when we can no longer buy something just for fun.

 

[FranC]

 

[englishmick]

My first gear was cigalikes called Elight Elite. Back in 08 I think. They popped up in kiosks in the Mall. Then I looked online and found their website which made them a little cheaper. I dabbled with them for 5 years. Actually quit smoking for 4 months around some surgery, other than that I just managed to cut down a bit. They shut down 3 or 4 years ago.

Threw them all out when I got my first EGO. Always wished I had saved one to hang on the wall. I bet there are thousands of them in the back of people's drawers. Might even be one in back of a closet here somewhere.

 

[hittman]

My first real mod was a Buzz which was considerably bigger than an ego. I still have one around somewhere I think, maybe. I had a stint with the 801's also. It's been a long and twisted road and it's been fun. I'll be sad to see the day come when we can no longer buy something just for fun.

I’ve still got a bag of lr302 attys and my first real mod was the Xhaler from Nhaler. I’d have to look but am sure I still have it. It used double stacked tenergy batteries. Can you believe we used to stack batteries with no safety?

 

[hittman]

I was digging on ATF and found a few recipes to try using the grape flavors I bought recently. I’m trying a grape lemonade right now. It’s really not that great. It’s basically Inw grape and lorann lemonade.

 

[FranC]

I’ve still got a bag of lr302 attys and my first real mod was the Xhaler from Nhaler. I’d have to look but am sure I still have it. It used double stacked tenergy batteries. Can you believe we used to stack batteries with no safety?

Yup, the Buzz had stacked batteries too.

 

[FranC]

I was digging on ATF and found a few recipes to try using the grape flavors I bought recently. I’m trying a grape lemonade right now. It’s really not that great. It’s basically Inw grape and lorann lemonade.

Try subbing Grapefruit for the Lemonade just for giggles.

 

[kas122461]

Good morning random folks What was your first pv? I don't even remember what my first pv was called but it was a cig-a-like that took carts and atties. Real pain filling those carts every 10 seconds and replacing burnt up atties. Up next quickly came Green Smoke which was pretty decent for a cig-a-like until the quality went to pot. At that point I went into the local smoke shop. They didn't sell ecigs back in 2010 but they told me about Vermont Vapor. Up next came the egos,510's and cartomizers which was a big improvement.
I found ecf while searching for more info. It took me a while to join but here I still am.

The very first one I used was this one, I did not save any of them because they quit working and I could not get the refills any where. This was a gift from a relative who works for Swisher, I think they were new to the market when I received it in November of 2012.

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The one I got was the smooth, after that it was several months later, after I could not find the refills that i did a online search, and found a shop Called Indy vapor shop. I then got my first Ego's.

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I was using these things with them as first.

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I know somewhere along the line I got these and some Protanks

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KAS

 

[FranC]

 

[stols001]

OMG y'all I can never catch up. Also, as @FranC has said, nothing is off topic on this thread well, I kind of need to vent.

Some of you all know my new PCP (who had thyroid cancer, I think she is too close to it) has been jacking with my thyroid since the day she met me. Even though my T4 was LOW (it's the only number that really counts) she has been having a fit about my "suppressed" thyroid.) She's been freaking changing things for months (like 6) and every change makes it WORSE.

She finally convinced me to switch to Synthroid so I did that, and felt like CRAP, I kept trying to call her but I legitimately felt like CRUD, and she was like, ,"Wait the 8 weeks." I got my lab work and like, my T4 was normal but my TSH was lower than it had EVER been. No wonder she like, well she was like, "are you losing hair" my first visit and I was like, "IDK I will check" and then I started freaking out because I WAS losing hair and then I was like, "Maybe I just didn't pay attention." So I'm completely messed up.

I have to fire this woman. I am going to beg my psychiatrist (who says the only number he cares about is T4) to put me on my old regimen where my T4 was actually slightly LOW but I felt FINE. He was like, "Why is she all jacked up about your TSH and I was like I HAVE NO CLUE."

Which leads me to rant number two. Friday, which was really dull in a good "you could catch up way" which I sort of did well my employer has just opened a PHARMACY in Douglas and I was like, "Oh good. I can get my meds cheaper." The Sierra Vista pharmacy was really professional actually.

So I call, say "I need these two meds ONLY and you will need to contact nutballs PCP to get refills because I am out. I need them by Friday."

Well, my psychiatrist's office manager called me Friday PM almost in TEARS. Apparently, the woman I SPOKE to tried to fill psych meds I did not even NEED and kept trying to get her to send clinical NOTES as proof I was being seen like my entire CHART. There is a long explanation of why they need SOMETHING saying I am seeing the doc (which office manager lady tried to give her in many WAYS) but she literally HARASSED this poor woman for 2 DAYS until she called me in TEARS. She was like, "I don't want you to run out of meds but there are things in notes sometimes..." I like reassured her a) I did not need the meds and b) pharmacy lady was PSCHO and so then I called psycho lady and she was rude AND uninformed and then just before she was gonna hang up I was like "put me though to your pharmacist" because I was MAD.

So he verirfied she was wrong, asked me to "send him texts, emails, faxes" (I already asked office manager to KEEP everything in case she had sent her requests "off label" so to speak (I mean she could be related to someone who "hates me" so tp speak) and I was like,, "Pharmacist, no I am NOT providing you with MY proof I'm quite sure ALL requests should be visible in YOUR system do YOUR due diligence, dude." (He could tell I was amped up to CITE his pharmacy as NEEDING to be shut down on week 2, only it is MY employer's pharmacy. I MEAN. )

So yeah, then he frantically tried to get my refills only HE did not have them in stock, but Sierra Vista did but no one could find my PCP so they did a "Standing order" type thing, and I DO have to go get them because ONE is the damn thyroid med and my doctor is going to FREAK when she sees my labwrok on Monday and probably try to like remove it. Something. So I have to DRIVE to Sierra Vista today, arriving before 4 pm.

I have ZERO desire to do that, but I am going to have to. Then, I will have to beg my pdoc for like, some NORMAL thyroid regimen I had been stable on for 10 years, that did NOT cause my hair to fall out, nor to have my freaking period for 3 weeks, nor to feel ODD.

Then I have to find a new PCP not connected to my work and pay more at CVS for the rest of my life because when the pharmacist was like "I could ORDER your meds and have them in stock for next time," I was like, "I am not sure I would do that, because so far you have demonstrated to me you are incapable of the SIMPLEST tasks and I think that includes DIOSPENSING meds.

Jesus. At least the CVS here is COMPETENT and fast. But yeah, I think this whole work PCP thing is NOT going to work out.

I have NO time for this and I'm fairly certain I may have to go back to Tucson. So be it. I can sill see the crazy Douglas docs for like, minor stuff like well, pinkeye but they will ah, not be managing my care.

Holy goodness.

I could do better myself with Thai natural thyroid meds and a freaking, lab test every once in a while. .I know when I feel NOR MAL..

God. God. I need this like a hole in the head. But, I gotta leave. I mean, I can't be REPORTING my own employer's PHARMACY for God's sake.

Anna

 

[hittman]

Try subbing Grapefruit for the Lemonade just for giggles.

I have FA and Inw. I wonder if either of them would be good in it.

 

[hittman]

A little update on the vaporesso podstick since someone had asked. The 1.3 coil is a very tight mtl draw. I tried the .6 mesh last night and it has very good airflow and produced 2-3 times the amount of vapor. I like both. The 1.3 is good for stealth vaping and the .6 is good for restricted dtl with more vapor.

 

[FranC]

I have FA and Inw. I wonder if either of them would be good in it.

Maybe a bit of each and drop the lemon.

 

[FranC]

OMG y'all I can never catch up. Also, as @FranC has said, nothing is off topic on this thread well, I kind of need to vent.

Some of you all know my new PCP (who had thyroid cancer, I think she is too close to it) has been jacking with my thyroid since the day she met me. Even though my T4 was LOW (it's the only number that really counts) she has been having a fit about my "suppressed" thyroid.) She's been freaking changing things for months (like 6) and every change makes it WORSE.

She finally convinced me to switch to Synthroid so I did that, and felt like CRAP, I kept trying to call her but I legitimately felt like CRUD, and she was like, ,"Wait the 8 weeks." I got my lab work and like, my T4 was normal but my TSH was lower than it had EVER been. No wonder she like, well she was like, "are you losing hair" my first visit and I was like, "IDK I will check" and then I started freaking out because I WAS losing hair and then I was like, "Maybe I just didn't pay attention." So I'm completely messed up.

I have to fire this woman. I am going to beg my psychiatrist (who says the only number he cares about is T4) to put me on my old regimen where my T4 was actually slightly LOW but I felt FINE. He was like, "Why is she all jacked up about your TSH and I was like I HAVE NO CLUE."

Which leads me to rant number two. Friday, which was really dull in a good "you could catch up way" which I sort of did well my employer has just opened a PHARMACY in Douglas and I was like, "Oh good. I can get my meds cheaper." The Sierra Vista pharmacy was really professional actually.

So I call, say "I need these two meds ONLY and you will need to contact nutballs PCP to get refills because I am out. I need them by Friday."

Well, my psychiatrist's office manager called me Friday PM almost in TEARS. Apparently, the woman I SPOKE to tried to fill psych meds I did not even NEED and kept trying to get her to send clinical NOTES as proof I was being seen like my entire CHART. There is a long explanation of why they need SOMETHING saying I am seeing the doc (which office manager lady tried to give her in many WAYS) but she literally HARASSED this poor woman for 2 DAYS until she called me in TEARS. She was like, "I don't want you to run out of meds but there are things in notes sometimes..." I like reassured her a) I did not need the meds and b) pharmacy lady was PSCHO and so then I called psycho lady and she was rude AND uninformed and then just before she was gonna hang up I was like "put me though to your pharmacist" because I was MAD.

So he verirfied she was wrong, asked me to "send him texts, emails, faxes" (I already asked office manager to KEEP everything in case she had sent her requests "off label" so to speak (I mean she could be related to someone who "hates me" so tp speak) and I was like,, "Pharmacist, no I am NOT providing you with MY proof I'm quite sure ALL requests should be visible in YOUR system do YOUR due diligence, dude." (He could tell I was amped up to CITE his pharmacy as NEEDING to be shut down on week 2, only it is MY employer's pharmacy. I MEAN. )

So yeah, then he frantically tried to get my refills only HE did not have them in stock, but Sierra Vista did but no one could find my PCP so they did a "Standing order" type thing, and I DO have to go get them because ONE is the damn thyroid med and my doctor is going to FREAK when she sees my labwrok on Monday and probably try to like remove it. Something. So I have to DRIVE to Sierra Vista today, arriving before 4 pm.

I have ZERO desire to do that, but I am going to have to. Then, I will have to beg my pdoc for like, some NORMAL thyroid regimen I had been stable on for 10 years, that did NOT cause my hair to fall out, nor to have my freaking period for 3 weeks, nor to feel ODD.

Then I have to find a new PCP not connected to my work and pay more at CVS for the rest of my life because when the pharmacist was like "I could ORDER your meds and have them in stock for next time," I was like, "I am not sure I would do that, because so far you have demonstrated to me you are incapable of the SIMPLEST tasks and I think that includes DIOSPENSING meds.

Jesus. At least the CVS here is COMPETENT and fast. But yeah, I think this whole work PCP thing is NOT going to work out.

I have NO time for this and I'm fairly certain I may have to go back to Tucson. So be it. I can sill see the crazy Douglas docs for like, minor stuff like well, pinkeye but they will ah, not be managing my care.

Holy goodness.

I could do better myself with Thai natural thyroid meds and a freaking, lab test every once in a while. .I know when I feel NOR MAL..

God. God. I need this like a hole in the head. But, I gotta leave. I mean, I can't be REPORTING my own employer's PHARMACY for God's sake.

Anna

Anna, you can rant all you want here but you need to go get the right meds first.