Should I be worried about extreme ability to pop/crack joints?
2025.01.31 01:11 callie12356 Should I be worried about extreme ability to pop/crack joints?
27F, (6’, ~205 pounds) only medications are rinvoq for eczema (since birth) and birth control for PCOS (since ~18).
Ever since I can remember I’ve been able to either on purpose or accidentally pop joints (elbow, knee, ankle, hip, up and down my back).
Totally not sure if this is concerning. I haven’t got a primary care as of now (new insurance, haven’t found a dr I like yet). I’m only 27 but I feel 72 sometimes. Even just getting up from the couch my elbow will crack or even my hip will pop. I have a crazy ability to pop all sorts of places up and down my back and if I turn my upper body while sitting upright at a certain angle, I can easily make myself pop somewhere around where my hips and spine meet. Most, if not all of the times I end up popping or cracking somewhere is totally on accident, however, doing everyday normal activities.
Any thoughts appreciated lol
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2025.01.31 01:11 MechanicImmediate706 EB 2 and 3 consular processing
 | Since DOS has not yet released the full breakdown for 2024, I calculated it myself by summing up each month’s data. This statistic refers to visas issued outside the U.S. through consular processing. I only calculated the 2nd and 3rd+other categories. Maybe this might be useful for someone. submitted by MechanicImmediate706 to USCIS [link] [comments] |
2025.01.31 01:11 SaltyBJ Blood Pressure Machine Squeezed too hard
Today at my wellness visit, I had my blood pressure taken with one of those automatic machines. It squeezed my arm much too hard. I complained that the machine was hurting me, but the nurse just told me to relax. I told her it felt like my hand was going to burst. After the cuff was off, this was all over me from the cuff to my hand. Plus two darker purple, deeper under the skin areas that are a larger than the tiny dark purple spots. Is this dangerous to me? Do I need to see a doctor about this? I have no real pain from it. I’m just worried something did burst.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Mountain-Bonus6497 Fui recusado na cota de pardo mesmo sendo quase negro
To num odio aqui, não é possível. Sou pardo, com todos os traços de pardo possível. Cabelo cacheado, nariz batata, labios volumosos, pele escura, dependendo da pessoa posso ser até considerado negro. Por algum motivo o IFPE recusou minha cota de pardo aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa vai tomar no
lembrando que a cota é PPI, mesmo que eu fosse considerado negro eu passaria, mas por algum motivo eu sou branco pra eles
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2025.01.31 01:11 Devil_cake2 Awkward nerdy boy (17) to beautiful woman(23)
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2025.01.31 01:11 Unlikely-Cod-4719 3☆ trade
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2025.01.31 01:11 purupurupururindx Various Pikmin Memes I made for school
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2025.01.31 01:11 bigredrex22 [WTS] Relisted '85-CC GSA PCGS 64 Gold Shield! Crescent Rainbow Toned MS64 1885-O Morgan, Silver Buffalo Round, EX Unitae Vires Silver Bar, 1 Oz Silver Proof Morgan Round, 1994 POW Silver Proof, 1996 Smithsonian Silver Proof! VSS Attributed Morgan Vams, Empty GSA Boxes!
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1 OZ Silver Proof Morgan generic round $34
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1 OZ EX Unitae Vires Silver Bar $35
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1994 POW Gem Proof Commemorative Silver Dollar (some light milkspotting) with Gov't Display case $35
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2025.01.31 01:11 Rosefiere "Dream Cast" Sticky or Day?
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I am starting to get over the constant "here's my dream cast!!" posts. Typically it's a bunch of random faces without caption, who could literally be entirely AI generated for all I know. What does the sub think about consolidating these to a specific thread or day?
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2025.01.31 01:11 FarmerCr0w EYYYYEMMM BEEEEECKKKKK
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2025.01.31 01:11 Lasting_Ninja [M4GM] Self Insert Role-play
Hi, everyone!
I've been on a bit of a self insert/OC high lately, and it's resulted in me writing a lot of stuff for my character, although I haven't written out a completely story all that much. I'm hoping to find a GM who I can build a story with and a world for my character.
My main goal with this is to have as much fun with this as I'm able to. I do want to write a cohesive and consistent story as well, of course. I just don't generally take it as seriously as most people would. I hope that won't be too much of an issue.
As far as requirements go, I'm primarily looking for someone with proper grammar, experience in role-playing, and extensive knowledge of any of these franchises that we decide to play out.
Optionally, I would love to include Selfshipping/Yumeshipping as well, if that's something you're interested in.
Here are the franchises that I'm into for us to pick from: DC, Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Dragon Ball, Life is Strange, Marvel, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, & Tekken
Send me a message on Reddit chat if you're interested! I hope to see you!
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2025.01.31 01:11 Maleficent_Ease8236 They know they have no one😥 but each other, so they become friends instead of enemies
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2025.01.31 01:11 Boring-Activity3406 Is there an app worth going live on that’s as good as TikTok was?
I’m not going to be around the bush: TikTok is different now, and I just want to go live and play my songs, sprinkle in some songs that other people ask me to play and gain followers who like my music. I gained over 1200 more followers on TikTok from going live over the span of a few months, which probably isn’t a lot to some content creators, but I think it’s a damn good start. My band has a good bit of social media profiles, but I’m just trying to find a good site - if I don’t already have it - that’s good to share my music and get people excited to hear something new. Thank you in advance.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Datsun28EZ Issues launching Modded Dedicated Server
This is my first time trying to launch a Zomboid Server and everything was going smoothly until I went to add the Workshop and Mod IDs to the "servertest_SandboxVars.lua" file. I added all my mods and everything was going smoothly in my CMD prompt until at the end I receive the following message:
SEVERE: Error found in LUA file: C:/Users/UseZomboid/Serveservertest_SandboxVars.lua
ERROR: General , 1738284876265> 9,567,168> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaException: servertest_SandboxVars.lua:263: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 1) near `=` at LexState.lexerror line:278.
ERROR: General , 1738284876266> 9,567,168> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaException: servertest_SandboxVars.lua:263: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 1) near `=`
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.lexerror(LexState.java:278)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.syntaxerror(LexState.java:289)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.check_match(LexState.java:715)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.constructor(LexState.java:962)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.simpleexp(LexState.java:1202)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.subexpr(LexState.java:1303)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.expr(LexState.java:1321)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.explist1(LexState.java:1036)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.assignment(LexState.java:1403)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.exprstat(LexState.java:1696)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.statement(LexState.java:1779)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.chunk(LexState.java:1790)
at org.luaj.kahluafork.compiler.LexState.compile(LexState.java:198)
at se.krka.kahlua.luaj.compiler.LuaCompiler.loadis(LuaCompiler.java:132)
at se.krka.kahlua.luaj.compiler.LuaCompiler.loadis(LuaCompiler.java:124)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.RunLuaInternal(LuaManager.java:546)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.RunLua(LuaManager.java:510)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.RunLua(LuaManager.java:496)
at zombie.SandboxOptions.readLuaFile(SandboxOptions.java:1634)
at zombie.SandboxOptions.loadServerLuaFile(SandboxOptions.java:1491)
at zombie.network.GameServer.doMinimumInit(GameServer.java:1428)
at zombie.network.GameServer.main(GameServer.java:688)
LOG : General , 1738284876267> 9,567,169> Exiting due to errors loading C:\Users\User\Zomboid\Server\servertest_SandboxVars.lua
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'CFileWriterThread'
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'CFileWriterThread'
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'Thread(0x00007FFF90831B60/0x000'
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'Thread(0x00007FFF90831B60/0x000'
C:\SteamCMD\steamapps\common\Project Zomboid Dedicated Server>PAUSE
I genuinely have no clue as to what I'm reading and would greatly appreciate the help of an experienced Zomboid modder for some guidance!
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2025.01.31 01:11 MaxAugust Historically, Catholics seem to have taken an ambiguous view as to the souls of righteous pagans who lived before Christ. Did the church ever reach a consensus on the topic? Did it differ from how they would have understood the status of souls in the Americas or East Asia prior to frequent contact?
Dante for example clearly goes to great pains to find a place in his cosmology for the great figures of antiquity. Especially after contact with the Americas and other parts of the world, I imagine similar questions would have arisen with regards to the people there and their ancestors.
I know some Jesuits interpreted ancient Chinese texts as evidence that some aspects of monotheism must have been practiced in the distant past and then later abandoned. I could see that fitting into a justification for distant non-Christian not just being uninformed but actually willfully astray and thus possibly damned.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Valuable-Draw-1708 حبي الاول
اول مره اعترف بقصه حبي قدام اي حد و قررت اكشفها لاني اتعلمت دروس منها رغم احزاني لو حد مهتم يقرا يعني
المهم القصه يا سيدي من ساعه ما وعيت عالدنيا و انا بحب ابن عمي اللي اكبر مني بعشر سنين وهو كان مقتنع اني في الاخر هتجوز اخوه الصغير اللي انا وهو بنكره بعض كره العمي فضلت احبه في السر و اتكسف قدامه حتي و انا صغيره و كان بيعاملني علي اساس يعني طفله يشيلها و يحضنها و يبوسها و ينام معها علي نفس السرير و يلعبوا مع بعض لما كبرت بقينا نشوف بعض نادر جدا يمكن مره او اتنين في السنه و كلامنا يدوبك نسلم علي بعض و انا ابص بعيد عنه حبي ليه كان هوس و قبول حقيقي بس ولا مره فكرت اقوله ولا تخيلت اني ممكن اكون معاه بشكل تاني نظرا يعني لظروف العلاقه بين امه و ابويا اخر مره شفته كانت ٢٠١٩ مره بس لما كنت عند جدتي بعدها كنت عايشه حاله اشتياق رهيب و انا اصلا معنديش اي صوره ليه حتي اشوفها كنت بطلع الصور بتاعته وهو طفل من الصور بتاعتي و كنت احلم بيه طول شهر رمضان بعد اكتر من سنتين علي هذا الحال عرفت انه راح يتقدم لواحده بيحبها من ايام الثانويه انا طبعا انصدمت ان اللحظة دي جت بدري اوي و كنت مش بنام من التفكير لحد ما وصلي فيديو خطوبته كنت ساعتها بضحك و قعدت كان يوم اشتم فيه بيني و بين نفسي و كنت اقارن نفسي بخطيبته بطريقة غبيه و ساذجه زي انها اقل مني جمالا يعني رغم ان دا تخلف مني معلش حذفت الفيديو من عندي عشان احافظ علي اخر ذرات من نفسي العقليه لليوم بفتكره و بيوحشني و لما بشوف حد نفس هيئته او يشبه او نفس صوته او البرفان بتاعه بحس ان قلبي هيقف و طفلي الداخلي يجري عالشخص دا علطول
عرفت انه متجوز من سنه من البنت اللي بيحبها معرفش لسه بحبه او لا لكن انا مش ندمانه ابدا علي حبه لاني اتعلمت ان مهما كان حبي كبير لازم دايما ابص للشخص بعقلي و اعرف هل يناسبني ولا لا وهو بالفعل كان مش مناسب و تخيلت للحظه ما لو كان بيبادلني نفس المشاعر؟ اظن كنت هتعذب اكتر و اضيع سنين من عمري مع شخص علي امل اني اكون معاه و انا عارفه النهايه كان سني صغير بس كنت الحمد لله مدركه الوضع كفايه و يمكن دا بيفيدني حاليا و كمان بعدين
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2025.01.31 01:11 Broad_Feedback_799 Experience the truely serene mountain sanctuary for dreamers
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2025.01.31 01:11 tony12y Can you spot the difference??
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2025.01.31 01:11 Charlene-M-Vasquez Why You’re Stuck—and How to Break Free
We all have goals, dreams, and ambitions…things we want to achieve that would make our lives richer, more fulfilling, and more successful.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Empty-Step4162 I need this txn
Hi,
I have filed a case against Coinbase in Europe. I Need to find this txn as Proof! Can I establish it with the given Information?
Amount: 8907.77835200 USDT Transaction Hash: 0x7f64…….60cb4a Network: Polygon Date: March 2024 Status: Completed
There shouldn’t be too many TXN in march 24 with exactly 8907.77835200 USDT and those first digits but I just can’t find it :(
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2025.01.31 01:11 Puzzleheaded_Humor80 The first 5 years of image
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2025.01.31 01:11 Logical1113 33F with PCOS, often getting sick when I menstruate
So I also posted on Askdocs, but basically I have PCOS so I don’t have a normal menstrual cycle, but often times when I bleed, I end up getting sick around the same time.
This time, it makes sense: I was with a friend for 2 days right before she got sick, then on Saturday I was at a large (probably something like 30k people) outdoor event where it was really cold for this Floridian, even with layers and hot hands. So it makes sense that I got sick. But then after being sick for a couple days, I started bleeding. And what happened the last time I got sick? Same thing.
It’s not a 1:1 thing that every single time I get my period I get sick but it does seem to be almost every time I get sick I’m either already on my period, or I start my period while sick.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Resident_Tooth_8892 My co-worker is weird -- the kids say she is dating her dog...
I never liked Janice.
She was the kind of teacher who corrected your grammar in the breakroom, the type who sent mass emails about “the ongoing issue of stolen lunches” like we were in a corporate thriller instead of a poorly funded high school. If you were late submitting your lesson plans, she’d remind you. Twice. In bold. One time she told me the only good new teacher was a silent new teacher – to me – the new teacher, in the middle of me speaking at a meeting. But she did her job, and in the grand scheme of workplace nightmares, she could be worse.
Then New Year’s Eve happened.
She posted the same picture she always did: a glass of wine, a caption that tried and failed to be chipper.
"Happy New Year! Another exciting celebration with just Rico!"
At first, I barely noticed it. Just Janice being Janice. Then the comments started.
Still just you and the dog, huh? You should get out more, Jan.
At least you’re not a cat lady…
Let us see Rico!
And then, her response:
Rico knows what’s best for me. Rico wants it this way.
Something about that sentence crawled under my skin.
Rico was her golden retriever. Supposedly. But now that I thought about it, I had never actually seen him. No pictures, no stories, no dog hair clinging to her clothes (she wore a lot of black, drapey dresses – there should be hair!). Just these cryptic little remarks when people complimented her or noticed her efficiency:
Rico keeps me on track.Rico doesn’t like it when I waste time.
She was always pushy, in your face and in your space. She dominated every conversation, and squashed any voices of dissent. The students whispered (and I heard it in the hall, because teenagers aren’t quiet) that she was…for lack of better words, intimate with her dog. There were rumors she was actually a dog. People would say (I don’t think it was true) that she actually growled when she was upset, and she’d wag her ass if someone did something good.
But, then, one day she got jumpy around us. The kind of skittish that suggested either a guilty conscience or something whispering in her ear when no one else was around. You can picture it – she looked like an abused animal now. Afraid of its own shadow, cowering in a corner to make itself smaller. I’d catch her mumbling to herself in the hall, fingers twitching over her keyboard like she was typing under duress.
There were “the incidents.”
One day, a student made a joke about her outfit. Janice turned to him, her face deathly serious. “Rico doesn’t like rude children,” she said. The kid went pale. The whole class did.
Another day, someone came into her room, and they found her hunched over her lunch, greedily shoveling it in, face in her bowl. A teacher down the hall started calling her “kibbles and bits.”
And just like that, the rumors continued. That she lived alone, talking to walls. That the dog wasn’t a dog at all. Kids actually would go up to her windows at night, trying to record her to put online. Her shades were drawn tight, but the noises they described – let’s just say they were unholy.
Call it guilt. Call it morbid curiosity. But one day, I invited her to a staff gathering – just the bar Friday after school. I was expecting her usual curt refusal. Instead, she blinked at me dumbly for a minute — and said yes.
Once we were out, things got worse.
Janice barely drank. Barely spoke. But every so often, she twitched, like something was yanking an invisible leash around her throat. Then, a coworker leaned in and whispered something to her.
She stiffened.
Then, just as quietly, she whispered something back.
The blood drained from his face.
When he returned, I asked, “What did she say?”
He swallowed hard. “She told me Rico doesn’t like me. Rico hasn’t even met me! I haven’t met Rico. What the hell is wrong with that woman?”
Janice left early. That night, I checked her social media. No updates. No cryptic messages. Just silence.
And the next morning — no Janice.
Alex, another coworker, and I drove to her house. Her car was in the driveway. Lights on inside. But when we knocked —
Nothing.
Then —
A shuffle. Something heavy moving.
Then, her voice — thin, reedy. Wrong.
“He doesn’t want me to talk to you.”
Alex tried the door. Locked. “Janice, open up.”
Silence.
Then — scraping. A slow, deliberate sound, like claws against wood.
Then, a whimper.
But not from Janice.
Then, a thumping sound, like a massive tail banging against a wall.
A deep, guttural voice commanded: “Go away.”
My body screamed at me to listen. Alex, however, had other plans.
We tried to open the door, we tried to knock it down. We are two slight people – we’re young teachers – we can’t pay to eat. We tried though. We went around the back of the house, and the back door was locked. Finally, we found a window, opened just a slit. With one hard shove, it opened.
Inside, the house was unnervingly neat — except the living room. There were torn up magazines, torn up couches. Massive piles of shit were spaced every few feet. Bones, raw meat, and other bizarre debris littered the remnants of furniture that were still recognizable. The air was heavy, thick with something rotting. Janice stood in the center, trembling, her gaze fixed on something in the corner.
At first, I thought it was a trick of the light. Then, it moved.
Eyes, low to the ground, blinked open in the dark.
The thing slunk forward — dog-shaped, but wrong. Its limbs stretched too long, its body impossibly gaunt, like it had been starved for centuries. Its mouth — too wide, too full of teeth — curled in something like a grin. We heard a deep thud as its mangy tail started to slap the table propped against a wall.
Janice clutched her head. “He’s in my mind. He always has been.” Her eyes were squeezed shut, her lips pursed like a crying child. She stomped her feet as she rambled on incoherently.
Alex whispered, “We need to get her out of here.”
“Go ahead,” Janice murmured. Her eyes opened, and her hands dropped. They went to her hips, and the old Janice was back. The tough one – the one we were all afraid of at work. She seemed to grow taller and stand straighter, and she demanded, “Tell me where you think I’ll go that Rico won’t follow.”
I felt it then — the weight of something ancient pressing down, curling around us like a hand on a throat.
Then, Janice smiled.
Not the relieved kind. Not the “help me” kind.
The kind of smile that says, I know something you don’t.
“You don’t get it,” she said softly. “I invited him in.”
Behind her, Rico’s jaw unhinged.
The lights went out.
The last thing I heard before we ran — before we fled that house like cowards — was the sound of Janice laughing.
Not the nervous kind. Not the panicked kind. The kind that says, this was never about escaping.
We made it to Alex’s car, and he sped away. We drove and drove, neither of us wanting to go home, or speaking. As the sun began to rise, he dropped me off, and I tried to shower away the visions of what we had just experienced. It didn’t work.
That morning, Janice didn’t show up for work. No police report. No missing person’s case. No one else knew her or knew what we saw. Just an empty house with the doors locked tight.
That night, I checked her social media one last time.
Her account was deleted.
This morning, I woke up, and I had a friend request from someone named Rico. And, the craziest thing is – I kind of want to accept it.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Mak_dadddy10 False low readings
Anybody know reasonings why my dexcom g7 is reading consistently low when my finger stick suggests higher readings. I don’t think I have compression on my sensor to cause compression lows..and I’ve calibrated it many times.
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2025.01.31 01:11 Sure_Feature_834 Name of book help
Long shot, I read a book in the mid to late 90s (borrowed it from my dads bookshelf) and the killer was a psychologist (I think) who drugged his victims from the candy dish on his desk.
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