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Losartan might be a really bad medication
PSA: I have had chronic dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, fatigue, and other issues since late 2020, and I just figured out that it’s been the Losartan I’ve been taking this whole time.
I stopped taking it and the aggressively bad way I’ve felt this whole time disappeared completely for the past two days. I also saw many specialists during this period who all had their own terrible ways of dealing with the problem, like the neurologist who put me on like an anti-seizure medication that made my head feel like it was stuck in a vice. Let’s add another shitty med on top of the one causing the issue! 🙃
I’m convinced Losartan contributed to and possibly was the reason I needed an emergency appendectomy two years ago.
There are Reddit threads full of other people who have experienced similar issues.
I’m still on the other two BP meds I’d initially suspected, but stopping Losartan was the one that fixed the problem.
Also fuck my then-primary doctor for scolding me when I tried this experiment 6 years ago by telling me never to self medicate again. You were wrong about this one and I was right.
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The MMO I work on at my day job just went into early access on Steam today. Check it out: www.camelotunchained.com/2026/06/0…
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Just witnessed Colt Emerson’s third major league homer! ⚾️
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Campfire
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Haystack
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Greetings from Cannon Beach! 🏖️
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The world might have been a better place if their names had been Steve Naps and Bill Bridges. Think about it.
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This RYB color tool is bitchin'! rybitten.space 🎨
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My latest project: A photometric lighting viewer for macOS! 💡
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The mountain is out! ⛰️
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Happy birthday, Devin! 🥳🥳
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I’ll believe it when I see it: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft…
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Boat ride! ⚓️
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Splashdown! 🚀
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I hit that Mail bug again on iOS. Been careful since to only multiselect messages that are unread, but there’s definitely a problem with the state of the button toggle. It erroneously presented me with a Mark as Unread button.
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I wish I’d had NFOViewer back at Runic. Before I went to bed, I added a global search feature. This was finicky to get working at first, but it works. The other issue I had to fix was when filtering thousands of items, I’d hit a deadlock while rendering the UI, but we debounce and stream in now.
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In past support roles, I always preferred working from a Mac, but those pesky Windows System Information (*.NFO) files kept getting in the way. So tonight I built NFOViewer, a simple macOS app that opens them with zero friction.
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Tonight I went through the process of bringing the classic Mac OS X app Backhoe (a terrain editor for Second Life) all the way from Objective-C and AppKit on Mac OS X 10.4 (PPC) over to Swift, Apple Silicon, modern macOS – and running on the iPad!
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Fats Navarro w/ Don Lanphere www.youtube.com/watch 🎵 It blows my mind that I studied with Don and knew him a little bit. He was a musically-demanding perfectionist, but was a good guy with a kind heart. He used to tell me how much he and Charlie Parker hated Paul Desmond. 😆
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Anybody else notice an annoying little hitch lately when dragging and dropping files on macOS, like into Claude or a web browser drop zone?
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Got an old project up and running again in a docker container tonight. Hello, old friend!
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It’d be real sweet if Mail got an update sometime to make marking all messages as read not suck. Twice this year I have inadvertently flagged all messages on all my accounts by mistake, usually due to some kind of UI lag bug on the iPad.
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Last weekend visiting the cherry blossoms at the UW campus.
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We went to a No Kings protest yesterday afternoon in Ballard.
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First time at opening week! A good effort tonight even if we didn’t win. ⚾️
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