The Medical Thread

Better late than never, mate. Best get those symptoms checked out before you hit the really nasty complications.

I'm just mad at myself because doctor said I was probably borderline, but I never took the initiative to get on that. I even stopped my medication for...whatever reason.

Cramps and fatigue? How can that result from an excessively prolonged orgasm?

Exhaustion?

... That's just "cramps and fatigue" in different phrasing.

Thorn 14: you're just going to have to see your doc and see what you can do.

Don't act like you've already crossed some arbitrary 'event horizon' of illness. Not only is it a waste of time it's not even how diabetes works. Health isn't a pass or fail. You can't 'blow it'. You haven't lose the use of your limbs or eyes sight yet. Act now.

edited 6th Mar '14 3:54:47 AM by joeyjojo

...You do realise that once you take the sexy-fun-time stuff out, orgasms are primarily involuntary pelvic muscular contractions, right? (Please tell me I don't need to elaborate. *twitch*)

edited 6th Mar '14 6:15:35 AM by Pyrite

Wait, so "prolonged orgasm" does not involve a constant release of endorphins (or whatever it its that cause the feeling of pleasure) in the brain?

It might, but that's not going to stop you from getting cramps. (Also, after enough depolarisations, your neurons run out of stored neurotransmitter and will probably need to recharge too, so I'm assuming the brain gets tired and bored long before the body does. Again, I'm really unfamiliar with this subject - or neurochemistry, for that matter.)

edited 6th Mar '14 6:53:50 AM by Pyrite

Plus, there is such a thing as "desensitization" that occurs when you are exposed to an opiate (and endorphins) for some time.

OK, good point. But then comes the question of the involuntary muscular contractions. My impression was that they were caused by what amounts to a single neurotransmitter "pulse" that triggers the series of contractions. What you seem to be saying so far, however, is that it's actually a continuous "series of pulses" that, in the aforementioned abnormal case, either went on for much longer than they should or the muscles somehow got "stuck" in contraction-then-decontraction mode (implying that either there's no "turn-off" neurotransmitter, or there is but didn't get sent for some reason).

PS: All of this is just assumptions on my part. I don't know much in-depth about brain chemistry myself.

edited 6th Mar '14 7:00:03 AM by MarqFJA

(...Have I mentioned how little I know about this topic? Because if I haven't, I'd like to stress that I know very little about this topic.)

It could've been because the muscles failed to relax (i.e. cramps), or it could've been repeated depolarisation due to something going temporarily wrong with the autonomic nervous system or the brain (think seizures), or it could've been due to sensory hypersensitivity (not to be confused with allergies) and persistent arousal leading to repeated orgasms without a refractory period. I can't figure it out based on that clip, and I'm not qualified to speculate.

edited 6th Mar '14 8:24:09 AM by Pyrite

@thorn, out of idle curiosity, did the physician take a blood glucose/ hemoglobin A1c test?

There is that species of rodent (or other small furry thing, possibly not an actual rodent) that literally dies from exhaustion during the breeding season

I heard that if a ferret female stays in heat too long without being mated, it dies of aplastic anemia.

To quote Cracked:

It's something worth remembering the next time you're complaing about how long it's been since you got laid - at least your body won't kill you for striking out.

It's the Antechinus. Poor little guys. They can survive quite long in captivity though.

Yup. Oestogen toxicity.

Ah, I thought it wasn't a rodent.

If you're small, furry and breed a lot you're a rodent in my book, Science be damned.

But... Hobbits...

@Loni - Those words just scream of deadliness...

@Pyrite - They are not exactly furry, though. Then again, their feet are.

Hmm...hot Hobbit feet action. I'm sure someone made a porn of it.

Random, silly question.

What does it say about me, when I always check the size of my poop and feels satisfaction when it's thick and long?

edited 9th Mar '14 11:44:17 AM by dRoy

...Goddamnit, why can't I get normal health questions like the rest of my colleagues?

It means you're taking nice solid manly craps and you should be proud

Physically speaking, it sounds like you're passing a 4 on the Bristol stool scale, which is perfectly normal. Psychologically, you're probably stuck in the Anal stage of Freud's model of psychosexual development and should really cut that shit out.

Do you mean literally cutting the shit he's taking or you mean quit daydreaming about the shit he takes?