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Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Mine's only 6 inches around and my ankle only 7.5 LOL. The only parts of me that are skinny, I guess.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Escapee, I think between 6 & 7 inches is fairly average for most women (at least the ones I make bracelets for.) My sis could wear a 5 1/2 (nieces get their tiny-ness from her,) but there's no wiggle room with that. My wrists swell so I always make my own 7 and add an inch long extender chain so I can wear them when my wrists are swollen and when they aren't. Since I've been losing weight I could get away with making mine smaller, but again, the whole wrist swelling thing makes me go up some.

Children are really hard to just guess with in regards to size. With women I can usually guess fairly accurately, but kids I totally screw up.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Mine are 5 3/4 and 5 inches. I do have really small wrists.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Mine are 5". I actually have better luck buying children's bracelets than I do women's. Or else buying custom-made jewelry, or paying to have it altered. It's why I don't wear bracelets much.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I guess measuring with a metal tape measure is not real accurate, mine are 5 1/2.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Costa, that's why I started to make my own, had too much trouble finding stuff in jewelry stores I could wear all the time. I have maybe 3, 4 bracelets that are store bought, today I couldn't wear any of them (must have slept on my hands last night.) Well, that and the fact that my taste in jewelry is pretty simple, something Darren absolutely loves, lol.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I am expecting some blood test results. The doctor rang yesterday to say she wanted to talk to me about them, but by the time I got the message she had left for the day. Her message said she'd be in her office from 10am-7pm today and to call her direct number.

So I rang at 10.15am and left a message, then again at 3.30pm and left another message. Nearly 5pm now and still no reply.

Is it rude to ring the main healthcenter number and ask them if they can give me my results, or ask her to call me or something? The doctor's obviously busy but I want my results and the more the day goes on the more stressed I get!!! What is proper protocol on this?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I don't know, Kitt, but I am thinking you are out of luck until Monday. But on the bright side, it can't be an emergency, or they would have made sure to get back to you.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
That's what I'm hoping - nothing too bad - as she didn't say in her message to make an appointment. Very frustrating! I think I'm going to wait until 6pm and then ring the main number and see what they can tell me. I know they stay open until 7.

Thanks for replying.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Got through to her! All it was is low vitamin D... now I've got to look up what that means!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 5:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Kitt, if you had the standard blood tests, pretty much the worst thing I think she could tell you is that your sugar is too high, or you have high WBC which might indicate infection somewhere. It's not like a regular CBC (complete blood count) test would tell you anything horrific, like you have cancer or something. Try not to worry yourself. And remember that many blood tests have skewed results at any given time dependant on many circumstances.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Thanks Hukd :-). I managed to get a call through to her, and it's all good except my vitamin D levels. So I can relax this weekend and watch the footie!

Karen
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09-06-2004

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Kitt, vitamin D helps your body break down calcium, that's all I know about it.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
What??? How did you post at 6:13 and I didn't see that? I would have just shut my mouth, lol. Anyways, glad to hear it is nothing to worry about!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
LOL Hukd, I didn't like to mention my previous post ;). Thanks for replying anyway, I'd worked myself into a state and had I not already been able to speak to her your comments would have helped!

Karen, yes, it seems like it's to do with bone strength and calcium absorption, so it's probably very good I found out now, so I can take supplements. The alternative is going out in the sun, and with my lily white skin and tendency to burn in five minutes, that probably isn't wise.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I guess with all the heat we've had lately, I've burned out a cylinder or something, lol.

Karen
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09-06-2004

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
LOL. I only know about it because my midwife advised I take a D supplement to ensure I'm actually getting as much calcium as I think I am.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
Kitt, I burn quickly too. I wonder if you could go out with your arms exposed and w/o sunscreen for 5 min 2 or 3 times a day. I haven't researched it for a long time, but I think that will give you a lot of D. Maybe not enough. I think D from the sun and food is better for you (as in absorbed by your body more efficiently or something) than D as a supplement. I take supplements and also try to get out in the sun a bit in short bursts.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 2:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Kitt, I think with your lily-white skin, it is probably a VERY efficient vitamin D producer, so you probably wouldn't have to be out as long to manufacture your own sufficient dose. Think about where the white-skinned people evolved and where the dark-skinned people evolved. White skinned were far northern climates with little sunlight, so the skin evolved into being very light so as to more efficiently process as much sunlight as possible in a short time. Dark skinned people evolved closer to the equator where there is an abundance of sunlight, so those people did not need efficient vitamin D factories, as the sunlight was constantly available. And, that is why dark-skinned people have to be especially careful if they live in far northern climates now, as they do not have your very efficient vitamin D processor.

And you can also take supplements, but getting a little sunlight a day but not enough to burn is probably a good idea.

I hope to HELL I am not in a right now thread. Sigh ...

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Back in the late winter, when coincidentally they were talking a lot on the news about a lot of people lacking vitamin D, I tried walking to work (15mins one way) without sunscreen. Even just that short time in the winter sun burnt me. I bought the supplements today (half price sale plus they had a $1 coupon on them - bargain!) but I think I will just try and spend a few minutes outside here and there, like you say. Trouble with California is the sun is really strong!

Juju, when I was reading up they were saying vitamin D deficiency was common in people with dark skin and I wondered why - what you say makes a lot of sense.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 9:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I take a multi-vitamin with vitamin D and two calcium-with-D tablets per day. I am fair-skinned as well and tend to avoid the sun (heh, what sun in Western WA?). I get a lot more sun in the winter in South Texas. Kitt, I wonder if you could walk to work wearing a very light sunscreen and it would do any good but not burn you? Well, the exercise would certainly be good ... Have you run across in your research where they say vitamin D is not absorbed well orally?

Oh, and Costco is usually the best place pricewise for OTC meds and supplements, in case you aware not aware of that.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
From what I read, any sunscreen at all blocks the vit-D absorption by about 95%. And it sounds like the supplements work quite effectively in giving you vit-D, it's just the sun gives it to you really quickly. I think I will just work with the supplements, and not be quite so afraid of crossing car parks in the sun!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Sounds like a plan. I did not know that the sunscreens block that much of vitamin D manufacture. Dang! Well, I am not in the sun much up here in the summer, if we had a summer, but I don't use sunscreen usually anyway. Well, i do in Texas in the winter sometimes.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 6:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Yes, ironically I probably actually got more sun in England than I do in California, because I never wore sunscreen because I never expected to see the sun through the rain clouds.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Monday, July 12, 2010 - 1:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Since we're in the dumb question thread, I always wondered. I'm up here in Western WA like Juju. When we DO get some sun, what are we supposed to bare to get the Vit D? Face, arms, strip down to a bikini (that ain't gonna happen!) - for how long to get what is needed?

I get some through daily vitamins, but if it's just a few minutes on my balcony watching people play at the park across the street, I could do that.