Ewaste unhelathy

Originally Posted by miked

They do sell floor mats at Sams and other places that will really help you with the back pain. As for the 25lbs I got 50 I need to get rid of.

Another concern with scraping ewaste is the human dust that is inside the boxes. I purchased a hand held blower from Amazon for about $55 that does a good job. I don't currently have a compressor nor the immediate need for one. I take off the side panel and get as much dust out as possible before proceeding indoors. 73, Mike

All computers are opened and thoroughly cleaned with my electric leaf blower before they are brought into my garage. It's actually more powerful than any gas powered one I've ever owned. No electronics are brought inside the house for any reason. Several years ago I brought home a load of computers and later found they had brown recluse spiders in them. I only saw about 4 this year but for me that's 4 to many.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

Thanks for the responses.........I didn't exactly mean the dust inside the units.........I have become sedentary.........I have 1000's of junk electronics and my daily routine is get up break down material for as long as I can stand it then go home work on computer then watch T.V.........I need to get some cardio into my life or at least take a walk around the block.....LOL

I hear you Mike. I need to drop about 20 and start exercising also.
I unloaded some servers and towers the other day and I still feel it.

Gawd .... i had a tower that i was repairing for someone last week. When i opened it up it looked like the inside of a vacuum cleaner bag. Blew it out with the air compressor and an air gun before bringing it in the shop.

@ Mike: IDK , there might be something else going on. Thyroid problems are a lot more common than one would think. Could be that your potassium levels are off and that's why you're having back spasms. They get worse in the winter when it's cold. The muscles stiffen right up and the body aches get worse.

You might see the doctor and have him run a couple of tests to see what your thyroid levels are.

The at home fix:

Sit on the stairs in the morning and stretch out. Bend over and touch your left foot with your right hand. Next, do the right foot with the left hand. Keep going back and forth like that till you feel your back starting to free up.

Bananas are good for bringing your potassium levels up. You might try a magnesium supplement cause that helps with muscle and energy problems.

Tonic water with quinine in it works really well for the back spasms. Try drinking a liter a day for a few days. You might feel worlds better.

You know how it is with the years setting in. You get in your 40's,50's and 60's and your body is going through the changes just like it did when adolescence started. It's called male menopause and it's a lot more than just a mid-life crisis.

Just wait till the hot flashes start.

Try getting a sitting ball and lowering your work table. The ball is awkward at first cause you alwats feel like your falling off so your always moving to stay on, but after a while you notice that your sides and back doesnt hurt anymore use mine when im gunsmithing inside at my work station. Im from louisiana so if i didnt live to eat, instead of eat to live. I could prolly lose wieght with it cause my wieght has been the same since i started using it

Floor mats been mentioned...work great for standing in one place all day.

As do good shoes. When I worked with Amazon an was walking a ton of miles a day, I got me a pair of Dr.Scholls on recommendation of a waitress and a nurse. Heh. Good shoes. Not exactly gonna win style awards but..you want comfort not style.

As one with a horrible back( unloaded trucks for a couple dozen years) I feel your pain.

I don't have this issue but I have a mat where I stand, decent shoes, and now an then I sit while doing work. Nice little stool I picked up at a yard sale. Far as the extra weight...you need to do some walking or not have the wife feed you so good.

I'd choose the walk option. lol.

Sirscrapalot - When I was younger..I grew up. Now that I'm older..I grow out. - Someone somewhere

Originally Posted by miked

Thanks Scrappah, I may be the most doctored person you know. My thyroid was removed several years ago so I take supplemental thyroid meds.
With my kidney transplant comes lots of meds and side effects which include high risk of skin cancer. And just to add to it diabetes, high blood pressure and atrial fibrillation(heart beat issue).

I see the kidney doc 4 times a year with extensive labs, diabetes/thyroid doc 4 times a year with extensive labs, Skin doc and heart doc 2 times a year.

Also I'm married to a woman from Vietnam who wants me to take herbal meds. Like I said I am likely the most doctored man you know.

I did purchase a bike, Trek Shift 3 which has gotten far less use than I would like to report. I haven't given up on it but I find that unless the weather is pretty good I'm not going to ride.

I used to ride a mountain bike, 20 plus years ago, on trails in the woods. It was great fun and great exercise. I recommend it to those who are physically able. Its best to go to a real bike shop and get a bike worth owning. Also in all the ads they only show young skinny people riding bikes but older fat people can ride and have fun doing it. 73, Mike

I've been fortunate so far. I'll be 60 in a few years and no real problems except for an overactive thyroid. I think i came by it honestly because i've always been a bit hyper but the doc didn't pick up on it till about four or five years ago when it started causing problems. Among other things ... it can kick your immune system into overdrive and cause it to start attacking healthy tissue. I started having problems with my vision and the eye doctor got in his head that it was caused by cancer that had gotten up into the eye socket and formed a tumor.

Had a big go-around with my regular MD with that one. He's not a bad doctor but kind of a horse's necktie. Strongly opinionated and not all that good with people. I knew they had made a bad call with the cancer thing but it took awhile to get that notion out of his head. Once we got that out of the way it came up as being a dead giveaway for being a thyroid problem. It's not all that hard to treat. Just 5 or 10 mg / day of a medicine that slowly shrinks the size of the thyroid so that it's not putting out so much of the hormone that kicks your system into overdrive. After a number of years the problem can go into remission. Every so often i'll stop taking the medicine just to see where things are at. If i start feeling crappy after a couple of weeks than i start back up on the medicine again.

There's a noticeable difference between with and without. I always laid it off to just getting older when i was in my 40's. You know .... the joint pains that feel like arthritis, muscle spasms that keep you in constant pain, body aches, and getting tired easily amongst a whole bunch of other things. It took ten or fifteen years before the answer presented itself but it all seemed to track down to one root cause.

From what i understand, people with an underactive thyroid suffer with a lot of the same symptoms except that they have what's called a moon face and tend to carry a lot of extra weight.

Similar problems for those who have had their thyroid removed it can be difficult to get the hormone replacements tuned in so that you aren't running either too fast or too slow.

I have a gravel floor which helps standing long periods I also have a stool to lean on, I have no need to stretch cause it's seems I drop something every min or so or my stray cat collection knocks stuff off, so I'm bending all the time. I started squatting down and I work out 3 to 5 times a week with weights. I don't do cardiovascular and I should, but I am going to get a bike and start riding.
You have to just put in the effort. I have a tv in the shop with local channels so if I need to watch TV I can do so then, the tv was a scrap pickup and has some small lines on it but it works.

For me , my main job is a desk job so when I get to stand for long periods tearing down stuff if does not bother me too much. I have about 25 extra "holiday" pounds I need to get rid of. I can loose it it I stop eating the oreos ( cookies )
and get back to the gym for a cardio workout. I hope to be back to my 200 lb good weight by spring but it aint easy . I am looking down the barrel of 60 (years) also

You f ers are fat! LOL!!!!