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Yes. Severe sleep apnea for years. Getting my CPAP for testing real soon now that I’ve been diagnosed… A third time. Long story. First time was not severe enough, second time my psycho ex said if I start sleeping with a CPAP, I better find another bed to sleep in and now I’m gloriously single and nobody can tell me to keep killing myself because the near quiet him of the CPAP is annoying.
Only every goddamn day (I have chronic pain)
I check the engine fairly regularly, and the mechanic says nothing’s wrong, but it still feels like it’s running kinda funny…
Perhaps it is the road that is the problem –Krishnamurti, probably
All the road is broken, my car twice broken, twice I goes mechanic, he say 500 euros. I go left, right
Tap for spoiler
I’ll buy the first person who recognizes the reference a beer
Sounds like maybe Group X?
It’s actually an ancient Estonian meme translated into English (of course, Estonian grammar being as complex as it is, the full depth of the grammatical errors is hard to convey in English)
It’s metal grinding on metal! You must have heard the noise for miles.
Yes, and…?
I actually have real alarms for that, and yes, I ignore them. Maybe if the device maker didn’t make the alarms go off so annoyingly I would pay attention, but alas…
I actually used this to explain a concern of mine to my wife. We had a Subaru Forester that had some minor but expensive issue that kept the check engine light on, so we ignored it. And because of that missed something else that made the engine 'splode (not literally, just turned the SUV to SCRAP). About 8 hours from our house and two hours from the nearest rental car agency (and no trains). With our daughter in the back and me needing to be at work the next morning.
Anyway, I was talking about how everything hurts a bit, and because of that my general pain tolerance is way higher to the point I don’t notice most of the time I’m hurt. Like the check engine light on the Subaru.
I imagine cancer is going to come along and when I find out at stage four, people will wonder how I possibly could have put up with it up to that point without going to the doctor. And I’ll say I didn’t even notice it.
Some people do be like that. My grandpa went to the doctor for a checkup because of pneumonia and they told him about his heart attacks that he’d just quietly had at home.
Needless to say, he didn’t have much longer after that.
If only a diagnosis was as cheap as a $20 scan tool…
Mine told me a cam sensor was having an issue, but the car’s been driving like it always was and hasn’t had an issue in almost a year.
(Watch my car explode now that I’ve posted this)
Bad cam sensor doesn’t necessarily disable the vehicle but a bad crank sensor usually does. Bad cam sensor just means you’re going to waste sparks.
It’s also not something you can just ignore. Eventually you’ll damage/destroy your engine.
Cam position sensors are cheap and generally easy even for a beginner to replace, so if I were you I’d stop putting it off and just get it fixed.
Eh that depends on how the system is set up. If injection isn’t based on the cam position at all, no real worries. If the car also needs precisely timed injection, you’re in trouble. Variable valve timing and stuff will probably complicate this as well. I don’t think I’ve ever had that in a car, my petrol engines have mostly been old beaters where the timing system is much simpler.
Personally I drive a common-rail diesel. It wouldn’t even start with a bad cam sensor I suspect, because it needs to know the exact moment to inject fuel straight into the cylinder. But then my old Chrysler 300M was a car that, in my case had a bad crank sensor (so needed to be replaced for sure), but a lot of the guys who had bad cam sensors just kept driving till they got the new part. Which often took time.
Incidentally the first visit to a specialty doctor is 20€ and subsequent visits are free so that’s about how much it costs here.
Ah, nothing a bit of electrical tape can’t fix
Mine has had the check engine light for ages and i have had the radio blaring so loud I can’t even hear the obvious issues to anyone nearby
Not really, I go to regular service checks
Should’ve been hauled off to the scrapyard ages ago…
My entire life up until last year. Turned out to be biochemical gender dysphoria. Estrogen straight-up fixed it for me.
Your body knew
It literally is, I cannot sleep and I don’t know why. I mean I know some of why but not the root cause.
I had terrible insomnia as a late teen/early 20’s guy.
What “fixed” it for me was rock climbing (indoor sports walls). It’s both physically and mentally challenging. When you are climbing you are focused on the climb and noting else. The exercise helps tire you out and gives you a boost in endorphins when you a done.
I’m still a very light sleeper 20 years later; but I rarely get less than 5 hours a night these days.
I still climb once a week.
The root cause of my insomnia was rumination; I literally couldn’t stop thinking about all the stuff happening. Rock climbing forced my mind to focus on something productive the exercise helped tire my body out so that it was ready for sleep. Getting both body and mind ready for sleep helped so much.
This is my experience; I hope it can give you some help.
So I got to the ruminations stage of the RCA too but now I have physic-pills that stop the ruminations and I still can’t sleep*
It might be physiological at this point for me.
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I’m ok with not being understood I don’t want to explain the details.
I haven’t even changed the oil or gassed up in years.
I think it died, now I’m driving around as if I have unlimited gas and cocaine
