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The Commonly Confused Words Test (http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14457200288064322170)
How well can you bodge the English language??
Here is my score...not bad, but could be better. My sixth grade teacher would be very disappointed. :p
Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 55% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
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Advanced
You scored 86% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 66% Expert!
Not bad, seeing i'm dutch.....
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Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert.
Hmmmmm.....
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Mine:
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
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@ Tahoe (edit: add Odin here too)
Your score is more impressive (especially the 87% advanced) because you are Dutch.
I couldn't really make a similar statement about me being South African because English has always been one of the official languages there. It also helps that written documents in hospitals are subject to intense scrutiny which makes a guy very careful with his "Ingleeeesh"
:-)
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I think this test am poop:
You scored 80% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 99% Advanced, and 70% Expert!
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Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 50% Expert!
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English Genius
You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
:oops:
can't use the foreigner excuse anymore....
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Btw. I wonder how well ASCII would pass this test :-)
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Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
100% had lower Beginner scores.
100% had lower Intermediate scores.
100% had lower Advanced scores.
100% had lower Expert scores.
With respect to Beginner, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
With respect to Intermediate, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
With respect to Advanced, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
With respect to Expert, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
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English Genius
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For answers to the Beginner section only (the first ten questions), visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/. I will post the answers to the other questions as soon as possible.
Hey! If you liked my test, send the link to your friends. They don't need to be OkCupid members to take it.
The Commonly Confused Words Test
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14457200288064322170
Test statistics:
* Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
o 100% had lower Beginner scores.
o 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
o 100% had lower Advanced scores.
o 100% had lower Expert scores.
* With respect to Beginner, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
* With respect to Intermediate, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
* With respect to Advanced, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
* With respect to Expert, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
It's a great pity about my use of language here, then :lol:
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Whoo hoo! not too bad :-)
Advanced
You scored 86% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
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One doesn't find these results surprising at all. We are amiga users, after all...
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Very Literate
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 75% Advanced, and 88% Expert!
Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.
(What's with the typo on the introductory page?)
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The one thing the test does seem to illustrate is that the literacy level of the English language is falling with each passing generation.
Wayne
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You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 66% Expert!
Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.
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Intermediate
You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 75% Advanced, and 55% Expert!
You have a good understanding of beginner and intermediate level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of the beginner and intermediate level questions correct. This is a good score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got a respectable score.
Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.
Not bad, for a foreigner... :)
On a side note: I actually failed in English at school! :lol:
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Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
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I suck at English...
You scored 86% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
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Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
# Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.
Excellent, everyone else my age is a dumb ass! ;-)
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Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 61% Expert!
Sheesh, seems I'm no expert. :-)
The one bugbear I really have is when people say "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would HAVE"
I don't mind the kids doing it so much, but to see grown adults write this makes me kinda sad.
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I don't mind the kids doing it so much
Correct them everytime they say it, and they won't disapoint you with their grammar when they are adults. :-)
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93% seems a common figure for beginner scores, myself included. Does anybody else wonder which question(s) in the beginner level they stuffed up?
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ajlwalker wrote:
The one bugbear I really have is when people say "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would HAVE"
I can't stand "different THAN" !!! Ugh!
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Ja, on the subject of what grates me:
1) Using "then" instead of "than" in a comparison. Example "He is taller then me." Lots of folks do that.
2) Using "your" and "were" instead of "you're" and "we're." Example "Your going to get caught and were not going to bail you."
But my number one hate is the abuse of the apostrophe in written documents. When I was studying english at University a professor there told us that an apostrophe is always used to denote an omission. This applies even to possession. In the 'old days' if we wanted to talk about a hat that Fluffy was wearing, we might say "Fluffy his hat is black." That got shortened to Fluffy's hat (the apostrophe denotes the omission of part of the word 'his.' So even though the effect of the apostrophe in modern day usage as above denotes possession, it is actually employed to denote omission. The same applies to "doesn't". The apostrophe denotes the omission of the letter o. That's why it doesn't make sense to have "does'nt." Where is the omitted letter and what is it? If you stick by that rule, you will avoid all abuse of the poor apostrophe. A common abuse is plurals, for example "Video's for sale." Technically what that means is "Video is for sale" because the omission can only be 'is' for it to make sense. But what about "300 video's for sale?" -- that means 300 video is for sale. Doesn't make sense. The apostrophe is not for plurals, even if the noun is a model number such as Boeing 747. If there are 30 of these aircraft, it is 30 Boeing 747s, not 30 Boeing 747's.
And then there is the use of plurals to denote possession, such as "Fluffies hat" but that is another type of abuse altogether...
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Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on Beginner
You scored higher than 99% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 99% on Advanced
You scored higher than 99% on Expert
I'm disappointed. I'll have to go back and study some more.
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@ Xand... (and all the 99%)
LOL
Yours is the same as mine...and I suspect you are in my age group (I'm 33) because when I did mine it told me 100% of those in my age group scored lower than me...but I did the test before you. He he, its all about timing mate :-P
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mdma wrote:
I don't mind the kids doing it so much
Correct them everytime they say it, and they won't disapoint you with their grammar when they are adults. :-)
Lol! I don't have kids! What I meant was (excuse my previously lazy English) I don't mind the kids doing it as (hopefully) they are still in education and may yet drop the habit.
@ X-ray
Very enlightening on the apostrophes. I guess I was getting it right but not really knowing why. I mean in the "doesn't" example I fully understand the omission, but the "Fluffy's hat" example was new to me I guess. It makes perfect sense and I will use this example to educate my peers. :-)
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X-ray wrote:
@ Xand... (and all the 99%)
LOL
Yours is the same as mine...and I suspect you are in my age group (I'm 33) because when I did mine it told me 100% of those in my age group scored lower than me...but I did the test before you. He he, its all about timing mate :-P
I did the test before you and I'm 30. Actually I guess that depends exactly where they drew the line for each group.
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From X-ray:
I suspect you are in my age group (I'm 33)
And from Karlos:
I did the test before you and I'm 30.
Brilliant, I feel young again :-D
(28 this October)
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Vincent wrote:
(28 this October)
Enjoy it while it lasts, mate; it's all downhill from there on...
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Well, I can't wait till my metabolism slows down and I get a bit of weight. I've been a skinny wretch for far too long now :-P
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Vincent wrote:
Well, I can't wait till my metabolism slows down and I get a bit of weight. I've been a skinny wretch for far too long now :-P
oh, jesus! why is it all the nice, slim guys want to go and get fat???
i'm repulsed! :pissed:
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Vincent wrote:
Well, I can't wait till my metabolism slows down and I get a bit of weight. I've been a skinny wretch for far too long now :-P
Enjoy it while you can sir. Once you start, it's a slippery slope (says the guy who has gone to the gym every day for the last 7).
Wayne
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Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 50% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
What annoys me about this thing are the ones with multiple correct options :/
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English Genius
You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 83% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
My test tracked 4 variables. How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on Beginner
You scored higher than 99% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 99% on Advanced
You scored higher than 99% on Expert
And im 20 going on 21 btw
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cecilia wrote:
oh, jesus! why is it all the nice, slim guys want to go and get fat???
i'm repulsed! :pissed:
I don't want to get fat... I just want to get a good weight for my size.
I'm 5'9 and 8.5 stone and have been for years. It's impossible for me to put on any weight. I never exercise (I walk for about 20 mins to and from a mates house once a week, everybody else lives 2 mins walking distance away).
I'm enjoying it, but at the same time I'd like to put on at least a stone.
I'm skinnier than Marilyn Manson... Then again, he looks a good couple of inches taller than me too.
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I don't want to get fat... I just want to get a good weight for my size.
don't you understand that you ARE the right weight??
you don't have to be all bulky to be "right".
plus, it takes alot of work to be bulky. unless you are going to be a movie star, don't bother.
it's better to be healthy. and slim is healthier than not slim.
and what's wrong with the way Marilyn Manson looks???
he's fine. (a bit of strange makeup, but, that's his look)
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Yeah, but there's being too slim.
Let's just say if I lost a stone I'd probably look like the wierd thing in Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy video without the need for make up to make my head look bigger :-P
I'm not exactly healthy either - I've been unable to work for the past 5 years due to a dodgy stomach and a few other things.
Anyway, this thread is about language not me being lanky :-D
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Uh oh, Cecilia in ASCII mode:
Oim fed up with bloody avoirdupois Americans!
Ain't you skinny British thinkin' 'buet gatt'n greasy!
Aah Punkie, who's yer feckin' momma?
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avoirdupois Americans
oh, god! you have NO idea how funny that is!!!!!
:roflmao:
(well, maybe you do.)
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:lol:
cecilia wrote:
(well, maybe you do.)
I strongly suspect every hilarious nuance was quite deliberate ;-)
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cecilia wrote:
plus, it takes alot of work to be bulky. unless you are going to be a movie star, don't bother.
it's better to be healthy. and slim is healthier than not slim.
I'm quite content to have emerged this side of 30 without what we affecionately call a 'keg' (beer barrel). I'm about 140lbs/5'7" (63kg/1.7m) and content that the ratio isn't a lot higher :-)
I recently decided I needed to get a bit fitter though and stopped taking the lift (well mostly), which amounts to yomping up and down 26 flights of stairs every day...
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Me thinks I broked it!!! :-D
Oddly Expert
You scored 0% Beginner, 0% Intermediate, 0% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
Your test results are extremely interesting. Though your test scores in the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels weren't very high, you got at least 75% of the expert level questions correct. Possibly you guessed very well in the expert level section? I don't know what else to say. You puzzle me immensely. But....
I was interrupted by a phone call while on the last page. I suppose my previous session timed out? Oh well, I got 77% on the expert page, so I'm guessing I probably did fairly well on the easier stuff. *shrug*
- Mike
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But my number one hate is the abuse of the apostrophe in written documents.
Actually, I think it's the comma that's abused more then anything else. Of course I have no idea of how to properly use it either so it doesn't really bother me a great deal. :-D
- Mike
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yomping up and down 26 flights of stairs every day...
stamina is very sexy...... :-P
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cecilia wrote:
yomping up and down 26 flights of stairs every day...
stamina is very sexy...... :-P
One out of three, then. Could be worse :lol:
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Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
Can't really complain about that score.
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@ Vincent
If you have been thin for a long time you may have an entrenched tapeworm (ETW). I can't provide a link, but basically it is a rare kind of tapeworm that has a very selective diet. What this means is that the usual medicines don't work and the symptoms are not overt. It just means you can't put on weight, and this may become a medical problem as you get older and your digestive chemistry changes. Up until now the only way to get rid of the ETW has been by means of surgery. Recent developments in Australia have resulted in an ingenious method to get the ETW out. I was reading it the other day...basically it works like this:
1) You have a low residue diet for 2 days, followed by nothing the 3rd day. On the afternoon of the third day you have a blood test to see what chemistry you have (it tells them what nutrients you are lacking, which points to what the ETW is consuming).
2) On the 4th day a clinic nurse (or in your case Sioux, because she can probably follow the instructions on the kit herself) gives you a light sedative and then you fall asleep, lying on your stomach, no pants.
3) When you are asleep she takes out a squeezy tube of chocolate sauce (like the stuff you put on ice-cream, but this stuff has been mixed with a synthetic formula based on the results of your blood test). Basicaly, the stuff in the squeezy bottle is what the ETW really wants.
4) A circle of this sauce is drawn around your tradesmen's entrance, and then the lights are switched off and an ultraviolet light is switched on (the ETW will not come out in normal light, and it can't see UV glow).
5) After a while the ETW will emerge to eat the sauce and that's when Sioux can use a pair of white plastic tweezers (glow in UV) to grab the worm (who also shows up nicely in UV) behind the head and roll him up like a bit of spaghetti. It is important not to roll it too quickly or to pull, because the worm could segment and then you have to wait a few days for the pieces to be excreted.
Total cost is about £32 for the blood test and kit, and £67 if a nurse comes to do it (you can get Sioux on the case, so you'll save money there).
You may not believe it, but I was talking about tapeworms with my colleagues just the other day, and I managed to catch quite a few of them with this story, and I'm sure I'll catch a few more...
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@X-ray
Yikes :-o :-o :-o !!!!
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Okay X-Ray, could you cut it out with the medical horror stories already! Jeez! What is it with you medics, you really love to gross people out! My sis is a Dr. and she has a few good ones herself. Ugh!
:-D
- Mike
(just kidding of course :-) )
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@Glaucus
Here's some worm info, (http://4optimallife.com/Zappers-For-Parasite-Elimination-Definitions.htm) the hookworm is especially nasty IMO...as is this bit:
. Serious, even fatal, complications of ascariasis result from the infiltration of the larvae into sensitive tissues, such as the brain, and from the migration of the adult worms into various body structures where they produce abcesses and toxic manifestations. Ascariasis exists worldwide and is believed to affect some 660 million persons.
Brain worms!!!
:-P
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Oh ffs! I am NOT clicking that link. I am NOT! :-x.
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@ -D-
Ja, those Ascaris worms are bad buggers. I once saw a kid of ten with an Ascaris infection..it wasn't pretty. The worms finally migrate to the lungs (I can't remember if the mode of travel is via egg or if they physically burrow) but basically this kid was coughing up LIVE Ascaris worms. It is an UGLY UGLY worm, my friend. It is tapered at both ends (there's something creepy about not being able to identify the head of a creature) and when they were collected in a specimen jar, they were flicking and arching against the plastic...tap tap flick tap.
OOooooer I get goosebumps when I picture that again.
@ All
That ETW story I told is utter fiction, but the Ascaris story is real (I gotta admit when I'm pulling the wool, eh?) :-)
@ Glaucus
Ja, medical stories (whether true or made up) just have to be told because they are so tasty :-P
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@X-ray
It's not a tapeworm of any kind (was checked for them 4ish years ago when this stomache incident started). I just have a really high metabolism, I've been thin since birth. Saying that, I was the heaviest out of the three of us :-D
There are reasons contributing to the stomach, like too much acid (which I now have new tablets for, lets these work) and a few other things that I won't go into. But we're still stumped by the main cause.
@everybody's reaction to X-ray's story
:roflmao:
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@ Vincent
I trust you have done all the usual things like blood tests for anaemia, endoscopy or barium studies for (insert inflammatory or absorptive bowel disease here) ?
Some of these things remain mysteries like the paraesthesia (numbness conforming to the distribution of a certain nerve branch) that I had in the late nineties. It involved the 4th and 5th fingers of my left hand and some of the wrist. It was bad, man. Burning pain that affected my grip. Anyway, here's what I went through for that:
1) X-rays of the elbow (there is a little channel at the back of the elbow through which the ulnar nerve runs (4th and 5th fingers are ulnar nerve territory while the others are radial nerve territory). This channel is called the ulnar groove and if you have impingement there, it can give you disturbances such as the ones I had. Anyway that was clear.
2) Cervical spine X-rays, specifically for the neural foramena. This just means looking at the little apertures on the spine where the nerves branch out from the spinal chord at the neck. These were okay.
3) CAT scan of the neck. This is to look for other nefarious things that could impinge on the nerves as they leave the spine. That was clear.
Okay, so no radiological findings that could explain this. Next stop: neurologist. Now this is where it got interesting. There is a nerve conduction/rate test called an EMG. Basically what they do is test the electrical conductivity of the nerves by stimulating them. How do they do that?
Simple...THEY FUGGEN ELECTROCUTE YOU!!!
I am not kidding. He stuck a 7cm needle in my neck, right down to the nerve, then made me hold a steel electrode in my left hand and connected the two of them via a circuit to a very fancy control unit. Then he turned up the dials and ZAPPPP!!! I was given shocks of increasing strength and my arm was flailing around uncontrollably.
My mate, that was unpleasant, to put it mildly. This went on for about 40 minutes, with the dude changing needle positions and voltages and current. He couldn't find the branch on the forearm (said my forearms were too muscularly dense for him to localise) and this resulted in a lot of probing with that needle, followed by shocks to see if he was in the right place.
What was the result of all this torture? Well, nothing helpful. He just said the conduction was within normal limits at the arm but slightly under at the neck. Nothing was ever found and the condition went away after a year.
So I feel for you, if you've had tests and they found nothing.
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LA LA LA LA LA - I CAN'T HEAR YOU X-RAY - LA LA LA LA ...
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Btw, I don't believe a word you said! :-P
- Mike
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@ Glaucus
I know, it sounds barbaric...but it is true. An EMG is no fun, and they can't sedate you or use local anaesthetic 'cos its the nerves they want.
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Can you just not drop the gross medical topics! There are people here who are trying to eat chocolate you know!
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Vincent wrote:
@X-ray
It's not a tapeworm of any kind (was checked for them 4ish years ago when this stomache incident started). I just have a really high metabolism, I've been thin since birth. Saying that, I was the heaviest out of the three of us :-D
There are reasons contributing to the stomach, like too much acid (which I now have new tablets for, lets these work) and a few other things that I won't go into. But we're still stumped by the main cause.
@everybody's reaction to X-ray's story
:roflmao:
The is one GUARANTEED way to put lots of weight on.
Smoke half an ounce of ganja every day, and just let the munchies take over.
I had the same problem as you until I was about 23/24, then it all went down hill. Mine was caused by dancing my tits off all weekend for ten years solid though! :-D
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Vincent wrote:
@X-ray
It's not a tapeworm of any kind (was checked for them 4ish years ago when this stomache incident started). I just have a really high metabolism, I've been thin since birth. Saying that, I was the heaviest out of the three of us :-D
There are reasons contributing to the stomach, like too much acid (which I now have new tablets for, lets these work) and a few other things that I won't go into. But we're still stumped by the main cause.
@everybody's reaction to X-ray's story
:roflmao:
A 21 piece bucket'o'KFC each night before bed should add a few kilos ;-)
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Mmmm.... KFC.... damn you...
:-)
Wayne
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Agreed. I love a good bucketful of Karlos' Fearsome Curry ;-)
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Karlos wrote:
Agreed. I love a good bucketful of Karlos' Fearsome Curry ;-)
I'll pass :-P
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It's even better served with a GadgetMaster special salad ;-)
One of the few times a salad will burn your mouth out :lol:
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Karlos wrote:
It's even better served with a GadgetMaster special salad ;-)
One of the few times a salad will burn your mouth out :lol:
You do realise that's against the laws of nature?? ;-)
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mmmmmmmm..... Green chilli slices in a chickpea salad laced with exotic spicy sauces and sprikled with red hot chilli powder.
You've got to try it once at least ;-)
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Funniest thing was, the day I tried it, the curry was mild and the salad hotter :lol:
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Sort of balances out in the end doesn't it. Thou shalt not have a fire free mealtime...... :lol: :flame: :flame: :flame: :madashell: :madashell:
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You guys are strange. How did we get from an English test to tape worms and food?!? Ugh! :-? :-D
- Mike
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Glaucus wrote:
You guys are strange. How did we get from an English test to tape worms and food?!? Ugh! :-? :-D
- Mike
Good to see after my rather lengthy hiatus that nothing has changed around here :-D
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Wayne wrote:
Mmmm.... KFC.... damn you...
:-)
Wayne
As a kid, KFC was quite a treat, the chicken was always cooked right and perfectly seasoned, however, that tradition has now gone by the wayside in the interest of bigger profits. The last time I had KFC it was dripping with oil, the crispy coating was none existent as it had bonded with the paper liner in the box, it was an overall unpleasant experience. Thankfully a really nice charcoal chicken joint opened up nearby and they are yet to let me down on a friday night when neither I or the missus can be bothered cooking.
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adz wrote:
A 21 piece bucket'o'KFC each night before bed should add a few kilos ;-)
I love KFC, but it doesn't agree with me anymore :-(
Last year I had something from there (can't remember what, but it was a smallish meal) and I was quite ill the next morning.
Tis a bugger as they're much much better than McD or BK.
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@X-ray
:-o
Sounds really unpleasant!
I must be one of the few ones who don't think your stories are puke inducing :-D
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Vincent wrote:
I must be one of the few ones who don't think your stories are puke inducing :-D
Absolutely no effect here, I'm totally unsqueamish.
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Karlos wrote:
Absolutely no effect here, I'm totally unsqueamish.
I used to be like that, but there are certain medical things I could do without seeing. Reading about the stuff has never bothered me though :-D
But now, I think I'm getting less squeamish again.
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As a wee bairn I'd sometimes watch these various medical/forensic programmes on TV whilst eating. Things like "The body in question" and "Your life in their hands" etc., all of which were reasonably graphic.
I'd remember the folks having pretty adverse reaction to seeing someones innards being poked about when trying to eat something. Not that we dined in front of the TV of course, I mean snacking :-)
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Vincent wrote:
I love KFC, but it doesn't agree with me anymore :-(
Last year I had something from there (can't remember what, but it was a smallish meal) and I was quite ill the next morning.
Tis a bugger as they're much much better than McD or BK.
Could have just been a dodgy batch of chicken, or some bastard lobbed a whopping great gorb in your fillet burger. Either way, your bound to feel some unpleasantness the next day. Just remember there are plenty of other ways to gain weight, "...and if your unsure, just rub it on a piece of paper, if the paper turns clear, its your window to weight gain, bye bye everybody!". :-D
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@ X-ray
Each specialist is looking for what he's expecting to find ;-). It would be nice to have a GP visit, just to take account of other causes of pain in the differential diagnosis.
This one especially could have started from a site distant to what you were probing: an acute heart ischemia can cause referred pain to the 4th & 5th fingers.
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adz wrote:
"...and if your unsure, just rub it on a piece of paper, if the paper turns clear, its your window to weight gain, bye bye everybody!". :-D
:lol:
That episode wsa on again just last week :-D
"I think I'll order myself a tab..."
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@ Cass
"This one especially could have started from a site distant to what you were probing: an acute heart ischemia can cause referred pain to the 4th & 5th fingers"
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I thought of that my mate, but I had no left shoulder pain and my symptoms were chronic, not acute. Also at the time I was playing squash four times a week and I had none of the exertion/shortness of breath problems that I would expect with a cardiopulmonary condition. Believe me, I checked a lot of things before I got the electric needle...
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