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Sweat and shakes

Posted By: Amy on 2006-07-12
In Reply to: this question is for those ladies - who have been through menopause

My sister does the exact same thing after coming off BC for a significant number of years. At first, because of the shakiness, etc., she thought it was her diabetes, but it only occurs at certain times. She is now 38. Her OB/GYN said it was a severe drop in her estrogen around the monthly. She didn't want to go back on hormones after having just come off them, so he prescribed the cream and suggested Estroven. For those perimenopausal women, I hear the actual change can take a long time for some. I got mine out of the way at 29 thanks to hysterectomy. The only other thing I can think of is if you are on any kind of antidepressant, they cause sweating.


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try Keto Shakes
They are on the expensive side, can be found online or in health food stores - loaded with calories and protein, low carb. I recommended this to a friend of mine when his father had head and neck cancer, and the father was able to keep it down and get nutritional support.
Don't sweat it.

I left and came back to it.  You'll remember everything and your speed will go up after a couple of weeks, and it'll be like you never left.  Go to the Job Seekers board or the Jobs database to find available positions.  You might want to post your resume in the Resume database.  That's what I did, and my current IC employer came to me.  I knew I didn't want to work for a big national (like Spheris) again.


IC is independent contractor.  Not all nationals have it.  Part time is available with most companies.  How many hours are you looking for?  I like IC because I do a set amount of work each week, but my hours are really flexible.


Hey girl, don't sweat it (sm)
Just as the poster below said, the manual is extensive, but a lot of reinforcement detail. It's actually pretty straight-forward and clear. Just take a deep breath and read it once before your training. You don't have to learn everything before the training session.

The training sessions are very clear and the instructors (mine anyway) are very patient and knowledgeable.

DQS has a lot of bells and whistles, but it is a very user-friendly program.

Send the computer back when you upgrade yours. When you switch, all you have to do is download the program on your computer and all your parameters/info/expansions will still be there.

I had EXTREME anxiety before I trained and went to work on DQS. It was all for nothing... my learning curve was slow, but that's just me... an old dog.

Good luck, sweetie, and check in later and let us know how it's going! :)
Sweat shop labor
We can all clearly see the run around by various layers of quality control when work goes offshore, and what it really costs. But the thing is that as more and more corporations offshore their products, they are able to skirt strict regulations in the U.S. For instance, as we already see the advantage of India doing transcription while we sleep here in the US, they don't have labor laws as we do. A corporation here in the US dealing with American workers has to deal with lots of regulations such as labor laws, state compensation for injuries for employees, etc. These regulations cost money to the company. In countries like India, China, the Phillipines, there are no labor laws such as in the U.S. If a company says a worker must work 12 hours a day with no benefits or breaks, you can be sure these people will do this, and are sometimes grateful where no job existed before. If working conditions are intolerable, there is no agency that protects the people. You can see how American corporations are motivated to send work offshore and not deal with US regulations and laws that cost the company money. Yes, exploitation at its finest. However, I saw a documentary recently by Lisa Ling on TV where it showed that many women in third world countries are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with working conditions. The documentary followed different women and what they must do to have a job in the city. Many women leave their children far away in another city at home with the grandparents. These women travel and live in the city to work for a few dollars a day. They must work weekends, holidays, and may travel back home once a month to give the money they make to their families. These women were interviewed and were questioning whether having a job far away from a rural town was worth it with no time off for the holidays, and missing their children and families. So you see, these people are getting restless too, and want time off on their holidays and family time just as much as we do. I have no doubt in time there were be a rising in advocacy for labor laws in these countries.
You make me sweat bullets with the talk of sm
anuerysm and headaches.  I have two, one diagnosed 13 years ago after suffering with headaches for 9 months and the other appeared three years ago.  I was a very lucky girl that it didn't rupture and has been stable all these years, treated with medication.  I have polyarteritis nodosa and I am absolutely paranoid about headaches, with each one I wonder if it is a flareup or stress.  It just scares the heck out of me to hear about so many aneurysms. When I worked at the hospital, a girl who worked there died when hers ruptured, leaving a hubby and 3 kids, another collapsed on the dance floor and was rushed to the hospital.  She is okay. My youngest son went to first grade with a girl whose mother died in bed with one.  So sad.  Medical help is only a call away.  Please use it.
aerobics? If I want to work up that kind of sweat I'll go

delve into the pile of laundry in the basement. :)


That way I don't have to deal with other sweaty people.  Eeeeuw.


i gave blood, sweat, and tears as a QA person -
I tried for over a year with a very lame lady who supposedly graduated from one of the *top 3* schools and was a former nurse. She had a terrible ear, little to no comprehension, and was clueless on how to even use her reference books! She was hands down the worst MT out of dozens of people I worked with. The point is this - You can usually tell pretty early if someone is worth training or not. What does your gut say?