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Try this on her. AGW deniers often cite scientific evidence to support their claims, eg, "10,000 years ago we came out of an ice age and the warming we are experiencing is just part of that trend.". Ask her: "How do you know that we came out of an ice age 10,000 years ago?" Then point out that she doesn't know first hand, she got that from the very same scientists she says are bought off/dumb/etc. Point how she is willing to trust scientific results only if it supports her position, and denies it when it doesn't. Hopefully she will see that she is the one flopping about, not the science.

No, if it hurts you should tell him. If he isn't willing to "rehome" the missile then he is a jerk. But OP I'm sure your BF isn't a jerk. Just let him know and reposition it.

A few questions, actually: 1. Did you cycle much before you started? 2. Are you going to cycle recreationally now that you are done, or are you sick of it? 3. What languages do you speak, and how did you manage in countries where you didn't speak the language?

I thought "immediate relative who has had heart problems" was anther one

My wife is mid 50s and has EDS; she was diagnosed at about age 40. At that point she had already had four knee surgeries, and the doctor who proposed the 5th one (which she did) is the one who figured out she has EDS.

As mentioned, there are different types of EDS, but I'll describe the long-term issues my wife has had. She was very active when young (riding a bike, swimming, playing tennis). In college she realized that she had constant knee pain. It sounds dumb, but it was so constant that she didn't really remember what not having knee pain was like. That is when the surgeries started. It also lead to back problems to the point of hospitalization a couple times. The back problems were due, in part, to her having bad posture as a means of shifting stress off of her painful knees.

Later on she found that yoga, and in then Feldenkrais were the best way of managing the pain. By strengthening the muscles and retraining her posture, she was able to shift the burden off of her weak tendons and onto her muscles.

Other symptoms: she bruises easily, her skin feel velvety smooth, the roof of her mouth is really high, increased pain sensitivity, and she has terribly flat feet (the tendons are too stretchy to hold an arch). She also has POTS. Drinking salt water a few times a day helps but doesn't cure it.

Unfortunately, over the past 10 years, she has suffered from Chronic Fatigue/ME. It isn't clear if she is just very unlucky, or if it is connected to the EDS somehow. The net effect, though, is she is unable to exercise, so she has lost a lot of muscle and muscle tone, and the knee pain is as bad as ever. From her reading, a disproportionate percentage of CFS/ME sufferers also have EDS, so it is something to look out for.