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Re: Masks
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2015, 08:00:06 AM »

It's been a while since anyone has chimed in on this. I read the whole thread and didn't find an answer for my question. Is a dust mask sufficient protection or should I spend more money for a respirator. I probably wouldn't have been concerned about it at all but just contracted a nasty cold and I went out to cut some cabs and found that I couldn't because of small dust particles bothering my breathing. Because of this experience for me it is going to be all about safety from now on.
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« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2015, 08:23:53 AM »

Unfortunately a dust mask does virtually nothing to protect you and a proper fitting particulate filter mask must be maintained ( filters monitored) to be effective.
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Re: Masks
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2015, 11:05:09 AM »

Just pull your beard up around your nose and mouth and a rubber band around your head to hold it in place, that puppy should filter out anything.Sorry M I bad lol.
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Re: Masks
« Reply #33 on: April 27, 2015, 08:07:10 AM »

Would the respirators sold at Lowes, Home Depot, or even Harbor Freight work? My guess is that it needs a P100 filter. I think that I need to get one.
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« Reply #34 on: April 27, 2015, 12:51:26 PM »

Probably but over the net you can always get 3m replacement filters so you dont have to throw the mask away when the store no longer carries the same filter you bought as is common with off brand masks.
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Re: Masks
« Reply #35 on: April 27, 2015, 08:44:21 PM »

I looked at Lowes and such, but was able to get a better deal on a better mask through Amazon. 
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« Reply #36 on: May 04, 2015, 11:27:55 AM »

I ended up getting one at Harbor Freight. But the thing is, it is so much of a pain in the neck to wear. Especially when I want to take a drink. I'm 63 years old. I wonder if I can outrun Silicosis if I don't wear a mask. :dontknow:
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Re: Masks
« Reply #37 on: May 05, 2015, 08:39:20 AM »

I am also 63 and I for one can't outrun much.
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« Reply #38 on: May 07, 2015, 12:09:33 PM »

I ended up getting one at Harbor Freight. But the thing is, it is so much of a pain in the neck to wear. Especially when I want to take a drink. I'm 63 years old. I wonder if I can outrun Silicosis if I don't wear a mask. :dontknow:

Is your bucket list complete?  Someone I once knew, cabbing every day full time with no respirator; quit smoking at 4 years to try and stave it off, dead at 6 from COPD.

I do not wear a respirator when I cab.  I do not have a bucket list.
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Re: Masks
« Reply #39 on: May 07, 2015, 04:43:53 PM »


I do not wear a respirator when I cab.  I do not have a bucket list.

I'd kind of love to have you around a while.
Who else is going to road trip with me if I ever manage to get better?

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« Reply #40 on: May 08, 2015, 02:18:25 PM »

I was a welder or supervisor in a welding shop (part of it oil field) for 30 years, smoked up until last year and now I suck on a nicotine injector (e-cig). I am 68 and the only one I can out run is Frank but I figure I have a good ten years left. I only use a mask when I am grinding on malachite but the way I am set up now very little spray floats around. The way I tell if stuff is floating around is if my eyes bother me that night. I have not had a problem since I put a splash guard on my machine. Another way to tell is if your glasses get splattered and I do not have that problem any more either. In the past I couldn't see anything when I finished grinding or polishing.

I have a 21 year old girl friend in China that I am going to see by the end of the summer. I figure if I live through that I have it made for another 15 or 20 years. I think in some cases you live as long as you want to. A friend of mine has a grand father still living in his 90s and his favorite saying is "if I would have known I was going to live so long I would have taken better care of my self".

From what I have read it doesn't seem to matter whether the centenarians smoked or not so a lot of what has to do with dieing is what you are most susceptible to and how your genes are lined up. But there again, tomorrow you may get hit by a truck.

My bucket list will never be empty as long as I can walk and it is not because I have not done a bunch of whittling on the list, my list just has no end.
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« Reply #41 on: May 11, 2015, 07:09:43 AM »

Jim, your post is very interesting. My new doctor (my old one left the network) told me on the very first day of our visit that there are worse things than death. (He's actually wrong but that is for another discussion outside of the realm of this forum.) But I get what he was getting at. In fact I am starting to try to take care of myself in hopes of preventing or at least prolonging the onset of some possibly nasty things that I might have to deal with. (diabetic) Things like having toes amputated, the usual that everyone is concerned about, heart attack and stroke. But not being able to breathe is probably the most scary thing that could happen to me. I am pretty much of a wuss when it comes to anything that is uncomfortable like being short of breath and physical pain. Nevertheless I have pretty much constant pain (it probably can't be even close to what Frank endures, my thoughts go out to you my friend) with neuropathy in my feet. In fact I will have to visit a pain specialist because my new primary care doctor says that it is not sustainable for him to prescribe the same pain medication that my previous doctor did from the start. So now enter another specialist ( errrrr, man do I hate corporate medicine) just to prescribe a pain medication that I am addicted to and must have it. I have heard and read that withdrawl from this medication is very hard. For me with it everything works, without it all hell breaks loose psychologically and physically for me within 8 hours of being off of it. I begin to climb the walls. So I hope that this pain specialist will be able to keep me on it. I have no desire at this time for anything stronger. I take less of it than prescribed but if the pain specialist will continue the prescription I may start taking as much as prescribed. Plus I am beginning to get some typical aging symptoms like pain in my knees. I am only 63 but face it, things wear out. So anyway that is my story. I'm not complaining, my life is better now than at any time ever in the past. I am loving every minute of it. So today an everyday when I cut rocks I will work at enduring the nuisance of wearing a respirator. (I got it from Harbor Freight and it is every bit as good as one from 3M and at least twice the price and maybe more) for longer periods of time each day until I can wear it all day. Plus Jim, I suffer from the same thing you do, my eyes begin to bother me when I cut so I will start wearing some safety glasses as well. They are also dirt cheap at Harbor Freight. I commend anyone who reads this lengthy posting.  :coffee1:
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Re: Masks
« Reply #42 on: May 11, 2015, 04:01:37 PM »

My old man died of cancer but that wasn't the worst part of his death, that was the damage to his lungs from having smoked since he was 9 years old. He did quit when he was 39 but the damage was done, a lot of damage from two packs a day. His last month was awful what with him not being able to get enough air. If you smoke quit, it may save you some grief in the end.
In 1990 I was rear ended, bad accident, damaged my spine from one end to the other, been in constant pain ever since and every year, every month, every week, every day it gets worse. I thought at first it would go away like every other time I had been in a rear ender but it just didn't, I had a constant migraine headache, pain in my neck that didn't quit, numbness in my little finger and ring finger on bother hands and it felt like I had a worm crawling up and down the inside of my arm. Finally went to the doctor and things got much worse, some doctors know less than they think they know. I had physical therapy, trigger point injections, pain medication and still nothing much changed. Primary care doctor sent me to a new neurologist who put me on a whole new course of medication, same thing, no relief, she tells me it's because I'm not trying to get better, well excuse me for living through the accident. Next I get sent to a pain clinic, Narcotics Galore, LLC, yeah, really that's the name of the place. That's about all they did was prescribe was narcs and injections along the spine, didn't do much good. I quit all the narcs and went back to OTC pain meds. Prescription narcs have a place but for short term use only in most cases, ye, there are exceptions and I do have some on hand when I just can't stand it any more but the best advice is to limit there use as much as possible. If the script says to take one every six hours for pain, soon you will need two ever six hours for the pain, then what are you going to do when that doesn't provide any relief? It is a dangerous road to go down. Boy we sure got a long way from masks didn't we? Take care of your health, it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgement, well, unless you are Hindu or Buddhist. :icon_sunny:
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Re: Masks
« Reply #43 on: May 12, 2015, 06:51:19 AM »

Yeah I guess we did get a bit off track on the masks. But I am attempting to wear mine for longer periods of time now.  Anyway, back to the pain medication deal. So far I don't require any more of what I take nor do I have a desire to increase the dosage. But the bad thing about it is that I don't think that I can get off of it. It only takes 16 hours without it and I am climbing the walls psychologically. If I reverted to OTC, I think that I could manage it but at what cost to my stomach and other organs that they affect? I would need a minimum of 16 advils a day and they aren't covered by insurance.
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Re: Masks
« Reply #44 on: May 12, 2015, 03:22:46 PM »

Get a prescription for the proper dose of once or twice a day Advil(it is available by prescription) or better yet see if you can get a script for Celebrex. I take one 400mg capsule a day and it probably does more for my pain relief than any other pill I  have ever taken. Not every insurance plan covers it but I have not had the gastric upset with this medication that I have had with other NSAIDs like Clinoril or Naprosyn. There are a lot of old line NSAIDs out there that are still formulairy with many insurance companies and cheaper than Advil OTC. The 400mg dose of Celebrex that I take is twice the recommended dose but so far so good, 200mg is normal for most folks and considerably cheaper. Talk to your doctor about giving this drug a try.
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