@deralte71 Thank you 
@Primrose I'm glad to hear you already feeling better and that the headaches are slowly getting away. Hope you very soon will be in your best shape to get back to poker tables and kick fish's A$$ 
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Last night i was able to play on titan even if i was high on meds and half asleep managed to make it to the 4th place on the Titan 25$ Booster.Still increasing my BR there little by little. Can't wait to feel much better and start grinding normally on SNGs.
Afternoon , appointment with the accuponcturist hope it will help some.
Have a nice day everyone.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Glad to see, that yr are back to the tables. Hope you looking like a pincushion will help🤗
Finally i got a little sleep witthout meds after the accupuncturist session. Can't say yet for the effects on the pains but if you want to get good sleep.
Accupunctur works well. Still feeling asleep from it but long time i didn't get real sleep. Next session will be in a few days hopefully after a few times ill feel real effects on what matters, (pain killing) .. will see how things turn out.
I will keep this week to rest and just play freerolls when they come on my way. Practice a little yoga postures for the back , shoulders and neck then
Next week i will try to get back at tables, since in the mid time i was still able to increase my BR , it's time to invest a little of my winnings.
Don't know yet if it's gonna be on Titan , Pstars , 888Poker(even if i don't like that room) or Crypto Poker Room.
Also i will probably switch again my time shift since i feel a bit better in the afternoon than during night and morning.
Have a nice week everyone !
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Reading and Re-Reading some poker books during my week of resting and recovering.
Tonight it's Phil Gordon's Little Gold Book. A little outdated IMO but still interesting to read again.
Also trying to get a hand on Fundamentals of Exploitative Online Poker: Learn to Exploit Your Opponents Through Hud Stats, Player Tendencies and Table Selection by Alton Hardin. Still can't get a hand on it (Yeah i know i can buy it online but not my kind to buy something that's gonna be outdated fast enough... :f_p:).
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Was thinking about give a try to H2N to but at the end won't.
On one side it says Free Up to NL25 Up to Limit 1/2 Up to $9 Tourneys (Does it include SNGs Spins ? We dont know)
On the other side the answer i got on the forum from H2N was a link and on the link they talk about trials and not free tool.
Was going to ask again but i think when it's blurry there's always a wolf in a way or another so no need to waste more time on it.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Forgot to mention it , i got the 3rd Place on Titan Poker 25$ Booster yesterday night , so now my BR is higher than 110$ there from the 10$ i started with thanks to the no deposit offer from PokerStrategy ! 
Hope i can get some more ITMs on those ones before i get back to poker tables.
H2N is as far as i know, first a free trial and after that it becomes free up to what you mentioned...
Grts
@deralte71 Thank you. I love poker so even if i'm not in my best shape i have to play. I play more freerolls lately so my health cannot hurt my BRs.But i will be back to my normal rythm monday or tuesday.
On the other side i'm upgrading my treatment. i'm adding CAPSAÏCINE cream to calm down neuropathic pains and an anti-inflamatory called Naproxene.
I think i should be able to adjust to it during the weekend or with few more days so i can get to poker tables Monday or Tuesday.
Still having Accupunctur session today, ill try to do atleast 2/3 accupunctur sessions by week for a month or two to increase my chances to get better.
In same time im doing a bit of yoga, nothing extravagant just to relax my neck/shoulders/back and empty my mind(well it shouldn't be that hard anyway lol)
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
@Tichwich85 Thanks for telling me.
i'll try to install H2N on a virtual machine to see how it looks like. Don't know why i've hard time to trust that software.
My paranoid side maybe.
Accupunctur session went well. Starting to fall asleep again.
Thinking about a next coding project. ( One Mouse for different computers sounds a good idea for a free tool )
After a good nap i'll start to read Automatic Poker by Jimmie James JR got a hand on it, still wasn't able to get Fundamentals of Exploitative Online Poker but i'll find my way to get it hehe 
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
You should think about recovery (!) first 
Hey, take it easy over there in the neighbour country! ♠_biggrin:
Step by step! ♠_smile:
@Primrose Thanks and sure i do think about my recovery that's why i only played freerolls lately. Reading is good to keep my mind off things so reading poker books is also a good thing to me even if i don't think they provide good advices for the lowest online micros but on an intellectual side it's great.
Yoga is also a part of my recovery process, obviously i don't do the most complex postures since they could hurt more than help to get better.
I don't do much coding but just think about next projects i could do so it's all good.
New meds im gonna take comes from my last researches in order to make my life a bit more easier despite my health troubles.
Accupuncture helps me to get a better sleep, for pains i don't know yet if it will help but i'll know after few weeks of sessions.
Monday or Tuesday sounds reasonable to slowly get back to a normal rythm and obviously if i feel i need more time to adjust to new meds ill take it.
Ya know me i'm someone steady when it comes to poker / work or investments. i makes bets when i have reasons to believe i can.
When i can't be atleast 60% into it then i don't or just stick to freerolls so no damages to my BRs and i can even close or sit out if pains kick in during the games 
Same here, I get tired very quickly and must regain my skills first (central nervous system is totally messed up!!!!), besides - as you know - I´m running very very bad , so a good opportunity to keep everything cheap 
@Primrose I hear you. Health Comes First. About bad runs we already talked about it but it happens quite often to every poker player and sometimes they can last from days to weeks or months but i understand it can be hard to cope with those especially when in same time health isn't great.
The best thing you can do is first to take care of your health in priority and then play lower stakes and as long your health isn't getting better play also shorter sessions with longer breaks. If you already play the lowest stakes try to play games with more players for the same starting investments so you see more cards for the same investment and the downswings might last a bit less longer. Also you can mix between poker rooms. If on Partypoker you on a bad run then play a very low volume on partypoker and play a higher volume on Pstars / Titan or other rooms. If the downswing still goes on it means it's more about your health and meds messing up your game so low volume and low stake until you get back to your best shape. As i often say there is no magic formula to win playing poker online. Also i friendly tell you to not focus on Pstrategy Status or BR challenge. Honestly to me they are more likely going to make loose your BRs for not much to gain.
Hope you get better very soon Prim.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Papa, that´s exactly what I do: cheap MTTs here and there, Stars, Party, Titan. You´re SOO RIGHT: scr..... status! Who cares about that? Even if I drop to Bronze but can save a lot of money by playing just low stakes - so what? Next month I´ll be Silver again or Gold? Who cares?
Downswings have often two aspects: running bad and PLAYING bad because running bad and beeing pi**ed by that. I tried not to play bad but I don´t know when the manic phase started, then you feel invincible, you play more aggressively, you don´t fear anything, your retionality is decreased, so...... we don´t wanna forget about THAT one, even if I don´t go into full blown manias (cause type 2), it HAS an effect on the game. I´m not innocent FOR SURE!
Anyway: What happened that happened, in Germany we say: "There´s no point in crying over spilled milk". There´s nothing but getting up and recover health and BR - and of course: Learning the lesson and do it better next time. ♠_thumbsup:
@Primrose Exactly ! Now just take all the time you need to get better and make the right overall plan to get on the right tracks and im sure you gonna take back your BR losses. Step By Step , Stay Focus , Forget abt status sh*t and don't play unless you are atleast at your 60% else if you really want to play use freerolls.
Also don't forget that even in your best shape downswings happen and will happen no matter your skill level there is nothing you can do about it.
On my side i know i cannot change anything about variance so what i try to do by switching between poker rooms is to reduce the Monetary Variance not the variance itself wich i believe is possible by smart investments.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Poker Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Arff bad new today they cannot find the CAPSAÏCINE cream in the country so i ordered the LIDOCAÏNE Gel instead.
Hope it will still work but didn't make researches to compare effects of CAPSAÏCINE vs LIDOCAÏNE on neuropathic pains.
Else i should have my new meds and LIDOCAÏNE Gel tomorrow ... Small town delay to get unusual meds ....
So i'll be more likely be back to tables Tuesday or between 24/48h after Tueday. (Depends on system adjustment to new meds and side effects) .
Automatic Poker by Jimmie James JR was an interesting reading (more that i tought it would be anyway)
Today i found a way to grab a spin&go pack for free 
with videos and charts so i'll watch'em.
See if the charts are very different than mines or close to. Videos for each position sounds interesting to watch.
If i have a little time i'll look for the book Fundamentals of Exploitative Online Poker and see if i can grab it somewhere 
Yeah downswings happen but I think not SO LONG ones like mine with almost ALWAYS holding the "looser"-(second best) hand.
I´m not so sure if grinding up or just poker is the right thing for me. Maybe it just shouldn´t be.