No rimegepant for me as of yet. 31 botox injections scheduled with topiramate prescribed in the interim.
No rimegepant for me as of yet. 31 botox injections scheduled with topiramate prescribed in the interim.
Topiramate is the worst drug I've ever been on. It makes you feel like you're thinking through treacle.
That's what amitriptyline did to me. Coupled with the hallucinations while falling asleep / waking up, it was enough for me to just lump the sciatica instead. Grim stuff.
Amitriptyline gave me these weird bouts of anxiety where I'd just suddenly have this unshakeable feeling something was wrong.
Drugs.
Can't wait.Originally Posted by randomlegend
Everyone reacts differently to different drugs, you may well be absolutely fine with it.
I had an insect bite swell up a couple of days ago. I'm very much from the tried and trusted 'it'll just go away' school of medical treatment, but after 48 hours it hadn't and is painful to touch so I was afraid it might have been infected. Spent a while online and concluded that I probably only have days to live before I die of sepsis and should seek medical attention immediately. I phoned 111 and they referred me to the pharmacy. I went to the pharmacy, showed them the bite and she said words to the effect of 'it's not infected you stupid cunt, put a bit of wound spray on and take antihistamines and you'll be fine'.
I think generally one has to remember that the internet is full of hypochondriac Americans where healthcare is big business.
My daughter started nursery last week and I’m already a write off. Is this my life now?
I very rarely get ill so I’m not used to this and I’m a complete fanny trying to power through.
Yes. Your existence is now unending exhaustion and low level, not quite sure if you are ill, illness, punctuated by periods of full on have the shits vomiting bugs, where you are definitely ill. Enjoy.
Yup. She will also now always be at the start of a cold, have a cold, or just getting over a cold.
As above. From starting nursery until about year 3 kids are either ill, just getting over being ill or coming down with something for 9 months of the year. Enjoy.
In those situations maybe a slow cooker is useful?
Sounds like a skill issue.
I had an experience like this in Texas where a massive flying bug thing attacked my knee and in the process of swiping it away I’m pretty sure it bit/stung my hand. Started to blister is I just attacked it with nail clippers and squeezed the puss stuff out. Seemed more appropriate than telling anyone.
Not dead yet.
As if to prove the point, my little one has a fever today after her endeavors at nursery.
Me and the American online scaremongerers 1, fucking useless pharmacist 0. On a course of antibiotics now. It was nice to visit an almost deserted massive hospital at night for an out of hours GP appointment, real Hopper type vibes up there.
Was it East Surrey?
No, Ashford. East Surrey you would die of old age before reaching whatever bit of it you need to get to.
Did a few laps the other day trying to find the right place to take a 9 year old for a blood test. Got it at the 3rd or 4th attempt.
Topamax is in the post.
Knee operation tomorrow.
Sat in the ward presumably off my head on something because I can’t feel a thing.
I went to change my driver's license because I moved to a new state and I couldn't see shit during the vision test. Guess I'll need glasses. Still got the license.
Fellow kneespaz, welcome to the club.Sat in the ward presumably off my head on something because I can’t feel a thing.
How are you getting on?Sat in the ward presumably off my head on something because I can’t feel a thing.
I am officially 4 months out. I got clearance to run a month ago but when doing anything outside of PT sessions I run with a brace on. Majority of the work done in the sessions is brace off unless we are really pushing it.
Added in lots of ladder work and some work with a ball since mid Sept and the last couple of weeks has really seen the impact activities ramp up. Today I did the first really significant amount of jumping things like forward frog jumps, a lot of single leg hopping with direction changes etc. So it's certainly getting stronger but fuck me its sore after.
I am finding a large chunk of it is mental, once I do an exercise once and it doesn't explode, I am good to go
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Need a second operation to graft in new cartilage and possibly drill my femur to realign the weight over my knee. By the time this first one rehabs and we set a date for the second op, it’ll be 9-12 months by the time I’ve rehabbed fully and returned to the sports fields.
I can resume gym/jogging in a few days so I’ll be all in on that taking advantage of the 6-12 weeks before I’m chopped up again.
I found a very small amount of black mold, landlord sorted. Cut hole in wall, been running dehumidifier, all good. Well I heard dripping at the weekend, seems.shower from.apartment above is leaking. Easy fix.
Flatmate went into the hole last night to try and source exactly where the drip is from. Inside he found the internal walls fucking layered with black mold. Everywhere. I've been breathing that in every night for two weeks. Neck swollen. Neck pain. Can barely talk. Can't eat without hacking my lungs up. Can barely sleep. Blood in my spit yesterday. Feel like no energy at all. Have a compromised immune system as it is.
At a mates now while they sort everything, docs later today. Worried by the struggling to even eat and hacking up blood.
Went ballistic at landlord last night. Taped up the hole due to it.
Now you've got me concerned. One of our bedrooms (fortunately a spare room) has a musty smell whenever the door and windows have been closed for a while. Can I fuck find a source of the smell though.
It'll be airflow and/or mold. It's exactly when I spotted it, that smell, when laying in bed one night.
That is horror film shit, hope you can move ASAP.
Is it the same landlord upstairs? If so then a quick trip to the gallows should suffice.
Yep, they own the entire building. Eight flats in total.
Aren't you a little old to be renting?
Mate I didn't start work until early 30s due to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Could barely leave the house. I have fuck all savings and a wage which is only a few thousand above minimum wage. I'd have to take a mortgage out which would have me working til the second I drop dead.
Get absolutely fucked
No thanks.
Whereabouts are you living, DS?
Prestwich. Tbf to the landlord they've been fantastic. Already cleared it and treated the walls, currently ripping the shower up upstairs to plug all leaks. The mold is on internal walls, so if they hadn't opened it up to deal with the leak I'd have not been exposed, and they've acted in less than 12 hours.
Hard to beat that in this day and age in fairness. Most landlords would go missing.
Nice area. Shame about the Jews.
It helps that my stepdad used to be their builder so he'll go fucking mental at em if they didn't sort straight away.
Does anyone else have desire to just say fuck off to everyone, and catch a flight to USA and just drive cross-country by themselves??
I would do except that American driving sounds like a massive death trap full of drunk pick up trucks ready to plough through a red at an 'intersection' and kill you, so I'll stick to feeling blue on the A317.
Used to be A34 man, myself.
Driving in America is great. We should definitely adopt their anything goes approach to motorway/interstate driving. Just make sure you're the one driving the Canyonero style vehicle in case of any fatal accidents. Fatal to the other driver.
Never understood the fascination with America.
Can only talk for myself, but for me it's certainly not a fascination with the US, just an interest in a long drive, lots of decent varied scenery and a relatively cheap trip.
I find driving in the US extremely relaxed/safe, but then my baseline is Mexico. As for scenery, you can definitely find scenic drives in the West, the Smokey Mountains, and some other random places, but 95% of it is just extremely dull highways where the only scenery is trucks and Jesus/fireworks billboards.
That song pops into my head every so often for some reason.
Its a breeze. Especially with no speed cameras on the highway/Motorway
After doing a Pacific Northwest trip this summer, I've been thinking about that almost every day, @John Arne. Driving down Highway 101 next to the Pacific Ocean is one of my favorite drives I've ever done. But then you'd get a lot more drab identikit cornfields going cross-country, I guess.
I've done two road trips over there and I'd agree with Pepe, it's actually quite relaxing. I'd even say their driving style is more deferential and less hectic than over here, bar some psychos. I also love just how wide the highways are compared to our equivalent. Four-way stop signs are complete nonsense though.
+1 for the Highway 101 drive. Was amazing. One the best holidays i remember.
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