ECG was normal-ish.
There was an irregularity showing up but the nurse said my pulse was fine when taken manually as well as when used with the finger machines.
She went and spoke with a doctor who reckons the machine is playing up as I'm so hairy and it wasn't making great contact.
The irregularity was presumably your heartrate spiking when she touched you.
No doubt. I didn't want her to know that though.
Too hairy for medical examination. Good lord.
Less hairy after she ripped the stickers off though.
ECG stickers are temperamental at the best of times. Not unusual to have to shave people to get a decent contact.
Had my fracture clinic appointment. Allowed to drive as soon as I can do a full emergency stop. Said some people that's 2-3 weeks but often up to 6.
I'm going to go mental if I have to be at home for six weeks so hopefully I'll mend quick.
You’re mad. It sounds like heaven.
I'm a twit
'Off til the new year, pure raging'
Get a werewolf game going, Randrew.
It has been a while since we had one.
Spoken like a true wolf.Originally Posted by Boydy
Bet you can't wait to tear into some flesh.
Been given the all clear \0/.
Nailed it.
I'm a twit
Do you floss? I don’t but I’ve recently started using those interdental brushes (size 0.45) and my god is it satisfying. Gets out stuff I didn’t even know was there.
I'm a twit
I never used to floss but last week I bought a water flosser.
It's a game changer.
A water piik? My dad has one. Says it hurts a bit but feels great afterwards.
I'm a twit
I floss. I've got fiddly gaps that need attention. Does me a world of good.
I went for a Chinese one. Annmiir is the maker.
First few days I was using the soft setting and my gums would hurt a bit but now I use normal (with power on my bottom middle teeth) with no problems.
I have a wisdom tooth that has come in at an angle so food sometimes gets stuck between it and the adjacent tooth, the water flosser makes light work of it.
After the missus being ill for 3 of the last 4 weeks my body seems to have given in and my body is in bits. Feel like I’ve been hit by a bus and had to change the bedsheets from sweat an hour ago. Fuck aff.
I couldn’t really be arsed with going out tonight and tomorrow so that’s a blessing but Christmas Eve is the best night of the year. Hopefully 2 days in bed and a few shots of whiskey on Sunday sort me out
Had a bad cough for a little over a week, but I can’t catch my breath at all today, my chest feels like Yokozuna is sat on it. Had some antibiotics in the cupboard so I’ve decided to self medicate.
I'm a twit
So much for getting into the office today. My stomach has other ideas.
Was rudely awoken at 1:30 by my daughter spewing up all over the landing. Cleaned it up and she was sick a few more times through the night.
I had a diarrhoea poo at 4am, and have just been sick. Great.
I'm a twit
I'm in the second week of that virus that's going round. Fucking knackered, hacking my lungs up.
Every time I think I've shifted the cunt it poleaxes me again
Meanwhile this is what I'm printing today:
That'll probably end up being a Post Office scam to get everyone to buy a stamp.
@btinternet.com
Is it worth just getting private health insurance at this point? My Mrs has an ongoing health issue that has got worse to the point she is off work this week. Cant get in the doctors so rang 111, they predictably said go to A&E, get to A&E they say it's a 5 hour wait and have the chief doctor coming out telling people to go home and get a GP appointment, no GP appointments until March. Rang this morning can't even get a telephone appointment.
If you can afford it I would absolutely get private health. I haven't got round to it yet but it's on my list for whenever the body starts giving up.
How much is it? We're on the missus' work plan (BUPA) and it can't be faulted. Didn't have problems with Vitality before it either. Unless it's an outrageous price, it's a necessity going off your experience.
If it's a pre-existing condition the insurance probably won't cover it unless you pay (probably a lot) more for pre-existing conditions to be covered.
My BUPA is £55p/m, covered by work.
I've been laid up in bed since Monday night now basically. Either a terrible cold or the flu. Alternating between shivering and sweating, with a constant feeling that my skin is crawling. Horrible. Sound and feel like I've swallowed a bag of razors too, which is rattling around inside my lungs when i cough.
Menthol sweets really are the business, though. 5 minutes of easy-breathing bliss when I take one.
The Mrs travelled to London earlier in the week for work and came back with some sort of super bug. Hitting me hard today.
I had it start of Jan. Still coughing and losing my voice now, its a bastard to shake. Godspeed.
I’d kick up a fuss with your GP. Each surgery should have a duty doctor who sees acute cases that crop up and need to be seen on the day. Next time you call up, ask to be seen by them.
They often have 100 patients on their list before the day starts.
Duty doc shouldn’t. All the GP surgeries I’ve rotated in have the duty doc with an empty clinic that gets filled up with shite on that day.
Shouldn't being the operative word.
My daughter spent Saturday throwing up and has felt rubbish since. About 5pm last night I started feeling rubbish, my wife joined us about 7pm.
My daughter was up most of the night, just not sleeping and crying, so I’ve been up most of the night too. It’s proper rubbish! Neither my wife or I have threw up though thankfully.
Had some blood tests done with Thriva cos I was curious. HbA1c (blood sugar), testosterone, thyroid, liver, iron, vits D and B12.
All normal except B12 which scored as high as their test is able to measure (though this is below what would be considered "too high", thanks lads). Seems an odd one considering I eat almost no meat. Vit D sufficient but could potentially benefit from being higher probably the only useful bit of info.
Service was pretty good overall, test took 4 days to arrive and then I had the results the evening after I posted them back.
Had my neurology appointment today. I fit the criteria to start an anti-CGRP and the neurologist would like to start me on one, but the local CCG are refusing to fund them even though NICE have recommended they should.
Wonderful.
Too many letters.
Would American medical insurance from a doctor job cover it?
NICE = the national body who recommend what treatment should be NHS funded. CCG = local commissioning groups who organise funding locally. CCGs are supposed to be legally obligated to fund NICE approved treatments, but seemingly they are just refusing.
Anti-CGRP = new preventative migraine treatments which are on average much more effective than anything else.
If I was paid like an American doctor I wouldn't even need insurance to cover it.
I've given up on tackling my migraines. The docs are convinced they are caused by stress (they aren't) and as such are prescribing me SSRIs left and right.
If you've got a spare £500 a month kicking around you can get anti-CGRPs privately
The doc told me I've got a rupture in the miniscus that isn't going to self heal. I've been doing a lot of mobility work and strengthening but I still get pain for some lateral movement (especially if I'm trying to play football) so I'm going to go and get it sorted under the knife. Hopefully a quick turnaround and no issues.
A couple of years back I got a ringing in one of my ears that went on for a bit and then followed everything sounding muffled. Visited the doctors for it and it was just wax build up. Suggested olive oil drops to help loosen it up. This didnt work so had to end up getting it suctioned out.
Same ear has just clogged and started ringing again. I'm hoping the oil drops can do the trick this time around.
Past week or so I've had excessive gas and my arse is like a one man band. Last few days I've had the occasional cramps and if I need to go, I need to go. Thought I was going to shit myself at the gym today but thankfully I managed to get to the toilet.
Not sure what it is as I don't think I've introduced anything to my diet. Maybe a bug but usually stomach bugs don't last this long for me and it's generally happening shortly after I eat.
If your stool's changed get it checked. Change in toilet habits should be easily traced to diet.
I'm hoping it's these which are causing it, although I've been taking them for 4 weeks now.
It better not be the fact that I've been upping my wheat intake recently because I've been loving the Weetabix Protein I've been chowing down on lately.
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