What ails you?

[jag]

Had to go to the docs last week as I had a bad fall on one of my explores. I've got a frozen shoulder which won't heal for about a year and it's really painful. Great start to the year.:mad:

[Chiaroscuro]

Ooh ouch, jag. Is it an excuse to ask for lots of shoulder massages, or is it too painful for that?

I've just been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid. Went to the doctor with a painful wrist, thinking I had RSI and ended up with a completely different diagnosis!

[edash]

Waiting for some more tests to be carried out before the docs can decide what's wrong with me, but all the symptoms are indicating IBS. As it's a condition which isn't easily identified thay basically have to rule out everything else first.

[Chiaroscuro]

Fun getting older, isn't it? ;)

[jag]

Sorry to hear that ed.
I went and bought a TENS machine which seems to work so far, at least the dull ache has gone.

[Deep Black]

Well I have got a small scab on my finger where I scraped it on the car child seat on Christmas eve.

[RedKing]

I stubbed my toe on the way to the kitchen. I'm having a lie down to recover.

[Chiaroscuro]

Well I have got a small scab on my finger where I scraped it on the car child seat on Christmas eve.


I stubbed my toe on the way to the kitchen. I'm having a lie down to recover.

You guys! :D

Did make me chortle. Well it was more of a snort, actually.

[RedKing]

Our work here is done, then.

[Deep Black]

Always the class clown, & they said I never get anywhere with that attitude...... Ohh :(

[Champagne Socialist]

blast I missed the chance to complain about my paper cut.

[Chiaroscuro]

blast I missed the chance to complain about my paper cut.

Ooh, they can be nasty.

[jag]

I hope you all have good health,
and then you can take the piss when it happens to you.
:rolleyes:

[Conscious Bob]

I hope you all have good health,
and then you can take the piss when it happens to you.
:rolleyes:

I'll bear that in mind, when I'm on the lash, doing drugs and rolling around in Giant Hogweed.

[Chiaroscuro]

Just don't smoke the Giant Hogweed.

[jag]

I'll bear that in mind, when I'm on the lash, doing drugs and rolling around in Giant Hogweed.
:D. I'm a reformed character these days, I've stopped rolling around in Hogweed.
Talking of which, I got some cream from the doc and the burns have healed up nicely with just a slight scaring.

[jag]

Up to the eyeballs in painkillers.

[ROU Read After Burning]

Waiting for some more tests to be carried out before the docs can decide what's wrong with me, but all the symptoms are indicating IBS. As it's a condition which isn't easily identified thay basically have to rule out everything else first.

Nasty - my wife was intermittently plagued with IBS for a couple of years. Different doctors would tell her different things, and all tests (coeliac screen etc) came back negative.

Finally 'cured' it by selectively cutting out foods from her diet, started with dairy, then bread etc; found that onions were causing it.

Now she rarely eats anything containing onions, and is back to normal.

[jag]

I lost some weight by cutting out dairy products but the biggie was takeaway stuff. Man what a difference. And I know if I could stop drinking then I would be a very much slimmer jag.
I must admit to being 'binge healthy', and then 'binge bad'.
I never eat those fat-fighters meals, will only have brown bread, drink loads of water,exercise, don't smoke (;)) and am aware of what crap goes into the body.
Anyway I can't remember what I was going on about now........

[edash]

I've lost nearly two stone doing nothing, just one of the symptoms which prompted the intial visit to the doc. I haven't gone down the selective omission of foods road yet, mainly because nothing's been confirmed. Diet isn't usually an issue with IBS (although is a cause in some cases) but it's certainly something I'll look into if required.

[jag]

My mate has chrones disease.
He plays bass guitar in my band.
20 feet less of the lower colon.
:(:(

[Champagne Socialist]

You guys know how I posted in the 'New Toys' thread that my wife gave me a pair of 7 league boots for Christmas?

Well I'm just back from A&E.

Radial head fracture (radial bone, just below the elbow) on my left arm.
Quite clean apparently.
Have a back slab on for the moment until the swelling goes down and they can fit a proper cast. Lots of pain killers :-)

not so fun.

[jag]

DF118s luverly.

[Deep Black]

You won't be using those again then Champers?

[Champagne Socialist]

oh yes I will!
I would have been straight up on them there and then, but the wife intervened.
Give me 6-8 weeks to get fixed and I'll be out on them again :-)
Would be a shame to waste a lesson learned.

[Conscious Bob]

Would be a shame to waste a lesson learned.

Or the opportunity to repeat the mistake.

[Chiaroscuro]

Ouch, CS. Hope you heal up soon. My nephew's got some of these insisted on wearning them up and down Brighton Pier.

[scooterman]

Always the class clown, & they said I never get anywhere with that attitude...... Ohh :(

reminds me of the teacher in the film of The Wall reading Pink's notebook....
"New car,caviar 4 star daydream ,think I'll buy me a football team?????
Rubbish,utter rubbish get on with your work!"

[Deep Black]

oh yes I will!

Brave man:eek:

[Champagne Socialist]

CB: Precisely :-)

DB: Or foolish, time will tell.

Claire: Make sure he's careful. Swimming with those things on his legs would be an interesting proposition.

Jag: Hope your friend recovers well. When's the op due?

[Conscious Bob]

CB: Precisely :-)

Looks like you're the closest we've got here to an extreme sportsman.

[Deep Black]

Unless drinking counts as a sport?

[Conscious Bob]

Unless drinking counts as a sport?

That would make me an active sportsman but as I can't remember my defeats or victories I can't tell you how good.

[scooterman]

since you asked....my mood has been way down recently( a long term problem for me, but the medication works pretty well) The real bugger at the moment is the hellish anxiety symptoms, which although associated with depression have never really been a problem for me before. Propanalol(a beta blocker) helps a bit, way better than Valium which is just TOO SCARY

[Chiaroscuro]

Sorry to hear about your anxiety symptoms, scoot. My Mum recently went through appoximately a year of having repeated attacks almost on a monthly basis and I know how hard it is to live with. She's been taking propanalol too and it's certainly helped her though it took a few months to really start to work. It does seem to be something that gradually resolves itself and I hope it does for you soon. Is there anything that triggers the symptoms for you? I know what I think started my Mum's off but after the first couple it just seemed to happen for no obvious reason.

[scooterman]

nope, I don't get "attacks" as such just feel on edge most of the time, nervous and agitated and can't relax.No "triggers".

[Chiaroscuro]

:( Sorry to hear that. Have you tried breathing exercises?

[jag]

Hey Scoot, must meet up for a bevvy again soon, I'll cheer you up.
My frozen shoulder is still bloody sore and the physio does seem to help, but it's a slow healing process. Been taking whatever I can to ease the pain, DF118s, diazepam, dope, alcohol etc.

[scooterman]

:( Sorry to hear that. Have you tried breathing exercises?

Oh yes, when I breathe I feel much better:rolleyes:

[boberick2]

Oh yes, when I breathe I feel much better:rolleyes:

Right there's this realy cool breathing exercise that gives a short period of "high" whilst relieving you on anxiety and depression:

Sit on the floor in a relaxing way (maybe in a meditation pose, whatever you find relaxing) and breath realy heavily for 20-30 seconds
when you have done this put your thumb in your mouth and blow on it as hard as you can, ignoring the fact that you can't

Doing this brings a euphoric sensation and you will stay in this "high" for a short period of time.
to lengthen the sensation breath heavily for longer than 30 seconds, but make sure you don't hyperventilate

[Chiaroscuro]

Oh yes, when I breathe I feel much better:rolleyes:

Sorry - just trying to be of some help.

[Champagne Socialist]

Looks like you're the closest we've got here to an extreme sportsman.

I also go skiing, rock climbing and have been known to do white water rafting :-)

Extreme is the only way to live

[disrepdog]

I also go skiing, rock climbing and have been known to do white water rafting :-)

*holds up hand* And me. Well in truth not rock climbed for a few years but still ski and ride my horse as often as poss. He's an ex racehorse so does that make me extreme too? :p

Plus last year I ran the school PTFA, involved lots of cake sales - they are manic and extreme to the nth degree :eek:

Scooterman - hope things improve for you.

[Champagne Socialist]

Yeah scoot.

[Deep Black]

I went dry slope skiing once, does that count?

[Champagne Socialist]

probably more so if it's that horrible rope stuff, if you fall over on that it can pull your fingers off.

[scooterman]

Sorry - just trying to be of some help.

Appreciated. Note to self -" sarcasm not big or clever!"

[Chiaroscuro]

Appreciated. Note to self -" sarcasm not big or clever!"
I don't mind sarcasm :) - I just thought I'd peed you off.

Group hug and all that. ;)

[Deep Black]

Awww sweet


probably more so if it's that horrible rope stuff, if you fall over on that it can pull your fingers off.
It was the stuff like a load of upsidedown brushes in a potato waffle layout

[scooterman]

I don't mind sarcasm :) - I just thought I'd peed you off.

Group hug and all that. ;)

In my weird world I am only ever sarcastic to people that i really like so its a compliment . What I'm trying and failing badly to say here is thank you

[BeckyH]

Just both of you take a deep breath....:D.
And there are all sorts of activities where I have to remind myself to breathe smoothly-Taiko drumming, aerobic exercise, etc. You can also figure out if you're not blinking enough as you stare at the screen and so on. Sometimes this autonomous stuff needs a check up.

[edash]

Sometimes this autonomous stuff needs a check up.

Which is why I'm having a colonoscopy on Tuesday.

[jag]

Getting battered and bruised by the physio but it seems to be helping as does the Dihydrocodeine, which makes you itch like an itchy thing.

[BeckyH]

So you could do a nice job on the Eagles number Itchy Woman, right?

[Champagne Socialist]

So you could do a nice job on the Eagles number Itchy Woman, right?

ew!

[jag]

At the physio again this morning. A great improvement in my arms mobility, plus the pain has gone from the shoulder, only the muscles are tender now. Have stopped taking DHC as I was starting to get a bit addicted to them.

[jag]

Hells teeth, just sliced my middle finger whilst chopping some onions.

[Deep Black]

Slightly sore throat today

[Chiaroscuro]

In my weird world I am only ever sarcastic to people that i really like so its a compliment . What I'm trying and failing badly to say here is thank you

:D Any time, scoot.

[jag]

Went to the dox to get some painkiller/anti-inflammatory things and got signed of work for a fortnight.

[disrepdog]

after the day I've had at work I wouldn't mind be signed off sick for a fortnight. However hope you feel better Jag

[jag]

Thanks man, gonna have a few early nights and try and get some sleep.

[Champagne Socialist]

first day back after my extended sabbatical.
Arm still mending, but mended enough to return.

wonder what kind of mess the morons at work have left for me to clean up.
It's amazing how much my blood pressure dropped in the weeks away.

Time to get ready to shout at the morons.

[Deep Black]

/have those boots been calling to you again yet?

[Champagne Socialist]

Went to the dox to get some painkiller/anti-inflammatory things and got signed of work for a fortnight.

codeine?
I hope the rest leads to a swift recovery.


/have those boots been calling to you again yet?

Yes damnit YES!
But the blasted wife (bless her gentle heart) has hidden the things.

[jag]

Nah! No codiene or Df118s:mad:, just boring old naproxen which does seem to be helping I must admit. Trying to rest is difficult 'cause I'm always out doing stuff and driving really seems to aggravate the shoulder. Next car will be an automatic.
Hope everyone else is feeling fine.

[RedKing]

Thanks for your concern, jag. My "consumption" seems to be finally cured, was a bit fed up of the hacking cough, etc.

[Hendo!]

I've got a dodgy knee, ok two dodgy knees. One was operated on 18 months ago and I thought the other was heading that way two weeks ago, turns out it's just inflamed. God damn you meniscus! God damn you to hell!

[Champagne Socialist]

heeeendooooooooo

how's Holland?

[Deep Black]

Sore hands.
Been digging & moving rubble in the garden all of yesterday & most of today

[edash]

That must have been some party.

[jag]

Well, back to the working life for me tomorrow. Actually be good to get back to normality as I've been all over the place, sleepwise for the past 2 weeks getting up at 4am till 6am then going back to bed for a few hours, pure mental man.
Been having some well heavy dreams though.

[RedKing]

Sore hands.
Been digging & moving rubble in the garden all of yesterday & most of today

Make sure you cover the body completely, those darn sniffer dogs are mighty efficient! :eek:

[Deep Black]

I did uncover quite a few black binliners, so someone's beaten me to it

[jag]

And now, my big toe on the right foot is starting to swell up, is it gout?

[jag]

Sniffles!! Sneezing etc!!

[RedKing]

I had that for about three months, jag. It's a right pain, for sure.

[Hendo!]

it's the port and oysters jag lay off the rich food ;)

[Chiaroscuro]

Hi Hendo! Is that a self portrait?

[jag]

Is that one of you to chiaroscuro, Miaow!
I've still got that footy mug you sent me (all those years ago).

[RedKing]

I've still got that footy mug

Never mind, jag, they can do wonders with plastic surgery these days... :eek:

[Hendo!]

Almost Chiaroscuro :) It's really a self portrait from an American artist called Coop, but I look similar.

[Deep Black]

I thought that was a Supermarket

[jag]

Bloody Hell what next!, My left knee did a semi-lock today whilst bending down to take money out of the safe. It felt like it needed to 'click' for the rest of the day.

[RedKing]

I'll just take you out and put you out of your misery, jag, eh?

[jag]

Plenty of life left in the old dog yet.

[Deep Black]

You have a safe eh? Swanky

[jag]

It's only a small one:o.
Mostly containing, er, medication and a few valuables.

[Deep Black]

Is it behind the picture over the fireplace?

[RedKing]

It was, now there's just a hole...

[jag]

I have another great place to stash large amounts of notes, hope the wife doesn't read this, in the hollow base of a model piano my step son made. It's in my studio and I'm sure she dusts it down from time to time without even realising.
It's empty at the mo.

[Conscious Bob]

I have another great place to stash large amounts of notes, hope the wife doesn't read this, in the hollow base of a model piano my step son made. It's in my studio and I'm sure she dusts it down from time to time without even realising.
It's empty at the mo.

Ha! you think she doesn't know! I pity you. I was like you once, I thought that I could comfortably conceal my stash. I quote Beloved, 'Why don't you put in that £500 that you've just got sitting doing nothing for holiday spends'. She didn't even acknowledge I'd stashed it.

Blisters! Went a bit mental down at the track, ow.

[jag]

Shoulder's getting better.
Not nearly as painful as it was and am sleeping better as you may have noticed, no strange posts at 5.15am etc.

[Deep Black]

Woke up with a bit of a cold today, sore throat etc

[Conscious Bob]

Sunburned neck, was chilling in mate's back garden yesterday.

[jag]

Oohh, it's such a rock 'n' roll lifestyle we lead.

[Deep Black]

How this one for Rock 'n' Roll?

Blister on my hand from raking the garden over yesterday :(

[jag]

God, I'm jealous. But....
I was in the magazine dept at Borders today on my knees reading the latest edt of 2000AD and when I tried to get up, the left knee just went, what a struggle:o

[Conscious Bob]

Getting the feeling these recent posts would be quite at home in the You Know You're Getting Old thread.

[edash]

Getting over a quite vicious stomach bug, leading to painful projectile vomiting which, while it only lasted about 5 minutes, seems to be taking much longer to recover from. Insides still feel a bit delicate, not helped by the still not diagnosed problems they'd already been giving me.

[Hendo!]

sunburn from day out at nudie beach...

[BeckyH]

Got to remember those bits which get somewhat less sun also tend to be the more tender ones....

[Conscious Bob]

sunburn from day out at nudie beach...

You should've rubbed on some cream...

[Champagne Socialist]

I'm still a bit sunburned.
I'm tired from flights and lack of sleep from Lariam nightmares.
I'm going to have to do the whole time adjustment thing.
I ache all over from joining in far to enthusiastically.
I'm smelly and I haven't had a whisky in a month.
I feel awful.

but it's an awful in a very satisfying way.
And now I have broadband again!
And people speak English!

You guys have been busy nattering while I've been out, this's a lot of wandering topics to traul through.

[Deep Black]

Wandering topics? Surely not.

My daughter has ChickenPox, my mum seems to think I've never had it, so I could be in for a rough one

[jag]

Alcoholism and an aversion to lethargy.
In a surreal world that makes sense.

[Conscious Bob]

Alcoholism and an aversion to lethargy.
In a surreal world that makes sense.

The loneliness of the long distance drinker.

[edash]

We got our first confirmed case of swine flu over here today. And even though the media haven't revealed where, I know it's a few miles up the road from me in rac's old stomping ground.

[RedKing]

I thought rac had a bit of a cough recently. Can you catch it via forums? {cough} {splutter}

[rac]

We got our first confirmed case of swine flu over here today. And even though the media haven't revealed where, I know it's a few miles up the road from me in rac's old stomping ground.

Yeah? I wonder if I know them... investigation is required!

*cough cough*

[Conscious Bob]

Had my vaccinations, Hep A, Typhoid and Tetanus, come ahead you bacterial b******s!

[jag]

Sliced my forehead with my thumbnail:confused: whilst drying my hair. A minute cut, but one of those buggers that bleeds forever, like a shaving cut.

[RedKing]

You big girl - watch you don't burn yourself with the hair straighteners...

[Deep Black]

Hangover

[Champagne Socialist]

Friends wedding yesterday.
Danced all night with lots and lots of very pretty girls, and my beautiful wife twice as often.
Absolutely knackered today, aching all over.

Didn't have enough water to drink so still have the symptoms of a hangover due to that.

[198505]

Nothing to so with any beer? Or where you driving?

[RedKing]

Got soaked to the skin on Friday and my cough has returned today - it'll hopefully take less than three months to get rid of it.

[rac]

Walked up a hill yesterday.
Sore legs today, but luckily no tick bites.

[Champagne Socialist]

Nothing to so with any beer? Or where you driving?

I was driving.
The wife was in heals.

[RedKing]

The wife was in heals.

The shop or the medical profession? ;)

[Champagne Socialist]

knickers!

spell.

[RedKing]

Wingardim Leviosa!

[Deep Black]

Anyone remember that episode of Twilight Zone (or was it Outer Limits) where the guy woke up & no words in the world meant what they used to mean any more...

[jag]

I'm floating in mid-air RK.
Got a new Bike!!
A bit saddle sore from a 3 mile cycle ride.
Yeah I know, a bit wimpy, but it's the first time I've been on a bike for ages man.

[RedKing]

I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like...

Glad you got the joke, jag, I can always depend on you to be on the right wavelength!

[RedKing]

Anyone remember that episode of Twilight Zone (or was it Outer Limits) where the guy woke up & no words in the world meant what they used to mean any more...

Yes, that was the new Twilight Zone, I think, when the guy ends up looking at his kid's ABC books trying to relearn how to read?

[Deep Black]

That's the one :D
Always stuck with me, great idea

[Champagne Socialist]

sometimes I feel that happens to me every day.

[jag]

I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like...

Glad you got the joke, jag, I can always depend on you to be on the right wavelength!

It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.

Tuned into your station RK.
Fecking Mayhem.:D

[rac]

I've been awake since 2:30 this morning... and have to go to work soon.

[disrepdog]

Also ailing from lack of sleep. Nephew stayed for a couple of days, insisted on waking everyone up at 6.30 am. Normally not too much of a problem but combined with late nights, even my kids are shattered :eek:

Supposedly jumping my horse tonight, may end up riding like Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou

http://www.sixties60s.com/1965/leemarvin.jpg

[198505]

Nice case of cun burn after riding the bike over the moors yesterday

[Champagne Socialist]

I think a cousin burnt his cun once.
he wasn't happy about it.

[rac]

So, it was my sons birthday, so he had a day where we did what he wanted.
For some reason, he decided on going to a golf driving range... now, I don't like golf and have never played (unless putting and crazy golf counts).
BUT- the driving range was great fun!
Problems began the next morning- and continue today- as I can barely move my fkking back!

[Deep Black]

Just think how much worse it would be if you'd had to walk round a course too :eek:

[Deep Black]

1 blister per foot after walking home from mum & dads.

[Champagne Socialist]

I had a guy cry off ill today for hayfever, he's been 'ill' for more than a month now this year for everything from a minor cold and toothache to hayfever.
One of my juniors was visiting the dentist in the city centre when this guy was off ill with a stomach bug and saw him out shopping.
hayfever.
He's fired as soon as he gets back in.

[rac]

Eek!
Hope he doesn't read this board!

[Champagne Socialist]

He was back in today, and apparently doesn't read this board because he was surprised to find he doesn't work for me any more either.

To many spurious days off 'ill' being spotted out and about shopping, clubbing or pubbing.
In this economy there are others who deserve to keep their jobs.

[Deep Black]

he was surprised to find he doesn't work for me any more either.

How do you sleep at night ;)

[Champagne Socialist]

curled up snug and warm under the duvet, content having saved the job of someone who actually gives enough of a crap about their own future to not take the mick.

it's also a very comfortable bed.

[Deep Black]

Not bad, I was thinking of this clip (towards the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIlpYLIiZLE

[Champagne Socialist]

Not bad, I was thinking of this clip (towards the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIlpYLIiZLE

A small mound of money (all low denomination bills) and one beautiful wife?

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it....

[jag]

I've been of the booze for the last 4 days, well when I say of, I mean cutting back. No voddy, just having a couple of beers and the odd glass of white wine. Last night I had none!!

[BeckyH]

And how does that feel for you, Jag?
As for myself, been doing lots of biking and now the poor old knees are saying enough! enough! It's crap feeling the body electric short out one small fuze at a time....

[Champagne Socialist]

How is the stark reality of clarity Jag?
Gone the focus hewn veil of diffused insobriety?

BeckyH, welcome to ageing.

[jag]

'Tis a nightmare.
Nah, it's OK, there just won't be any crazy posts for awhile.
Stayed in my studio tonight just mucking about. Gonna have a nightcap of.....hot chocolate.:p

[RedKing]

You Sexy Thing!

[jag]

Just got back from my folks, which is like The Betty Ford Clinic, No drink, sex or drugs.
Had a few voddys tonight, but not pissed.

[Hilarity Unit]

A huge blister and an infected toe - I guess 8 Munros in one weekend it just too much...

[jag]

A fall down a bloody hole!!!:)
Had to laugh as everyone else did.

Bad case of sunburn as well. We sat at my folks in glorious 70f heat. I had factor 30 on but still the right side of my carcass has the 'fireside tartan' as they call it up here.

[Deep Black]

I always use childs 50+ sun block

[RedKing]

And the poor child gets to burn, eh? YOU FIEND!

[phazedout]

my love has not been online since tuesday (for 10 minuets) and her phone is off.
I'm worried she may have fallen ill as she was suffering migraine the weekend we spent in canbridge, her being ill and out of contact is driving me frantic.

am I being irrational due to my lack of relationship experince?
please help
Alan

[jag]

Sounds like your getting rubbered mate;).

Tried to play golf at the driving range today, but after whacking 20 balls my shoulder said, "please don't do this anymore".

[Deep Black]

Major neck ache this morning, mush have slept all twisted around :(

Phaze - just relax, she'll be ok. Else you'll make yourself ill too

[BeckyH]

Phaze-does she live far away? Do you have a common contact who lives closer? A request for an update isn't out of order.
But if she gets serious migraines then 3-5 days of dim quiet would not be unusual as a requirement for recovery.
If you can say "hey-I like to know you're ok" without sounding like "every breath you take" you'll be fine.

[Deep Black]

"I'll be watching you"

[Champagne Socialist]

It annoys me how many guys still sing that as a romantic.
"Hey I'm going to stalk you & possibly boil
your bunny, & that's not a euthamism".

Tried to practice a bit at the driving rangge, but my arm didn't like the idea.

This morning I'm recovering from a small hangover

[jag]

Tried to practice a bit at the driving range, but my arm didn't like the idea.

Join the club M8.
Infact I'm selling all my golf stuff to a mate for £110.