Well I had 4 hours sleep in the end, so the night wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Thanks Connie. I'll update this thread as soon as I can.Good morning Zand I hope today is a better one for you . Sending you a big hug , hope social services can help out . Thinking of you .
Brilliant I hope it has helped even if only a little.. and that the wobbly cow can still make you smile a bit.GP called at my request. Has suggested a couple of tests and will get me some help. He also told me what to ask for when I speak to social services.
@bulkbiker Every cloud has a silver lining. I have fasted for 26 hours without even realising. I might be a quivering wreck, but at least my pancreas is happier 'Always look on the bright side of life...…'
Hope you enjoyed your lunch with your son - don't be nervous love you'll be fine - before your call make a bullet point list so that you remember to mention everything and don't let them rush you - I find talking on the phone to the doctor easier than face to face - it means I can pull faces and write rude things down on my bullet point list lolGetting nervous now as I need to speak to the GP we saw yesterday between 5-6 pm today. Not sure he got the full picture yesterday.
Getting nervous now as I need to speak to the GP we saw yesterday between 5-6 pm today. Not sure he got the full picture yesterday.
Thanks, can't believe I didn't think of bullet points myself. I was too stressed to think properly. Thanks for the reminder. It worked well.Hope you enjoyed your lunch with your son - don't be nervous love you'll be fine - before your call make a bullet point list so that you remember to mention everything and don't let them rush you - I find talking on the phone to the doctor easier than face to face - it means I can pull faces and write rude things down on my bullet point list lol
Yes I got what I needed yesterday thank you. Unfortunately things have developed further today so I have had to make 4 more phone calls but I guess I am making progress.I hope it went well and you got what you needed.
Hj
What a lovely post! Thank you so much, you have helped me tremendously by posting this.@zand hope that things are ok. I do feel for you. As a long term sufferer from depression and anxiety when you have to deal with difficult family stuff it can easily tip the balance. In addition if you haven't been well this will have added to your depressive thoughts and feelings. Even people who have no experience of depression say that they are left low after a virus but this will eventually pass. When I came off anti depressants after about 20 years I had a target and time scale but because of personal family issues -I am carer to autistic son and both my son's had severe mental health difficulties - I had to revise how quickly I ditched them and it ended up as a nine month very slow weaning off them. This for me was two years ago and I now manage my mental health with no pills and doing things that I enjoy such as mindfulness app headspace, walking, listening to music in the little bits of me space time. You will get there - stick with it and remember your health and you are important look after yourself.
Never a truer word.but apparently science says I am wrong. n=1 doesn't count apparently. It counts 100% when that '1' is me.
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So here I am. Seriously obese now (rather than morbidly obese). Alone again. Nowhere to go for help. Science says I must be cheating on my diet. I know I'm not. I don't care a lot for scientific reports. Science is changing/growing every day, therefore what is scientific truth today may be debunked tomorrow. My own past experiences however will remain the truth for me for always. One day science might catch up with me and my body. I won't hold my breath.
Thanks.Zand I admire your resilience in the face of great difficulties and hard times. I wish it could be better.
As a scientist I would say that science / medicine is not particularly good at dealing with things it doesn't know. The pressure for scientists to publish and ease with which they can, has led to an awful lot of work that gets through the "review" system you have to be a full time expert in most fields to know what is going on... and even then.
N=1 is fine by me as it's the most important n. Trust yourself and take care.
Hj