How are you feeling physically?

[biscuits]

^ you can be Snap, I'll be Crackle and we just need a third person with ear pops to be Pop.

[Percy]

I have ear pops, I'll be pop.

[Rocket Spud]

Snottier by the day. Headaches, slight disorientation. And the rest of it. Bleugh....

I'm gonna start with the meds and pray the pollen count relents.

[Sudoku]

Hope you all feel better soon. Compared to this time last year, I'm feeling pretty amazing! Healed a lot. Although I've definitely used up at least 3 of my 9 lives at this point, so I'm not going to tempt fate!

[Rocket Spud]

Thanks, Sammy! Do please tell us of how you lost those 3 lives.. ?

Also are you another sauk cat lady? You're in good company if so.

[Sudoku]

Stabbing, diving accident, and seizure/heart damage recently. I've packed a lot of 'living' into my life! Not always the good kind. But at least it hasn't been boring.

I'm both a cat and dog (and most other animals) type of person. So I'm not sure I'd fit the proper 'cat lady' definition. I've never officially owned a cat, but had several that moved into wherever I was living at the time and decided to stay over the years. Even after their real owners moved away. I seem to be a cat magnet, regardless of whether I want to be or not! Although at some point I do want to get one of those hairless spinx cats and one of the 'wearwolf' lykoi breeds (since they would need to have an equally oddball friend). If I make it to 40 without managing to fully anihilate myself, I'll get those as a reward.

[Rocket Spud]

Blimey, Sammy, you've been through the wars. Is this work related? Are you 007's counterpart?

Nice. I'd love a dog but my place isn't really suitable. I'm still sort of keen on the idea of a rabbit or two, though it wouldn't do my macho image much good

[Percy]

What happened during the stabbing Sammy?

[Sudoku]

"Are you 007's counterpart?"

Haha! Nothing that exciting. I'm pretty boring these days. Or try to be. The diving accident was work related (no spies involved - although that's exactly what a spy would say!).

The stabbing was a long time ago in my teens. I ran off abroad far too young and got involved in some not great situations as a result. It could have been a lot worse, so I count myself very lucky.

Hope the hayfever gang are surviving! I'm fortunate that I only started getting it late in life and only seem to be affected by a few specific types of pollen. But my mum and two of my cousins get it really bad. So you all have my sympathy.

[Percy]

Yeah stabbing are a nightmare, aside from facing multiples stabbings are the hardest to deal with from a combatives point of view.

[Rocket Spud]

^^ .... It's all amounting to the sort of things an ex-007 counterpart would say. Very suspicious now..


Thanks but i'm feeling shite. No hangover this time, a decent sleep, washed, dressed, breakfast, fluids, meds, but still feeling fatigued and hazey. I'm not currently blocked up though so there's a plus. I hate feeling like this because it really hampers my (already lacking) motivation to do anything.

[Consolida]

I'm feeling absolutely terrible, hence my late night postings venting on here.

Constant severe pelvic pain with bloating and now loss of appetite. I haven't felt this sort of pain since I started to go into labour 20 old years ago! I barely ate anything yesterday but got no relief so I really don't think the nurse I saw a week ago is right about me suffering with indigestion. I typed in my symptoms and my age range and it keeps showing up ovarian cancer. I'm starting to catastrophise again

[Dougella]

^ Doctors on Monday, definitely.

[Chess&Junkfood]

^
Absolutely!

[Consolida]

^/^^ I don't think I'll be going back to the GP in the morning as it seems to be a complete waste of time

The pain was so severe this morning that I ended up at A&E. While I was there I had a routine blood test that was found to be 'normal' and my urine sample showed that I'm not suffering with a UTI. I nearly fell off my chair when the Doctor asked me if there was any chance that I might be pregnant. ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE, I replied!!

I was then advised to return home, take plenty of painkillers and contact my GP who so far thinks it might be a hiatus hernia, or indigestion, or...... :shrug:

I'm meant to be going away in 2 weeks time and am worried that I shall have to cancel and will be letting other people down. I'm scared of ending up alone in a foreign hospital. The month until my ultrasound appointment can't arrive quick enough

[Dougella]

^ No ultrasound?! If as the nurse at your surgery said you can book yourself in for a blood test and an ultrasound then probably a good idea to do that.

Has anyone mentioned ovarian cysts? Because two women in my family have had those in recent times with similar symptoms to yours (In one case she was fobbed off by the GP but happened to be going to have an ultrasound for another reason and they found a large cyst which needed to be removed as she's hoping to start a family in the not too distant future.) Anyway, if the pain is bad enough for you to go to A&E you definitely need some more investigations.

[Consolida]

^ I have booked myself in for the ultrasound but the earliest appointment is a month away. There's nothing available before then. I shall have to try to relieve some of the pain with co cocodomol for now

I did wonder about an ovarian cyst but I think it's a lot less likely in someone of my age (50's ) who has reached menopause. I'm at that age when the risk of various cancers start to rise quite significantly.

I've been Googling so much I could probably qualify as a Doctor!

Thank you for your feedback Dougella. As always it's greatly appreciated

[Chess&Junkfood]

I hope you will get that ultrasound soon, Consolida! And have a speedy recovery! Sending the best your way

[Consolida]

^ Aw thank you

[Dougella]

^^^ That's good you do have an appointment for an ultrasound, and atleast the fact that the blood test you had was normal must be a bit of a positive sign.

My relative who had an ovarian cyst was well past 50, so I guess it can happen. Hopefully you can get some answers as soon as possible and be in less pain

[Mo34]

I was weirdly chatting to my volunteer at work today and she was saying she will be taking time off in Oct to have her ovaries removed because she has an ovarian cyst (I might add she has private healthcare via her husbands job - so has decided to have them removed, it's not a case she has to have them removed). She's in her late 50's.
Someone at the sactuary aswell has had a ovarian cyst and she's probably 60.
I don't think it's uncommon.

Hope the ultrasound goes well though consolida

[Mo34]

Im feeling drained from the heat in my flat.

I bought temp blackout blinds for 2 windows which have helped a bit but it's all the heat thats held from cooking, or electrical items as well as from me being alive etc.. that's impossible. Hoping my friends daughter can come up with a solution for the windows. Cause it is getting pretty unbearable.

[Laurel]

Have you not got a fan Mo?

[Mo34]

^ Yep I've got a big old fan. It's just wafting warm air around though

I need proper cat proof screens for a few of my windows really - everything i've seen online though isn't going to be sturdy enough.

[Laurel]

Oh I see you’re worried your cats will go out. I heard a tip with a fan is to put ice in front of it.

[Consolida]

@ Dougella and Mo34
Thank you both for the feedback
I sort of hope it is a cyst that can be fairly easily dealt with as I've worked myself up into a right tizz thinking it might be something untreatable and terminal. I just can't help myself

The pain is so bad that in desperation I ended up seeing a private doctor today and have been booked in for an ultrasound on Saturday morning. It's going to cost a flipping fortune but hopefully it will be worth it for an end to whatever is causing the pain. It says on the form pelvic transVaginal ultrasound so I'm now really worried that it's going to be a more invasive internal examination but I'll just have to grin and bare it I suppose. The last time I had an ultrasound I at least had my son at the end of it!

@Mo - sorry to hear that the heat in your flat is getting to you. I was also going to mention the cat screens for your windows but like you, I'd be worried that the cats would manage to break through it. Fortunately our cats can go outside and as they are all geriatric they always stay in the garden these days.

[Mo34]

^ I've had a transvaginal ultrasound a few times. They saw a nodule/cyst on one my ovaries after a CT scan for something else and so I had a ultrasound booked the following month each time at around about the same time in my cycle.
It is more invasive but really nothing too bad. It's a white probe? much like a slim vibrator lol, that is able to scan from the inside. It's not esp uncomfortable in my experience.

Yes it's going to have to be something a bit more bespoke unfortunately for my cat

[Dougella]

^^ It was probably a good idea for you to see a private doctor and get an earlier scan (although you shouldn't have to) so you can find out what's going on. You shouldn't have to go on being in so much pain.

[biscuits]

@Consolida - hope your scan goes okay.

When I went they did the ultrasound first and then decided not to do the internal scan. So I think it's procedure to do the external one and then decide if the other is needed. The internal one is more comfortable than a pap smear as it's thinner than a speculum.

The only thing I found was that I needed a wee immediately after because of the pressure!

It's all over quite quickly which helps.

Mine turned out to be digestive.

@Mo is there any way you can strategically have one room with the widows open and then switch rooms? Maybe using a garden trelice? I can't spell that hope you know what I mean

You could put some of those removable hooks and tie them in position against the window?

[Laurel]

memory foam has a lot to answer for. How many times I woke up last night. Insane. I either have to expend £100 buying a topper. Or I got to try creative solutions. Creative solution 1- turn the mattress over. It's hard, but I might be able to soften it with a blanket or something.