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Hi Liz, just had a quick look, so pretty. I remember when dad had the chicken farm, we used to grind their food, had about 10 different things in it. Then it would all be mixed up in a cement mixer.

Now days, you just buy chick starter.

I love hatching days, it is very exciting.

Gail

Morning everyone, I hope you're all doing ok?

Christine, you need to ask for a second opinion and make and speak to your parctice manager. Has your doctor not recommended you see a rheumatologist?
I know it's hard to get the ball rolling when you're in pain because the pain tends to take over and make you too tired to fight.

I have a doctor at our surgery that I totally refuse to see, he too has n bedside manner, he can#t even look at you as you enter the room, I could be talking to the wall for all the aknowledgement I get, he grunts when he answers you if he can be bothered.

My own GP is pretty good, although she only works part time as she does other clinics at the hospital to do with rheumatology.

I hope you can get some real help very soon, you can always ask to see a different GP.

Gillie XX

Ok I have to admit I am sad and have been for a few weeks, my youngest son who went away on holiday 3 weeks ago to stay with his girlfriend didn't come home as expected last sunday evening, I had to text him to ask him if he was coming home or what was happening, he said' not tonite mum, love **** XXX' so I asked him outright as I had a gut feeling he wasn't coming home at all, I asked him had he left home? he text back 'maybe' then he came in monday morning while working in our area and said he'd decided to leave, I am gutted, I miss him so much, he came in again yesterday and took some more of his belongings, his bed and some other bits and pieces, his room looks empty, no clothes, no dvd's no computer, nothing, I know it's daft but I just miss him giving me a hug, he always kissed me goodbye before he went out or to work and always gave me a kiss goodnight, he and I were very close and now I can't stand not knowing if he's ok, he worries me, he has had a few accidents this year, I did put them on the boards, he crushed his thumb and had his face badly burned to name a few, plus he's had several car accidents.
I am scared something dreadful will happen to him.

I just miss him, he is 21 in at the beginning of next year. I am happy that he is happy, I am happy he has a lovely girlfriend, she is a smashing girl and we get on well.

Gillie XX

Hi everyone
I was out all day yesterday...me and OH, we got to Rochester and met up with Gwen, Stu and Jill. It was a lovely day and I felt more relaxed as the day passed. I smiled inside.
I bought OH a dragon which he saw in one of the shop windows...he doesn't know, I am putting it away for Christmas.
I am gonna go see the Dr this week and I have work (lots!) to keep me occupied. I am lucky I guess when I read your stories about GPs, mine is a sweetheart and so caring but it is a complex with 4 drs though if I ask to see her they usually accomodate me. Do push all the time to get what you feel you want and need, you are the one who are suffering...they seem to forget that.
Anyways off to do brekkie, OH rising as well.
xxxx
CarolB

Dearest Vods,and everyone else,
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou.
Some of your experiences with the Dr are so like mine.Its so hard to get an appointment to begin with,And when one is available its with someone you really dont want to see.The one i saw last week is not allowed to sign priscriptions,but he was nice,Just looked at computer screen and must have thought beam me up.
I have said to theDoctors mant times is it athritus?
Everyone gets some wear and tear some say.
I will wait for my results this week to see if anything shows,There is another Drs not to far away,i am seriously thinking of changing...I have been with my surgery since i was 4 i am getting on 47.
Vods, sorry i dont know your real name...but i felt so much for you with the terrible time you have had,Its so bad isent it...you see so many different people,have to go through it all over and over again..your given drugs that are totaly wrong for you,and you were over dosed ...
I hope things get better for you,honest i do.
Thankyou all so much. I really mean it,sorry if i sounded a wet flannel,
Love and thoughts to you all
Love Christine xxxx

Christine, You did not sound a wet flannel! You are in so much pain, it's enough to make anyone scream. There are two sorts of arthritis could be you have one of them. How are you this morning? x

Today the case needs getting down from the roof.
I will start to lay out the clothes I want to take away with me. Ohhhh it's exciting xx

Carole, I have e mailed Gill but not had a reply.

Christine it does sound as if you need to get a bit cross with the Doctor and ask to be referred to a specialist. Constant pain is very lowering. I empathise with the back pain as I have had it now for over 5 years. as with you Physio did nothing. Now I learn to live with it, most of the time it is in the background but occasionally I have a few really bad days. Yours sounds worse though and you definitely need another opinion.

Gail, all those little chicks, Aah, they sound sweet.

CarolB glad you were able to have a relaxing day yesterday. you are in my thoughts this week.

Horrible wet dark day today so had no trouble sleeping on through the extra hour!! Going to make some cards later and will probably pop round the garden centre.

Ann
Glos

Gillie I know exactly what you are going through, when my two sons left home for the Navy and RAF I missed them so much it was a physical ache. There is a saying, ' to keep them you have to let them go'. It is hard when they leave but he will keep popping back to see you, and you will only make yourself ill by worrying over him, just let him see you are pleased to see him when he turns up.

Christine I was going to suggest the same thing myself about the Rheumatologist, it sounds like fm to me. People on here will tell you how I cried I was in so much pain, it turned out to be fm and I am now on morphine. My wrists were so painful I had to keep them strapped up to be able to use my hands as well. Keep going back to your doctor, no-one should be treat like that, or change him.
Dutch rang and I had to do my shopping list so an hour has passed since I started this.

Joyce P I am not sure I can do your panto now, what if Toby's little claws slip on the floor and tips me up, squashed doggy and broken hip and collar bone for me. Oh yes, when doctor came the other day she looked at my pile of notebooks and reference books etc, other words a mess, and said she is glad I am keeping all my things together so as not to walk about too much. She hinted at me having everything downstairs and not using stairs at all, oh yes I said what about bathroom, commode? then she said no, knowing me I will take it upstairs to empty myself. She knows me!!

Gail you will have to send me a picture of all your little chicks, I still haven't got one of you, I know I haven't sent mine either but I didn't want to scare you.
Love and hugs to you all.
Caz xx

Christine!

wet flannel indeed! what a load of rubbish,
rant over

way back in 1988 I had trouble with my left hand. It used to go blue and I had lots of pain, I was 24 and after numberous visits to the quack, where i got the impression they didnt believe me, I went with my mum.

I got the usual response.. yeah yeah, sure.. theres nothing wrong. I was LIVID i'd had enough, so I stormed out, by the time i got to the main doors my hand was an ugly colour.

My mother dragged me back to the doctor.

Turned out I had a rib growing above my shoulder. Had I gone to a different doctor, he'd have diagnosed me in 5 minutes. HE had it too!

They operated and removed a bone an inch long. My blood vessels had been all jumbled up too because of it. Thats why the hand went blue.

So its a case of scream blue murder untill they believe you and do something.

Stay determined, Stay positive, by the look of it 90% of us on here are behind you!

My hand was recently going blue. My friend kept saying are you cold? I wasn't, but my hand was getting bluer as we sat drinking coffee. Then I realised I had new dark jeans on! The dye was coming off them!! lol
Sorry don't mean to trivialise your problems xx

happy sunday to everyone may you have a nice day ,im just getting ready to go hospital in stoke apparently hubby had a rough night last night ive managed to have a quick word on the phone with him tough ill speak to the nurses when i get there so ill catch you all later hugs elaine x

Afternoon everyone,

Grey & miserable here, it is going to be 'wintery' weather from now on, or so the Dutch forcaste people say.Going to be dark earlier too tonight.Great, just the thing to lift your mood....
Fran & Christine, welcome on this thread.You will find support and advice here.
Christine,have read your posts.It made me feel angry all over again, at the treatment I had in the past.Won't go into the 5 years spent in hospitals & convalescent home, but how doctors kept saying that the pain & illnesses I had over the years was 'between my ears'.Kept getting bouts of pneumonia, had a lung haemorrhage, lots of tests done, nothing wrong of course.Turned out to be a rare cancer form in left lung.The lung was removed in '83.Still had a lot of trouble, breathless, chest pains-nothing to do with the missing lung, it is wonderful how the body quickly adapts.When on holiday in the south of France 10 years later, I nearly suffocated, legs were swollen, couldn't lay down flat, which was a nuisance when camping,so went to a locum gp when I got back.She was really great, didn't treat me as though I was immagining it all, due to being a certain age, and other problems'She checked me over and said I was lucky to be alive, because my heart was in a right old state.Was to be operated a.s.a.p, but other, more urgent cases kept popping up, so it was almost 3 months later that my Mitral valve was repaired. With depression, especially if you are a woman, it is all too often put down to age or your problems etc. Our gp is pleasant enough, but he has his moods.I don't feel comfortable with him at all.
Vicky, did the same gp that behaved so badly to you, come to your house & phone for an ambulance?Terrible treatment from those we are supposed to trust.

Caz, Nice to see you on here again.With all your pain and discomfort, you still are interested with other's illnesses and problems.You have a lot of courage!

A nice friend of Gill (Swirral) p.m'd me several times last night.She said she will let me know how Gill is.Thank goodness she has a lot of support at home.

Have been very busy, must go out again soon, but just want to say that I took the plunge and let my daughter chop nearly 25 cms. off my hair! Looks a lot better now, easier to manage.

All of you that I haven't mentioned, have a good day, in spite of the weather and the clocks going back.

Eileen x

Morning all, it's a grey day here too, chilly . . just popping in quickly,seems when our cat was lost outside, a couple of months ago she picked up fleas, and now the house is inundated, the first symptom was my daughter saying she had 'fruit flies' in her hair. Those weren't any ordinary fruit flies, damn they jump!!
lots of laundry to do before I head out to work, then to get someone in tomorrow to spray, and I haven't finished decluttering, got my work cut out for me today.

Just wanted to add a note about arthritis. 40 years ago a doctor told me I had rheumatoid arthritis. I was panicked to think I'd be cripped in a short time.
But it didn't happen, just the pain in specific areas. 20 years ago an orthopaedic specialist told me he thought I had 'soft tissue rheumatoid arthritis", in other words the area of soft tissue around a joint is what flares up, rather than the joint itself. That has proven to be correct, Xrays do not show rheumatoid deformity, but the tendons etc round the joints flare up.
Don't be put off by a doc who doesn't believe you, thinks it's all psychological, there are smarter docs out there, who will listen and provide relief..

Carole

That made my day!
had a great chuckle

Sorry,wingeing again.
He's in the manual wheelchair = Andy Pipkin.

Raining outside,imagine eighty-eight year old toddler who can't go out to play because the weather is bad and his pushchair won't go.

He's gone back to bed complaining about his a*se now. It does my back in leaning over to get him in the hoist.

AND to cap it all.I've run out of gherkins!

Sharron you are awful! xx

Hello Mary, that's what my Rheumatologist told me, its inflamation in the muscles and ligaments round a joint in FM, but boy does it hurt. It was a locum who spotted mine but I agree you should never give up, if somethiings wrong, you know your body, not them.
Sorry to hear your cat brought fleas home to stay,they give me the shudders.

Love Caz xx

Hi everyone, long time -no see. I have been battling with my problems and just could not inflict them on everyone. Still not 100% but doubt I ever will be but just wanted to say 'Hello'
Much love to all my old friends on here -keep well
Janet x

Good evening to everyone.
Gey dreek here the nicht.

Trying to kep busy today, but my pain is so bad. What with pain from the breast area, and my left leg and knee, I keep having to sit down, but it's so bloody sore when I try to bend my knee to get up, and can't get up unless I'm holding on to something. My left shin and lower leg keeps throbbing, and I never knew sciatica was so painful.

Sorry to rant on, but need to stop moaning to the cuddly toys now, coz they've got a headache. lol

Hope you all have a lovely evening.

Vods xx

Hi Vicky, you moan girl, sciatica is awful, I'm lucky with mine just now as the morphine for fm is holding most of the pain back. Just a thought, my sciatica is through my bottom and down outside of leg to my foot, has your doctor said pain in your knee is caused by it? I know I am sounding like a pretend doctor today, second one I have answered but it's the experience I have of it. I would have a word with another doctor about you knee because it sounds to be getting worse.
Thanks for your e-mail , I will answer it tomorrow.

Caz xx