Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

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:rotfl::rotfl:

My phobia stems from a logical place"..........

LydiaJ

I agree that missk's situation could be identity theft and needs investigating. But it could be quite innocent. The big question is whether there are any supporting details to show that the email was really meant for you. If it's got your real CC number (or more probably a load of stars but the real final group of digits) then you're in trouble. You're probably in trouble if it has your correct snailmail address too. But all missk says is that the email has her correct surname. It could be that somebody with the same name as missk has made a genuine reservation at the hotel and made a mistake of one character or so in the email address, so the confirmation email has come to missk instead of its intended recipient.

It happens to me all the time. My real name is reasonably common - a lot more common in the UK than missk's I should imagine - and I get emails for other people called LydiaJ about once every year or two. There's a LydiaJ in York whose son's teacher accidentally emailed me about his problems in class, and another one in Scotland who was part of a working group trying to improve resources for a day nursery. The most confusing one I ever got was for a vicar's wife who not only had my name but had a husband with LNE's name - extra confusing because he used to be a vicar. The other couple with the same names are still both alive and still married to each other and still working for the church, though.

I agree that Pastures should not be paying for "elsewhere" for all the rest of us.

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

Back still v bad. Absolutely no improvment since Friday. Can't wait until the post gets to the local hospital and I can get my x-ray:mad:. Does anyone know of an alternative to Codeine that doesn't make you sleep all day? I never have time off work and want to get back asap but it is very hard when my default positions are either a) laying down b) asleep or c) stoned out of my head. I'm posting at the moment because the drugs have kicked in enough to relieve the pain but not enough yet to knock me out.

Hope it settles soon viva.

This is a little test to see how the codeine is affecting you or anyone else feeling a bit out of sorts.

How many Peacocks are there in lir's avatar?

zagubov

sss555s wrote: »

I think if I had a piece of plywood that lucky I'd still be using it too

Reminds me of the story that one big company randomly splits job application forms into two piles and then chucks one half of them in the bin, as that gets rid of the unlucky ones!:eek:

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

unfortunately any painkiller that actually works (i.e. not that rubbish nurofen carp) is going to have some serious side effects on your ability to do anything useful. codeine is an opiate, and when it gets into your system it is partly metabolised into morphine so...

i've had decent results with prescription anti-inflammatories before (and naughtily got them from someone else with a back problem without going to the doctor myself), but then your doctor would presumably have prescribed you some if he thought they would do you any good.

Thanks chewy. Some of those are OTC in the USA so I bring them back with me when I go. I have some Naproxen so I'll look to see whether they may be a better option.

lostinrates wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

My phobia stems from a logical place"..........

Regarding the doc and lir's phobia, doc did ask whether I had pain under control - which with codeine and a heat pack I do - so she was quite happy to leave it at that. The difficult thing is doc couldn't decide whether it was a strain or a slipped disc. The more this goes on the more I'm convinced its a slipped disc. Firstly because I've had no pain in disc, but when she pressed on it it was very painful. Second because it seems to be pressing on a nerve because the numbness I have is everywhere the nerve from the disc runs to. It is no longer so bad that it goes up the side of neck and into the face, but it is still in chest/underarm and part way down arm.

I don't think doc and I got off on write foot and she made my hackles raise by saying things like "well you have to expect things like that as you get older" (I'm in my 40s not 70s) and then putting my referral in the post. The more I visit docs and hear from my family the more I'm convinced that they are trying to save money. One of my colleagues was denied surgery recently as the criteria under which they were able to treat people had been changed and it ended up with them being treated as an emergency:mad:.

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks chewy. Some of those are OTC in the USA so I bring them back with me when I go. I have some Naproxen so I'll look to see whether they may be a better option.

be careful though, codeine doesn't mix well with some drugs. if you're taking quite a lot of codeine (i know that i never stick to anything like the "maximum does" stipulated on the bottle - i keep popping the pills until they work) it probably isn't wise to self medicate with anything else. i'm sure you know this all already so sorry if patronising

The more I visit docs and hear from my family the more I'm convinced that they are trying to save money.

i can see why hospitals would be cutting corners, but it's not going to cost your GP anything to refer you to the hospital - GPs are (assuming nothing major has changed) largely remunerated based on the number of patients they have (with various extra amounts for various things - e.g. meeting vaccination targets). it's not going to help the GP (or impact on their remuneration in any way) to not have you treated.

i expect it is more that the GP sees a lot of people with backpain as it is so common, and most of the time it isn't massively serious and clears up after a couple of days.

that said, if i had the symptoms you are describing, i would be expecting rather more urgency as well.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

be careful though, codeine doesn't mix well with some drugs. if you're taking quite a lot of codeine (i know that i never stick to anything like the "maximum does" stipulated on the bottle - i keep popping the pills until they work) it probably isn't wise to self medicate with anything else. i'm sure you know this all already so sorry if patronising

Chewy, if your codeine is combined with paracetamol, then please be careful. Taking too many codeine probably wouldn't kill you, but taking too many paracetamol might, and even if it doesn't, it can wreck your liver.

chewmylegoff

LydiaJ wrote: »

Chewy, if your codeine is combined with paracetamol, then please be careful. Taking too many codeine probably wouldn't kill you, but taking too many paracetamol might, and even if it doesn't, it can wreck your liver.

you can get it combined with ibroprufen instead of paracetomol which is what i use. probably just as bad for you, but i never take it for more than two or three days in a row anyway so should be ok. i could of course go to the doctor, but that is not in the spirit of being male.

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

I'll second that and raise the point that most opiates are addictive (well-known) and suppress your immune system (maybe not so well-known) so you could end up with two or more problems instead of simply one.

yeah, but it seems to me you'd need to engage in some pretty heroic abuse of the OTC stuff in order to get hooked on it, given the low dosage.

Graham_Devon

Hi, can I join

Can't take much more of the sockies on every other thread!!