Living in Austerity

vasseur

Yes it could be adult asthma. My mum was tested for this a while back. Definitely do go back to your GP though. I'm assuming that the gym instructor isn't a qualified medical professional either so anything out of the ordinary she would have to advise to err on the side of caution. Also some people can be scaremongers so try not let it worry you too much until you've seen your GP again.

Good that you recognise that exercise will ease the depression. I felt rubbish last month because due to illness/bad weather/xmas I hadn't done any exercise for about a month. It's only really in the last couple of weeks that I have cheered up. Walking is very good for you so if you do that once a day it will help. Just getting out in the fresh air can have a positive effect anyway.

Mags30

Thanks guys I will go back to the GP eventually (it's €50 per visit here) but honestly I've been many times over the years and have never had a GP show much interest in thoroughly investigating anything. They hear about stress related conditions from every second patient and basically it gets dismissed as "non life threatening". I often feel that because I look ok I'm treated as if I am ok. I don't know how to use a 5 minute appointment to get a GP to go that extra mile for me when I'm competing with 30 others with the exact same symptoms passing through the surgery on any given day.
As for attending a different doctor I've tried that too and the solution has always been "oh that's terrible, we'll try you on a different tablet" and on it goes.....

taxi73

Seeing as you have to pay for it I'd be insisting that he checked me thoroughly.I do hope you can get it sorted soon

Shoe_Gal

Hi sweetie - just checking you're OK? :A

Mags30

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

Hi sweetie - just checking you're OK? :A

Yes thank's so much for checking in :A My internet connection at home is really bad lately and I don't want yet another bill/contract if I upgrade it just now.

Mostly I've been doing ok, I had another anxiety attack on 22nd Feb but I've been well since then and I've taken a real liking to the gym. I haven't been to any of the recommended older people classes but I've re-started the "couch to 5k" app because it makes treadmill use less boring! Last time I did that I got about half way, I did 14 of the 24 sessions before abandoning it so we'll see how I do this time.

It's a much better place to be than Curves which I went to during my last diary on here. I thought Curves would suit me because it was female only/less intimidating but I got used to the huge gym very quickly and I'm totally not intimidated by it now. I actually much prefer it than listening to a gang of women giggle and gossip at Curves!

Last night I got chatted up in the sauna by a bloke with bigger boobs than me :rotfl:

I am also trying counselling BUT I don't like it at all. I've only had 2 sessions and I am coming home feeling worse. The lady is lovely but I don't like talking about myself for an hour and her constant "How do you feel about this?", "How do you feel about that?" is actually making me start to dislike people in my life :eek: because I appear to feel unappreciated a lot of the time.

I don't like where this is going so I think I'll be putting a stop to it very soon. I feel that the hour would be better spent getting my nails done and having a nice chat with the nail technician lady. But as the counsellor picked up on, I am quite pro-active about doing things to help myself so I don't want to abandon it without giving it a fair chance. It's also very low cost and I was on the waiting list for ages...BUT I still think it's highly unlikely t continue.

I've sort of lost track of the food budget but to be honest it hasn't improved much.

I must add up the clothes budget but that's going ok. I got the clothes back from the dressmaker and the alterations were fantastic and worth the €50 they cost.

I'm still doing small amounts of mystery shopping and surveys. I did a focus group about cheese which I really enjoyed and got €20 and some free cheese for

Had coffee with musician friend before his sold-out show on Sunday night. He as been told (again) that his business is insolvent but he's still surviving :A He's trying to reduce operating costs and do things a bit differently.

Walking down the main street here is depressing. Literally half of the shops are closed down

Back soon xx

Shoe_Gal

Hi Mags - good to 'see' you :A

It's great that you've got into the gym. If the counselling doesn't feel right then don't feel about about stopping it. To quote the amazing Souk 'it doesn't suit me'

BTW - I miss Souk on here (and Lula ) but she now writes a fab blog that I follow, which never fails to make me smile!

http://singleandutterlyfabulous.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6

Mags30

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

BTW - I miss Souk on here (and Lula ) but she now writes a fab blog that I follow, which never fails to make me smile!

http://singleandutterlyfabulous.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6

Oh wow!! That is FABULOUS. Will sit down with a cuppa and read through her old posts some evening soon. Thanks so much for alerting me to it, I've been absent so much from here that I missed it :A

Mags30

Had 2 mystery shopping jobs this week. Was really happy to find that my favourite mystery shopping company has BB's coffee/muffins as a new client.

But it turned out to be kind of disappointing. The pay is much lower than for other jobs they offer (€5 plus refund of up to €7 for food) plus while sitting in BB's I realised that I don't even like the place much which must be why I stopped going there ages ago.

Mags30

I found this description of payday and thought I'd copy it here.

I've been off all week, no money so have literally not been out the door but today is pay day, aka pamper day, aka escape for a few hours of me time. Eyebrows done, hair cut and coloured, good bye grey, and a few hours being able to breathe. I can't tell you how much I've been looking forward to this, for the last 3 days I felt like I was being suffocated. But today, a couple of hours of freedom to be me. I'm very happy.

Mags30

:easter: Happy Easter :EasterBun