Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Well, I mean easy compared to a colonoscopy, for example. Which isn't that hard, as such, except for the emptying your bowel part...

Nah, that's was easy too.


I read loads of horror stories about the prep and it was fine. (My GI told me to prep before hand and we talked about it and I fasted rather than ate from that allowed food list, I think that helped.

I loved colonoscopy and that prep, I felt great after ward and while totally clean and empty.

I keep telling everyone they should have one,,.....afternoon off the day before watching a film or whatever, near the loo, lots of water, then a trip to hospital (ok, I went to a posh alert hospital which does make a difference) and it doesn't hurt (it tickles) is only mildly uncomfortable at the worst bit, and you get a fascinating in flight show.


My only frustration is they told me I couldn't drive afterwards, but I was fine, so could have done.

In fact, they thought I'd be really ropey afterwards because of a drug issue and stuff, but I was absolutely great, skipping, jumping and jolly)

SingleSue

tomterm8 wrote: »

Yeah, the blood test for anemia is very easy, and might as well get vitamin D deficiency test and general blood tests as well (unrelated but most people in the uk are vitamin d deficient at this time of year)

I had anemia myself and it was vile...

Diet is important but there is only so much iron supplements and diet can do...

I developed anemia after James was born as I haemorrhaged during delivery, only a transfusion sorted it in the end, mind you, still needed to take iron supplements for months afterwards!

Nikkster

tomterm8 wrote: »

( hint: take a newspaper)

To sit on for the journey? :rotfl::o

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

the attention he is sure you get.

Pffft. I've already worked out he's not bothered about establishing the facts before jumping to a conclusion!

misskool

Nikkster wrote: »

Very true - I hadn't thought of it that way. It's not very scientific though. And my job makes me realise that no medicine is without side effects so it is surely better to diagnose properly to make sure the treatment is reasonably appropriate?

Edit - not sure how it works as I've never used it before, but I would be happy to pay the 'excess' and get the tests done privately if necessary.

if it's a female problem I can assure you that the GPs seem particularly averse to helping you and some go as far as to suggest it is psychological or give you diagnoses for everything. You need to line up the ducks and show it to them. and then ask for the tests.

and query why they won't do it. And then move to a different GP :rotfl:

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Edit: a quick yahoo (come back google) confirmed I'm not mad, and neither was private GP, Heavy or prolonged periods biggest cause in anaemia.

Yup. Another bloody annoying effect of not stopping. As I am too old for most things I want to be too old for this nonsense too.

Tahlullah

Hello everyone. Haven't been around for a while. Lydiaj came and found me in my hiding hole, so thought I had better say hello, rather than be thought of as rude. Hope all is well with everyone. I may not have the time to go backwards and read all that has happenned, but will hopefully have something interesting and relevant to say at some point in the near future.

misskool

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Started trying to get my ducks in a row re: mortgage etc today. Looked at mortgages. There are 8 billion different options. Spoke to a mortgage broker but that made it even more confusing as he mentioned a few options that hadn't cropped up when looking at comparison sites. He came up with an offset deal but despite the rate being great it was a crappy product which only lets you have one offsetting bank account. Back to stage 1 there - will require at least a hundred hours of procrastination on my part. I am terrible at making decisions like this where there are too many options.

Good luck. We used an IFA in the end but still took a risk :eek: but there isn't the ideal comfortable decision.

SingleSue

Very frustrating morning here...

After dropping the boys off at school, I made my way around to the front office to talk to them re last Thursday. They were expecting me.....

Well the receptionist was anyway, seems no other !!!!!! wanted to talk to me. After nearly 2 hours of the admin staff trying to get one of the big wigs to talk to me, it was relayed to me that I should write a letter of formal complaint and give them 10 working days to reply.

I was not best amused....2 hours to be palmed off with a request to write them a bloody letter! I wanted to talk to someone, gather information, find out what went wrong and then, if I wasn't satisfied, to make a formal complaint, besides, their official complaints procedure is that an informal complaint has to be made first, then you move on to a formal one if needed.

Eventually, the only senior member of staff they could find who would deign to talk to me was the head of 6th form (erm, youngest is not in 6th form), but he least promised to 'look into it'.

I just had this overwhelming feeling of it not being important to them, although head of 6th form bucked up a little when I started quoting him the relevant Acts and official guidelines they had infringed.

The school nurse has also been notified and I will be giving my contact at social services (the leader of our CAF process) a call, he wasn't best pleased with their antics before which caused all the problems, I expect he will be even unhappier with them now.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

Yup. Another bloody annoying effect of not stopping. As I am too old for most things I want to be too old for this nonsense too.

one word answer: mirena