OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

Byatt

Well, that was fun...:eek::eek::eek::eek:

"shall I try a smaller one..." was the question...:o:eek::eek::eek::o

torture came to mind...:cool:

moneyistooshorttomention

Byatt,

Sorry to hear you are having a frustrating time trying to solve the hair loss problem. Hope you manage to get it resolved soon. The worst case analysis is there are some VERY realistic wigs/hairpieces out there and I was astonished to be told by someone recently that their hair isn't "theirs" at all, as it honestly looks so natural to me that I wouldn't have had a clue. So there are very realistic ones out there. Lets hope it doesn't come to that though and you can find a way through this and, if you do, then I'm sure some of us would be glad if you shared it.

Calico,
I've got a little mini housewarming arranged for some new friends I've made here that know each other anyway and am having others round to "show the place off to" one at a time that don't know each other. Got an "individual" friend here for The Big Show-Round and lunch tomorrow for instance. I really feel like I deserve a few little mini-celebrations after all that work and expense. Particularly, as its sometimes been made rather harder for me by the opposition to just about everything by a particular neighbour. But I've only done what anybody much needed to do to the house and no "personal choice" work (eg adding an extension - which is something I don't tend to agree with anyway). It does make you feel a bit like :wall: when you have learnt that you have to "protect" your workmen, or someone else will be there trying to order them round/complaining:cool: to them otherwise (don't think they noticed the raised eyebrows/rueful and sympathetic grins my workmen have been flashing me behind their back...) or just how many drinks I have been plying them with as compensation for sometimes difficult working conditions.:rotfl:.

calicocat

Byatt.......the really good news is that alcohol boosts oestrogen........yay....always a positive somewhere, thats why men get man-boobs when they drink too much.


I would try taking soya products, they boost oestrogen, and a multi -vitamin so you absorb as much as possible of the good stuff. Linseed is good too, and try to eat as much fresh stuff as possible and avoid anything processed as much as you can. I'm a huge believer in what you put into your body...and also researching stuff yourself to get a handle on what's happening to you and where/what you want treatment to go.

I was PCOS years ago, found out what could help, asked for it, was turned down by several GP's....eneded up getting it once i'd seen several consultants and argued my case.

Same with the mammogram, which I refuse to have , and instead opted for an ultrasound. ...way more sensible considering my age and bust size.


With the way the NHS is now, we really need to do our own research and formulate what plan we want.







MTSTM......Aww....good luck and happy times for all your parties/lunches etc. You have come out the other side without too many scars, and now the fun stuff starts.

moneyistooshorttomention

Calico,

I agree 100% and more that people really need to do their own research/formulate their own plans for dealing with health problems:T That's certainly been my own experience personally and that of various friends.

I can recall a couple of fairly major things where the NHS made one decision and I made another. Things went according to my plan, but it did cause extra hassle/worry to ensure it did.

An object lesson from a stranger recently was the way they had casually suggested the same major type operation to her that they wanted me to have years back, but I had done my own research and refused it. She had that operation and duly came down with further major health problems shortly afterwards (which she and I both felt might be at least partially traceable to that) and is unlikely to ever have normal health again.:eek: I must admit I was shocked when she told me that having breast cancer and taking chemotherapy for it wasn't a case of "Have the treatment...illness gone...end of..and now back to normal". She was telling me that people who take the chemotherapy route are supposed to keep taking drugs for literally years afterwards and put up with the side-effects of those drugs:eek:. I was shocked they hadn't told her that in advance of doing that and felt really sympathetic to her that she hadn't been told that fact in advance and was supposed to make a decision like that without full knowledge of the facts.

Byatt

I have been researching, it's very difficult to find something specific to my age and stage of post menopause. The dr said there was nothing that would help...it was as if to say, don't bother trying...or looking.

What I have been reading however doesn't seem to support his argument regarding my levels of oestrogen and testosterone cancelling each other out (or words to that effect) ...

I'm tired thinking about it all, I might just get a wig! Yes Mtstm, I think a lot of people wear them, because there's loads of them about. I'm quite tempted to get one to try...

as Calico has said to me, the more I worry about the hair loss, the worse it will be (or words to that effect :A).

Ive also read that soya products don't make a difference so don't know what to think.

BookWorm

Byatt wrote: »

I've mostly lain about reading and drinking gin and tonic...:o...the gin and tonic has been purely medicinal you understand?

That sounds fab :T do more it will help with the less good stuff x

cornishchick

Hi peeps.
Well , I have managed to do ... Zilch during my last few days off work. Can't find my motivation any where, it must have run off.
I have made plans to have additional loft insulation done and get a new useable loft ladder Put in, one that is fixed and has a hand rail. As I just can not use the step ladder and do the balance on the top thing my late DH would do,:eek:
The guy who came round to quote seems real nice, during the meeting he said they don't clear out the loft as part of the job, but on talking to him when I said I wanted to except the quote, I mentioned that as a widow and someone scared of using the ladder currently there, I could see how I would clear it, he said. No problem. He will have a young lad there doing training, and he can nip up and down and clear the boxes lol. :rotfl:
Any way 6am shift tomorrow, then after a kip in the late afternoon, I am going to the theatre darlings to see singing in the rain with some friends, just hope I don't get kicked out for singing along :rotfl:
X CC

Byatt

Oh Cornishchick, I was very tempted to go to Singin' in the rain, love love the file with Gene Kelly. Have a lovely time, very envious. I sing along in the supermarket, I was in full flow yesterday and this guy kept smiling at me...:o

Thanks BW, :A I was reading an Elizabeth George novel, the Inspector Lynley series, I hadn't realised she is American although I always thought the tv series was odd. The book was good, set in Cornwall, but some glaring errors, well, maybe not glaring, but she/they spelled the Middlemoor Police HQ as Middlemore and it irrritated me no end! :rotfl:Plus the story really stretched credibility, but I still couldn't put it down. Oh and Cornishchick, can you tell me if they call headlands jutting out to see as promontories??

BookWorm

Well we made it to the weekend :T Hope everyone is ok x

mum2one

Hope everyone ok, and not getting too wet on the outside!! wine, g+t all allowed!

We just made it back in house as thundered like heck and the heavens opened, been to DDs school fete, feels weird as last one there before secondary school, talking about secondary school we had a list for uniform... got to buy football boots, gum shield, all the logo items... the basics (2 x jumpers, pe kit, (shorts, tshirt, jogging bottoms, jacket,) comes to over £140....... thats without the rest! If you haven't got the logo jumper you have to send a letter explaining why x