Just needed to be heard for a little while

Pyxis

dibuzz wrote: »

I really must change mine, now this thread is so positive it doesn't look right.

I see a little damaged teddy, needing sewing and patching and TLC. I think that's very appropriate - we're all a bit damaged on this thread, and all in need of TLC!:)
Like oldestgnome, I can't see the writing - even enlarging it, it's still too blurred to read, so if that's the inappropriate bit, it doesn't matter!

dibuzz

I'd not thought of it that way, it is the writing but if you can't read it that's ok

dibuzz

I tried the YouTube videos again and am still awake

lostinrates

dibuzz wrote: »

I tried the YouTube videos again and am still awake

Maybe you'd benefit from more variety? Trying different ones so you don't know where they are going?

I'm sorry , I haven't read back thoroughly yet. I'm still wrecked from yesterday. Have lots to do today can barely get started.

I get good muscular and nerve pain relief from tens. I didn't used to so dismissed it and didn't retry and it doesn't work every where, but its working really much better this time. I have another less fun method I will not share here.

I get very sore legs and now have an almost continual ankle problem that I'm not sure is nuerological or 'real' and swollen feet and ankles. I'm considering trying the think advertised on television. That you put your feet on twice a day for half an hour ( think its another way to get tens, I have problems bending over because of my head so that might help.

The problem is so much they advertise is not really that good, but it costs a lot to find that out . I dislike being prey for this type of marketing but I also want to try things that might help!

Waves_and_Smiles

Good morning! Replies soon as have just struggled out of bed and I need coffee and muscle relaxant. After yesterday I am walking like I am 90 and my muscles are tingly.

A bit of sad but humorous point to start the day! My partner had agreed with his mother to stay with me last night as it was so soon after an episode. At 6pm she called him and said her radio and tv had stopped working. Now the poor woman is almost blind and she wasn't due any visitors until this afternoon so she couldn't be left with nothing to do for that time but sit in silence in semi-darkness.

Reluctantly we changed our plans and he drove the 60 miles over to her. The first thing he noticed was she had switched the radio over to DVD mode hence no working radio. She then demonstrated how the tv wouldn't work. As she pointed her mobile phone at it and pushed the buttons...

He attached the tv remote to the coffee table on a piece of string so that she can trace it back and realise that it is the right remote and then drove another 60 miles back to me. His mother felt so bad that she gave him £50 for petrol and to treat us so that is going towards his new headphones. He did offer to spend on me but my needs are minimal and there is nothing I really want so that makes cordless headphones very possible for him! Fortunately we were all able to laugh about it but the poor man is exhausted now and has slept for 12 hours so far. He had no sleep the night before after sitting up with me either, just 3 one hourly naps. I do worry about him driving at these times.

dibuzz

I'm sure you will get far more pleasure from him having his headphones than if he spent it on you anyway

Waves_and_Smiles

Well I never, Oldestgnome. I have learnt something today. Little bunnies with buckets and spades building tiny sandcastles. I had no idea...

Anything involving ginger is fine with me, whitewing. I love the stuff! I could eat it until it is coming out of my ears so I will definitely follow that up! Funny that you should mention acupuncture. My GP is a fully qualified acupuncturist and we have discussed it before. Once my Endocrinologist has figured out why my thyroid function is dropping every 3 months (weekly?) then we will probably try it. I have never had it before so it could be interesting!

Tens is something else I have considered investing in. I am not quite sure how to go about it though as advertisements for the things seem to be everywhere all at differing prices. I'd prefer not to buy something useless.

Even if you can't sleep, dibuzz it is lovely to have you back with us. I missed you.

I can't see any avatars at all including my own but then I jumped over to the new beta testing board style months ago now. Strange things happen there but we aren't allowed to discuss it so I am not saying a word.

ETA I feel like I have cracked a rib on my right hand side. I haven't, it is all muscular but the pain! Tramadol and codeine to the rescue! Hopefully...

lostinrates

WaS how do you find it?

When they did the trial here I liked the look of it but found it sadly unusable because of the difference in background to text made scrolling appear like 'flashing'. So it would render the site in practical terms inaccessible to me.

whitewing

As far as I know I am on the testing site, but I can see some avatars and not others.

Waves_and_Smiles

It is improving, LIR! I swapped over as soon as it came out because I am nosey like that and it is definitely better than it was. Still a bit of a way to go though. Also, they tend to give you the option to use one of the older styles if it doesn't work for you when they finally switch so you can always keep the one you have!

On that note, I have lurked on MSE since 2008 under an old account that I don't even know the name of now. It was odd finally posting because I sort of 'knew' all the regular posters already. I sound creepy now...