Just needed to be heard for a little while

lostinrates

I really, really paced myself today, no sleeping but pottering with posting. but am done now. So tired I'm almost crying. Foundinrates is cooking supper and feeding dogs. I'm having a rest then we're going to have a shower before setting up camp on the sofa for the evening to watch a film and eat fir's curries and snuggle with dogs and cats.

whitewing

Sounds blissful, LIR.

Pyxis

Sorry, Duke! I'd forgotten that Oz could be Australia as well as, well, Oz! Although I'm not sure the Aussies would take kindly to being thought of as munchkins!

This'll make you laugh; when I was a child, maybe 8 or 9, I honestly thought that the Wizard of Oz was the Wizard of 'ounce'! I'd never heard it pronounced, and the only oz I knew was the abbreviation for the weight! I thought it was a very strange name for a place!

Similarly, I always read cwt as kwert, because I didn't know the c stood for 100!

Well, I was only lickle!

Waves_and_Smiles

Evening everyone!

Big hugs to haybel, you know that I am always here for you no matter what.

Have a lovely evening LIR, you have earned it.

Whitewing, I have looked at those little huts before and they would be perfect! As long as there aren't people I can go out without a problem and I would love to try it. The problem is getting there as it is a long car journey around people and added to that my balance disorder will cause a lot of problems. I really need to get out of a car every 20 minutes to regulate my balance or I am just like a little child with bad travel sickness. But it isn't impossible and I would love to give it a try.

I lost a day sleeping again due to medication but good news-almost no panic! I finally feel as if I am on top of it! Still a little worried but happy to take pills and no waves of terror. I can't tell you the relief, I was honestly wondering if it would ever end. I honestly feel like crying because it's almost over.

whitewing

I am delighted that you are feeling so much better.

Pyxis

So glad you're back, WaS!


This is a Zen garden.

Waves_and_Smiles

Thank you! I honestly couldn't have done it without everyone here, you have all been such a great support to me. You have listened, offered good advice, supported me and made me laugh. That was honestly one of the worse episodes for years and you all got me through it. I am so, so grateful.

Now I am slightly worried that I might die but slightly is a massive improvement! I have stopped shaking and my hands aren't soaking wet anymore and I don't feel nauseous constantly. I will be asking for help again in the next few days to put together for a plan for when this happens again, I still think what made it so bad was I had absolutely no coping plan in mind so I was just reeling and grasping at anything all the way through it.

A special thank you to SDW for popping on at night, too. It has been a comfort the last few days to know that someone was there even though I was sleeping. My partner has restless leg syndrome which drives him insane. He isn't medicated for it though, perhaps I need to send him to the doctors (he hates going).

whitewing

I think you and WaSp do brilliantly in very challenging circumstances.

whitewing

As RLS is sometimes linked to an iron deficiency in the body, a good first step would be to see you GP and ask them to check your serum ferritin levels. This is effectively a measure of the body's iron stores and should be at least 50 lg/L. Ask to see the number. Your doctor may recommend oral iron supplementation. It is important that iron supplementation is done under a doctor's guidance.

http://www.rls-uk.org/faqs/4568109901

Definitely worth getting him to a GP.

seven-day-weekend

Because of the insight I have gained from this wonderful thread, I realised that the intrusive thoughts my husband has are not normal pessimism, they are damaging and diminishing his life. I was able to talk to him about it and he said they are with him constantly. The only way he can 'quieten' them is by physically working very, very hard. This is why he is insisting on building our summerhouse himself, even though he is 65 and we can afford to have someone else do it. He has been concreting all day and now he is worn out.

But....he too has had an insight and realised that something is very wrong!

I've suggested he talks to a friend of ours who is a trained counsellor and knows plenty of other practitioners, of varying counselling techniques. He did have some Gestalt therapy about 25 years ago, which really helped, but that was for something else, I don't think it would work for intrusive thoughts.

I hope I have not spoken out of turn by saying this, I will delete it if so, but just wanted to say that this thread has really helped both me and my husband to get some insight into his thoughts.