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Flybaby

Gingernutty - Your comments just sound so similar to my MIL's recent experiences - thought I would post so you can investigate - probably a long shot, but just too similar not to mention.
MIL recently developed an allergy to an ingredient used by companies in many cleaners, creams, washes, lotions, washing powders etc....I know she described it as her skin burning off...... It is called - methylisothiazolinone and there is a derivative methylchloroisothiazolinone
The irony is that mil is very green and uses "natural" products like the eco stuffs and ran her own health food shop - and when she found out about it, she checked and found it in almost everything, especially the eco and environmentally friendly things
It was developed as an antifungal and preservative in products for longer shelf life. Apparently all the workers in the factory originally developed a rash when working with it, but they decided it didn't cause a reaction when diluted.
The doctor has said that lately, a lot of companies have increased the amount of the ingredient in their products and thus, they are starting to see a lot more of these reactions and hence he recognised it so quickly.
The product is banned in Canada and the doctor thinks it will eventually be banned over here.
It is one of those things - either you are allergic/sensitive to it or not.

Flybaby

GN - meant to say if you google the ingredient name you should get the facebook page that has images to compare with your rash. BBC and watchdog reported on it in 2013 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5K5XTnFxftQWkGhvKDzVbYg/methylisothiazolinone-mi-update

Birdie85

Gosh, you are a bunch of night owls! I'm pretty much always tucked up in bed by 10.15 and asleep by 10.45!

Thanks for e-mailing Tea Melly; I'm glad one of us has a way of contacting her!

Sending gentle ~{wasquishes}~ to you WaS! (Yep, love'em Pyxis!)

Glad it's 'just' an allergic reaction Gingernutty, really interesting stuff there about the cleaning products Flybaby.

Wellyboots6

I have decided I need a teasmaid

mellymoo74

I need a serving boy (other sexes are available)
Tomorrow is the Occupational Therapy assessment - worried because she seems to think she will be looking at mobility and our needs are not based around that.

hmmmmm

Pyxis

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I've not even attempted to go to bed as I know I won't sleep, and even if I do I will wake soon after and be floored yet again by the emotional and physical suffering that is plaguing every moment of my day

Do remind me, Sidefx, as my memory is appalling, but are you getting any help at all from anyone?
have you seen your GP as a first port of call?
I know that's not always the answer, and we will try to help in any way we can.

Do you have any pets?

Birdie85

I'd rather have a Wake n' Bacon Katy!

whitewing

I need an actual maid!


Well, I don't. I just need to get organised again with my household/finances.


I just started panicking as I couldn't find DH's P60s for the tax credits renewal. All the while I looked I was cursing myself for not keeping on top of paperwork. I found it in the end though, in the pile of papers where I thought it would be. But I had to sift through the pile more than once to track it done.


So I was feeling really stressed about the impending phonecall. And decided to renew online. And it was really good, very clear and quick. So that is one nasty job out of the way already.


Got this morning off to take littlewing to a sports activity. She is having a very active summer. I am proud of her.

Waves_and_Smiles

Did someone mention chocolate cake and a special squish? I'm here for both!

I feel a bit better today and I have missed everyone! Don't mind me, I am going through a paranoid phase that I am upsetting people/people don't like me/I don't deserve to be liked/I whine too much/I'm boring/I'm too self-absorbed/I'm a waste of everyone's time. All apply to varying degrees!

One thing that is true is that I really need to do something about feeling permanently guilty when I haven't actually done anything. Guilt is my default setting and I blame myself for everything whether it actually happened or I have convinced myself that it did. The result of this is I isolate because I don't think I am worthwhile being around anyone. Not that anything major has happened, it is just the form that the paranoia is taking right now. Hand in hand with that goes feeling responsible for others and as if it is my role to make sure that everyone is feeling the best they can. I am not that powerful, this isn't my job! Now I just need to convince myself of that.

These are things that I have wrestled with for a very long time. I know why these reactions are there, it's is what happens when you constantly tell a child that their parent died due to your lack of care, but frankly I am boring myself with it now because all of that happened so long ago and I still seem to revert back to it. I was fifteen when my psychotherapist told me that my biggest difficulty wasn't forgiving my parents, it was forgiving myself. Thirty years later it is still a huge problem in that I immediately take the blame for everything. I have learnt how to challenge the mindset but I cannot let the old conditioning go and I am annoying myself with it.

Now I am also annoying myself by being all me, me, me in this post and feel guilty for doing so when other people have difficulties too, that are often worse than mine. It is a neverending loop of self-chastisement and it's exhausting and confidence-sapping. Throw voices into the mix who don't hesitate to confirm that every negative thought I have about myself is completely correct and I end up a paranoid and self-loathing mess in the corner.

Believe it or not this is an improvement to how I was feeling yesterday! Hopefully tomorrow is better still, I am forever the optimist!

mellymoo74

perfectly entitled to have about you day WaS!

Right interview, scared, company are a really good company, have a mate working there at the mo and a mate who did work there

did I say scared?
Scared