Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

codemonkey

Ah the getting things going thing is achieved through mild laxatives. There are two main types of laxatives available over the counter - stool softeners and stimulants. It's the stimulants that hurt because they trigger muscle contractions. The other type add moisture to make things easier to move.

tea_lover

I find all any of them trigger is a long night of wishing for oblivion and vowing 'never again'.

Lambyr

Hey... hope folks don't mind me crashing in... I cannot focus today so I've been lurking/reading round here. Saw Codemonkey's post and wanted to offer some support.

I think I got this PENGUIN thing down (please shout at me if not). The following may be a bit disgusting:
I got diagnosed with IBS when I was a teenager, and then to top it off I managed to get acid reflux. Although I manage both conditions, there is the sudden and uncontrollable need to get to the loo which can strike at some very inopportune moments. Also, regardless of what the doctors said, I just have been unable to give up spicy food... which causes quite a lot of gaseous emissions. On the positive side, I'm convinced my girlfriend is a keeper since I can compose a symphony with what passes between my cheeks after a curry and yet she still brings me them!

End Penguin

Pyxis

I wonder if "Penguin", as an alert for something sensitive about to be said or written, will ever make it into the OED? That would be fun! WaS's thread's claim to fame! You saw it here first, folks! :rotfl:

codemonkey wrote: »

Chuggers.

I know, it is a nuisance. However, one thing to remember is that they are only trying to earn a living. All but the very thick-skinned will give it up as soon as they can find something better.
I seem to have developed an effective stone-walling method of dealing with them. As soon as I open the door and realise what they are there for, I ignore or interrupt the " how are you today?" or whatever their opening gambit is, and immediately go for " I assume you want me to sign up to a direct debit for the charity? Well, I'm very sorry but I don't do any financial transactions on the doorstep". If they start coming back with a response, I interrupt with a smile and repeat what I just said. If I have to repeat it a third time, then it is followed with "Goodbye", a smile, and I shut the door.



As regards the morphine derivatives, codeine makes me throw up repeatedly, so I won't take that, and the two times I had a GA with morphine, I had horrendous, horrendous side effects in the constipation department. If I ever need another GA, I'm going to ask for an alternative to morphine.

God knows why anyone takes either as a recreational drug.
But ...Penguin re. drugs .....this is the person who, years and years ago, got absolutely no effect from cannabis, in any of its forms. Just as well, I suppose. Shame that food addiction more than makes up for it! End penguin.

tea_lover wrote: »

I may not get to the exam point yet! :rotfl:I like the idea of challenging myself and doing something scary and all that.... but this might be a bit too scary :

TEA! fantastic! May I ask what exam you're doing?
I don't know what the examining boards are these days, but when I did them, they were the Associated Boards of the Colleges of Music.
Is it a practical you're doing, or the theory exam?

Oooh! How exciting! :j:j



Re. the 'up and under' method, I have used these in the past, as a child and as an adult, for other reasons, and it is dead simple! As a woman, used to 'inserting' things, you will have no problems, I assure you! It is often men who have the problem!

tea_lover

Hehe pyxis - one upside (if you can call it that!) to repeated IVF is that I can put anything anywhere! :rotfl::rotfl: Never thought I'd be able to inject myself or put medication where the sun doesn't shine but I wouldn't think twice about it now :rotfl:.

Exam would be ARBSM Grade 5. So practical, but there's quite a lot of theory in there as well (and of course, you have to then have G5 theory to progress any further with the practical levels anyway). None of it is technically new to me, but as I learnt most of it for RSCM exams when I was about 8 it's taking a long time to come back to me!

Pyxis

Lambyr wrote: »

Hey... hope folks don't mind me crashing in... I cannot focus today so I've been lurking/reading round here. Saw Codemonkey's post and wanted to offer some support.
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Hello there, Lambyr.

That sounds like a name from Lord of the Rings!
Perhaps you could moonlight as the new ' Le Petomane'!:rotfl::rotfl:
(.......Only in La Belle France!) :rotfl:


Now, I don't know,if this will help anyone but...........

For years I've had GI Tract problems. In the past I've tried various different types and combinations of good quality probiotics in the hope that they would help. But they didn't to any degree.

Giving up wine totally and cutting well back on alcohol helped a lot, but didn't totally eradicate the problem.

Anyway, over three months ago I decided to try a different combination of probiotics, (together with Milk Thistle, which is a liver cleanser, which I have taken in the past). All I can say is that I was astounded at the effect, really astounded.

Two weeks ago, I stopped the Milk Thistle, as I want to make sure it is these probiotics that have caused such a change for the better, and so far, it appears to be so.

The probiotics are Probio 7 Advanced Formula. (NB. They do another Probio 7 that isn't 'advanced').
You can get them in Boots, often under their 3 for 2 thing.

All I can say is that the change was very, very noticeable. Things feel 'normal' in that department for the first time in years and years.

Pyxis

tea_lover wrote: »

Exam would be ARBSM Grade 5. So practical, but there's quite a lot of theory in there as well (and of course, you have to then have G5 theory to progress any further with the practical levels anyway). None of it is technically new to me, but as I learnt most of it for RSCM exams when I was about 8 it's taking a long time to come back to me!

Well, I did my last practical exam well over 40 years ago, and the Grade 5 even longer ago, and in the last year or so have been making a comeback to the theory side of things. I was astounded at what I'd forgotten, but it soon came back! I did that Openlearn "Introduction to Music Theory" course purely as a revision exercise, and although most of it was easy-peasy, there were one or two things I'd really forgotten, so it was very useful, and FREE!

I tell you what I have forgotten, and that's the minor key signatures! :rotfl::rotfl:

Lambyr

Pyxis wrote: »

Hello there, Lambyr.

That sounds like a name from Lord of the Rings!
Perhaps you could moonlight as the new ' Le Petomane'!:rotfl::rotfl:
(.......Only in La Belle France!) :rotfl:

Well I do play fantasy video games and can often be found as an elf!

I had to look up La Petomane. Now I am far more acquainted with someone's bum muscles than I ever thought I would be!

Pyxis

Lambyr wrote: »

Well I do play fantasy video games and can often be found as an elf!

I had to look up La Petomane. Now I am far more acquainted with someone's bum muscles than I ever thought I would be!

Yes! You couldn't make it up!

A long time ago, Leonard Rossiter starred in a programme about him, and I couldn't believe it was a real person!

As I said, only in La Belle France! :rotfl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gym81fY460

Lambyr

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes! You couldn't make it up!

A long time ago, Leonard Rossiter starred in a programme about him, and I couldn't believe it was a real person!

As I said, only in La Belle France! :rotfl:

Based on that the French would find me hilarious! Just a shame I can only do it after spicy food.