Prepping for Brexit thread

[Deleted User]

I wonder if at some point in the very distant future archaeologists will be finding little collections of fossilised tins of baked beans and tomatoes and wondering if their existence was everyday life of ruitual???

unrecordings

I must admit I've messed up. I'm still fighting my oedema, but only got the last piece of the 'fix it yourself and avoid the weapons grade diuretics' puzzle by accident a week ago (excuse me, what are these drainage points of which you speak ?). So over the weekend I figured out an intensive routine that seemed to work then promptly ran out of dandelion tea. Mrs Un was dispatched into the gloom this morning to retrieve the last box of tea from the local farm shop, and I went online to order backup supplies. Operation Yellow Rain is now in full swing (or should that be flow) :j

fuddle

Unrecordings would you share what you know in terms of the Operation Yellow Rain ? Obviously not offer medical advice but it's interesting what you've found out. My ankles like the puffy look at times.

GreyQueen

My complementary health practicioner always asks if anyone drinks apple juice if they have problems with too much of the yellow stuff. And children bedwetting can often be cured by abstaining from apple juice. Perhaps you could go the other way?

unrecordings

It's not so much the amount of liquid, but its properties. Dandelion tea for example is a gentle diuretic, but beer is not (apple juice - no idea). So you can drink a lot of dandelion tea to reduce oedema (aka water retention), but trying that with beer will likely have the opposite effect

unrecordings

fuddle wrote: »

Unrecordings would you share what you know in terms of the Operation Yellow Rain ? Obviously not offer medical advice but it's interesting what you've found out. My ankles like the puffy look at times.

Well, for me it's all prt of the side effects of the side effects of the side effects of the chemo. Steroids, fatigue & enforced lack of exercise all conspired to put put me in a downward spiral So it crept up on me and the advice I received was fairly lacklustre, variously:
a) exercise
b) rest
c) exercise and rest
d) exercise & rest for two hours a day laying down
e) exercise & rest with your feet up
f) exercise & rest with your feet above your heart
g) exercise the affected muscles, rest with feet higher than than head/heart to utilise the drainage points

g) was the last bit of advice I received and I think the (internal) drainage points are around the upper thigh/hips - where you might expect

As for the schedule, I'm trying this:

1) dandelion tea
2) potter around for a bit
3) bed for an hour
4) bathroom
5) repeat...

unrecordings

...And I'm ashamed to say we also ran out of brandy this evening...

markin

We may as well be prepping for the small chance of Corbyn's lot get in, truly terrifying.


No one should be spending more than 10% of the food budget for preps and leaving themselves short.

boultdj

unrecordings wrote: »

g) exercise the affected muscles, rest with feet higher than than head/heart to utilise the drainage points

g) was the last bit of advice I received and I think the (internal) drainage points are around the upper thigh/hips - where you might expect

Lymph nodes are in the groin, arm pits, neck, back of the knee, ankle just to give you a few of the places they are found, if you tend to rub your swollen legs I can tell you your better of starting at the ankle and work up the leg. hth

unrecordings

boultdj wrote: »

Lymph nodes are in the groin, arm pits, neck, back of the knee, ankle just to give you a few of the places they are found, if you tend to rub your swollen legs I can tell you your better of starting at the ankle and work up the leg. hth

Thanks for that. Health Professional G did mention shoulders (and didn't mention 'nodes') so it's all coming together now I think. Back of the knee is an annoying one, because that was in pain for weeks on end and not one of the NHS peeps thought to tell be there was a lymph node there.

Anyway, being as it's grim & rainy today, the operation continues...