Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

Oops, cross posted with you KC this morning too, sorry! Yes, I think you can input current price per kwh and it will show you how much it's costing right now, which is really helpful!

badmemory

HRT wards off arthritis & bone thinning.  No cancer or heart problems in the family.  We both now have interesting shaped fingers both since I was made to come off & her from when she came off for a couple of months at the docs suggestion.  Her's hasn't changed since then mine gets worse as do the other bits I now have.  If I could get it I would go back on it.

scandimore

Another squeamish coil avoider here, recommended to have one while on the indeterminable waiting list for possible endometriosis and I just can't cope with the thought of it so am trying the POP instead.
Would be much easier if we had a button to turn these monthly gubbins on and off, it's a real design flaw in my opinion! 
Will get back in my box

Also interested to see results of your new gizmo plug thing, our electric bill is so high I might have to get one to find the culprit!

Cheery_Daff

Don't get back in your box Scandimore! Unless it's a really nice cosy box, in which case, can we join you?? 😁 I think a button would be EXTREMELY helpful all round!

badmemory, I confess I have so far paid very little attention to the benefits of HRT, it all seemed so far in the future 🙄 I am learning so much indeed. My mum's visiting today, might pick her brains, although we don't generally talk about such things.

We had a lovely evening yesterday, visited a friend who made us extremely tasty food 😊 a housemate had just heard of the death of a friend the day before, knocked of their bike and killed 😕 We had a lovely evening but there was certainly lots of sombre discussion on the way home 😕 Such a shock.

My mum is due in an hour and a half, so I should probably get dressed. More washing on this morning - I was mostly avoiding washing bedding while the washing machine wasn't spinning so there's a bit of a backlog! 

She'll only be here about 6 hours, so we're going to focus on hay and blackberries - if we get those two things done I'll be very pleased. Anything else is a bonus. Oh, and we MUST get the mousetrap in the loft!!

elantan

I've been hoping to get onto HRT for a good while but I'm on the waiting list for a colposcopy ( sp) first, the dr wont even entertain it till then, been waiting 11 mo ths so far, got a letter through 3 weeks ago asking if I still want to be on the list as they are so busy 

peb

Good grief Elantan, that's ridiculous. Cheery, good luck with the blackberries. I've just been but there's hardly any atm. I think it's too late.  I have got some two weekends but being in London the other two I didn't.  Sadly most have gone to waste.  The birds don't seem interested 

greent

I only had one coil (M1rena) in between children #3 and child #4 - I had it put in under general anaesthetic (triple prolapses...) I hate it - it may have stopped long, heavy monthly bleeds and replaced with mere spotting, but I had horrendous PMT for 2 weeks out of every 4 - I had it removed after 9 months - they had initially thought I might need it removed under GA - but I think I just had some hefty painkillers. Didn't ever use any form of contraception again after that and had a hysterectomy at 39 when child #4 was 8 months old - meaning an earlier menopause.

I had HRT for a few years (actually only stopped in 2020 because mine wasn't available and it was during Covid and I couldn't get a GP appt to talk about different ones) - but after my diagnosis this year it was probably good I stopped, seeing as my cancer was an oestrogen positive one 🙄 The joys of the hormones I get to take for the next 10 years mean I most likely get to experience menopause symptoms again for all  that time.... that's just unfair!! 🤣🤣

greenbee

I love my mirena - but then again, it's keeping me alive Plus I have it changed under GA (because I have a biopsy at the same time). It's now every 3 years, which is better than the initial 3 months, then 6, then 12, then 18 etc for the first few years. I no longer have cramps when it gets swapped over. Only once has it been a problem when it wasn't put in high enough up and I had to be admitted urgently to have it swapped out. As a long-term patient, I now have a guarantee that the consultant does the procedure himself (it was a registrar who got it wrong) - and he knows I can tell when it's not in the right place (I'm not sure he really appreciated the description of how I know exactly where it is, but they've accepted that I was right and that the consequences of the mistake were pretty disastrous). Apparently I will continue to have it replaced every three years for life. 

greent

Ooh - I'd forgotten that as well as the horrid PMT I could feel my strings, which were cut super short (and were spiky) - but that's mainly down to my pelvic floor collapsing so much that they had to be cut so short! 😁

greenbee

I have the strings tied off short - given that I'd get obvious symptoms if it went AWOL I went with the option of keeping them out of the way