Alchohol and Prescription drugs
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Lol.
With medications and stuff, I always have a good chat with the doc. Sometimes you know when something isn't working, and together we found a good combo of stuff that works for me; am on less pills than I have been for 7 years now.
I like to research stuff pretty throughly too, so am always well armed when I see him!0 -
To be honest up until last year I had only been to the docs a total of about 10 times in the last 15 years. Then last year it went from ripping a fingernail and then getting it infected, asthma, and now this - feeling like I am finally getting my moneys worth out of the National Insurance I pay!
However, I long for the day when I am healthy again and then I can become "fit" and healthy.
My concerns with changing meds after this long, are all the side affects with various drugs. The only side affects I have with these are the lack of alchohol, tiredness and a bit of constipaton.
Give it another 0.5 - 1 year and will be all fixed up (I hope!)0 -
Aye, you'll be sorted! I used to get bad side effects with a lot of the blood pressure drugs I was on, and some conflicted - so I had a word with my specialist and got it sorted. I was on a cocktail that pensioners with heart failure have - zombified me!
I do like a drink, but no bad conflicts with what I take, just have to watch drowsiness.0 -
being well armed is the best way to be.
but you also have to know when to push... and go private and not put up with the crap the nhs gives you.
Spent a year on the nhs showing my research about trials that had promising results but despite going to an eye hospital nobody knew anything and due to internal pollitcs I was not allowed to be transferred to a corneal specialist.
So after a year of being blindfolded and going to the hospital up to 4 days a week I finally got peed enough to go private and see a corneal specialist - The guy understood the research and my condition and put me on the right meds and its made a hell of a difference.
Then I found out he also did a day a month at my hospital on the nhs so got transferred to see him there for free.
All was looking up until boots messed up the steroids and the eyes started ripping again.
So another year until they heal up?
And yeah 30 is the new 80 - only 34 here!0 -
I really should have gone private years ago - my GP was appalled with the way I was treated, and it was obviously internal politics as you say. I was fobbed off twice with two cancelled ops to remove an adrenal tumour which would have come out anywhere else, and they knew it, but I was told that it was small enough to leave and monitor.
Interesting what you say on steriods - it was a topical steroid for a fungal infection that gave me the blind spot.0 -
@gcwebby - argh the dreadded constipation issue on those meds... All bran with diced prunes added. Just eat 1-2 bowls a day until you are sorted. Its the only thing that worked for me.
And what did it of all things was putting on a pair of headphones - the large closed cup ones. Done it a million times and then one day they just slipped out my hands and gouged out both eyes. And the worst thing about it is that I cant sue sennheiser as they did state in their marketing for those headphones that they were 'an eye-catching design'. :shock:
How sick is that!!!0 -
Eeeecahwowowa!!! That must have hurt!!!0
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@sonic - steroid drops in the eyes left you with a blind spot? crickey - not heard that one. I know about blindness from increased pressure in the eye. I've also quite regularly been on the antibiotic eye cream which sounds like what you might have been better off with!
fyi - I'm not on it now so its not in my count!
As for the op - you had it yet?
I waited 10 years for a knee op on the nhs. Just had 10 years of useless physio. Went private, go the op and it transformed my life.
Seriously it really makes you want to take back all the tax you've paid for the nhs over the years and pump it into a private plan!0 -
Nah, a steroid cream that was rubebd into the skin! The absorbed steroids can sometimes, rarely, cause fluid leakage in the back of the eye. And hey ho, I was one!
Not had any op yet! After they cancelled again and I demanded an explanation, I was told that the scans were a one off fluke (even though all were positive inc 2 nuclear tracer scans that are 99% specific) and they were sure I didn't have this condition, yet would not commit to it 100%. Yet my diagnosis at the doctors is still there for a adrenal tumour on the computer (pheochromocytoma). In the meantime I was diagnosed with severe M.E. and recurring glandular fever. One of the lumps they discovered was an accessorry spleen!
My blood pressure is regularly checked, and if it rises again, I will have to have more tests done. Probably the same ones....0 -
For christ sake go private,beg,borrow or steal the money.
Looks like TimesLikeThese would agree
I'm glad i went private even though the spanish national health service is very good.
Your life is passing you by and that amount of meds is crazy.
I guess your doctors have an interest in the meds business........i can hear the sales rep now................if you can move 10,000 boxes of diazepan you qualify for a month in Marbella........where do i sign!!Myprotein referral code mp288135 (get money off)0 -
I know what you mean ArroyoDave, private would have been a lot quicker.
I am currently having Chiropractic (private) to try and avoid having the operation. I have just under a month to wait now till I see the surgeon, and my Chiropractor thinks he will have made good progress by then and may be able to avoid me needing surgery (see: http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/forums/vie ... highlight=)
If I had have realised the whole process would have taken this long, I probably would have borrowed the money to pay for it.0 -
Same here, it costs so much to see all these people.0
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Also one thing the NHS physio told me, was that if you pay for the operation "privately" that usually just involves the operation, you will still have to get on the waiting list for NHS rehab/physio, unless you pay for that too, everything privately has an individual cost, from the aneathatist to the surgeon to the rehab after.
I would be interested to know how much it may have set me back though, especially as I am considering taking some unpaid time off work due to struggling with it all, (my boss has agreed to help me as much as he can, and agreed to pay me upto 5 weeks sick pay if I have the operation), but its the build up to it etc. Had the first two weeks off in July, and already as worn out as I was before.
Anyways, I am off to pop my nightly amitriptyline, 2 codeiene and 2 paracetemol, remove the ice packs wrapped round my neck, then hopefully drift off into a nice sleep
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well to start the ball rolling contact bupa or a specialist in your field. Check they do the gp referral system and get their details of the specialist you are likely to see. Contact your gps and say that you'd like to do the gp referral scheme at X with Dr Y
1-2 weeks later you will have your assessment for about £100 and can actually put rough costs on things pending tests/medical records.
Physio can be done at home or at the gym with just the occasional private check up.
(Although I did have some seperate private physio also.)
At least then you'll know...0
