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[CLKD]

Oh how awful to be flooded, it's the mess as well as the smell.  OK now?

[Optimist]

Just to let you know I spent 4 hours in ikea yesterday with other half who was pained by the experience and did a lot of sitting down 😂 I on the other hand was in ikea heaven!! I could actually live there! I love their food and free tea! I love walking around and I have to look at everything, I open every draw in each kitchen and every fridge and I sit on every sofa. I actually bought a sofa bed with chaise yesterday so I really was in ikea heaven 🤗. Give it a try lol x

[CLKD]

What stopped you buying cushions to match 

[Southsea Belle]

Yes, the flood is all cleared up now.  One or two niggly bits that are outstanding and being ignored.  (Could be a metaphore for my menopausal life!) To be honest if they ignore it much longer I'll just get someone out to fix it.  Not worth the stress and hassle of having to keep calling the insurance people who seem satisfied the job is finished.  They've been very good on the whole.

Another disaster however, the aforementioned B&Q Bacon butties are no more   They've closed the café down!  The swines!  But I found a rug.  Not really what I wanted but suits the purpose.  Needed something non-slippy at the bottom of the kitchen stairs to stop the dog leaping down the last few and sliding into the wall.  He'll still leap but won't go sliding and more to the point nobody human will slip either.  Might fall but won't slip.  All good. Dog is break-dancing on it at the moment.  It means he likes it, I think.

Blood pressure 150 / 60 whatever that means. 

[SS1995]

Optimist... I have no background what so ever, that's the frustrating thing, they never found anything to be the cause, I just want something to blame! I have been to counselling but the problem with me is before the menopause I didn't discuss my feelings or anything. I think I went to counselling far too early after diagnosis and I hadn't processed it yet. Has anyone had CBT before?
Thanks in advance
Xx

[CLKD]

Yep. Did nowt for me 

Break-dancing   

[Southsea Belle]

I've been feeling so much better these past few days.   Personally, I reckon the vicious effects of the prozac kind of put my other symptoms into perspective a bit.  They've been bad but nothing ever came close to what that poisonous stuff did to me.

Went on a retail therapy trip with my sister yesterday and whilst I felt warm now and again I didn't have a single hot flush.  Had one when I got home though.  I can cope with that.

Still getting the early morning shakes but not finding them so scary.  Doing my best to keep my temper in check...apart from the man in the Post Office and he deserved it!

The 'nasty' protein test results aren't back yet!  I asked the doctor what she was expecting and she said, "taking the blood results into /ccount, probably nothing, just crossing the tees and dotting the eyes."  So still a bit on the dark on that one.

In the middle more bloods next week, Vitain B12 is low so looking for pernicious anaemia and celiac disease. 

[CLKD]

Will you have any blood left at the end of all this  - at least you'll know what you ain't got ....... then your GP can concentrate on menopause symptoms.

Do tell about the man in the Post Office - different thread maybe 


Or may it was That Strange Woman who spoke to him [did you read the thread yet?] 

[Southsea Belle]

No, certainly nothing to do with the strange woman.  It was all his own doing. 

I'll write it down in a bit.

[CLKD]

All ears 

[Southsea Belle]

Dancing the happy dance today.....the 'nasty' protein test results are back....NEGATIVE!  Woohoo! 

Just the Vitamin B12 ones to do now and then I can get back to just being menopausal.

[Dotty]

Good news. I'm still waiting for results of my 24 hr urine test....

[CLKD]

Wonder what your GP will say to the good results!  Hopefully she will apologise for putting your through lots of worry, I would lay it on THICK at my next visit 

 

[Southsea Belle]

She signed the text I got with the results with "kind regards".  I think that was probably automated though.

Will be speaking to her on the phone next week.  In the meantime I had my bloods taken today and the phlebotomist is bit of a gossip and a right laugh with it.  She was training a trainee doctor today.  Nice girl.  Asked if I was happy to talk about why I was having blood taken.

So I told her all about it and how it had all made me feel etc.  It won't achieve anything other than, hopefully, plant a seed in her trainee doctor head about listening being just as important, if not more so, than what the textbooks say.

[CLKD]

Let us know how you get on!