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[Annie0710]

I'd love to be able to move to Spain (and not work!) x

[dulciana]

I'm going to visit Edinburgh's Salt Caves ASAP and buy one of the salt lamps which they apparently sell.  Can't really afford to go for regular sessions there, so this would seem the next best thing.   

[Annie0710]

I've had a salt lamp as a bedside lamp for a couple of years now but haven't noticed any improvement.  I read on FB this week you're meant to leave them on permanently? X

[Annie0710]

So you are meant to leave them on permanently ? Xx

[dulciana]

Yes.  I'd read you're meant to leave them on - at the very least, during the day so that their beneficial properties can build up enough to have a lasting effect overnight.  That's if someone finds it too bright to sleep by.   

[Annie0710]

I think I'd worry leaving it on constantly x

[dulciana]

Well, the healthful properties need time to build up......from what I've read.     

[Annie0710]

I have taken your advice DD and been leaving it on all day and evening and switching off bedtime

I asked hubby if he thought it was safe and his reply :”well you leave lounge lamps on all day whilst we're at work so dogs feel less lonely and they're a brighter bulb so.....”

All day/evening it is then lol xxx

[dulciana]

Cats can see in the dark! 

[QueenOfCamelot]

This is what I am going through today, right now and I'm asthmatic and the menopause appears to be making me even worse.

[jillydoll]

I still haven't been tested for asthma, even though today my lungs won't fill up,
It doesn't happen everyday, so I don't know if it's a dip in oestrogen.If it was asthma,
Wouldn't it be everyday? Or maybe it's my anxiety, that plays around with my breathing, although, this does feel different than the breathing that I experience when my anxiety is high. Tomorrow, it probably will be gone..

[Annie0710]

My asthma is allergy induced and initially I was only suffering at home.  Turned out to be the pets, but within a year or so it literally can happen anywhere.  Some days I don't need my pump (apart from using it morning and night as it's also a preventative) other days I may need it once or twice as a reliever

Don't assume it can't be asthma just because your breathing is different day to day.  The best thing is to get a peak flow chart and puffer thing from gp and record your best of 3 puffs twice a day and say what you were going or what you were around on low readings x

[jillydoll]

Ok,Annie, thanx.
I will if it doesn't get any better, I'm trying out new eostragel at the mo, see if that
makes any difference. And also hopefully, my GP will be back , she's been off sick for a
few weeks. I hate seeing the other one, stupid I know, but I will get it sorted...

Take care
Jd xx

[Annie0710]

I have favourite gps so totally understand x

[QueenOfCamelot]

Ye asthma varies from day to day sometimes you're fine and wouldn't know you had it other times you're wheezing like an old man in the woodbines.  Need a preventer now I think my inhaler isn't working.