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Thankyou very much for sharing your stories chaps..Very interesting.
How well do you treat your body & mind?
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I seem to have extreme mood swings,certainly compared to my Mrs...Not sure If I am a bit ""bipolar"" sensitive,or just v moody.I can swing from completely miserable, to absolutely Euphoric,?and back on bad days....God knows what is the "" norm""
Maybe you’re like me - just a miserable ****!
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Lol...that is the diagnosis of my Mrs!..Maybe you’re like me - just a miserable ****!
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Yep, same here. Stayed in engineering but 2 years prior to moving over here I was mainly office based as on-site engineering manager at Heinz. Liked the job, (and the extra pay), but I was bored s hitless sitting in an office most of the day. Used to text the Heinz engineers to give me a call on some pretext just so I could 'legally' go out on the shop floor. After moving here I was seconded to a customers site as the lubrication engineer. Quite physical at times but I was pretty autonomous on what I did and when I did it to some extent.
I felt them trying to push it into the artery, (didn't know it was called a curtain spring), and could begin to feel it moving in for a few inches but after that not a thing until they got to that point just above the heart and it was slightly narrower than the rest. I felt like a cold shudder for a split second and one of the team asked if I was ok. When I told her I had just felt a slight shiver the surgeon explained about the slightly narrower bit but nothing to worry about. Don't think I ever felt 'near to death' or even frightened to be honest. I had been in observation for the previous 5 days before they decided to do it and got to know the staff quite well and felt safe with them.
No, I have no idea what the thing was called, I was just describing what the weird sensation felt like as it was pushed into my groin -it was sort of clicking as it rubbed through the incision, just like a curtain spring. Apart from the 'curtain spring' feeling I was aware of a tremendous amount of pressure on my groin, I assume to keep the blood in. I kept trying to take a peek at what was going on down there, but they stopped me and told me to keep very, very still - not to move a muscle.
When my BP was diving before the OP, I would go quite faint and shivering, sometimes sweating. It would happen with any exercise, or even looking reaching up. I simply stop what I'm doing and wait for my BP to come back up. On the op table, it must have dropped way down and they seemed completely unaware of it, until I pointed it out to them and they checked it, causing them slight panic.
They injected some sort of stimulant, waited and watched, with frequent BP checks, until my BP recovered, then asked if I felt like continuing for a another 10 minutes and then it would all be over.
The injection would probably have been adrenalin which boosts the heart rate, so increasing blood pressure, and then it settles down again. I was allowed to turn my head but only slightly and they were happy for me to chat if I felt like it.
I genuinely take my proverbial hat off to men and women that do physical work as a full-time job/career. I've always worked indoors, computer industry, been office based most of it. When I see men/women grafting, especially outdoors and even more so when it's cold weather, I know I couldn't hack it. As others have touched on, hopefully you can find a way to move away from the 'grafting' in the years to come.
Great responses, thanks for posting all.
Edit: Just jumped on the scales and they are showing 16 stone 12 1/2 pounds! That’s only half a pound off of my all time high. Yikes!
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Too much booze Mottie.
I’d say I’m well balanced in the diet, excessive and mental health areas.
I’ve been on the drains for just over 16years now but although it’s probably helped my body so far I do wonder how long to keep doing it, I’m 42 now.
Diet is good apart from the odd takeaway and a bit of binge drinking, I think a long walk on a weekend deals with that.
Mental health is probably helped by a busy house with a variety of ages mixed in. I do get occasionally stressed at a Golf game that I play on my phone, no idea why, sometimes it really boils me
: I’m 14st 4lbs
I’ve been on the drains for just over 16years now but although it’s probably helped my body so far I do wonder how long to keep doing it, I’m 42 now.
Diet is good apart from the odd takeaway and a bit of binge drinking, I think a long walk on a weekend deals with that.
Mental health is probably helped by a busy house with a variety of ages mixed in. I do get occasionally stressed at a Golf game that I play on my phone, no idea why, sometimes it really boils me
: I’m 14st 4lbs
I have just seen my results from last weeks blood tests. For the past three years they have suggested I am Type 2, some have said marginal, others that I am well into being T2. Reading my hba1c numbers shows I am normal, no T2. Only one thing has changed - I had IV iron and started having jabs to promote production of iron in my blood.
Funny how the bodies systems interact - I have a phone appointment with the renal department early next month, I must remember to ask them if improving the iron levels in blood can reduce the hba1c (blood glucose) levels.
My BP was doing the exact opposite of what it was logically supposed to do - diving on any effort, now it is rising. This since the IV iron and jabs. The renal specialist who had prescribed the IV and jabs, seemed uncertain whether it would or would not be the cause. BP falls I would go dizzy, now none of the dizziness I have been complaining of for two years and they have been ignoring, or maybe not believing me
The more I study and research the interactions, the more puzzled I become and I am not even convinced the doctors have any real answers.
Funny how the bodies systems interact - I have a phone appointment with the renal department early next month, I must remember to ask them if improving the iron levels in blood can reduce the hba1c (blood glucose) levels.
My BP was doing the exact opposite of what it was logically supposed to do - diving on any effort, now it is rising. This since the IV iron and jabs. The renal specialist who had prescribed the IV and jabs, seemed uncertain whether it would or would not be the cause. BP falls I would go dizzy, now none of the dizziness I have been complaining of for two years and they have been ignoring, or maybe not believing me
The more I study and research the interactions, the more puzzled I become and I am not even convinced the doctors have any real answers.
Yes, I can never understand all the medico jargon when I look something up. How doctors/nurses remember is beyond me but then, like when you serve an apprenticeship, you soak up knowledge like a sponge and never use some of it for years but it comes back when you need it.
They can't know everything and especially with the individual human body, things change as time moves on and what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.
I think the most important things about being healthy are eat sensibly and have a positive attitude.
Good to know the dizzy spells seem to be disappearing by the way and the diabetes, if not gone, is being held in check.
They can't know everything and especially with the individual human body, things change as time moves on and what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.
I think the most important things about being healthy are eat sensibly and have a positive attitude.
Good to know the dizzy spells seem to be disappearing by the way and the diabetes, if not gone, is being held in check.
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