The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

GP prescribed Lansoprazole after the event. I should have known better in all honesty. I iz idiot.  

[bub2006]

Who cares, filling stations are for other people ☺

What does your van run on?!

[garbaldy]

/\ Hopes and dreams.

[fordperv]

If its any help, ask for Omeprazole, they protect your stomach and I am on them whenever I use naproxen. I had spinal injections 18months ago and it was fifteen minutes of hell but made an unbelievable difference and I have had no problems in that area since. Just all the other bits that are hassle......

Have any of you takers of naproxen experienced the side effect of becoming an utter bastard, when I took them for my shoulder being buggered, i became angry man and would want to tear people limb from limb for breathing, i saw this in myself so went to the doctors for an alternative and he told me he hadn't come across this.

[Tamworthbay]

Have any of you takers of naproxen experienced the side effect of becoming an utter bastard, when I took them for my shoulder being buggered, i became angry man and would want to tear people limb from limb for breathing, i saw this in myself so went to the doctors for an alternative and he told me he hadn't come across this.

not me, but I am such a sodding cocktail that I have no idea what's doing what sometimes. I am on more drugs for the side effects than I am for the damn arthritis by five to three!

[purplebargeken]

Not me either, just glad that it took some of the pain away and it in turn made me happier (subjectively).

[dollywobbler]

Same here, every time I put my shoes on it pours.

 

It had rained here, but then it stopped for quite a while. Having got the Dyane running, I thought maybe I could have a sneaky run up the driveway in it. Refitted the air filter assembly, cleared all the shit and tools out of the way and as soon as I'd finished, it started pouring own. Ugh!

[xtriple]

Tamworthbay, I am on a cocktail as well and it is sort of amusing that more drugs are to combat the side effects.... I take two different drugs to combat the stomach problems that opiates create alone!

 

Lanzoprazole does work and is worth taking.

[Bobthebeard]

Tamworthbay, I am on a cocktail as well and it is sort of amusing that more drugs are to combat the side effects.... I take two different drugs to combat the stomach problems that opiates create alone!

 

Lanzoprazole does work and is worth taking.

Although a different issue, Mrs B started off on one drug to help her problem (heart irregularity. AF.) Then ended up being prescribed three more drugs to help with the side effects! She made the decision to sack them all off as the side effects of the cocktail of drugs caused more health issues than her original problem!

She now practices relaxation techniques and goes swimming three times a week. So far so good.

[Tamworthbay]

Tamworthbay, I am on a cocktail as well and it is sort of amusing that more drugs are to combat the side effects.... I take two different drugs to combat the stomach problems that opiates create alone!

 

Lanzoprazole does work and is worth taking.

and one beneficial side effect of the .....prazole group of drugs is that you can eat a fiery curry at midnight like you did when you were twenty but without an entire night or regret in the form of trapped wind and indigestion. Result!

[Tamworthbay]

Although a different issue, Mrs B started off on one drug to help her problem (heart irregularity. AF.) Then ended up being prescribed three more drugs to help with the side effects! She made the decision to sack them all off as the side effects of the cocktail of drugs caused more health issues than her original problem!

She now practices relaxation techniques and goes swimming three times a week. So far so good.

I am on one main drug which is methotrexate by injection. If it wasn't for that and some periodic steroid injections to nobble the flare ups I wouldn't still be working full time. The good old NHS has been amazing with me and I can't imagine being without it. The only negative experiences I have had have been with bits that have been outsourced to private companies. The steroid injections are brilliant but worthy of a grumpy thread on their own, I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy (but Would love to see Rupert Murdoch get a few).

[Bobthebeard]

and one beneficial side effect of the .....prazole group of drugs is that you can eat a fiery curry at midnight like you did when you were twenty but without an entire night or regret in the form of trapped wind and indigestion. Result!

The night may be ok, but the morning after will still be spent on the toilet. No drug in the known universe can stop that!

[Tamworthbay]

The night may be ok, but the morning after will still be spent on the toilet. No drug in the known universe can stop that!

not for me mate, I have never have a problem. As for a dodgy burger from the crappy chippy, that's another story as this week goes to prove......

[Bobthebeard]

I am on one main drug which is methotrexate by injection. If it wasn't for that and some periodic steroid injections to nobble the flare ups I wouldn't still be working full time. The good old NHS has been amazing with me and I can't imagine being without it. The only negative experiences I have had have been with bits that have been outsourced to private companies. The steroid injections are brilliant but worthy of a grumpy thread on their own, I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy (but Would love to see Rupert Murdoch get a few).

As I said... A different issue in Mrs Beards case. Just sayin like.

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[xtriple]

Steroid injections are from the very Devil himself!

[Bobthebeard]

not for me mate, I have never have a problem. As for a dodgy burger from the crappy chippy, that's another story as this week goes to prove......

Reminds me of a bloke I used to work with. He loved curries and claimed to never have the shits afterwards. One day at work he got something in his eye and had to go to hospital, all sorted. He came back to work the day after and he fell off a ladder ripping his shirt and trousers and cutting his arms. We all went out for a curry that evening as it was almost the end of the contract. The following morning on the way to work he farted and actually followed through! Went back to the hotel to sort himself out. Lol.

His words were. "For fucks sake, that is a perfect end to a perfect week" I almost did a wee in my pants laughing.

As you were...

[Tamworthbay]

As I said... A different issue in Mrs Beards case. Just sayin like.

 

I didn't take it as a dig at all, everyone is different. I think the gps are under pressure to over prescribe by the drug companies. If she can get away without taking them then brilliant. My Nan was a bugger for getting prescriptions and never taking them. She lived to 90! I just dropped unlucky on the gene front, it missed all my sisters and hit me, or perhaps they were all adopted really

[captain_70s]

As I was driving home today the heavens opened and threw a mixture of rain and snow in a horizontal direction making for a thoroughly miserable drive home. To compound matters the weather was accompanied by a new and distinct "something is falling off your car" rattle/vibration, I think the new exhaust is falling off.

[fairkens]

Have any of you takers of naproxen experienced the side effect of becoming an utter bastard, when I took them for my shoulder being buggered, i became angry man and would want to tear people limb from limb for breathing, i saw this in myself so went to the doctors for an alternative and he told me he hadn't come across this.

You know what, I recently stopped taking reasonably heavy dose of naproxen and my mood is so much better, deffo less of a miserable bastard than I was before and has been commented on by others

[jakebullet]

No kinky girl visit today 'cos had to take idiot sister for emergency eye investigation again. Once again eye is what's technically known as "fucked", and it's surgery in the morning. Be a miracle if she doesn't end up blind.

[andrew e]

Have any of you takers of naproxen experienced the side effect of becoming an utter bastard, when I took them for my shoulder being buggered, i became angry man and would want to tear people limb from limb for breathing, i saw this in myself so went to the doctors for an alternative and he told me he hadn't come across this.

I haven't noticed this at all. However it was happening, the wife and kids noticed it, so I take it (Naproxen) on demand. Just like Fairkens noted.

 

Last winter (2014) I had a week of sunshine end of October/November and she reckons I was much brighter than this damp winter, so I'm off to Tenerife (without kids and rather reasonably actually) for half term for sunshine. Future plans include last minute £250 holiday bingo this November to see if she if she found a cure.

[Jazoli]

Steroid injections are from the very Devil himself!

 

+1, have had several over the last 2 years, fuck me I nearly actually hit the roof the first time I had one.

[steve_earwig]

It took me a while to find this, it was me ranting about the Croat roads bods deciding to build a bridge to replace a level crossing near where I live, shutting the road and diverting the heavy traffic up from the motorway into the village where I live, thereby creating a new junction and me almost having an accident because they did it while I was at home and I missed the one sign they'd put up to warn me about it, plus they hadn't bothered to mark the new junction they'd created either (that took about a month)

They opened* it today, almost exactly a year later. Well, actually it was finally finished in November but inexplicably left closed after that, up until a few days ago when they removed the barriers but today they mysteriously changed the signs from no vehicles to a 60kmh speed limit (seriously, I went to town this morning and it was still closed, came back a couple of hours later and it was open). And they've taken all the diversion signs down through the village but they've left the road markings. I bet they won't bother for a few weeks again either. Ffs, I feel like taking a big tub of white paint and a brush down there myself.

All is well*, the roads bods have been out and erased some of the temporary* road markings. Which ones? Why, the give way lines of course. A double junction on a bend and a level crossing and now there are no give way markings at all, brilliant.

[Tamworthbay]

+1, have had several over the last 2 years, fuck me I nearly actually hit the roof the first time I had one.

they are one of the few things I dread. I have had fingers, toes, knee, shoulder and spine done. Spine was particulularly weird as you sort of hunch over with your Arsenal in the air whilst a guy sticks a needle up the top of the crack and a nurse rubs ky and an ultrasound thing whilst giving him directions. Not pleasant but worked a treat.

[fairkens]

I have def had different steroid jabs than you guys! They are 100% pure class in your ass as far as I am concerned

[Tamworthbay]

I have def had different steroid jabs than you guys! They are 100% pure class in your ass as far as I am concerned

if it was into the fat/ musclethen it's a general steroid injection. They are a doddle. The ones we are talking about are where they stick a needle BETWEEN the bones of the joint. It's every bit as horrible as it sounds but works wonders so worth it. No pain no gain and all that.

[Jazoli]

if it was into the fat/ musclethen it's a general steroid injection. They are a doddle. The ones we are talking about are where they stick a needle BETWEEN the bones of the joint. It's every bit as horrible as it sounds but works wonders so worth it. No pain no gain and all that.

 

Oh yes they are the puppies, its weird when you feel the fluid push the joint apart, my last one didn't work, not looking forwards to the next one if I'm honest.

[fairkens]

Wowsers, that sounds unpleasant

[xtriple]

Wowsers, that sounds unpleasant

It is!

 

Many years ago I had to have one in my right elbow after I broke it and left it totally untreated (moron!) the Doctor stuck the needle in (which is the size of a drill bit) and told me to tell him when he found the bit that hurt the most.

 

I stopped screaming about ten minutes after I left his office!

[Tamworthbay]

The first ones I had were in my left hand. The doc told me to bring someone along to drive me home after. I thought that even if my hand was bad I could still change gear, or as worst stick it in third and slip the clutch as its only two miles home. I took my wife along as she was free. Bloody good job I did as when I came out I didn't know which car was mine let alone be capable of driving the thing. That first batch was four in one hand, had my shoulder done a few times which isn't as bad, knee was traumatic (nurse said they are either almost painless or terrible), spine was rough, especially as it takes about fifteen minutes. But they help so worth it.