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'Martin' wrote on '03:
Yup, I brew in 5 gallon batches. I have an ESB in the fermenter at the moment and plan on doing an Oatmeal Stout next. After that, an English Brown Ale!
I salute you in your homebrewing, although I am more likely to drink meads than beers, ales, stouts & lagers, due to my loathing of the taste of hops. I am not a bitter fan. While I have a fondness for antique apples and pears, no bitters or bitter-sharps for me, as I am not likely to make cider or perry (I adore perry).
Ack! You live in Dundee, nowhere near Glasgow. Other side of the island, and farther north. Coastal town–I love them.
Quote:Oh no it does not hurt at all. They use like EKG pads that stick to your skin really well. They put them all over your head and body. Makes your hair nasty and gooey because they add gel of some sort to the pads for your head.They used superglue to put the leads on when I had mine. Bleah.
Quote:To hook you up to all of that it takes like 45 minutes. Then you lay in bed on your back trying to get to sleep (if you can even get to sleep)… It sucks.Especially for a side sleeper!
Quote:No it's not painful at all. They are ekg pads that hook up to wires that hook up to machines.Not painful, but for someone whose skin gain goes up past 10 on the dial, they felt like they were poking me all over–and TWO cannulae up my nose (I was so lucky!) were very uncomfortable for someone who wants only smooth textures around me when I want to sleep. I was aware of all of them the entire time.
Quote:There was an infrared camera mounted in the ceiling so you are being watched the whole night. Creepy if you ask me. I hate being watched.I'm with you there. Ick.
I want to go to Scotland! Admittedly, I haven't been there in winter, but I'd rather deal with cold & SAD in Scotland than rain, SAD & subduction zones in the Seattle/Vancouver area.
Can't remember, Elfin, did you say you're near Glasgow? I do understand Glaswegian, actually, even if it's only 9 in 10 words. Eventually I'll have the accent in my ear enough to understand them all. I watched Taggart for a while on BBC America, and 'dovecote' was one that took me a few minutes to get. I remember in 1977 or therabouts, just out of college with no car, wanting to go to a concert that Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger were giving. I managed to get a ride with a woman who also wanted to go, and I remember having little problem with the Scots/Lowland words & accent. I had been listening to their music, and other Scottish song in the last four years, so my ear was largely attuned. The woman who drove understood manybe 2 words in 10!
Of course, if you're not from the SW of Scotland, then I'll have no problem understanding the locals, as long as they don't try to conning me into buying more singlemalt than I can legally take home. It IS a weakness of mine, but it's Islay malt that does it for me.
Martin, how far are you from Ashland? Perhaps we could converge and take in a Shakespeare play…
'mariamoody1985' wrote on '06:Lena and I split up so had a lot going on in my life recently and not been feeling up to talking about stuff, and I seem to do nothing but sleep or else I'm not in house. Sorry guys.
I'm sorry to hear that! It's never easy.
I seem to be doing the too much sleep routine for a while now, even before my surgery. It's as if now that I *can* sleep, my body wants to make up for lost time–and my mind is likely in avoidance mode. Sigh.
I do hope we'll see you around more, though.
That is so hard to have a little one sick! You have nothing to apologize for. Was the cause of gasping pinned down?
The problem we had was merely that my husband and mother both had colds when Arthur was born, so even with nursing, he got his first ear infection at two weeks, and relatively often after that.
I did get fairly good naps when I was nursing. Due to having had an emergency c-section, I wasn't allowed to pick up anything heavier than Arthur the first six weeks, and told to nurse lying down. He'd be in the middle of the bed, the arm not occupied by baby holding out a paperback, and when he'd drop off after 40 min. EACH side, I found myself dropping off as well. There seemed to be some sort of funnel or wormhole open (SF fan here) on whose edge I'd be perched, able to let go and fall into it, finding the way to the land of sleep. I haven't been able to find the wormhole since.
'Martin' wrote on '30:It works differently when self employed as taxes aren't automatically witheld from your earnings. You also have to pay estimated tax based on what you think you'll earn the following year.
That is always such fun when you haven't a clue about future earnings, per quarter or per year. Usually it's per quarter.
Quote:Aren't those in poverty already suffering with paying income tax – or are you talking about people with earnings so low they are exempt? If items other than basic foods etc were taxed, then surely only those with higher incomes would pay the most tax? Currently, as a proportion of income, I believe it works out that the richest people actually pay the least tax.The Flat Tax gets debated in Congress every few years, but never passes. What you're describing sounds a lot like VAT. Are poll taxes in the UK like our income tax?
Right now, more and more people are getting stuck paying the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was intended for the very wealthy, and has not been adjusted for inflation. It treats many deductions, allowable in lower AND upper tax brackets, as an attempt to escape proper taxation. Congress doesn't seem inclined to fix this, either. Grrr. We're caught between, as we (my family) is also caught between generations that need our care, sometimes expensively.
I hope mortgage interest is never removed as a deduction, or our family (and many others) will be well and truly sunk.
'xdunlapx' wrote on '30:Income tax, if set up right on your W-2 (or other form) shouldn't be too much of a bother if you file your taxes right the following year. For me, I'd select 1 deduction and file for 1 deduction. That way you dont owe taxes and may get some back. I always got back $ when I was working and filed 1 deduction. It may not have been much but at least I didn't have to pay.
We do something similar. We have a huge mortgage payment, and no real room for household repairs etc unless we “overdeduct” by specifying additional dollar amounts to be taken out. We get back a fair amount each year, that we use for big project repairs etc.
'annie wrote on '25:Hey everybody out there…my insomnia is back and this is round three for me. I decided to join because no body in my real world can truly understand. So I just wanted to say hello to you all and know that I have a new support group that I can turn to while I get thru this crap.
If we can't help, we can at least support sympathetically!
Marina
'Mike wrote on '25:You're absolutely right…non-insomniacs don't have a clue about going through life half asleep and half awake. What's more, they don't care if we sleep or not.
They don't know the amount of frustration it causes. They don't know how it compounds, night after night. If we miss one night of sleep, then we get so caught up worrying about sleeping the next night that we don't sleep the next night, either. And on and on it goes.
It's definitely a horrible condition to live with. Only an insomniac knows how another insomniac feels, and there are lots of us.
It is the same for those with chronic pain and with chronic migraines. The stupid things I've heard people say to these folks is awful.
By comparison, those with chronic depression get off easily. Don't understand it, but that's my experience. BTW, I'm bipolar.
'aimee' wrote on '25:If I'm foolish enough to mention feeling tired, or not having slept much last night I get comments like “Oh well, you haven't slept for 40 years anyway, have you?
I know what you mean!
“And your point would be?”
At one point, in the late 90's, my husband asked me in frustration, “Don't you ever wake up rested after a night's sleep?”. My response was, “No, not really. I might be a little less tired, but that's as good as it gets, presuming I actually GET a night's sleep”.
Labor Day weekend 2001 was the first really restful sleep I'd had in over 20 years, and it was due to a mood stabilizer that makes many folks downright dopey: Topomax, aka by some of its users, Dopomax. My son takes it for migraine prevention, and it helps him sleep a bit, but not as much as had Seroquel, which resulted in massive weight gain and blood glucose increase. Topomax only worked for me for two years before it quit, though.
The interesting paradox I see in your situation is that bipolar I's have manias where they can do whatever BUT they don't sleep much nor feel the need for sleep. Then they come crashing down to depression and unusual amounts of sleep, not having the energy to get out of bed, etc. Yours is the same pattern, without the mania or depression parts (which is good. let me tell you!). I wish it meant I'd have a great suggestion to help you even things out.
Marina
Quote:I must admit my older children are fantastic and they do help me out especially as my husband works night shift 5 days a week.I have never had this post partum insomnia before, this is the first time I have ever had it right after having a baby.
Gah. Night shift pays better, but I know I can't do it–good on your husband for doing it, though. And good for your kids for helping.
Quote:I really love swimming and hopefully when Sam is a little bigger I can get a family member to come and babysit a couple of times a week so I can go. Sadly I dont have an awful lot of support up here, they seem to offer it to my sister in law who has one child. She is lovely though and would help me if I really needed it.Isn't that the way it goes? I hope you get some of the support you need. When my son was younger, undiagnosed and therefor not medicated for bipolar disorder, I got more lectures from people, even my own sister, about how awful his behavior was and why didn't I impose better discipline? Lotta help that was.
Quote:As for whiskey I really really dont like it so dont think I could go down that route. 🙂More for me and others who like it. I wouldn't urgea anyone to do something they can't stand.
Quote:Thankyou again xYou're very welcome–that's why we're here.
Quote:Really don't understand how tablets to fight conflicting problems can POSSIBLY help ME!! I wouldn't mind if a doctor was HONEST with you, instead of just trying to get you out the door as quickly as possible.Some meds to treat headaches, have side effects of their own, which could cause … headaches. Great. Then there are the insomnia meds that can cause insomnia or narcolepsy, sleepwalking or worse. Psych meds which cause physical or cognitive problems. Wish it were different, but we understand how minds and bodies work so imperfectly. If we didn't there might be no need for this forum.
Quote:I reckon, most of you will be nodding at this thinking about your GP, but I LOVE my GP, not in a sexual context, I think she is awesome!!The reason…she LISTENS before suggesting anything AND she always tells me the side effects of the drugs before asking me if I would like them! Feels like I have a LITTLE control over my own body, which is nice!! lol
It is wonderful when you get medical practitioners who do this! i've decided it's the least I'll put up with, and new practitioners who fail to meet this standard will be fired. My shrink, my endocrinologist (diabetes II, hypertension, high cholesterol, low thyroid), and my dentist all have this behavior. My dentist alone has so many of my friends seeing him that it's funny. He's not in any Preferred insurance program, but he is so worth it: in the six years I'be been seeing him, all my dental phobias have disappeared, and except for gag reflex from bite-wing xrays, have no need of any of my coping methods any more. Even the hard edges on the bite wing film holders have been rounded and softened. My husband actually gets to the dentist on a regular basis these days, after more than 25 years of avoiding them. He had an abcess on a tooth with a hole that had been there for at least two years: pain finally got so bad that he sought help. Needed a root canal and a implant after the abcess was cured.
Quote:My doctor issue is with CONSULTANTS! My neurologist is USELESS, as a doctor! He is the MS 'specialist' for the area I live but he knows NOTHING!! He knows of new treatments he could make me take to see if his little scientific experiment works! That's fair, “lets use disabled people as human guinea pigs”. Is it just me that doesn't understand this system of 'help'??!I think I said something about clinical trials in my last response. Not knowing his speciality is criminal negligence by the NHS, allowing him to continue to practice.
Quote:Please help me so i know I'm not going completely mad from lack of sleep!!! lolYou're not mad, but you are justifiably angry!
Marina
'mariamoody1985' wrote on '25:I have written my neurologist a letter saying that if he does not give me what I know will work then I will stop taking all the medication that he has prescribed for me and he can deal with the consequences!!
Was first time in my life I was so angry that I actually done something about it!
…worried he'll withdraw treatment I'm on or something but I'm sure I can go above him and get put back on it so, know I'll be ok!
Good for you! He may mean well about the clinical trials and experimental treatments, but they are not for everyone. I'm happy to participate in the ones I qualify for, but you are not me, right?
I had a pdoc when I was still living in Santa Cruz (over a ridge of mountains from the San Jose area in CA) who never looked at me in session, and kept proscribing a medication I told him wasn't for me, and didn't work, and he kept increasing the dose until I was nearly falling down for lack of sleep, which is when I went off it and fired him. That was the Year of Firing Medical Staff. I now have a wionderful pdoc, rather like your primary doctor.
Have you talked to her about the idiot neuro?
