Today I acquired...........

[Blobber]

Found out a fortnight ago that the sudden acute screaming itchy weeping rash & hives attack that I had on 17 March this year looked like king sized nettle rashes all over me save for my JT . is histamine related .

Running along with it was a 999 event , a crazy shortness of breath. The Para Medic & two ambulance crew were not able to help initially , till a few hours later after lots of smart phone searching for data , he asked if I'd ever had Urticaria. Which means I'm producing far too much histamine .

He suggested I try taking some antihistamine , thankfully we had a pack left by my daughter with a use by date of 30 / 6 . 2023 .
Two tablets & it's disappearing in the next half hour , having two more every four hours & 8 hrs later it's all gone save for hundreds of goose pimple sized bumps all over me . Subsequent blood tests confirmed it . I'm now on a course of pharmaceutical antihistamines for six months then a month break then back to the dermatologist , with new blood test results .

What you have posted ties in well with the sileage making , high levels of birch , oak & grass pollen that been happening , that helps me a lot , thanks for posting .

I never suffered from hay fever until I was about 22, I still think the thing that triggered it off was buying/using a gassless mig as it always seemed to get me after that

 

[Blobber]

3 pairs of cheap tig gloves. Id love to say they are to protect my delicate little pinkies while I tig up some amazing jobs but sadly not just used for gardening spikey stuff and other general protection!

 

[Arc Tourist]

I must be getting old, posted in the wrong thread.

See "Show us your bench vices (s)" thread, #6,849

 

[DAPPH]

Erm...it's not a reaction to the yew is it?

No it kicked off big time 2 yrs ago then another bashing on March 17 . The seven pages of info the British Association of Dermatologist people gave me , explain in great detail .... They have tested 60 odd thousand people fioor it in research trials . Some people have it as a recurring hereditary problem , some just a few events . older folk are more susceptible , it might last a few week or till they snuff it.
Some people don't have any symptoms but checking their blood for other things it shows up .
Susceptibility appears coded in our DNA for a 1one in five susceptibility .

 

[dobbslc]

Today I've acquired lots of pain on my poor knee after the operation
It's bloddy killing me so I've gone onto the second round of defence after the paracetamol, the Co coldamol...
If I start talking more cobblers than normal that's my excuse!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Today, I acquired a large brick in excellent packaging.

After breaking through the weapons-grade plastic, I found this box:

And in the box then ...

.... Yes, it fit in there perfectly, and at first it didn't want to come out.

A long cross slide for the ML7.

Bought via eBay.co.uk and forwarded to me by an extremely helpful fellow forum member who really spared no effort.

You know who you are, so many thanks again!


What a nice forum this!


This appropriately came from another source:

Now I just have to learn how to make a sufficiently accurate long gib-strip.


Carsten

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[Fred Trevvett]

Today I've acquired lots of pain on my poor knee after the operation
It's bloddy killing me so I've gone onto the second round of defence after the paracetamol, the Co coldamol...
If I start talking more cobblers than normal that's my excuse!

Cocodamol is good stuff. Take as many packs as they let you have, then put in the medicine cupboard for use on future injuries where paracetamol doesn't quite cut it

 

[Onoff]

No it kicked off big time 2 yrs ago then another bashing on March 17 .

Thank God for that!

Try the yew!

 

[dobbslc]

Cocodamol is good stuff. Take as many packs as they let you have, then put in the medicine cupboard for use on future injuries where paracetamol doesn't quite cut it

They've also given me some Morphine but I'm saving that for recreational purposes

 

[Onoff]

They've also given me some Morphine but I'm saving that for recreational purposes

Since when has constipation been classed as recreation?

 

[brightspark]

Since when has constipation been classed as recreation?

you get the ducolax supplied with the co co codamol i got 4 boxes of co codomol given and 3 boxes of tramadolnow and then take the odd one

 

[RichardM]

I never got ducolax with my prescription strength co-codamol! Did get constipation and still have the vast majority of the packet in the cupboard although they are a little after the use before date of 2018!

 

[500e]

All those things bung you up even Paracetamol

 

[Onoff]

still have the vast majority of the packet in the cupboard

Is that a euphemism for still being bunged up?

 

[roofman]

But you don't know how long he was in the pub....

Good point

 

[addjunkie]

But you don't know how long he was in the pub....

About 2 hours, but was up on its feet in 20 minutes!

 

[RichardM]

Is that a euphemism for still being bunged up?

I would have done a Mr Creosote by now if that had been the case

 

[Pete.]

They've also given me some Morphine but I'm saving that for recreational purposes

We got one of those, about half a pint, and some dihydracodeine too.

I'm saving to for the next time I try to cut all my fingers off

 

[dobbslc]

What happened to your fingers?

 

[Pete.]

What happened to your fingers?

nasty acidents!!

from what i recall whiskey helps a lot :whistle: Second that, does wonders for a bad back, drink enough and you don't care that you can't stand up straight anymore ;)

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