I know someone who was on 27 tablets a day for various conditions and was given 18 months to live. He had his medications reviewed and is now only a few a day and is in good shape for a man in his late 70's . Maybe GP's just prescribe for a specific complaint without considering the overall situation?
Wondering how many of you have sleep problems
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Now don't take this the wrong way Secure, but should you be. I have a living will, and if anything goes wrong, I've left instructions to pull the plug, and keep me sedated till I go. I believe we come for a certain amount of time, and go when the body starts to deteriorate. I'll even pull the plug when I think I'm starting to wear out.
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Tat was my intention, but th way I struggled upstairs today, I think it'll be a lot sooner than that.
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Therein, I believe is a major difference.
Having suffered oxygen starvation at birth (3 months premature) affecting the LHS of my brain and suffered Cerebral Palsy as a result, I have always had some difficulties.
I had HF deafness at birth and had behavioural problems in the early years. My Mum was struggling on her own with 3 of us and my Gran took me to live with her in London to ease the strain.
My right achilles was so short I could not put my heel down and the leg is now 25mm shorter than the left. I had an operation in 69 and another in 76 to lengthen it. I have had issues with my right leg and foot ever since, including pain most days.
I also respond slowly when being spoken to as I need extra time to process what has been said.
So having lived with pain and difficulties all my life, I don't know what life without them would be like.
Had I been mostly healthy most of my life then been struck down with a condition, I would maybe feel a bit like you do.
Having suffered oxygen starvation at birth (3 months premature) affecting the LHS of my brain and suffered Cerebral Palsy as a result, I have always had some difficulties.
I had HF deafness at birth and had behavioural problems in the early years. My Mum was struggling on her own with 3 of us and my Gran took me to live with her in London to ease the strain.
My right achilles was so short I could not put my heel down and the leg is now 25mm shorter than the left. I had an operation in 69 and another in 76 to lengthen it. I have had issues with my right leg and foot ever since, including pain most days.
I also respond slowly when being spoken to as I need extra time to process what has been said.
So having lived with pain and difficulties all my life, I don't know what life without them would be like.
Had I been mostly healthy most of my life then been struck down with a condition, I would maybe feel a bit like you do.
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I have aspergers and so don't fit in with society, so my life been a mental strugle with a lot of depression, and the dyslexia and word blindness don't help either. I picked up some sort of TB when I was six, and have had breathing problems all my life, and not that strong a constitution because of it. I've been short sighted since 5, and I'm now getting chateracts, but I think like you, I struggle through with the problems.
But I think you beat me hands down.
But I think you beat me hands down.
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I don't see it as beating anyone.
I don't see it as a competition.
I know there are folk in the world much better off than me, but equally, there are many who are far worse off.
I try to remember that when I am feeling low (I suffer depression too) and it helps me put things into perspective.
I don't see it as a competition.
I know there are folk in the world much better off than me, but equally, there are many who are far worse off.
I try to remember that when I am feeling low (I suffer depression too) and it helps me put things into perspective.
Let me join the club! That is what I said No One is Perfect! We all have problems, this is because we are all evolving, so at any one time our body (DNA) is trying to work out what is best for us, and for its long term survival.
If I start telling you what are my problems,it would fill up an entire encyclopedia!
My major problem is getting up early, its never been easy for me to awake up before 8 or 9am , hence I became self employed and my own boss, so I could start my day when I want it, and finish off my day when I want it, ("When I want " means when my body dictates me) Unfortunately it has screwed up my life as I cannot plan my day as majority of the people do, everyone gets up early and get ready to go to work, my body will not allow me to do that on a daily bases, I can still get up early if there was for example an important meeting, a wedding, or a court case to attend, I even postponed early appointments to afternoon ones.
Being self employed is the major cause of it, and especially when you are spending 90% of your working time from home, this makes you more lazy and highly inefficient at your tasks, because you feel that you can achieve what you need to in your own time, but what used to tale me 1 day to accomplish now takes a week! This causes a lot of tasks unfinished, which brings on anxiety because you have so many things to do and you are not achieving your target, lot of stress you get from today's politics, rules and regulations, there are endless rules and deadlines that you have to meet, whilst there are only 24hrs in a day, my day really begins like after 6pm, and I can then go on all night until 4am when i hit my bed, and have done so for the past 20 or more years now! My biology clock does not exist, I could hit the bed at all sort of times, whenever my body feels worn out, today I woke up at 10.30am, after taking a quick shower, I am down by 11am, starts my day and check emails, order stuff for work, or pack stuff that needs shipping, by 2pm and I am worn out, so I hit my bed again, I will need between 2 and 3 hours to make up for sleep, then I get up at 5pm and by 6pm my day really starts and I am trying to catch up on things that i should have already done.
Its all to do with life style, whenever my job takes me out, I am fine and remain awake throughout the day, and tiredness does not come close, but when I work from home and I am mostly very lethargic, I am also diabetic, smoking like a chimney does not help, having 12 cats pestering you all day does not help, having a nagging wife does not help, going on forums does not help, because you get abused by some prats on here, but my head is unable to concentrate on things for longer than 5 minutes, as soon as I start on a task, I will abandon it and start on another, then another and then brain gets so tired and in the end I get so lost and not sure what i need to get working on, and I only work on those jobs where the dead lines is looming close, My memory is also substantially reduced, which is probably good because I don't retain ill feelings for long, that is why I can't tell if some of you may have called me a prat one or two times before, but hey who cares, everyone is a prat at times.
I think we all need to resign to caves and throw all our problems out! modern life is full of stress. live a peaceful stress free life, I am willing to sacrifice all my material belongings and modern living and go and live in a cave somewhere under may be Himalayas, but authorities will soon remove you from there. I wish I was a cat,, free to roam, climb, jump, **** in my neighbours garden,
securepack and blue hawak, I am sorry to see you go through a lot, I hope some kind of relaxation therapy might work good on you, acupuncture may also help, but you need to search.
If I start telling you what are my problems,it would fill up an entire encyclopedia!
My major problem is getting up early, its never been easy for me to awake up before 8 or 9am , hence I became self employed and my own boss, so I could start my day when I want it, and finish off my day when I want it, ("When I want " means when my body dictates me) Unfortunately it has screwed up my life as I cannot plan my day as majority of the people do, everyone gets up early and get ready to go to work, my body will not allow me to do that on a daily bases, I can still get up early if there was for example an important meeting, a wedding, or a court case to attend, I even postponed early appointments to afternoon ones.
Being self employed is the major cause of it, and especially when you are spending 90% of your working time from home, this makes you more lazy and highly inefficient at your tasks, because you feel that you can achieve what you need to in your own time, but what used to tale me 1 day to accomplish now takes a week! This causes a lot of tasks unfinished, which brings on anxiety because you have so many things to do and you are not achieving your target, lot of stress you get from today's politics, rules and regulations, there are endless rules and deadlines that you have to meet, whilst there are only 24hrs in a day, my day really begins like after 6pm, and I can then go on all night until 4am when i hit my bed, and have done so for the past 20 or more years now! My biology clock does not exist, I could hit the bed at all sort of times, whenever my body feels worn out, today I woke up at 10.30am, after taking a quick shower, I am down by 11am, starts my day and check emails, order stuff for work, or pack stuff that needs shipping, by 2pm and I am worn out, so I hit my bed again, I will need between 2 and 3 hours to make up for sleep, then I get up at 5pm and by 6pm my day really starts and I am trying to catch up on things that i should have already done.
Its all to do with life style, whenever my job takes me out, I am fine and remain awake throughout the day, and tiredness does not come close, but when I work from home and I am mostly very lethargic, I am also diabetic, smoking like a chimney does not help, having 12 cats pestering you all day does not help, having a nagging wife does not help, going on forums does not help, because you get abused by some prats on here, but my head is unable to concentrate on things for longer than 5 minutes, as soon as I start on a task, I will abandon it and start on another, then another and then brain gets so tired and in the end I get so lost and not sure what i need to get working on, and I only work on those jobs where the dead lines is looming close, My memory is also substantially reduced, which is probably good because I don't retain ill feelings for long, that is why I can't tell if some of you may have called me a prat one or two times before, but hey who cares, everyone is a prat at times.
I think we all need to resign to caves and throw all our problems out! modern life is full of stress. live a peaceful stress free life, I am willing to sacrifice all my material belongings and modern living and go and live in a cave somewhere under may be Himalayas, but authorities will soon remove you from there. I wish I was a cat,, free to roam, climb, jump, **** in my neighbours garden,
securepack and blue hawak, I am sorry to see you go through a lot, I hope some kind of relaxation therapy might work good on you, acupuncture may also help, but you need to search.
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Feckin Jeezas is there anyone healthy on this forum.
I've suffered from depression for as long as I can remember, certainly back to my 20's , 40+ years ago. Plus being fat and overweight. I really don't see things changing in my remaining years. I had CBT at The Priory which helped for a while but an unwise choice of friends ( people I met at The Priory) put me back to square one where I've been for the last few years.
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Doggit
It's an age thing Noesall. I was pretty okay and manageable at your age. 13 years on, and I'm struggling. Most of us whingers have one foot in the grave I suspect. Hopefully, you'll fare better than us, so I wish you well.
The diy'ers might have more of a chance than the pros though!Feckin Jeezas is there anyone healthy on this forum.
I can almost certainly relate my problem to computer age, we are becoming lazy.
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I think a lot of it is to do with attitude. I have known people who suffer daily with life altering ailments who have still been happy and content and others with much much less wrong who cannot cope or accept what they have been dealt with.
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