Desire Avenue

alx5962 wrote:Every year, 1.2 millons facebook users die, I was surprised by this high number. But for now I feel happy to not have one of these in my contacts

Thats surprises me too but i guess it just shows how many people use FB.

alx5962 wrote:I felt very tired / sad for a month, I supposed it was the weather and shorter days but today my medical exams confirmed my thyroid doesn't work well anymore; I didn't expected that as I thought it was an older people disease only....

hmmm.....over to our resident expert,Mr Dave Soundworld on that one me thinks.

Hope the consultants can help you out in the long run Alex,in the meantime take things easy.....which apparently you are.

pgss wrote:I'm still thinking that after a new album will be released the activity will be bigger and perhaps new people will join the good old clan here.

Old clan is right. By the time Stina gets her finger out....erm i mean, by the time Stina finds the time in her busy life to grace us with another of her wonderful albums, we'll be too old and mutt to hear it anyway.

sound world wrote: It was good to acknowledge our strange little community last year by meeting, but such a shame that Beth couldn't be there.

No wonder Beth didn't make it, it was earlier this year we met up, Dave?

sound world wrote:BTW has anyone heard from Witchy lately? she hasn't been in for ages.

Maybe meeting us in real life was too much of a shock for the poor girl? That, and being hit on the head by a Richard Beckingsale biography in Waterstones as well. [angel]

sound world wrote:My bloody heating packed up yesterday!! on the coldest day of the year! aargh! we were huddled around our oven most of the day

Just like the good ol' days eh?

blue wrote: I'll send a text to let you know I haven't jumped off a bridge or run off with a sailor.

Sailor Sam from Birmingham?
At least we'll know where to find you.

pgss wrote:

blue wrote: I'll send a text to let you know I haven't run off with a sailor.

I'd be happy for you if you'd run off with a sailor! But only if the weddingceremony could function as a new forummeeting.

Haha, no chance mate! I've well and truly learned my lesson, I am definitely not the marrying kind. Unfortunately I didn't find that out until I got married. [b)]

I wouldn't mind running off with a sailor though, provided I could come back home after a few days ....

RobB wrote:
Sailor Sam from Birmingham?
At least we'll know where to find you.

Bwaha, that's funnier than you know, Rob - my ex (not the one I married, the one I lived with for several years) lives in Birmingham now.

alx5962 wrote:
I have health problems since my childhood (I started with a pneumonia at 4 days old!)

Good lord, how awful - what a way to start off in the world. You must have been a tough little cookie to survive an illness like that when you were only days old.

alex wrote:So doctors tend to a hypo thyroidism or a thyroidism but more tests are needed for now. To link extreme tiredness and low mood with thyroid was not obvious for me so I guess it must be the same with many people, that's why it can be useful to communicate about this.

Indeed, I don't think many people would know tiredness and feeling depressed can be symptoms of thyroidism - I certainly didn't until my colleague mentioned it to me in relation to my own health. It's one of those things there's a real lack of awareness about generally, as well educated as many of us are about illnesses these days.

One of the problems with diagnosing hyper versus hypo is that the core symptoms of both are very similar. The only real tell-tale thing is that with hyper people tend to lose weight because the metabolism goes into overdrive, whereas with hypo the opposite happens. Also body temperature can be a good indication, because the metabolism controls it, so if you're unusually cold all the time it's more likely to be hypo.

Anyway hopefully they'll get it sorted and start you on the appropriate medication soon, the good thing is that once diagnosed it's easily treated with a daily tablet.

Thanks, doctor Blue
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger so I guess I should be pretty strong right now
Anyway, enough of those health conversation, there's nicer things to talk about for sure.

Aww, I wanted to say how I have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, plantar fasciatis and various other malaises...
But I'll spare you.

Damn, I was going to chip in with my asthma and arthritis ... we're a healthy bunch, aren't we.

sound world wrote:plantar fasciatis

I need to look this up. It sounds a bit like the Latin name of an exotic flower.

Doesn't it? It might be fasciitis, BTW.
Instead of a nice flower, it basically means 'dodgy foot'
It's taken five years for me to find out the name of what is wrong with my left foot. Apparently quite common among people of, ahem, a certain age.
And the cure (taken five years to find out ) is - to stick a lump of foam in my shoes under my heel.

Five years ago they were telling me it was 'Aquinas'-which also sounds rather mediaeval and important, doesn't it? Except I think I misheard it and it's actually 'Equinus', which means I have a foot like a horse rather than a famous philosopher.

sound world wrote:Instead of a nice flower, it basically means 'dodgy foot'

And the cure (taken five years to find out ) is - to stick a lump of foam in my shoes under my heel.

A year or two ago i was limping around for months with what felt like a bruised heel. Or the sole of the rear of my foot anyway. The condition never improved until i fitted a plastic sole insert and the discomfort vanished within a couple of weeks.

RobB-you had Plantar Fasciitis. Exactly the symptoms. Look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_Fasciitis

oh yeah, so i did.
Mind you, i resent the implication that i had a high body mass index reading.
My BMI has been spot on for years.