OneGuyFromBarlick

Stanley, looking back at your 8 March posts you were up and posting at 04.12. The next post where you reported feeling unwell was 7 hours later at 11.12. Did you eat anything during that time? If not then it was a long fast and low blood sugar would be a likely result.

Breakfast at 07:00 Peter as usual.
Thanks for taking the trouble to think about it. I think it's just one more of those little glitches we have to put up with. As you well know, getting old isn't for cissies!

Do as I do and keep some jelly babies handy. I have one of those small Vaseline tins with a few in it and carry it with me when I'm out of the house. I often get low blood sugar and start feeling weak but a jelly baby is a quick cure. My athletic relatives swear by them!

I remember the youngest member of our coast to coast bike ride team hitting low blood sugar one Sunday on one of our training rides. Perfectly fit strapping young lad. He hit the low two miles out of Wigglesworth on a minor incline about 12 miles from home. No breakfast before setting out! Jelly Babies and a Mars bar to the rescue got him home. On the ride itself the entire team hit the same barrier 10 miles short of our day two target, problem there is that we had run out of sacrificial supplies!

I often get low blood sugar and start feeling weak but a jelly baby is a quick cure.

And I bet you bite their heads off first.

In my cycling days known as The knock I think we've mentioned it before. I was unaware of blood sugar levels - just that I struggled to get up Mottram Cutting in 1957.

I like the German version "der Mann mit dem Hammer" No translation needed.

I knew it well in my cycling days. We Used to call it 'Bonk' and the little cotton bags we used to carry the sugar boosters were called 'Bonk Bags'.

Keeping an eye on the mRNA vaccine debate part of the discussion is moving away from the efficacy itself but the way its administered. The normal way of administering the vaccine is by inter-muscular injection usually the deltoid shoulder muscle. The active nano particles then slowly diffusing into the system. The concern is now if the needle has punctured through to a venus blood supply then the vaccine will be delivered directly into the system causing possible overload. The recommendation is the initial entry is aspirated, plunger partially withdrawn, to see if blood is present. Also that the injection itself is done slowly to aid the diffusion.

I know nothing about injection procedure but Mrs P says that all this was standard practice in her days. Why all this fuss is being made three years into the programme I don't know but it wants closing down as quickly as possible.

plaques wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023, 11:26 I often get low blood sugar and start feeling weak but a jelly baby is a quick cure.
And I bet you bite their heads off first.

Quality has suffered and it's now often difficult to tell which is the head end. They don't make 'em like they used to!

Defective jelly babies...... Shock Horror! This sounds like a serious health threat.

I read today that Night Nurse (amongst others) is to be taken off the market immediately. It seems for two reasons.

1. Contains pholcodine which may cause anaphylactic shock in patients undergoing surgery.

Products being withdrawn include ones made by Day & Night Nurse and Covonia — as well as own-brand versions sold in Boots and Superdrug.Medical regulators have withdrawn the medicines from the UK market 'as a precaution following a review', it emerged today.
The review found the benefits of pholcodine-containing cough and cold medicines 'do not outweigh the increased risk of the very rare event of anaphylaxis'.Pholcodine is mostly found in household cough syrups and the recall includes syrups and lozenges which are on shelves across the country.

2. Contains pseudoephedrine -
It is one of the number of drugs that could be binned after a small number of patients have been struck down with rare conditions.
Medical regulators are ‘reviewing available evidence’ to see if the rules on selling pseudoephedrine need to change, it has been reported by the Pharmaceutical Journal.Bosses are set to make a decision due to a number of patients being struck down with two rare conditions – both of which can cause strokes.


This was the result of my personal experience of its use -

It's a "good day to release bad news" (Lineker, Budget - WWIII etc) and I'm sure we'll hear more - including a comparison with the side effects, and the speed of response, compared to that of Covid "vaccines"

Good God David! Is nothing sacred? I caught the rail end of the announcement on the radio but wasn't certain what it was referring to. I've been taking Covonia for most of my life and Night Nurse has come to the rescue at times as well.
(Do you think Lemon, Honey and Glycerine is safe?)

I've just self diagnosed with mild prosopagnosia'. Seems it is becomng more common as a component of Long Covid

How else can I explain the fact that Lisa Nandy seems to be sitting next to the Chancellor whilst he delivers the budget speech.

Well done. I had to look it up and I have to say that I have suspected I have had this ailment for many years. I have always attributed this as most likely being because I am not interested enough in other people but wouldn't like that to be true.
The medical matter that has been drawing my attention lately is that both my daughters and two of my grand children are unwell and I am in better condition than I have been for a while. This is not the way it should be. All I can do is hope for the best.

Tripps wrote: ↑15 Mar 2023, 13:15 I've just self diagnosed with mild prosopagnosia'. Seems it is becoming more common as a component of Long Covid

Excess deaths debate still rumbles on after the initial variants have mutated to less serious covid-19 variants. People are still dying from something that's been going on. Thankfully not mild prosopagnosia. The government is not offering up any explanation as to why we still have excess deaths. This of course leads to all sorts of conspiracy theories ie: is it a result of Covid itself in which case excess deaths may continue for as long as the virus is endemic, or is it due to the vaccine which may be self correcting as its use is withdrawn.

Everybody has to make up their own minds on the subject but lack of information is always concerning.

After lots of blood tests I'm off to the Infusion Suite at Burnley hospital next week for more tests, I'm starting to look like a pin cushion
A bit of research and I've found somewhere to park a short walk away, recently all the hospital car parks have been full whenever I've been.

No blood donors for you then Kev for a while! I hope all is OK.

PanBiker wrote: ↑16 Mar 2023, 15:23 No blood donors for you then Kev for a while! I hope all is OK.

The anticoagulants put paid to blood donations unfortunately. Nothing too serious Ian, I have something causing a hormone imbalance that they're trying to get to the bottom of, there's a few options to choose from which involve various tests and scans. Can't fault the NHS for the service so far

I hope they can sort you out, best of luck Kev.

They have a couple of scenarios. Worst case is surgery or, depending on the out come of the tests and the MRI, could just be more drugs. I'm sure I must be rattling by now

All the best Kev.

Big Kev wrote: ↑16 Mar 2023, 18:00 I must be rattling by now

Tell me about it. . . .

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Doctor Nurse John Campbell's latest video is worth a look. Poor chap looks a broken man. Much of what he has assumed and depended on in medical publishing and ethics seems to be crumbling.

Tripps wrote: ↑16 Mar 2023, 19:25 Doctor Nurse John Campbell's latest video is worth a look. Poor chap looks a broken man. Much of what he has assumed and depended on in medical publishing and ethics seems to be crumbling.

He relies on quoting /posting peer review papers that appear to have all the legitimacy of the latest science. Then everything goes belly up when the official line appears to be driven by $s rather than science. No wonder he is upset.

Started listening to his discussion with Professor Robert Clancy on immunity 1hr 24 mins. Too much to take in all at once I shall have to spread it out a bit.

As I commented the other day, I seem to be in as good nick as I have been in for the last few weeks. Buggered knee but beyond that no complaints. Then I read the posts above and wonder whether there are advantages to be gained from being uninterested in listening to informed medical debate. The main thing that has struck me about the 'Long Covid' ailments that are making Susan and Mick's lives so difficult is that nobody is sure what can be done about any of them.
Being a simple minded bugger when it comes to medical matters I hold to the old saw, "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise". .... I have no explanation for why I feel so well!

Stanley wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 02:59 The main thing that has struck me about the 'Long Covid' ailments that are making Susan and Mick's lives so difficult is that nobody is sure what can be done about any of them.

After about 30 mins into the discussion and after explaining that immunity is far far more complicated a system than one would imagine they started on 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and its similarity to Long Covid. At this point my eyes glazed over and I gave in for the night.
Ignorance may be bliss but it doesn't help to make informed judgements.

I'm coming to the conclusion that before you see a doctor you are better off knowing what's wrong with you.

Andrew Bridgen MP is asking a question about vaccine injuries. He is very concerned about the matter. He called for the vaccine progamme to be stopped.

So am I - and I've yet to reach a conclusion on the matter. I'm far from it.

I know it's Friday afternoon, but there is not a single MP of any party on the benches opposite. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Some will say he's not worth listening to at all. I don't know.

The Minister - Will Quince - read out very carefully prepared reply. They then moved that the 'House do adjourn' -and with what seemed to me to be indecent haste picked up their mace and scuttled off. No chance for Bridgen to challenge anything he said.

Here's a picture of the Commons this afternoon. Mother of Parliaments - envy of the world (Sorry that's the NHS )
In contrast this is the French Parliament yesterday. You can almost smell the tear gas and burning cars which occurred nearby.
Aux armes, citoyens!
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!

PS Drifting dangerously off topic, but it has to be noted that the British system has been criticised for being too confrontational - each side two sword lengths apart, and the French in a semi circle are thought to be in a more co-operative environment.