Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
So what my physio had said is that that nerve can get trapped/damaged by having your heel pointed in and toes out. And would be advisable to keep your heel as close to the outside of the foot well and your toes pointed in to operate the pedals. 🤷 I’m just a mason who never finished highschool. Idfk if that’s legit or not. She’s like…26, but went to school for physiotherapy, so I guess she probably knows better than me.
Yeeeesh! Yeah. That’s… that’s definitely a reason to get a new Dr.
Half my life ago I was doing…alllllll the drugs. At levels and mixes that quite honestly should have killed me. Of the friend group I had at that time, 7 of us, there’s myself and one other that aren’t dead, or been in the clink for 15 years and looking at a minimum of another 20.
When I saw the way I was headed, after the first of our group had died, and while I was serving a frankly very lenient non-custodial criminal sentence, I detoxed off coke/crack, meth and heroin (smoked not injected) all at the same time.
I can tell you, not exactly how bad or in what way, it’s gonna suck. I really really feel for you. Just make sure you follow advice on how to safely come off it, there’s a lot of drugs, legal and not, that can easily kill you if you just stop taking them.
Be safe fam.
So I’m in the UK, and while there’s a bit of leeway to see a GP that’s not in your catchment area, the next closest to where I live is really far. Also it’s not really the GP’s fault. They’re required to follow protocol dictated by the NHS. He walked me through it. There’s a program, you punch in the symptoms, follow the questions down the flow chart, it gives you a likely cause. Things like the intensive testing I’ve been told to try and get? He’s really just not authorised to refer me for that. We’ve had quite a long chat about it, and it really just isn’t something that he’s able to do. That would have to be something that a specialist sends me for. I’ve been on the waiting list for 25 weeks, so only 20ish more to go.
The results of decades of underfunded health care systems…
This…fuck…my DUDE!
So up until Tuesday I was driving and hour into work and, due to traffic, my way back would be minimum an hour and a half, but sometimes up to 3 hours if everything is fucked. I had considered that I might have a similar issue, mostly from not having cruise control and how I position my leg/foot while driving on the highway. Haven’t had a chance to look at the videos yet, but I suspect that they’re either the same, or very similar, exercises that my physio has had me doing.
I’ve not been at it long, so I’ll give it time to cook. And, as of Tuesday I’ve switched depot, so my commute is now a 15min bus ride, with a ~5mins walk on either side of it, so hopefully that’ll help too…
✊ fuck yeah! Keep it going!
It’s a sign of her patience and character that she put up with my _ball_istic attitude… actually… she’s a fucking saint for putting up with me before all this went down…
People jokingly call their partner their better half. She’s literally the best thing that ever happened to me. Also weeeelllllll out of my league.
#blessed or some shit
Ohhhhh… that’d definitely be a hard yes.
I’m on a lengthy wait list for the NHS urologist, so I went private. Paid £300 for a pleasant man in his 50s to fondle me for about 3mins, and to say nothing wrong anymore, whatever it was has probably passed and it’s your brain not accepting that, so here’s a referral to my equally expensive colleague for an initial consultation for chronic pain management. GP isn’t authorised to refer me for the more extensive tests that might show something wrong. Wife and I are going private for IVF, so we’ve been seeing a bunch of private specialists trying to get the best chances we can for that. Every one of them has recommended a semen culture test…
The tests I was given by the GP were all urine based, but if it’s a low level infection in the tubes from the tests I was given wouldn’t have shown anything. And if it’s, say antibiotic resistant, then the several courses of heavy duty antibiotics would have done exactly fuck all… it’s a motherfucker.
Honestly? Kinda wish it was like… fucking cancer, or a torsion, or fucking something I could point to and be like: THAT’S the issue, let’s work it out.
Totally. I replied to another comment saying basically the same thing. Check that one if you want some over sharing.
I suppose that’s fair. Just so far outside my personal experience, guess that’s a me issue…not a reality issue.
I’ve had mystery testicular pain since June last year. After minimal testing they’ve basically said:
🤷 Chronic pain? Take drugs.
Incredibly bitter? ✅
Massive depression? ✅
Trying to push my wife and friends away? ✅
Wife wasn’t having it, I’d say that we’re closer now?
Obviously not a common thing.
I’m sorry. Who the fucking fuck breaks up a marriage because their partner was blinded by using what they assumed was a safe product?
Beyond the fact that they were blinded in the first place, this bothers me almost as much as everything else put together.
FFS… I’m so sorry.
Considering the rampant gerrymandering, the fucked system that’s the electoral college, this past election having widespread voter intimidation, destruction of mail-in ballot collection boxes…was the last one a legit election? How long has it been since there was one?
I mean…nooooo…but yes, but still also hard no
Isn’t the USPS required to fund employee benefits/pension 75 years ahead of time, meaning they’re funding employees who haven’t been born yet?
The aforementioned detox was cold turkey, and I absolutely get how hard it must have been. When you have your new team as support, it might be helpful to give a trusted person a bulk of your meds to be given back on an agreed schedule. Might make sticking to weening off easier. Knowing you only have a set amount until the next time would help me(personally) to not go over what the arranged lower dose is, with the assurance that it is actually available if you say… accidentally dropped half a week’s worth down the sink drain opening the container. Which has absolutely happened to me with antibiotics once.