Depression

Had my x-ray, just need to make appointment to see Dr i about 10days.

Saw physio this afternoon with my knee (difficult to go without it ), she was very happy and has asked me not to darken her door again.

Just wait till she sees your hip, pompa!

If it is the bursitis the GP thinks, I wont have to see her. I think they inject some sort of goop.

Goop? Steroid with a local anaesthetic! Goop indeed!
Shuffles off muttering.

Goop is the technical term for Steroid with a local anaesthetic.

Three cheers for goop! Glad that your knee is fit for discharge - that is good news.

i hope you get gooped soon Pompa.

Has your queasiness passed Mishap?

At really low place tonight. Trying to fight back but without much success. Feel really sick and shaky. Anxiety or depression whatever, it's the worst feeling. Hope all going through hard times get some uplift in spirits soon.

NFKDumpling.
"i hope you get gooped soon Pompa."

Now if that were
"i hope you get groped soon Pompa."
it would really cheer me up.

Crafting, just try to be positive that this low period will break soon.

Crafting - I do so sympathise with you. It is indeed the worst thing, and so hard to describe and get a grip on. I have found that when I am in that sick and shaky phase it sometimes helps just to walk around. My theory is that some of the feeling is because there is too much of our fight/flight chemicals floating about when they shouldn't be, and that moving around uses some of this up so that it can no longer make us feel quite so ill.

Ruby Wax would say you should stop what you are doing and focus your whole mind on your breathing - just observing it to the exclusion of all else - not easy and I find my mind keeps wandering, but I just draw it back to my breathing - I have been finding this helpful. The theory is that while you are concentrating on that there is no room in your mind for any black thoughts. Worth a try - anything is worth giving a go when you feel so rotten.

When you are trying to "fight back" it helps to have some ammunition up your sleeve.

Stay strong.

Pompa, Mishap, thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. I will try concentrating on the breathing as you suggest Mishap. Still got the shakes this morning but am trying to eat a little. I will probably feel a bit better when it is lighter. These dark mornings bring me down too.

crafting morning! I also hate the dark mornings (though I don't suffer from depression or anxiety). Sometimes when it's too much for me to remain "in the dark" I turn every light in the house on. Even if it's just for a little while, it makes me feel better. Perhaps it gives me a sense of power over the darkness.

for all, even if it is only virtual.

Many people to a greater or lesser extent are affected by the low light levels of our winters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

www.sad.org.uk/buying-a-sad-light/

Crafting,if you feel this may be part of the problem try to get all the light you can, if that helps you might want to consider a SAD light.

The SAD lights start at £100 - £150 expensive. but if they work, well worth the outlay.

pompa - hip bursitis improves with Yoga, just like all the other inflammations and irritations do. Plus, you get to focus on your breathing so following the advice from Mishap (and Ruby Wax)

I'm not being paid to promote yoga - but it's certainly helped hip bursitis and other horrible aches and niggles. The problem with chronic pain is it can lower the mood, can't it

I never considered bursitis as a cause of my hip pain until yesterday. Googled it and found that ice could help -WOW, I had a pain free night, it is still very sore, but it did not keep me awake.

You may well be right regarding yoga, but "yoga" and "pompa" are not words I would have put in the same sentence

Well, it could be Poga, we have Moga classes nearby (men's yoga) and some bright spark has been talking about Doga (for dogs of course, can't imagine my two being any good at that)

I was relieved to find mine was bursitis, and not a crumbling hip as I'd feared. It was painful for some months, the physio used acupuncture, and I did the exercises as instructed. It went away, but the foot inflammation seems to have set it off again, though it's nothing like a uncomfortable.

Keep up the posts pompa - maybe you could try botox in the hip, being a mere man, you may not feel able to comment on botox though

I found yoga helped me when I had a particularly painful bout of sciatica. It was worth getting up an hour earlier before work to do the excercises and make plenty of time for showering dressing etc.

Hope everyone feels better this morning.

Update - took a small amount of the sertraline yesterday at mid-day and woke in SVT (bad heart rhythm) at midnight - we managed to get it back into a normal state (splashing cold water on me, sticking fingers down throat to make me gag etc. - all great fun), but I am having small runs of SVT all the time this morning. Sertraline was the only anti-d that was deemed to be safe with my funny heart, so it looks as though I will have to try and battle this through some other way - I cannot risk setting my heart off as it is so very unpleasant and stressful which is the last thing I need.

However, there is humour to be found anywhere I guess - I woke with the problem and poked my OH and said "Ticker is dicky" and he roused himself from the depths of his sleeping-tablet induce slumber and said "What? tickle my f***y!" Hmmm.

Crafting virtual from me too.

Definitely try to keep food intake up. Getting weak from lack of food will not help.

Have you seen the doctor about it btw?

(That was to Crafting)

Mishap - how are you and what did your GP say?

GP said to stop taking it; and if I was feeling exceptionally brave to try again with a tiny dose in a week. He thinks there is likely to be a causal relationship. I am disinclined to try again - just knowing that I might trigger off heart problems negates any value that taking it might have.

I am between a rock and hard place, and really need to get the heart investigations sorted before risking taking anything else. It is very trying.

Just put off DD and son from coming round because they have colds - I feel bad about that, but I think that getting a cold would be the last straw at present.

Crafting - are you feeling any better this morning? I do hope so.