A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Doesn't matter what I use in the bath or the shower at the moment, certain parts of my body hate it. Everywhere else is fine and then the bits I mentioned before get set off, hands and feet get the worst of it. So it's cream on the minute I'm out and dried off.

I have another steroid I'm to use on the chest patches at the moment...but then it's steroids, so I need to wash it off the hands afterwards, and then I have to deal with the hands freaking out at the soap. Mind you if it clears the chest patches up then I'll do it, lol.
 
I took a closer look at Ser Spider (since they only appear in the evenings) to try and get a better gauge of what this ogre of a spider is. 100% regret, Ser Spider is massive. Also then looked up photos of house spiders, found an image of one shedding. I can't really repeat what I said in response to that.

I know better than this. Why do I do these things?!
 
Thank goodness @Betsy is away for the wknd
I read that spiders can live for weeks without eating 😬
I’d keep out of Ser spider’s way and hopefully he’ll keep out of yours 😂
 
Roselina said:
Thank goodness @Betsy is away for the wknd
I read that spiders can live for weeks without eating 😬
I’d keep out of Ser spider’s way and hopefully he’ll keep out of yours 😂
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I may be away for the weekend but I have lots of data on my phone and all this talk about spiders shedding and stuff is just :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
 
What is worse than getting someone guinea pigs as a surprise? Getting someone (who currently has a dog and three gp) six chicks. I’m going to help the mother and daughter with the birds, but I’m not happy. I’m just glad we have a lot of people in the area with coops, and I know more about poultry than gp.
 
Spending the morning cursing. A wander round a garden centre and a touch of potting plants at a comfortable height. Even managed on just 3 doses of codeine, it was an amazing day. Fast forward to today and I am in agony again. Clearly I just need to stay home from now on ☹️ only another 16-18 weeks to go 😭
 
Had a busy two days. Baking, painting and gardening etc so I'm just looking through the photos taken. I'm glad I'm in the photos because obviously its memories and things but all I see is how elephant sized I look (to me at least). I see how I shouldn't have leant like that, how holding my head that way looks like I have no neck...
 
You know I'm glad my windows are getting replaced, because now it's not just my bedroom window that's leaking, there's a pane leaking in the goblins room, plus the other two in the bottom row in there are looking suspicious too. 2023, windows leaking like this.
 
I hope you get you windows fitted soon @Lorcan . Ours should to be here at the end of the month.

Our roof tiles were taken off on Thursday and new felt put down. The roofers disappeared and didn't come back. The high winds have pulled the new felt up and stretched it, rain is getting in the loft, we have buckets everywhere. The roofers weren't answering their phones all weekend, finally got hold of the boss today. He came and looked, wasn't a bit concerned and went away again. We are not impressed, this company used to have a good name locally. 2 of our opposite neighbours are looking to have their roofs done too but watching how this company have gone about things they have been crossed off the list of people to ask for estimates. Who the heck takes a roof off when they know they aren't going to be working for 4 days? We are afraid to go out the backdoor as they have left rubbish on top of the scaffolding which is blowing down. We haven't slept for 4 nights because the noise in the roof is so loud and we are worried about what is going on. Now I know why I have been putting this off for 10 years.
 
Ridiculous isn't it? Worst I had was when the leak in the upper balcony above my flat wasn't fixed because they took the old asphalt off when it was spitting then couldn't put new stuff down again because...it was raining. Like 4 days before Christmas 2015. Boxing Day flooding did an absolute number on everything and then my neighbour took it out on me because, well, why not. That was a long holiday period.

I'd be reporting your lot of cowboys to the council or, well, anyone else. It's not on and there's zero good reason for it, especially since it could end up leaving you further out of pocket because of their negligence.
 
Many photos have been taken in case they are needed for insurance purposes! It's embarrassing because they have taken a row of tiles and a ridge tile off each house either side to tuck our felt in to join us all up. I hope to goodness they aren't getting water in as well. The same people are doing one of these houses next week, spoke to the neighbour this morning and she hasn't signed anything so she is watching what happens here, she may decide to tell them not to bother!
 
I'm just hoping they give me decent notice for the windows so I can sort out something for the goblins. He did say he'd get the upstairs windows done first so it's less of a problem, worst case scenario they sit in a carrier, on top of the sofa, next to the radiator for a bit. And thankfully I've only got four windows.
 
@Sar I don’t know that anyone likes themselves in their photos. I know I don’t in some. Try not to out yourself down, that is harder to reviver from when you have a negative view of yourself. I am sure there are at least 4 nice things about you. Maybe list them 🙂

@Lady Kelly sorry you were in pain again. Maybe you can be active but do a lot leas than you think. Hope it passes soon.

@Lorcan interesting you have a different one for your chest. Son was given one for face and neck although neck is clear and he’s never had it on face. Review tomorrow 🤞🏾
 
Siikibam said:
@Lorcan interesting you have a different one for your chest. Son was given one for face and neck although neck is clear and he’s never had it on face. Review tomorrow 🤞🏾
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It's agreed that the elbows, scalp, face, head, neck, shins, knees - that's all psoriasis. The chest, however, is one we keep having arguments about because it doesn't look like the rest of it does. That said, if you'll excuse my being blunt - it's under my breasts. It's never going to have the same "dry" look the rest of it does, so they keep insisting, well, it might be fungal.

Any argument that it might be fungal though...I got that cream on Thursday. Antifungal with a steroid, and you know what? It's cleared right up. It's still there but a week ago it was angry, inflamed looking, itchy, the works. Now, it's closer to pink scarring. No fungal infection clears that quickly.

But I've no doubt the argument will happen again, because the argument always happens again.
 
Sorry you can’t seem to agree on what it is. Maybe it’s the steroid that’s cleared it rather than the anti fungal part of it? In any case I hope you can find a long term solution that manages it!
 
Lorcan said:
It's agreed that the elbows, scalp, face, head, neck, shins, knees - that's all psoriasis. The chest, however, is one we keep having arguments about because it doesn't look like the rest of it does. That said, if you'll excuse my being blunt - it's under my breasts. It's never going to have the same "dry" look the rest of it does, so they keep insisting, well, it might be fungal.

Any argument that it might be fungal though...I got that cream on Thursday. Antifungal with a steroid, and you know what? It's cleared right up. It's still there but a week ago it was angry, inflamed looking, itchy, the works. Now, it's closer to pink scarring. No fungal infection clears that quickly.

But I've no doubt the argument will happen again, because the argument always happens again.
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I’m pleased the cream has worked so well. Couldn’t they just do a quick skin scraping?
 
weepweeps said:
I’m pleased the cream has worked so well. Couldn’t they just do a quick skin scraping?
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They could, but they haven't. They'd tried with several antifungals before, then I had a skin infection (bacterial) in the same place, THEN discovered two days later the antibiotics were making me boke. Had to see a doc at a walk in clinic who was then insistent "no no that looks like fungal I don't know why any doctor would've told you otherwise" (two days of antibiotics can do that, which a doctor would know if he had any brains left) and I lost my temper over the whole thing because he gave me an antifungal prescription I'd already told him had been tried and done zilch.
Through some massive hoops and I finally got seeing my own GP that afternoon, who swapped the antibiotics to one I could tolerate, and then agreed with me only one antifungal had ever "worked", and what was special about it? It also had hydrocortisone. On the balance of probabilities, it was the steroid doing the work, not the antifungal.

Every time they start on "antifungals" at this point I just roll my eyes. Psoriasis on the chest is hardly uncommon, especially when you've got psoriasis elsewhere (like...everywhere else). If it wasn't for surgery purposes I'd be making more of a scene over it. Right now though I've got other priorities.

(sorry, that was a rant and a half)
 
Have you ever tried light therapy? I know someone who suffered so bad with psoriasis. It was everywhere. It has completely gone for now. When it comes back (and it will) they will definitely do that again. Also my mother in law has a rare type of skin cancer which looks like a rash. That was also in remission at the moment with light therapy.
 
I have wondered, but where it is is just awkward. Scalp, elbows, hands sure, but the chest, it's in a place it's never going to dry out and/or produce the normal scaling you see with psoriasis. Which is also why it manages to look fungal, there's no escaping that.

That said, once they're gone? It won't "fix" the problem, but it'll get rid of a good 95% of it.
 
Had to pop over to Verwood this morning to see someone who lives the other side of Verwood to where I live. This usually takes around 30 minutes. It was fine on the way there, but I decided I'd go a different way home as going there was an accident on the A31 going westbound and a lot of cars were diverting through Verwood meaning there were bad delays going Westbound on both routes. I was happily going home on a different route when there was a queue of traffic and someone turned round in front of me. They were telling other drivers in the queue that no one was getting through as there had been an accident in the queue for roadworks and the road was blocked. So I had to turn round and go back the way I'd come, go down a little country lane adjacent to the road I'd just taken, wait at the queue at the roadworks (3 way lights) before I found myself on the road I should have been on originally. Having taken an 12 mile (or thereabouts) diversion to do half a mile, I eventually got home. The journey took me well over an hour. I hope nobody was seriously hurt in the accidents but it all made for a very frustrating morning.
 
I've just had a really strong craving for a smoke. Not nicotine, it's because of a habit I used to have playing a specific videogame that I hadn't played since before I quit. And my brain wants to roll and smoke exactly like I used to with this particular game.

These happen, don't get me wrong, but the strength of this one is weird.
 
It’s good you’re resisting though. I guess you associated it with that particular game so playing it would have gone hand in hand with a roll and smoke.
 
It was the only time I read the Codex - I'd pause the game, roll the smoke, and then have said smoke while reading through the unread Codex entries. It's the habit I miss, I play the game with a controller so I couldn't really play and smoke. It just hit me as I was playing a bit ago - THAT'S what I was missing.
If I ever trip up on this, it won't be because of the nicotine. It'll be because I want to do something like pause and read the codex.

(no smokes in the house and I'm not planning on buying any, just weirded out by how strong the urge is)
 
We call them Nicotine Gremlins in our house, and they are noisy little b's (as I'm sure you know from giving up...). They get weaker if you don't feed them but I don't think they ever really die, they'll take any opportunity they can get for a meal! You're doing a great job viewing this so dispassionately, it's so easy to trip up 👍🏻
 
It's part of the reason I'm so adamant I won't quit vaping. I've done the nicotine part, but if I had to do both? No I'd probably be back on the smokes already, instead of vaping cola tip-top flavoured juice like I'm not 35 years old, lol.
 
poggle said:
We call them Nicotine Gremlins in our house, and they are noisy little b's (as I'm sure you know from giving up...). They get weaker if you don't feed them but I don't think they ever really die, they'll take any opportunity they can get for a meal! You're doing a great job viewing this so dispassionately, it's so easy to trip up 👍🏻
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I agree with this. I was only ever a social smoker so, in reality, if I weren't so old I would never have smoked because I wouldn't have been doing with going outside the pubs and clubs for a smoke 😂 I started at a time of life where I had a high level of stress from getting out of an abusive relationship and getting randomly assaulted by some drunk bloke because I didn't know which train was his. Even now, nearly 20 years later, if I go through a really stressful time I get that little pang that just reminds me that's how I cope with stress.
 
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