I get mefenamic acid prescribed. It seriously helps with the cramps. Plus it has the added advantage of making my period go away. Which is nice. Especially since I've been on for the last four months *sigh* Thought it might go away on it's own, but have resorted to the horse-pills.
However... There is one great thing for PMT.
CHOCOLATE
Yup, it's good for you. Officially. It contains Magnesium, which helps with the PMT, and Iron, just in case you're getting anaemic. It also has a cocktail of chemicals that give you that nice inner-glow feeling of being in love... Seratonin? Something like that. Someone will know. It's also got caffiene and sugar in it for a little energy booster.
As if we needed an excuse...
So far not broken anything... Well, fractured my heel ice skating, but that's not really a break, just a crack.
I've dislocated my fibula playing darts (don't ask- was told "you can't dislocate that!" I still managed it), torn all the ligaments in both ankles at various points through falling out of trees and off a train once, and have been scraped off the pavement more than once with concussion (not always drink related). I've sliced my finger nearly to the bone with a knife trying to cut butter, skinned the side of my finger from knuckle to tip and shattered a nail with a hammer while puting an eyelet in canvas (sat there, looked at it, and commented "well, that's not good"), sliced another finger on a rotating blade, severely bruised my leg falling off a chair (bruise was about 7 inches round and it wasn't my fault... Honest) and have various scars from being an accident-prone child (my knees were just scabs with no skin for most of my pre-teen years, and for some of my teenage ones too, come to think of it...)
I was once told that statistically, in this country, redheads are more accident-prone. I think I proved that one over the last *coughthirtyfivecough* years...
Just look at television ads... There's one for a loan company where there's a bloke, tall, slightly spreading round the midriff, could do with a step closer to the razor... His bird is one of those twiglets with the nicely done hair, make-up, tidy clothes...
Why are we the ones that have to make the effort when the guys seem to get away with the trophy beer gut, bed-hair (not attractive unless I make it that way), scruffy trainers, jeans that haven't seen the inside of a washing machine for a week and have no clue what an iron looks like...
Nuff said...
All I'm getting is the greyed out bit before chat loads properly... It won't load. Then if I try and click out of it, I get the "already there" bit...
Bah humbug... Will keep trying till it works or I get cheesed and go to bed.
Why? Because they can. There's no strict breeding programme in this country for those who can produce offspring whenever they wish (or whenever they have that accident that leads to it, or are careless/ignorant/stupid/teenage and doing it because it's seen as cool to have an STD by the time they're 14/after a council house) There is however a strict (Ish) breeding programme for those who are unable to nip out, have sex and get pregnant.
Feel free to explain to me why a smoker has to be "clean" for a year while a meth addict doesn't.
Feel free to explain to me why some babies have to go through that detox process, why it is inflicted on them by parents who obviously won't do it themselves, but are quite happy to pass it on to the defenceless outcome of the stupidest decision about their fertility treatment options.
If you're not going to care enough to give up X (pick your substance of choice), you can't have a kid. Simple.
We smokers (ex-smoker. Two and a half weeks and counting. It doesn't make you live longer, it just feels like it) have to give up to give any possible offspring from IVF the best chance of being a viable pregancy and healthy babies, so why the F**K am I sat here reading this S**T about how we should be nice to Meth addicts who don't have to give up anything?
To use your hypothetical and ansewer the question with a request: Show me absolute proof that there is no short or long term psychological or physical damage done to a baby who has to go through withdrawal symptoms.
Would I rather that person didn't exist? Unfair question, and an attempt to emotionally hijack the advantage.
Let me ask you another question: If you had a choice between funding fertility treatment for a couple who were infertile from cancer treatments or a couple Meth addicts, which would you choose? How about the choice between those who are infertile because of PCOS as opposed to having extremely low fertility because of a Heroin/Meth addiction? A choice between someone who is infertile but 10lb over the BMI of 20 to 25 listed as being one of the criteria for IVF or a Meth addict?
"Probably not nice for a baby to have to withdraw from Methadone"? What planet are you on? What withdrawals do normal adults have to go through but have the advantage of being able to tell you that it's the spiders crawling the walls that makes them scream out, or the feeling that their veins are filled with fire or ice that makes them shake? Why would it be any different for a tiny infant who has been subjected to those same drugs for up to nine months?
If you can give me a sensible answer as to why, if the safety of the adult and the child are taken into consideration before treatment, that Meth addicts can have treatment while others with no such dependancies cannot, simply for being too young (under 36 here) too fat (BMI of over 25) too old (over 39) or any number of other hoops that people have to jump through, I will see your point. Currently it is escaping me.
I won't be watching... My view is that there should only ever have been one series, or one, then shelve it till people forget what it was all about. That way you're not just getting the weirdos, wannabes and w**kers, the brain-dead, chavtastic slice of British grown-up (allegedly) population smearing themselves across the media like a bad case of Marmite (YUK! Can't stand Marmite, and hate people who are famous just for being on one of those stupid reality shows)
Series one: No one really knew what was going to happen, no one in the house or sitting watching really knew what to expect. Good programming and a brilliant idea.
Now: Everyone wants to get in the house (apologies to deancannock) just to be famous, do the stupid crap they're made to do and generally make loads of cash from the spinoff "celeb" stuff that follows on the heels. Overplayed, overblown, overhyped trash masquerading as "good programming".
Yeah, I've seen it. I've been subjected to watching it when I go round to the neighbours. If I wanted to watch idiots, chavs and people with severe social diseases, I'd go stand out the front on a Saturday night. I choose to do other things with my time.
I just had to have my tuppence worth here...
Having read everything, it seems people are getting hung up on the whole Meth v Heroin debate and missing a vital point: According to the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) guidelines, anyone wishing to have IVF *MUST* be informed that smoking decreases the chances of success and our local PCT states that you *must* be a non-smoker for at least one year before being permitted treatment funded by the PCT.
That's both parents, not just the prospective mother. And that's just the smoking side. There's plenty more conditions that you must fill.
It comes down to what the PCT will or will not fund. The guidelines that they work to give a general overview, stating that alcohol, caffiene, niccotiene and prescribed, over the counter or recreational drugs can affect the outcome and decrease success rates. The PCT then decides what hoops it will place in the path of prospective parents for them to jump through in order to keep within their budgets.
Obviously this lucky duo live in an area where their PCT can afford to fund their IVF treatment, where others in other areas have to be a certain age, certain weight, be a non-smoker for a year and a dozen other things to go along with it before it will even be considered.
OK, so smoking isn't completely harmless, but it's not a prescribed medication that is a *direct substitute* for an incredibly addictive, illegal substance. As far as I am aware, the only difference in effect between meth and heroin for the user is the way you obtain it. Plus it's cheaper. Plus people on benefits get free prescriptions, although I'm not sure if that's true for substances like meth. Someone will enlighten me on that score I hope. It's still bloody dangerous and bloody stupid as far as my feelings go.
If someone is that desperate to have children, why are they not prepared to make the saccrifices needed to give them the best chance of bringing a healthy, addiction-free child into the world? I am determined to quit smoking so I can perhaps have that chance. I am determined to make the saccrifices needed to jump through those hoops, as are others, so why are people like us sitting here like absolute lemons, doing all this stuff and then having to read about some couple who would never be allowed the chance to adopt a child because of their addiction, get the treatment that we so desperately want but can't have?
Someone used the phrase "loony liberals" and it's a sad fact. We live in a society where people who want kids, who are happy to make the lifestyle changes, who work, earn, pay taxes, have a stable relationship and who have tried and failed to have natural births have to sit back and watch this sort of thing happen. Why? Because some "poor ex addict has a right to have children the same as everyone else does". Yeah right. On meth, they're not ex-anything. They just live in the right place.
Sorry... I didn't read the article. I'm too cross. Wherever they live, are there any houses for sale? I'm thinking of moving...
Silly question then:
Would it be possible to have an additional search criteria that you can stipulate last online time, such as "Last online?" with a dropdown of a week, month, six weeks etc?
Hmmm...
Had a drink with Suzie Quattro's keyboard player after a gig.
My Aunt is one of the "Tartan Noir" writers and has had a couple of bestsellers
I played "New York" for Princess Di when I was in the school band and she and Charles were visiting for Games day. (Highland games that is!)
My great uncle wrote the flight manuals for Concorde.
I used to play sax and I was a drummer in a 17th century reenactment society. Got on telly a couple of times doing that.
I have a hole in my leg big enough to fit the bottom of a beer can in.
Have made a cup of tea and had a chat with Lord Atlee. Someone told me who he was afterwards...
My ankles do weird things. I can sit with my legs out straight with my feet flat together.
My dad married me first time round (He was the registrar) so I have his signature on that and my birth certificate.
Can't think of anything else right now...
I used to have a load of cookery books, but I gave them all away as they were just taking up space and gathering dust. I do however have a couple left that get brought out for specific things, and one, which is my own recipe book.
I copied some of the bits out of my mother's own recipe book, and I have some great stuff in there, from the richest fruitcake I have ever seen ( you need to get your hands in to get all the fruit covered by the cake mix there's that much in it) to sweets that we used to make for christmas. I also have a great recipe for the biggest, fattest, richest chocolate cake out. (PM me for the recipe if you want to go in for a bit of "genocide by chocolate").
I make a lot of savoury stuff to taste though. A bit of this, a pinch of that, add something else that I think will work, and hey presto... People ask me for the recipes and I have to tell them I can't remember what I put in it half the time. I've started writing some of them down though, so I'm improving gradually.
Hmm... Anyone for a Swinging Heaven Online Cookbook?
The very worst bit is when you flick through the cams to see who's there, see one of the guys mentioned, flick off to another cam, then get the leery whisper of "Like what you see?"
Actually no. If I did, I wouldn't have flicked off your cam again faster than Lindford Christie with his shorts on fire.
Does anyone else here think that the penis is quite possibly the worst-looking part of a man? I'm more into eyes... although I have to say bums come a close second, but clothed for preference.
Leave a little mystery guys! Half the fun is the discovery later of what you keep in your pants. If you're waving it about on cam, what's left to discover?
Sod the cheque... Mail yourself instead...
I like chat, because I can speak to people in real time. I like the forums, because you can have an informed debate about a question without someone popping in with the "nice tits/pics/underwear" (ooooh, I so know someone's going to be tempted by that) every five minutes.
On the forums you also don't get "let me see more", "go on, take your top off", or the dreaded "want to watch my cam and see me cum?" Ummm... no thanks. I prefer to see it up close, personal and with my hand on it, not yours. Oh, and most of the time, I wouldn't touch it with anyone else's let alone mine...
In chat however, you can usually end up dropping in on some really nice people and getting to know them better than you can with just a few lines on the forums. Plus, there's more impromptu stuff going on and more of the freudian slips that everyone can have a good laugh at.
Anyway, that's just my two cents. I like both...
I'll probably get told of by the dearly beloved (aka chewt0ys) for posting this, but hey ho...
I like to live dangerously, and I do think he has a lovely bum...
South Coast room on server 1... Nice and sociable in there, and there's a lovely rule about no pudding-pulling on cam. I know if I take a sneaky peek at someone's cam in there, I'm not going to see any bad monkeys getting spanked.
It's not the spanking that bothers me too much... But have you seen some of those things? I have to stop chatting because I'm laughing too much to type!
No one complains about miniscule bikinis, skirts that masquerade as wide belts, tops that have less material in than an average pair of knickers, but they get offended at the sight of a baby feeding? I don't get it... Perhaps it's a case of "But I want it for sex. It's not right that it should be used for something else". As naughtynymphos said, it's not like you can see anything anyway, and a baby covers more area than some of the things I've seen women walking around in.
You'll also note that the ones getting most "offended" seem to be male... I don't have kids, but going out with friends with small babies is an education. Some were so intimidated by people glaring that we had to go elsewhere so baby could get it's feed. Not fair at all on the wee ones.
Definitely whispers opening in another window/section of chat... I whisper to friends and me being me, I have trouble with them sometimes and whisper to the wrong person or worse, type to all... Also when you're in a larger room with people coming and going, clicking on just the right name when it's near the bottom of the list is a nightmare, so something to help that would be a bonus, like being able to type "whisper to" and then the name would be a great help. (if this is already an option, please, slap me now).
Multiple cams, and being able to block people from viewing :thumbup: YES PLEASE!
*quick edit before I forget... : some sort of locator so you can find your friends and know where they are would be a definite plus. It might also help mods track down unruly people too (Unless the great Gods of chat can already do this)
I am glad this is likely to come in after we are all done with treatment otherwise I dunno what kind of protests I would have come up with. Ohh this has the NICE effect of bringing the goverment level with (drum roll please) EUROPE on the number of free to private treatments given in this country. Currently we lack way behind most of europe.
) But if I've never heard of the person, never spoken to them before and the profile is a bit thin, then I'm not going to do anything. I'm very wary of meeting people that I've never spoken to prior to the one mail, so it's just not going to happen. I don't particularly want to spend my time clock watching and tapping my foot waiting for it all to be over because the person just isn't interesting/exciting/what I would look for in a coffee buddy never mind for sex.
I shall join in more in future, and you never know, a munch may not be as far off as once thought...