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Mutual Termination

Hi all, I have just been offered this by my employers. I would get 9 weeks pay plus 2 weeks remaining holiday pay, minus tax. My official sickness start date...

Hi all, I have just been offered this by my employers. I would get 9 weeks pay p...

•8 years ago

Diffuser and essential oils

Hi all, These might not work for everyone but they do for me. I got some Frankincense essential oil last year as I read it is good at healing/helping with...

Hi all, These might not work for everyone but they do for me. I got some Franki...

•8 years ago

Side effects of Keppra

I have been on Keppra nearly a year now and my dosage has been creeping up, since last week to 3 x1000mg the worst I have ever felt. So contacted my...

I have been on Keppra nearly a year now and my dosage has been creeping up, sin...

•8 years ago

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All right now. Aka any common sense to spare?

OK so the festive season has been and gone thank goodness. Last week was about getting back to my version of normal..☺ I do know that when it's raining I...

OK so the festive season has been and gone thank goodness. Last week was about ...

•8 years ago

Narcolepsy Video

Just came across this video of a lady doing a dance instructor video and having various symptoms of narcolepsy...

Just came across this video of a lady doing a dance instructor video and having ...

•8 years ago

Preparation, first steps

So yesterday, in preparation for myself and the Baroness' planned charity marathon in Summer, we took the plunge and walked the equivalent of a half marathon....

So yesterday, in preparation for myself and the Baroness' planned charity marath...

•8 years ago

just need some hugs and strength please am exhausted

hi all , not so happy new year , my son has a brain injury, right hemiplegia following a stroke as a baby and autism , I have struggled all his life but he...

hi all , not so happy new year , my son has a brain injury, right hemiplegia fo...

•8 years ago

Help!!!

I've been feeling the need to post on here for some time but now I'm desperate for advice. My 22 year old son had a TBI 2 half years ago. He was on life...

I've been feeling the need to post on here for some time but now I'm desperate f...

•8 years ago

I have been self-harming

I've been self-harming since year 10. and I have glasses and I have just found out that I caused myself to have glasses. the self-ham I do Is hit my head dead...

I've been self-harming since year 10. and I have glasses and I have just found o...

•8 years ago

Oh dear

Hi everyone Need to share with people who understand. One lovely evening spent with family, ruined in the last half an hour by a stubborn grandson who...

Hi everyone Need to share with people who understand. One lovely evening spen...

•8 years ago

Just dropping by

Hey all, haven't been around at all lately! I see you're all getting on nicely though (for the most part). I'm still trying to drag myself through my degree,...

Hey all, haven't been around at all lately! I see you're all getting on nicely t...

•8 years ago

off with her head!

Watching one of the history programs last night they mentioned that King Henry the 8th had a TBI and there is some aspects of his behavour that could be put in...

Watching one of the history programs last night they mentioned that King Henry t...

•8 years ago

Lost Messages Fatigue and bad health

Thank you to all who responded to my messages yesterday I have E- mailed Healthunlocked in the hope of getting this problem of lost messages fixed. as I am not...

Thank you to all who responded to my messages yesterday I have E- mailed Healthu...

•8 years ago

Bad news

Hi I thought it couldn't get any worse but after Johns second cardiac arrest yesterday in ICU, doctors ran tests & found out that he has blood poisoning...

Hi I thought it couldn't get any worse but after Johns second cardiac arrest ye...

•8 years ago

Dont you love it when a plan doesn't come together !!!!

Oh what a good day today was going to be. I had decided to take a drive up into the peak district and breath in some nice cold air. I dont know why but it...

Oh what a good day today was going to be. I had decided to take a drive up int...

•8 years ago

No sense of humour at Dunelm

Dunelm politely declined to publish my review of their 'Tension Rod' on their own website. I'm staggered :) See what you think... I'd had the day from hell,...

Dunelm politely declined to publish my review of their 'Tension Rod' on their ow...

•8 years ago

Brain training depression

Does anyone else find brain training depressing? Certain types of exercises give me the really bad headaches before I'm aware of what's causing it. Then...

Does anyone else find brain training depressing? Certain types of exercises giv...

•8 years ago

Lost messages

Hi all again just a short one to say last message was 2nd try has lost first one when pressing submit button I was quite frustrated when this happened I am not...

Hi all again just a short one to say last message was 2nd try has lost first one...

•8 years ago

Fatigue Bad Health

Hi All Just a few lines to let you know how I am since before Christmas I have been ill often in bed all day felt sick no appetite sweating toilet fatigued...

Hi All Just a few lines to let you know how I am since before Christmas I have ...

•8 years ago

Aaarrrggggg! I'm so f###### angry right now!

I took my daughter back to her student digs today only to find out she had been burgled. Laptop gone this was last years Christmas gift. £500 and meant to last...

I took my daughter back to her student digs today only to find out she had been ...

•8 years ago

Some Good News

I have been using this site for just a couple of weeks and have found the support so helpful. Just in case you don't know, my husband tried to take his life...

I have been using this site for just a couple of weeks and have found the suppor...

•8 years ago

I can measure things - correctly now

Prior to my injury I used to do a lot of "extreme" DIY, big building projects, renovations and making some ornate cabinets. One of the things that "broke" with...

Prior to my injury I used to do a lot of "extreme" DIY, big building projects, r...

•8 years ago

Info on induced coma please

I am so thankful to have found this organization. I have a good friend in critical care, he was involved in a car crash and is now in an induced coma on a...

I am so thankful to have found this organization. I have a good friend in critic...

•8 years ago

Hpoxic brain injury 8 week on

Hi my partner suffered an hypoxic brain injury 8 weeks ago after being in cardiac arrest for over 40 minutes the ct results say it is catastophic brain injury...

Hi my partner suffered an hypoxic brain injury 8 weeks ago after being in cardia...

•8 years ago

Newbie, close family friend in coma

Hi everyone, My nightmare started on Sunday morning just gone, 3rd January when I received a phone call from my close family friend Johns wife saying he had...

Hi everyone, My nightmare started on Sunday morning just gone, 3rd January when...

•8 years ago

Spasticity and muscle wastage following brain injury

Hi, new here :) Had a brain haemorrahge due to an AVM way back in 1996. I'm still having related problems and degeneration. Nothing I was ever warned about!...

Hi, new here :) Had a brain haemorrahge due to an AVM way back in 1996. I'm stil...

•8 years ago

Double vision

Good morning and happy new year. My double vision is driving me crazy, I feel so hopeless and fed up with it all. I've give up with the eye patch and just...

Good morning and happy new year. My double vision is driving me crazy, I feel ...

•8 years ago

I am back.....I think

Hi all. Yep I think I am back. Was ill between Christmas and New Year but now feel more myself. Felt a little withdrawn and not in the real world .....ok ok...

Hi all. Yep I think I am back. Was ill between Christmas and New Year but now f...

•8 years ago

How True:)

•8 years ago

Antisocial!!

Hi I was wondering if anyone ever feels antisocial! Before my bi I was a very confident,social person but now I'd rather stay at home. I know I need to get...

Hi I was wondering if anyone ever feels antisocial! Before my bi I was a very co...

•8 years ago

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