Afternoon all,latest update from myself,stilll working hard but off sick today due to throat and chest infection.

[Nicky-Richards]

Afternoon all,hope you are well. I went back to the doctors today for my vitamin b12 injection.I also went to see her due to losing my voice over the weekend and have developed a chest and throat infection and now on antibiotics. I've only been at work for a month,I had to take a sick day as I'm working right through to the weekend.I get paid soon as I've been living on less than £100 a week.I am going to give up the agencies as I'm working five days a week,they keep offering me work in Surrey,Isle of Sheppy and Maidstone and the surrounding areas, this is impossible.

[wedgewood]

Make sure that you take some probiotics now you are taking antibiotics as you can lose some valuable stomach flora.

[PAS-admin Partner in reply to wedgewood]

Take them after the antibiotics, otherwise the antibiotics will also kill the probiotics.

[wedgewood in reply to PAS-admin]

I have read in a few articles that they should be taken together. Helps prevent the diarrhoea that sometimes happens with antibiotics . Have just googled to make sure.

[Jose651 in reply to wedgewood]

I read that a while ago too wedgewood and was a bit surprised as the rule of thumb was to take probiotics after the course of antibiotics were finished.

J x

[Nicky-Richards in reply to wedgewood]

Thank you for the advice

[ndodge in reply to wedgewood]

I have read that too, Wedgewood, and recently took probiotics along with antibiotics. They should not be taken at exactly the same time. Should be spaces between the two, two or more hours.

It worked great for me. I took 2 probiotics a day because I always take one a day anyway. I was amazed that I had no loose stools, stomach upset or nausea like I usually do with antibiotics.

So, yes, Nicky-Richards, I can tell you from personal experience that taking the two simultaneously works very well just don't take at the exact same time!

[wedgewood in reply to ndodge]

It's useful to know this . It's something that the GPs don't tell us . I suppose if they did , patients would want a prescription for the probiotics,which being a natural product, haven't the necessary approval from NICE or wherever.

[Jose651 in reply to wedgewood]

My sister in Italy gets a probiotic prescribed at the same time when she needs an antibiotic.

It's a normal procedure in that Country.

J 🍀

[wedgewood in reply to Jose651]

Something else that we have to campaign for ?

[Jose651 in reply to wedgewood]

I just found out yesterday that it will be 18 months until I can have the Hip replacement.

I'm so annoyed as I'm practically housebound and in a massive amount of pain. No cartilage left so it is bone on bone and bl***y awful.

£8500 -£10000 to go private.

Probiotics wedgewood, we have no chance methinks.

J 😔

[wedgewood in reply to Jose651]

You are definitely right !! I was joking !

[wedgewood in reply to Jose651]

I'm so sorry about that delay with your op. It is truly shocking . That is such a long delay especially if one is "getting on a bit " It represents a fair percentage chunk of the rest of ones life !

[Jose651 in reply to wedgewood]

That's true enough.

I have just turned 60 and even though I have dealt with an underactive thyroid for over 30 years...this past 2 with undiagnosed B12 def/PA has been much worse.

I gave up smoking early 2014 and my health has never been as bad.

The fall put the Tin Hat on it.

I was reading on Pulse that the CCG in a certain part of England is ' gently reminding' the GPs to mention going private to their patients!!!

It is shocking and slowly and surely we will all have to have some sort of Private Health care.

I can only blame the Big Boys in Government who would'nt know their arse from their elbow only some Professor at Eton pointed it out to them.

At 60 we women are entitled to the State Pension. Lots of us will not get it until we reach 67, that's somewhere in the region of £42000. If that had not gone through Parliment I would be able to pay for a new hip, I think.

Sorry for the rant w,

J 👍

[Foggyme Administrator in reply to Jose651]

Oh dear Jose651. So sorry about the long wait for,your hip replacement. Only wish I could fund it for you...the NHS is truly broken methinks.

Sending love and hugs xx

P.s. Agree about the delayed pension...I'm in the same position and just wondering how much B12, how many private consultations, the lost pension would fund.

Your rant well founded and I add my own...with hugs, of course xx

[Jose651 in reply to Foggyme]

Aw thank you so much Foggyme, I do know that you would fund the op if you were in a position to do so.

You must have been a darling of a nurse.

Quite a few years ago I met a nurse at a wake. She had worked at our local hospital all of her working life and had just retired.

We were chatting about me having had a new baby and I said " you know ..., you never forget a good nurse"

Her reply was " and you never forget a bad one" and went on to tell me of her experience while giving birth.

I will be ok in a day or two Foggyme.

Big hugs back xx

[Foggyme Administrator in reply to Jose651]

Even bigger hugs back xx

[Nicky-Richards in reply to Foggyme]

Thank you

[ndodge in reply to wedgewood]

Yes, it's amazing how doctors hand out PPI's, statins, antidepressants, etc. like candy with all the awful side effects and damage they do, but freak out over B12

and disparage "natural" products like ACV, Sauerkraut, and probiotics!

[Nicky-Richards in reply to wedgewood]

Thanks I will

[Foggyme Administrator]

Hi Nicky-Richards. On a different tack, I note that you say the agencies are getting you to,work five days a week, that the distances travelled are too far, and you're thinking of giving it up? (If I've got it right?).

One of the disadvantages of agency work is the it's not always reliable BUT one of the advantages should be that you can say when you want to work and the areas you would be prepared to travel to.

Do your agency know when and where you would be prepared to work? Might be worth speaking to them to see if you can agree something that suit you better?

I know that when I did agency work (albeit some time ago now), I told them my availability and they found work to suit. But sometimes, I did do the occasional extra when the were if a fix and were desperate to fill a shift. Mostly, they were able to meet my requirement.

Hope that you're doing well and that you husband has returned from his holiday with a more thoughtful head on his shoulders 😀.

Take care xx

[Nicky-Richards in reply to Foggyme]

I'm working full time now, the agencies aren't working out ,before I started this job,I was only getting one shift a week,They did offer me work but they were too far out.I'm a support worker with vulnerable adults.I did explain to the agencies that I could do my local area but they didn't listen.

[Foggyme Administrator in reply to Nicky-Richards]

Ah ha....don't think I quite had the plot...but I it now...well done for getting a full time job. Hope all goes well x

[Nicky-Richards in reply to Foggyme]

Thank you,no worries