Experiences with

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs)

Winter or Spring Covid Booster Vaccinations? Good evening everyone, has anyone heard anything about "Covid Boosters Vaccinations" being available for Winter or Spring? The last Booster I received was early October 2023 as I have a weakened immune system. I have not seen much coverage on this by the

using the dsns method I had got down to 0.5 mg steroids in December but then I got covid. The first symptoms that I experienced were like a pmr flare. I increased the steroids to 5 mg . After two weeks of slow recovery I then went rapidly downhill and went to the doctor. I have asthma and was very breathless

Today was a rough day and I do t know what I am going to do in two weeks I’m so nervous. For the past month or so I have been getting injections done on my back it started out with steroid injections that didn’t work.. After a couple of them the Dr. switched them up and decided to do the arthritic

This is a long and not cheerful post, I understand if you don’t wish to wade fully or at all thru it. Sections are marked for easy reference. The thoughts are my opinions only. -- I wrote a few months ago on my botched flu vax anniversary. Today is the one year mark for my Last Dose of Besremi

Hi. I've just had my first egg retrieval and got 33 eggs. Which initially I thought was good news but they have said as it's so high I'm at serious risk of OHSS so it has to be a freeze all. I'm so disappointed as I had it in my head we would be transferring a fresh cycle next week. Then I've seen high

Hi all, hope all are well and embracing this season of change - I LOVE autumn and cosy soup weather. I have recently turned 43 and just had our third round of IVF with PICSI - we took a break for Glastonbury to let off steam after 2 rounds, and to get (and implement) expert supplement and nutrition

Morning all, hope you’re all as well as can be! I just had my day 7 scan and my follicles have responded quickly and we are looking at a day 10 or 11 egg collection. I mentioned I’d had a tiny bit of pink streaked discharge when I wipe for two days and so the doctor looked and my womb and although

I’ve been told that due to my RA (diagnosed Aug) that it is recommended to have the shingles vaccination. As it’s not a live vaccination, it is no longer mandatory to come of methotrexate. However it is recommended to come of 1 week before 1 week after. I’ve only been on methotrexate for 6 weeks,

Just an update after my bood test shower hf.I am still waiting on the echo. I was to have a chest x-ray. I mentioned back pain so I got both done. Chest x-ray was fine. The back x-ray was late!! Mmm Turns out I have a blocked artery in my left hip. Along with the heart meds, I also now am given aspirin

me and my husband had our first go at Icsi in 2018 it worked but I lost it at 9 weeks. But they could never see anything on the scan. Non of our embryos survived the thaw after that. We did try to adopt but have been messed around by them. We have paid for Icsi now at another clinic and I am honestly

Just had a call from our embryologist. Out of 9 eggs, 8 were suitable to use, 4 fertilised, 2 stopped growing at day 2, 1 made it to early blast day 5 but it wasn't fully developed and the last was given an extra day and fully hatched 6BB. They took a sample to test. The result aneuploid extra chromosone

Hello!:) I need some advice for this. I'm using Fostair, I really think it's from that inhaler. I have some white and red spots on my throat, nothing on my tongue yet. I have a few questions because this never happened before. Is oral thrush contagious? I'm afraid because I don't want to give it to

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone has had experience of doing this before icsi and whether it resulted in a high number of good quality embryos? I'd like to hear the both good and bad please. Thank you xx

Morning, I take symbicort twice a day, when I saw my asthma nurse recently I queried the symbicort giving oral thrush as the leaflet says to drink something after it rinse mouth out, me being me who overthinks everything said I was worried about inhaling symbicort forever as if it can cause thrush in

I'm six weeks in on ADT. Working to stay ahead of fatigue with resistance training and weighted vest walking as I gear up for radiation and chemo in the next few months. Anyone done any cold plunge or sauna to help battle side effects or get better sleep? What was your experience?

I think RLS can have several triggers, as well as several things that help. Sometimes it changes and what worked often does not neccessarily work each time. It may work again, but in the meantime, you need something else. Certainly avoiding foods or substances that bother and trigger the RLS, is a

Hello everyone Just wondered if anyone here has used D Mannose tablets to manage recurrent urinary tract infections and if so with what success? I’ve had this problem for a few years now and the Urologist suggested daily low dose antibiotics which I want to avoid. Despite trying all of the self

Hello, people... ! Welcome to the changing room on this very cold and snowy day here in the Staffs Moorlands. I am a tad late today,,, whizzing around and here and there... and ready for a sit down! Take a seat and a warm or cold drink, and relax. A bit of an odd subject today and one I did not really

Dear all just wanted to let you know my over 40 success story. Went to an nhs fertility consultant when I was 37 and he said due to my low amh which was 3.4pmol that ivf was my only option. 2 years later and 40lbs weight loss to qualify with the help of a personal trainer I began IVF. First round got

I’ve been quiet on here as just getting head round the last failed cycle. Feeling really down Came as complete shock that we had no embryos at all after having our best egg collection results ever. I had 7 eggs, 6 mature and all 6 fertilised but nothing made it to day 5. With our previous cycles had