Oh, Suela, I'm sorry. I hope your dad is ok
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Feb 04, 2014 9:08:45 am PST #19085 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
JZ - Feb 04, 2014 9:44:12 am PST #19086 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
All possible vibes to your dad, Suela. And to you and better job prospects, and the decline and fall of your Nemesis (preferably non-physically-harmful, but good and humbling).
beth b - Feb 04, 2014 9:59:33 am PST #19087 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
best to you dad and if it isn't fox it is cnn. I'm not sure why news is the default.
Theresa - Feb 04, 2014 10:00:05 am PST #19088 of 30000
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Vibes and Good thoughts going to your dad.
Theresa - Feb 04, 2014 10:06:08 am PST #19089 of 30000
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Why can't Amazon already have the drones everywhere?! I just broke out in hives but the roads are bad to get some Claritin. I have an antihistamine off brand but I've never taken it. Doctor didn't call me back so I don't know what is safe to take with my other medicine.
Eta: found the claritin. So all good.
Theodosia - Feb 04, 2014 11:12:45 am PST #19090 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hot flashes are worst in the summer for me -- when the ambient temp is high. They at at the worst not while I'm exercising (or doing something that takes a fair amount of exertion) but about 10-15 minutes AFTER I've stopped.
Also, right when I'm falling asleep.
I fight back with cold packs, either on the forehead/under the head/in the small of my back which is a particular hot spot. Cooling down the last seems as though it affects the rest of the body. When I'm in the office working, I keep a bottle of cold water handy, not just to drink out of, but to discreetly tuck between the small of my back and the chairback.
Calli - Feb 04, 2014 11:31:07 am PST #19091 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I hope your dad wasn't hurt too badly, Consuela.
Anyone who's had experience with hot flashes willing to talk about them?
I think I've had them? I realized last month that I'm just about into menopause (give or take a month), and for about a year I've been going to bed shivering and waking up broiling--tossing all my covers off no matter what the actual air temperature might be--around 4 am. Very annoying. I haven't had anything like it during the day. Just as well, since tossing all my clothes off in the office wouldn't go over well.
le nubian - Feb 04, 2014 11:37:29 am PST #19092 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theresa,
I got hives from the antibiotic I was prescribed. I took it for 7 days. 9 days after not taking it, I am still itchy.
Not amused.
Connie Neil - Feb 04, 2014 11:42:55 am PST #19093 of 30000
brillig
've been going to bed shivering and waking up broiling--tossing all my covers off no matter what the actual air temperature might be--around 4 am.
That's my experience, too. I'll snuggle in under the blankets, and in the wee hours I'm flinging them off.
Liese S. - Feb 04, 2014 12:29:01 pm PST #19094 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That's the kidneys, Theo. Hunters do the opposite, put hot packs there to keep warm. It does affect the whole body, as all the blood keeps cycling through there.
I need more info info about this whole menopause/perimenopause thing. My periods have certainly gotten more irregular and I probably have some of the other symptoms too.