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Talking of infections, for the first time in my life I got a UTI last week. God knows how, I maintain good hygiene, but I do take an immune suppressing drug so it perhaps lowers my defences to this kind of thing.

I never realised the flu-like side effects you get with it. Plus I experienced some weird confusion, which is apparently very common. Scary how unrelated infections can affect the mind.

Antibiotics have done their job though.

May I ask... What were the symptoms?

Apart from the UTI itself (the constant sensation you need to pee all the time even though your bladder's empty), it was like sore joints everywhere, sensitive skin, hot and cold flushes, night sweats, etc. It's like having flu but without any chest/throat soreness.

The confusion was weird though. Just forgetting how to do basic stuff for a few moments, forgetting why or what you're doing. I kept having to stop and think to concentrate. I'd never even knew this was a common side effect from UTI's. Apparently it can also happen with other infections, but I hadn't experienced them before.

All back to normal now though.

Imrahil wrote:hot and cold flushes, night sweats, etc. It's like having flu but without any chest/throat soreness.

I've had all this, seems to be a thing with bacterial infections, my throat is where the problem is but it isn't sore at all.

Imrahil wrote:Apart from the UTI itself (the constant sensation you need to pee all the time even though your bladder's empty), it was like sore joints everywhere, sensitive skin, hot and cold flushes, night sweats, etc. It's like having flu but without any chest/throat soreness.

The confusion was weird though. Just forgetting how to do basic stuff for a few moments, forgetting why or what you're doing. I kept having to stop and think to concentrate. I'd never even knew this was a common side effect from UTI's. Apparently it can also happen with other infections, but I hadn't experienced them before.

All back to normal now though.

Sorry to hear this, but congrats, you've experienced for a brief moment what ADHD is constantly like . Except the harder you try to think, the seemingly worse it gets, until you forget almost everything in that moment. It's strawberry floating bullshit.

At least not the full blown psychosis side effects you can get when elderly for some reason, but it's interesting should that fall on the same sort of scale.

Started my second round of meds this evening, fingers crossed it'll be enough this time.

Got a few weeks until my next therapy session due to holidays but looking to start EMDR before long.

Has anyone here had any experience with EMDR?

I would like everything to stop being awful now.

so about a year ago my aunt was diagnosed with cancer and it seems like this is it. so i think some time soon i will be taking a break from posting. i'll still be here reading stuff but probably not saying anything

shy guy 64 wrote:so about a year ago my aunt was diagnosed with cancer and it seems like this is it. so i think some time soon i will be taking a break from posting. i'll still be here reading stuff but probably not saying anything

It's ok, take all the time you need, we get it, and you have our full support.

If you do find that it helps though by talking to someone independent, then please know that we are here if you need us.

Vermilion wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:so about a year ago my aunt was diagnosed with cancer and it seems like this is it. so i think some time soon i will be taking a break from posting. i'll still be here reading stuff but probably not saying anything

It's ok, take all the time you need, we get it, and you have our full support.

If you do find that it helps though by talking to someone independent, then please know that we are here if you need us.

Thanks

Sorry to hear that man. My Aunt was also diagnosed in early January, she's expected to only have a few months to live.

We live far apart and we're all having a sort of final get-together in a couple of weeks time. It's a weird feeling, knowing you're going to be spending time with a relative for the last time. It's scary for her, but the idea of seeing her for the last time is also a bit scary for me.

Imrahil wrote:Sorry to hear that man. My Aunt was also diagnosed in early January, she's expected to only have a few months to live.

We live far apart and we're all having a sort of final get-together in a couple of weeks time. It's a weird feeling, knowing you're going to be spending time with a relative for the last time. It's scary for her, but the idea of seeing her for the last time is also a bit scary for me.

Yeah I feel ya

after many many years of referrals, waits, transfers, confusion, and more waiting, I got an official diagnosis of adhd today

that butts up nicely with my pre-existing bipolar, as adult bipolar is often comorbid with undiagnosed adhd doing damage

some ways I’m relieved it’s not in my head, other ways I’m just girding myself for an even longer ride ahead - the doctor said from here expect at least another 6 months before the services agree on what to do because of the bipolar

I guess if anyone is waiting here’s some reinforcement that eventually you’ll get seen and hopefully it’ll do something to help

It's saturday, i'm stuck at home, and as is often the case when i am stuck at home with little of anything constructive to focus on, i start to think.

Me and thinking do not work well together, and so i seem to have spent the day obsessing over this illness i've had, to the point where i'm just left trembling and catastrophising everything that has happened of late and what could happen in future.

I even committed the cardinal sin of accessing Dr Google (health anxiety's partner in crime), it was a bad idea, a very VERY bad idea.

I do not like being stuck at home on a saturday.

This is why i travel when i'm well enough to do so.

Is it a cough thing you have? I’ve had it this week and it’s really gooseberry fool, pulled the life out of me, pain and lethargy and throat swelling up

False wrote:Is it a cough thing you have? I’ve had it this week and it’s really gooseberry fool, pulled the life out of me, pain and lethargy and throat swelling up

It's a bacterial infection in (i think) my throat.

I'm on my second course of antibiotics now for it as after the first, it started to come back (hence my anxiety starting to spiral over it).

Sorry to hear about your relatives and cancer guys. I've had the same thing with my mum, it's a constant bloody pain in the arse, everytime we feel she's making a recovery, another complication pops up. She had a stem-cell transplant (for the second time) in September, in October I was almost rushed home to say my goodbyes. Then she recovered and started to make improvements, now she's just in and out of the hospital all the sodding time and it's just so so so tiring. She must be very fed up of it, when you call you can't make much conversation as you she's just doing nothing, and every time there is promise, its another infection or another complication.

well that's it. we've lost my aunt

shy guy 64 wrote:well that's it. we've lost my aunt

Sorry to hear that man. Grief is never a straight line so it's okay to feel shitty one day and it's okay to start to feel better on another, even if it doesn't seem to make sense.

I know you said you were going to take a break from posting when the time came but we're all here if and when you need us.