Right then, kiddies, the pub beckons, and I can hardly decline, so I'm gone for the day. Have fun . . .
241 days ago
RT @rattlecans: How many suicides will occur in the UK before Lab Party is willing to reconsider their policies and attitudes to the poo ...
242 days ago
@crimsoncrip Yep - excellent day, thanks. A friend took me to Edale, in the Peak District, a Mecca for walkers… (cont) http://t.co/Ht08I91Q
242 days ago
@nigeldraper Screw that! I don't drive now, but that's way too much interference in what is purely a national, even a local, issue.
242 days ago
@crimsoncrip Thanks for #CT. Bit late - been out all day.
243 days ago
Right then, if your analgesic drugs cause you serious constipation – and if they’re effective, they will – then sit up straight and pay attention. There is a remedy.
I’ve tried all the usual remedies – laxatives, fibre, fluid intake (a gallon of beer works!) – but nothing is more than briefly effective and, for me at least, fibre made matters worse. Anyway, entirely fortuitously, I’ve stumbled upon a solution.
For entirely unrelated reasons, I’ve increased my intake of vitamin D3 to 3,600i.u. daily. Now, D3 has an unadvertised side effect – in large doses, way higher than mine, it causes diarrhoea. At 3,600i.u. the effect (and this might vary with the individual, so tuck your trousers in your socks, just in case), is just right to reverse the inhibiting effect of my pain meds.
There are no side-effects, no alarming unpredictability, just a return to more or less normal function.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am by that, as I was hauled off to hospital a few months ago when my bowels completely stopped working.
Cost is about 9p a day, buying the tablets in bulk as I do, and I get mine here. Go for it!
Right then, if your analgesic drugs cause you serious constipation – and if they’re effective, they will – then sit up straight and pay attention. There is a remedy.
I’ve tried all the usual remedies – laxatives, fibre, fluid intake (a gallon of beer works!) – but nothing is more than briefly effective and, for me at least, fibre made matters worse. Anyway, entirely fortuitously, I’ve stumbled upon a solution.
For entirely unrelated reasons, I’ve increased my intake of vitamin D3 to 3,600i.u. daily. Now, D3 has an unadvertised side effect – in large doses, way higher than mine, it causes diarrhoea. At 3,600i.u. the effect (and this might vary with the individual, so tuck your trousers in your socks, just in case), is just right to reverse the inhibiting effect of my pain meds.
There are no side-effects, no alarming unpredictability, just a return to more or less normal function.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am by that, as I was hauled off to hospital a few months ago when my bowels completely stopped working.
Cost is about 9p a day, buying the tablets in bulk as I do, and I get mine here . Go for it!