Le Grand Moan

Hope you are feeling better bags and that you have a bit more today to help you combat the aches and pains.

Have you thought of fibromyalgia? Or even poly myalgia rheumatic an autoimmune disease?

Bags Faggots, also known as Savoury Duck, consist of minced offal (usually pig's liver), pork fat or streaky bacon, breadcrumbs and herbs. The mixture is shaped into balls and wrapped in pig's caul. They can also be put straight into a dish and covered with pig's caul. Either way, bake at 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6 for about 40 minutes, until well browned.

Hope you continue to improve and feel up to snuff again soon.

annbel I don't know about woozy, but it certainly makes you shakey!

It doesn't make me shaky. When asthma was first diagnosed and Ventolin wasn't helping (nor the stuff in the brown inhalers (beclomethasone, or something) which I subsequently discovered prevented nothing for me and actually made me iller), the doctor I was seeing then in Oxford just got cross with me and told me to take more. I was shocked at her attitude and just I stared at her for getting cross (I knew nothing about asthma at that point) and she apologised but essentially said, well that's the treatment, take it or leave it. And that has been the message ever since from every other doctor I've seen. So, you see, I've got the message!

Yes, I've wondered about those myalgias and suppose that the doctors have too but the treatment is painkillers, isn't it, which I take anyway.

It's quite possible that the liver in faggots is the only liver I eat. Not terribly fond of it in its natural state, though my mother used to fry lamb's liver with bacon and that was nice. I chuck chicken liver in the stock pot though and boil the hell out of it.

Have you had blood tests?

Have you ever had blood tests, Bags? If you had PMR - which several of us have - increased inflammatory markers would show up. And the treatment is steroids, not just painkillers.

Ie increased c reactive protein!

Yes. Loads. Nothing amiss except a slightly low iron count (not anaemic though) which a few bottles of Floradix sorted.

Let's face it, grans, I'm just a freak.

You sure they did that one?

No.

Check? Poly is frequently missed by gps

I think purple Seretide inhalers have more or less superseded the brown ones as preventers. That's what the doc told me anyway.

Tried that type of inhaler too. I'm allergic to it. Tried steroid tablets to prevent asthma (Singulair). Gave me muscle spasms and muscle pain and didn't ptrevent any asthma.

Freak!

Will check, jeni. Tell me what to say, exactly, please!

Have you checked my c reactive protein, in case it's poll myalgia rheumatic a?

Miss type polymyalgia rheumatica!
Tell this iPad I'm a doctor. I can spell things better than it can

I am beginning to think you may be an alien, Bags! Though you do appear in all respects to be perfectly human! The steroid of choice for PMR is prednisolone.

OK, but thinking back, I do remember my better Oxon GP doing bloods as well "in case it is inflammatory". Would that be the same thing?

I'm trying to tell yous that I've pestered my GPs for years, and been back again and again. They appear, all of them, to be flummoxed. I really do think they've done what they can and I just have to get on with it.

jeni, go to your iPad settings and turn the bloody spell-checker off!

It will only be up in an exacerbation. In remission it reverts to normal!
Abnormal presentation of gout?

The Settings icon has cogs and things on it. Go there. From there go to General. From there go to Keyboard. I've got all the useless "helpful" things turned off.

Right, so far I've got Arthritis (one or several of the two hundred or so types), asthma, rhinitis, PMR, gout, and everything abnormal associated with any or all of those

Alien Freak!

I need some coffee now and then need to do some quilting.....

Just our very own bags

Going back over this thread, I read that driving tends to exacerbate the chest pain. Is it a coincidence that you did a very long drive last week? Could it be a delayed reaction?