Wow! I can't believe I've figured out how to post this on my lovely new toy. Couldn't even think straight this time last year and here I am being a 'cutting edge' Nannie :lol: How useful is this new skill? Not in the least bit but boy does it feels good to have my lovely brain back :shock: so chuffed to have learnt something useless today! Take care everyone. Lizzie Ellen
Wot a poser! You do know you now have to forget how to spell don't you????????? :lol:
Lizzie Ellen - I'm impressed......you even managed the emoticons!!!!!! 8) MrsO
I am totally impressed LE :D :D I can hardly work my basic mobile :lol: :lol: :lol:
LizzieEllen and girls....if you all saw my phone you would fall around laughing :lol: .It doesn't even have a camera, let alone any fancy apps, but it is very reliable and i just never seem to get around to up-dating it for a \"trendier\" model :roll:
It is a beautiful bright day here but absolutely freezing...my cat is lying on top of a radiator and refusing point blank to go out for some excercise !
Hope everyone is starting a good week...I went down to 14mgs this morning so fingers crossed that the pain stays away.
Best wishes, Pauline.
Hello Pauline and all
As for cats!!! :cat: I rescued mine through a window off the porch roof last night........result poorly back today :!: How can anyone do something so stupid with PMR let alone a slipped vertebrae?!!! :roll: :x I could have left her to walk around all the rooftops (which is probably what she normally does anyway!). The girdle is on but off to stand under a warm shower now. :cry: :silly:
MrsO
Pauline - can't believe your phone is any more basic than mine - it has to be 7 or 8 years old! Phone calls and texts only - I believe it COULD do internet but the thought of trying to read anything on it is not even funny! Original battery - really don't want a new one. The girls need new phones after about a year!
MrsO - \"girdle on but off to have a hot shower\" - what? The mind boggles!
Eileen A poser? Moi? You bet :lol: . I'm renowned in my family for never buying myself anything so I feel very daring :!: However, I refuse to use the spellchecky thingy as the idea is to keep the brain in working order not to let it lapse :shock:
Mrs O Hee, hee. I'll let you into a secret - I've only found out how to use the 20 emoticons on the left. When I tried to use some from the main menu I lost my painstackingly entered iPhone message and had to start all over again. :bleep:
Fiftiesgirl I used to have a 'breeze block' sized mobile but my Grandchildren keep me on toes, hence the iPhone. When I lived in Spain in the 90's we didn't have a landline facility and got a guy from Erricson to call about a mobile (still in its infancy then). He tried all round the villa to get reception and finally climbed on to the roof where he got a perfect signal :nahnah: He was quite shocked when we decided against going 'mobile'!
Pauline Just loving my 'apps' all of them completely unecessary, I must be going a bit daft in my 65th year :diva: Great news that you're feeling up to a drop to 14mgs, we've all got out fingers crossed for you (and I have a 'fingers crossed' emoticon on my phone but they're not transferrable, good job really, there'd be no stopping me would there??).
Now I must go and do some housework, friends coming to supper and their home is a 'palace' unlike mine which is more of a 'cave dwelling' - happy place though and that's all that matters isn't it?
Lizzie Ellen in a very, very sunny Basingstoke
I have to leave myself a message to make a call on mine on the first of the month. I'm not even sure if I need to do that to keep it connected Had to with my last one which died at the age of seven. It says it has games on it but I've never looked at them and the screen is about an inch square so not much fun. I do keep my red no allendronic acid card with it and my blue steroid card as I believe that's where the paras look in an emergency but mostly I just hope not to need to use it!
Just sown first seeds, a cheering job and the sun's shining and I only ache a little bit.
Another BP test on Wed; not so cheering. Does anyone take BP pills? I'm going to resist as I'm sure they'd only trigger something else and then there would be pills for that. Where would it end? :roll: :yuk:
BettyE
For paramedics - insert ICE and then the number you want them to call.
(In Case of Emergency).
Lovely sunny day - but cold.
Spent 40 minutes pushing buttons to try and buy something - given up - I can do with it.
My mobile is never switched on - I don't let anybody know I have it - I take it with me always - just in case.
Hello Betty
I, too, am having my blood pressure checked on Wednesday - I've avoided it for the last couple of years by just avoiding the GP! :wink: However, he now wants to follow up on my swollen salivary gland problem and as I was going out of the door he added \"and I'll check your BP then\"! :roll: Like you, I really am avoiding the pills as I seem to have complications with so many of them. I had just commenced the BP med Ramipril and after 7/10 days got a dreadful headache followed by all the horrid symptoms and diagnosis of GCA - although I was obviously at risk of this having recovered from undiagnosed and therefore untreated PMR, the rheumatologist said there would always be a great big questionmark as to whether Ramipril had been the cause whilst PMR was possibly still in my system and to avoid it in future. A few months later I was prescribed another BP drug, Candesartan, and the follow-up first blood test resulted in the GP calling me to say that my creatinine levels were abnormal and to stop taking the drug! A kidney consultant informed me that I should have carried on with the tablet as they accept seeing abnormal creatinine readings on Candesartan! :? He then prescribed a diuretic but I'm afraid to say I haven't taken it (I visit the loo quite enough as it is! :roll: ), hence my avoidance of going to the surgery for a BP check........until now! :oops:
Good luck with your readings on Wednesday, Betty, and do let us know how you get on.
MrsO
Hi BettyE,
Good suggestion from Mrs K regarding ICE. I was very anti mobile phone until I almost lost my daughter through pneumonia 3 years ago. I phoned her one morning and there was no answer. I tried her mobile and just heard a terrible groaning noise. It will never leave me - I just got in my car and drove - 45 minutes later we were 'blues and twos' to Southampton General. They saved her life and I've been joined at the hip to my mobile since then 
I've been taking blood pressure tablets since I was 37 years old :yikes: . High blood pressure is a big problem in my family. I take Atenolol (my GP friend looks down his nose and recommends a more 'up-to-date' one, my GP says, if you've been taking it for almost 30 years, why change now!). Its never been a problem, it keeps my blood pressure down to a normal (ish) level and is just a way of life for me after all these years. People often find their blood pressure goes up when they get to the Doctors (its very common) so, if you really want to be sure, why not ask if they can let you have a 24 hour blood pressure monitoring machine. My brother had to do this as the slightest whiff of a Doctor's Surgery and his BP went shooting up :lol: At least that way you'd be absolutely sure if you needed the help of (yet another) tablet! Take Care.
Lizzie Ellen
Mrs O. How often have we been typing replies at the same time :doh: You always get in before me though :lol: Must be better on the keyboard skills than me. Sorry you've had such a problem with BP medication. I must be lucky. Hope it goes well on Wednesday - keep us posted (BettyE as well).
Take Care.
Lizzie Ellen
Eileen - I've got a waterproof one! :P or I might have just been talking gibberish! :silly: :lol: Put it down to having to stand to type today - my back wont allow me to sit! :grrr:
Lizzie Ellen - I doubt very much that I'm better on the keyboard than you and I haven't got a clue how to use an iPhone either :wink: .......newly installed burglar alarm is enough for me to cope with for the moment! :?
What a horrid experience for you with your daughter - thank goodness you were there and thank goodness for mobiles!
I'm glad you're fine on Atenolol - I did take that a few years ago and I was ok-ish on it. Only problem was it slowed me and my metabolism down, so I gained weight, and then when I was taken off them by a kidney consultant who said that Ramipril was better, he also informed me that my HDL cholesterol had been lowered by the Beta Blocker, Atenolol. I just felt I couldn't win or I'm just a really awkward wotsit! :roll: As for 'white coat syndrome' I'm sure that's a big problem for lots of people - only thing is the 24 hour machine doesn't work if you have an irregular heartbeat! Didn't I say I was awkward! :lol:
Love,
MrsO
:lol: Awkward indeed, but isn't that what makes us all so special :lol: And your comment 'I've got a waterproof one' had me rushing for the iPhone Waterproof App, then I scrolled down and guessed you were talking girdles :lol:
All this mobile phone talk amongst us 'oldies'.. :D. But to be honest I don't know where I would have been without my mobile over the years, I rely on it so much. I do try to keep up and change mine quite regularly, and have a Nokia 95 3G at the moment, which I was told was cool.. 8), but no doubt it's out of fashion now.
I have surfed the net on it, been on Youtube, and do use the camera, and I love to use it to video my grandaughters. Oh..and I do make calls on it too.. :lol:
Talking of BP tabs, on top of my pred, my weekly Alendronic acid tab and vitamin D supplements, I also take 4 different types of BP tabs every morning, as high blood pressure runs in our family. I have been on these tabs for about 10 years now.
I take Atenolol, Amlodipine, Rampril and Bendroflumethiazide..phew!
I have my own blood pressure reading machine which I use to keep check on how I was doing, but haven't dared to use it since my onset of PMR. I will leave that to the medical staff at the surgery.
I often wonder what the hell is going on inside me taking all these drugs.
gilly.
Hope Rick doesn't think I'm getting at blokes but I decided a few years ago that men over 55 shouldn't generally be allowed to have a mobile phone as I had so many bad experiences with them creating a five-act drama (never mind the 3-act variety that used to be standard :lol: ) over using one! :roll: My husband can just about make a phone call if he knows the number or call me on my Italian phone from his Italian phone (can manage Contacts, Other phone!). I've had the same mobile no for about 20 years (apart from when Vodafone went from 04 to 077) but he STILL asks me every single time what it is. :roll: And I too had one of the brick variety more years ago that I can to remember - should have kept it when I graduated to a small one, they became worth a lot of money! But all these fancy things really don't appeal at all.
EileenH
Hello Eileen
My husband is pretty good with his mobile and I must admit on the technical side of computers he is better than me ( he is still working ) !! but he is hopeless doing texts as at work he does them all via his computer and he finds this little machine too limiting !!
I can remember his first car phone was the size of a car battery almost like one you see in war films when they try to contact someone
i have resisted an i phone as one of my friends ( only 39 !! ) has one and when i scroll on hers I always manage to either go the wrong way or delete something !! So you are doing well Lizzie Ellen !!
best wishes
Mtrs G