I think she’s a thing of beauty too. Would have liked some British racing green on her though :p !

serial troponin

Proteins found in heart muscle, an increase is an indicator for MI(heart attack)

Would this show up in a normal blood test? I’ve done three and no mention of serial troponin. Just a raised white blood cell count which seems to have corrected itself.

If the previous ecg’s you have had are normal its unlikely that you have suddenly developed one of the underlying syndromes such as long qt, wolf parkinson white or hypertophic obstructive cardio myopathy which could make you suddenly drop dead – so I wouldnt worry about that.

Overactive thyroid normally causes a fast heart rate but can also cause ectopics – there are other signs such as being hot, brittle hair, excess sweating, loads of energy etc Diagnosed through a blood test, normally relatively easy to treat with drugs, or possibly a small procedure. More common in women that men though.

Thanks for all the replies. Are long qt, wolf parkinson white and hypertophic obstructive cardio myopathy things that can just develop, or are you born with them or a susceptibility to them?

As far as Thyroid is concerned I’m normally very energetic but recently have just felt totally drained most days.

A pleuritic infection was mentioned to begin with, and I believe that is their official line on the cause of the pain, but my heart hasn’t yet been totally ruled out I guess.

Not sure what a serial troponin is?

There is a very small chance of having had an MI with normal ecg and normal troponins.

Whats an MI and what would trigger it if you were believed to be healthy?

Very difficult and wrong to give a diagnoses over the net without seeing your ECG, however if there was any major concerns you’d shipped off from the Dr’s straight away not waiting

Yeah I totally understand that. I suppose my worry was that I had been bounced around by so many doctors that something was missed early on and that something is now going to become apparent despite being told twice my ECG was fine with a possibility of a slightly irregular heartbeat.
:/

Can someone confirm the implications of an irregular heartbeat/ectopic beats and how they affect you? Are they dangerous?

And is there a possibility of some sort of “electrical” fault in the heart suddenly becoming noticeable/a problem? My doctor mentioned conductivity or something…

Its really hard to say too much from what you have said because we have no details about the pain or nature etc

It’s quite difficult to describe but I was having a mixture of pain symptoms. The first was a kind of dull aching pain that would last 10 to 20 minutes, and the second a sharper more instantly noticeable pain that lasted about 20 seconds max.

My pain symptoms have started to drop off without any medication, but the other day I got a new development which was that I went out in the cold not wrapped up very well and when I got home was having pain in the right side of my chest when I took a deep breath. That is still there to a degree but has dropped off significantly.

It seems to have been a total hodge podge of symptoms that don’t quite provide any clarity on a definitive cause. I’m guessing that may have slowed down the process of diagnosing me properly quite a lot. The continual confusion of one doctor saying one thing, and another saying something else, then the paramedic saying something else hasn’t helped my mental state much lol :p And my local practice keep telling me the soonest they can do anything is weeks away. I wait a week for an appointment hoping for some answers, get more questions then have to wait weeks for another blood test before getting another appointment without being referred to a cardiologist.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that she told me that “paramedics are not trained to diagnose any heart issue from an ECG other than a heart attack”. That seemed odd to me as the bloke seemed very knowledgeable and even told me he felt an often irregular heart beat as he had one himself.

She also mentioned that my symptoms could be caused by an overactive thyroid gland. I have no idea what that is or what that would entail.

I’m leaning towards (and hoping) that the pain symptoms have triggered some sort of anxious response which is giving me an irregular/fluttery heart sometimes. But I’ve been told it needs to be investigated further and a week long event recorder ECG is needed to be safe. For which I will have to wait 6 to 8 weeks for on the NHS.

So ultimately I guess I just feel confused and really want a very knowledgeable no nonsense doctor to take all the tests i’ve done and say “it’s 99% this. It will mean this. You will have to change this. This will happen. Take these.” Etc.

Ahh yes.. Sky News readers.

“White they look for who to kill…Why training dogs on how to drive Car??”

That is a genuine comment from that page. WTF?

So I’m going to vote, my final vote, for Boris Bikes.

Doesn’t it seem somewhat pointless having an elaborate public bike system when you don’t have any useable and safe cycle routes?

On my daily commute I see foreign tourists and British tourists alike, riding the wrong way down dual carriageways into oncoming traffic, swerving across roads and pavements etc. all on Boris Bikes, all without a helmet and all without adequate lights. Someone riding one even ploughed straight into the back of me at a red light once.

I effing hate straining to hear people on the phone let alone when they’re looking for a job so they instantly all went into the no pile

Wow. That’s just a tad harsh isn’t it? I know calling from somewhere noisy isn’t ideal but maybe they had no choice?

Buy a normal one and stop trying to be bloody alternative you hipster :p

Maplin sell overpriced outdated crap.

No it’s not outdated crap. Its the same stuff you get online, it’s just a little more expensive.

Whoever is responsible for that google page is a legend.

Over the top for an off the cuff remark I know, but sometimes information is useful

WTF are you going on about?

I suppose the really ironic thing about this come to think of it is that we probably can’t even be technically Racist to the french – 8 out of 10 of the brits in this thread come from a French lineage! They invaded us on more than one occasion remember?

As much as I hate to admit it, The Norman men/women post invasion interbred with the British men/women to the point where virtually everybody has French in them if you look back far enough lol.

your sarcasm detector is broken. And no, my grandfather’s were, they knew the french and the grandfather of mine who survived jokes about the french in a light hearted way too. Were yours there?

Why are you so intent of accusing people of being Racist with this Nazi bollocks? No one mentioned it until you two rocked up screaming “RACISTS!” so who are the racists?

We have family friends who are french, and have lived there 30 odd years. Their relatives have lived there 800 years or more. We all trade jokes around the table with a bottle of vino. Lighten up.

Maybe I empathise because I’m part Welsh, which makes me the other legitimate target for casual racism.

OH COME ON MAN, SO AM I!

My family is from Wales and Devon! I have never considered myself a target for legitimate casual racism. When I mention half my family is from Devon, of COURSE the sheep jokes come out to play with some people around – I laugh and then retort with something about where they’re from, and it lies there. That is not casual racism. You are totally over thinking this one man. Have a brew, read a funny joke and look at it again – you might see it differently.

Last year a bar in Paris refused to serve me because the locals at the bar objected to us foreigners being in their bar lol!

When I was in france on holiday a couple of years ago during the rugby final or a semi final, don’t remember which – we had a union jack and an England flag on the car. A bit of fun because we obviously don’t support a french rugby team. We got an absolute HAIL of abuse, most of which lighthearted with a small or a single digit at the end. It’s just a bit of fun.

What would the world be like if we were too conservative in our interactions with people from other parts of the world? It would be boring, un-human and we would never get along in anything. At least us and the french have one iota in common – that we pretend to hate each other, but for the last 150 odd years have fought for each other. There’s something good in that. And I don’t think you can call it racism at all.

I just can’t get my head around how funny it is being invaded by Nazis. Just seems terribly poor taste to joke about it all.

Where in this thread does it say “Being invaded by Nazi’s is funny”?

Do you know what they call us over there? lol As far as I see it’s a harmless bit of fun. If there are French guys on this forum – go and start a thread that pokes fun at the Brits. In fact it probably happens on French bike forums anyway. Stop being offended by proxy for the sake of an argument.

Besides, I’d say we’ve saved their asses enough times to be allowed to occasional joke, no? I’ve been called plenty of things in Paris bars and pubs in my time, and I never turned around and said “That’s racist.” I just laugh it off and mutter something under my breath before sprinting to my car to avoid being murdered :p

It makes no reference to a terrifying period of history where we were oppressed and humiliated though.

You could argue that the jokes are actually more of a reference to the periods where we were at war with one another.

Thanks lads, I certainly will. He’s in for roast chicken, sausages and gravy tonight on vets orders to try and make him eat enough!

Thanks for all the kind words, and very sorry Sui, Cupra et al about your lovely dogs passing on 🙁 I think we can all rest sound knowing that you are what made their life fantastic, and they lived it as well as any dog ever has, maybe better.

Back from the vet an hour or so ago. Good news and bad. Short term he is going to be OK. But has bad arthritis from 10 years wear and tear in his front right elbow, and both back haunches. Apparently this is very common in retrievers and labradors.

He also has a tumor in his gentleman’s area which has gone unnoticed as he was never neutered as a pup because he was always very mild tempered and calm. It is unlikely to be dangerous at all due to the area it’s in, and it’s one of those doggy things that they die with not of apparently. So that’s mainly a good thing.

So apart from peeing all over the stairs up to the vet, the bill for medication and an old woman screaming at me for temporarily blocking her car in the car park for 30 seconds, it could have been worse lol.

He’s on a load of painkillers which is a shame, but if it gives him back his mobility and he can enjoy life a little longer then that will be great. I am however not going to put him in the position where his life revolves entirely around being drugged off his head, because it’s not fair. He’ll be on painkillers/arthritis pills for the rest of his days, but nothing more than that, and if the Arthritis becomes too much we will have him put to sleep before he has to endure days of never ending pain.

So we’re seeing how the pain killers and anti inflammatories/antibiotics go and we’ll see from there I guess. The Vet reckons the medication will cost around £40 a month whilst he’s on antibiotics to get rid of his infection and then will probably be around £20 from there. We always joke about him coming from the bargain corner of the dog supermarket because Battersea only charge £150 + plus a donation for their dogs, and you simply can’t put a price on what they’re worth to us as animals. I’d sooner spend £40 a month on him than a ruddy phone bill haha.

Maplin is quite expensive

The extra cost (which I felt was minimal) when I bought mind was worth the peace of mind. I’m not clued up on Scan – do they have a shop? In Maplins you can walk around, being told what will work and what wont, pay, have the stuff in your hands, go home and built it the same day, knowing it will all slot together like a breeze and work perfectly first time, no drama. I think for a first time pc builder that is pretty valuable.

He’s also encapsulated, neatly and concisely, why the rest of us, in the ‘provinces’ are all more than happy for you oh-so-cosmopolitan sophisticates not to demean yourselves by gracing us with your presence

Why does this have to be a ‘them and us’ thing? The thread is called whats your favourite thing about London, not what do those of you who live outside London think of ‘Londoners’ if there is even such a thing. Your comment seems like it’s meant to be derogatory to those who live in London. We’re not all stuck up chelsea tractor driving nob heads you know :p

I live in London for work – you start a good career in my area of employment in London, San Francisco, New York, Paris or Hong Kong. It’s where talent is appreciated, rewarded and tested, and it’s home to the best creative Agencies in the world, bar none. That’s just how it is, and I do Love living in London. It just so happens that it’s also the entertainment capital – it’s a great place to live for the most part, but not somewhere I would want to be for the rest of my life. Does that mean I’m not welcome elsewhere lol? I mean, my family is based on the South Cost and I’m there a lot, it’s where we’ve lived for 10 years or so and I consider it a home. But I do enjoy getting out of London some weekends mainly because I love the country.

Whenever I visit I can’t understand why everyone looks so bloody miserable. Maybe it’s the black snot????

It’s just the daily grind mate. And yes the black snot is a major issue of contention lol, it’s just something you get used to. But it’s a case in point of London being a great place to live, but perhaps not for your whole life? I get a renewed sense of value in real, south coast fresh air when I’ve been in London 3 months and then go down saaaf.

Have you thought of building it yourself?

Best bit of advice so far – I’ll add to it a little.

I recently built my own gaming pc with a smaller budget than yours, and it runs amazingly well.

You don’t need any electronics experience to build one, it really is common sense and a careful approach.

Go to Maplins (they really are very good stores and their prices are phenomenal for a high street retailer). Their employees will literally fight to the death over who helps you build your gaming rig, because they love picking the parts they love making it work and they hate working on cronky old hp and dell systems that people bring in because they’ve died.

Go and tell them your building a gaming pc for your son, and you want it to run x y and z games at 60fps or more, then tell them you’ve got £650 to play with which is more than adequate. They will walk you around the store and tell you the best components for the build and put it all into a bundle for you within budget. You take it home, whack a brew on, and build it in an hour or two. It’s amazing fun and you’ll have the satisfaction of telling him “I built this for you!” Or do it with him.

you can pretty much ignore all of the above, most of which isn’t relevant anyway. Your lad won’t care how loud it is. He wants his games to run fast and smooth between 45 and 80 frames a second. To do that, both of those models probably will, it needs a very good processor, a decent graphics card and a lot of cooling.

How loud it is means jack all when you’re playing a game with the volume up or even better – using headphones.

bruce – what games does he want to play

Probably BF3, SKYRIM CALL OF DUTY, ARMA, FORZA, TDU2? That sort of stuff all runs on decent spec pc’s like you listed. But you need a good pc to run them at a decent frame rate.

Lol Junkyard I was referring to the other thread in a number of those statements you so lovingly collated and arranged. I’m truly honored you took the time to do that.

Enjoy your thread Junk, you never know – there might be a few more people ‘brave’ enough to disagree with one or two of your political points who feel like posting soon! Then you’ll all be able to gang up on him and show him your intellectual ‘wrath’ as well haha. Fun times.

(For the 2nd and last time, I’m out. So please don’t feel the need (as much as you love me) to insult me behind my back when I’m gone again, but feel more than free to reply to this last comment if you so wish.

At uni we did a search of folks favourites to search for unsavoury use of the internet

Is this a quote off the back of a Chinese T-shirt? lol

Petrified our dog is going to have to be put down. I always have and always do get very attached to our dogs. We’ve always had them around but for me that experience with them never reduces the sadness of the situation. When your dog dies or is ill it’s always like experiencing it for the first time. Prognosis was unclear yesterday, he still isn’t eating properly and is now having difficulty walking – vet is seeing him again in 2 hours.

We’ve only had him two years but the saving grace of the situation is that when we took him from Battersea Dogs Home 2 years ago, he was the oldest dog there, and no one else was going to take him because of his age. He’s had a second chance at life and he’s loved every waking minute of being part of a loving family again.

Fingers crossed there might be something they can do, but it seems we are half way down the slipper slope of an old dogs life where they just get more and more sick. I guess I have to man up and ensure that he goes out on a high note. I don’t believe prolonging his suffering with drugs that make his life terrible (if it can be treated) to have him around for one more Christmas is fair.

merde. what will they do when they decide to invade us again in a few years?

News?

Peugeot 205 T16

Think that fits all the requirements? 🙂

Yeah. It’s craneopolis there at the moment. Crazy.

the (dodgy)taxi ride home after a nights clubbing

This. Lol our regular cabby Nigel (who is Nigerian) hence his nickname Nigerian Nige is a **** psychopath but he has been a source of great amusement and everyone loves him. Drives an ancient but absolutely immaculate black Mercedes.

You send him a text when your getting your coat / waiting a **** eternity for girls to get theirs and to go the loo and shit, and he will be outside the club within 10 minutes. Without fail. He used to take us from fabric (Barbican) to a bar in Tufnell park (North) called aces and eights for after drinks… in 5 minutes flat. I shit you not he would do 95 down a bumpy windy road through central London, and even faster on the main roads. He seemed to have a way with traffic lights too – they never turn red when he’s driving. Maybe he just drives too fast for them.

Anyway, we always took our lives in our hands with Nigel but it was a fekkin awesome way to go home when you’re sloshed and he was an amazing driver – had been doing it his whole life and would probably give the Stig a run for his money. Funny as, and you only get that in London I believe.

He once did The Roof Gardens (Kensington high street) to Tufnell park in just under/about 15 minutes…. It’s 6 miles lol.

Going to Mc Donalds at King’s Cross St Pancras after a night out to watch the fight. Happens every weekend without fail.

Not having to sit in queues of traffic because you’re on a bike.

Flipping off Addison Lee.

The girls.

The outdoor exercise area at Primrose. Followed by a jog to the top to watch the sunset.

Utter bollocks.

Which box for my lad?

“A christmas question for the cardboard lovers”.

so she stuffed them down the back of the radiator behind her desk

LOL

Rang the Vet, earliest they can see him is 5.30 – I have to drive up to London in half an hour, so a bit worried about leaving him on his own.

Take him with me in the car in his bed? Or leave him at home on his own with water etc?

Roger. Thanks for all that, will get him down the vet today then. He’s probably eaten something in the Garden which is now fighting back.

A prat from my sixth form days who was a known scummer went out one night to steal some calor gas tanks from a campsite. In a 5 minute period of blind theft at 1am he; lacerated his hand on a barbed wire fence which required loads of stitches. Burnt his hand and forearm pretty much completely up to the elbow and had to have a skin graft. Got bitten by a guard dog in the calf, dropped the now half empty gas tank he was trying to steal on his foot and fractured something, then whilst nobley attempting to flee back over the same fence he climbed over earlier, fell 7 or 8 feet onto a concrete manhole surround (at an angle) and then broke the ankle he had earlier dropped the calor gas tank on. What an unutterable pillock.

It was going to be on some show about the worlds most stupid criminals but he was still legally a minor so they weren’t allowed to use it. Shame 🙁

Google “mathew scott uplift scotland” Ooooh boy – someones going to be in trouble.

You’d expect a roots and rain result table or something to come up first – nope.

P.S. OP – Although you seem perfectly believable, if you turn out to be wrong, and this was a genuine error (although I doubt it) this thread could have been kind of harsh. So, in a strange way – fingers crossed you are right and he has tried to dupe you. (Evidence would suggest so.)

In my first job (apprentice mechanic) I was sent to the local tool store to get a 12″ hampton with a bell-end. Luckily I figured it out on my way, but they managed to get it to work on a couple of other young lads

LOL juvenile humour ftw.

I thought it was rubbish to be honest. Very samey, it pretty much bored me from start to finish although some of the cinematography was great. I spent most of the film amusing myself by imaging how bits of it were filmed.

I just think bourne has been done to death, the last film with damon in seemed like the perfect place to wrap it up to me, but then again I wasn’t in line for a $5m cheque so I guess I’m biased :p

i got a macbook in 2007 new and never had one problem and ran just as fast as when i got it, untill it took a cup of water couple months ago.

Did you try to rescue it using any of the old tricks? Dry rice on a towel on radiator with covers off etc? :p

If it’s dead it’s dead, but i’ve heard of mbp’s and iphones suddenly coming back to life after days or weeks of the owner thinking they’re dead for good lol