typical the way things happen – just seen someone with a strongly +ve Dix-Hallpike but equivocal Unterbergers, and done an Epleys with them…

SB

That’s Unterbergers or Fukuda’s test. Lots of us interested in Vertigo do it, but it doesn’t have as clear a positive or negative predictive value for Labyrinthine or Cerebellar causes of vertigo as you might think. And people with no vertigo at all may rotate…

http://www.audiology.org/sites/default/files/journal/JAAA_20_05_03.pdf

Epley’s is a first line treatment for BPPV.

Brandt-Daroff exercises second line if it doesn’t work.

Both worth a try, Both can make you feel worse initially.

I’d google Dix-Hallpike and see if you are +ve on that test first. Don’t bother with Epley’s if you are not. Definitely see your GP if you have anything in addition to postition provoked rotational vertigo symptoms. Definitely don’t drive if you can get them when seated and turning your head.

Usual internet Ts&Cs apply

Some of what is above is not true or unhelpful. Lots of people get told they have an inner ear infection or labyrinthitis, when really there is no evidence to prove it.
All sorts of causes – diagnosis easier if you have had it more than once.

Commonest cause is BPPV but really you need a proper history taken and examination.

Key questions:
Have you had hearing loss and/or tinnitus?
Is it worse when you lie on one particular side?
Have you been to the dentist/hairdresser/had your head leant over backwards for a prolonged period recently?
Have you been on a boat at sea recently?
Are you on any new medication?
Any other neurological features?

But then you need someone to look in your ears, check coordination, do a Dix-Hallpike test etc etc etc

So see a Doc.

Nope OP. Definitely for this. It’s a place where people go to get fresh air, kids included. Good idea.

Not sure the-10m-from-a-child idea would be sensible. Someone might claim his tape measure always undermeasured, and there was no way that was 9.5m… 😉

Either you love your partner and you’d want them to be happy after you die, or you are stuck on how important you were to them and this needs to be proven by them being unhappy enough for the prescribed period??

This is part of the continued “efficiency savings” in the NHS.

These usually mean delaying reappointing vital staff, squeezing the pay of people like those taking action today, by shaving little bits off their remuneration bit by bit.

It is the ” gradual circumcision principle”

You can make small cuts one at a time but sooner or later you are going hurt something vital…

Paramedics are dealing with increasing workloads and expectations and decreasing time eating peeing and resting.

Midwives are under huge pressure, with inrceasing personal night cover and expectations of one-to-one care througout labour.

I’m definitely on their side.

Miketually well, they could be shouty about how the world and science are awe-inspiring and beautiful enough without inventing a deity, or that assumptions that you need to be scared of retrubution by god to behave well are insulting, or that a celibate bloke in Rome saught to dictate sexual health policy in Africa… (but the current bloke seems quite good).

Penn Jillette is a good example of an atheist who respects and acknowledges the sincerity and views of people who believe.

But after hundreds of years of millitant shouty theists saying and doing their thing, it would be a bit hypocritical of those with faith to say there’s no room for millitant shouty atheists.

nice intelligent troll 😉

As for “Holistic” – in my line of work – healthcare – that is a word used by people who don’t want to consider the whole person, they want to ignore emotions/psychology/existential issues and pretend everything can be sorted by a placebo pill or fake alternative treatment. Very reductive 19th century approach in fact.

This was a rumour weeks ago.

A go pro could with direct impact penetrate a helmet and cause a depressed fracture and brain injury. I’ve skied with a contour hd on the side of my lid and had at least one fall where I noticed the camera applying pressure.

And I’d be interested in what helmet manufacturers say about safety of helmet mount cameras.

But actually, in this case, we need facts not speculation. Nor denial of the possibility.

Sunday Bloody Sunday covered by Richard Cheese.

Can’t find a proper video, but shows that t*** Bono up.

Seriously though, Cash and Hurt

Not a drummer, but I love my youngest son’s cajon.

Got a kit from schlagwerk to make myself one.

Vredestein wintrac extremes. Can’t remember really where I left my summer tyres. In winter and in the wet and up tracks I need to be able to get places. And they last well too.

JHJ

I think everyone knows by now that some shitty things went on. However this will be exposed and redressed by evidence, not insinuation. Insulting posters who point this out to you just makes you look like a monomaniac with little insight into the counter productivity of the way you post, and makes people question your motivation.

Give us occasional clear statements of what you know or believe, rather than I’m-so-clever hints. Please?

I’m a Doctor. Don’t buy my car. Scratches, small dents from country lanes. Stop-start driving. Tons of salt on the underside. And we do have higehr than average collision rate. 😉

Talking to small animal vets in bigger company run practices soon betrays the model of service, and over-service many use. I’ve spent enough time with vets to know there are some running honest good value practices, and some who are the equivalent of car main dealer service departments in their approach to milking the client.

The real clincher here, is that your daughter would have felt happier if she had given her mum a present. And it is your daughter who is important, not you or your ex.

sorry

Part of being a parent is encouraging your kids to cherish and respect both parents.

Whatever your feelings towards your ex, you child will be happier and better adjusted if she has happy and functioning relationships with both parents.

So yes, you should have reminded her. However crazy/manipulative/evil your ex is towards you, your daughter should have her illusions preserved at her current age.

Cost of the NHS per yer per person is about 2k a year

Cost of GP service excluding out of hours cover in my surgery is about £120 per person excluding drugs. For this the average patient will have 4 GP and one nurse appointment. Out of hours cover adds perhaps £10 extra.

Just a small unscientific comparison…

I use co2 for tyres that have burped etc. no problems

Used the emergency compressor and sealant kit on my car a month back. Grey foamy lumps everywhere when we took it off.

I’m not convinced its co2

Hoverboard has been done already

sorry and all that…

Saw one on Friday – pretty awesome

I am mediocre at a wide range of things.

Only in my modesty do I excel 😉

Since disneyland is a must, presume you have kids – how old? Does make a difference to what you aim to see.

Nope. Busted U is wun of them peeps from the fenland poly.

There is a real issue here though. Most of the smarter people with me at the place you mention were from state schools, often Northern Grammars, or direct grant schools, which shows how old I am….

Thick public school people could get in then. They can’t now. But the place still isn’t on the radar of lots of state schools, perhaps because so few of the teachers or parents went there, and people feel wrongly, it’s not for them, and so the cycle continues…

Shame.

Ahhh… Doh!

That sounds fixable though… I’ll wait

Tom. Since you can’t even spell it…

Weird to see so many mechanical discs when deore hydraulics are so cheap. Is there a reason?

Sat next to my 18 yr old and 12 yr old on a sofa watching tv. Marriage with their mum may have ended but I love them so much. So many good times. And so many more to come. A total joy.

Marshall… May just mean he is out of date. There was some evidence from early trials that people with knee problems would benefit. Subsequent larger trials did not confirm this. We now practice medicine based on evidence where it exists, rather than opinion.

Good to see the Big Pharma flag being raised… If you want to see regulation evasion, high profit margins and lack of effect, go to the vitamins/supplements/alternative medicines providers. Look at the number of US legislators in their pockets.

No real evidence it works better than placebo.

Some people here will tell you it works but anecdote is not evidence, and many people are emotionally invested in believing they can control age, illness, tiredness and emotional issues with tablets. They usually describe this as a holistic approach. The ironing…

Didn’t we do this one a few weeks ago?

As others have said, Of absolutely no relevance to most men in the UK.

Women will get tested when pregnant but this is mainly about rhesus comparability, not ABO groups.

Anyone who needs a transfusion will be tested again, even if they had a transfusion at the same hospital the previous day. If there isn’t time they are given O -ve.

Do not waste your GPs time by asking for the test. We ain’t doing it.. If you need it for overseas occupation or forces reasons, your employers will sort it.

Binners + whatever

The whole “No Surrender” and Ulsterman crap made many of us just wish the whole province would go away. Rigid petty stupidity.

Saw them live about 6 months ago. More to them than that one track.

FFS, just own up! Who do you wnt to be!?

If tv has a wireless network capability – tether off a mobile of someone with a phone on 3. Did this for 2 months in a flat.

Reaction time does not decrease much with skill and training. Your kinetic energy and damage on impact increases with speed however skilled you are.

In off-piste skiing and avalanche awareness we have a saying “the mountain does not know you are an expert”

In road safety perhaps people ought to say “the muppet whose car you are about to hit does not know you are a self-deluding over-confident cockwomble who thinks basic physics doesn’t apply to him…” 😉

Ok Weeksy. I really wish you well mate but make sure you have an organ donor card please?

I’m heartened by the nature of this discussion and the views of motorcyclists in general here.

The trouble is there are young riders and drivers out there who don’t get that people do stupid things and that they are going to get hurt if they don’t take this into account. Leave your macho crap on the track. I’ve spent too much time with parents of dead young drivers to think that this is a glorious unselfish death.

Weeksy. Just why not say you agree his speed was too fast for the junction, that it limited his options and made sure he did die, even if the car driver was ultimately 100% to blame for the collision?

Thanks to the OP for posting this btw.