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Contact Lenses in general
by hpsauce79 If you had asked me before needing them would I get some I would have said no as my only experience was my mum who wore hard lenses and has had the same pair since I can remember. They often get stuff behind them and years of watching my mum take them out and spit on them always made my stomach turn. I started wearing them ... after getting a motorbike over ten years ago and finding with a crash hat on the arms of my glasses cut into my ears and are terribly uncomfortable. I have worn glasses for years but am not that blind and have been known to make it halfway out the front door before realising they aren't on but I notice when trying to focus at distance that it is all a bit blurry. The other times when contact lenses are indespensible to me is when taking lots of pictures with my DSLR, putting my glasses on my head every time I want to look through the view finder is a real pain and has lead to the demise of at least one pair that fell off and I instantly stood on. Cleaning them when standing outside in pooring rain also gets very tedious as does needing a seond pair when sunny. It took a while for me to find some that were comfortbale. This may have been exasperated by the fact for years I never knew they only go on one way round. If you have them reversed they have a sort of lip on them and are uncomfortable and will often split which scratches at your eye like having an eye lash in it and are hard to get the two pieces out. Due to the fact I only wear them on odd occassions I have daily disposables, I have a really skinflint friend who has the same lenses but wears them for a few days before throwing them away with no problems and to be honest I don't know what the composite difference is between the daily or monthly disposables that means they only last one day. I have never had a problem with putting them in so don't know why people find it so scarey although people who who have had laser eye surgery where they cut a flap back on your eye makes me weak at the knees so I guess it is just a matter of degrees. I work in a very dusty dirty envirmoment and did try wearing contacts at work but they just got to irritated from the dust and dirt so I wear glasses most days and contact lenses when it suits so it isn't really a vanity thing with me They aren't for everyone but can a be real god send in certain situations but if I was wearing them everyday I might look in to laser eye surgery more as waking in the morning or swimming and being able to see crystal clear woudl be lovely. Read the complete review |
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Stress Management
by 1st2thebar I suppose I could plough through oodles of sites and gather up enough material in providing an answer to this debate question. Then again, it wouldn't be answering the question: the key word is 'You.' So my self-help program maybe useless to most readers here. I will even go as far as to say, I won't be able to cure your stressing ... ailments or causes, in fact I may increase the stress level a few notches. Please click away if you are expecting a doctor's guide in combating stress. I will disappoint you, if you are a genuine sufferer wanting bullet point answers. I'll put you out of your misery and announce: 'There is no such thing as zero percent stress.' I'm not sure if you are aware of this but I can claim that you must avoid online forums, websites, governmental advisory churn, leaflets, and more importantly Dr. Copeland's answer to a stress-free lifestyle. Whereby, for one monthly fee, he will soothe your stresses away by just slotting him into your 'MP3 life' and press 'play.' His low tones will drift on and on and you'll be left wondering why did I buy into this wacko dribble? Guess what? All of the above will increase your stress levels. Feeling stressed? Yes, likewise, my levels are perhaps semi-moderate to moderate; and increasing. Are you still reading? I take it you like stress. Some stress is good for stimulus - otherwise you'll be permanently horizontal and even that is stressful because you'll be thinking what you should be doing; while being horizontal; we can't win. However, it is vital that you should avoid taking advice from online communities. A 'shrug' instead of trying to justify yourself lowers stress levels Still here! Well I have met a stress head; I mean a total stress head. Someone who reeked of stress from her scalp to her toes; her whole entity was a quivering car crash. Neurotic, a heart rate a permanent ninety beats a minute while sitting down, and it rubs off onto others around her, including me. In comparison I'm a corpse compared to her high pitched vocal combustions and nervy twitches. Weirdly enough she claimed I calmed her down whenever I met her, holy cow, heaven help anyone who tries to bed her. She's an incredibly attractive specimen who just can't get a man. They run. Why can't I get a mmm man? What is wrong with me? Are they all gay? (No, it's because you're a stress head and you have tiny breasts) You either jump into the sea of fire or try explaining you're far too highly strung and stressed for anyone I chose the other option; you keep your own stress levels low by just shrugging and claim most men she meets must be all gay. I was her only straight male companion for two years. She inwardly hated me, from day one she'd labeled me as a womanizer; partly due to (me) speaking to a couple of girls within five minutes of each other, apparently. In her eyes I was intriguing, yet she hated every male bone in my body. In turn, I kept my stress levels at a minimum by not arguing with her. Roll-on ten years and I hear through a flight instructor she'd met the scariest neurotic lady ever; yeah, in the air, shockingly she was trying to re-new her commercial flight license. The normally placid flight instructor, with twenty three years of experience broke a habit of a lifetime and spent the rest of the day getting slaughtered in an aerodrome bar. The flight instructor admiringly claimed to me - "Oh, she hates you with a boundless passion" - I smiled, and stated I chose my friends wisely - stress free ones can stay. Now it has become completely unacceptable to wallop another individual to lower stress levels - Pity really, a punch bag isn't receptive enough, except for making a windy thud, and research has shown humans don't respond well to sudden wind noises. There is a connection with wind noises and diet, so psychologically you'll be thinking of food, windy food, and that leads to comfort eating. Too much comfort eating produces storage fat and that'll sit on you spare tyre. Inadvertently, this'll cause extra stress. Try to avoid any place whereby a lot of wind is heard: such as a gym - whereby wind is most common while exerting. Again, you'll only binge afterwards - therefore making you feel guilty - resulting in stress. In the gym you are reminded what shape you are, many times over - via the mirrors. Also there is another concern, the 'gym fanatic' - he or she will make you feel inferior - resulting in stress. This is a fast track method in creating unnecessary stress. Doctor's will encourage you to join activity groups to aid in stress relief or recommend herbal tea, and have access to a stress ball. Don't worry, it is their job to notify people of such practices, it is simply a 'box ticker' - By answering their questions accordingly you are lowing the Practitioner's stress levels in the mid term, saving them a stressful phone-call by those who stimulate bureaucracy and red-tape - the thinkers of 'bull'. The bureaucrats manufacture stress; it is big business for them, because it keeps them in a lucrative job, and keeps their high maintenance wives happy, so long the designer handbags keep coming; that in turn helps with their stress levels. The more stress they manufacture into the system, down the line (to us the stress sponges) the higher the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) the country has. Yes, stress helps with higher productivity. Proof of this resides in two opposites of the stress scale, Jamaica and China. In Jamaica stress levels are very low - it creeps up slightly when the rum runs dry; usually when they're asleep sleeping off the extended happy hour. China live off stress, they're a humming vibration of stress it is felt where-ever they are. Many little feet walking, moving, and the whirring of cameras recording every entity that is in their path. They never switch off - Stressing over what to log next and spreading their inbred stress to passers by trying to swim against the mass tide of whirring, high pitched hysteria, and little feet. 'NICE' to see you, to see you - NOT! Most of the time the system manufactures too many stresses for us taxpayers to swallow, so the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in their own paradox informed all UK business how to distress 'effectively' colleagues in the workplace. Nice. Approximately 100% felt their stress levels rise substantially as they read the protocols of the listings.' Turn Off Taps After Use'. 'Hydrate Plantation Nearby' (Plants makes your working atmosphere fresher). 'Leave Your Desk Tidy' - here's several pointers to make your levels boil over. The 'NICE Team' estimated just fewer than 30 Billion, was being lost by UK companies due to stress. (Probably after reading NICE's anal retentive package) The team worked out that too much stress leads to employees taking leave due to illness. Again, having read the six steps from the NICE team - even the normally robust staff members were feeling decidedly ill. Ignore the politically correct. Pity them, they've only got pathetic wads of paper to smother you with. Feel sorry for those who are taken in by governmental listings. It's too late for them, they've got ulcers. There is one simple thing that eradicates stress completely for several seconds, and that is laughter. Laughter is the only act that is concentrated enough to ease your stress laden body for a couple of seconds of glorious respite. I'm a laugh a minute guy. Problem is, it is stressful for everyone around me. Haa Haa Haa. Read the complete review |
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My Experience of Epilepsy
by bumblebee11 ~~~~~~~~~ I was diagnosed with Epilepsy at the age 13 after having my first seizure at school, which wasn't the best place to have it as waking up on the floor with a paramedic stuck in your face isn't what I would call a pleasant experience to say the least. After that I went through all the test's such as EEGs and Cat scans ... etc but everything came back fine and normal so I was told by the specialist it must of been a one off and to go home and forget all about it, which was great I skipped out of the hospital that day but a few weeks later I had another seizure and it was then the doctors decided it was epilepsy after all. When I got the phone call and was told I felt like I should cry or something but I just couldn't to be honest I wanted my mam to move out the way of the television so I could finish watching my program. The first medication I was put on was Epilum but the side effects were I had a huge appetite and as an example I would go through roughly 12 bags a crisps a day plus other things so the weight piled on and my confidence dropped, I tried everything to stop but just couldn't so I begged the doctor to put me on something else in the mean time my seizures were infrequent and I never knew when one was going to come on which is something that scared me but I tried to let it bother me too much. Finally when I was 16 the doctor relented and I was changed onto another medication called lamotrigine and I lost 3 stone, I went to college my seizures were finally in control, my confidence was back with a vengeance and it would be 3 years before I had another one, although it would be my worst one to date as I split my head open and had to have 3 staples in my head although I cannot remember any of my seizures and I cannot tell you exactly what happened that night, I suppose I'll never know but it doesn't matter I try not to think about it as you'll go crazy trying to make sense of it all. It's been 4 years since my last seizure and I've never looked back, I've learnt how to drive and someday's I forget I even have the condition I never let it rule my life as I can do anything I want as long as I take my medication I'll be fine. It's a serious condition but one that's made me value life and I'm more determined than ever to succeed in whatever I choose to do, all you have to do is be cautious and sensible but don't let it take over your life as you have so much to live for. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Read the complete review |
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