u/MidnightStorm_

2 adults and every week we are nearing £100. I dont understand how. Everything we buy we use. I went to home bargains today thinking I could get some bits cheaper there, came out with £50 spent. Then went into tescos, that was £65. I actually spent £15 more than usual even by trying to get things for cheaper. Admittedly, the weeks we need washing detergent stuff and toilet roll are always more expensive but is £100 for only 2 adults really the norm?

I can get to sleep grand but I will waken 10+ times a night. Although most of the time i can get back to sleep relatively quick but when i wake up in the mornings I never feel like I've had a good night's sleep. I don't drink caffeine, I rarely eat after 6.30pm/7pm at night. I take a bath most evenings. I go to bed relatively early, around 9pm but I watch tv/read for a bit before I actually go to sleep. I sleep with an eye mask and noise machine. I even changed our pillows incase it was a discomfort thing. I've a fan in the room for warmer nights. I heard people take magnesium to help with their sleep but does this actually work?

Hi, we bought our house a year ago and we have a lamppost on our driveway. Its a literal street lamppost. I've no idea the story behind it, why it was placed there, if it belongs to the council or if the previous owners (who are dead) decided they wanted lighting and bizzarely choose that. It doesn't work, the light never comes on. But I would like it removed because it looks very odd and when we're reversing in we have to be careful not to hit it as our driveway is very narrow at that section before it widens out. Has anyone any advice how to go about this? How much something like this would cost? Thanks

Lol. Specifically ballymoney area. Moved here a while back but I use to live near a Mace that did honestly a really nice roast dinner from the hot food counter and im craving one for tomorrow.

Hi guys, this could be a long one and i know this is ultimately my decision but i would love to hear opinions/what you would do in my situation.

30yr old, pcos. Mirena coil removed 21 months ago in hope to ttc. No pregnancies. Upon removal of mirena coil i have had almost daily bleeding. Smear, hysteroscopy, mri abdo all clear. Doctor put me on provera 10mg daily for 3 months in hope to keep my womb lining healthy. I was under the impression this would stop the bleeding. Bleeding only stopped 5 days ago and I am officially at the end of them 3 months since yesterday. The plan was to get my bmi below 35 (now 34.2 from 42.6) and he did say he would start me on letrozole but he back tracked yesterday and said he wants me to stay on provera for another 3 months. Im UK based and this was said to me by my private doctor. Ive been going through the NHS to see a fertility doctor who i seen in Feb and he is bringing me back approx November time but he wants my bmi below 30 before we consider treatment. And I do hope and pray to meet the target.

The doctor yesterday said he basically wants me to lose as much weight as possible for the best outcome, ovulation, pregnancy etc.

What do I do guys? We are obviously very keen to start our family as its been nearly 2 years and maybe another 3 months isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I do think maybe if I lost more weight in the next 3 months it may help me to ovulate as I hadn't been ovulating and im so scared of coming off the tablets and starting that daily bleeding again. What would you guys do?

Does anyone know what this is/what sort of equipment they carry? I seen a big ambulance (bigger than a usual ambulance) in city center today with blue lights and sirens on. Never heard of this and never seen it before. It had the northern ireland ambulance service on it as well. Just genuinely curious. Someone thought it was for organ transportation/transportation of blood bags etc but im not sure.

Some stuff I put up, it will sell like right away. But the majority of stuff im not getting any views. Like literally 0. Is there anyway I can boost this? I know you can bump items but if I have to do that all the time for every item its going to get expensive

I feel like this isn't talked about enough. There is 100% a stigma around fat people, whether its we're lazy, we don't exercise, we don't care about our health, we eat all the wrong foods every single day, whatever. I've heard of SO many people who use to be overweight and they have lost the weight and they even admit themselves that people are a lot nicer to them than before when they were fat.

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As a fat person myself I can see people stare at me and I know its because im fat. I have not one but two health conditions that scientifically make weight loss harder and weight gain easier. But even that is "an excuse". And god forbid we lose weight but we dont lose it the way society wants us to lose it (eg - GLP-1, surgery, 30 other reasons here), we are STILL lazy.

I am honestly baffled at the amount of weight some people lose so quickly. I just seen someone on tiktok, they are 2 stone down in 6 weeks. Someone else, 6 stone loss in 6 months. Ive lost 3 stone in nearly 7 months and I couldn't be doing anything more. I'm doing all the right things. Don't get me wrong, im happy with my weight loss and im fine with the length of time it has taken me. But if I wanted to lose weight quicker, I physically couldn't as im already doing what I should be doing. Im not sure if im making sense.

I am aware this is a very sensitive topic so just putting a little TW here.

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I am not sure if i am just now at the age of people having babies, or social media but I've noticed a lot of people being very open (and good for them for spreading awareness) about infertility. It has really opened my eyes to how many people are struggling with infertility, including "unexplained infertility". It makes me wonder has this always been the case? Or is there a reason why there appears to be an increase? Either way, I hope everyone gets the blessing they want.

Im new-ish to vinted. Ive sold a few items but I have noticed recently that none of my items are getting views. Literally some have 0 views and the most is 5 views. Has anyone experienced this before? I know you can bump items but I dont fancy doing that all the time

3 weeks ago I was on holiday for a few days and i decided to not track and just enjoy myself. When i came home I actually lost a little bit of weight and put it down to a lot of walking while we were away. This week though I've noticed a little bit of weight gain and I have noticed a trend when I havent been as strict or good in my routine there always seems to be a 2-3 week delay before it shows on the scale whereas I thought it would show that week or even the week after. Is this normal or has anyone else noticed this happening to them?

When i started my journey i had 10 goals written down. Im a little over half way and my next goal is to get to anything below 100kg. I weigh myself everyday but will note down my Friday weight. Every single day for 2 weeks I have weighed in at either 100.6kg or 100.8kg. This has happened to me before and instead of my usual 0.5-1kg weight loss ill maybe have a 2kg weight loss. But ahhhhh I am feeling sooooo frustrated. Im doing all the right things and havent changed anything. Ive just went up to 7.5mg but come onnnnnnnn. I just needed a rant lol.

Well, today I became one of those people. I have to say though, my GPs are fantastic. I hear so many horror stories from other people about their GPs. But this morning, i rang for an appointment, was told it would be a telephone appointment first and then they decide if I need seen. They rang me within 30mins and had an appointment for an hour after that. Went and told them my issue, was sent to A&E because they wanted to "rule out" something I've had in the past. Now, while the issue was in the same area, my symptoms were no where near as severe as before. I have had that condition twice now, I know that feeling and this was different. This fell on deaf ears when I explained this. I was sent to a&e and genuinely felt like a fraud. I wasnt even going to go but there was that 10% of me that was thinking "well, doctors know better than me".

Its very frustrating to be sent to ACCIDENT and EMERGENCY without an accident or emergency. Even the triage nurse complained that my GP sent me lol.

Whats going on? A part of me thinks well, a GP really can only do so much from their room. And the other part of me thinks there should be something in the middle where you aren't sick that you need to go to a&e but you need further investigation that the GP can't do. I dont know what the answer is but the amount of people that I heard were there because their GP sent them was shocking. Maybe a lot needed to be there but im not going to lie, I didnt and im sure I wasn't the only one.

Hi all, im wondering if anyone can help. I was diagnoised with gallstones quite young at the age of 14 years old (I am now 30). The very, very odd time over the years I would of had sharp pain lasting only seconds to my gallbladder area but nothing problematic. I have been losing weight over the last 6 months (although at a good rate, usually 1-2lb a week. I have lost 20kg). I have noticed the last couple of months the pain returning alot more often but not really causing issues. This week, especially the last few days im having a manageable but constant pain to my gallbladder area, going into my back and left shoulder pain. My upper right abdomen/just below my boob is VERY sensitive to touch, it feels like your pressing into a bruise. I am aware of how horrendous gallbladder pain can be but thankfully I have not had that experience. I am going to book a GP appointment tomorrow but is there anything at all i can do to keep this pain and bay and reduce the risk of it escalating? I am aware of watching what food i eat but I have to admit, any pain I've had has never been food related, its purely random timing.

For extra context i had a MRI abdo for a completely unrelated problem 2 months ago and i was told i had "a lot of gallstones". It was reported that the doctor who looked at my mri thought it was at the bile duct, although i did not have any symptoms. I would appreciate any advice. TIA

Or does it not matter? Been married a couple of years and just had the realisation that I never informed them/changed my name with them. (But dont care about the name change)

We have been on this ttc journey for almost 2 years. When I got my mirena coil removed, I have been bleeding every.single.day. every day. I think in those almost 2 years I have had max 10 days of no bleeding in total. Its actually ruining our sex life because I don't want to do it when im bleeding. And im bleeding all the fucking time.

Ive had a smear, mri abdo and hysteroscopy and they all came back clear. Doctors have put this down to pcos and high bmi (started at 42.6, now currently 34.9). Ive lost over 3 stone and while I do have more weight to lose my symptoms have not improved at all. My gynae doctor actually said to me and I quote "if you lose weight, I know you'll definitely get pregnant". I seen a fertility doctor and while they will not intervene until my bmi is below 30 (I am due to go back around November time and I hope and pray my bmi will be below 30 by then) they also said to me if I lose weight they wouldn't be surprised if they dont see me again in November (to me, this was heavily hinting that it would be because id get pregnant naturally with the weight loss).

Whats on my mind though, I have convinced myself that due to this bleeding ive been having there is no hope I'll get pregnant. Weight loss or not. If I am bleeding like this, im not going to get pregnant because surely that indicates that there is something going on in there that simply isnt right?

My doctor started me on provera 10mg daily for 3 months (I now only have 3 weeks left) and im pretty sure the plan was for this to stop my bleeding and to "reset my cycle" which it clearly hasnt done. I don't understand this bleeding and I dont know what to do.

Massively struggling with meal ideas in the evenings. So, let me know what you're having and give me some new ideas!