u/No_Medium_648

I have a 15 year old terrier cross. He has never been particularly food oriented but maintained a good weight. Over the last few months I've noticed his spine is more obvious, which I assumed was age related muscle wastage. In the last few days he's seemed hungrier. He usually has half a small tray of scrumbles wet food with some chopped chicken on top twice a day, a few treats, and has access to biscuits but doesn't usually eat many but I don't know if that's because he doesn't have many teeth. Tonight I've given him the whole tray because he was eating biscuits, and he ate the lot. Is this a thing in old age? I would've thought the opposite would happen?

Cat brought a youngish rat in. It's under my bed, where it's moved from under the drawers in the corner. Cat can't get it. Have tried to catch it and tried to push it out with a broom handle. I'm chronically ill so cannot vacate the room or do any heavy lifting. Have put a baited trap under the drawers. If I call pest control will they come and catch it or just put a trap down? Fine time to be without a dad or a husband or a really butch wife.

Diagnosed yesterday. Took 10mgs of carbimazole at 6:30pm. Had terrible diarrhea until about 11 which was fixed with loperamide. It's now 3am. I have a headache (not unusual but feels different) and my throat is thick and scratchy. I know the warnings about wbc being lowered, but surely I can't have picked up an infection in my bed in 8 hours? I don't think I have a temperature. I don't know whether to call the Dr's first thing but I don't want to be a baby. Has anyone else had this? I know you're not medics but any related stories?

I don't really have a special interest. Except TV. I have 5 shows that I like to watch over and over (4 US, 1 UK). I found a new one - law & order svu. It takes me truce as long, sometimes more, because during the episode I'm searching out the cast, especially other actors from the same New York acting pool that I recognise from my other shows. I also search producers and so on. I am infatuated with the lead character played by Mariska Hargitay and her real life work, family, and her organisation. I was on season 18 episode 8 when my not-precisely-lawful TV app went rogue. They have filmed 27 seasons. Now it won't play any seasons and I've done all the tech fixes and contacted the admin. I'm crying right now because I've lost my show. And I'm crying right now because I'm a 48 year old woman crying over a TV show 😭😭😭 ETA: Thank you for all your responses. I don't feel weird now. And best of all.... app admin responded to my query and the server got fixed so I GOT MY SHOW BACK!!!

Started ketotifen about three weeks ago. This was added to famotidine and fexofenadine. Some of my symptoms reduced drastically (asthma, burning lungs, itching and burning skin, pounding heart, screaming early hours headaches, feeling like I'd just got out of a washing machine, insomnia, etc). Now though, I constantly feel like I've got the flu. My legs shake if I do anything even slightly strenuous. I'm constantly crying because I feel so ill and can't do anything, even when I'm not fatigued. Also, the early hours headaches have come back, though not as severe. I know I need to wait 12 weeks to measure the effect of ketotifen so there's no point going back to the Dr's until then. Is this my life now? Is there anything else I can do?

It's 2:23pm. I had planned to do the weekly food shop (delayed already due to a flare triggered last weekend) & go to the library, after I had walked my dog. My dog had, again, the shortest walk possible and I cancelled everything else. I have plants in trays in the garden waiting to be planted as I bought them yesterday but just going to the garden centre meant I had no energy to plant more than four plugs. It's not looking like they will get planted today. I have experienced fatigue before, in flares, where I've felt heavy and like I couldn't lift my limbs. But usually I just feel lazy. I'm sure if I got up and started doing something I'd feel better and it would be fine. I do still feel a little flu like but I'm much better, though I had diarrhea, nausea, burning skin, and a headache first thing. Is this fatigue or am I making excuses for my laziness? My pain psychologist wants me to pace, because I over exert when I have energy, but am I to do nothing at all because I'm a bit tired? What does fatigue feel like for you? ETA: I have just planted the remaining plugs and watered them. My whole body, especially my legs are now shaking, my lungs are burning, and I'm way overheated.