Salmonella outbreak

Hi!

It’s my birthday and my best friend made me pancakes from for it using eggs from the corner shop, after eating I’ve learnt that the outbreak is linked to imported eggs. I’m terrified and kind of spiralling, I have a lot to do today and I fear i’ve ruined my day with the first meal.

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u/elsdotcom — 20 hours ago
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What’s with the gagging?

Hi all.

I find that when I have an abundance of trapped air in my stomach it activates my gag reflect a lot, but it’s not air vomiting. No air comes out when I gag, I just gag/dry heave, and there is no relief.

Any one else have this? Or have any tips? It’s very inconvenient while driving, and if it gets really bad to the point of heaving I have to pull over until it’s passed.

Edit to add: This normally happens when I can feel something that i assume to be air or acid reflux at the back of my throat. It ends up getting kind of stuck there and swallowing helps a little so I just swallow for ages until it goes.

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u/elsdotcom — 1 day ago

My second play though of TLOU2 and my first time using picture mode!

The first one is my ps profile picture now :) And I love the last one haha

u/elsdotcom — 1 day ago
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What’s something you did as a kid that was, in hindsight, terrifying for your parents?

We had a rope swing in the garden, I told them I wanted to put my head in it and let my whole body swing instead of sitting or standing in it. It was promptly removed.

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u/elsdotcom — 3 days ago

Hypothetical Happy Hour Edit

If I hypothetically wanted to make a Happy Hour edit using clips from the main shows how would I hypothetically download such video clips from the pod into my camera roll to edit (hypothetically)

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u/elsdotcom — 8 days ago
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What’s the funniest interaction you’ve had with the public?

Probably not my funniest but memorable either way; Very obviously drunk guy running down the street shouting ‘MICK. MICK. OI MICK. MICK’, he finally reached ‘Mick’ and went ‘What? You’re not Mick? Where’s mick? Who are you?’ He had the thing where he was so confused it was almost anger. Made me giggle

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u/elsdotcom — 11 days ago

How/why don’t people vomit during an endoscopy?

An endoscopy is when a tube with a camera is pushed down a persons throat and into their stomach to look around.

I understand that they lightly sedate people often, but people who are passed out drunk still have it happen, so it can’t be the sedation that does it.

I do not understand it at all

Edit to add: it’s not full sedation - it’s just enough to make people more relaxed and less resistant to the tube

Edit again: ignore the drunk part. that was a silly comparison. i just don’t understand how it works without some sort of antiemetic

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u/elsdotcom — 14 days ago

Instagram reel showing dog guiding older lady with memory problems back to bed.

It is the exact type of video that would be ai; it hits the sympathy cards, and parts of the video are quite blurry, but the pattern on her dressing gown and the rug seems to remain consistent? The caption also feels written by AI, i’ll paste it here;

This is footage from the Callahan home in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was recorded last month. Dorothy Callahan's son, Michael, shared it after his mother's care team encouraged him to document what was happening.
The woman in the robe is Dorothy. She is 83 years old.
She was diagnosed with a progressive memory condition three years ago. Over the past eighteen months her condition has moved into a stage her doctors describe as involving significant nighttime disorientation. After dark, Dorothy becomes convinced that time has shifted backward. She believes she is late for things. A teaching job she retired from in 1998. Morning church choir. Her own children's school drop-off from thirty years ago.
These feel completely real and immediate to her at two in the morning.
Before last year, Michael was waking up two or three times each night to check on his mother. He had moved into her home eight months after her diagnosis to help care for her. He installed door alarms. He put a chain lock on the front door above where she could reach. She found a step stool.
The local police had returned Dorothy to the house once after a neighbor found her walking down the street in the early morning hours.
Michael was barely functioning. Working from home during the day, unable to sleep more than a couple of hours at a stretch at night.

The dog is a seven-year-old Golden Retriever named Chester. Dorothy had adopted him four years ago for companionship. He completed a basic obedience class when he was younger and that was the extent of any formal training.
About eight months ago, Michael started noticing something on the hallway camera footage.
Chester was getting to the front door first. Every single night.
He was waking up from his sleeping spot before Dorothy reached the hallway. Walking calmly to the front door.
Sitting in the doorway before she arrived. When she tried to go around him, he moved with her without urgency.
Patient. Steady. Then he would take the sleeve of her robe in his mouth - gently, never pulling hard - and walk beside her back toward the bedroom.
Dorothy followed him each time without distress.
Michael had been watching this on camera

u/elsdotcom — 27 days ago

Who’s this guy!?

Flew into my room in the night, i’m assuming because of the light. Released back into the night unharmed!

England, Southwest

u/elsdotcom — 1 month ago

I sleep text

My guess on translation from remembering the dream;

[not sure]
but then minky (was) so pregnant with 49 babies

then it was bethan with so many. there were so many and i bought things for breastfeeding and stuff it was a [unsure]

craziness! [?]

absolutely no idea at the end there

u/elsdotcom — 1 month ago

Please help me

I normally have chronic constipation
I had two ‘loose’ stools today (actually normal stools for normal people, but loose for me)

I am now having waves of nausea and my stomach hurts.

Does real nausea come in waves? Will it just get worse and worse? I haven’t been unwell in 13 years

I don’t know what to do. Can someone tell me what this is please? I’m so scared

i’m 21 years old, living away from home, and i just want my mum

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u/elsdotcom — 1 month ago

These little things are all over the garden of the house we just moved in to

It’s a concrete garden, not many bushes or trees. No idea what they are but smells like garlic when crushed?

South West England

u/elsdotcom — 1 month ago

Spider eggs just hatched in tv

UK, south.
Sorry for bad quality pictures. They are everywhere. Literally everywhere. Never buying a second hand tv again. What type of spider are these ? Bare in mind i’m pretty sure they’ve literally just hatched

u/elsdotcom — 2 months ago

Can’t (or won’t) fall asleep before 3am. Advice?

Hi! I’ve had an issue for many many many many months now where I force myself to stay up as late as possible, I can’t fall asleep before about 3am, regardless of how tired I am.

This is because i’m terrified of waking up in the middle of the night. I immediately wake up and body scan and then freak out that what if i’ve woken up because im unwell.

What’s even worse, is when im genuinely tired or exhausted in the evening (like right now, it’s 10:30pm), i get even more scared to sleep, because in my head im so tired because i must be coming down with something, so i don’t sleep so that i cant wake up in the middle of the night.

Times after about 4:30/5am are ‘safe’ to me, not sure why.

Firstly, does anyone else have this problem? Secondly, does anyone have any advice?

What’s especially unhelpful is I feel worst in the evening, I always have a sore throat or a headache or something of the sort from about 10pm onwards :/

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u/elsdotcom — 2 months ago
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DAE get ‘tight throat’ in the evening/night?

Could very well just be anxiety. Most evenings i have what feels like a tightened throat, not in a breathing way though. Sneezing releases it briefly but that’s it. It’s so uncomfortable, I also get massive amount of saliva production during this, and it’s during the evening where i’m most bloated and in pain. Any tips ?

Edit to add: when this happens it makes it more uncomfortable to hold my head up, i lie on my back/sit up with a back rest and just rest my head to the left on my shoulder

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u/elsdotcom — 2 months ago

I need hyping up/egging on to take antibiotics!

Been prescribed liquid trimethoprim. Can’t bring myself to take it. So scared of being unwell !! I know I need to and I know things could get a lot worse if I don’t, but I just can’t bring myself to do it, so scared!

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u/elsdotcom — 3 months ago

Looking for advice - What should I know/do about antibiotics?

UPDATE: The pharmacy said they can’t prescribe me antibiotics. I have to wait another two days to go to the doctors, I will have had the UTI getting worse and worse for 5 days by that point. I am VERY stressed.

Hi there!

I have a UTI that’s just been getting worse and worse. I’m going to have to head out to the pharmacy tomorrow and I’m assuming they’ll prescribe me antibiotics. I’ve never taken antibiotics before, here are my worries;

  1. i’m bad at taking medication at the best of times, i’m so scared of side effects when i get prescribed something i obsessively research it (i know. not good), and then have to work myself up for hours or even days to just take one dose
  2. im naturally awful at swallowing pills as it is, but the liquid stuff is almost harder because the taste and texture makes me so anxious and it’s like i can ‘feel’ it in my stomach even more!
  3. like many people here, i’m anxious of the possible side effects of it making me unwell

i know that i’ll need to take them regardless of the risks, but i’m genuinely worried that i’ll get prescribed them and just not be able to bring myself to actively take them. sometimes i find taking medication to be a bit like jumping off of a bungee jump, you just can’t bring yourself to take that step. even once i manage to psych myself up i find that with how long it sits in my mouth i end up completely unable to swallow it and talking myself out of it again!!

any tips at all would be massively appreciated. i wish there was just an injection or something hahaha no going back that way !!

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u/elsdotcom — 3 months ago
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DAE- Disconnecting first play in the morning???

Whenever I first turn on my ps5 in the day, after about 20 minutes of playing the controllers will disconnect and will refuse to reconnect. It happens with all controllers (i’ve tried 6). It takes a couple of hours of waiting, and then suddenly they will reconnect again and be fine for the rest of the day.

This seems to happen regardless of time of day, or regardless of how many people and devices are in the house. It’s every day without fail, normally between the hours of 10 and 2.

I’m honestly at a loss here. Just so confused.

(i have searched this and haven’t found anything!)

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u/elsdotcom — 3 months ago