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LolaP1986

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  1. You know, I figure I'm lucky to have a car to get vandalised in the first place...so it's not all bad! There are many who face much much greater challenges everyday, and what an inspiration they are!
  2. Needs assessment was really helpful actually. She was very nice and very understanding. I've had a lovely friend help a little with the PIP form, so I've at least made a start. However someone smashed my car windscreen last night, so I'm feeling stressed/upset about that, so I've been thrown off at little, but back to it once I have everything sorted!!
  3. Aviemorticia, Thank you so much for your response. That's really helpful. I have DSA needs assessment tomorrow, which I'm feeling quite stressed about, but I have had a lot of help in regards to that. Feeling a lot more alone with the PIP. I will check out your thread as well. Perhaps the needs assessment will focus me somewhat as well?
  4. Hi, I was just wondering where I could get help/advice filling out PIP forms. I'm really bad with forms, and they took 2 weeks to arrive, so I don't have long left to send them back. The NAS welfare rights advisor is on holiday. I really don't know where to begin
  5. So it has been some time since I have been active on this forum, and a lot has changed. I guess I'm really struggling with some aspects of how my life is changing. The biggest change being that my relationship ended. I was living with my boyfriend, and in fact we only moved house in December. I now have to move, soon! This is proving tricky, as I have a dog and a lot of landlords are unwilling to accept dogs. She is my absolute best friend in the world, so not having her isn't an option. My aim is to set up a situation which is sustainable long term, all this change and disruption has left me in a daze. Does anyone have any advice? I have shared accommodation with others before, during my degree and found it very challenging. Generally it resulted in me being locked in my room. I've never done any of this alone before and it's very daunting.
  6. So it has been some time since I have been active on this forum, and a lot has changed. I guess I'm really struggling with some aspects of how my life is changing. The biggest change being that my relationship ended. I was living with my boyfriend, and in fact we only moved house in December. I now have to move, soon! This is proving tricky, as I have a dog and a lot of landlords are unwilling to accept dogs. She is my absolute best friend in the world, so not having her isn't an option. My aim is to set up a situation which is sustainable long term, all this change and disruption has left me in a daze. Does anyone have any advice? I have shared accommodation with others before, during my degree and found it very challenging. Generally it resulted in me being locked in my room. I've never done any of this alone before and it's very daunting.
  7. Thanks good to be back
  8. I'm a PhD student at University of Bath, and the support has been brilliant. I wish I'd known such support existed whilst doing my degree!!
  9. Hello! I disappeared off here for a while, but I'm back. The last few months have been crazy. PhD started, and going well (I think) after a very bumpy first 6 weeks. Things are still up and down, but having my diagnosis has made such a huge difference, and I have greater access to the support I need. What's been going on?
  10. It's been a long time!

    1. Merry

      Merry

      Hi...I must be newer than you. Nice to meet you, glad ur back. :)

  11. So I have been diagnosed as having AS. I really don't know what to say about it, because I'm not really sure how I feel. I feel really weird. I am hoping I will be able to get some help now, which I really need, especially now that I'll be starting a PhD.
  12. I had the same thing when I started aerobics/step aerobics
  13. Just got offered a funded PhD! Happy!

    1. Mannify

      Mannify

      Wow!!!! That is just so wonderfully exciting. Research is so fascinating it makes me want to jump around the room. I don't know where I'd ever fit a PhD into my life, but I'm soooooo jealous! Well done!

    2. Mannify

      Mannify

      Tell us more on a dedicated thread when you have time :)

    3. LolaP1986

      LolaP1986

      I'm back home in Ireland visiting family/friends but will definitely post more about it when I get the chance :)

  14. So despite my shoulder and back really hurting and feeling sick from the painkillers, things are working out really well :) Trip home to Ireland on Tuesday too!

  15. Yeah, even checked to see what Arnie I have!
  16. I was thinking Arnie actually!
  17. Such as? I find most of those too annoying to watch. Lemonade on ice sounds good! Smiley - My work know about my shoulder and I let my boss know today that it was bad again and my backs been bad. I will probably just be sent home tomorrow as I won't be much use to them. I'll either be sore or sick. Yeah I've made sure to eat with them, but it's a struggle. That's how I'm feeling...really sick and like everything is moving. It's horrible.
  18. Definitely not pregnant. I'm taking naproxen as well. My shoulder partially dislocates sometimes, due to the instability. I've over done it in work and have been generally very stressed, which I think is causing it all. The naproxen has never caused that reaction, so I'm sure its the tramadol. I think nausea is a common enough side effect, but leaves me so I can't do much. I will see how it goes over the next day or too! Going to try to relax...tips??
  19. I have an instability in my shoulder, and am supposed to be on light duties in work. The last few weeks thing doesn't seem to have happened and my shoulder is back to really hurting, but I've also really hurt my back/hip on the same side. Over the weekend I could hardly move. Yesterday it got so bad, nothing I took was helping, so I contacted a doctor, who gave me tramadol. It's worked quite well...I'm still uncomfortable but not really sore. I do have severe nausea and dizziness though. I just feel awful. Has anyone else experienced this? Every time I move I want to be sick.
  20. Fell over in step class...

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    2. LolaP1986

      LolaP1986

      Yes I'm fine, it was quite funny really. I seem to trip/fall quite a lot. I've actually done a lot of step, but this was a new class. VERY loud music, VERY loud instructor, was rather disorientated and just fell over myself! :)

    3. LolaP1986

      LolaP1986

      Thank you for your concern though :)

    4. Mannify

      Mannify

      Glad you're not hurt! :)

  21. I dream about quitting my job a lot! Which is something I would absolutely love to do, so I really enjoy those dreams.
  22. I had three different instructors, and about 35 hours of lessons altogether. The first instructor was nice and patient, but I ran out of money so the lessons stopped. Then years later, in my final year of my degree, I started learning again. Initially I got on well with the instructor, however once I'd booked and paid for 10 lessons, things started to deteriorate. He spent a lot of time on his phone, had the radio on (loudly), shouted at me and told me he was 'scared' of my driving. I eventually stopped mid-lesson, got out and walked home. That was the end of that. A few months after finishing my degree, and moving, I decided to try again. I was incredibly nervous by then. Luckily I had an amazing instructor and my confidence grew. My driving came together very quickly then. He explained everything very clearly, and would show me diagrams of roundabouts before I had to drive them. By the time my test came round, I knew I could drive well enough to pass, and I did. I'm still quite nervous driving if I don't know the roads well. I look up the route on google maps, so I can make sure I'm in the right lane at roundabouts etc. I find big roundabouts disorientating. I try to avoid the magic roundabout whenever possible. Whilst I understand it, other drivers don't seem to obey the rules and I find it very stressful. (I was a passenger in a car hit on this junction because someone else failed to give way).
  23. LolaP1986

    New Here

    Hello everyone A gecko is a type of lizard! My boyfriend is in the RAF, based at Brize Norton. Lyneham closed recently. Rosie when did you leave Calne? Did you ever visit the museum of computing in Swindon? Wow, 19? That is old. My parents dog died recently, he was 19!
  24. LolaP1986

    New Here

    Hello, I'm new here. I'm 25 and currently undiagnosed. Hopefully that will change next month Recently read Aspergirls, and I feel like a weight has been lifted. My dad is also AS, which is how I came to realise I am too. I did my degree in Physics, but have struggled to gain graduate employment or get on a postgraduate course. I interview badly. So badly that I lose my ability to speak and even passed out once! Though recently I have been offered a place on a Master course, with fees paid, which I will take up if I can find enough money to live during the course. I am incredibly lucky to have a great boyfriend, who I live with. He is totally of accepting of me and all my quirks. I also have 2 rats, 2 geckos and a dog (who is my best friend). Not really sure what to say now!
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