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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

SuBeCo posted:

1) call your GP, explain the Portugese results to the receptionist, ask to make an appointment to test testosterone levels
2) double check the appointment is appropriate for that test and if there are any requirements from you for e.g. fasting if they also want to check blood glucose
3) hang up.
4) attend appointment, wait for results
5) attend gp when results arrive
6) if results are consistent with Portuguese results, ask for a referral to an endocrinologist
7) if they try to fob you off, don't leave the room, goto 6)

Disclaimer: not exactly a doctor for Humans, definitely not your doctor for Humans, but a lot of experience navigating the nhs in various roles.
Follow this up to stage 5, but don't insist on a referral to a hormone specialist if there's stuff the go wants to rule out first.

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

gently caress ur doc

they're prescription only here too, but I order them from like poland or something over ebay and eat them like candy. Melatonin seriously helps

This makes me unhappy for various reasons

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Pilchenstein posted:

It's just part of the right's ongoing persecution complex. They spend all their time complaining that their free speech is in peril and they're not allowed to voice their opinions despite the fact that you can't get moved for right wing thinkpieces these days.
Theres also part of this where they venerate "anti-establishment" candidates, all of whom have been part of establishment careers for long periods of time.

SuBeCo
Jun 19, 2005
Amazing... Simply amazing...

jabby posted:

Please don't tell people to refuse to leave their GP's office if they don't get a referral, especially for such a dubious reason as borderline low testosterone.

Ah fair, I was imprecise. I meant politely request a second time to be clear you were concerned not stay forever. Edited to be clear

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Cerebral Bore posted:

If that happens you can expect a huge swathe of the FBPE crowd to suddenly realize that it's actually very important to respect the referendum and Brexit must go ahead.

Nah most of them will say they'll never vote Labour until the anti-Semitism is cleared out and the others will just stop posting.

While there are some really loving poo poo anti-semites hanging around Labour and in the labour movement it's really rare for them to remain influential figures actually doing things without being reported to the disciplinary committees and properly booted out (Livingstone a terrible stain for Labour to be sure). Anti-Semitism has become the go-to item for people who never want to vote for Corbyn but don't have the courage to try and argue against what he's standing for such as from some really loving terrible people who have voted Labour in the past but recently said things like 'I guess I'm really a lib dem at heart' post-Corbyn and want to be able to justify why they're voting Tory in the next election (the only other facebook posts I see about this are proper socialists discussing the IHRA definitions and their limitations in limiting cases of anti-Semitism in other countries and how it gets used to attack organisations calling for BDS).

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
When I had polyarthralgia last year, my parents were insisting I go to A&E.
My logic of "It's not an Accident or an Emergency" had to be repeated 3-4 times each week.
Yeah, it was painful and very limiting, but I ate a crapload of Naproxen, munched some antibiotics when I got hit with a chest infection, and after 3 weeks I could go back to work.

Sometimes you just get ill. Treating everything as if it's pancreatic cancer isn't helpful for anyone.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Namtab posted:

This makes me unhappy for various reasons

I didn't actually mean I eat them like candy, and I'm sure your doc's fine

What I meant to say was they make me sleep after quitting benzos after like five years of use and one year of abuse, so they can help. I do antihists too, they're not bad

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

kingturnip posted:

When I had polyarthralgia last year, my parents were insisting I go to A&E.
My logic of "It's not an Accident or an Emergency" had to be repeated 3-4 times each week.
Yeah, it was painful and very limiting, but I ate a crapload of Naproxen, munched some antibiotics when I got hit with a chest infection, and after 3 weeks I could go back to work.

Sometimes you just get ill. Treating everything as if it's pancreatic cancer isn't helpful for anyone.

If I had algae in multiple arteries, I wouldn't be hard to convince

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I was real impressed when the senior Tory said that the conservatives have a problem with islamophobia and the papers crusaded against May until she took robust action to solve the problem

Firos
Apr 30, 2007

Staying abreast of the latest developments in jam communism



Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I didn't actually mean I eat them like candy, and I'm sure your doc's fine

What I meant to say was they make me sleep after quitting benzos after like five years of use and one year of abuse, so they can help. I do antihists too, they're not bad

6 years of benzos :stonk:

LeafyGreens
May 9, 2009

the elegant cephalopod

Pilchenstein posted:

It's just part of the right's ongoing persecution complex. They spend all their time complaining that their free speech is in peril and they're not allowed to voice their opinions despite the fact that you can't get moved for right wing thinkpieces these days.

The fact that every one of them gets paid good money to spew their bile on the internet just proves how oppressed they are!

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
Didn't see this linked:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-a8471616.html

Universal Income seems like a loving great idea, simplifies the system and elevates the baseline. I should read more about it, as I would think for one thing it would get a lot of people off the streets, especially if the housing market gets fixed too.

Aipsh
Feb 17, 2006


GLUPP SHITTO FAN CLUB PRESIDENT
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this thread. It is August time

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
myself, I am preparing for the "Our Jeremy was always going to hold the Tories to account for this Tory Brexit all along" takes

Sloth Life
Nov 15, 2014

Built for comfort and speed!
Fallen Rib
Is there a new thread yet?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
The September thread has been held up in customs at Calais

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Rarity posted:

The September thread has been held up in customs at Calais

That's Ok, so long as it doesn't get held up for another month

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
We're all currently parked on the M20.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

serious gaylord posted:

We're all currently parked on the M20.

Took a break so I could have a poo poo on't hard shoulder

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

DesperateDan posted:

Took a break so I could have a poo poo on't hard shoulder

After brexit thats the most valuable currency we have.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I didn't actually mean I eat them like candy, and I'm sure your doc's fine

What I meant to say was they make me sleep after quitting benzos after like five years of use and one year of abuse, so they can help. I do antihists too, they're not bad

I suspect Nantab and I were both thinking of that poor beautiful talented young woman who died because the diet pills she bought on eBay were rat poison.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
I'm a big fan of Sky news 'exposing the collusion of Corbyn to whitewash the Chakrabati report' and their evidence is a recording of someone saying they were texting Corbyn the day after the report was published.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
I'm so loving sick of this

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Funny it happens the same day as Northamptonshire council announce thwyre so broke they're basically cutting everything while a bunch of.other Tory run councils also are close to going bust

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
The same day the chancellor has announced that non protected budgets need to find another 5% of cuts to finance the NHS pledge.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

BizarroAzrael posted:

Didn't see this linked:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-a8471616.html

Universal Income seems like a loving great idea, simplifies the system and elevates the baseline. I should read more about it, as I would think for one thing it would get a lot of people off the streets, especially if the housing market gets fixed too.

Ultimately it's still a compromise with capital tho

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

My phone had a BBC News notification that just said "Jeremy Corbyn apologises for hosting 2010 Holocaust event"

At the end of the article it gets to the quote which is basically "sometimes I have to share a platform with people whose views I don't agree with, and I'm sorry for the concern that's caused" but y'know

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


Barry Foster posted:

Ultimately it's still a compromise with capital tho

It's something that socialists can easily argue for, and will be a precursor to further actions.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
Been doing some twitter shitposting on various jc/anti semitism things and out of curiosity I started poking around the timelines of those pushing the line.

Out of 8 that I have looked at, 7 were dedicated accounts- "free tommeh, listen to this lauren southern podcast, heres a rabbi on why corbyn is the next hitler and next up 10 reasons why the muslim threat needs to be eliminated". Of those 7, 2 or 3 don't really do conversation much- mainly likes or retweets, but the others definitely are piloted at least some of the time.

I'm sure this isn't new to most posters here who poo poo up the twitters and I have seen this poo poo before but there seems to be a really massive push on this. I wish I had some more time to get on a desktop and start profile trawling more because doing in on phone is painful.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol northamptonshire council are having to cut all non-legally required services because they're out of money as a result of them expected to be given more money by the government since they're a tory council

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

baka kaba posted:

My phone had a BBC News notification that just said "Jeremy Corbyn apologises for hosting 2010 Holocaust event"

At the end of the article it gets to the quote which is basically "sometimes I have to share a platform with people whose views I don't agree with, and I'm sorry for the concern that's caused" but y'know

Lets see what happened a couple of hours ago and if this made the news at all

https://twitter.com/SocialistVoice/status/1024450676959653890

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

DesperateDan posted:

Been doing some twitter shitposting on various jc/anti semitism things and out of curiosity I started poking around the timelines of those pushing the line.

Out of 8 that I have looked at, 7 were dedicated accounts- "free tommeh, listen to this lauren southern podcast, heres a rabbi on why corbyn is the next hitler and next up 10 reasons why the muslim threat needs to be eliminated". Of those 7, 2 or 3 don't really do conversation much- mainly likes or retweets, but the others definitely are piloted at least some of the time.

I'm sure this isn't new to most posters here who poo poo up the twitters and I have seen this poo poo before but there seems to be a really massive push on this. I wish I had some more time to get on a desktop and start profile trawling more because doing in on phone is painful.

Of course it is, the comments are all similar, often fitting a pattern. I'm sure some of the blue ticks are asked to tweet about something so their replies can be flooded too.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

TheHoodedClaw posted:

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1024207148014870529

Ladies and Gentlemen, indeed the full rich spectrum of humankind in all its wonders and complexity - behold Marcus Fysh

When this lot keep saying "it'll be it's our choice what happens!" people really need to start doubling down on it, getting them to confirm that whatever we see happening after Brexit will be entirely the Tory government's design and responsibility

Don't think it would have fazed this guy though, he's operating on another level

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
You'll have to forgive the stream of posting from me here but we have what, 3 - 4 months worth of consistent calls and notices of a huge problem with Islamophobia in the tory party and I have yet to see a single headline, report or even tweet from the BBC's news team about it. Yet the tiniest hint of anti-semitism is broadcast from the loving rafters. I'm expecting Kuensberg to have a full page article in the next 20 minutes.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
I’m not concerned, the right wing are dreadful at modern campaigning and the press has lost it’s grip. What they are all doing is yelling in an echo chamber.

The anti-Semitic stuff isn’t designed to convince the Jews, those involved were always going to vote Tory, it’s designed to convince the people the Tories call “snowflakes” that Corbyn is a bad person and it’s fairly obvious from the polling and the internet that they either aren’t buying it, or are looking at all of this and going “well maybe we shouldn’t say it’s the right of Israel to bomb Palestinians and they should be called out on it”

How many people out there won’t openly commit to an opinion on Israel because it’s always been like the Irish Troubles in that anything you say will piss someone off so it’s best to keep quiet? I bet a lot of those people have actually been both educated and convinced that Israel should really stop killing civilians by all of this now.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
when he says that we'll be in control of just letting everything through i want them to call him out on that meaning no checks so anyone can get absolutely anything through including poisoned goods and the like

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
A lot of these batshit insane policies are probably going to end up being seriously discussed in parlement by a Tory party that will be three line whipped to vote for them.

The reality is that we won’t be able to check everything coming in because the vets and customs officials/buildings needed don’t exist, so in reality we won’t be able to do any checks, so in order for us to get food in the shops and not have it all rot in the great Dover lorry park we won’t be able do any at all.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

learnincurve posted:

I suspect Nantab and I were both thinking of that poor beautiful talented young woman who died because the diet pills she bought on eBay were rat poison.
I think that was dinitrophenol. In any case, the blame lies with the cunts at the Home Office who have managed to ban anything that looks mildly like a stimulant to the point where the go to 'diet aids' are industrial dye precursors. Way to save lives you guys.

serious gaylord posted:

Lets see what happened a couple of hours ago and if this made the news at all

https://twitter.com/SocialistVoice/status/1024450676959653890
But you see this isn't racist because Islam is a religion, not a race. A religion that you can transmit genetically through rape. Not racist.

mehall posted:

It's something that socialists can easily argue for, and will be a precursor to further actions.
I used to like the idea of UBI, but I think Universal Basic Services are an easier sell now, and better address the fake problems of 'give people free money no work etc.' and the real problems of it just ending up in the hands of landlords and speculators through cost of living increases and also being able to be taken out of the economy by stuffing it under a mattress or overseas.

Plus we already know what a UBS might look like. The NHS, when funded and run properly, is one. Corbyn's NES would be another example (and better than Ed's ZX81). Free at the point of use bus travel for everyone, universal internet provision, etc. are other places you could go with that, and the economy and workers would benefit through fiscal multipliers and job integration.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

serious gaylord posted:

You'll have to forgive the stream of posting from me here but we have what, 3 - 4 months worth of consistent calls and notices of a huge problem with Islamophobia in the tory party and I have yet to see a single headline, report or even tweet from the BBC's news team about it. Yet the tiniest hint of anti-semitism is broadcast from the loving rafters. I'm expecting Kuensberg to have a full page article in the next 20 minutes.

It's the top story


Wait no that's Jeremy Corbyn!

And honestly, antisemitism doesn't generally get much coverage either - it's the Labour Antisemitism Scandal that's in the news. Like most racism it usually just gets ignored mostly

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radmonger
Jun 6, 2011

learnincurve posted:


The anti-Semitic stuff isn’t designed to convince the Jews, those involved were always going to vote Tory,

This is true now, it would t have been 5/10 years ago.

There are plenty of well-off, culturally conservative, small busines owners who currently overwhelmingly vote labour because they they come from an ethnic minority, and Labour are the anti-racist party. Just like those in similar circumstances from a Jewish background used to.

Turning that natural advantage into ‘ both sides are equally bad, best to keep out of it’ is a pretty big win for team Tory.

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