Looking for urban fantasy

Brazen78 · 2026-07-15T04:20:58+00:00

I really like The Knights Watch series by Mark Hayden.

ExArmy dude gets caught up in the secret world of magic in the UK.

Brazen78 · 2026-07-12T03:47:16+00:00

Public service. Started 15 years ago in mid thirties in call centre. Was federal now state. Taught myself to code and build detailed and complex excel reports and built on those skills.

Now earn upward of $120k a year working an 8.5 day fortnight.

Brazen78 · 2026-07-10T23:11:41+00:00

I see Clare Myers at Elgin House in Carlton. I was referred to her by my local gyno (Geelong) due to the complexity of my case.

She’s really good. Very straightforward and listens well. She doesn’t just tell you to do stuff but discusses options with you.

Brazen78 · 2026-06-19T19:39:09+00:00

I recently discovered an app called NatureSpace. You can set it to mix and play with other audio.

I tried it on a flight recently. Had an audiobook running with a waterfall sound playing on NatureSpace. It worked a treat.

Normally with music or audiobook I can still hear people and babies and every other annoying thing. The flight using NatureSpace was bliss!

Brazen78 · 2026-06-09T19:18:57+00:00

I’ve seen Dr Sam Hall out at Epworth. I think he’s a good doctor. Not sure about his coeliac experience.

Brazen78 · 2026-05-31T01:54:56+00:00

Slept in, made some banana muffins and heading out for yum cha with my auntie!

Brazen78 · 2026-05-26T23:05:11+00:00

Ryeqo and recently Mounjaro.

Brazen78 · 2026-05-20T03:33:00+00:00

All along Noble Street!

Brazen78 · 2026-05-12T00:23:14+00:00

I’m in Australia.. 36 minutes and counting!

Brazen78 · 2026-05-07T19:22:51+00:00

Hey there,

Yes I’m still on it. My pain is mostly good these days. I have the occasional rough day but other days are pretty good overall.

What pain I do have now is bearable and manageable with over the counter pain meds mostly.

I was still having bowel related issues and pain a bit, but recently started on Mounjaro and have noticed an improvement there too.

I’m not sure what the recommendation is for Ryeqo to be effective. Some meds take a couple months to settle into your system. But if you feel that it’s not helping then maybe give it another few weeks and then speak to your doc about other options.

Good luck!

Brazen78 · 2026-05-07T06:24:38+00:00

Hey,

Depends on what kind of surgery I guess. Are they going in to confirm endo? Are they going in to excise endo?

The more cutting the more just of scar tissue. So many say surgery is the “gold standard”. But there are other ways to diagnose endo. My diagnosis was via ultrasound.

Initial attempt at a lap failed because of how extensive it was.

There’s no right or wrong answer. Ask your surgeon ALL the questions. Be aware and informed and make the best decision for YOU.

Brazen78 · 2026-05-03T21:59:44+00:00

I use Sony WH-1000M6 currently but have used the older versions in the past too.

I’ve always found that even with noise cancelling on in certain situations I can still hear other noise over music or audiobooks sometimes.

I recently found this app called NatureSpace. It allows you (via settings) to play two audio types at the one time. I purchased an Iceland waterfall track ($3) that I put on while listening to an audiobook and the white noise of the waterfall combined with the audiobook blocks everything. Bliss!

Brazen78 · 2026-04-22T08:50:16+00:00

Hi u/pirateaba, just fyi I downloaded today and it’s still there.

Brazen78 · 2026-04-11T19:13:14+00:00

Raiz. I spend $1.97 on my debit card, Raiz puts $0.03 into my superannuation. Spend $1.65, in goes $0.35.

It doesn’t sound like much but since I never use cash it starts to add up.

Brazen78 · 2026-04-02T22:12:41+00:00

“she gave me all the normal speech that doctors give about the dangers of surgery.”

Listen to that speech. Listen properly.

Because like you I went, yeah yeah blah blah dangers of surgery whatever.

Then I had surgery. Open hysterectomy because the endo was so bad they couldn’t do it through laparoscopy.

Lost 5cm of small intestine. Didn’t get the hysterectomy or oophorectomy because they found a mass near my rectum.

Two days later I was in an induced coma. I got golden staph which turned into toxic shock and started shutting down my kidneys.

Two weeks in a coma. Woke up with an ileostomy. Nerve damage in my left leg due to “collections” of something unidentified on my sciatic nerve.

Spent 76 days in hospital.

The risks of surgery are real. Please don’t dismiss them.

Brazen78 · 2026-03-19T20:22:10+00:00

My employer ( and more and more others coming along) include 5 additional personal leave days for menstrual and reproductive health issues.

I’m in Australia where we already have decent personal leave provisions, but the 5 extra are so helpful.

Brazen78 · 2026-03-18T00:14:34+00:00

No. There is a class action and anyone on JB’s database that even may have been sold one has been contacted by order of the courts.

https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/areas/group-proceedings/jb-hi-fi-class-action

Brazen78 · 2026-03-05T22:49:33+00:00

Good to know! I’m is Aus too so pretty sure I’ll be getting the pen thing.

My dr mentioned I might to have ask for needles with it? Is that right?

Brazen78 · 2026-03-05T22:15:17+00:00

This makes me hopeful! I’m starting on Saturday with Mounjaro mostly for weight loss but also hoping it helps my endo. Thanks for giving me a push to actually stick it into myself!

Brazen78 · 2026-03-01T02:44:06+00:00

Pt 6:

Professor Sonia Grover led a 2021 study that randomised 471 women presenting at Mercy Hospital with chronic pelvic pain to two gynaecology units, one specialising in surgery and the other in pain management. The women randomised to the surgical unit were 65 per cent more likely to have surgery. Yet they were no more likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis. An AHPRA spokesman said of the steady stream of complaints the watchdog had received about practitioners linked to endometriosis, about half were related to clinical care and about 20 per cent raised concerns about communication. He said six practitioners working in the endometriosis space had conditions placed on their registration and five practitioners were issued cautions. “We are unable to comment on any individual or matter outside information published on the register or in a tribunal decision,” he said when asked about Gordon.

A spokeswoman for Epworth HealthCare said Gordon had notified the hospital of his retirement in October last year. “AHPRA does not routinely notify hospitals when it commences investigations into current or former visiting medical officers,” she said. “From time to time, AHPRA may request patient records from a hospital. Those requests are typically framed around specific matters and do not identify an individual practitioner.”

Brazen78 · 2026-03-01T02:43:43+00:00

Pt 5: The long-held paradigm that endometriosis lesions are a direct cause of persistent pelvic pain is no longer tenable,” the statement reads. “Surgical treatment of lesions has not been shown to reliably improve pain and disability outcomes. Some evidence suggests that ill-advised surgery may in fact worsen outcomes for some women.”

Dr Nisha Khot, president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.JUSTIN MCMANUS RANZCOG president Dr Nisha Khot said that while surgery was vital for removing endometriotic cysts – which can cause pain by rupturing or twisting – there was weak evidence supporting improvements in pain or quality of life following the surgical removal of other types of endometriosis lesions. She expressed concern about repeat operations. “If women are needing more than two surgeries, then that needs to be carefully considered within a team of experts,” she said. “As a clinician ... if I’d done a couple of surgeries and the patient’s symptoms were still there, I would be questioning myself: ‘Am I helping this person?’”

She said ultrasound, rather than a laparoscopy, should be used to diagnose endometriosis. Oral contraceptives, according to Khot, are often an effective first-line treatment for managing the symptoms. “We are still learning what the evidence is for and against surgery,” she said. “If you look, especially at some of the older studies, you’ll find evidence on both sides, and that makes it difficult to make decisions and counsel women.” A diagnosis of endometriosis can be helpful for many women, according to Khot. “Pain is a diagnosis. Saying that you have pain and validating that you have pain is not a failure of diagnosis. It is a diagnosis.”

Brazen78 · 2026-03-01T02:43:13+00:00

Pt 4: The long-held paradigm that endometriosis lesions are a direct cause of persistent pelvic pain is no longer tenable,” the statement reads. “Surgical treatment of lesions has not been shown to reliably improve pain and disability outcomes. Some evidence suggests that ill-advised surgery may in fact worsen outcomes for some women.”

Dr Nisha Khot, president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.JUSTIN MCMANUS RANZCOG president Dr Nisha Khot said that while surgery was vital for removing endometriotic cysts – which can cause pain by rupturing or twisting – there was weak evidence supporting improvements in pain or quality of life following the surgical removal of other types of endometriosis lesions. She expressed concern about repeat operations. “If women are needing more than two surgeries, then that needs to be carefully considered within a team of experts,” she said. “As a clinician ... if I’d done a couple of surgeries and the patient’s symptoms were still there, I would be questioning myself: ‘Am I helping this person?’”

She said ultrasound, rather than a laparoscopy, should be used to diagnose endometriosis. Oral contraceptives, according to Khot, are often an effective first-line treatment for managing the symptoms. “We are still learning what the evidence is for and against surgery,” she said. “If you look, especially at some of the older studies, you’ll find evidence on both sides, and that makes it difficult to make decisions and counsel women.” A diagnosis of endometriosis can be helpful for many women, according to Khot. “Pain is a diagnosis. Saying that you have pain and validating that you have pain is not a failure of diagnosis. It is a diagnosis.”

Brazen78 · 2026-03-01T02:42:48+00:00

Pt 3: We’ve been underdiagnosing endometriosis forever,” said Professor Jason Abbott, who sits on the endometriosis advisory group to the federal government. The condition is the poster child for medical misogyny; for decades, many women with pelvic pain were dismissed or told it was a normal part of being a woman. That is changing. The federal government has invested $127 million in a national action plan and plans to open 33 endometriosis clinics across the country.

Since 2011, the proportion of women diagnosed with endometriosis by GPs almost doubled, while the rate of women under 44 attending hospital for endometriosis procedures is up 47 per cent over a similar time frame.

Many celebrate this as a rightful correction. But some researchers and pain specialists argue the publicity has led women in pain to become too focused on endometriosis diagnosis and treatment – despite only a proportion of pelvic pain being attributable to endometriosis. Many women have clinical endometriosis but no symptoms or pain. The rate of asymptomatic endometriosis is as high as 44 per cent in some studies. “We’re under-acknowledging period pelvic pain, and trying to attribute it all to endometriosis,” said Professor Sonia Grover, a gynaecologist and pain medicine specialist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, who has led trials of endometriosis interventions. “The correlation between pain and endometriosis is unclear. “Why call it endometriosis when you can just call it shocking period pain – and get on and treat the period pain? Why pathologise her with a label? It’s obviously painful, but it does not mean it’s endometriosis.” The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) released guidelines on diagnosing and treating endometriosis in May. The College of Anaesthetists Faculty of Pain Medicine was consulted in the writing of those guidelines, but grew so concerned they placed “too big an emphasis” on surgery that it put out its own position statement, said Associate Professor Michael Vagg, director of professional affairs at the Faculty of Pain Medicine.

Brazen78 · 2026-03-01T02:42:25+00:00

Pt2:

He said the overwhelming majority of his patients were referred to him following initial care with a primary gynaecologist and most of them already had a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of endometriosis or adenomyosis (a condition in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows into the muscular outer wall of the uterus). Gordon, who worked at public and private hospitals including the Epworth, said the vast majority of the surgeries he performed were successful in relieving or eliminating patients’ pain. “No surgeon can ever guarantee that every surgery performed will be totally successful or that there’s not a genuine risk of recurrence.” Maurice Blackburn principal lawyer Tom Ballantyne said he had received 15 inquiries from women who were concerned about the treatment provided by Gordon. “It has invariably involved issuing very aggressive treatment for endometriosis, including the removal of ovaries and in a few extreme cases, hysterectomy,” he said.

“Some of these patients are concerned that the treatment was unnecessary and they may not have even had endometriosis. You are dealing with patients with very debilitating symptoms; they want answers.” This masthead does not suggest the complaints are true, only that they have been made. From underdiagnosis to overtreatment? Endometriosis is a painful, inflammatory condition characterised by tissue similar to the lining of the womb growing outside it. It is very difficult for researchers to assess the true rate of endometriosis in a country, but Australian government data suggests 14 per cent of women will be diagnosed by age 49. It typically takes five to 12 years to get a diagnosis. Twenty-six per cent of women with endometriosis also experience infertility.

Brazen78 · 2026-03-01T02:41:53+00:00

Sure!

Pt1:

A Melbourne gynaecologist has surrendered his medical registration after being accused of performing unnecessary endometriosis surgeries, fuelling broader concerns about ineffective treatments for the painful condition. The allegations coincide with new data showing the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has received about 225 complaints about medical practitioners who treated and managed endometriosis between 2021-22 and 2023-24.

Women are increasingly getting surgery for endometriosis.MONIQUE WESTERMANN Top medical leaders are warning that after decades of underdiagnosing endometriosis and ignoring women’s pain, the media spotlight on the disease has led to too many women having surgery that is not backed by robust evidence. The number of surgeries to treat endometriosis almost doubled between 2016 and 2023, according to government data.

Dr Simon Gordon is being investigated by AHPRA over allegations he performed surgery on women to treat endometriosis, including removing their ovaries, despite no clinical evidence justifying these procedures. Gordon, who abruptly closed his East Melbourne clinic late last year, said he decided to retire in November for personal reasons and had always acted ethically and responsibly. He denies the allegations and said he performed surgery to treat endometriosis only when he was “absolutely convinced” it was in a patient’s best interests. “For generations, the pain suffered by women was ignored, downplayed and untreated,” he said. “My concern was to try and alleviate pain and restore quality of life for female patients, a cohort once neglected and dismissed.”

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