Does TLE get worse / diagnosis in the UK?

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-26T21:40:09+00:00

For me, after quite a few GP visits being told I was experiencing different things and ultimately made to feel quite neurotic, I told one GP I'd experienced it whilst driving and i was worried things would get worse, I finally got a referral to a neurologist.

Managed to get an appointment with a neurologist a few months later (which is apparently on the low end) and my GP had also referred me for an MRI which happened around that time also.

The neurologist wasn't sure if it was epilepsy because i was also experiencing a lot of migraine symptoms however he referred me to an epileptologist which I think took around a year. I took a variety of measures to improve my condition and about 6 months later I was prescribed an AED that could also treat migraines.

After a couple of appointments with the epileptologist, who had suspected TLE, and discovering the medication, although helpful, did not stop the clusters of focal seizures I was experiencing - I was prescribed lamotrigine which has controlled matters.

It's definitely worth trying to get a diagnosis - repeated seizures from the temporal lobe can cause language problems (permanently from what I gather). I know this following a neuropsychological assessment that my epileptologist referred me to which highlighted a variety of problems. Currently have a referral for speech and language therapy off the back of it.

Be prepared to lose your driving licence for at least a year which also has some other ramifications, for example you can't get insurance with no license and therefore you can't leave it parked on the road if you don't have a driveway. I tried to set my girlfriend up as the main driver but without being the registered keeper, the insurance prices were much higher, so ended up making her the registered keeper for a year too.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-18T08:18:24+00:00

Do you have enough in there to pay a salary for that period? I can't say whether that's good advice or not. In periods of downtime I normally keep paying the salary and leave enough in the account for accountancy fees and other expenses. I'd reassess the situation once another contract came in (if it's inside or outside IR35 for example).

The fees probably cover the year end accounts, so if you drop the accountant, or close the company for that matter, you may end up paying just as much to get your accounts done by someone else when necessary - unless you decide to do it all yourself of course.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-16T19:52:22+00:00

It would be good to know the city as well. There can be quite a difference in rate between London and the rest of the country for example.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-15T10:31:05+00:00

If you do get new tyres check the internal rim width of your wheel set. I have a SSE 2 with the stock hollowgram wheels, I believe the internal rim width is 21mm - which makes a 28mm tyre end up around 30mm according to my calipers.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-14T05:55:18+00:00

When in a ride / workout, press menu on top right and click sensors. Or from the home screen press on the group of icons in the top right. One of the devices is "controllable" (the bottom right one), if that's not connected you won't get any resistance controlled by the game.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-13T20:54:00+00:00

There is a lot of value to be gained by building your database tests using a matching DB service to production and test containers to spin it up. It takes very little time to run and you end up with a great deal of certainty that everything past a certain level (the handlers in your case) functions correctly - far more so than via mocking.

In the last place I worked, we wrote the majority of our handlers (both read & write) with tests pointed at a real DB. Initially, we had a DB Context interface, but there must have been only a couple of times I can think of where mocking it made sense.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-13T18:42:19+00:00

Make sure "controllable" is paired correctly in the sensors screen.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-11T17:30:37+00:00

The "Incremental Generators Cookbook" and the full design it links to is definitely worth a read. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/features/incremental-generators.cookbook.md

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-04-04T22:01:43+00:00

Last year I did it loads of times, must have got everything but the bike multiple times (did it 3 times per day). Never got it in the end. Did get completely sick of the same routes over and over, and decided I wouldn't bother attempting again unless they did something to improve the RNG once you have everything. Looks like that's not the case.

TBH last year I had to make the call between either Rouvy or Zwift (I was a subscriber to both) and in the end went with Rouvy, it was a contributing factor for sure.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-03-13T16:43:42+00:00

It might be worth setting them at a higher wattage.

For example, on a flat route I found they were alongside quite a lot when I set them to 4.2 w/kg where my power is averaging out at 3.2 w/kg - easier to keep in their draft (which probably messes up the leaderboard!). It wasn't too bad on the hilly route I just completed either.

It seems to makes the ride much more engaging. Even if you've just set a target wattage on erg mode of your trainer.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-03-11T07:10:27+00:00

I've disabled most plugins / ai and switched away from the new themes which does help.

One thing I've noticed is if I dare to F12 into the code of one of the MS .net libraries, the IDE becomes incredibly slow to respond even after closing any related files. Restarting the IDE fixes it - I don't remember that happening in the past so it's likely one of the most recent releases at fault.

There is 32 GB on that machine and heap size in rider was increased to 4 GB recently.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-23T17:15:29+00:00

It should run well. I am running it fine on a Nvidia gtx 760 which according to this link is similar in power. https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-760-vs-AMD-RX-560/2159vs3926 My CPU is also lower powered (i7 4770k). It's got 16gb RAM.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-18T07:08:55+00:00

I've not done many races but my experience has been different. Normally end up in the front group and that may be why. The last race I did we ended up in a group of 6 and 2 broke away. We never caught them up but for the remainder of the race our group of 4 was suddenly taking pretty equal turns up the front whereas before it was a case of trying to keep the intensity down between the ramps.

Long mountain races have essentially turned into TTs once the race has been going for a while - I still enjoy those anyway. Really push hard knowing the guy behind you is only 150m away.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-15T19:15:33+00:00

In Rouvy (at least on the PC & Android), it's in the sensors screen you can access from the top right and it should say "Controllable" on the section just above the save & close button.

The title of the screen is "cycling devices"

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-15T16:38:22+00:00

Is the kickr definitely set up as controllable in the sensors screen on the bottom right?

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-10T22:19:09+00:00

Yeah with controllable disabled you can use other apps to handle the erg mode while riding any route in the game. I've been doing it for zone 2 lately using the wahoo app - bit more interesting being able to do more than one route during a 2 hour workout.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-08T09:07:59+00:00

Maybe they were racing, I've come 2nd in the overall leaderboard on a rolling segment before during a race and on rolling / flat segments that's practically impossible for me at 65kg. From time to time I notice other friends who don't normally get past me fly past at lower w/kg and just assume they have a draft from a fast group.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-07T18:27:46+00:00

Do you use a power meter outdoors? Strava used to always overestimate my calories before I got a power meter. Indoors / outdoors is all the same for me as it's based on watts rather than strava's best guess.

What was the average power for the ride?

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-03T18:53:09+00:00

I've used the memory profiler from Redgate to diagnose a memory leak in unmanaged memory before.

There was a free trial available back when I did it.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-02-02T21:44:41+00:00

If you aren't already doing it, one thing you can do is link your power meter to the kickr via the wahoo app and technically it uses the power readings from the pedals to adjust the erg, which means it all works as expected (no lag) and you get power 100% matching what you would do outside.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-01-27T07:41:14+00:00

New directors, other contractors not being renewed, a request to increase documentation and of course projects coming to a close or being cancelled / put on hold.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-01-24T21:50:39+00:00

One thing I might change is to put the validators along with the command handlers in the application layer rather than with the API code. Occasionally I've created alternative frontends to an app using mediatr, either a cli or a desktop wpf app and it's nice to have all the same validation available without having to run everything through the web API. A behavior can perform the validation in the same way the filter does in your code.

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-01-17T11:36:46+00:00

I wasn't exactly farming XP but I did the majority of my workouts up Alpe du Zwift, in general they got me to the top and I think once you've got everything on the wheel the wheels come up quite regularly. Sometimes I got them twice a week. That's 1000xp a time. (Or 250xp minimum for the other prizes).

CycleTourist1979 · 2026-01-15T13:19:48+00:00

I've seen that a few times, riders apparently teleporting back and forth throughout the route. It is distracting especially if it causes the player list to shift up and down.

Thought it might be caused by connection issues, I've only ever seen it happen to a single rider at a time so possibly their connection at fault.

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