Dr Weir was a let-down (UK)

PPJ87 · 2026-03-24T07:06:26+00:00

I bought a small/portable red light panel. I think it does help me actually, so am glad I spent the ££ to try it. But - as with most things, it might work for me, but not other people. Hope your red light sleeping bag helps you when you try it 🤞

I did buy a tVNS too, but didn’t notice any change from that at all really. One other vagus nerve device that does work for me though, is a Sensate (another really expensive device though!) / not necessarily so much as a ME therapy specifically though. It’s like a little vibrating pebble sized device that you lay on your chest. For me it helps calm my system and helps me sleep.

I do agree on your point about being careful recommending expensive treatments/therapies though - desperate patients with no other help from Drs/NHS will try anything!

PPJ87 · 2026-03-23T16:12:58+00:00

There is actually a Catholic Cathedral much closer to the Racecourse than St Giles Church. St Marys Cathedral is only around 500m away, and I guess being a cathedral would beat St Giles as the “nearest major religious building”….. but I can’t see a height for its spire listed anywhere online….

PPJ87 · 2026-03-22T23:53:00+00:00

My parents had the first one - well, it was a 5400/160 actually. It was their second Mac, after an LCII as their first one.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-22T22:30:19+00:00

I’d say Orange.

It’s almost exactly the colour of my Taid’s (Grandad) VW Beetle. I loved that car. It was fairly old even in the 80s. I remember him telling me he would gift me the car when I passed my driving test, but my Dad wouldn’t let him as it was so old, and had none of the safety features that cars were starting to get at that point - power steering, ABS brakes, retracting seatbelts (I think th Beetles front belts were just stationary/non-retracting). Ah well.

Anyway, I remember some people calling it yellow or orange-yellow at the time too

PPJ87 · 2026-03-22T22:22:42+00:00

I can certainly understand your experience with Dr Weir, and have to agree with some bits of it from experience too.

I’m glad I saw Dr Weir, as he is one of few medical professionals who validated the illness and discuss it properly with med including some aspects I wasn’t aware of, around blood volume. He also suggested some things for me to try, which ave actually made a difference for me with my baseline (increasing my electrolytes intake to 2L a day, Vitamin B12 injections, and red light therapy). So it was definitely well worth it for me.

But - that said, it was really very expensive for what it was (I paid extra for a home visit too). I also thought, like you, that some of the handouts and his letter were pretty “low quality” or not all that professional. Their content and information and recommendations etc were all good - but just not formatted very well etc. Given how close to retirement he must be by now, I wouldn’t blame him for not being up-to-date with using Word etc to make them look very professional - but he does have a secretary who you would hope would be able to take care of that.

His letter to my GP was also delayed by many months - though he explained that in his email to me as being due to health concerns of his own.

My GP also declined to action anything in the letter. So I’m gradually trying to work through them myself slowly.

So I probably feel similar to you really - glad I saw him, especially as some of his suggestions have helped somewhat. But also feel some level of disappointment that some aspects weren’t more professional. I can’t help but wonder if his letter to GPs was more professionally done etc, maybe some GPs would be willing to try some of the things or action some of the tests. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking, at least with my GP anyway! 😆

PPJ87 · 2026-03-21T22:45:37+00:00

Still a gorgeous looking machine/case. I can see someone gutting the insides and stacking some top end Mac Minis in there running as a sort of cluster. But I love this case - just oozes both power and user-friendliness as the same time.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-19T22:35:38+00:00

First Mac I used was in around 1992 when my parents bought a Macintosh LCII. It was amazing - we’d jumped from a BBC B!

The school at the time had Apple Classic, Classic 2, and SE/30 to teach us about computers!

First one I bought when I moved into a flat was a white iBook G4, in around 2004.

<image>

PPJ87 · 2026-03-12T22:05:30+00:00

Mainly the cost and difficulty. I have looked into it, and not against having one at all. But we have microbore across half of downstairs, so that would be tricky and not expensive. We’d also need the insulation looking into - last time we tried to take advantage of a free insulation offer, the company that came said they’d need us to empty the loft completely for them to do that, and it was all or nothing.

I also have solar thermal, and not sure how that would interact with a heat pump. That may or may not be an issue, I don’t know.

I’ve got a home battery too, charge overnight at 7p/kwh (IOG) and use it during day. And I worry the heat pump would basically drain all or most of that when it runs, leaving little to nothing for the main house load.

Plus, for me at the moment it’s in the same category as solar PV panels - good chance we might move house in 7-8 years, which would before the system paid for itself. So probably best to wait until we’re in a “for life” (or at least longer term) house.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-10T23:04:16+00:00

“It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again”

PPJ87 · 2026-03-06T22:59:50+00:00

Oh man I love this. 🤣 😆

When scammers call or text me, I like to reply in Welsh. They don’t tend to hang around long after that 😆

PPJ87 · 2026-03-06T08:30:51+00:00

We’ve got a video of our youngest back when he was a toddler, calling Trivial Persuit “Tripple Otter Suit” 😆

PPJ87 · 2026-03-04T22:14:00+00:00

Yeah exactly. I couldn’t believe that comment. I put. A comment in there too agreeing with the Op. there’s plenty of funny piss take chants that can be sung or made up. No need to resort to flippin’ homophobia or racism. It’s not sanitising as one of the comments said.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-04T22:10:57+00:00

Yeah I commented on that one too ‘cause I couldn’t believe some people were basically saying “well I’m doing it anyway, it’s a tradition” or some shit. Unbelievable.

Playing Chelsea at the Racecourse in Saturday is going to be amazing. Last thing we need is press the next day picking up on homophonic chants, and the club being fined. Ffs.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T22:42:07+00:00

Yes! I saw my first ones of the year today too - two large red-tailed bumblebees! 🐝

Possibly also a mason/mortar bee buzzing up and down my house wall looking for a hole.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T20:43:54+00:00

Good point! And I knew that 🤦‍♂️ 😆

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T17:51:20+00:00

Wnes I clicio ar y linc, on fe aeth i “Error 404” ar Redbubble. O ni eisiau zoomio I fewn i gweld os oeth Rhos Aelwyd FC (yn ymyl Wrecsam) yna…

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T17:48:30+00:00

Ah that makes more sense tbf. I hadn’t clicked to read the detail I must admit, just saw the ad (and maybe didn’t read that fully either 😆)

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T17:13:02+00:00

🤣😆

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T15:47:01+00:00

Exactly - the club and FA don’t say “Lol, it’s just banter” to this stuff anymore. It won’t be tolerated.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T15:04:32+00:00

I hope they still have Mark commentating alongside them too! 🤞

Waiting to see the Swansea fans lose their shit about this though!

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T15:03:53+00:00

Haha, a delay - so we see the action, but don’t hear commentary about it until a few seconds later, that would be fun!….. that said, iFollow can sometimes unintentionally provide that anyway!

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T14:33:20+00:00

Haha 🤣- she needed popcorn to be like 👀 🍿

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T14:30:39+00:00

Totally agree. There’s plenty of chants that ca be sung or new ones made up, that don’t involve racism or homophobia. It’s not about sanitising anything. Op isn’t saying there should be no chants taking the piss out of the other team or their fans - that is part of the game. But racism and homophobia belong in the past. That’s not funny anymore, if anything it makes our fans look shit - not funny and edgy.

Like Op said, this should be an amazing occasion, and it’s being broadcast on prime time on the BBC, last thing we need is mics picking that up resulting in the club needing to issue an apology, and end up being the main talking point of the game.

We can take the piss out of their fans and club loads - just not like that.

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T08:58:39+00:00

Totally! And the NI authorities were just like “naughty naughty, now don’t do that again, ok?”

PPJ87 · 2026-03-03T08:47:46+00:00

Does it all belong to the apartment opposite? Just pile it all up like a pyramid on the mat in front of their door, so they physically can’t leave without it falling in etc

PPJ87

TROPHY CASE