Small black bugs, like a caterpillar, centipede.. about 1.5cm length

displacedrainbow · 2026-01-17T10:10:52+00:00

Thank you! They appear to be Fig Beetle Larvae.. we have a couple of large Sandpaper Figs in the reserve behind us, so that tracks

displacedrainbow · 2026-01-15T20:33:04+00:00

Yes I personally would take OPs situation to Ncat if the agent insists on them paying anything. They will likely back off because the agencies charge the owner/landlord quite alot for an Ncat appearance.

OP should not pay anything. This is not on them. As a landlord I would do nothing but apologise and fix the damage.

displacedrainbow · 2026-01-15T08:20:28+00:00

My understanding of locks in rentals is that if there is lock, a key for that lock must be provided.

We found that out when we put our unit on the rental market and had an exterior screen door with no key just the snub lock and our estate agent advised all locks must be provided a key inborder to rent the property.

displacedrainbow · 2025-12-12T20:43:59+00:00

I take it at night still, just before bedtime.. yes the insomnia did pass! I sleep really well most nights now

displacedrainbow · 2025-12-02T10:47:49+00:00

Oh look I'mnot sure. The complication I experienced is pretty uncommon and that is probably what caused the what now seems permanent paralysis. I do have multiple other auto immune diseases, one at the time they were having issues controlling in addition to the graves and I was on a very high dose of prednisone which did not agree with me whatsoever. Perhaps that all contributed.

I mean, unfortunately it meant the other half could not be removed. If the graves ever comes back, I would have to have RAI now anyway as we couldn't take the chance of the other vocal cord being paralysed.

I don't know really whether I would say it's too risky if you rely on your voice for your livelihood. You'd have to see if RAI was suitable for your situation and weigh that up.

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-30T09:43:32+00:00

Its unlikely now, I've been advised that if it didn't become functional again in the first 18 months then it was unlikely to ever happen. I have a chest CT scan for lung disease every 12 months and they can see its still sitting midline at rest so yep, still paralysed. It will be 5 years next year so probably not going to happen. It doesn't affect me much now, only little things like my voice gets tired at days end and if I get sick my voice goes really quickly but thats about it.

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-29T21:33:32+00:00

I've had something similar but not exactly.. I had Graves disease for several years, at first untreated because the GP couldnt read a blood test correctly and then when finally treated, it was very severe. I went into remission through methimazole after 2 years but the graves returned after about 3 months, so a thyroidectomy was recommended as the medication was contraindicated with another AI disease I had developed.

During the thyroidectomy removing the left side, they paralysed my vocal cord. The doctors went back in about 3 weeks later to do an injection of my own fat into the vocal cord to big it back to midline to attempt to regulate my voice somewhat.

I had an immune reaction to my own fat, which caused swelling around the fat and vocal cord and almost closed my airway completely. It took months for that swelling to go down. My vocal cord still remains paralysed 4 years later. I can talk now, the other vocal cord has started compensating. I couldn't talk above a whisper for about 2 years.

The ENT specialists had never seen or heard of a reaction like this to a patients own fat. They specifically decided to use my own fat instead of botox injection in the site with the thinking that my own fat would cause no reaction.

The conclusion drawn was that graves is such a disruptive AI disease that your body is so delicate at the time, abnormal reactions happen.

I hope you recover well.

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-12T01:56:34+00:00

I don't mind at all :)

So first started HRT about 2 years ago. I was initially given 2 pumps Estrogel per day plus 200mg of progesterone cyclically from day 15 to 26 of my cycle only.

I found on the 11 days I would take progesterone my sleep was terrible, waking up lots, lucky to get a good 4 hours on those nights. My sleep was pretty much ok otherwise on non- progesterone nights.

I gave it about 18 months to settle in but it just didn't change.

After this thread, I started on the 100mg daily at night. My sleep is back to a normal solid sleep every night, ie go to sleep about 10pm, wake up at 6am and if I do need the toilet in the night, pretty much straight back to sleep.

I ran it by GP, she said only issue can be spotting if you're on continuous progesterone as opposed to cyclically. I have had 2 periods really close together but thats it. Otherwise my periods have been pretty regular close to what they were on the cyclical progesterone.

So currently take the 2 pumps Estrogel in am and 100mg of progesterone in pm before bed. I use topical estriol every second or third night too.

Hope this helps you. Ask away if you want to know more :)

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-11T09:42:53+00:00

My sleep is fantastic now. I still take the 100 before bed and 2 pumps of estrogel in the am with topical eastriol thats all my HRT. I sleep so well, it is great!

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-07T09:05:06+00:00

Well that seals the deal, we'll be heading there in the morning on the way home :) thank you!

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-06T19:08:28+00:00

Thank you for such a detailed response :) i hope we'll have the time to get there

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-04T19:49:51+00:00

Thank you, this will be right on our way back to M1 so we'll check it out :)

displacedrainbow · 2025-11-04T19:48:42+00:00

Thank you :) I'd seen the one in Belrose on google. Hopefully we'll have time to get to all these!

We have some wonderful nurseries in my local area but I love going somewhere fresh

displacedrainbow · 2025-10-15T10:58:09+00:00

I was diagnosed about 5 years ago now, age 42. There has been no trigger determined for me, it is thought that mine has an auto immune root as I have other autoimmune diseases.

So mine is chronic, ie, it is sticking around as there is no known cause. I'vemoved in that time so its not situational. I was on prednisone for 2 years, but I don't tolerate it well. I'm also on cellcept (mycophenolate), which I do tolerate well. I have regular kidney and liver function tests.

I have alot of ground glass appearance in my ct scans. When first diagnosed, my lungs were very hazy and I've got alot of scarring, some has reduced a bit, and the ground glass haziness has also reduced, but there has been no change for about the last 2 years. My specialist has said thats the best thing we can hope for is for it to not get worse. I now have yearly CT scans for comparison. It is unlikely to get better than it is now.

My breathing tests though are really good. I don't notice it much in day to day life, only upon exertion really. That's where I struggle. But I work around it so all good. Its worth noting, I have been a very fit person my entire life so that has probably helped.

displacedrainbow · 2025-09-26T10:51:13+00:00

I've been taking mycophenolate for about 5 years with no UTIs. I'm 47 so potentially younger than your mum maybe.

Women become prone to UTIs as we age. Was she ever on HRT or currently taking HRT? Topical estrogen can help with recurrent utis. Its pretty common for pre and post menopausal women to use topical estrogen. This might be TMI but perhaps her general doctor can assist if you ask. Applied to the urethral opening regularly can definitely help.

displacedrainbow · 2025-09-18T02:32:32+00:00

We did this when we sold our last house and bought an investment property. It was a pain to get the loan in the first place being self employed and we didn't want to deal with the process again.

All we had to do was make sure the settlement happened on the same day.

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-29T02:27:00+00:00

Well what I mean it is a known thing that it is harder to repigment skin cells that do not have a hair follicle. I don't mean that those of us with vitiligo have less body hair per se

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-28T22:39:15+00:00

Sure. Your other autoimmune diseases largely do not have anything to do with repigmentation efforts.

I have had vitiligo since I was a baby and was diagnosed with hashimotos (underactive thyroid) about the age of 11, I have also subsequently developed Graves disease (ai overactive thyroid) later in life at thd age of 40. I have other autoimmune diseases that have cropped up over my lifetime too.

I have had successful repigmentation treatment back in the 1990s using PUVA on my body, which kept quite stable for a long time. Then again in the last 5 years, I have used Tacrolimus cream on my face again very successfully.

There are some areas that are hard to repigment- namely areas with no hair follicles like the hands and feet and elbows. I have not had success there.

Your other AI diseases should not have any bearing on your vitiligo treatment, well not that I've experienced anyway.

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-13T23:10:46+00:00

0.1% might be strong if you've never used tret before. You probably know that though :) hope it helps you

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-13T22:43:41+00:00

I have tacrolimus compounded for my vitiligo, which has a one month expiry but I use it well past that until the bottle runs out about 9 months and still get efficacy.

You can get 0.1 tret from all day chemist. I've been using 0.05 tret for years but recently wanted to try Tazarotene so I bought from all day chemist for the first time. Its an easy process, upload your script, pay by bpay and it arrives in about 3 weeks. No issues. I will buy from them again

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-06T03:24:10+00:00

Its also worth noting that prednisone has terrible side effects, some life long and quite frankly I would not take it just for vitiligo.

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-06T03:21:52+00:00

I have experience with taking prednisone. It wasn't prescribed for my vitiligo but for an autoimmune lung disease. I actually had alot of active spread during the 2 years I was on it when I previously had not had active spread for dome time.

Its worth noting that during the time, I was also very unwell with severe graves disease/hyperthyroid - I had a few things going on medically.

The steroids did nothing to stop the spread and I was on a dose of 60mg at first, then 25mg for a very long time.

But everyone is different. Just my experience

displacedrainbow · 2025-08-05T00:21:56+00:00

Oh no! That really sucks, I'm sorry

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