Early Risers.

[BokStein]

11 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I have started to use Voltarol gel for Arthur Itis and it seems very effective. You should discuss it with your GP or pharmacist before using it as although a gel used externally it still reacts with some other drugs such as ibuprofen.

 

Having been Instructed to avoid Ibuprofen at all costs, where does Voltarol fit in the overall equation?

[Chris116]

8 minutes ago, BokStein said:

 

Having been Instructed to avoid Ibuprofen at all costs, where does Voltarol fit in the overall equation?

I thought Voltarol contains Ibuprofen.

[Barry O]

Been a busy bee today. Grass was mown, a "cricket match report" blank sorted for her indoors, wasps have been suitably dosed with anti wasp stuff, muddling done and ebay starting to be restocked..

 

Glad not to have to travel too far today though, roads were very busy around here.

 

My game tomorrow isn't far away but parking is not good.. (the playing area is inside a big public park which has no car park).

 

@Stationmaster - all my old haunts there.. great for the summer - I liked eating ta the pub in Clifton Hampden as it did very nice garlic king prawns.. those were the days! (I traveled past Long Whittenham on my way home from work. I did get to meet Roy England  in the museum a few times.. an interesting person to talk to!).  Did you wave to the still standing big double giraffe house in Culham (The JET Fusion research building)?

 

Time for some more non alchoholic juice and then ..

 

Baz

 

 

[Erichill16]

22 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

I thought Voltarol contains Ibuprofen.

Voltarol contains diclofenac, it’s active ingredient. Ibuprofen is the active ingredient of a number of brands including Nurofen and Cuprofen and Profex. 
Both ibuprofen and diclofenac as non steroidal anti inflammatories (NSAIDs) and are closely related. Both can be used orally and topically. 
Robert
 

[brianusa]

4 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

 

 

You could easily tell it was Tesco because I had to follow a nice drop head Maserati into the car park;  no Ferrari trash there today, just the Maser and one Aston Martin among the more mundane stuff.  Strangely you don't get the more classy, and Ferrari, motors in Waitrose car park - all the exotica heads for Tesco, but no Lambos there today.

 

Is that archaic term 'drophead' actually still in use?  In all my time, I never knew what it actually referred to although I always used 'convertible' to describe an open car even back home in England.  So what was the head that was dropped, the top presumably, and no doubt called the 'hood'.

      Brian.

[roundhouse]

Evening

 

Another busy day.

Round Mums to finish breaking out two planters in the driveway. However I had to leave the concrete infill to my brother as the pest control arrived to deal with a wasps nest nearby the planters and also to remove a dead snake what is thought to be an Adder in Mums back garden. We told her it was a rat otherwise she would never go in the garden again.

mid day was meet up with the ON30 group at a friends garden.

 

Back home opened up the shed although it wasnt too hot in there, so watched Midway.

 

Tomorrow is beer o'clock in Croydon.

[brianusa]

3 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

 

 

A cool 16 here with an expected high of 27, shockingly cold/cool compared to what much of the UK is facing, and that's more where we should be this time of year.

Even though we have air conditioning I'm no fan (PUN ) of hot weather so this suites me and the Mrs quite well.

 

Enjoy the start of the weekend. 

 

Its been running hot and cold here in GH recently and today is most pleasant.  We seem to get cooling breezes off the Pacific which after a few hot days, brings the temperature down to normal and our night time hours cool and sleepable.  When I lived in the UK, I never experienced the kind of hot days that they suffer from in this day and and age; 70F degrees was considered a heat wave then.

      Brian.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

Ethanol?

I think that is what iD intended but John’s image is of something (di methyl ether) with the same atomic constituents but arranged differently. Used in wart freezing treatments rather than drinks.

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, BokStein said:

 

Having been Instructed to avoid Ibuprofen at all costs, where does Voltarol fit in the overall equation?

There is a warning on the Voltarol packaging about taking ibuprofen when using it. As I said above, if your on any sort of medication check with your GP or pharmacist first.

[Erichill16]

7 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think that is what iD intended but John’s image is of something (di methyl ether) with the same atomic constituents but arranged differently. Used in wart freezing treatments rather than drinks.

Ethanol can be better written as 

C2H5OH

[BokStein]

Good evening!

 

54 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

I thought Voltarol contains Ibuprofen.

 

I too have that fear. A couple of years back, whilst resident in the local hospital, my consultant specificaly, explicitly and forcibly forbade me the ingestion of ibuprofen given my main gastric issues.

 

31 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Voltarol contains diclofenac, it’s active ingredient. Ibuprofen is the active ingredient of a number of brands including Nurofen and Cuprofen and Profex. 
Both ibuprofen and diclofenac as non steroidal anti inflammatories (NSAIDs) and are closely related. Both can be used orally and topically. 
Robert
 

 

Does that mean that I can still use Voltarol topically without the problems fighting ibuprofen vs omeprazole?

[Erichill16]

4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

There is a warning on the Voltarol packaging about taking ibuprofen when using it. As I said above, if your on any sort of medication check with your GP or pharmacist first.

Agreed, check with someone with a knowledge of your medical history.

Robert

[jamie92208]

30 degrees, you wimps. It's been 40 here today, just glad that we had the pool.  It's still 37 at the moment.  Anyway, a good day has been had despite the heat.  Video call in the morning to daugter and granddaughter to look forward to.

 

Jamie

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

Ethanol?

Dimethyl ether.

 

This is ethanol (Black, carbon, white hydrogen, red oxygen)

Edited August 7, 2020 by Coombe Barton

[Northroader]

What a cute little doggie.

[Erichill16]

10 minutes ago, BokStein said:

Good evening!

 

 

I too have that fear. A couple of years back, whilst resident in the local hospital, my consultant specificaly, explicitly and forcibly forbade me the ingestion of ibuprofen given my main gastric issues.

 

 

Does that mean that I can still use Voltarol topically without the problems fighting ibuprofen vs omeprazole?

All NSAIDS can cause gastric irritation and using them topically reduces this risk, however there is still a small risk, so it’s advisable to speak with your GP to get their opinion as he/she will know your history.

The drugs don’t ‘fight’ as such, the omeprazole reduces the acidity of the stomach contents and protects the lining whilst the NSAID can damage the lining.

Robert

[tetsudofan]

Swab appointment tomorrow morning.

 

Its been a hot day down here, bedroom temperature reached 30c, only second time I've seen that. Aircon is now on and temperature and humidity slowly falling...

 

Time for bed soon, pleasant dreams everybody.

 

Keith

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

 

Baz

[BokStein]

 

27 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

All NSAIDS can cause gastric irritation and using them topically reduces this risk, however there is still a small risk, so it’s advisable to speak with your GP to get their opinion as he/she will know your history.

The drugs don’t ‘fight’ as such, the omeprazole reduces the acidity of the stomach contents and protects the lining whilst the NSAID can damage the lining.

Robert

With Hiatus Hernia and a sealed duodenal perforation, NSAIDs are out for me by ingestion, you may see my concerns about off-the-shelf potions like Voltarol for relief from my rheumatoid arthritis and other muscular ailments!

[Erichill16]

Back again,

Ive ranted on about prescription waste before so I won’t go on for long. I know of cases where people just order all their medication each month because they can’t be bothered to check what they actually need. It’s so much easier to tell the receptionist ‘ I want everything’ rather than try pronounce the one item they actually want.

As the prescription doesn’t cost them anything at the point of supply there is no incentive not to order things. (Obviously I’m talking about the 99% of people who don’t pay for their prescriptions). 

As I’ve said before, I fell out with a customer who brought over a £1000s worth of stock back to me and thought it was funny because she didn’t pay for it. What an ar$e hole.
As a tax payer it makes me angry at the waste but I’m sure in every industry there’s unnecessary waste.

Anything brought back to a pharmacy, even if it’s unopened gets destroyed even if it was only dispersed yesterday. 
A new system is in the process of being introduced where each box is individually identifiable and once it has been Scanned and dispensed it can’t be re-issued.

I think that’s enough for one night, so

Goodnight,

Robert

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Gwiwer]

Evening all.

 

A very pleasant one it has been and no mistake.  After dinner we sat outside watching the light fade and the clouds drift past.  Quietly reading or simply contemplating the sky.  And with the occasional accompaniment of dragon-flies and bats along with the birds.  

 

We commented upon the lack of aircraft and noise generally; there seems to be no flying at Heathrow in the evenings for the time being so background noise was little more than distant voices or the greetings of a handful of neighbours as they came or went on their way.  

 

It remains warm indoors but having aired the place after sunset it has cooled slightly.  We are used to warm nights.  A good summer's night in Melbourne would be 25C; tonight is forecast for a minimum of 21C here.  

 

G'night and sleep well.

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

... hog's pudding rediscovered.

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/postcards-from-the-periphery-2020-13/

[simontaylor484]

Too warm to sleep documentary.and you tube spring to mind 

 

Goodnight one and all

[laurenceb]

To 'ot!!!

Night awl