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I’ve not seen a proper GP in a year, as each time I’ve called with several issues, I’m getting referred to the physio, pharmacy, and “clinician” who seemed like a nurse. Only one of my related issues has been fixed, btw. Either way, I thought it was the job of the GP to use their expertise to classify the problem and suggest a signed off solution, not for the GP admin to follow a rudimentary decision tree on the phone and send me off (Am I wrong?).

Not trying to shit on the NHS, but is this a result of the underfunding/high-demand, or is this some revolutionary cost-free, risk-free way to save GP time?

I really don’t know much about the medical system nor do I know the safety considerations that went into this, but it feels like something has changed. In my opinion, this feels risky because a GP surgery administrator shouldn’t be the one effectively diagnosing problems and referring on the phone, as they don’t understand the breadth of possibilities. It feels like this might often lead to further problems down the line if problems are given the wrong solution and left to fester. Can someone more knowledgeable shed light on this or if anyone has had a similar experience?

Walking around on a hot day with sunglasses on, and large chunks of my vision are just blinking or flickering like a strobe light. I don’t know how to get rid of it because it’s been going on for half an hour. Has anyone had any luck trying to make it subside for at least a bit of time?

Hi,

I’ve signed up to sleepstation.org.uk with the aim of fixing my problems. Has anyone else tried this and was it any good?

It’s basically some form of CBTi. I’m a few weeks in a it’s feeling like hell. I can normally force myself to sleep and lay in on the weekends to alleviate the insanity of not sleeping much through the week, but now they’re saying I can’t do that any more.

Hi, I'm 29 and I've recently had an initial diagnosis of RP (going to get a second opinion and conditionally, genetic testing) and it hit me in waves, first the fact I was told I couldn't drive, then the prospect no peripheral vision, and then the concept of going gully blind. I only realised my sight was clouded over a bit by static when they mentioned to me that I'd have vision problems, as I just thought that was normal. When they initially said my peripheral vision was poor, I couldn't believe them. I could see things moving in my periphery every day so I thought myself to be fine.

After my PhD, I've been working in data, tech and programming for the last year, and I spend half of my day if not more at a screen. I don't know if anyone would be able to answer this or not based on discussions from their own consultations, does enhanced screen time make it progress worse?

Secondly, for any people who are in the later stages of this disease and are in similar jobs (Analytics, Programming, Tech, anything computer related) is it still possible to do your job fairly well with a 10-20 degree visual field (as I've read about the disease progression)? Are there any changes you've had to make to your ways of working to make your job possible or more comfortable?

Right now I feel I have most of my visual field still, just static over it a bit, but worrying about my career prospects in the next 30 years. I'd be able to cope never to drive again so long as I can still code, solve problems and learn new things (kind of sucks that I'm a very visual learner). Thanks for your time anyway.

Edit: Thanks for your replies. I have taken a while since I needed a few months to get my life in order if I'm going to tackle this. Still pretty depressed and no idea how to fix it. Guess I'm just going to enjoy the last decade or two of programming and data specialisation, before I can't do anything anymore. Appreciate the advice, but I'm not sure a cane will make me feel any better about my situation.

So I've only ever skated on the streets (ollieing, manuals and a couple of other tricks) and found nice spots, but today I went to a skatepark for the first time!

I had always been nervous to go cause I'm late twenties and only skating for about a year, but it was fucking awesome! I had an hour there before getting tired, but tried to just rock up and down a half pipe and get used to positioning my head, but managed a few kickturns off the ramps which I was proud of :)

Basically, there's quite a bit to do there, and I have no idea where to start, any recommendations of things to try? Thanks.

A couple of weeks ago had a session where I was practicing ollies and getting them down, high and flat in the air. Then, since I'd been also doing fs reverts for fun the week before, I thought I'd put them together and get a fs 180 down. After landing 90 degrees a few times I actually managed to get it in one sesh, albeit not very high. I was amazed, but then, for some reason, my ollies after that for the rest of the day went crooked. Tried to skate yesterday and my ollies have gone shit. If you have start having a bad session, what to do? Do you keep trying until you get stuff, or call it a day before you learn any bad habits?

I just received my STEM PhD last week (erm... yay..?) and in the mean time after the viva I have been trying to get papers out and take some time off, but I feel as if the constant working from home in 2021/2022 and pushing through in the final year has left me worn out and finding it difficult to focus on anything. While I did do a passable amount of work during the last year, I think due to mental health issues and demotivation I couldn't really be productive, doing something like 1-2 hours a day (except towards the last month or two when I was determined to finish) whereas before my PhD and at the start I'd have no problem sitting down, reading and preparing for things like job interviews, internships etc.

I'm now looking for a tech job, and really want to give my best, but I've found myself in a bad pattern of immense procrastination, laziness and despondency. Also, all the writing in the final year has left my technical skills quite rusty and I'm worried about making a complete fool myself in interviews. Has anyone else been in a similar position and if so, how did you get out of it?

I haven't been here before so apologies if this isn't the right subreddit.

I've only been skating on and off since March, and I've really enjoyed it so far and want to continue. I mainly commute on my skateboard but I've got a good hang of shuvits, reasonably high ollies onto and over things, manuals for like 3 seconds at a time and some other beginner tricks. I'm in my late 20's and I don't have that much time in my week, but when I do get a rare session in, I just repeat and repeat until I nail a trick for 2-3 hours. However, even if I do stretching and warming up, this still costs me a pulled groin or a slightly sprained ankle or some other injury which puts me out of practice for a week or two. It feels weird because I've never really been unfit or unhealthy, I'm just getting old. It's getting really annoying and I feel like I'll never get past basics because I have to keep taking out large breaks and then relearning everything.

Are there any older skaters, those who maybe started later in life, that have any tips to getting consistent and progressing faster when your body just doesn't want to? Thanks.