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@jenny_magolan @iam_preethi Were you underweight before?

@iam_preethi Gave birth to the most beautiful baby boy at 36 after trying for 4 years. Fertility clinic made it seems like it was hopeless, meanwhile all I had to do was gain a bit of weight.

A 34 year old woman is ovulating a 34 year old egg. That egg has been sitting in her ovaries since before she was born. She started with 6 to 7 million of them. By birth, she had 1 to 2 million. By puberty, 300,000. Most women hear this and think their eggs are just deteriorating year after year. They are not. When the eggs are dormant, they have low metabolic activity. That is what keeps them viable for decades. The real test comes in the final 3 months before ovulation, when the egg wakes up, metabolic activity spikes, and it either has what it needs or it does not. This is the part nobody talks about. You cannot undo 34 years of aging. But you can change the environment your egg matures before it is ovulated. How you are eating, sleeping, and living in these few months before conception directly affects the egg you ovulate. Most women are told there is nothing they can do about egg quality. That is not true. This is what we work on at Ferta.

@Brackens1 Why do you have to take this drug?

My medication is causing very low blood pressure. I didn’t get to see a GP. It was a Health Care Assistant who took one (normal) BP reading and pronounced me "fine". I have a pulse of 47-48 most mornings and feel awful. A HCA can do nothing but use a BP monitor. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@appears_mental So the tablets interfered with the insulin?

So I have a friend in hospital who almost died yesterday due to an incompetent nurse. He's an insulin dependent diabetic, but a poster boy for managing it, he's not in because of that Gets prescribed tablets, there's two variations and one isn't suitable for his diabetes but the doctor knows this. Nurse comes round to dish them out. Now they're small and he needs a very high dose so nurse announces that's far too many pills to count out and says she'll get bigger ones. His blood sugar spiked to 30 so quickly his monitor didn't even get time to go off before he collapsed. 30 is a very short time from dying. He's OK now but was shaky for a day or two. He had to demand the doctor unlock the drawer and check the tablets, the nurse had brought the wrong ones. I'd guess he had the small ones to begin with because that was the only size in stock. So a brush with death because a nurse couldn't be bothered to count out pills. Nobody even apologised.

@archer_rs Maybe take a picture of just the feet next time? Or even tell her?

I hate, with passion, anyone who does this.

@saffronandsky I didn't know that hair loss is a side effect

I wish tirzepatide didn't improve my functionality so much or I would go off it because at this rate I'm going to be bald by the end of the year. What happens when I wash my hair:

@lovely_plot This looks fabulous

Look, look! New hobby unlocked 😁 I made this! 😍

@ArturNadol7566 @FHawksworth @RealPLC How did the NHS paralyse this woman?

NHS MADE A WOMAN PARALYSED FROM THE NECK DOWN WHO COULDN'T SPEAK PAY NEARLY £1 MILLION IN FEES AND LIQUIDATE THE ENTIRETY OF HER ASSETS THEN THEY FORGED THE PAPERWORK TO COVER IT UP. Paul Culliford @RealPLC contacted me directly this week. He sent me a 95-page fraud report, a @PrivateEyeNews article, and documents I have now read in full. I am writing this because what he shared is genuine, evidenced, and needs to be seen by more people. Valerie Culliford had a stroke in 1987 at age 47. She was left paralysed from the neck down with locked-in syndrome. She could communicate only by blinking. Her condition never changed. Not once. Not in 23 years. Under @NHS legislation she was entitled to full Continuing Healthcare funding from the moment she entered a nursing home in 1989. The NHS knew this. They assessed her in 2009, found her eligible, and confirmed in writing that her condition had been unchanged since admission. The family spent £835,000 of their own money on her care. When the estate ran dry and Paul told the local authority he could no longer pay, the NHS suddenly found the money. For the last 14 months of her life. Then Paul started asking questions. What he found was not a bureaucratic failure. It was a coordinated operation. A fully completed 2014 assessment by two qualified nurse assessors found Valerie eligible for the entire period under review. That document was hidden. A deliberately stripped version with the recommendation removed was sent to her solicitors instead. When Paul tracked down the original, the CCG denied its existence. They kept denying it. Even under oath in the Central London County Court in 2018. The assessment documents sent to NHS England for independent review had signatures forged onto them. A consultant who chaired multiple panels and signed key documents had not held a valid health professional registration since 2005. The panel she chaired was therefore invalid. Nobody flagged it. @NHSEngland was told. The @NHSCFA was told. MPs were told. Accountable Officers were told High profile Non Executives were told. The case was reported in Private Eye. An independent review panel finally confirmed in 2022 that Valerie had always been eligible. The @PHSOmbudsman is now sitting on the case. The NHSCFA has confirmed the full file has not provided to them by the ICB or NHS England The fraud report was compiled by former Serious Organised Crime Agency manager Michael Randall of Fedora Investigations. I have read it. It is 95 pages of documented evidence, exhibits, metadata analysis, court transcripts, and emails from NHS officials discussing how to handle a man they knew was telling the truth. This is not one rogue manager. This is institutional fraud sustained across multiple organisations over nearly two decades, with each layer of oversight choosing to look away. Paul is not asking for sympathy. He is asking for full restitution and accountability for the individuals who held public roles and made the decisions that drove this. That fight is ongoing. If you or someone you know has been through a CHC denial, especially one where assessments were reversed by non-clinical administrators, reach out to Paul directly. The NHS rejects 75% of CHC applicants. Not all of those rejections are fraud. But some of them are exactly this. Sources: Private Eye, November 2025 @PrivateEyeNews Fedora Investigations Report, shared directly by Paul Culliford

@k_neabs And the name of it: rape!!

Brits are so cucked into believing that this is pretty. My whole life growing up in the UK I was taught that this is "nature", the "country-side". It's not. It's an industrial estate.

@fesshole Rinse and repeat

I spent £600 to replace our perfectly good washing machine and tumble dryer rather than tell my wife that it wasn't them shrinking her clothes it was the visible three plus stone she's put on.

@konsiquenz Can you opt out of NI?

If (young) people can't access GPs or Healthcare through the NHS & have to go private, which is a rising occurrence. Then, how do you convince them to continue paying into a system that does not benefit them?

Saw a tweet about a GP who could not get a job after his training, & had to move to Canada; the government needs to take this GP crisis more seriously. If people can't access primary care, then the entire NHS is at risk. There are more people accessing private GPs these days.

@__TheBaron__ @be_like_ice So treat him like a child?

As someone with ADHD, yes, you get unable to do what you want to do. If you emotionally overwhelm him he will stop replying. If you want him to engage you have to make it fun, and then he will engage non-stop. Engaging when it isn't fun burns though willpower and eventually he runs out.

Help. I’m in a relationship with someone who has ADHD and I’m honestly so confused. He disappears when things get overwhelming, like just stops replying for days. Then comes back saying he “shut down.” Is this actually an ADHD thing or am I being ignored?

@Doc_IonaCollins @hawkeyethenoop Could the NHS use these postal tests? If they are cheaper than testing within the NHS it might be worth it

@hawkeyethenoop Non-NHS blood tests often involve an envelope, a finger stab, posting the sample and email notification. NHS= appointment to discuss test, appointment for test, appointment for test result and several weeks/months from start to finish. Expensive, inefficient, unacceptable.

Worried about something and want a blood test? If you can afford it, you can pay and get a result within a few days. If you can't afford it: NHS=wait TWO MONTHS for the blood test appointment in x location and y time for the result. Money makes a massive difference.

@_Lucibee @kirstler31 I think that anything that significantly improves somebody's health would be worth that

@kirstler31 @EuAbout That’s really not expensive. The NICE guidance benchmark for “too expensive” is £25,000 per year!

Rant of the day. I know there’s no treatment for Long Covid/ME but surely I should be able to get some of my symptoms under control? A couple of example, I asked for daridorexant to be added to my script, neurology said there’s “no way it would help someone like me”…erm it does

@iky_fwjett She can't or she does not want to?

am i the asshoole because i dont want my girlfriend to travel with me because shes a picky eater? My girlfriend says she cant eat any vegetables and honestly eating in general is a challenge. Right now we have an agreement that I can go out and eat at a restaurant alone once a month alone bc I just need the ability to eat whatever I want without consequence. But for her - she cant even pick lettuce/tomato/onion off her hamburger. It needs to be a patty with cheese only. She cant eat street tacos, just tacos from Taco Bell. Im real concerned about traveling and Ive received the chance to travel more and I just want to be able to eat without overthinking everything. Each day, when I order food..it becomes about whether or not she can eat anything off the menu and I find I cant even take her to restaurants without a children's menu. Ive learned that restaurants with a children's menu will have at least something she can eat. I feel like a huge asshole but I can't do this anymore. I just want to be able to pick for myself without meltdowns.

Petros, the local pelican! He is around 37 years old, so I was told. He goes to this restaurant because they feed him fish.

@DrPlantel I have a friend who is unwell a lot, I think because she feels this way

I’ve had women, including my own patients, tell me the only time they’ve ever truly rested was when they were too sick to function, injured, or hospitalized. Because that’s the only time the world stops demanding things from them or the only time they feel empowered to say no. If the only way a woman is “allowed” to rest is by being unwell…what kind of world are we living in?

@JasonS1269 How do you use the toilet?

I have mixed feelings every time I spend time in hospital and see men, 15-20 years older than me with cancer, heart problems etc, get up & use the toilet/shower like normal. I'm both pleased for them & staggered by how far apart I am from them and no one sees or understands it.

@GabrielBlake_ A blockage that stops you from walking and urinating?

@EuAbout They are now assuming it may have been a small blockage. Apparently that can prevent use of her legs.

My MIL was taken to hospital last night because she couldn't stand up or walk. She hadn't been to the toilet for 10 hours by the time she got there. Without finding out what's wrong & why she couldn't use her legs, they have fitted a catheter for a week & are sending her home. 🤷‍♂️