Mrs Logic

Over the past few days I have been getting this fluttering feeling right in the middle of my chest. I don't think it is palpitations as I have had them but they have been further to the left. It is not an unpleasant feeling, it isn't sore and itdoesn't last long. I don't feel out of breath or tight in the chest....it is purely a fluttering, right under where my ribs join. I feel if I put my hand on it I would be able to feel it on the surface but by the time I get my hand there, it has stopped. There is no regularity to it.

I havehad a very fraught few days and whilst I don't feel like it is anxiety, I am maybe wondering if it is.

Does anyone have any idea what it might be.

I have tried posting this a few times but I seem to be having some trouble with the links. I shall try again!

I have this dish which I believe to be an antique alms dish. I found one exact same on the net described as 'Nuremberg Alms Dish' the link to the site is

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10590738

The one I have is exact same but dirtier! Mine also has a wire on the back but it looks like that could have been added at a different time than from its making.

Is it truly 16th century or is it a mass produced copy?

The photos are here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrslogicsphotos/sets/...

Hopefully the links work this time or I am giving up!

I am trying to post in YA and I need to put a link to photos on my flickr account and to a web address but it keeps on cutting the end off my link so readers can't see the photosI want them to.

Here is an example

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrslogicsphotos/sets/...

How can I post the link without it cutting off the end. I have tried posting the address manually without the http so it can just be copied and pasted but it cuts off the end of that too.

I have a set of silver (I think!) spoons and don't know when they are from. They are marked in three seperate squares W H M and then there is an anchor, a lion and an R in three almost square shapes, but there is a little point at the bottom of each square. can anyone help

Like I said in the title. I self harm by cutting. I feel a need to do more and more. Recently I have been freezing my skin so I can cut deeper. I always make sure everything is sterile so I am not worried about infection. I am just worried that I cannot stop. I am getting therapy, I see a shrink....tried all the 'safe' stuff like holding an ice cube, elastic band etc....all that stuff. I don't know what else to do. Don't know if freezing my skin is dangerous as I can only find info about ice and salt....I don't do that. Is freezing my skin dangerous?

I would like to know who employs 999 call handlers. I thought it was the NHS but they said to me it is not. Does anyone know

I was prescribed Orlistat/Xenical last year and it helped me lose two stone but then the chemists had no supplies anywhere. I have managed to mostly maintain my weight but would like to try again to lose more. I could still lose 2 stone and my BMI still be way over! I don't want to bother GP though if there are still no supplies.

I was wondering if you can do sparkles on the sea/ a river/ a pond etc with photoshop 10? I have a basic editing function on my camera that allows you to put points in but it is too small to be good to use. I would like to add this into a couple of photos butcan't seem to find a function for it on PS 10. Anyone know?

I have some mental health problems and suffer a lot from anxiety and have panic attacks. Most of the time I know what is happening to me but sometimes I get such a weird sensation that just creeps up on me. I feel like I can't hear, or that what I am hearing is such a far far way away. Life feels very unreal when this is happening and it is almost as though I am not actually there.. I am not really frightened when I feel this feeling, more just kinda weird. The loss of hearing is the weirdest bit.

I asked my MH nurse and she just sort of vaguely said I might be dissociating. Can anyone tell me anymore or why this is happening?

Over the last few weeks I have been getting intermittent lower back pain. It comes on quite suddenly after no obvious cause and is so painful I cannot bend to the front or lean to the side. Over the counter painkillers are quite effective. Some of the times it is accompainied with a discomfort in the lower abdomen, not quite painful, just uncomfortable. It also feels particularly full.

When it first started I thought it was bad pre period pain and then when my period came it didn't go away. My period has now completely stopped but the pain has not but that is what it is like, a really bad period pain.

I am going to go to the doctors when I can get time but does anyone know what could cause this? If it was constant I would just think I had strained it but it isn't.

A little while ago I was sat down not doing much when this almighty pain came on my chest really suddenly. It was extremely painful. It was not an acid pain, it was very different from that. It felt like there was something expanding in my chest, like a balloon or something and it was crushing everything inside my ribs. I had no difficulty breathing. The pain radiated through to my back and across my shoulders. I stood up and moved about a bit and then, almost as suddenly as it came, it went. It lasted no more than five minutes. Although I do have just a little niggle of a pain in my upper back just now that I don't know if it is related or not.

For those few moments I seriously wondered about it being a heart attack but I am only 40, fit and healthy and no family problems with heart disease. I just wondered if anyone knew what could cause an acute chest pain like this?

About two weeks ago I hurt my thumb by getting it squashed/crushed in a drawer. It is right on the ball where mythumb joins my wrist. It is not swollen or red. It is sore to the touch but is more sore in it's general use, such as lifting, twisting, gripping, weight bearing, driving. As the day goes on it gets sorer and throbs.

I cannot take anti inflammatory medication as it interacts with another medication I am on. I can't take codeine because I am allergic to it and paracetamol / acetaminophen is doing nothing for it.

I have tried a couple of support banadages but they didn't support the thumb at all.

It isn't stopping me doing my daily activities, it is just sore and uncomfortable. I hate going to the doctor, especially with trivial complaints. I just wondered if anyone had any idea what I may have done to it? Broken it? muscles? ligaments?

Yeah I know this is strange to anyone who doesn't get it so if anyone wants to answer with any judgemental replies....go on.....it will wash over me.

I self harm. I have done it on and off most of my life. I HAVE received therapy and I AM still receiving another type of therapy that is hopefully going to help me out of this place. BUT, for the time being I am still doing it and find life intolerable if I don't.

My usual way of self harm is to cut. Not too deeply but as time has progressed it became addictive (as I was warned it would) and I needed a bigger cut to achieve the same result. I really am trying to stop and have actually made good progress, but that is it, progress....it is a work in progress.

SO, I have been burning myself with the back of a hot spoon that has been in boiling water. It has made a redmark and it is beginning to blister. It is sore but only vaguely so. I have been able to explain it away as an accident with the clothes iron.

What am I wondering is if this is likely to do less damage than the cutting? My therapist has said that when I do other things to self harm, such as hitting myself or hitting walls, then this is better in the long run than cutting.

I am not asking for people to say 'it is ok to self harm' (although, it is really cos it is my body and I am not taking up any medics time, I nevers/h bad enough to need medical help, except the therapist that I am paying for) but just shared experience or knowledge.

Thanks

My friend has asked me to take a look at her camera. She says there is a delay when she tries to photograph a moving object when in automatic mode. I have looked at it and I can't find anything wrong with it except there does not appear to be a sports function. There is no point in telling her how to use it in manual mode as she is just not interested! I find it strange though that there is no sports function on such a modern bridge camera. Am I just missing it or is there another setting she could use in manual?

I am selling a car I inherited but I know nothing about cars. It is a 25 yr old Ford. A potential buyer asked me if it is a Pinto type engine? I don't know! How would I find out?

Long story but I will try to be brief.

I got a call earlier in the week from my general doctor to say my lithium levels were high (1.47) and I was to go for a blood test. This made sense to me as I had had a horrible upset tummy for a week. I was not advised to reduce my lithium so I carried on taking it at same dose. (I have never had high levels before so don't know what is the norm in this situation)

My upset tummy did not ease and in fact got worse. I had frequent urgent diarrhoea and I was concerned it was interfering with the absorbency of my other meds. I called general doctors receptionist to ask what my lithium levels (new) were but they did not have my results. So last night I halved my dose to see if it would help with my tummy upset. It is still upset but I do think it may be lessening (bit afraid to tempt fate by saying that!)

IF my tummy upset was caused by too high a level of lithium, how soon could I expect to see an improvement? I am worried about a lecture from my shrink about reducing my lithium but I suspect the General doctor who called me just didn't remember to advise me to reduce. (she doesn't deal with my mental health, just the blood tests)

What IS the norm in situations like this?

Ok, weird question. How do you serve a casserole? I am going to make a beef casserole for visitors on Friday. They may or not be hungry when they arrive so a casserole is ideal, I can freeze it if they are not hungry.

I have made many beef casseroles but minus the potatoes so I serve it on a flat plate with boiled potatoes. However, if it is an all in one dish would it be served in a bowl with crusty bread, or on a flat plate?

Years ago I watched a film. It may have been subtitled, I can't remember. It was based on the true story of a young Jewish boy in Nazi Germany who joined the Hitler Youth for self preservation. He was at risk of being caught so he ran away and joined the Stalin youth army....then went back to the Hitler Youth (I think) It was a really powerful story about what people will do to survive. My daughter is now studying this time period and I think it wouldbe a good film for her to see but I can't remember the title.

Years ago I watched a film. It may have been subtitled, I can't remember. It was based on the true story of a young Jewish boy in Nazi Germany who joined the Hitler Youth for self preservation. He was at risk of being caught so he ran away and joined the Stalin youth army....then went back to the Hitler Youth (I think) It was a really powerful story about what people will do to survive. My daughter is now studying this time period and I think it wouldbe a good film for her to see but I can't remember the title.

I am researching my family history and this is what my grandmother died of in 1942 when she was just 30 years old. No other information is given. As far as I know she wasn't pregnant when this happened. I tried researching online but sites were too medical in terminology for me to understand.

Anyone know what could cause it?