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I guess they have to recoup pretty substantial development costs, which is why the 8p of rubber costs so much! I get more annoyed when it doesn't come down after the first couple of years. No experience of this type of ear plugs myself – they do seem to get good reviews, but I'm not sure...

:laugh: Mine too. The left and right ear plugs sit at bizarrely different angles. Worse still, they obviously ran out of materials that particular Friday afternoon and made them pathetically small – though it's clear which one which they made last, as it's even narrower than the other. In...

Had my jab today. The only unforeseen snag was being asked to remove the FFP3 mask I'd bought for the visit and had put on a few seconds earlier, and replace it with a clean surgical mask. I told the volunteer doing the welcoming that I was too scared to go into a busy building without a...

Yes, I've just put mine in, and once they're seated, I can't really feel them. I know they're there because I can't hear anything except that slight humming you get from blood flow, but there's little or no sensation in my ear. * The reason these work for me as a side sleeper is that they go...

If small moulded ones hurt, it will probably hurt to put in the Isolates – it hurts me to get them in, but once they're in place, it subsides. I can eventually forget about them enough to sleep. At least the silicone on the end is so incredibly soft and squishy that you don't have to mould it...

I've just seen this link on a round-robin email from my MP, about vaccinations for housebound people. I wonder whether some other CCGs might be doing something similar? Might be worth a visit to the relevant website, for those PwME who can't get out...

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Yes, I returned my first set because I couldn't get them into my ears! That's when I got the Minis instead. Getting them right is a skill, especially as ear canals can differ a lot between people. I got advice similar to that @Invisible Woman quotes above, but actually found that mine go in...

Yes, much the same here. I guess the difference is that I'm not using the local surgery, but one of those centres that has been set up to operate seven days a week on a semi-industrial scale. This one is at former TV studios that I know quite well. I wanted to avoid my GP surgery because it...

I thought not to begin with, they were really uncomfortable. But then some neighbours had people round in their garden, I needed an early night, and so I decided to try them again. This time I obviously got them in at the right angle, because I slept in them all night. I can only sleep on my...

I can't wear headphones either, so I use Flare Audio's Isolate ear plugs. Once they're in, you can't hear anything at all except bone-conducted sound. I saw the original crowdfunder to develop them a few years ago, and was so desperate to have some really effective ear plugs that I chipped in...

I know so little about genetics and stats that I only understand about one word in six! – but it's good to see work coming from a group in the Netherlands.

I tried it with my TENs machine and one of those special ear clips. I find sensory stimuli much more tiring than physical activity, so it ran my energy down quite quickly. It was a bit annoying, as well. And if you accidentally turn the knob the wrong way so the intensity goes up too high, it's...

Can't wait for the conspiracy theories!

Nottinghamshire. The old system of smallish CCGs seems to have changed now, and despite containing several different local authorities, the whole county is under the same one and is using the same app for all the centres.

I expect so – one of my first ever email addresses included 'adminsitrator' because that's how I typed it half the time!

Moved post It appears that, in my part of the UK at least, you can now describe yourself as clinically vulnerable and book a vaccination appointment. Someone I know did this, after being advised by their local authority not to wait for an invitation. Like me, they have ME plus another chronic...

I think there is still scope for it to get better (though of course that doesn't mean it actually will). There appears to be more than one type of Long Covid, e.g., with and without organ damage, with and without persistent viral infection, and these groups still need to be described properly...

It's all very odd; I have the opposite problem, in that I often struggle to get my heart rate up. This is my Fitbit chart for the other day, when I spent most of the afternoon gardening/having a rest/gardening. The 'peak' was when I had to lift and move two 60 litre bags of very wet compost...

Trigger warning: article linked below discusses people close to the end of life. . . . . . . . . . Not directly connected to this study, but here is an article from The Guardian about 'paradoxical lucidity' in people with conditions such as cancer and dementia. I wondered whether it...