The middle aged thread

I'm hoping the blood pressure is linked to sleep apnoea. Because I don't want to cut down salt, as the salt makes it easier to eat fewer calories.

Do you have OSA as well? Join the club. I can thoroughly recommend the Resmed Airsense 11. Took me about 8mths to get used to it, can't say I'm enamoured with the whole CPAP thing (I hated it for the first six months) but I do feel much healthier for it. Still feel sleepy tho' nowhere near as bad as I did before.

Oh jeez. I have OSA also and sleep with CPAP. Had it since i was 38.

When i go to the sleep clinic, every other patient is a lot older and, let's just say not the fittest looking individuals.

I never felt tired, never fell asleep during the day. I only got checked out because the wife complained of the snoring. I hate the machine, it does absolutely nothing for me, but keeps the wife happy.

I hate the machine, it does absolutely nothing for me, but keeps the wife happy

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A pal of mine also sleeps with an elephant trunk attached to his face. Don't you get all tangled up in it?

Yes. Also, I sometimes wake up feeling like I'm suffocating. Sometimes it also makes me really bloated and a bit nauseous. I fucking hate it.

My cousin in law had a heart attack and died last week- 42 and left behind a young family in France. I’d never met him but it’s a hell of a thing.

Ah feck. That's terrible. Sorry to hear dude.

Wow, that's really shit. What was his lifestyle like?

I've double-checked your posts in the BBQ thread and can confirm I can see no red flags whatsoever in your content*

*IANAD

I hate the machine, it does absolutely nothing for me.

Really? If you've been diagnosed with OSA you must be having obstructive events in your sleep. I was having up to fifty an hour when I was diagnosed, now I'm down to under five. It's definitely doing something for me, I can show you the data*!

* Please don't ask me to show you the data

Anecdata is fine.

I'm going to push for a MAD. The idea of a CPAP machine gives me the cold sweats.

Hah!

I did actually use a bit less salt brining the last slab of ribs.

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Have you got mild OSA? I've heard mixed reviews and it's no good for moderate to severe OSA. Hope it works out for you. Don't be too afraid of the therapy, it takes a bit of getting used to but it does work.

Eventually.

In most cases. 👺🤣

mild OSA

I'm still waiting on a proper diagnosis, but it walks & quacks like mild OSA.

3 times I went for a wee in the night last night. That’s a new record.

You are all making me think I shouldn't of ignored the surgery email saying your 40 now, come and get tested for hypertension

My urology nurse wife would urge you to get your PSA checked.

Thought I'd have a little play with my parents blood pressure monitor... 146/86 isn't good on any of the charts. FFS.
edit: Boots have 20% off Omron monitors at the mo :'(

Just realised its probably time to get all my pension and life insurance stuff together in one place so it's easy to find and access for the wife in case the worst happens.

Also, looking to consolidate the pensions as they're spread over 4 schemes and at the same time they've literally lost thousands of quid over the last year, largely due to the stupidity of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng.

I'd get professional advice before consolidating your pensions. The advice I got was to keep separate schemes where the value was above a certain amount, rather than merging into one. The reasoning behind this was that you're spreading your risk across different fund managers and are not completely dependent on the performance of one scheme.

It may, of course, be different for you but something to consider.

Looking into the same thing - multiple job/personal pensions to try to manage. None good enough to keep separate though I don't think. (and 1 stolen by the cunt that is Philip Green). Some of my friends' final salary options - hoo boy, I chose the wrong career.

I did it based on the fees.

I had most in one of my previous employers pension that only gets 0.15% annual charges/fees. I can't transfer anything new in to it now though, and obviously I'll keep this as that's an absolute steal.

I then had 3 other pensions:

• Current employer: ~0.35%
  
• Previous employer: 0.69%
  
• Another previous employment: 0.40%
  
  

So I transferred those other two into my current pension. The 0.40% one was with the same provider so it made sense to combine, and obviously stopping paying the 0.69% annual fees was the motivator for the other.

Not worried about the temporary drop in value, the whole market has gone down, and I'm just buying cheap units now. It'll recover eventually, I'm at least 10 years from retirement so there's little point looking at daily changes in the value. I'm sticking a healthy amount in each year and there's nothing more I can do than that. Mortgage should be gone in 5-7 years so I can have a few years of some bumper contributions then.