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Not allowed to here either, not heavy enough apparently but my hubby has done for many years.

Rena, 'Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia' pardon?

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Not very nice when you have one is it Fortunately i'm under control now & haven't had one for a few years. (just keep taking the tablets ) I think Stress starts mine off so I just have to keep cool Its more upsetting for other people to witness an attack though.
I think mine started when a violent ex husband kept hitting me round the head as I never had them before

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I used to give blood when I was younger.

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I started giving blood when I was about 42...that's, ooh, about ?? years ago
I chatted hubby, son and daughter into giving too, they then got their partners to give.
Sadly hubby and I can't give now, too old and decrepit

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I had whooping cough when I was a child and went blue and stopped breathing,Grannie slapped me and i started again, then in 1979 I started again. I was having up to 29 fits a day. had all the medication but it was no use so a few years after I was taken off them, not a good experience, but hey ho I dont have many now an occasional one like you.its the usual things like flashing lights sun on water , some patterns and things going sideways past you can do it, but you get used to it, and like the Poster says Keep calm and carry on.

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Good grief Annie, 29 a day! Poor you, that's an awful lot. I'm happy to hear you only suffer the odd one now..though I can only imagine what that must be like.

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Blimey Annie I never was so bad. I've never had one outside the house either for some reason. You feel as though a horse has stamped on your middle when you come round though - well I do.

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I've been a blood donor since 1968. For a time I was a platelet donor.
High BP stopped the platelet donation but I still donate whole blood. Got a whisky tumbler from them.

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Aiming for the decanter Ron?

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Hiya everyone. I didn't need a check-up from my doctor after trying to give blood as the Army doctor said it was a rarity, but nothing life threatening. He said at least I'd never bleed to death as I had natural coagulents which stopped me from bleeding profusely. Anyway, that was 30 years ago when I was about 32 and I've come to no harm.

As Jimmy said, I'm too tight to part with it! I've only been on blood thinning tablets (Clopidogrel) after I had my stroke in April of last year so it can't have been that, that caused it. .

In the Army, we didn't have individual doctors, but had to attend a BMH (British Military Hospital, or Medical Centre) for anything that ailed us so, if the Colonel/Doctor had thought there was something wrong, he'd have sent me to see a specialist.

It was a strange experience I must admit as everybody else's blood was gushing out, but mine was too slow and was taking too long.