MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'agony'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:45:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302980&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F02%2Fagony-aunt-edition-twenty-one-its-been-a-while%2F It’s been so long since I’ve actually bothered to complain to the Internet at large about the cretins that google continues to insist that I am best positioned to help with their eternal queries with regards to very private (and often more than a little ridiculous) matters that I almost think I need to reintroduce Agony Aunt to you all. Hi, this column is known as Agony Aunt and as a newfound twenty one-er Agony Aunt would like to point out that she can get literally AND figuratively pissed in just about any jurisdiction you care to choose. Bring it, Google. I’m ready. ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowledge with regard to ‘geriatric backboarding’ and the Giant Bathing Suit with Frills On The A... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302980 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:38:49 +0100 4302980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189202&cid=t_246950_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F20%2Fpain-and-humor-the-dark-side-of-funny%2F There’s one theme that keep recurring during each of my radio interviews for the book, Beyond Blue, and that is: humor. People are taken aback that I would write a book about depression and try to make it funny. Because funny and pain don’t go together, right? Wrong. Fellow blogger and comedian John McManamy interviewed me about this topic. It afforded me an opportunity to explore humor and think about why I use it so often. Click here to get to his original blog post. John: Listen, Therese. William Styron’s memoir of depression was bleak. Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” was heart-breaking. Yet, here you are, agony with a thousand punch lines. This has to be sacrilegious. Therese: Funny you should ask the question that way. Gus Lloyd, who has a radio show... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189202 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:27:09 +0100 3189202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3033790&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F27%2Fagony-aunt-edition-20%2F Is it wrong to realise that a semi-regular feature column has now reached the less-wrinkled decade immediately below your own, and feel accordingly slightly jealous? Oh, how I loved being twenty. Well, apart from all the crippling self-conciousness, drunken vomits and general lack of financial liquidity, anyway. Bring it, Google. I’m ready. ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowledge with regard to ‘geriatric backboarding’ and the Giant Bathing Suit with Frills On The Arse like, without remembering that those who live in cellulitic houses should not throw one-piece stones. As always, click on the button for previous editions of my snark advice to the frequently illiterate. Or click on the Bad Google tab at the ... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3033790 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:50:15 +0100 3033790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2814759&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F21%2Fagony-aunt-edition-19%2F Otherwise known as the ‘where has the time gone?’ edition. Nineteen already? It seems like only a couple of years ago that  a much younger Agony Aunt still had that pesky nappy-requiring double incontinence problem. It wasn’t ALL verbal diarrhoea back in the day. Regardless, the nineteenth spin around it is. Bring on the Googlers. My snotty nose and cranky mood is more than up to the task. ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowledge with regard to ‘huge t.its’ and the overly optimistic like without planning the Early Sag and Backache lecture, right there and then. As always, click on the button for previous editions of my snark advice to the frequently illiterate. Or click on the Bad Google tab at ... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2814759 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:49:47 +0100 2814759 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2762096&cid=t_246950_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aspieweb.net%2Fconfusion-chaos-aspergers%2F I’m completely confused right now, bewildered and thinking what the hell.  I don’t know what to think – about anything right now.  So I’m trying not to make any major decisions for the next week.Yesterday was single handily the worst day in my life. Knowing Kate loves me, but also knowing even though she wants [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2762096 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:44:40 +0100 2762096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2720006&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F21%2Fagony-aunt-edition-18%2F Legal to shag*, drink*, smoke*, vote* and spend far too much money on sticky alcoholic drinks in trashy nightclubs before vomiting profusely in a handy bathroom stall, it’s Agony Aunt now with Added Majority. Bring on the googlers. It’s late in the week, piddling down a serious g-dly incontinence episode of rain from above, and it’s bloody windy to boot. A heady combination of construction site dust and plain old mud keeps getting in around my front door, and if it keeps it up I may have to concede defeat and begin mowing the inside of my entryway. So, since Saag and Naan (bless their snot ravaged, tear streaked, screaming, unhappy teething cotton socks!) are finally down for a nap thanks to the powers of pharmacological intervention, I figure it’s as good a time ... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2720006 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:52:46 +0100 2720006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2664080&cid=t_246950_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aspieweb.net%2Fcoping-agony-aspergers%2F Agony is just not any pain, its the “intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain”.  As of late I have been in a lot of agony.  I have been cutting, attempting suicide, and abusing sleeping medication.  I need to figure out better ways to cope.Right now I’m in a situation where someone else [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2664080 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:04:46 +0100 2664080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2634693&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F24%2Fagont-aunt-edition-17%2F Boring for her nation, it’s Agony Aunt back in the saddle. She’s swotting up for yet another high-school maths exam and desperately trying to figure out exactly what an integer really IS when it’s at home. As for physics, she’s leaving the vexed difficulty of defining Torque to the blokes on Top Gear. It’s a shame they seem to have no eartly idea either. Either way, she’s busy, bored with numbers and can’t work out why you can’t divide by zero. Bring on the googlers. In the absence of much content of my own to blog about, mostly because I am spending quite a lot of my day rather unimaginatively running around my loungeroom in circles and flapping my wings convulsively in a vain attempt to cope with the idea that I have two so-close-yo... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2634693 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:06:53 +0100 2634693 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390495&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F05%2Fagony-aunt-edition-16%2F Getting drunk for the first time and puking in a handy wastepaper bin at a heady room-spinning sixteen, it’s time for Agony Aunt to trot out The Cranky at the things people type into Goog.le. Because they end up HERE, and I object whole, fat, lotso. Oh, and before I begin gleefully assulting your retinas with my latest misdirected gems, may I just briefly (with appropriately flaming cheeks of contrition, because apparently my ass DOES look paranoid in a URL cloaker) apologise to the very kind blogger who fessed up even after all that misdirected cross stuff? Deeply sorry I am, because it turns out that there are entirely legitimate reasons for a URL like hide.refer to pop up in my stats package from time to time. Like peacefully reading my blog. I honestly thought I was calling out o... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390495 Tue, 05 May 2009 00:26:30 +0100 2390495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2283400&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F20%2Fagony-aunt-edition-15%2F At a ragingly pimple-infested fifteen without a viable boyfriend in sight, she’s thinking about starting driving lessons soon, just so she can run all the asshats right OVER. Nothing wrong with a little well-directed Post Rage, is there? ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowledge with regard to what to do about a badly misspelled health crisis involving a speculum in the wrong hole and the clever co-incidental acquisition of Virulent Knob Rot without mentally reaching into my monitor and slapping the asker silly. If you’re unemployed and shag all day for a living, that’s what happens sooner or later I suppose. Perhaps I’m simply jealous since I rarely have the time or inclination to initiate, let alone comp... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2283400 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:55:16 +0100 2283400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2207437&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F24%2Fagony-aunt-edition-14%2F Yeah, AA is fourteen and she’s got some nasty PMS. Why-for do you punish me so, Google? ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowledge with regard to what to do about a contraceptive-deficient Googler’s usually badly spelt fear that, well, ‘Fu.ck, I’m pregnant’ (or pregnent, or prego, or pragnet, or pragnent or so on. You get the idea.) without at least a little objection. I get a hit like that several times a day. P.ee holes remain evergreen, too, if you’re wondering. As always, click on the button for previous editions of my snark advice to the frequently illiterate. Or click on the Bad Google tab at the top to see a more comprehensive list of what can only be described as Really Dumb Stuff. ... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2207437 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:43:24 +0100 2207437 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2150115&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F01%2Fagony-aunt-edition-121%2F For the superstitious I shall refrain from running in circles throwing spilled salt merrily around, stepping on black cats ON cracks in the pavement, dodging under ladders and saying ‘thirteen!! THIRTEEN. Thirteen!’ excessively. Oops, except perhaps that one time. Oh, and Dear Old Aunty is now officially a teenager. Being thirteen and all. Where does the time go? I’ll quit it now. Really. What broken mirror?   ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowlege with regard to an.al speculums and p.ee hole in.sertions without at least a little objection. But I’ll choose some other examples to discuss in greater detail, if that’s okay with YOU. As always, click on the button for previous editions of my snark ... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2150115 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:32:32 +0100 2150115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1970822&cid=t_246950_177_f&fid=38137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmissionimpossibleinfertile.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2Fagony-aunt-edition-12%2F ….and so it begins again. I reach a critical mass of irritation at the daft things Goog.le proclaims me to be a specialist on and take it out on the hapless searcher. Fun times all round. As always, click on the button for previous editions of my snark advice to the frequently illiterate. Or click on the Bad Google tab at the top to see a more comprehensive list of what can only be described as Dumb Stuff. Without further ado, may I present the magnificent fodder for edition twelve (otherwise known as that angst ridden, won’t leave her bedroom devestatingly pimply) of agony-aunt?: Pregnancy with a negative beta. Effect of dysentry on ivf conception One year old postpartum libido. Can Clomid make my foot like pins and needles?  Not a suppository. Pregnant supermodel. Snort.... Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1970822 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:02:58 +0100 1970822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=934080&cid=t_246950_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F08%2Fa-need-for-attention-is-something%2F This is a first for me, responding to a search that led a stranger to the blog with this question just about ten minutes ago: How do I heal my desperate need for attention? If you’re reading this my advice is to get some attention. Know that the desire for attention is a normal human need, which [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=934080 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:31:54 +0100 934080