| PS2BR | Ag3 | m | (No name, age 35, general practitioner) unspecified |
| PS2BS | Ag5 | f | (No name, age 66) unspecified |
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[1] I I'm still having trouble with this leg. [2] It aches and er at nighttime I can't I can't rest with it. |
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[3] Right. [4] Do you find it's just at night or is it in the day too? |
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[5] Er w more at night you know. |
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[6] Right. [7] Does it make you want Is it the sort of ache that makes you want to wriggle it around? |
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[8] Yeah. [9] I'm kicking it all the while. |
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[10] Yeah. |
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[11] If I lie on settee I've always got this leg hanging, because I |
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[12] Right. |
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[13] can't stand it up. [14] And it's same er when I get in bed, |
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[15] Yeah. |
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[16] I always get in bed on me left me right |
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[17] and then I like to turn over to me right. |
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[18] Yeah. |
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[19] But I found out that me back's been hurting me since I come up before, me back |
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[20] Mm. |
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[21] been playing up a bit. [22] So I had to get out of bed and turn over. [23] But I still i can't lie on it, I still have to go back cos of that leg you see ? |
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[24] Okay. [25] Now we tried a bit of W a We actually gave you a [...] worth of something last time , |
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[26] Yeah. |
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[27] did that help ? |
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[28] Mm. [29] Well not really, it |
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[30] Right. |
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[31] er you know. [32] I mean I don't I try to not to take a lot of notice of it you |
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[33] Good. |
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[34] know. |
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[35] Okay, can you just slip your shoe and sock off, |
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[36] Yeah. |
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[37] And I can have another look, check your circulation. |
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[38] I'm always cold. [39] An but me feet are warm now. [40] But I'm always cold. |
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[41] When did we last check your thyroid? [...] |
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[42] Er was it was it Ma er |
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[43] Have we done one this year? [44] I I |
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[45] I had it I've had it May. [46] I had I had three checks, thyroid |
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[47] Good. |
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[48] me er water and er Was it me general? |
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[49] Yeah. [50] I'll I'll just check that . |
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[51] Yeah. [52] They all came through right I think. |
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[53] Oh that's okay then. |
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[54] I mean me hands is ever |
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[55] Yeah. |
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[56] so cold. |
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[57] Yeah. [58] That that may be |
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[59] My hands are stone cold. |
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[60] That may just be Cos you've got good circulation, in fact, down here. [61] Even if you feel cold, it's not bad, not at all. [62] Okay. [63] Can you wiggle your b ankle backwards and forwards, that's okay. [64] Doe sit ache much now? |
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[65] No no, not at the moment, no . |
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[66] [...] No okay. |
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[67] I think when I'm knocking [...] |
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[68] And you haven't really got veins? [69] Have varicose veins [...] okay . |
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[70] No [...] |
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[71] Okay, and your knee e |
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[72] Yeah, all me knees ache sometimes. [73] I'm told I'd got arthritis in there, but that's years ago. |
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[74] Okay. [75] Well I'm sure this er I think it's certainly nothing serious, it [water running] |
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[76] Oh that's what You see I'm alright, but I thought oh I better come up because I've got to come up |
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[77] Yes. |
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[78] next month about that cream that I use . |
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[79] Yeah. [80] It's called This is called restless leg syndrome. |
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[81] Oh is it? [82] I was |
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[83] Yeah. [84] And it's a menace. [85] It |
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[86] And it |
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[87] really is a menace. |
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[88] Yeah. |
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[89] Because although it's not serious, there really is no brilliant treatment for it . |
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[90] and it comes and goes, |
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[91] Yeah, well |
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[92] And and it really does make you want Oh it [...] |
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[93] Yeah. |
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[94] Nasty thing. |
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[95] But I thought well, While I I'll ma kill two birds with one stone, and I'll er come |
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[96] Yeah. |
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[97] up and see him. [98] And you told me to come September for about the cream. |
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[99] That's right yeah. |
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[100] But I though it's |
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[101] [...] there. |
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[102] it's nearly here now isn't it ? |
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[103] That's r [laugh] |
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[104] So I thought if I er But I was beginning to get a bit worried so I thought well I might as well go up because I shall start to worry and things get out of proportion with me you see? [...] |
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[105] Yeah. |
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[106] so. [107] Who's the artist, is its are the children ? |
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[108] That's my daughter mainly. [109] Mainly Rebecca |
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[110] Yeah. [...] |
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[111] Not all of the two have been done by [...] |
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[112] Mm. |
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[113] Mostly Rebecca. |
| (PS2BS) | [laugh] ... |
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[114] Right now. [115] You're on various bits and bobs, and you're also on the cream. |
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[116] Yeah. |
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[117] If we're going to try anything else for this restless leg, |
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[118] Mm. |
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[119] it may be worth trying quinine which is widely used for night cramps. |
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[120] Mm. |
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[121] And sometimes that does help. |
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[122] Mm. |
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[123] We don't why it works, but it certainly does. [124] And it's worth a go. [125] A |
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[126] Mm. |
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[127] trial of quinine and that may well help. |
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[128] Just a What is it? |
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[129] Yeah, it's one a night. |
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[130] One a night. |
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[131] Yeah. |
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[132] Well I take me Samamigram you know at night. |
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[133] That's fine, they don't interfere with each other. |
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[134] Oh, [...] |
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[135] At all. |
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[136] want to |
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[137] No no no no no no no no no. |
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[138] [laughing] As I should do. [] |
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[139] Now you wouldn't do that but it may that may be worth a go. [140] Okay. |
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[141] Mm. [142] Yeah. |
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[143] Now what about the cream, how are things going on with that, cos you've been |
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[144] Well |
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[145] on it for a little while now. |
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[146] er a year. |
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[147] Yeah. |
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[148] I's a year since [...] Well I was [...] a lot better since [...] |
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[149] Yes. [150] Twice a week? |
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[151] Yes. |
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[152] Yeah, no discharge, bleeding, anything like that? |
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[153] No. [154] Only I came up before you know, when |
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[155] Yeah. |
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[156] er about with me husband, you know. |
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[157] Aha. |
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[158] And it was just But I don't er I don't seem as though er it was er sometimes I saw I saw a spot of blood, but it |
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[159] Yeah. |
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[160] not not like the deep red blood, you know what I mean ? |
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[161] That's right, yeah. |
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[162] And I came er I came up before, can't you remember |
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[163] Yeah. |
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[164] I come up and |
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[165] That's right. |
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[166] er er that's the only time. [167] I don't have |
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[168] Right |
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[169] any bleeding in between |
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[170] good , |
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[171] nothing |
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[172] good, |
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[173] you know. |
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[174] god. |
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[175] But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire. |
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[176] Oh yes, it often irritates in the same way when you first start to drink spirits you feel [disgusted noise] |
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[177] Oh dear, |
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[178] Yeah. |
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[179] I [...] whatever am I going |
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[180] Yeah. |
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[181] to do and I rung my daughter next morning , |
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[182] But it goes As you notice [laughing] it goes off [...] [] |
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[183] It went and it sent to sooth |
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[184] That's right. [185] Yeah. |
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[186] My inside and |
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[187] It does. [...] |
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[188] It really soothed it. |
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[189] Yeah, it makes a big difference, yeah . |
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[190] Yes. |
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[191] Yeah. [192] ... Right well I'm glad you're okay on that. [193] Now you've had er a hysterectomy, ooh a long time ago [...] that's right . |
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[194] Fif fifteen I were fifty one. [195] It's |
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[196] Yeah. |
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[197] fifteen years, and I had a Promatch |
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[198] Yeah. |
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[199] repair when I were forty five. [200] And |
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[201] Yeah. |
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[202] I'm sixty six, so that's twenty one years and fifteen |
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[203] Yeah. |
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[204] isn't it? |
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[205] Yeah. [206] That's right yeah . |
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[207] Erm |
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[208] B So you can continue on that indefinitely. [...] |
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[209] Yeah. |
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[210] So what We'll say trial of quinine, yeah? [211] Give it a go? |
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[212] Yeah. |
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[213] It's not addictive or anything like that is it ? |
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[214] Oh no no no no no. [215] It's not i |
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[216] Cos I'm frightened of [...] |
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[217] It's not a sedative or tranquillizer, |
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[218] No it's just |
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[219] Quinine . |
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[220] No well |
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[221] No. |
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[222] I didn't [...] what did they use to take that for? [223] Malaria , |
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[224] Malaria. |
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[225] yeah. |
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[226] Among other things, [...] |
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[227] Yeah yeah. [228] Having a s |
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[229] But not at this dose, this is a low dose. |
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[230] Yeah. |
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[231] A low dose of quinine. [232] But it's worth a go. |
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[233] I mean once I know what a thing is |
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[234] Yeah. |
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[235] that's half my battle. [236] Because I I stop |
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[237] Good, yeah. |
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[238] worrying. |
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[239] Restless legs it's called. |
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[240] Ooh. |
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[241] Restless legs, and it sums it up, because [laughing] they do get restless [] . [242] It's got a posh name, I can't remember what it's called now, but it has got a posh name too. |
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[243] I know they all have but I mean I'd rather have the ordinary names and then |
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[244] Yeah. [245] Well so would I cos I remember them I can't |
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[246] And then I know |
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[247] I can't remember the posh names usually. |
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[248] The same with flowers and all them plants and that. [249] I'd much rather have a plain name I know what they're talking about then. |
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[250] Yeah. |
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[251] And because I'm not very. |
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[252] Yeah, we're plain folk aren't we? |
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[253] Yeah. [254] I'm not very high up on |
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[255] No. |
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[256] all these posh words. |
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[257] No. [258] So one a night. [259] Won't interfere with anything else, and if that's helping, so much the better. |
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[260] Oh can I have some cream please? [261] I'm all but out of it. |
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[262] Ooh [...] squeeze that in at the bottom there. |
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[263] Yeah, can you manage? |
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[264] Yeah. [265] It's right teeny. [266] ... Okay use twice a week. [267] i haven't put that on, because I haven't got room. [laugh] |
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[268] Yeah, well I know I know what to do with that. |
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[269] Okay. |
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[270] Thank you very much. |
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[271] [...] we'll give that a go. |
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[272] Yes, okay . |
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[273] And then we'll see how things go. |
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[274] Yeah okay then |
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[275] Okay. [tape change] |