To ask what your best investment in yourself has been?

[HeyItsPickleRick]

Come on mumsnet, creep my lifestyle!

Inspired by the personal stylist post - I’m wondering what is the best thing you’ve bought for yourself?

Mine has 100% been my peloton and all the dumbbells. First exercise I’ve ever stuck to!

Ending my marriage. I deserve better. Since December I’ve joined an art group, returned to my 12 step program (20 years next month 🎉), joined a daily meditation group, signed up for a study course, got out into nature for a walk almost every day, made new friends & reconnected with old ones, planned 4 trips, cut my hair…all that instead of being at the beck and call of one person while my life got smaller and smaller.

Did you find a clinic online for this? I’ve been plagued by panic and anxiety for decades too and I think it might be related to my nutrition.

Weight loss injections. Probably only cost me about £1500, which for the dramatic improvement to health, has been a bargain.

Laser eye surgery

My summer house. It's my beautiful place to unwind and drink Pina colada poured from a chintzy teapot into a chintzy tea cup.
I sit there in the evening after a crazy day as the manager of a day care centre for people who have late stage dementia.
I also removed an aggressive, narcissistic husband just to enhance the joy of sitting in peace!
I'm skint but happy now!

Therapy, my rower, a second hand Pilates machine and some weights. Good cookware was a game changer when it came to cooking. I bought some Le Crueset in the 80s that I still have and have handed some down.

I have one but struggle to stand and type long reports is it something you just get used to?

Nhs gp will do feretin , b12 and vit d

I too was once deficient in all 3 & felt horrendous

I think it's a matter of trial and error to find your best working position. Mine is electrically adjustable so easy to raise and lower slightly to get the best height. It's also very deep so I can have my screen and keyboard pretty far away from me and I tend to "lean" on it to do long writing, i.e. elbows on desk which also helps avoid wrist ache from the angle being wrong.

Surprise mostly.

I think they thought I'd just quietly nod and promise to try and do better, just like every other meeting.

But then in their defense, they were very supportive, and pulled strings for me to leave sooner than my contract stated and I left on pretty good terms with them in the end.
But they did get someone new lined up to take my job within 48 hours of me handing in my notice, which was a big "wow, it really is Just A Job" moment for me. I'd made the job my be all and end all, but it turned out I was SUPER replaceable.

Counselling and personal training

Who do you follow pls

This is inspiring, do you have a recommendation who to watch? Thank you so much

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Yes the NHS will test for all three. But you have to be careful to check your results yourself. They told me my iron was fine with a ferritin level of 34 but after much research, I found that optimum was 75-100 for a woman so I bumped it up to that.
The GP also won’t necessarily test you for what you ask them to. My last NHS blood test I asked for them to check iron and B12 but they didn’t bother.

So I used a company called Thriva. They will put your results on your app and give you recommendations to tell you where the optimum levels are. The NHS won’t do this.

Sorry I quote the wrong poster @namechangenelly1 but I’ve just explained it all in my last post.
If you can’t afford to (from memory it’s about £90ish depending on what you get tested for - you collect blood yourself and post it back) then either push the GP for more blood tests and be firm in what you want testing or if you’ve had them recently, check on your NHS app if you can see the results.

And be careful what supplements you buy because most won’t always hit the spot. Iron, for example, usually comes in 14mg a day but it’s not enough if you’re deficient. I used ferrous sulfate with is equivalent to 66mg a day and felt a difference after 2 weeks.

Same with Vit D - you need 4000IU a day for a deficiency. I pay for private B12 injections too. Most local pharmacies will do them. They are £30 a time.

I then use Thriva again after three months to check my levels so I know I can go down to a maintenance dose. Good luck!

Seeking alternative treatments when the NHS couldn’t help my chronic pain. I feel very lucky that I was able to advocate for myself and research- otherwise I’d still be barely able to walk

A coaching period that led me to weightlifting at the gym- huge amount of benefits

Such a lovely story! ❤️

Awhh thank you so much. I hope I didn’t come across as smug 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m just really happy to be living again & so excited for a happier future 🙏🏻

Invisalign. £5k but the best money I've ever spent!

Nope it was so nice to hear! You deserve to do nice activities and enjoy your life!!!

Am I allowed to say? I did loads of research, and also thought about travelling to and from the clinic etc. and went to Moorfields Private Hospital in London. The surgeon was very experienced, but has since moved to another practice. I recommended a friend to him and she's been delighted with the results too.

This is brilliant info, thank you. Had no idea B12 injections were so readily available, and pretty affordable.

I was surprised too! I think it’s because Vit B12 is water soluble so you can’t really overdose on it like you can with Vit D or Iron (which can both be toxic if you have too much - this is why it’s so important to check your levels first!)

I have had several now and I can feel it when I need another. Interestingly, it makes any symptoms of a deficiency slightly worse for a few days but then you level out. One surprising one I found was night sweats. Thought I was perimenopausal but nope. Was low B12!

Invisalign and teeth whitening. I was always self conscious of my teeth and now I can’t stop beaming at everyone 😬😆