TIGHTCHOKE Posted May 22, 2022 Report Share Posted May 22, 2022 Tonka, welcome to the Metformin Club. Well done on getting out there, seeking help and getting it sorted. Keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted May 22, 2022 Report Share Posted May 22, 2022 I am a few years older than you but during the lockdown period I did 5 minutes EVERY day, of gun mounting and swinging the gun along a fixed line. Because the ceiling involves the gun always at a sort of 45 degree upwards angle, I also used the white guttering on the garden shed as a guide, this is lower and about 20 yards away, so the gun is more horizontal. I used a kitchen timer set to 5 minutes. In that time I was mounting the gun around 40 times. Doing that twice a day, 5 minutes in morning and afternoon, that is around 80 gun mounts a day. I like to believe that my gunmount is almost perfect and I know that the gun is being mounted using BOTH hands equally. The use of just the rear hand will cause the barrels to drop, causing a see saw motion. Have a look at Chris Batha on YouTube, his gunmounting video is very good. With regards to the beads, forget them. You will see them in your peripheral vision, but you should not be conscious of actually seeing them. I use guns with 1 and 2 beads also a S x S, but I am never conscious of actually seeing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka54 Posted May 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2022 2 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Tonka, welcome to the Metformin Club. Well done on getting out there, seeking help and getting it sorted. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much for your kind words TC, much appreciated. Hopefully the issue I have been having is a thing of the past. I have to admit it worried me, I thought that I was maybe starting to lose my sight, it never dawned on me that losing a bit of weight could make such a difference to a gun fit carried out less than a year ago. Thinking about it now, the warning signs were there , My watch slipping round my wrist, clothing being a bit looser but as luck would have it, the gun fitter at lakeside picked up on my facial weight loss from the photo on my certificate. Not sure about the long term benefits of this Metformin though, Doctor says it's keeping my cholesterol levels down to a dull roar but I am paying for that with night time indigestion, stomach ache and morning joint pains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Do you have a diabetes Nurse? They are very knowledgeable due to specialising. Bulk buying Gaviscon may be the route forward! I take 10 ml if it wakes me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka54 Posted May 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 5 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Do you have a diabetes Nurse? They are very knowledgeable due to specialising. Bulk buying Gaviscon may be the route forward! I take 10 ml if it wakes me up. Yes I do have a Nurse, she comes to the doctors surgery every now and again to take my bloodwork samples and give me a check up. On her last visit she took me off Metformin (500mg) and put me on (750mg) prolonged release, I think it's these that are causing me problems. Gaviscon!!, Yeah will have to give that a try, didn't Glen Campbell sing a song about that, went something like " I clean my gun and think of Gaviscon.😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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