Internet diagnosis is potentially dangerous; I'd risk it for you, knowing it's worth as much as you paid for it... ;) ;DWorth every penny! Have a 200% pay rise!
I didn't know that about Perthes!What's becoming clear (there are two major studies ongoing atm) is that nobody knows much about Perthes. They don't know why it happens. Preliminary results of a study into the effectiveness of treatments is suggesting that the treatment has little effect on outcome . . . Surgical interventions such as femoral oesteopathy, pinning and assorted scaffolding is as successful as massive reduction in weightbearing movement plus physiotherapy.
You learn something every day!
It's been discussed here previously that extreme endurance is potentially bad for the heart.
Gouty bastard. Ow ow ow. Two nights in a row woken up at 3am by pain in the ankle, hardly able to walk this morning. Got no good painkillers left, trying to survive on ibuprofen gel and paracetamol.
Ow ow ow. I've never had such bad pain in my life. It's like somebody has taken my foot off, and hammered a big thick nail into the ankle joint up my leg bone, then put my foot back on again. Walking feels like I'm pushing the nail further in. :'(
The only thing that cheers me up is my beautiful wife pronounces it "goat", and asks me, "how is your goat this morning" ;D
Much sympathy, Hulver! Your description makes it sound like my rheumatoid arthritis, and gout is indeed closely related to arthritis. Goat might be a well for all I know.
Cyclists' hamstrings get shorter (or summat like that) so it's more difficult for us.That is certainly reported frequently.
Well, Yoga class tonight! No doubt i'll probably be the stiffest unbendiest in the class! :-[good luck! I've been failing to get myself to one for the past three weeks. Hopefully I'll manage it tomorrow. What sort of yoga will you be doing?
Well, Yoga class tonight! No doubt i'll probably be the stiffest unbendiest in the class! :-[good luck! I've been failing to get myself to one for the past three weeks. Hopefully I'll manage it tomorrow. What sort of yoga will you be doing?
good luck! I've been failing to get myself to one for the past three weeks. Hopefully I'll manage it tomorrow. What sort of yoga will you be doing?
Well done Brian. You inspired me to go tonight. It's mindfulness/hatha yoga and involved breathing exercises and meditation. I enjoyed it. Some of the poses were tough, though! Looking forward to improving.
Well done Brian. You inspired me to go tonight. It's mindfulness/hatha yoga and involved breathing exercises and meditation. I enjoyed it. Some of the poses were tough, though! Looking forward to improving.
My back is killing me today. This happened the last time I tried yoga. I took it easy, too, on the advice of the teacher, missing out the harder poses and using blocks. I think I have a more structural lower back problem. Bother. >:(Sorry! :-[ Hope your back is better now!
athletes foot sounds healthier than ringworm ?
I've just been reading an article that refers to a study done in 1960 where three sets of lab rats were fed a variety of diets. The first (control) set were fed normal lab rat food and water, the second set were fed cornflakes and water and the third set were fed the boxes that the second set's cornflakes came in, plus water.
The control set lived a year. The rats eating the cornflakes died in a couple of weeks, but rather crucially, they died before the rats eating the cardboard boxes :o.
The (rather sweeping) conclusion drawn from this - there's more nutrition in the cardboard box cornflakes come in, than the cornflakes themselves.
Corn flakes used to be in waxed paper bags within their box.
Ridiculously high calorie meal at Hungry Horse.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30000934
I have just had a phone call.
Agent Picolax is due to visit next Thursday...
Wish me luck!
I have just had a phone call.
Agent Picolax is due to visit next Thursday...
Wish me luck!
I had Moviprep rather than Agent P last year. Managed not to leak.
Never trust a fart!
Good luck!
Toe is still sore, and still discharging teh green :o
Luckily day off tomorrow, and getting dressing changed with practice nurse at doc surgery.
Fingers crossed Aunt Biotics will work (flucloxacillin)
I've got plantar fasciitis :(
This definitely fits in the 'Annoying Medical Issue' section of the Venn diagram.
I lost my fitbit in Barcelona.Is that a song lyric by an ironic 21st century version of Pulp?
I feel naked without it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30494009
Isn't this article just stating the obvious?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30494009
Isn't this article just stating the obvious?
According to the NHS (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cystitis/Pages/Treatment.aspx) there's no evidence that drinking lots of water is an effective treatment.
But they recommend it anyway?
According to the NHS (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cystitis/Pages/Treatment.aspx) there's no evidence that drinking lots of water is an effective treatment.
But they recommend it anyway?
The fact that drinking loads of water really helps flush out your bladder and makes you feel better doesn't count as 'evidence'.
'Evidence' means enormous cohort studies and double blinding and boring statistical analysis programmes. Nobody's funding trials into tap water.
This grumpy post was brought to you by Boxing Day Headache Lurgies inc.
That page contains a link to advice on how to clean your penis properly.
Good.
It should be compulsory reading for men and those who care about them.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/penis-health/Pages/how-to-wash-a-penis.aspx
I've got a bizarre knee pain. When I kneel on my right knee I get feeling like a plaster being pulled off under the skin on the lateral side of the knee joint. Depending on how bent the knee is I can vary the pain, it is worst at 80-90 degrees (where 90 deg is kneeling up and 80 deg is dropping towards a kneeling down position). It doesn't hurt at all when I am kneeling down.
What have I done?
Having tried to book an online GP appointment this morning, I've discovered that our surgery no longer offers this (Drat! This was the best thing about it!) and has changed to a system involving telephone triage called GP Access (http://gpaccess.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-system-works-only-as-a-whole-v3G.pdf). I wonder if it will work?
I spent New Year's Eve learning about intestinal intussusceptions and their treatment. If anyone here is advised to get a colonoscopy for screening purposes, do not put it off.
I spent New Year's Eve learning about intestinal intussusceptions and their treatment. If anyone here is advised to get a colonoscopy for screening purposes, do not put it off.
Been reading BMJ Endgames? ;)
I spent New Year's Eve learning about intestinal intussusceptions and their treatment. If anyone here is advised to get a colonoscopy for screening purposes, do not put it off.
Been reading BMJ Endgames? ;)
No, this was more of an experiential learning thing.
I did a spin class today. Dear $deity those bikes are uncomfortable. Very strange sensation too, it won't freewheel. Nearly bunnyhopped the thing the first time I tried!
I did a spin class today. Dear $deity those bikes are uncomfortable. Very strange sensation too, it won't freewheel. Nearly bunnyhopped the thing the first time I tried!
If you are used to riding fixed, it feels completely normal.
I've never ridden fixed, but that's what I was thinking. As I can't afford n+1, I guess the odd spin class might be a nice way of improving my pedal stroke.
I had to do that from half way to work and all the way home about 20 years ago. You tend to change gear a lot. Mostly down.I've never ridden fixed, but that's what I was thinking. As I can't afford n+1, I guess the odd spin class might be a nice way of improving my pedal stroke.
Best way to improve your pedal stroke is to pedal with one leg.
Thanks Helly, I've just read [ur=https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=80098.0l]this[/url] thread. I will book an appointment at the Docs on Mon. The pain I have is not great and has not stopped me doing anything. I thought it was chaffing on one of my big toes at first but then the other one started similar. Seems worse in the morning and there is nothing to see on the toe but it doesn't feel like in the joint either.
Get Well Soon, EG!In that it makes me vomit and that might force some of the lungcrud out? ;D
TEA can be helpful...
Mrs T just brought back some dried mango from the shops. Tastes bloody marvellous. Any way I can justify this as Audax fodder?
After getting annoyed with getting up from the floor like an old man (after playing with my young child) I have finally gone to the GP for a check up. They are very judgemental I think if you are male, not old and have a joint problem that has not incapacitated you. I've a history of knee complaints.
Anyway xray today and hopefully an MRI in the next month. Seems the fact my knee keeps locking up (bending back so it locks straight not locking up so I can't move it) and the way it collapses on me for no reason as I walk means there could be a loose body in my knee joint. That soft tissue needs MRI or arthoscopy I believe. So until then I am going to have to keep using chairs and tables to get up and have to be careful gowing down stairs. However one good thing, cycling helps a lot. I thought it would make it worse but after a ride I find there is less pain and that knee collapses on me less.
Anyone know what an MRI is like? I reckon I'll be in feet first but only up to waist so it won't feel claustrophobic for me. I have heard it is not a nice thing with a lot of noise, clicking and the tight space inside the ring. Didn't realise it takes at least 15 minutes, not a fast snap like xrays. Is that right? Anyone else have a MRI done on their legs/knees?? What was it like?
I've had one (or more) for my shoulder. I'd say it's about like being on a posh and comfortable sun-bed (and a lot less hazardous!)Thanks for that, like the sunbed analogy. I'll check out my tan lines after I get my leg scanned!!
I had my hip MRId. It's not pleasant, but once they'd rolled me through so my head was sticking out, it was better. I made the mistake of opening my eyes while my head was still inside and I shouldn't have done because it felt claustrophobic enough to be distressing. As soon as my head was out, I was fine. They'll play a CD to you to take your mind off things. I think it took about 20 minutes. It's noisy but it's not sore, and if you don't open your eyes while your head is in the thing, it's just a noisy lie down.
Anyone know what an MRI is like? I reckon I'll be in feet first but only up to waist so it won't feel claustrophobic for me. I have heard it is not a nice thing with a lot of noise, clicking and the tight space inside the ring. Didn't realise it takes at least 15 minutes, not a fast snap like xrays. Is that right? Anyone else have a MRI done on their legs/knees?? What was it like?
Frightened myself to death last night, thought I was pissing blood, then after a minute or two remembers the packet of Beetroot crisps I had on the train home ::-)Points fingers and laughs
Eight days is perfectly normal for bad flu, is it not?
Interestingly all the German websites on flu say go to the doctor straight away, all the english ones say treat at home. Which I guess ight be something to do with the fact that you pay for your doctor's visits.Or a different interpretation of flu? That is, maybe when Germans say flu they really mean flu, not a bad cold?
If your bilirubin were off the scale, you might be a FUNNYCOLOUR
(I'm now under standing orders to query the colour of suspicious bodily emissions with barakta. She gets all the fun jobs.)
@Helly: any idea how quickly mitochondrion population in skeletal muscle declines when we break training? Or in cardiac muscle, come to that, if it does at all?
I just started again after 10 days off for my eye op, and it feels as if I'd done zero km this year.
@Helly: any idea how quickly mitochondrion population in skeletal muscle declines when we break training? Or in cardiac muscle, come to that, if it does at all?
I just started again after 10 days off for my eye op, and it feels as if I'd done zero km this year.
I read in 'faster' that it's the drop in blood volume when you stop that causes the initial loss of fitness. This returns quite quickly when you start training again.
@Helly: any idea how quickly mitochondrion population in skeletal muscle declines when we break training? Or in cardiac muscle, come to that, if it does at all?
I just started again after 10 days off for my eye op, and it feels as if I'd done zero km this year.
I read in 'faster' that it's the drop in blood volume when you stop that causes the initial loss of fitness. This returns quite quickly when you start training again.
Hum. "Exercise training-induced hypervolemia appears to be universal among most animal species, although the mechanisms may be quite different. The hypervolemia may provide advantages of greater body fluid for heat dissipation and thermoregulatory stability as well as larger vascular volume and filling pressure for greater cardiac stroke volume and lower heart rates during exercise." - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1798375
I'd view that as just one of the adaptation mechanisms. But mitochondria are directly involved in intracellular metabolism and their population increases to about 200% of normal with regular training, so that the cells become twice as efficient as untrained cells. When you stop training the population drops towards normal again. I know that population rebuild is faster than the initial build and, I believe, faster than the loss, but beyond that I have no idea. Although my cardiologist did tell me not to lay off more than three weeks, so maybe that's the time for the pop to drop to normal.
I'm just home from a three day stay in hospital having L4/L5 decompression surgery now on the road to recovery, could be off the bike/trike for a while
Glass block UV (I think all wavelengths but no doubt other will know better ) quite effectively - you don't tan in a greenhouse, so I suspect that's the reason.
Short sleeves are a good idea if you don't go out much.
I am so looking forward to seeing my GP on Friday and finding out what is wrong with me. I am so tired. All the time.Hopefully he has an answer for you.
Work had a bod from Stroke Association in today, giving us a free blood pressure test if we wanted.
Got mine done, 138/89. Just a smidge below borderline of hypertension according to the bumpf I got given! :o :o
Work had a bod from Stroke Association in today, giving us a free blood pressure test if we wanted.
Got mine done, 138/89. Just a smidge below borderline of hypertension according to the bumpf I got given! :o :o
A smidge below "high normal" I think that would be, or "mild" hypertension. In the "practice a healthy lifestyle and check again in a little while" range. That I've been in for at least 20 years ::-). So less salt, less alcohol, more veg, more exercise for us! :thumbsup:
Work had a bod from Stroke Association in today, giving us a free blood pressure test if we wanted.
Got mine done, 138/89. Just a smidge below borderline of hypertension according to the bumpf I got given! :o :o
A smidge below "high normal" I think that would be, or "mild" hypertension. In the "practice a healthy lifestyle and check again in a little while" range. That I've been in for at least 20 years ::-). So less salt, less alcohol, more veg, more exercise for us! :thumbsup:
My bloods all came back normal, so we've agreed I have depression and started me on sertraline.I've a packet of these sitting in my coat pocket, the side affects look grim and I reckon as Spring is coming I'm not bad enough yet. I dunno. :-\
My bloods all came back normal, so we've agreed I have depression and started me on sertraline.I've a packet of these sitting in my coat pocket, the side affects look grim and I reckon as Spring is coming I'm not bad enough yet. I dunno. :-\
Some people get all the side effects. Some people don't get any. Some people get some they find intolerable, some people get some they can live with. The direct effects of the depression are enough for me to risk the side effects of medication.Aye. I reckon I'm unlucky enough to get lots of side effects, and not bad enough to risk them. Yet.
Wife's starting flu ("no, no, it's just sinusitis and a sore back"), I'm feeling a bit ropey, I have a 200k 12th April and my training's already shot to hell with time off for cataract op. Bugger.
I'm just home from a three day stay in hospital having L4/L5 decompression surgery now on the road to recovery, could be off the bike/trike for a whileTwo weeks post op back on the bike/trike and walking, I really can't believe it, I feel great and the best bit I have no pain at all, all thanks to Southampton General Hospital.
Two weeks post op back on the bike/trike and walking, I really can't believe it, I feel great and the best bit I have no pain at all, all thanks to Southampton General Hospital.
Current Sertraline side-effect: night sweats so bad I tossed and turned so much last night I ripped a big hole in the bottom sheet.
I had a little accident last week (mentioned elsewhere), which left me with several facial scabs. Most were shallow scrapes & had fallen off by this evening, when most of what was left fell off in the bath.
Unfortunately, the scab which fell off (to my surprise: I thought it was solidly rooted, & it was the only one A&E had taped up last week) the bridge of my nose left behind an oozing hole. I'm not sure what to do about this. Just put a dressing on it? If so, what sort would be best, taking into account that ordinary plasters irritate my skin if left on long? Ask the GP nurse to have a look at it tomorrow?
All advice gratefully received.
PS. I was thinking until I saw that hole that I might get away without any visible scars. :(
Nope, not on the invoice. I'll see the doc again in a couple of weeks for another test so I'll see if I can get the results from him. But German doctors tend to keep things closer to their chests, apparently.
Now you are better, your blood results are close to normal.I was tested for the following:
Viruses cause deranged liver function.
Were you tested for glandular fever?
There's a slight dent now, only noticeable because it's still discoloured.I had a little accident last week (mentioned elsewhere), which left me with several facial scabs. Most were shallow scrapes & had fallen off by this evening, when most of what was left fell off in the bath.
Unfortunately, the scab which fell off (to my surprise: I thought it was solidly rooted, & it was the only one A&E had taped up last week) the bridge of my nose left behind an oozing hole. I'm not sure what to do about this. Just put a dressing on it? If so, what sort would be best, taking into account that ordinary plasters irritate my skin if left on long? Ask the GP nurse to have a look at it tomorrow?
All advice gratefully received.
PS. I was thinking until I saw that hole that I might get away without any visible scars. :(
Tegaderm, or similar.
I know this is too late, but it's the answer for things like this. Put it on and forget it. Healing with virtually no scarring.
I'm just over 4 weeks into the sertraline just now and it's going great. It's definitely working, and the majority of the side-effects have passed. I still have sweaty hands and feet, deranged body temperatures, a bit of a clenched jaw, and intermittent jitteriness, those are all minor and tolerable. I think I've been very lucky.Me too. I think I'm a few days behind you and not only do I feel much better but not one of the terrible list has manifested.
Seems mine are a side-effect of migraines and and sign that my brain is not getting blood properly, or something.Experimentation has shown that I can't drink even on small glass of red anymore. :(
Eight weeks into the sertraline, and I'm definitely feeling the benefits. I'm cooking from scratch a few nights a week instead of living on pizza and bread, and I feel like I'm walking instead of trudging. I'm going back to see the GP on Friday.
Yeah, my bug-eyes were hilarious to see. My GP has warned me 3 times not to stop taking the pills just because I feel better because I'll almost certainly relapse.Eight weeks into the sertraline, and I'm definitely feeling the benefits. I'm cooking from scratch a few nights a week instead of living on pizza and bread, and I feel like I'm walking instead of trudging. I'm going back to see the GP on Friday.
Just been catching up on this thread, sertraline is doing me wonders as well. I left it for far too long before going to the doctor though.
I had the bug-eyes for a few days, although I think that was the worst of the starting side-effects.
I had to increase dose after the first month, as although my mood had improved I was still very unmotivated. I now have to remember to take the pills in the morning, as I'm feeling normal again.
I'm glad it's working for you.
Bowel cancer screening. Not only do you get a Special Free Gift in the post for "before", you get a souvenir photo to take away after, too. :thumbsup:.
Top value, NHS!
Bowel cancer screening. Not only do you get a Special Free Gift in the post for "before", you get a souvenir photo to take away after, too. :thumbsup:.
Top value, NHS!
Great fun!
I hadda polyp so had to go back for a colonoscopy; even more fun...
...and more pictures.
Still much better than consequences of polyp turning nasty!
Me: "So, find anything interesting?"
Doc: "Nope. Just a beautiful bowel."
You wonder why some decide to work in medicine, don't you?
And then there are the ones who are perfectly good doctors, as long as you conform to their prejudices of what constitutes a worthy patient...
And then there are the ones who are perfectly good doctors, as long as you conform to their prejudices of what constitutes a worthy patient...
Or, presumably, as long as they conform to your prejudices of a what constitutes a worthy doctor... ;)
Soluble/dispersible aspirin, oh how I love thee.Me too. Not to that extent, fortunately. Do you remember orange-flavoured 'junior aspirin'? Made to be palatable to kids, they stopped it because it was too tasty and some children treated it as sweeties. This would have been mid-70s, I guess. It always tasted horrible to me, and I was so glad when I was allowed to have proper grown-up chalky aspirin instead. Yes, it does taste good.
Beats the fuck out of swallowing some pills, can sip it over a period of time
(yes I actually like the taste. So much so, that as a baby I ate a whole bottle of 100)
Still it could have been a lot worse, at least I didn't fall from standing and smack myself off the ceramic sink or tub on the way down.
I am ill for the first time in almost a year . . . . . I got home from hols yesterday . . . I feel dreadful.::-) ::-)
Hmm, been prescribed low-dose amitriptyline, not for depression, for migraine-y pain. That's going to be interesting.
I came across this article. It almost made me cry, knowing I'm not alone or going insane.
http://migraine.com/blog/cognitive-dysfunction-during-attacks/ (http://migraine.com/blog/cognitive-dysfunction-during-attacks/)
I went back to the GP for a review today. I've been registered with that practice for about 20 years and I've never had a single complaint about them, but my appointment today was very rushed. They were over-running so they probably wanted to make the time up, and I suppose it's not like I needed a lot of time, but I'm sure I was in and out in under four minutes, with 2 months more sertraline and a reminder to go back in July or August.I had a couple of bad weeks in the middle of June where I felt like I was back to square one, so took a Friday as annual leave to make a longer weekend, and have been much better ever since. Last weekend I remember thinking to myself "I almost feel normal today." (Normal for me, not normal normal, obv). I am wondering if there is a hormonal element to the down patches, but it's hard to track since the mirena ate my periods. Feeling much more stable the past couple of weeks, and have booked some annual leave on one or two Mondays per month to give myself some longer weekends (and to use my leave up by end of September because we're not allowed to carry it over any more).
Factually incorrect AND oversimplistic.
1 gram fat is 9kcal anyway.
First rule of yacf:Factually incorrect AND oversimplistic.
1 gram fat is 9kcal anyway.
Yup, you're right.
What if she disagrees with teh Julian?That would be a bit like crossing the streams, wouldn't it?
My mental health is continuing to be better and I've had several days in the past month where I've felt almost back to normal. I know I'm not there quite yet, but it's coming. I'm seeing my GP again on Monday.That's great news :thumbsup:
What if she disagrees with teh Julian?
Try to catch a falling glass, I backhanded a cactus.
Got most of the spines out - but one has vanished into finger joint (that's what it feels like, anyway). Swollen lump on finger for a week so far. It was filled with pus on mon and I though the spine would come out with the pus. No joy.
Time to go to A&E. A old cycling buddy of mine came back from work in America. While in Nevada during his last week there, he fell against a cactus and got spined. He died of septicemia within six months.I'm keeping an eye on my wrist. If red lines start crawling up my veins, A&E it is. Bin there, done that.
Good news...
The guy is probably the best in the UK...
Night rides might be back on next year...
I appear to have or be developing an ear infection which is both making my balance worse than usual (baseline is pretty shite) AND painful and setting off TMJ pain I've historically had a lot of problems with.
*WHINGE!*
I am now eating all the drugs that might possibly help degunk that part of my anatomy and or kill pain. Even eating paracetamol which I don't usually bother with.
It was always my bugbear working as a doctor in an area where kids' home language was not English that the kids learnt good English at school but missed out on colloquial 'toilet' and 'body' vocabulary.
Mk 1 zit inside the nostril? Those can be unreasonably painful.
A 3/8 reamer might do the trick.
It was always my bugbear working as a doctor in an area where kids' home language was not English that the kids learnt good English at school but missed out on colloquial 'toilet' and 'body' vocabulary.I'd have thought they'd pick up most of that from other kids in the playground.
It was always my bugbear working as a doctor in an area where kids' home language was not English that the kids learnt good English at school but missed out on colloquial 'toilet' and 'body' vocabulary.I'd have thought they'd pick up most of that from other kids in the playground.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34290430
To the half who ignored the Special Invite. You squeamish bunch of Weiners - JFDI. It might just save your life.
Signed: A Squeamish Person.
PS: Strange that fewer women than men took up the one-off option. Usually, it's us blokes who are the weeds, when it comes to medical stuffs.
By now I am hardly surprised there's so much obesity. There is so much junk food everywhere and portion sizes of 'good food' are HUGE for sedentary folk.
Just had to vent...
According to at least two independent sets of research, man flu is real. Men really do feel worse than women when they’ve got a cold.
I've had this sharp, excruciating pain under my left shoulder blade for about a week. It goes away when the area is supported but is agony when I'm standing or moving about. A massage yesterday didn't help. Tiger Balm gives a tiny bit of relief, but mostly I'm hobbling about going owww.
Bloody Hell! Everything is LOUD now....
Bloody Hell! Everything is LOUD now....
Apart from the audiology receptionist, of course.
My favourite was the theatre nurse who described an ECG as a "special telly" about 2 minutes after I told them I was an electronic engineering student. I may have upped the sarcasm on principle at that point ("Yes, I built one when I was a kid, the grounding can be really temperamental."), but it wasn't really their fault.That might have been how it was explained to the nurse...
It's remarkably good today; I could probably read the top line on an eye chart with it despite the fact that there is still a pretty big air bubble in there (this is deliberately added during surgery to press the graft against the inside of my own cornea and make it stick, and is absorbed after a few days). All in all, it's amazing considering the usual timescales quoted for useful vision after this surgery. I don't think my father could see much for two months. I am right at the bottom of the age range for this procedure, with very early onset Fuch's dystrophy, so my eye probably heals quicker than the typical patient who would be in their 70s.
Post-op consultation is on Tuesday (train trip to Reading) when he can tell me to what extent it has so far "bonded".
In one of those "small world" surprises, my cat's opthalmologist knows my opthalmologist ;D
I am banned from any kind of work for two weeks, even hoovering!
I sometimes have a reaction to Chinese food and I'm sure it's not the carbohydrates. It's likely something to do with high levels of MSG.
I got pneumonia three times as a very young child and, perhaps as a consequence, all my life have suffered from a propensity for chest infections. Just spent two weeks recovering from my last one.
These are brought on by (a) lack of sleep, (b) being cold, (c) lack of food, and (d) exertion, in that order of importance. I can get away with any one factor (except lack of sleep for several days running) but in any combination they kill me.
I have come to accept that cycling increases my risk.
Does anyone here suffer from cycling-related chest infections and have you found a way to reduce your risk?
Seems at my previous exam, just 3 months ago, the exam showed I needed reading glasses. Since then there has been a major deterioration in my close-in sight and the optician's opinion was that this would be contributing to migraine issues.
Due to my other eye issues, the cheap off-the-shelf reading glasses would be worse than useless. Bah effing humbug, here goes a major expense I could do without.
Ouch! I went to the doctor, yesterday, for my B12.
Ended up having that, 'flu jab AND pneumonia jab.
My left arm now is really hurty!
That is weird, I convinced myself that our boiler was leaking CO, too.
The only thing I noticed after my 'flu jab 9 days ago was a sticking plaster which caught my T-shirt.
That is weird, I convinced myself that our boiler was leaking CO, too.
Comforting to know it's not just me - it might have been our flue, after all. But I roasted a batch of coffee this afternoon & it smells just the same. :(
Asked my doc about the 'flu jab' and he said "You don't need it."
pmslAsked my doc about the 'flu jab' and he said "You don't need it."
Well done, you evidently chose the right parents.
I'm pretty sure I'm developing arthritis in my first metacarpalphalangeal joint on my non-dominant hand. I have a friend who is a hand therapist so I will ask her to look at it.I am seeing the GP tomorrow. The joint is very painful and there's quite a lot of swelling and what might be new bone growth.
The news recently talked about bowel cancer being linked to processed meats (salami etc).
Purely anecdotal evidence but here in Germany I know of three people with bowel cancer but in the UK none of my direct contacts have it. Here the consumption of sausage and salami etc is colossally high. So maybe.
The news recently talked about bowel cancer being linked to processed meats (salami etc).
Purely anecdotal evidence but here in Germany I know of three people with bowel cancer but in the UK none of my direct contacts have it. Here the consumption of sausage and salami etc is colossally high. So maybe.
The wurst news.
IGMC...
The news recently talked about bowel cancer being linked to processed meats (salami etc).
Purely anecdotal evidence but here in Germany I know of three people with bowel cancer but in the UK none of my direct contacts have it. Here the consumption of sausage and salami etc is colossally high. So maybe.
The wurst news.
IGMC...
I will put that post in my Spam folder.
A very long time ago, a primary school classmate's father died of bowel cancer.
He was a Kosher butcher.
The consultant copied me into his letter to my GP, and he suggested my hypochromic microcytic anaemia with a serum ferritin level of 10 might be due to 'intense physical exercise'.
My hols in Scotland didn't involve that much exercise, did they? If they're going to stop me riding my bike I'm going to sulk quite a lot.
I'm fairly sure 12 days of cycle touring round the Highlands doesn't count as 'intense exercise' ???
Perhaps your consultant thought you looked like an elite athlete :)
Had 8am GP appointment, seen at about 10 past, GP sent electronic referral for Xray, wandered over to Lauriston building in time for 0830 opening, Xrays taken by 0855. Not bad, NHS, not bad. Now I just need to wait for the results.I'm seeing the GP again on Thursday, and it can't come soon enough.
Good news and bad news from the opthalmologist today. The good news is that the corneal graft is completely stuck and there is no risk of it ever detaching now. The bad news is (1) slightly high pressure in the eye, probably a reaction to the anti-rejection steroid drops. He prescribed some drops to relieve the pressure and I am to start reducing the frequency of the anti-rejection drops now anyway. (2) Slight cataract, a side-effect of the surgery due to the air bubble being inserted into the aqueous humour, which holds the graft in place for the first day or two but doesn't so the lens much good. He's not too worried about it though.
Is lemsip not basically just paracetamol, sugar and hot water?
Is lemsip not basically just paracetamol, sugar and hot water?
Is lemsip not basically just paracetamol, sugar and hot water?
Is lemsip not basically just paracetamol, sugar and hot water?
Yeah, pretty much, but the smell is dead comforting and it's a nice hot drink with drugs in it :thumbsup:
Is lemsip not basically just paracetamol, sugar and hot water?
It's worse than that, it's liquid paracetamol. That stuff is only okay after a general anaesthetic, and only because everything tastes like that after a GA. :sick:
I prefer my paracetamol in capsules that can be swallowed quickly and efficiently with minimal tongue contact.
My GP's surgery has called me for a fasting blood sugar. I am not diabetic. Getting me to the surgery for this will, no doubt displease the partner.
I am minded to push my sugar down to the worrisome out of spite.
I am not nice.
I will aim for 2.9...
I'm off for a vaginal ultrasound scan in a minute. I'm actually quite excited. It's the closest thing I've had to a date in years.Is this POTD?
X-ray shows no bony abnormality. GP has no idea what is causing the pain and swelling, and oh, did I mention the PAIN? I'm trying diclofenac gel for 2 weeks and go back if not better.Gel has reduced the soft tissue swelling, but the bony swelling and PAIN are still there. I'm going back to the GP next week.
X-ray shows no bony abnormality. GP has no idea what is causing the pain and swelling, and oh, did I mention the PAIN? I'm trying diclofenac gel for 2 weeks and go back if not better.Gel has reduced the soft tissue swelling, but the bony swelling and PAIN are still there. I'm going back to the GP next week.
The contacts are in for my first trial day. This feels a little weird. Hopefully I won't end up in A&E this time :-[
A&E? Well better safe than sorry I guess.
I had a worrying bloodshot look one evening a couple of weeks ago, after a trainer session in the garage. I had my contacts in, it stayed after they were out but was gone the next morning. I suspect fatigue (long hours recently) was a factor and maybe raised blood circulation from the exercise. The motorbike trip home from work may have added to any stress levels as it was dark, and very busy on the M5.
I'm due a contact lens check up so I'll bring it up then I guess. I used the contacts again for riding the motorbike, to get to the rowing club, and did a very high intensity erg session, without any issues so I'm inclined to think it was tiredness.
I had drunk about 2/3 of my second pint at this time. Would that have helped to keep me hydrated.
I had drunk about 2/3 of my second pint at this time. Would that have helped to keep me hydrated.
Possibly not. Alcohol is a diuretic. That's why, colloquially, drinking it can be described as 'getting pissed'. Quite often, even with dilute alcohol, eg in beer, you can lose more water than you gain.
Here's the thing. There is a 'managed' condition and 'treated'.
So, medication review today. What I was hoping for was a discussion about whether a different medication might be better or some other assistance. I'm currently missing about 1 day off every 2-3 weeks.
What I got was a blood pressure check.
Next time I take my buggered shoulder to the doc I'm planning to scream "if it was a sore tooth I'd take it to the dentist and he'd FUCKING WELL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"Cue doctor to lift SDS drill, tube of No More Nails and say "No problem sir, we can fix that. Now, where did you go on your holidays?" Whiiiirrrrrrr <scream>
Hmmm. I suppose dentists do have a rather more direct approach. Fed up with doc piling platitude on conjecture and doing SFA, though.
I wrote on this thread a year ago about me going to an xmas party where I fainted. I hadn't fainted before and didn't find any reason why. I saw my GP and had blood test done, etc. The GP said that if this happens again we will need to look into it more and maybe stop me driving and cycling. Anyway, I have had no problems all year until I went to exactly the same party last night. I had stuffed my face with the party food and was stood talking when I became light heading and went down. I didn't drop as suddenly as last year and when I came round I was on my hands and knees. I knew that after eating the junk party food my blood sugar was high and maybe put it down to that, just like last year. I was thinking about it again today and just before fainting I was telling a guy about what happened to me last year. Did I talk myself into fainting?
Hmmm. I suppose dentists do have a rather more direct approach. Fed up with doc piling platitude on conjecture and doing SFA, though.
The approach I hate the most is the, "Yes well, at your age - normal wear and tear - to be expected"
Just get me back on my bike!!!!!!
I know my measly 5 - 6000 km pa is nothing here, but it does seem to impress the GP.
Actually, I'm probably more in need of a psychiatrist than a GP to get me riding more atm. :(
Something in the air conditioningwater,or David Cameron trying to kill us all off?
Had you gone from sitting to standing, or made any sudden change on body position?
I get that occasionally, and can go light headed when standing up quickly. Seems to be postural hypotension, which is not uncommon in fitter individuals with a low RHR. Essentially the BP doesn't catch up quick enough when you make those changes in posture.
No, I had been standing and chatting for a few mins. I'm still going with the idea that i may have talked myself into it. I was telling somebody all about what happened last year. I remember when I came round (this year) my biggest worry was other damage had I done. When I collapsed last year I hurt something in my chest which was quite painful for the following two weeks.
At this stage I want more investigation and less experimentation.
waking up and suddenly a heart rate around 130 bpm, or more! Muscles tensed and totally aware of it. could be 5 minutes or 50 minutes, I can't figure that part of it, and, when it's calmed down, the rest of the day is a new and mighty headache, aching arms and legs. I have vague memories in my head of Adrenal and Cortisol stuff. I will try and see doctor as this has been 3 days in a row and I'm starting to get worried.
Anybody got an idea of what it might be?
Last ride was 30th Dec. Had severe angina and haven't dared since. Cardiologist Thursday. :(
Last ride was 30th Dec. Had severe angina and haven't dared since. Cardiologist Thursday. :(
Eeek!
I wish you well!
Woke up on Dec 28th with severe back pain, in between the shoulderblades. Never experienced it before and cannot think of a reason ( meaning cannot recall twisting or lifting or any sort of twinge). Cannot lay flat on the bed but it gets better as the day goes on. Had a sports massage and got marinally better but had to sleep on the floor for a couple of days, now graduated to sleeping on a futon. Question is, do I bother going to the doc or do I not bother until it happens again (hopefully it does not)?There is actually very little the doc can do.
Last ride was 30th Dec. Had severe angina and haven't dared since. Cardiologist Thursday. :(
Eeek!
I wish you well!
Thanks Helly. Stress test this afternoon. I'm just beginning to panic.
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Woke up on Dec 28th with severe back pain, in between the shoulderblades. Never experienced it before and cannot think of a reason ( meaning cannot recall twisting or lifting or any sort of twinge). Cannot lay flat on the bed but it gets better as the day goes on. Had a sports massage and got marinally better but had to sleep on the floor for a couple of days, now graduated to sleeping on a futon. Question is, do I bother going to the doc or do I not bother until it happens again (hopefully it does not)?There is actually very little the doc can do.
If you can get a swiss ball then sitting on that will help.
A basketball or football can be used for upper back. Stand back to a wall, about 1.5times ball diameter away. Place ball behind you, a little below where the pain is (say, a little less than the ball diameter). Lean on the ball. Carefully bend your knees, leaning on the ball, until the ball roll up past the painful bit. Straighten knees and repeat for a while.
a nursie-know-it-allWow.
a nursie-know-it-allWow.
a nursie-know-it-allWow.
Some Nurse Practitioners are excellent.
Others have opinions beyond their knowledge and education.
But the same is true for doctors.
Some Nurse Practitioners are excellent.
Others have opinions beyond their knowledge and education.
Some Nurse Practitioners are excellent.
Others have opinions beyond their knowledge and education.
Oh the arguments I've had with my sister (a nurse) about bike helmets...
Oh the arguments I've had with my sister (a nurse) about bike helmets...
Some Nurse Practitioners are excellent.
Others have opinions beyond their knowledge and education.
Oh the arguments I've had with my sister (a nurse) about bike helmets...
Rice, and most breads are sugar spiking little ba$tards. Potatoes though, curiously not.
Rice, and most breads are sugar spiking little ba$tards. Potatoes though, curiously not.
Interestingly, that's not my experience. Maybe depends on the manner of the cooking; mashed potato really spikes my blood sugar (and I'm not diabetic).
I am stuck in hospital again😢 . I went into retention around 5.30 and as I arose from the throne my lower back went into spasm . I managed to drag myself through the house and knock the patio doors open and woke the neighbour who called the ambulance.. So I am stuck in hospital with a cathier and rattling with pain medicine for my back ::-). I will be here at least overnight . bother !.
They plan to stick me into a MRI tube for a hour tomorrow before pulling the cathier out and seeing what happens :oBetter than "They plan to stick an MRI tube into me for an hour......"
Woke up on Dec 28th with severe back pain, in between the shoulderblades. Never experienced it before and cannot think of a reason ( meaning cannot recall twisting or lifting or any sort of twinge). Cannot lay flat on the bed but it gets better as the day goes on. Had a sports massage and got marinally better but had to sleep on the floor for a couple of days, now graduated to sleeping on a futon. Question is, do I bother going to the doc or do I not bother until it happens again (hopefully it does not)?There is actually very little the doc can do.
If you can get a swiss ball then sitting on that will help.
Thanks for the replies. Saw osteopath yesterday, a bit better last night. Hopefully it keeps improving, it really only troubles me at night.
Joaquin
A basketball or football can be used for upper back. Stand back to a wall, about 1.5times ball diameter away. Place ball behind you, a little below where the pain is (say, a little less than the ball diameter). Lean on the ball. Carefully bend your knees, leaning on the ball, until the ball roll up past the painful bit. Straighten knees and repeat for a while.
I wouldn't do that in the acute phase, wait till it's calmed down a bit. Football/basketball may be a bit big, something nearer tennis ball size and hardness tends to allow more local pressure and deeper pressure.
Also if you can find one, a physio/sports injury specialist who might be able to see if there is any underlying imbalance causing this. Lower back pain as an example is often a symptom of something like tight calves, hamstrings, or over developed quads etc.
I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11 :)
Then there's brother's diabetic pin-thin MIL, who can eat sweetcorn with impunity...
No just water and three small cups of tea during the day . seeing as I drink my tea out of a liter mugs at home and I am not fond of plain water thing's could be better :) .I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11 :)
Are you getting the urology "lashings and lashings of tea" treatment? (For best effect, this comes when you're trying to sleep.)
No just water and three small cups of tea during the day . seeing as I drink my tea out of a liter mugs at home and I am not fond of plain water thing's could be better :) .I had a sardine salad for supper and peach slices for pudding and am now enjoying the ambience of ward 11 :)
Are you getting the urology "lashings and lashings of tea" treatment? (For best effect, this comes when you're trying to sleep.)
The trapped nerve in my neck, which has stopped me from cycling, walking, or doing owt much at all for the last two years, seems to have resolved itself. Dunno why I got it in the first place, nor why it went away - doing my usual yoga class before christmas, Something Happened at one point to make it better down my left hand side (where the pain was all along), but suddenly worse down the right (where it wasn't).
Over a couple of weeks, the worse bit gradually improved and went away completely, and the better bit stayed better. A decent gym session last Friday, a 3 hour ride yesterday and a 3 hour walk on the fells today and all seems to be well. I think I'm better :D
Now, just the small matter of 2 years-worth of lost fitness to catch up on.
Asian genes dictate that fat is laid down in the abdominal area.is a clue.
I suspectQuoteAsian genes dictate that fat is laid down in the abdominal area.is a clue.
She might have a profile that looks 'slim' if viewed from the front, but viewed from the side looks to have significant belly fat.
As always, the pinch test can tell us a lot, as long as we are honest with ourselves.
pressure test's of the bowels and bladderThat sounds excruciating
I know I am blessed with a small waist but whenever was a 34" waist on a woman 'slim'?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35280028 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35280028)
My Dad self-catheterises four times per day and is happy doing this.Ditto my Dad. It is largely about motivation - being fitted with catheter and bag would impede some of his activities (cycling to get his paper, playing tennis, skip-diving for firewood - all the things 86 year olds normally get up to)
My Dad self-catheterises four times per day and is happy doing this.Ditto my Dad. It is largely about motivation - being fitted with catheter and bag would impede some of his activities (cycling to get his paper, playing tennis, skip-diving for firewood - all the things 86 year olds normally get up to)
Cystitis, like hearing aid malfunction, has an uncanny knack of happening onOr is that just me?weekends and bank holidaysbike rides....
Cystitis, like hearing aid malfunction, has an uncanny knack of happening onOr is that just me?weekends and bank holidaysbike rides....
Cystitis, like hearing aid malfunction, has an uncanny knack of happening onOr is that just me?weekends and bank holidaysbike rides....
I fell off (low-sided) more than 4 months ago, landing squarely on my hip - followed by knee and elbow and sundry other bit's. Everything has healed up, but the hip STILL feels bruised when Ipoke itlie on it in bed >:(
A Bursa is part of your body - a cushioning pad. They are found in most joints, but I'm not aware of one on the outside of the hip.I fell off (low-sided) more than 4 months ago, landing squarely on my hip - followed by knee and elbow and sundry other bit's. Everything has healed up, but the hip STILL feels bruised when Ipoke itlie on it in bed >:(
I had a similar experience a few years ago. Apparently it is called a Bursa and was sore for a year or so I was threatened with a steroid injection so just shut up. it is better now about 3 years later.
There is the trochanteric bursa which often takes a hit when a cyclist lands on the hip, sometimes causing a bleed.
Still, that's preferable to a hip fracture.
There is the trochanteric bursa which often takes a hit when a cyclist lands on the hip, sometimes causing a bleed.
Because the tip is sore I am to scared of pain to pull it. I tried and the tube seems to stretch and it hurts a bit and I wimp out again .I know I should MTFU but a wimp I remain ::-) :'( :'( . I am using a gel called optilube which is making things a bit more comfortable . I suspect that I will have to put up with it as I have bothered doctors to much this week and I cannot afford to upset them ..
@mrcharly sympathy, but G^%&*$"£ so does mine. Extensive inflammation of tendons from the pressure bandage they put on my wrist last week. It seems that every night when I'm asleep they fuse to their sheaths, and when I move them in the morning the pain is just short of making me vomit. That goes on until they're free to move again, usually a few hours, then the next night it starts over again. One is not happy.hey it gives you something to look forward to, each morning, right? :facepalm:
ELEVATE, ELEVATE, ELEVATE!!!
I think you can wait until Monday but be prepared for a very rapid escalation of care and investigations. Certainly that would be the case in the UKI beg to differ. Blood in urine has been ignored as an expected side effect of cystitis every time I've asked my GP. Even when we're discussing obvious clots in a urine sample.
I still have a cathier in 😢 . I have phoned both wexham and heatherwood hospital s and have been promised replys since Thursday .I am seeing the doctor tomorrow so I will see if he can get any sense out of them .this is getting very frustrating and depressing. If it takes this long to get the cathier out I hate to think how long it will take to do the tests to hopefully sort the problem out :(
re-plastered, xrayed and assessed
another check next week - if progress continues then "I wont need srgery and probably only need a cast another 4 weeks"
I admit that it's not the most fun I have had . it is proving to be more comfortable than the leg bag so far ☺
I am on day 15. Came back from holiday having exercised, rested, etc. 2 days later on the Friday came home and collapsed. In bed all weekend but went into work on Monday. Struggled through to Thursday when I was practically comatose and have been off work ever since, temperature swings, sweating, etc!! Just managed 20 minutes on the turbo today and will try for an hour tomorrow. I have 2 days in court on Monday/Tuesday so that will not be too bad although 2 hours on the train to Newcastle is a bit of a faff.
Doctors aren't very good at taking time off when they are sick are they?Hi Hellymedic, don't let my wife know! After 35 years of being married I have just about persuaded her that everybody else is a skiver and i am normal. Although she did wonder wonder when I was pouring sweat, shivering uncontrollably and slightly confused last Sunday and refused to call the doctor. After all what would they know that I didn't?
QuoteDoctors aren't very good at taking time off when they are sick are they?Hi Hellymedic, don't let my wife know! After 35 years of being married I have just about persuaded her that everybody else is a skiver and i am normal. Although she did wonder wonder when I was pouring sweat, shivering uncontrollably and slightly confused last Sunday and refused to call the doctor. After all what would they know that I didn't?
I feel so ill. I had to drag myself home from work tonight, I felt so awful.
I'll still be going to work in the morning though. As you do.
Sore throat, whole body aching, can hardly move. Yeah, that'd be a cold then ::-)
Interesting. Some gastroenteritis viruses carry surface proteins very similar to those on the surface of beta cells, and antibodies against the former can take out the latter as well, leaving you diabetic. Happened to the 4-year-old son of a friend of mine - explaining to the poor wee chap why his parents had to start sticking needles into him was harrowing.
Any chance of a beta-cell implant?
Achievement unlocked: Improved BMI by being 3cm taller than at last year's annual being-told-off-by-the-asthma-nurse appointment. :o
No, I haven't a clue how that happened. Either I've been wrong about my height for years, or I've grown since I was last measured by a competent healthcare professional. We checked, and left leg vs right leg weight bearing only accounts for a little under 1cm difference, so it can't just be that.
I'm wondering if someone made a mountain bike tyre size cockup and converted 5'6" instead of 5.6'. But who the fuck measures anything in decimal feet? More likely someone applied an overenthusiastic fudge factor for shoes.
I still feel like poo. My throat still hurts and for the first two hours after taking paracetamol or ibuprofen I can function reasonably normally. But once they start wearing off I feel like I'm going to die and just want to sleep. My whole body hurts and I'm so tired.Could you get over it soon please? I want you to come and visit us in our new house!
*whimper*
Really very bad at being ill.
A friend of mine got glandular fever and "pushed through it" to work, ended up in ICU nearly dead and came out with type I diabetes and since then has developed all manner of nasty things like epilepsy and myasthenis gravis... Not good news. :/
Oh, he did say to stop doing "extreme" events. Audax isn't extreme, is it?
I see the British Heart Foundation will run a 'Dechox March' initiative to raise funds and encourage 'good habits' next month.
I am not participating...
Any sort of cocoa is a no-no
Flavonoids contained in dark chocolate may have a protective effect on heart health
GWS! PenV (phenoxymethylpenicillin) has to be one of the 'best value' medicines in the pharmacopeia, as well as the ibuprofen, but ICnBA to find out how many pennies your medicines have cost the NHS. I doubt it's more than £1.
Staff costs are another matter.
Pen V is very good for throats (and sadly neglected cos Newer 'Better' medicines were invented).
I see the British Heart Foundation will run a 'Dechox March' initiative to raise funds and encourage 'good habits' next month.
I am not participating...
Does being ill make you clumsier?Yes
Does being ill make you clumsier?Yes
Dear oh lor'. First session on the turbo after six weeks of doing SFA. 10 rousing km on the second resistance notch from the bottom, heart on 130 most of the time, and it felt like the hills before Villaines on the way back from Brest. Doused in sweat. This is going to take a loooooooooooooooong time. :(
My experience of being privately insured just for two years, with the requirement that I pay for my treatment first and get the money back later, plus pay this 500€ excess, is that it is an unwelcome extra stress when you are concerned about health. I have no idea how people cope in the USA!
Makes me wince, just thinking about it. I've had a cystoscopy and getting tube past the prostate hurt.
On another topic, how long does it take bones to heal? 4 weeks now and I can feel the break exactly, still burns and aches like it did when I snapped the bloody thing! The ligaments and tendons damaged from the dislocation have improved hugely.
can't remember how much sodium is in the High-5 ones, that would be the main concern if you upset sodium balance, you may end up pi$$ing out what you're putting in.
I think the rest of what they have is a bit of magnesium, potassium, can't remember the rest.
What is your current blood glucose? Long term control of that will be the key, as you're probably aware and will reduce that thirst. I went from downing consecutive pints of water, tea, coffee, beer,ginto just normal thirst almost overnight.
I've suspected for a while that the rise in diabetes can't really be explained by diet, and other environmental factors play a role.Interesting one! I put on around 90lbs in a couple of years after I moved to my current Pit, (next to the A6 on a bottleneck of traffic with the bridge being the only main route out of the area only 100 yards away).
http://www.sciencealert.com/exposure-to-air-pollution-makes-rats-put-on-weight-and-messes-with-their-metabolisms
Saw the consultant hand surgeon today about the lump on my thumb. She doesn't know what it is, has referred me for an ultrasound with the words "bizarre lump" on the referral, and thanked me for coming in with something moderately interesting.
has referred me for an ultrasound with the words "bizarre lump" on the referralDo we get a photo so we can all do our own online diagnosis for you?
Hmm, I took citalopram for a while. Stopping taking it abruptly was NOT advised+1 (actually +lots&lots) - even reducing it gives me the eebies
...It takes me 3 months....
I'm slowly coming to the unfortunate conclusion that a longer than usual bike ride at the beginning of the week will lead to a resurgence of depression symptoms by the middle of the week which subside by the end of the week.
...It takes me 3 months....
Any tips about minimising it would be valuable (of course), but it's likely to be a mystery.
Not been caught in the statin-trap yet.QuoteI'm slowly coming to the unfortunate conclusion that a longer than usual bike ride at the beginning of the week will lead to a resurgence of depression symptoms by the middle of the week which subside by the end of the week.
This sounds like the endorphins are kicking up but then you are getting a rebound.
Any chance of doing an hour on the turbo on Wednesday to just boost the endorphins again? Alternatively are there any dietary changes you could make or a vitamin supplement that might help. If you are on statins then a lot of people (with no scientific evidence) swear by Co-Q.
It is difficult though to maintain the bliss of a long ride for the rest of the week.
;D .
I am worried that there something wrong with my leg's. I was not cycling for 6 weeks but was able to build my fittness back with no real discomfort but since I have had 3 week's of in January I am getting muscle pain in the top of my thighs .I have ridden a few25/35 mile ride's with Jonathan notp and while not pain free it hurt's when. I try and put the power in.
Yesterday I rode 42 mile's at a reasonable pace for me and today I am finding painful to ride to the local shop :( . long itchington is not that far away but if I am struggling unloaded now I am scared that I will fail to do the 77 miles .
Ever since the cold I had in mid-December, I've had a permanently snotty nose. Steam inhalations haven't helped. So I bought a neti pot and it seems to be doing the trick.
Saw the consultant hand surgeon today about the lump on my thumb. She doesn't know what it is, has referred me for an ultrasound with the words "bizarre lump" on the referral, and thanked me for coming in with something moderately interesting.Ultrasound today. Radiologist no more certain than the hand surgeon but thinks possibly a displaced sesamoid. So I have to go back to hand clinic.
BN Fri night I had a seizure in my sleep. Allegedly (I don't remember). Second time in last 6 months, worse than previous one.
I had a witness, both times. Justv started on topiramate.BN Fri night I had a seizure in my sleep. Allegedly (I don't remember). Second time in last 6 months, worse than previous one.
Bugger. But how do they know - blood test?
I had a witness, both times. Justv started on topiramate.BN Fri night I had a seizure in my sleep. Allegedly (I don't remember). Second time in last 6 months, worse than previous one.
Bugger. But how do they know - blood test?
My new recumbent will be along in due course, but in the meantime and on the turbo, I've been having a lot of pain in my thumbs, and a tennis or golfers elbow type pain in my forearms up towards the elbow,mostly rightUlnar nerve?
Any suggestions?
My new recumbent will be along in due course, but in the meantime and on the turbo, I've been having a lot of pain in my thumbs, and a tennis or golfers elbow type pain in my forearms up towards the elbow,mostly rightBeen wielding a screwdriver a lot lately?
Any suggestions?
@ElyDave: Gout.
My own reason for coming in here: it looks like our club prez has come up in the heart attack sweepstake. Intense pain behind the sternum and loss of energy. Still ambulant and articulate but on the fast track to the cardio dept. OK, I'm a client there already, but I had to be diabetic for 30 years to manage it; he did it all on his own. Well, his wife helped.
Meantime I'm off to the gastropod tomorrow to have a tube shoved down my throat. 3rd time in 9 years: first two I elected to stay awake, this time they're going to put me out. Haven't had a general since I was 6. That time I awoke spitting blood; this time probably not.
What a wunnerful year this is.
It's 2-30am and I can't sleep. TEH BADD HEDD is making me too nauseous to lie still without crying over the 19 year, 361 day long Migraine. Sitting up however makes me feel sea sick with the Meniere's making "Up" a moving direction. I'm starting to get the "Opt out" thoughts again and it feels more thought through this time. Sorry to whinge, miserably, at anybody stuck reading this.
I've gone nearly a week without alcohol - six days, to be precise. This is easily my longest dry spell for over two years. I had started the year with the intention of cutting booze consumption down drastically but I have singularly failed in that.
I don't think I am what you'd call 'dependent' but my drinking has certainly been in the realms of 'misuse' over the last couple of years. This has largely been driven by stress - both at home and at work. Or maybe that's an excuse. I don't know, but I do know that my health has suffered - I've put back on most of the weight I lost and I'm not sleeping well (one of the vicious ironies of drinking to help you relax).
My base fitness is still there but my stamina is massively depleted, cycling uphill is painful and running has gone back to being not fun, like it was before I lost weight.
I've got to the point where something has to give. And I don't want it to be my heart.
I'm also hoping that cutting out the booze will help me finally shake off this lingering chest infection that I've had for a couple of months, put an end to the recurring gastric reflux pain (the cause is a hiatus hernia, but the symptoms are brought on by excessive eating & drinking), and general feelings of weariness.
One day at a time...
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If you're into reminders and validation the Dry January app allows you to record your non-drinking and calculates money saved as well as offering not - drinking tips and factoids.
(I know, but I'm still 'in' in April and I think the daily tally / check / reminder helps)
Good luck.
I find excuses very easily if it's in the house so I don't have it in the house Mon-Thu. I don't crave it, or miss it, but I'll drink it if it's there.
I try to keep it to a Fri-Sun thing and even then I've cut back a bit. I think as I get older I'd prefer to have more weekend and less hangover.
If you're into reminders and validation the Dry January app allows you to record your non-drinking
I'm now making it a principle of having absolutely no alcohol at all before driving.
I'm now making it a principle of having absolutely no alcohol at all before driving.
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I don't know but would guess that:6) LURGY!
1) New skin is very sensitive.
2) New skin is flexible and mobile.
3) Scabs are rigid and rigid vs flexible will cause some shearing, which is irritating.
4) Scabs may not allow heat and sweat to escape as well as normal skin, causing a 'heat rash' type itchiness.
5) inflammation is part of the healing process and some substances produced by inflammation are known to cause itching.
7) Scabs often result from repeated scratching of already itchy skin.
7) Scabs often result from repeated scratching of already itchy skin.
Actually, thinking about it - the scabs in question were indeed the result of previous scratching. Bullseye by Kim, I think!
I realised the end of my ulna was waving around in 'mid air'. Pushed it back to where it should be. Regained about 10degrees of hand movement immediately. Just need to work on strength so things stay where they should be.Bugger it's gone out again. Holding veg while chopping. very distinctive, the bone bulges out. Had to do some more veg prep again and it bruised in a couple of minutes.
I realised the end of my ulna was waving around in 'mid air'. Pushed it back to where it should be. Regained about 10degrees of hand movement immediately. Just need to work on strength so things stay where they should be.Bugger it's gone out again. Holding veg while chopping. very distinctive, the bone bulges out. Had to do some more veg prep again and it bruised in a couple of minutes.
I'm going to see if I can get seen by the hospital again. It's basically dislocating and I can't see how the joint willbdevelop stability if it is constantly moving.
That should not happen. i would get a second opinion from a competent wrist surgeon.
It's a known that all the supporting structures were torn - my ulna and radius head came past the carpals. They were confident that they'd relocated it all successfully. I was always concerned by a bulge in that place and kept being told by the nurse, then the physio that it was just swelling (which there was present). When the swelling went down the bulge was obviously solid but I could push it around. None of them have seen that.
I'm in York. I have a direct number for the fracture/ortho clinic and will phone them tomorrow, see if I can get directly in rather than via GP again.
Seems fair to try to go straight back to fracture clinic.I got the "You've been discharged therefore you need to see your GP to get a referral" routine. So I'll need to wait a week to see a GP, then 3-6 weeks for a non-urgent referral to orthopedics at best.
Failing that, try to ask your GP to get you back to see the orthopaedic people. It seems evident to all here that your wrist is unstable and needs stabilisation.
Hand clinic no more certain that radiologist, but have agreed that as a) we're not sure what it is and b) it's bothering me, we will chop it out. So I'm going for chopping-out surgery sometime. I've said I'm not available before mid-July, so fingers crossed asap after that. Stitches and no work for two weeks following, then stitches out and back to normal. I am so excited about 2 weeks paid sick leave, it's unseemly. It might help me get a grip on my depression too.Saw the consultant hand surgeon today about the lump on my thumb. She doesn't know what it is, has referred me for an ultrasound with the words "bizarre lump" on the referral, and thanked me for coming in with something moderately interesting.Ultrasound today. Radiologist no more certain than the hand surgeon but thinks possibly a displaced sesamoid. So I have to go back to hand clinic.
Anecdotally, there seems to be a growing awareness amongst the medical profession that pissing off and losing weight is significantly easier if your mobility isn't afflicted. Long may it continue.
Anecdotally, there seems to be a growing awareness amongst the medical profession that pissing off and losing weight is significantly easier if your mobility isn't afflicted. Long may it continue.
Rather annoyingly, body composition is mostly determined by kitchen-based choices, not gym-based. Proof once again, there is no god. >:(
There is probably a hierarchy to this:Anecdotally, there seems to be a growing awareness amongst the medical profession that pissing off and losing weight is significantly easier if your mobility isn't afflicted. Long may it continue.
Rather annoyingly, body composition is mostly determined by kitchen-based choices, not gym-based. Proof once again, there is no god. >:(
Clearly the worst case is where you have enough mobility to get to the pies without trouble, but going out and doing something more interesting than sitting around eating them is an epic undertaking.
(Chris is of course right. I only lose weight through cycling because exercise is an appetite-suppressant, and you're not going to achieve anything with that by cycling for transport.)
Ultrasound exam & stress ECG tomorrow. Yay.
Any idea if they can be retrofitted?
E-bikes are becoming common here. Several times recently I've gasped up hills only to see very unathletic-looking types cruising up ahead, sitting upright and putting no visible effort into it. Galling, that.
Oh aye. The point is that you don't (usually) try to overtake the 4-wheelers.
:thumbsup:
Just back from the doc, who called the cardiologist who's calling the hospital, and tomorrow he'll call me to tell me when they can put in a stent.
My doc looked at the options and said the only viable one was the stent. And when I said I'd already decided my long-distance career was over he replied "don't be so sure".
I like that.
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Just back from the doc, who called the cardiologist who's calling the hospital, and tomorrow he'll call me to tell me when they can put in a stent.
My doc looked at the options and said the only viable one was the stent. And when I said I'd already decided my long-distance career was over he replied "don't be so sure".
I like that.
I wouldn't be quite so pessimistic. The last time we rode together, you were going fine and UAFs mostly avoid the really lumpy stuff. Besides, we tested a nice Fleche Velocio route for next year and a 361km total would suit us.
Alternatively, tandems have completed PBP Audax before now, so other UAF brevets would be a piece of cake. A Fleche de France on solo at touriste pace would also be fun.
It can take a while for the meds to stabilize. Patience, youngling.
P.S. Youngling indeed. Second childhood, OK, but youngling is downright insulting. <sickly grin>'tis a Star Wars reference, m'lud. No, they are not a popular beat combo.
Just burst into tears at work.Is that not an occupational hazard, in your line of work? There must be only so much serious down a person can be around before getting a bit sniffley.
Mary bought boots without realising one was a 6 and one was a 9 and then wondered why they felt different.
Wondering vaguely if a 15mg/day nitroglycerin patch wouldn't make an emergency tyre boot. They look big enough.you HAVE to try.
Wondering vaguely if a 15mg/day nitroglycerin patch wouldn't make an emergency tyre boot. They look big enough.you HAVE to try.
" ... and so I stuck a nitro-glycerine patch on it and limped home."
Having the first of three appointments for a root canal, crown and (different tooth) filling replacement in an hour. The rest over the next month. This is going to suck.
my.. "may" pressure test is confirmed for the 17 July ::-)
two weeks ago today: root canal.
today: temporary crown.
two weeks' time: proper crown, and a filling replacement.
:'(
does it need calibrating?
The next question is 'Which one is right?'
Fiddling around with Bronchiectasis meds - omeprazole gives "gastric distress", but covers up symptoms reflux, sore mouth and loss of voice from carbocisteine. Gastric distress is shitty, but also, I am anaemic, and other than a pre-op blood test, no one has discussed my VB12, magnesium, calcium or iron levels.
Right now, one dose of omeprazole is enough to "get the party started", so I'm steering clear, but my mouth feels like it's covered in paper cuts, espresso is off the menu, and my voice goes weird if I talk too much, which I am prone to do.
On the upside, coming off omeprazole has gotten rid of the feeling of chronic fatigue.
New blood glucose meter consistently reads ~20 mg/dl higher than the old one. Shit.mg/dl - blimey that's a bit old fashioned. I started using mmol/l in the 1980s (or are you in USAnia?)
New blood glucose meter consistently reads ~20 mg/dl higher than the old one. Shit.mg/dl - blimey that's a bit old fashioned. I started using mmol/l in the 1980s (or are you in USAnia?)
Moles: https://www.google.fr/search?q=moles&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=4VVpV7DZPJalVOmckIAK
Decilitres: https://www.google.fr/search?q=decilitre&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=alZpV8fAF5alVOmckIAK
The obscurity of decilitres is cultural. In some places they're probably more familiar than millilitres.
The obscurity of moles is scientific. Only the scientifically literate know what they are, and diabetes is not limited to them! For a start, what's the difference between a mole and a mol?
I'm probably exaggerating the spread of decilitres, but I'd be amazed if a lot of people don't confuse mol(e)s with millilitres, especially considering ml are often abbreviated to mils.
Sure, for patients and carers the units don't probably matter as long as they give easily handleable numbers – so ideally integers less than 100 – and they know to keep it between a and b. The danger is going to be when comparing with other systems, whether that be Nameronians or French.
Thou and thee..I'm probably exaggerating the spread of decilitres, but I'd be amazed if a lot of people don't confuse mol(e)s with millilitres, especially considering ml are often abbreviated to mils.
I confuse mils (leftpondian for 'thou') with millimetres on a regular basis. :facepalm:
especially considering ml are often abbreviated to mils.THAT is an awful habit
mils are something else entirely. A thousandth of an inch.
It was the fave abbreviation of school biology teacher.especially considering ml are often abbreviated to mils.THAT is an awful habit
mils are something else entirely. A thousandth of an inch.
When I did it I thought I'd ripped the tendon. Feeling better today and I can hobble so it must be the muscle - I have no idea why. I was loping along on the flat on a good surface.
I'm starting to wonder if the omeprazole I've been taking for the past 5 years has weakened my connective tissues. Previously I had a reputation as being nearly indestructible. The fall that did my wrist in was minor but did a huge amount of damage, displacing bones, rupturing ligaments. I've been trying jogging and I'm struggling to get over 3.5km without tendon strain; yes I have done any running for years, I'm an experienced runner and used to rebuilding toughness and fitness.
I've had a real struggle building up from a bout of Achilles tendonitis, from ultramarathon training last year to be struggling at 4k earlier this year was very disheartening. I've done it slowly and I'm now up to 2 x 7km this week on non-consecutive days.It's possible - I started with v slow small jog steps for 1km, 2twice a week for two weeks, upped that to 2km. Then got proper shoes and took it to 3.5km and I'm stuck there.
Are you just trying to ramp it up too quickly?
Glad you have answers Mr C, I have had something very similar surgery wise on my left ulna once I outgrew the pins keeping my arm straight (no radius means arm grows bendy). They took a wedge and badgered it straight and bashed more pins in giving me great wolverine like X-rays.All this positive feedback; I'm glad I signed up then.
I concur with Chris about pain relief, I had to have pethidine Intramuscularly cos it was bastard painful immediately post op. Fine 24hrs later tho, but I attribute that to my legendary pre-adult pain threshold of win!
Glad you have answers Mr C, I have had something very similar surgery wise on my left ulna once I outgrew the pins keeping my arm straight (no radius means arm grows bendy). They took a wedge and badgered it straight and bashed more pins in giving me great wolverine like X-rays.All this positive feedback; I'm glad I signed up then.
I concur with Chris about pain relief, I had to have pethidine Intramuscularly cos it was bastard painful immediately post op. Fine 24hrs later tho, but I attribute that to my legendary pre-adult pain threshold of win!
Do you have an adamantium radius now you've stopped growing?
A good set of X-rays of radial club hand with wrist fusion and an interesting pollicisation.
^^^ Reading that hurts. Bloody way to spend childhood. :(
The problem with surgery in 1986 was that inevitably the growth area was damaged leading to a very short forearm. These days we use an external fixator to pull the wrist apart and lengthen the soft tissues so that the hand just slides across on top of the ulna and can then be stabilised more easily. This leads to preservation of the growth plate and much less requirement for fusion.
my views of pollicisation are very much on whether the child wants pollicisation. The child has to demonstrate that they are already functionally using the index finger in a fashion analogous to a thumb before I will even consider it. Hence I do somewhat less than my colleagues!
^^^ Reading that hurts. Bloody way to spend childhood. :(
Still made me wince, though.
I don't think I'd ever heard the word "pragmatic" when I was 10.
Didn't the coins appear before the switch? I was a lowly programmer at the time and my progs were all written for £sd.
Didn't the coins appear before the switch? I was a lowly programmer at the time and my progs were all written for £sd.
Wow. I'm showing my youth, but I tend to think of pre-decimal currency as being one of those things that happened "after Jesus died and before computers were invented". It hadn't really occurred to me that it coexisted with financial software for ages, even though it's obvious with a moment's thought.
I'm sure there are systems out there somewhere still working in £sd internally...
I can! '11+', first decimal coins, Paris riots, parents moved to London...
I can! '11+', first decimal coins, Paris riots, parents moved to London...
I don't know what day it was but I clearly remember my form teacher bringing in new decimal coins after dinner one day in school. We had the new coins next to old coins and even notes (ten bob!) and we did a huge conversion chart on the blackboard.
I also remember the launch of the £1 coin as my mother gave me a bag of £200 of them.
I seem to remember that the ten bob note was taken out off circulation before decimal day. Although that would mean we had a ten bob coin for a while . That can't be right.The 50 (new) p coin was legal tender before decimalisation.
I remember spending a lesson in school learning addition and subtraction of pounds, shillings and pence. I'm not sure why they felt the need to teach us this, given that none of my class were born until well after decimalisation...
I seem to remember that the ten bob note was taken out off circulation before decimal day. Although that would mean we had a ten bob coin for a while . That can't be right.The 50 (new) p coin was legal tender before decimalisation.
And one was used for the toss in the FA cup final before they were issued to the public.
I remember spending a lesson in school learning addition and subtraction of pounds, shillings and pence. I'm not sure why they felt the need to teach us this, given that none of my class were born until well after decimalisation...
Probably a way to introduce the concept of different number bases?
I remember spending a lesson in school learning addition and subtraction of pounds, shillings and pence. I'm not sure why they felt the need to teach us this, given that none of my class were born until well after decimalisation...
Probably a way to introduce the concept of different number bases?
That makes sense. I'm sure we were better at mental arithmetic as kids when we had to think in 12s and 20s.
I can! '11+', first decimal coins, Paris riots, parents moved to London...
I don't know what day it was but I clearly remember my form teacher bringing in new decimal coins after dinner one day in school. We had the new coins next to old coins and even notes (ten bob!) and we did a huge conversion chart on the blackboard.
I also remember the launch of the £1 coin as my mother gave me a bag of £200 of them.
In 1968, my 10/- note bought Corgi Toys GS13. Still got it, although in many pieces. I managed to buy another mint example in the box recently for £249.
In 1968, my 10/- note bought Corgi Toys GS13. Still got it, although in many pieces. I managed to buy another mint example in the box recently for £249.
Mine bought four pints of McEwan's Export. Tuppence-ha'penny a pint and 2/3½d in tax.
Take it easy and don't worry. One of the TdF bods lost 3 months after having a finger chopped off earlier this year, and he's in the pack.I tried doing that yesterday, but with hedge-cutters rather than bikey parts. :facepalm: Aiiiieeee!
Take it easy and don't worry. One of the TdF bods lost 3 months after having a finger chopped off earlier this year, and he's in the pack.I tried doing that yesterday, but with hedge-cutters rather than bikey parts. :facepalm: Aiiiieeee!
What is it with members of this forum!I suspect those who post to this board and this thread might just be unrepresentative of the forum as a whole...
Whee doggy. Artery was 100% blocked, but brilliant surgeon lady blasted through (heparin?) And shoved in a stent. Wound took ages to staunch afterwards, nurses taking it in relays. Ok now.
Whee doggy. Artery was 100% blocked, but brilliant surgeon lady blasted through (heparin?) And shoved in a stent. Wound took ages to staunch afterwards, nurses taking it in relays. Ok now.Oh my goodness, how on earth where you still going? Good to hear it worked. You sure it was a surgeon and not dyno-rod?
Gasping for a coffee.
Thks again all for good wishes.
Whee doggy. Artery was 100% blocked, but brilliant surgeon lady blasted through (heparin?) And shoved in a stent. Wound took ages to staunch afterwards, nurses taking it in relays. Ok now.
Gasping for a coffee.
Thks again all for good wishes.
I am in a bit and b in Llanwrtyd Wells and my back has gone again :'(. I am not sure how I am getting home.
I am in a bit and b in Llanwrtyd Wells and my back has gone again :'(. I am not sure how I am getting home.
Home again, feeling great.
And I am in Carmarthen hospital watching the rain falling. I doubt I will get out before Tuesday ::-)Blimey.
Is it nervous eczema or is it dermatitis from too much 'soap', too little rinsing, drying and hand cream?
Is it nervous eczema or is it dermatitis from too much 'soap', too little rinsing, drying and hand cream?
Fair question, but it does wax & wane with stress. It started up in 1996 when the Social Security, bless them, dunned us for 141,000 francs just before we went on holiday, and has come & gone thereafter in inverse phase to our fortunes. And my hands get lots of lanolin from dogs' fur.
Getting my thumb surgery 11th August.The last thing you said about your thumb was that Boris stuck a claw in it. An operation seems extreme . . .
That was my other thumb, and it was Pete, not Boris. ;DGetting my thumb surgery 11th August.The last thing you said about your thumb was that Boris stuck a claw in it. An operation seems extreme . . .
Did a whole 8.9 km, round the village & up a neighbouring hill, heart up to 153 bpm with no pain. One is chuffed. :thumbsup:
Why are broken ribs not accompanied by swelling like other bones?Actually you don't always get much swelling with a broken bone. Swelling comes from damage to the surrounding soft tissue.
essexian
Remember soft tissue injuries take longer to heal than bones!
You will have certainly jammed the acromioclavicluar joint and possibly damaged the rotator cuff. I would find a good local physio before going the medical route.
Bother, another cathier caused infection. It was bothering me on the London ride last Saturday and has not improved since. Back on antibiotics again :'(.
My understanding is that cycleman struggles with keyboard input at the best of times for disability reasons (he's a lot more verbose in person ;)). He also seems to fall foul of autocorrect on a regular basis.Back of the class for that, Kim.
As for catheters, the speed at which they seem to be addressing the underlying issue is surely taking the piss?
I've been for a pre-op assessment. It was useful - the paperwork I had said to stop using Aspirin before the op, but not when. Turn out I need to stop taking it two weeks before. I also found out I'll be in plaster for 6 weeks post op.
Got weighed. I'm back up to 80kg. That is a surprise, mostly because my trousers are falling off me, I'm hungry a lot of the time (but food is unappetising - topirimate side-effect). When I was 83kg I had trouble doing up the same trousers and Tshirts were tight. So I dunno where all the Kg are hiding.
The scales at home agreed with the hospital . . .I've been for a pre-op assessment. It was useful - the paperwork I had said to stop using Aspirin before the op, but not when. Turn out I need to stop taking it two weeks before. I also found out I'll be in plaster for 6 weeks post op.
Got weighed. I'm back up to 80kg. That is a surprise, mostly because my trousers are falling off me, I'm hungry a lot of the time (but food is unappetising - topirimate side-effect). When I was 83kg I had trouble doing up the same trousers and Tshirts were tight. So I dunno where all the Kg are hiding.
How do normally get weighed & on which/whose scales?
Very few are really well-calibrated. I would not be surprised if you are lighter in other circumstances.
Good luck with the op!
lifting anything heavier than a phone book
lifting anything heavier than a phone book
A modern phone book, or a proper one from the 1980s?
Sending healing vibe MrCthat sounds great. well done
I've just done a 10 mile pootle. 5 miles out, a latte and 5 miles back. :-). As its my first post op pootle I'm a bit sore now.
Leave the steristrips till they drop off. After three days or so you should be okay to have a quick shower, so long as you don't soak the wound. Don't lie around in bed, don't be an invalid. But rest is important.
Lie on your right side in a ball before you get up. Support the sore bits with your hand when you need to cough.
Eat protein.
Don't do stupid things like repairing boats, cleaning up after teenagers, or lifting anything heavier than a phone book. Your body is using its resources to heal so don't put further demands (like bike riding or hiking or housework) on it.
Get enough sleep. This should be a high priority.
Cystitis. Again.
No 400 for me this weekend. I think I'm up to 3 bouts this year - I really should start keeping a tally.
My more conservative colleagues occasionally put those with the worst Achilles issues into below-knee casts.
Just do your very best to reduce ankle movements; your hips & knees can do most of the work and get well soon!
I've had some major Achilles issues in the last few years to the extent that I'm really not running much at all this year, only target being a New year's eve 10k I always run. No ultra's, no HMs, all very easy.
My experience
1) find a sports injury/sports rehab specialist, they will focus on keeping you moving AND the underlying issue if they are any good. Specifically get them to look at the rear chain, which is chronically tight/shortened in cyclists and runners. I could probably get a contact for you if you want from therapists I trust, let me know where you are.
2) Do the exercises
3) have you got a sit/stand desk? If not worth getting one, rear chain tightness, hip flexor degradation all influenced by prolonged sitting
4) start doing yoga
5) lots of calf raises
He has the dry MD. He says the damage in one eye covers about 3x the area of the other. Is to go back next week for another imaging session so they can assess the initial rate of degradation.
I finally got the pressure Test done on Thursday .the result is I no longer need the Catheter ;D.
I finally got the pressure Test done on Thursday .the result is I no longer need the Catheter ;D.
I finally got the pressure Test done on Thursday .the result is I no longer need the Catheter ;D.Blimey that's been a long haul.
I finally got the pressure Test done on Thursday .the result is I no longer need the Catheter ;D.
I've an appointment at the dentist next Thursday at 9am.
And have just pulled out a crown (lower R5).
Will it wait?
(I feel sick)
My question.I finally got in to see the doc on Tues this week (yes, a week and a half after I phoned them saying I had slight concerns).
Three weeks post surgery. Most things going well, except if I don't take care about how I move, my ulna dislocates (I can tell this by feel, this is happening under the cast).
Also, I'm getting bruising at my elbow. There was a lot to begin with, that started to go, but this looks persistent. It's still blue/black and is tender. The surgery was up close to my wrist, so I'm kind of surprised I'm getting bruising down at my elbow still.
MrsC thinks I should call the hospital and ask about it. What does the panel think?
The splint I've been given is comfortable, but is a rubbery sponge substance and sweaty. After only 4 days (and I've washed my arm every day), it stinks like my son's socks (and they were declared illegal under the convention banning chemical warfare).
If I butcher an old sock or similar to wear underneath (so it can be washed) do you reckon it would lesson the tendency of the splint to stink?
Hands don't usually smell cos you wash them about 10 times a day. When you treat them like feet, they pong like feet...
It took me a long time to understand measles. I had it when I was about 8 and, well, it was just a week or two off school with a temperature and spots. Like chicken pox and lots of other things. Just part of growing up. Deadly for the malnourished and doctorless in darkest third world shanty towns, I could see that, but not a thing to worry about here. It was only when I met people who'd caught it as adults I realised it can be quite nasty.My grandad (born 1918) had infant measles. It left him partially deaf, partially sighted and with severe facial scarring, and he was considered to have got off lightly.
The seasonal flu vaccination isn't a live virus; it won't kill cells. The effects should be purely down the the immune response, and physical effects of the injection.
Maybe pester Woolly for a fecal transplant? ;)Er, thanks Chris! Some things are not meant for sharing. :sick:
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma to me.
It's only happened to me a couple of times, and on the first occasion the initial symptom was much like you describe with the clock: There was a gap in my visual field that the brain was filling in, which only became apparent when I tried to read, and was there irrespective of what part of eyes I used. Over the next ten minutes or so it developed into textbook scintillating scotoma (much like the second two animated examples on that page), then suddenly disappeared, replaced by an acute headache.
I'm glad it's not something I've made a habit of.
I remember reading about pain thresholds years & years ago - that non-serious low-level pains are blocked by "gateways", otherwise we'd feel them all the time, but when we're ill, or when a bad enough pain to get through the gateway occurs, then the low-level ones get through as well. That would be something like 1960s science, though, there might just have been some progress since. ;DNo silver jumpsuits yet though.
As for the audiology test it was the basic listen for the beeps at 600Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, 3kHz, 5kHz, and 8kHz so not the most sensitive of tests but the indication was that my hearing is 15 years younger than I am :thumbsup:
As for the audiology test it was the basic listen for the beeps at 600Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, 3kHz, 5kHz, and 8kHz so not the most sensitive of tests but the indication was that my hearing is 15 years younger than I am :thumbsup:
Age related hearing loss could reasonably be defined as the point where your loss of high-frequency hearing finally reaches the point that audiologists bother testing for.
I've lost loads of sensitivity to high frequencies over the last few years (I'm now immune to flyback transformer[1] whistle, teenager repellent, bats, minor disc brake rubbing, probably some SMPSU whine too) but it's all above 8kHz so doesn't count. My audiogram is healthy.
Anyway, for the avoidance of doubt, standing orders to fellow cyclists in anticipation of old age: If my chain and/or brakes[2] are squeaking and I don't appear to have noticed, please tell me. Hopefully this will avoid the oh so British dilemma of wondering whether it's impolite to secretly lubricate another cyclist's chain for the good of humanity while they're in the cafe queue.
[1] Remember those?
[2] Unless it's the Kool Stops on the Dawes, which I've grudgingly accepted are *supposed* to do that. Pedestrian warning system, innit.
I don't know which would be worse - no cheese or no cake?!Got the bloods done. Going back in half an hour to get the results and discuss next steps.
GP has asked me to get bloods done, and then go back when we will discuss the need for further investigations, likely to involve tubes and cameras and loss of dignity.
I don't know which would be worse - no cheese or no cake?!Got the bloods done. Going back in half an hour to get the results and discuss next steps.
GP has asked me to get bloods done, and then go back when we will discuss the need for further investigations, likely to involve tubes and cameras and loss of dignity.
Bloods are all normal. I'm not anaemic, not coeliac, no signs of inflammation, no signs of anything that can be shown in bloods. Next step: colonoscopy referral. ::-)
Bloods are all normal. I'm not anaemic, not coeliac, no signs of inflammation, no signs of anything that can be shown in bloods. Next step: colonoscopy referral. ::-)
Ewww, I had one of those, this time last year. Get someone to take you home afterwards, if you're anything like I was you'll be a bit shaky afterwards.
If they offer you gas and air, I suggest you take it. It's bloody fantastic.
Managed to quite deeply cut a finger, so off to A&E to get is superglued.
Was supposed to get a dressing change after three days but could get an appointment so after 4 days I took the dressing off and at 5 days took the strips off. The finger looks gory and is super sensitive.
Is there anything I can do to speed the healing process, diabetic so I heal slowly :(
but my skull feels a size too small.
Hands and fingers are precious and advising without examining is not clever.
I think you should see if your GP's Practice Nurse can review and dress your finger.
Injured hands are usually best elevated and mobilised.
I hate the smug from people with good immune systems. It's not a morality contest. It helps my disability adviser colleagues recognised this kind of commentary as disablism and the sort of thing our students also get a lot of. Some commenters did buy clue when I explained the problems with their words, but others never did.
I've had crap managers and HR give me (bad) medical advice claiming if I followed it, I wouldn't be ill despite my medical letters saying otherwise - they get the full on "well I didn't die as a baby, this is the body and health I get instead" line which upsets them terribly but it's true, I didn't die and their feelz aren't my problem.
I don't ride on ice anyway, diabetic bones don't heal well.
Thanks barakta. Get well soon, you!
It doesn't help that some colleagues have cast-iron immunities to bugs and enjoy gloating/ making snide comments.
"Oh, is Peli off sick again?! I grin and bear it when I'm sick - you've just got to get on with it, haven't you?"
>:( >:( >:(
Kissing cousin to "oh, come on, you're not going to let a teensy little [xxxx] keep you home, are you?"
I think it's probably best if I remain clean shaven, rather than my usual 3-4 day designer "stubble". Had a shave yesterday to make myself presentable for Xmas day. Big sore patches on my left jaw line, where I seem to regularly pick at the beard hairs, which generally results in them ending up ingrown and infected, which I then dig out with tweezers... Perhaps I have some sort of weird beard trichotillomania?
.... where I seem to regularly pick at the beard hairs, which generally results in them ending up ingrown and infected, which I then dig out with tweezers...Use these, and you'll never have ingrown hair problems again:
I think it's probably best if I remain clean shaven, rather than my usual 3-4 day designer "stubble". Had a shave yesterday to make myself presentable for Xmas day. Big sore patches on my left jaw line, where I seem to regularly pick at the beard hairs, which generally results in them ending up ingrown and infected, which I then dig out with tweezers... Perhaps I have some sort of weird beard trichotillomania?
My brother does this too. Once it gets too long he worries at it.
Been getting chest pains so went for a stress test this afternoon I thought I was doing alright on the treadmill, but after all that I now have to go for an angiogram or a CT scan, there must be a blockage some where and been told no more cycling and keep taking the tablets. :'(Erk, hold on, hope it's just a misreading.
Been getting chest pains so went for a stress test this afternoon I thought I was doing alright on the treadmill, but after all that I now have to go for an angiogram or a CT scan, there must be a blockage some where and been told no more cycling and keep taking the tablets. :'(
My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
HK fractured a shoulder on ice yesterday. The previous break in September should have healed to normal strength by now but it has broken in the same place. Some bone density investigation or suchlike seems necessary IMHO.
.My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
Eye lasering on Thursday to correct my -1.75 myopia and astigmatism. Looking forward to it in a funny kind of way.Amazing. Best money I've ever spent.
HK fractured a shoulder on ice yesterday. The previous break in September should have healed to normal strength by now but it has broken in the same place. Some bone density investigation or suchlike seems necessary IMHO.
Bloods taken and I have to send in some poo. Might mix a cat turd in there for a laugh. Consultant was really nice.My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
Had my MRI scan yesterday and was amused by how loud those things are! Definitely not like on TV!
I wonder if I can get hold of the images...Would be neat to get a 3D model and then print it out :-)Ask at the hospital. There's a form to complete and a charge of £10. You'll receive it on a dvd.
Hmm, presently suffering from (possibly stress induced as a result of jaw clenching) unilateral temporomandibular joint dysfunction. This is affecting my ability to masticate, and my enjoyment of the results of same.
Hmm, presently suffering from (possibly stress induced as a result of jaw clenching) unilateral temporomandibular joint dysfunction. This is affecting my ability to masticate, and my enjoyment of the results of same.
Sympathies. I had that quite badly in my teens. Saw a maxillofacial bod who poked around, blamed exam stress and told me not to chew gum(!).
Eventually cured by leaving home.
Having struggled with this bloody depression for about two years now, today I've given in and asked to be signed off. The emotional demands of the work are taking every last bit of me, and I need some time away from it. So I'm off for three weeks and with any luck by next week I'll have the reserves needed to start doing the things that help me get better.
I went to Queen Square today for routine blood tests I could have arranged at the surgery 100 yards away but
If I have blood taken at Queen Square, the results go straight to my consultants and my notes. Having arranged for my blood test form to be at the OPD desk, I went straight in to the phlebotomist and we were free to leave the hospital within 5 minutes of arrival.
Had I arranged a local service I might have lost the will to live:
Arranging an appointment for a blood test
Chasing up the results
Getting results sent to Queen Square
Checking results have been received by the right people at Queen Square so I get my medication.
It seems HUGELY inefficient to go into Central London for simple blood tests but.....
I went to Queen Square today for routine blood tests I could have arranged at the surgery 100 yards away but
If I have blood taken at Queen Square, the results go straight to my consultants and my notes. Having arranged for my blood test form to be at the OPD desk, I went straight in to the phlebotomist and we were free to leave the hospital within 5 minutes of arrival.
Had I arranged a local service I might have lost the will to live:
Arranging an appointment for a blood test
Chasing up the results
Getting results sent to Queen Square
Checking results have been received by the right people at Queen Square so I get my medication.
It seems HUGELY inefficient to go into Central London for simple blood tests but.....
Dear lord what a rigmarole. I call one of the nurses who looked after the Inlaw Paw; she drops in, draws the blood and forwards it to the lab. The doc has the results on line on the day the sample was taken and I receive them in the mail a day or two later.
Anyway, dropped in to mention that as of 1st July this year doctors in France will be able to prescribe sport as a treatment for various maladies incl. cancer, diabetes, coronary problems, etc. Wonder if I can get n+1 out of it. Or failing that, a sub for maintenance.
Gotcha. Sympathies, it's still a slog.
Went back for my one-month checkup on Tuesday. Nailed the 6/4 lines. Low-light vision is perhaps not as clear as it was before, but on the whole I'm astonished how good it is.Eye lasering on Thursday to correct my -1.75 myopia and astigmatism. Looking forward to it in a funny kind of way.Amazing. Best money I've ever spent.
Ouchy!
Hope it settles!
I think we've had previous threads here about patello femoral maltracking but I've not yet tried the search facility.
Letter from GP saying nothing worrying in my poo and consultant has prescribed Questran Light until my next outpt appt at end of May. Questran Light is a disgusting powder, flavoured like very weak cheap diluting orange, to be mixed with water and forced down my gullet three times a day. No matter how I mix it, it won't properly dissolve and it has an oddly starchy texture, like drinking finely powdered Smash.Bloods taken and I have to send in some poo. Might mix a cat turd in there for a laugh. Consultant was really nice.My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
Letter from GP saying nothing worrying in my poo and consultant has prescribed Questran Light until my next outpt appt at end of May. Questran Light is a disgusting powder, flavoured like very weak cheap diluting orange, to be mixed with water and forced down my gullet three times a day. No matter how I mix it, it won't properly dissolve and it has an oddly starchy texture, like drinking finely powdered Smash.Bloods taken and I have to send in some poo. Might mix a cat turd in there for a laugh. Consultant was really nice.My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
Is aluminium oxide recognised as a lung irritant?Yes.
Section 3. Hazard Identification/Potential Health Effects
Emergency Overview: Dust irritating to eyes and respiratory tract
EYE Mechanical eye irritant. May cause tearing and redness.
SKIN Mechanical skin irritant. Prolonged contact may cause
skin abrasion, redness, itching.
SENSITIZATION No data available
INGESTION May cause nausea and vomiting. No long-term health
effects are anticipated.
INHALATION Dust may be slightly irritating to respiratory tract. May
cause coughing or shortness of breath.
TARGET ORGANS Eyes, skin, respiratory system
ACUTE EFFECTS of EXPOSURE Exposure may include persistent cough, shortness of
breath.
CHRONIC EFFECTS of EXPOSURE N/A
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS of EXPOSURE Coughing, shortness of breath
Section 4. First Aid Measures
EYES Flush eyes with large amounts of water. If
signs/symptoms persist, seek medical attention.
SKIN Wash affected area with soap and water. If
signs/symptoms persist, seek medical attention.
INHALATION Remove person to fresh air. If signs/symptoms develop,
seek medical attention.
INGESTION Ingestion is an unlikely route of exposure. Leave
decision to induce vomiting to qualified medical
personnel, since particles may be aspirated into the
lungs. Seek immediate medical attention.
Letter from GP saying nothing worrying in my poo and consultant has prescribed Questran Light until my next outpt appt at end of May. Questran Light is a disgusting powder, flavoured like very weak cheap diluting orange, to be mixed with water and forced down my gullet three times a day. No matter how I mix it, it won't properly dissolve and it has an oddly starchy texture, like drinking finely powdered Smash.Bloods taken and I have to send in some poo. Might mix a cat turd in there for a laugh. Consultant was really nice.My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
Arterial or atrial?
The answer was actually on the print out, when I took it out of the envelope, right artrial enlargement. Amazing that a sealed envelope, with for the attention of the gp, works to stop you prying.
My wife is from the North where high cholesterol is often hereditary - Vikings etc were predisposed to it since it compensates to some extent for a lack of melanin. Even when she was vegan - she now eats fish - the quack was forever telling her to cut out the red meat.
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Anyway, my own little hoot today is that I'm just back from a cardiac stress test: everything was perfect and I can lose the wretched aspirin that wasn't doing anything for my guts. :D
How significant are use by dates on aspirin? I've discovered a largeish stash of aspirin at the back of the cupboard, all with use by dates in 2015 and 2011.
I have an endoscopy this afternoon and I'm terrified! Never had one before but, as a student nurse, i was present at a few. The panic most of the ones I observed is what's scaring me. I'm trying had to stop myself from making excuses and blobbing out of it.
Bariatric ambulances are specially-designed and equipped in response to a 10-fold spike in hospital visits linked to obesity in the past decade.It's hardly a spike; that implies it will come down again.
QuoteBariatric ambulances are specially-designed and equipped in response to a 10-fold spike in hospital visits linked to obesity in the past decade.It's hardly a spike; that implies it will come down again.
I think obesity is at least partly a mental health issue (on a societal level, not in each individual case) and we don't seem to be making much progress on that.QuoteBariatric ambulances are specially-designed and equipped in response to a 10-fold spike in hospital visits linked to obesity in the past decade.It's hardly a spike; that implies it will come down again.
Given sufficient lack of hospitals...
I see the NHS is spending BIG money on BIG ambulances for BIG people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39859428 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39859428)
Jut THREE BIG ambulances for ALL of London?!?! I know POBI is elsewhere but this seems so few they're hardly worth counting!
Indeed. Some 'free from' breads are like particularly tasteless cardboard. Some are almost indistinguishable from good 'ordinary' bread.Really? I've not found any freefrom bread that isn't improved significantly by being toasted (my wife is coeliac, so we have a gluten free house (aside from beer, because up to now I've found most gf beer terrible)).
Tescos own brand breads are about the best of the breads - they have started doing (in some stores) occasionally a 'cob' loaf that is exceptional. Really good crust and texture.Indeed. Some 'free from' breads are like particularly tasteless cardboard. Some are almost indistinguishable from good 'ordinary' bread.Really? I've not found any freefrom bread that isn't improved significantly by being toasted (my wife is coeliac, so we have a gluten free house (aside from beer, because up to now I've found most gf beer terrible)).
GF foods that work are those that don't need to rise - brownies, pancakes, etc. Anything that should be light and fluffy just isn't (gf croissants are astonishingly bad).
Anyone done similar?
Sneezing is more problematic and less predictable; try to avoid it if at all possible! I know this is difficult in the real world, but maybe avoiding pepper, pollen and dust is possible.
A gram of Amoxil doesn't really trouble me. I hope you're as lucky!
A gram of Amoxil doesn't really trouble me. I hope you're as lucky!
Apparently not. It's making me as tired as a donkey and as constipated as a mormon.
What seems impressive, or at least encouraging, is that their computer systems seem to be functioning!
Dr Rishi Caleyachetty, who led the study, said it was true that weightlifters could be healthy and yet have a BMI that suggested they were obese. “I understand that argument. BMI is crude … but it is the only measure we have in the clinic to get a proxy for body fat. It is not realistic [to use anything else] in a GP setting or in the normal hospital clinic. We have to rely on BMI measurements, however crude they may be,” he said.I've heard talk of and possibly even seen photos of body-fat callipers and of course there was the slogan "Can you pinch an inch?" I've even read on here some reference to an electric current method. Is it not just as easy for GPs and nurses to use callipers as BMI? Or is that equally misleading (presumably because it needs measurements at many different places)?
“At the population level, so-called metabolically healthy obesity is not a harmless condition and perhaps it is better not to use this term to describe an obese person, regardless of how many metabolic complications they have.”If a person has 'metabolic complications', which I presume means things like diabetes or hyperthyroidism, then surely by definition they are not 'metabolically healthy'?
QuoteDr Rishi Caleyachetty, who led the study, said it was true that weightlifters could be healthy and yet have a BMI that suggested they were obese. “I understand that argument. BMI is crude … but it is the only measure we have in the clinic to get a proxy for body fat. It is not realistic [to use anything else] in a GP setting or in the normal hospital clinic. We have to rely on BMI measurements, however crude they may be,” he said.I've heard talk of and possibly even seen photos of body-fat callipers and of course there was the slogan "Can you pinch an inch?" I've even read on here some reference to an electric current method. Is it not just as easy for GPs and nurses to use callipers as BMI? Or is that equally misleading (presumably because it needs measurements at many different places)?
I'm not sure why it is so hard to grab calipers and measure the fat at a couple of points.
At a guess I'd say it's probably time that is the limiting factor. It takes a minute to do height/weight and lookup the results on a chart or grab a calculator. It takes longer than that to take accurate calliper measurements at several places and interpret the results. BMI can also be done over the phone or online if the patient has an idea of their height and weight.
It is customary to wear clothing outside a treatment room anyway. I know 'gym' means 'naked' but...
I think the road rash on my arm is within an hour or two of becoming crusty enough to wear a jumper without getting stuck to it. :thumbsup:
My left thumb is sore again, and I've no idea why (this time). And it's a critical location for riding my bike. :(Bah. So the tape and the voltarol was OK ish. Rode my bike on Saturday with a brace on it - it hurt a bit but that might have been the brace pressing oddly as I leaned on it. Then did "swimming" with my daughter yesterday (mostly helping her teach herself to swim (I have learned my lesson and let her do it her way!)). Today the thumb is really bloody sore and I have put the brace on so I don't prang it by accident. :(
I've had flare-ups occasionally for the last ~15 years since I did some serious damage to my ulnar collateral ligament playing sport (I've the same on my right thumb but that side is a little sturdier). Usually though, I know what I've done to cause it - this week I've not got a clue! I noticed it Tuesday evening, and I've not done anything unusual with it (last time on the bike was Sunday). In the past, the doctor has just said to stop doing whatever hurts it (helpful). I taped it and put voltarol gel on it - will have to see how it feels this evening.
I went to the GP this week.
8:15am - Me: "Hello, can I make an appointment to see a doctor please?"
8:15am - Receptionist: "Can you get here for 9?"
8:15am - Me - "Oh. Erm. Yes"
8:16am - Receptionist: "Great - what's your name?"
../..
What service!
I got to see a GP I've not met before. She looked about 15 - a sure sign I'm getting old. And yet...
Doc (studying my on-screen notes): "Oh my goodness, it says your almost 60. No way do you look that age!"
Me: "Erm. Thanks - I chose my parents carefully."
Anyway. She booked me in for a full MOT, prescribed a wheelbarrow-load of stuff, and (re)diagnosed "Exercise induced asthma; probably antagonised by hay-fever".
I love the NHS :thumbsup:.
Don't vote Tory, folks :hand:
My understanding is that a lot of people aren't "misusing" health services - they're genuinely being cut too much to function.
Today I learned (yet again) not to expect to enjoy a ride after taking metformin. I seem to do this a couple of times a year: I have breakfast + meds then decide to have a ride. It's rarely fun.
The left buttock? ;D
Letter from GP saying nothing worrying in my poo and consultant has prescribed Questran Light until my next outpt appt at end of May. Questran Light is a disgusting powder, flavoured like very weak cheap diluting orange, to be mixed with water and forced down my gullet three times a day. No matter how I mix it, it won't properly dissolve and it has an oddly starchy texture, like drinking finely powdered Smash.Bloods taken and I have to send in some poo. Might mix a cat turd in there for a laugh. Consultant was really nice.My innards are troubling me. I've been having intermittent bouts of Bristol stool chart 5s and 6s with noticeable urgency for ages now, but put it down to my sertraline. But I've been on the sertraline 18 months and the innards problems are getting worse - I'm shitting multiple times a day, I'm having unpleasant gnawing pain in my mid abdomen sometimes, followed by a 3-4 on the stool chart, crampy growliness in my lower abdomen at times, and lots and lots of urgency followed by more 5s and 6s. And when I say urgency, if I lived on the 3rd floor instead of the 2nd, I'd have a lot of cleaning up to do. So I'm off to the GP tomorrow.Outpatient appointment is next week, but it's not a colonoscopy appointment, just an appointment.
Wearing proper trousers for the first time in two weeks. :thumbsup:
Pants still full of sticky tape, thobut. :(
Never mind the baboons, we want to know about the automagickally gear-changery witchcraft!
Sadly, apparently it is news that eating a healthy diet of fruit, veg, and unprocessed ingredients is, erm, healthy.
I asked the receptionist at the doctors today, for a printout of my most recent blood panel.
She looked at me like I'd just asked to see her tits :D.
I have to go back tomorrow once she's "got the doctor's permission" which sounds a lot like a fob-off to me.
That data is mine, not something to be kept from me.
That data is mine, not something to be kept from me.
That data is mine, not something to be kept from me.
Blood test data is useless without knowledgeable interpretation.
That data is mine, not something to be kept from me.
Blood test data is useless without knowledgeable interpretation.
That data is mine, not something to be kept from me.
Blood test data is useless without knowledgeable interpretation.
That's true of all sorts of things that we don't hide from people out of some paternalistic sense of their own good.
Suspect it's a 'house rule' about ALL results.
Simple blood numbers might seem uncomplicated but if there's an X-ray or histology report in which there's a suspicion of something serious, a doctor mightwant an in-depth discussion about matters.
A blanket rule...
Knee diagnosed as MCL issue, but no tear. Knee still stable despite all I've done to it (8 separate visits to doctor/surgeon/physio over the last 20 years!). Strengthening exercises prescribed, but can be on bike (gentle) by the weekend. :)Gentle pootle on Turbo on Sunday was OK. Was a bit sore yesterday, and made clicking noises along with front of knee pain when doing single leg squats last night. I suspect it's now just a patella tracking problem - will do loads of VMO exercises and roller the hell out of my ITB over the next few days and see if I can ride again on Sunday. Grrr.
Nailed my crow pose at yoga tonight - I took flight for around 20 seconds! ;D
http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Crow-Pose-(Yoga) (http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Crow-Pose-(Yoga))
I rode Sunday - took it easy to start and then pushed it a bit towards the end. No soreness when riding, but some for the day afterwards.Knee diagnosed as MCL issue, but no tear. Knee still stable despite all I've done to it (8 separate visits to doctor/surgeon/physio over the last 20 years!). Strengthening exercises prescribed, but can be on bike (gentle) by the weekend. :)Gentle pootle on Turbo on Sunday was OK. Was a bit sore yesterday, and made clicking noises along with front of knee pain when doing single leg squats last night. I suspect it's now just a patella tracking problem - will do loads of VMO exercises and roller the hell out of my ITB over the next few days and see if I can ride again on Sunday. Grrr.
Maybe the POP at the time of the injury was actually just the patella jumping out of it's groove?
I know that strength training for cycling is a hot topic at the moment and after seeing GCN's video with Tinkoff-Saxo, something that I have been meaning to do for a while (when fit and racing again). Anyway, I saw this post on facebook and thought that I would share with others. Have others tried strength training and found it to be useful?
https://www.facebook.com/wyndymillabikes/photos/a.152293484798873.36112.110810008947221/1697273346967538/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/wyndymillabikes/photos/a.152293484798873.36112.110810008947221/1697273346967538/?type=3&theater)
Tests have indicated that I have blood in my urine
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Latest tests have indicated that there were no cancer cells.
I go back on Tues for another appointment.
Rigid cystoscopy under general anaesthetic is a different issue
If it's any second-hand consolation, my Dad doesn't seem to be much discombobulated by flexible cystoscopy under local anaesthetic.
Rigid cystoscopy under general anaesthetic is a different issue
I had a letter this morning from the hospital. I have an appointment on Friday at the "One Stop Haematuria" shop. This involves an ultrasound and an invasive procedure with a telescope. Frankly, that gives me the heebie-jeebies. Firstly, because I have never had anything quite so intrusive done to me before, and secondly, because it's the Dun Run the following day. In the letter it tells me that there will be a local anaesthetic for the invasive procedure and "I will be able to drive" afterwards. Yes, but will I be able to ride a bike???
Recovery after a "long ride*".....how do you do it?
I have just moved up to doing 100km rides which, whilst on the road have proven to be quite doable. However, I have noticed that the following day it all seems to fall apart and I either become very aggressive or feel like crying. Not sure why as I have rested well and ensured I have taken some protein and reloaded my carbs but its quite strange and off putting. I don't get this when I knock of 50 to 80km rides.
Any ideas what is causing this? Or, is it just me?
*I know 100km isn't that long but frankly, its taken me 8 years to get there so I am pleased with the progression!
However, I have noticed that the following day it all seems to fall apart and I either become very aggressive or feel like crying.I get like this if i haven't slept enough.
Forget about fancy drinks. Tuck into something that's easy to eat within 15 minutes of finishing, e.g. tea and biscuits or just a banana. That gives you enough energy to get showered and changed, and then some. Thereafter a full meal: starter, main course, cheese and/or dessert/fruit, coffee. Drink whatever you like, but include a glass or two of water. Then go for a short walk, maybe half an hour, to stretch your legs and digest before bed.The only reason I did the 'fancy drinks' as you call them is that is it difficult to get the same number of calories and nutrition down in a palatable form quickly enough. My digestion is dodgy and I found I couldn't stomach some things, combined with it being difficult to ensure that they were available.
I had a letter this morning from the hospital. I have an appointment on Friday at the "One Stop Haematuria" shop. This involves an ultrasound and an invasive procedure with a telescope. Frankly, that gives me the heebie-jeebies. Firstly, because I have never had anything quite so intrusive done to me before, and secondly, because it's the Dun Run the following day. In the letter it tells me that there will be a local anaesthetic for the invasive procedure and "I will be able to drive" afterwards. Yes, but will I be able to ride a bike???
:-XHas someone been for their cystoscopy?
:-XHas someone been for their cystoscopy?
Oh, I have what sounds like a pretty large cyst on my right kidney, but they reckon it's harmless.
Did they give you a date for the scan?
All a bit inconclusive. Still have blood in my wee, but no visible or measurable causes. Will have a CT scan with dye in my blood - this will be the equivalent of putting a partially inflated inner tube in a bowl full of water.
No extra meds. Oh, I have what sounds like a pretty large cyst on my right kidney, but they reckon it's harmless.
Did they give you a date for the scan?
No. Will write to me in the next couple of weeks.
I had my Iphone in my pocket as well.
, I've had period pain that was worse and nobody gives me entonox for that.Seriously, there has to be a market for that. entonox is awesome. sod weed.
Colonoscopy is done and dusted. I was first on the list, so into the suite by about 2pm, in recovery and asking for a sandwich half an hour later. Some parts were more than uncomfortable and into painful, mainly as the scope was navigated around the sigmoid, but I sucked hard on the entonox and really, I've had period pain that was worse and nobody gives me entonox for that. I got to watch the monitor as well, and can say with pride that my colon looks like the Sarlacc Pit. Biopsies were taken, but no abnormalities detected visually, it all looks healthy.
Disappointingly, no monster farts so far.
I'm quite uncomfortable today; it feels like someone has been rummaging around in my insides. So I'm working from home. A couple of small to medium farts, but nothing wonderfully huge yet.Colonoscopy is done and dusted. I was first on the list, so into the suite by about 2pm, in recovery and asking for a sandwich half an hour later. Some parts were more than uncomfortable and into painful, mainly as the scope was navigated around the sigmoid, but I sucked hard on the entonox and really, I've had period pain that was worse and nobody gives me entonox for that. I got to watch the monitor as well, and can say with pride that my colon looks like the Sarlacc Pit. Biopsies were taken, but no abnormalities detected visually, it all looks healthy.
Disappointingly, no monster farts so far.
Sounds a similar experience to mine.
Glad they've not found any obvious Big Trouble.
My Big Gripes came on the two evenings about 30 and 54 hours after the scope.
Triennial arsecam tomorrow. I must say the 2017 Moviprep is a particularly effective vintage.
I personally would not want to set off for a fool's errand.
I was moderately cross. To be fair they did create the cancellation letter sufficiently in advance, but they should have known that in the NHS a considerable time can elapse between writing something that is to go in the post and that item entering the actual RL postage system.
Wretched dodgy ankle making life a pain. I can ride one day and it's OK, but next day it can send up acute jabs on stairs, or maybe not; or maybe ache all the time, or maybe not; or I can start a ride and get spikes of pain after 50+ k. Naproxen helps but attacks my gut even with [ome,panta]prazole. The onlycureremedy is rest, but being diabetic with coronary problems that is not exactly optimal. Bugger.
Is it possible to dissolve/dislodge these things if I drink a lot of water/beer?
Wretched dodgy ankle making life a pain. I can ride one day and it's OK, but next day it can send up acute jabs on stairs, or maybe not; or maybe ache all the time, or maybe not; or I can start a ride and get spikes of pain after 50+ k. Naproxen helps but attacks my gut even with [ome,panta]prazole. The onlycureremedy is rest, but being diabetic with coronary problems that is not exactly optimal. Bugger.
I found that my dodgy ankle became a lot less dodgy when I ditched SPD pedals. Platforms for me now.
In other news, my CT scan above has identified a stone lodged in my left ureter. Saw the GP/locum this afternoon. It hasn't given me any pain. I was advised to speak to the consultant or his PA. it turned out that the former was on annual leave and the latter on sick leave. Awaiting a return call. I would be perfectly happy with the "do nothing" approach. Is it possible to dissolve/dislodge these things if I drink a lot of water/beer?
About 3 weeks ago I dislocated my ulna again.
Was at a bbq, the host was trying to snap some sticks for a fire, one was a bit thick so I tried.
Ulna dislocated like twisting a chicken wing apart. Didn't hurt, but it was right out of position. Bent my wrist over and shoved it back with the other hand.
Since then it is pretty much free-floating. Rotating my forearm takes it past normal position. Not sore, but that wrist is a bit weak again. I certainly won't risk 'twisting' actions (I can't really open jars for example - I have to put the jar down against a surface and mostly use my right hand).
Got my squeezy exerciser and fingertip exercises to strengthen things, but I suspect I just simply don't have the ligaments joining radius and ulna anymore.
To be fair to them, it is really, really good compared to how it was. The radius is straight.About 3 weeks ago I dislocated my ulna again.
Was at a bbq, the host was trying to snap some sticks for a fire, one was a bit thick so I tried.
Ulna dislocated like twisting a chicken wing apart. Didn't hurt, but it was right out of position. Bent my wrist over and shoved it back with the other hand.
Since then it is pretty much free-floating. Rotating my forearm takes it past normal position. Not sore, but that wrist is a bit weak again. I certainly won't risk 'twisting' actions (I can't really open jars for example - I have to put the jar down against a surface and mostly use my right hand).
Got my squeezy exerciser and fingertip exercises to strengthen things, but I suspect I just simply don't have the ligaments joining radius and ulna anymore.
I guess they never did manage to sort that out for you :(
And it took me 20 minutes to get the blooming things out again! Looks like I'll be a Speccy McSpecface as I can't see myself getting on with contacts at all....You did better than I did first time round.
And it took me 20 minutes to get the blooming things out again! Looks like I'll be a Speccy McSpecface as I can't see myself getting on with contacts at all....Give it time (she says, who has been wearing them since she was 13). They do take more than a few minutes to get used to (be thankful you aren't getting the kind I got N years ago where you wore them for an hour on the 1st day, two hours the second, 3 hours the third, etc). Getting them in and out gets much much easier with practice.
Yes - and slide them to the side of your eye before trying to pinch.And it took me 20 minutes to get the blooming things out again! Looks like I'll be a Speccy McSpecface as I can't see myself getting on with contacts at all....You did better than I did first time round.
It gets a lot easier with practice. I found the 'prod finger on lens, look at nose, pull contact out' method better than the pinching off one.
Ended up managing to tear one of the lenses trying to get it in this morning. So it seems contact lenses are not for me! Suffice to say i got in touch with specsavers and cancelled the trial
Ended up managing to tear one of the lenses trying to get it in this morning. So it seems contact lenses are not for me! Suffice to say i got in touch with specsavers and cancelled the trial
Balance the lens on your finger tip, give it a squirt of solution (tip away any excess, there should be enough to see but not enough to make the lens fall off your finger tip).
If you cannot get on with contacts and dislike glasses then you could consider Laser surgery. Scary but fantastic if you are suitable.I did the same, a fantastic investment 15 years ago! Well worth the money, and the peace of mind that Moorfields did it.
I went to Mooorfields as they are proper ophthalmic surgeons and the top guy there invented most of the laser kit.
The crisis in mental health should be managed not as a crisis of individual conditions but as a crisis of social obstacles which hinders individual rights. Mental health policies are in crisis – not a crisis of chemical imbalances, but of power imbalances.http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21689
The UN Special Rapporteur on rights to health has issued a report on mental health care worldwide, the first to look at this in the light of the 2006 Convention on Rights of Disabled People, though it applies to all. It's interesting in that it takes the view of mental health as reflecting problems in societies as much as in individuals.QuoteThe crisis in mental health should be managed not as a crisis of individual conditions but as a crisis of social obstacles which hinders individual rights. Mental health policies are in crisis – not a crisis of chemical imbalances, but of power imbalances.http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21689
already poohpoohing it. :(Always makes me laugh, thinking of Stephen Fry as the General in Blackadder goes fourth.
That's great Brian!
It's befuddling that you got such poor service from Specsavers. You'd think they'd want to maintain a reputation for quality. Do you intend to complain?
Anyone know any exercise you can do using only one arm
My post-colonoscopy farts were noisy and explosive.
I had a fair bit of painful griping.
My post-colonoscopy farts were noisy and explosive.
I had a fair bit of painful griping.
It seems this will be in my future. Laxatives in the post.
Nope. :hand:
Well that was a bit unpleasant, but quicker than expected. I am sans one wisdom tooth and have gained a suitably droopy face and a mouthful of blood and stitches. Hopefully the anaesthetic will start wearing off soon, it's been two hours so far. Or maybe I shouldn't hope for that too soon, might be a bit achy.
Well that was a bit unpleasant, but quicker than expected. I am sans one wisdom tooth and have gained a suitably droopy face and a mouthful of blood and stitches. Hopefully the anaesthetic will start wearing off soon, it's been two hours so far. Or maybe I shouldn't hope for that too soon, might be a bit achy.
Take care brian, don't let the anxiety build up.
I have remarkably little bruising, considering yesterday it felt like they were pushing so hard I thought my jaw would dislocate. Just managed some watery porridge, although it took me an hour to eat it.
Laying off the chips is no real hardship; I don't like them much!
I then had to look into a machine with my chin on a chinrest. I assumed this was the glaucOma thing so expected the puff of air but no, there was a picture of a boat on a beach which went in and out of focus.
Klaus has never had the glaucoma test or retinal cancer check because he has of course never been to an Augenarzt. He is 50.
I feel really nonplussed by it all. I’m wondering if I can fit in a proper optician visit in the UK at Christmas...
I feel really nonplussed by it all. I’m wondering if I can fit in a proper optician visit in the UK at Christmas...
Plus a really annoying visual field test machine thingy which I haven't had before - stare at an LED in a box while wearing your distance glasses over an eye patch and count the LEDs in your peripheral vision without relaxing and focusing at infinity because they then blur too much and you fail the test.I had that test when I was getting migraines (that resulted in a loss of vision) as a teenager. Had to go the hospital and stuff. I was somewhat surprised when it started appearing in the opticians - I guess the technology behind it got a lot cheaper!
Intermittent, but include: leg weakness (including complete collapse), numbness, 'hollow' pain, burning/itching feeling on skin on leg, spasmodic pains and movements.I get all of those.
Physio on tues. I'm a member of a Perthes support group. The leader of the group has written the NHS booklet on Perthes.
Seems my troubles are very common in ex-Perthes patients.
Intermittent, but include: leg weakness (including complete collapse), numbness, 'hollow' pain, burning/itching feeling on skin on leg, spasmodic pains and movements.
I also now have 'floating' dizzy spells with muscle tremors over whole body. It's all intermittent (I dug and planted two trees this morning, mowed lawn yesterday without trouble). Only just coped with some supermarket shopping yesterday; floating dizzyness and muscles tremors meant I twice rammed the trolley into innocent immobile objects. No, they weren't slow-moving grannies.
<waves hello> we are members of the same group, I thinkQuoteIntermittent, but include: leg weakness (including complete collapse), numbness, 'hollow' pain, burning/itching feeling on skin on leg, spasmodic pains and movements.I get all of those.
Now, your other symptoms are really interesting. I do get something similar, but mine started to become severe and were eventually diagnosed as a migraine condition (nothing to do with Perthes) and treated with drugs. However, since Perthes tends to affect the spine (for odd complex reasons that nobody seems to understand, in my case exacerbated by the treatment I was given), I do wonder if there is a sensory feedback issue going on here.
Physio on tues. I'm a member of a Perthes support group. The leader of the group has written the NHS booklet on Perthes.
Seems my troubles are very common in ex-Perthes patients.
Intermittent, but include: leg weakness (including complete collapse), numbness, 'hollow' pain, burning/itching feeling on skin on leg, spasmodic pains and movements.
I also now have 'floating' dizzy spells with muscle tremors over whole body. It's all intermittent (I dug and planted two trees this morning, mowed lawn yesterday without trouble). Only just coped with some supermarket shopping yesterday; floating dizzyness and muscles tremors meant I twice rammed the trolley into innocent immobile objects. No, they weren't slow-moving grannies.
Saw physio today.
Diagnosis: tenosynovitis of the extensor carpi ulnaris.
Treatment: no rowing. And other stuff. But mainly, no rowing. A few strokes on a rowing machine set it off quite badly.
Also, I have to get a new keyboard for work.
Also can't ride motorbike, or fixed wheel. Or perhaps even outside at all.
I can do turbo.
*sad face*
Beginning to wonder if flu jab + impending cold = double assault on an immune system already impaired by daily inhaled steroids.
I am pissed off and knackered.
Every cold I get seems to last 2-3 weeks and I’m getting three a year. And every time I get the flu jab I get a cold immediately afterwards. Beginning to wonder if flu jab + impending cold = double assault on an immune system already impaired by daily inhaled steroids.
I am pissed off and knackered.
Went backwards a little bit with the cough and there was a tiny amount of blood yesterday. Reckon it's bronchitis. Continuing to avoid training, but maybe I should get onto Dr Freeman.
Also I've set up a meth lab just in case.
Went backwards a little bit with the cough and there was a tiny amount of blood yesterday. Reckon it's bronchitis. Continuing to avoid training, but maybe I should get onto Dr Freeman.
Also I've set up a meth lab just in case.
I’m still coughing and still knackered. Shall I get a plastic tub? We can go halves on the meth lab.
Went backwards a little bit with the cough and there was a tiny amount of blood yesterday. Reckon it's bronchitis. Continuing to avoid training, but maybe I should get onto Dr Freeman.
Also I've set up a meth lab just in case.
I’m still coughing and still knackered. Shall I get a plastic tub? We can go halves on the meth lab.
Seeing as we're not in USAnia, I assume you've got something like this in mind: http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf (http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf) :)
Went backwards a little bit with the cough and there was a tiny amount of blood yesterday. Reckon it's bronchitis. Continuing to avoid training, but maybe I should get onto Dr Freeman.
Also I've set up a meth lab just in case.
I’m still coughing and still knackered. Shall I get a plastic tub? We can go halves on the meth lab.
Seeing as we're not in USAnia, I assume you've got something like this in mind: http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf (http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf) :)
I’m guessing you’ve never seen Breaking Bad.
I’m guessing you’ve never seen Breaking Bad.
I have, but since the whole plot is redundant in a country with a functional welfare system...
My coughing has triggered my asthma. Yay. A one mile utility ride today has left me wiped out. Sigh.
Flu shot yesterday. Headachy, sore-armed and feeling like shit today. It's a holiday (All Saints, when folk go and tidy up the fambly vault then repair to the cakeshops), sun's shining and there's no wind. I could be out there having fun. Rats.
Undercarriage frequently unhappy after spending a day on a plastic-covered wheelchair cushion.
Don't have baws but use Canesten cream on burny, itchy, sweaty undercarriage 'bits' and find they get better PDQ.
Said cream available from Sainsbury's for treating Athlete's Foot.
Undercarriage frequently unhappy after spending a day on a plastic-covered wheelchair cushion.
Suggest as much fresh air as possible, within the bounds of decency.
My post-colonoscopy farts were noisy and explosive.
I had a fair bit of painful griping.
It seems this will be in my future. Laxatives in the post.
Nope. :hand:
Good luck!
For me it was no great shakes, really.
I blame my post-scope griping on very enthusiastic resumption of all the foods I had to eschew pre-scope, when they encountered residual MoviPrep.
They did settle for the night for me. Hope they do for you too!
They did settle for the night for me. Hope they do for you too!
It did. Digestion returned to normal fairly quickly afterwards. Nothing abnormal found.
After yesterday's chutney incident, I've got this terrible pain in all thediodesmuscles down myleftright side. I didn't even hit the ground that hard. >:(
I’m being referred to a hand specialist re my wrist injury. I guess the next step is likely to be a steroid injection.Or amputation. Be careful, those surgeons are keen.
I’m being referred to a hand specialist re my wrist injury. I guess the next step is likely to be a steroid injection.Or amputation. Be careful, those surgeons are keen.
I’m being referred to a hand specialist re my wrist injury. I guess the next step is likely to be a steroid injection.Or amputation. Be careful, those surgeons are keen.
A rowing pal has helpfully suggested a hook.
ECU tenosynovitis is relatively rare. ECU subsheath damage is more common and loss of a small area of lining below the ECU tendon where it point loads over the distal ulna is quite common.
You really need a top quality local hand surgeon who just does hands. PM me if I can advise
So - MrsC and I went out for a meal, somewhere expensive. Enjoyed meal (although I was a bit underwhelmed by the food and £XX for a bottle of ok wine is 8|)
Then she ordered a coffee, which came with a chocolate, looked like a truffle. She bit off half of it, didn't want the other half as it was a sort of caramel, handed it to me. Hmm, nicely coffee flavoured toffee/caramel . . . um, this is made with coffee. Real coffee. and a migraine kicks in.
Restaurant spins round, heaves up and down, head in a clamp, hearing goes dim, my speech slurs and my eyesight goes.
From half a sodding chocolate.
Fortunately it wore off 10 minutes later, was just left with wobbly legs and faint feeling of sickness.
ECU tenosynovitis is relatively rare. ECU subsheath damage is more common and loss of a small area of lining below the ECU tendon where it point loads over the distal ulna is quite common.
You really need a top quality local hand surgeon who just does hands. PM me if I can advise
That's interesting - thanks. I have been given three surgeons to pick from and one of them seems to be much more of a hand specialist than the others - I reckon he's the one then!
I am surprised that hellymedic has not weighed in on this one. my understanding is that cartilage except in very young children does not regrow. If cartilage could regrow we would not do joint replacement.
I have been minimally indisposed following a somewhat complex dental extraction and a visit to my aged parents yesterday.
microfracture surgery is really great if you are a sports doctor attached to a majorleague franchise or even a significant private practise. I have read nothing which makes me think that it has the ability to really heal cartilage. it will produce some blood clot and a scar, possibly cheap, useless hyaline cartilage in the laboratory animal. Fundamentally it is placebo surgery for the patient and non placebo surgery for the surgeons wallet.
If I really thought it would help I would be doing it on all the arthritis patients I see every week.
Don't seem to need analgesics, not bleeding, minimally fatigued.
Don't seem to need analgesics, not bleeding, minimally fatigued.
Mental note: Hellymedic's used up all the dental karma. Avoid eating hard foods for a while.
And it needs a big period of time off, and it's not enormously reliable. Maybe worth it if it can prolong your multi-million dollar career, but unless the rewards are huge I suspect the replacement type options are actually more palatable. Obviously the usual "not a doctor" caveats apply. ;)
I'm not too good with abbreviations, sorry!
What is CTL?
Frustrating, isn't it?That sucks. I don't know how to calculate CTL - TR shows that my weekly TSS has been between 170 and 260 (with the exception of the rest week and the cold week).
I came down with a cold, and injured my wrist, within a day of each other. On 2nd October, my CTL was 65. By 10th November I'd managed to train twice and my CTL dropped as low as 26 as I started ramping back up on the 17th. My CTL will only recover to 39 by this Friday, after 4 weeks, so it will likely be February before I'm back where I was 4 months previously.
=> I hope that you recover from your cold faster than I did and that your knee isn't as badly hurt as you fear.
What's Total Suspended Solids got to do with training. Health I can understand as you end up with poorly treated water (be it potable or effluent). ;)
I’ve got “golfers elbow”. In both elbows. I have never played golf. :-\
^^ reminds me I need to see my GP, I think I have some form of tendonitis in both of my elbows. No pain on movement generally, but tender to the touch without any bruising. Been that way for a few weeks, but I can't think what might have caused it, other than general vibration/road bumps on the bike
At the beginning of November, I fell over in my bedroom (sober, I just tripped over my feet I think) and landed really hard with my shin on my jewellery box, which is a sturdy hard metal box. You know how much shin injuries hurt. I tried RICE over that weekend, kept my leg up as much as possible over the next few weeks, tried NSAIDS and voltarol gel (left over from whatever I did to myself last). Eventually the bruising disappeared but my shin still has a massive swollen patch, and I can't put any weight on it at all. Knocking it, kneeling on a soft mattress or cushion, even using it to close a kitchen drawer, all sore enough to make me shriek, wince, lose my breath and cry a bit.
I rang the NHS msk physio line yesterday and they said "see your GP" so I saw my GP and she said "get an x-ray" so this afternoon I'm going to get an x-ray.
^^ reminds me I need to see my GP, I think I have some form of tendonitis in both of my elbows. No pain on movement generally, but tender to the touch without any bruising. Been that way for a few weeks, but I can't think what might have caused it, other than general vibration/road bumps on the bike
Outside or inside, Tennis or Golfers? There's plenty of 'cures' on Youtube to look at. Been there done that.
Underneath/at the back, where it typically rests on a desk/table. I'm not sure of the structure of an elbow, never had any issues there before.
Thank you for that!
Gives the lie to the notion that 'You can never have too much chocolate'.
I could ask you to explain what it means . . . but I fear that would be too much information before breakfast!
Good luck!
Are they suspecting late-onset Hirschsprung?
** tests tomorrow. That should be fun.
** tests tomorrow. That should be fun.
Hope you weathered this OK!
Reading through the advice, it says avoid foods with fibre for 2 -3 days prior, and lists examples of such food. Wholemeal bread, Fruit. And... yoghurt ????? WTF? I'm thinking they listed it because of a general inability to differentiate between yoghurt and yoghurt with fruit. Anyone think there may be something else to it?
There is a reason I DO NOT WANT the raised toilet seat that the OTs think is a Good Idea...It IS a good idea if the lowness of your toilet makes it difficult for you to get on/off. We can always give you a bath step to prop your feet on.
Having the snip in a couple of hours... :o
There is a reason I DO NOT WANT the raised toilet seat that the OTs think is a Good Idea...It IS a good idea if the lowness of your toilet makes it difficult for you to get on/off. We can always give you a bath step to prop your feet on.
Good luck, mend well!Thanks helly, a bit sore but nothing compared to Mrs Legs' travails...
They are telling you bolloks, Brian. All GP surgeries are obliged to offer electronic facilities to book appointments online, ahead of time. So they can certainly book appointments ahead
No, the Keeper Of The Appointments replied, you can only get an appointment on the same day. So either apply in person when the surgery opens at 8am, or phone from 8:30am when the lines will be engaged, and if there are any appointments free on the same day, then you may be able to get one if the Planets Align.... :facepalm:
But you typically need to first attend in person in order to be given a password or whatever which then allows you to register on the online booking system, so it's still cumbersome.They are telling you bolloks, Brian. All GP surgeries are obliged to offer electronic facilities to book appointments online, ahead of time. So they can certainly book appointments ahead
No, the Keeper Of The Appointments replied, you can only get an appointment on the same day. So either apply in person when the surgery opens at 8am, or phone from 8:30am when the lines will be engaged, and if there are any appointments free on the same day, then you may be able to get one if the Planets Align.... :facepalm:
I'm sure the wee scabby thing on my ear isn't anything to be concerned about (avoiding googling Basal Cell Carcinoma!), but would rather get it checked out to be on the safe side... especially since I work outdoors all year round....
Question is, do I let mother dearest know first, or wait till I get a diagnosis....
This.Question is, do I let mother dearest know first, or wait till I get a diagnosis....
I would wait as after the Dr you will no doubt be referred to the hospital to see a specialist who will confirm and provide a plan to treat the little miscreant and then Mother can be informed that all is under control and hospital doing a wonderful job sorting it out.
Well, I've been and spoken to mother dearest about it. She was glad I told her, as she agrees its better I get it looked at, and we'll deal with it as a family, whatever happens! :)
Well, I've been and spoken to mother dearest about it. She was glad I told her, as she agrees its better I get it looked at, and we'll deal with it as a family, whatever happens! :)
Sharing it is also good as it is no longer a secret and you have one less matter to concern yourself with.
Glad you're off to see Dr and any subsequent treatments will be rather similar to going to the dentist or having a verruca removed: all very straightforward and matter of fact once you have had been through the regime a few times. And yes, I have had them treated by applying cream, frozen off and having them removed with a scalpel. You have no worries and embrace the processes.
Got my appointment through for the dermatologist.BCC are unpleasant, no denying that. But they are eminently treatable, highly unlikely to spread (unlike melanoma - I've had a precursor melanoma chopped out of my face, dermatologist took one look and was 50/50 on it being a melanoma, wanted to remove it there and then).
Tuesday 13th February at 9:40am.
Fingers crossed work will let me swap a day off the previous week, so I can take the Tuesday off ::-). I would have offered to swap my Monday 12th February day off, but I'm getting new central heating boiler fitted that day...
Trying not to sh*t bricks and avoiding google image searching Basal Cell Carcinoma. :sick:
Trying not to sh*t bricks and avoiding google image searching Basal Cell Carcinoma. :sick:
There is a reason I DO NOT WANT the raised toilet seat that the OTs think is a Good Idea...It IS a good idea if the lowness of your toilet makes it difficult for you to get on/off. We can always give you a bath step to prop your feet on.
More clutter to trip over and fall off: no thanks!
I have had major issues with 'helpful' raised toilets when on holiday.
Nice to hear the hardware is sound.Thanks Helly, do you think it could be diet related. I was adding chilli to most meals, stopped at the start of December. I know that chilli is good for digestion as they can soften the gut lining. Maybe my over consumption has led to things getting too soft. Apparently I can clench ok.
Suspect mischief in wiring and circuitry.
The ironic Crapita lurgy (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46587.msg2249114#msg2249114) has now gone to my ears, and barakta's lungs. This is suboptimal. Last night I resorted to Sudafed, which controlled the post-nasal drip admirably well. I know this because I was wide awake for the duration.
Through a combination of luck, ventolin and undignified dangling upside down I've just managed to cough up the lump of urgh that's been stuck at the top of my lung for the last 24 hours or so. I feel *so* much better[1] for it.
[1] Still hot and cold, still achy, can barely speak, throat's a mess, left ear isn't really working, peak flow's a couple of hundred below normal and I'm exhausted. But I can kinda-sorta breathe again! xkcd://349 (https://xkcd.com/349/) applies.
There's such a thing as _dignified_ dangling upside down ?
Oral thrush. Marvellous.
Oral thrush. Marvellous.
Get well soon!
Are you on antibiotics?
Oral thrush. Marvellous.
Get well soon!
Are you on antibiotics?
Inhaled steroids for asthma. I upped my dose a couple of weeks ago in an attempt to help fight off the chest infection alluded to above, and this is the predictable consequence. At this point lung symptoms are greatly reduced, so I'm going to go back to my normal dose (and actually use my spacer, like a good little asthmatic) and see what happens. I can't get a GP appointment for a couple of weeks, so hopefully it'll clear up on its own. Hopefully the lurgy will do the same, for that matter.
There are OTC medicines to treat thrush; maybe speak to a pharmacist?
It's never nice to be 'dismissed' but at least it wasn't bad news!
How on earth does the shape of your ear make it get inflamed?
etc? Beetles, tiny aliens, what?
Caffeine teeshirt on short notice GP appt changed to locum ftw.
Have you read Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End".
It covers a lot of the same themes including balancing 'aggressive treatment' with quality of life preserving treatment and how sometimes people who withdraw from treatment actually live better and longer than expected.
your insulin can get too cold as well as too hot :demon:
Boil on my nose is making me look like a dipsomaniac Rudolph... >:( Feeling very taut and hurty - would be feeling quite tempted to lance it if there were any indication of a 'head', but alas...Jeez, have I really had that boil for a month? Just clearing up now... It rather charmingly decided to explode over my face a little while ago and Mrs Legs extricated a gigantic ingrowing hair from the wound which was seemingly causing the problem.
Well that's confusing!
I received a reminder text from NHS Fife, saying my appointment is 3pm on Monday 12th March.
Appointment letter says 4pm, Monday 12th March!
So i have phoned the hospital, and according to dermatology receptionist I'm booked in for both 3 and 4pm!!!
I have asked for clarification, as I'd need to finish work earlier to be able to attend the 3pm appointment. But seeing as the hospital does not have my notes yet (referral appointment was at the Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy, the biopsy is getting done at the Queen Margaret hospital Dunfermline) they need to wait until they get them to see if i actually need a 2 hour appointment or whatnot.
So i should get a return call later on today or tomorrow...
??? :facepalm:
I'm glad i phoned though, I'd have hated to turn up at 4pm, only to be turned away due to my appointment being at 3pm. I just want this fecking biopsy done, so I can find out what is going on with my gammy lug. :'(
6 to 8 weeks is a hell of a wait. Bon courage.
George Monbiot has prostate cancer.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/13/prostate-cancer-happy-diagnosis-operation#comment-113489319
That's a very positive outlook.
People think it's funny,
But it's really hot and runny!
Diarrhoea uh uh!
Diarrhoea uh uh!
The fun of having norovirus on one's long weekend off work. Can't see me being at work tomorrow either, as im still as weak as a newborn kitten, hardly any appetite since Saturday. #Jiggered
Phoned in sick today as still weak as a newborn baby. Thankfully the diarrhoea seems to have cleared up. I've been "encouraged" to return to work tomorrow upon pain ofdeathattendance procedures interview... ::-)
Phoned in sick today as still weak as a newborn baby. Thankfully the diarrhoea seems to have cleared up. I've been "encouraged" to return to work tomorrow upon pain ofdeathattendance procedures interview... ::-)
Given you're supposed to wait 48 hours from the end of symptoms that is too soon - if you're handling post you could be a public health risk to others.
Employers really need to get the feck over themselves when people are sick.
Lol, i went back to work on Friday 30th.Did you get to deliver it to yourself? :D
Guess what got delivered to me today, a letter (dated the 30th!) from Slightly Big Boss, expressing their concern about my sickness, but reminding me to keep in contact.. ::-) a bit late for that...
Bad luck, associated disease, cold weather, age, hypothyroidism.
Take your pick, wrap up warmly, turn up the heating, have some virtual tea and sympathy.
If symptoms persist, seek medical advice...
Hello old friend! Has it only been a month since you left? Welcome back, make yourself at home, take over my face, why don't you? :demon:Boil on my nose is making me look like a dipsomaniac Rudolph... >:( Feeling very taut and hurty - would be feeling quite tempted to lance it if there were any indication of a 'head', but alas...Jeez, have I really had that boil for a month? Just clearing up now... It rather charmingly decided to explode over my face a little while ago and Mrs Legs extricated a gigantic ingrowing hair from the wound which was seemingly causing the problem.
I've just managed to bonk sitting at my desk, the whole shebang, clammy, shaking, world spinning and going black. I am an idiot.
When his wife called to make the appointment she was told that he'd go "straight onto the urgent list - about 20 weeks' wait".
Hopefully the end of this week, or the end of next week I'll get my biopsy results from my lug.
No, I've not been thinking about it too much... :facepalm: ::-)
Got my results back today! (20th April)
According to the letter from the consultant the biopsy came back as showing inflammation only, with no evidence of any cancer in the specimen. The consultant says that he was hopeful that the excision of the abnormality should have settle the problem, (which it has, now the biopsy wound has healed). As a result no further treatment required.
Quite a relief, although a reminder of being safe in the sun, particularly if you work outdoors all year round.
Consider cancelling, I'm afraid. You'll need a low residue diet for several days prior to the colonoscopy, which is likely to be low on everything apart from Rich Tea biscuits, as well as needing MoviPrep/Picolax to clear the gut and being nil by mouth on the day of the scope.
Your mineral and energy/glycogen reserves will be low - not necessarily so low that you'd feel rough at rest but not really high enough to get repleted in time for you to undertake your sportive at a brisk pace.
You'd probably be OK for a 100km Populaire a couple of days after, but I wouldn't push harder than that.
And that's if you've had little sedation.
Shucks! Andrew (4.75) and Mrs Legs have got chicken pox. Mrs Legs grew up in Kenya so never got it as a child. Andrew is being very good about not picking and scratching. Mrs Legs has only a few spots but has been feeling lousy for a few days... She's on a course of Aciclovir antivirals now. Probably only a matter of time until Daniel gets it...Well, it was bound to happen...
Colonoscopy re-booked so I can ride my event in May. Thanks for the advice all. :thumbsup:
GWS Daniel!14m. He was in a really bad shape yesterday, struggling to keep his temperature under control. Upped the Calpol to 6x daily on doctor's advice and he's quite a bit perkier this morning. My very lovely friend Christine is looking after Andrew today, because my wife works Bank Holidays (it's a JCB thing) and otherwise I'd be stuck at home with both.
How old is he? One of my nephews had it at 8 months and was not much bothered.
Not sure this is quite a health and fitness thing, but why do the NHS, or some of their depts, insist on using "Private number" when they call you? Phone rang just as I was going out, fished it out of pocket, see "Private number" so ignore it. It goes off again immediately, so I decide to give them the benefit of the doubt – and it was about an appointment for my son. I realize they don't want people calling back on that number but surely it's easy to both block incoming calls and have the number display as something relevant (like "BRI outpatients" in this case)? Telecoms have been able to do this for 20 years or so.
Not sure this is quite a health and fitness thing, but why do the NHS, or some of their depts, insist on using "Private number" when they call you? Phone rang just as I was going out, fished it out of pocket, see "Private number" so ignore it. It goes off again immediately, so I decide to give them the benefit of the doubt – and it was about an appointment for my son. I realize they don't want people calling back on that number but surely it's easy to both block incoming calls and have the number display as something relevant (like "BRI outpatients" in this case)? Telecoms have been able to do this for 20 years or so.
It's about privacy- they don't want to advertise to other people that the GUM is calling you.
I'm not quite sure how a phone number, rather than the content of the phone call, is a privacy issue. Unless you've given them your work number for instance, in which case you've clearly decided privacy isn't important.
Agree with Kim, but why does my local Renault garage hide its number when they phone me?
Just back from ophthalmologist's with a dilated iris, looking forward to four or five hours of blindingly bright, fuzzy vision. Asked him why he couldn't reverse the dilation; he explained that to achieve it they paralyse the sphincter (not that one) and stimulate the dilator muscle. Reversing it with drops doesn't work worth a damn: paralysed is paralysed. Grin & bear it, and try not to walk into the wall.
Which reminds me, completely OT but here it is, that I saw a woman with a hi-viz tabard which had printed on the back: CAUTION - PREGNANT CYCLISTI'm not quite sure how a phone number, rather than the content of the phone call, is a privacy issue. Unless you've given them your work number for instance, in which case you've clearly decided privacy isn't important.
Because then you've got to explain to your mum[1] why the hospital are phoning. Are you pregnant or on drugs or something?
Seems trivial to most of us, but it's enough to put vulnerable people off engaging with healthcare services.
[1] Other fearsome authority figures with no respect for their family members' autonomy are available.
Which reminds me, completely OT but here it is, that I saw a woman with a hi-viz tabard which had printed on the back: CAUTION - PREGNANT CYCLIST
Not sure whether this was a plea, "Do take extra care and be extra nice because I'm cycling for two" kind of thing, or maybe a warning, "Do take extra care and be extra nice because otherwise I'll bite your legs off."
On a similar note, I was never quite sure what to make of "DANGER: GOLFERS" signs.Illiterate, innit? Everyone knows it's "Golfists"!
:jurek:Don't worry, I have. I just didn't want to be a burden on anyone. Mind you, it's amazing what you can do
I'd take up your neighbour's kind offer! :-)
Hope you are otherwise healing well.
Not sure this is quite a health and fitness thing, but why do the NHS, or some of their depts, insist on using "Private number" when they call you? Phone rang just as I was going out, fished it out of pocket, see "Private number" so ignore it. It goes off again immediately, so I decide to give them the benefit of the doubt – and it was about an appointment for my son. I realize they don't want people calling back on that number but surely it's easy to both block incoming calls and have the number display as something relevant (like "BRI outpatients" in this case)? Telecoms have been able to do this for 20 years or so.They're not calling on a direct line; the call is routed through a switchboard and they've pressed 9 for an outside line, so the caller display doesn't have anything to show.
:jurek:Don't worry, I have. I just didn't want to be a burden on anyone. Mind you, it's amazing what you can do
I'd take up your neighbour's kind offer! :-)
Hope you are otherwise healing well.
when you put your mind to it.
Ouch. Any chance of NSAIDs doing anything for you in the meantime? Or seeing if GP would give you something like tramadol instead?
I'm playing the equivalent game with a shoulder (and elbows and a wrist) and diclofenac with the opposite problem with bowel function. >:(..
It's possible to mow a small lawn 8 days after a hip replacement*. I kept on thinking of theOuch! Good that you have a nice neighbour. Just don't do what my aunt did and fall down the stairs, breaking the other leg, a few days later.
mower as a zimmer frame to aid my walking; so ended up accomplishing two jobs with one
action.
Still can't walk unaided at the moment; whilst next door neighbour has volunteered to mow my lawn
once a fortnight (just to stop it from having that overgrown look).
*Not recommended, as there's the cleaning of the mower, oiling the blades,sweeping up and
binning the cut grass to consider too.
Probably is, but whatever the technological reasons the effect is to get those calls dismissed as spam.Not sure this is quite a health and fitness thing, but why do the NHS, or some of their depts, insist on using "Private number" when they call you? Phone rang just as I was going out, fished it out of pocket, see "Private number" so ignore it. It goes off again immediately, so I decide to give them the benefit of the doubt – and it was about an appointment for my son. I realize they don't want people calling back on that number but surely it's easy to both block incoming calls and have the number display as something relevant (like "BRI outpatients" in this case)? Telecoms have been able to do this for 20 years or so.They're not calling on a direct line; the call is routed through a switchboard and they've pressed 9 for an outside line, so the caller display doesn't have anything to show.
It's possible to mow a small lawn 8 days after a hip replacement*. I kept on thinking of the
mower as a zimmer frame to aid my walking; so ended up accomplishing two jobs with one
action.
Further to the above: decyphering the letter from the cardio, it would appear that I have hyperexcitable atria, and I gather that spurious spikes are crossing the bundle of His* and "troubling" relaxation of the left ventricle. This is annoying, since it's exactly what the currently crocked El Prez suffers from, only he's reached the extreme phase.
I know of several cyclists who have this. Mostly they're col-chasers: I'm the first endurance rider I've heard of with it. However, long ago I was told by an anaesthetist that "we'll have you in here one day for a pacemaker. We get droves of cyclists needing them".
Just now the cardio wants to try BBs, but if they're too effective - and I know they would be - he wants me on an anticoagulant instead, and warns me of the risk of haematomata [sauce] if I fall off my bike. In future I'm only to ride on quilted roads.
Joking apart, it looks like the start of something major. Shit.
OTOH yesterday I did 149 km with 900+ metres of climbing at an average of 22.2 kph, so there's life yet. Need to find out how many seasons I can get in before the chopper.
* or Theirs if you want to be non-denominational
Further to the above: decyphering the letter from the cardio, it would appear that I have hyperexcitable atria, and I gather that spurious spikes are crossing the bundle of His* and "troubling" relaxation of the left ventricle. This is annoying, since it's exactly what the currently crocked El Prez suffers from, only he's reached the extreme phase.
I know of several cyclists who have this. Mostly they're col-chasers: I'm the first endurance rider I've heard of with it. However, long ago I was told by an anaesthetist that "we'll have you in here one day for a pacemaker. We get droves of cyclists needing them".
Just now the cardio wants to try BBs, but if they're too effective - and I know they would be - he wants me on an anticoagulant instead, and warns me of the risk of haematomata [sauce] if I fall off my bike. In future I'm only to ride on quilted roads.
Joking apart, it looks like the start of something major. Shit.
OTOH yesterday I did 149 km with 900+ metres of climbing at an average of 22.2 kph, so there's life yet. Need to find out how many seasons I can get in before the chopper.
* or Theirs if you want to be non-denominational
I could mention this to Mrs Ham, she might well see the quilting of a road as a challenge. (FTR, anything in Ham Hall that doesn't move fast enough gets quilted)
Good luck, anyhow.
Since I started audaxing just over a year ago, I seem to have become much more susceptible to annoying ENT type stuff, particularly tonsillitis and sinusitis. Anyone else experienced this, or am I just weak?
A potentially revolutionary new insulin, developed right here in the UK. This would be a lifechanger for so many T1 diabetics - just imagine not having to think 4 hours ahead to go for a ride or a run, turn down your pump/reduce your injection, go high in the meantime etc, just eat as normal and step out of the door, letting the smart insulin do it's things, just like a normal person . Let's hope this kind of pioneering research doesn't disappear from our shores on 29th March 2019 thanks to a bunch of short-sighted xenophobesIt sounds amazing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45268904 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45268904)
It has a bright future, as long as it doesn't threaten profits.
Which is in Denmark...
Heard something interesting on the Toady show on R4 this morning.
They were discussing that heart age website thingy. Presenter suggested that docs ask questions about family history of heart attacks in order to suggest genetic propensity to heart problems. A leading cardiologist said that the reason was also that poor lifestyle is also most likely inherited.
That may be obvious, but I'd never thought of that.
My grandad weighed 26stone. He died in his 60s from heart disease.Heard something interesting on the Toady show on R4 this morning.
They were discussing that heart age website thingy. Presenter suggested that docs ask questions about family history of heart attacks in order to suggest genetic propensity to heart problems. A leading cardiologist said that the reason was also that poor lifestyle is also most likely inherited.
That may be obvious, but I'd never thought of that.
Up to a point, Lord Copper.
There has been a HUGE increase in obesity in the past 40 years, which can't be inherited. You only have to look at photographs of holidaymakers to see this. Our parents' and grandparents' generation had a less obesogenic environment and lifestyle, though may have smoked more (which is not really inherited).
My grandad weighed 26stone. He died in his 60s from heart disease.Heard something interesting on the Toady show on R4 this morning.
They were discussing that heart age website thingy. Presenter suggested that docs ask questions about family history of heart attacks in order to suggest genetic propensity to heart problems. A leading cardiologist said that the reason was also that poor lifestyle is also most likely inherited.
That may be obvious, but I'd never thought of that.
Up to a point, Lord Copper.
There has been a HUGE increase in obesity in the past 40 years, which can't be inherited. You only have to look at photographs of holidaymakers to see this. Our parents' and grandparents' generation had a less obesogenic environment and lifestyle, though may have smoked more (which is not really inherited).
My gran died in her 50s. She was short and fat
My uncle died in his late 40s. He was 'stocky'.
My other uncle had his first heart attack at 60. He was the figure of a robin. Sticklike legs, corpulent body.
None were smokers.
Insulin-dependent diabetes is still associated with increased risk of cardiovascular illness.
Sorry!
I see doctors apparently use too much jargon.
This is easily done, especially when conferring with medical colleagues.
Please let me know if I ever use incomprehensible language.
I don't think I'm guilty though.
Isn't there a genetic component to obesity? And within our generally prevalent obesogenic environment, some of us inherit a more particularly obesogenic lifestyle; if our parents ate junk food, drank, smoked and spent their time in front of the TV, we're more likely to so similar, which is surely Basil's presenter's point.I'm reading the Robert Lustig book about sugar atm which covers genetics vs environment in spades
I filled in the form, but I don't know my bp or cholesterol.
It told me my heart age was 1 year above my chronological age. WTF? I have no other risk factors, so therefore I'm 1 year above?
I filled in the form, but I don't know my bp or cholesterol.
It told me my heart age was 1 year above my chronological age. WTF? I have no other risk factors, so therefore I'm 1 year above?
Rounding error?
Quote of the dayI filled in the form, but I don't know my bp or cholesterol.
It told me my heart age was 1 year above my chronological age. WTF? I have no other risk factors, so therefore I'm 1 year above?
Rounding error?
Possibly their algorithm 'thinks' if you CnBA to get your BP or cholesterol checked, you have a higher risk of disease associated with elevated levels.
Take-up of these silly health checks is reduced in deprived areas and it's the deprivation that influences morbidity...
Sure. On the other hand, the only things they know about me are my BMI (22) and that I don't smoke or have family history. I suspect it defaults to the age of the participant and that's it's 1 year out is just a rounding error as Kim suggested, I just found it odd.I filled in the form, but I don't know my bp or cholesterol.
It told me my heart age was 1 year above my chronological age. WTF? I have no other risk factors, so therefore I'm 1 year above?
Rounding error?
Possibly their algorithm 'thinks' if you CnBA to get your BP or cholesterol checked, you have a higher risk of disease associated with elevated levels.
Take-up of these silly health checks is reduced in deprived areas and it's the deprivation that influences morbidity...
I filled in the form, but I don't know my bp or cholesterol.
It told me my heart age was 1 year above my chronological age. WTF? I have no other risk factors, so therefore I'm 1 year above?
Ben Goldacre made a good point on twitter about the reactions to this. In all probability, the number of healthy people who will click it and decide they need a cholesterol check from their GP to allow them to get an accurate picture of their heart health (i.e. fill the form in better) will result in wasted GP time and unnecessary expense for the NHS. Not convinced it's been thought through...On the other hand if some unnecessary tests also results in catching some people that could really be helped...
Ben Goldacre made a good point on twitter about the reactions to this. In all probability, the number of healthy people who will click it and decide they need a cholesterol check from their GP to allow them to get an accurate picture of their heart health (i.e. fill the form in better) will result in wasted GP time and unnecessary expense for the NHS. Not convinced it's been thought through...On the other hand if some unnecessary tests also results in catching some people that could really be helped...
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All very true. I don't know where the balance lies.Ben Goldacre made a good point on twitter about the reactions to this. In all probability, the number of healthy people who will click it and decide they need a cholesterol check from their GP to allow them to get an accurate picture of their heart health (i.e. fill the form in better) will result in wasted GP time and unnecessary expense for the NHS. Not convinced it's been thought through...On the other hand if some unnecessary tests also results in catching some people that could really be helped...
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I don't know how many people on average need to be tested to find somebody who needs to be treated. The NHS doesn't like wasting dosh so it tends to test where there's a potential health/economic benefit. The diagnostic yield in unbidden subjects is likely to be low, hence 'unnecessary' tests...
Modern British man must be even fatter than I thought.
We were ambling past a menswear shop in Christchurch earlier today and David thought he'd like some new shirts. He asked me what size he needed andI suggested 15" as the 15½" shirt he'd been wearing was too loose on the neck.
Shop had only ONE shirt in that size, which was unsuitable. Shop assistant measured David and agreed 15" was the correct size. Said she used to sell loads of that size in the past but there was no longer any demand.
David is not particularly thin and would appear to have a thicker neck than his taller brother.
Also I suggest that we both need to lift some weights. As we get older we lose muscle mass and cycling also leads to osteoporosis. Weights will help to reverse that
You are 63 and you expect improvement in 10 days? 20year olds improve in 10 days. People over 50 who are unfit take 2-3 days to recover from a sudden change in exertion.You have a v good point! I just wasn't expecting to feel so bad.
Stick at it, aim for exercising 3 days a week for over an hour a time. Look for improvements every fortnight. Expect to feel tired. If you aren't feeling tired, you aren't trying hard enough.
But of course the main argument of the antivaccinaters is "in Western Europe, where vaccination isn't compulsory, there are no outbreaks of measles etc."
Are they sheep-farming regions?
Follow-up booked for Wednesday for my wrist. Though it was good enough to get through regatta season intact, it's been uncomfortable recently. It might just be the ganglion cyst needs another bash.
Follow-up booked for Wednesday for my wrist. Though it was good enough to get through regatta season intact, it's been uncomfortable recently. It might just be the ganglion cyst needs another bash.
You'll need a bible for that. So I've heard.
I read somewhere (can't remember where, can't find it now, but it was in English) that the antivaccine scare is being spread by, amongst others, Russian troll bots. The point is not that Putin wants Western kids to die of measles, of course, it's that it stirs up controversy and spreads disharmony and distrust (of governments and probably more generally of organised medicine on the part of the antivacciners, of antivacciners on the part of the provacciners).https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567
First choice for finding papers is sci-hub.tw
Superb resource used by all PhD candidates (who introduced me to it)
First choice for finding papers is sci-hub.tw
Superb resource used by all PhD candidates (who introduced me to it)
Plus you're giving a bung to your favourite Slavic organized criminals in the process, and they're everyone's favourite villain.
First choice for finding papers is sci-hub.tw
Superb resource used by all PhD candidates (who introduced me to it)
Plus you're giving a bung to your favourite Slavic organized criminals in the process, and they're everyone's favourite villain.
I did not realise this was an organised crime website? I understood it to be a single person who set it up and certainly free to use.
How did it get in there?
How did it get in there?
Optimistic idiot in charge of stepladder and hedgetrimmer, so all in all could have been so much worse.
Montgomery would suggest that taking blood without ascertaining your wishes and desires re the blood test is poor medical care and therefore an assault.
How did it get in there?
Optimistic idiot in charge of stepladder and hedgetrimmer, so all in all could have been so much worse.
Hopefully you learned a valuable lesson today? ;)
My wife got the same sort of thing recently. She has quarterly blood tests to monitor medication and other levels, but still got a separate "invite" for the "well woman" clinic tests. At least the practice nurse said that next time they'd do them together - we'll see.
My wife got the same sort of thing recently. She has quarterly blood tests to monitor medication and other levels, but still got a separate "invite" for the "well woman" clinic tests. At least the practice nurse said that next time they'd do them together - we'll see.
My repeated attempts to combine my yearly asthma review with my yearly repeat prescription review (which is of course mostly asthma/allergy related) have been only sporadically successful.
Having a decent GP who pays attention and doesn't just decide "too long, boring" is vital for me.
Montgomery would suggest that taking blood without ascertaining your wishes and desires re the blood test is poor medical care and therefore an assault.
Making an appointment (first appointment was two weeks ahead) would imply consent for the sampling but the lack of information in the initial letter REALLY rankles! I don't see why the initial letter failed this way.
My monitoring blood tests specify, my invitation for smears/flu jabs/mammography specify.
GRRR...!
It hurts....
Nothing broken. Not that it makes much difference, soft tissue damage can take just as long to heal, and be just as painful.
It hurts.
I hate stairs. They're way more dangerous than bikes.
It hurts....
Best wishes for a surprisingly good recovery.
You're missed at Stirling!
Opened my 'Cycle' magazine envelope today.
Not sure I like the idea of a shoulder surgeon publishing an advertorial.
And a trip to the doctor at 11pm last night confirmed that I now have a chest infection ::-)
I'm trying out a Sissel "Sitfit Plus" cushion at work, to see if it will help with occasional lower back pain. An added bonus, assuming I stick with it, will be to allow me to refit the arms to my office chair - without the cushion the height of the seat means the arms always clash with the desk. With the cushion everything is a couple of inched lower.
I've got full-blown snot lurgy. Feels like someone's dry cleaned my head. The usual.
Will endeavour not to let it turn into a chest infection...
AARGH
"We are calling to tell you that we are rejecting your request for a repeat prescription for topiramate, because it is triggering the formation of kidney stones and the neurologist (who hasn't seen me in 2 years) wants you to stop taking it. "
Me "You should have a letter from a urologist stating that I'm ok to continue on topiramate, as long as I take a supplement to counteract the side effects. I've already had a conversation with one of the doctors in the partnership about this, and I have a letter about this."
"Um, let me look. Oh, we do, yes, it does say that. I'll have to speak to the doctor again. "
Right. Nothing like actually looking at the patient record and reading the correspondence then, before making medical decisions. Good thing I don't depend on the drug, oh, wait, I do.
FFS
AARGH
"We are calling to tell you that we are rejecting your request for a repeat prescription for topiramate, because it is triggering the formation of kidney stones and the neurologist (who hasn't seen me in 2 years) wants you to stop taking it. "
Me "You should have a letter from a urologist stating that I'm ok to continue on topiramate, as long as I take a supplement to counteract the side effects. I've already had a conversation with one of the doctors in the partnership about this, and I have a letter about this."
"Um, let me look. Oh, we do, yes, it does say that. I'll have to speak to the doctor again. "
Right. Nothing like actually looking at the patient record and reading the correspondence then, before making medical decisions. Good thing I don't depend on the drug, oh, wait, I do.
FFS
... you might be eligible for cannabis, maybe? ;)
I've got full-blown snot lurgy. Feels like someone's dry cleaned my head. The usual.
Will endeavour not to let it turn into a chest infection...
Can turn into sinusitis... had it once and it can be painful... carbocisteine as aerosol worked a treat to remove the thick snot and reduce the inflammation in just a few days, but these days doctors of course prefer to prescribe antibiotics instead, just in case ;D
AARGH
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Right. Nothing like actually looking at the patient record and reading the correspondence then, before making medical decisions. Good thing I don't depend on the drug, oh, wait, I do.
FFS
Does anyone use these https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/prescriptions/electronic-prescription-service-nhs ?
Sent them an email enquiry and got an automated response immediately. Three days later I got another automated email telling me that they had missed their own target for response times and would I still like an answer to my original enquiry. :facepalm:
Based on that I've decided not to use them as I may need a swifter response if I actually got my medication from them.
Whilst my wife uses the GP online system too, I believe the Lloyds pharmacies will also provide a repeat ordering service at no additional cost.
CBD oil might well be something that would help; I'd need proper medical-strength dosage, not holland and barrett shite. It isn't being mentioned or offered.
That's interesting, Steve. " "Angry and Intolerant" with everything" is a side effect of topiramate (although where I work now, people have described me as "an anchor" and "always giving reasoned and considered responses").
CBD oil might well be something that would help; I'd need proper medical-strength dosage, not holland and barrett shite. It isn't being mentioned or offered.
I found the (Pharmacy Uber Strong) CBD oil Did ease the pain a bit. Very specific, short as in about 3 hours from when it kicked in, period of respite.
Realised, within around 20 days, that I was feeling generally "Angry and Intolerant" with everything. Stopped the CBD and that aspect went within a few days. I decided that the balance of Quality of Life weighed CBD out of the picture.
Well as predicted Prof shoulder surgeon's view on the left shoulder is "it's fucked, I'm not touching that" with arthritis developing and thinks the only option is leave it to get "properly fucked" before considering shoulder replacement (probably not) or joint fusion (more likely).
Right shoulder is probably over-use from covering for the left and because the wrist/elbow are limited. He thinks I've got a biceps tendon inflammation issue. So referral for steroid injection under ultrasound and possibilities of surgery if needed (severing the tendon entirely?) although that has risks of reducing my arm rotation ability. I think (hope) they'll be talking to the elbow/wrist guy they're referring me to.
Referral to physio for right and maybe left shoulder, and pain management cos there's nowt else they can offer for the left... I am wondering how many departments of the ROH I'll see by the time we're done.
AAAAIIIIIIEEEE!!!!! Tripped over while collecting coal from our local merchant (on a timber bearer protruding from under a pile of stuff on his yard), and broke my fall on my left patella. I am now Big-Knee-Little-Knee and dosed up to the eyeballs on Co-codamol.Nice visit to A&E this morning; nothing borked but I need to go back to Fracture Clinic on Tuesday to assess for connective tissue damage...
I must have just been lucky over the years to mostly find docs that believe in joined up thinking. It really shouldn't be that hard, should it?
AAAAIIIIIIEEEE!!!!! Tripped over while collecting coal from our local merchant (on a timber bearer protruding from under a pile of stuff on his yard), and broke my fall on my left patella. I am now Big-Knee-Little-Knee and dosed up to the eyeballs on Co-codamol.Nice visit to A&E this morning; nothing borked but I need to go back to Fracture Clinic on Tuesday to assess for connective tissue damage...
A problem with fast food IMO is that it's not eaten as a meal.
Yet the plate-clearing generation are not generally as obese as their progeny...
'One size fits all and covers your deontological ass' seems to be the watchword - although to be fair, my cardiologist tried to find a diabetologist who specialized in sport for me, but couldn't. Thin athletic T2-diabetic coronary patients would not seem to be a rich field.
GN: After a few moments of pain from the over-pressure, everything's now slightly spinny and LOUD in my left[1] ear. I'll take that as a small victory.
I suspect a physio in my future ::-)
I suspect a physio in my future ::-)
I suspect a physio in my future ::-)
Good luck!
I'm seeing a (private) physio for the third time in as many years for an ongoing knee problem.
It seems my gammy knee is caused by my kneecap not tracking properly, caused my lack of muscle tone in my quads. Odd though this lack of muscle tone despite walking 10miles plus a day... ???
I suspect a physio in my future ::-)
Good luck!
I'm seeing a (private) physio for the third time in as many years for an ongoing knee problem.
It seems my gammy knee is caused by my kneecap not tracking properly, caused my lack of muscle tone in my quads. Odd though this lack of muscle tone despite walking 10miles plus a day... ???
My lower right never put in an appearance, though I don't think there was ever any sign of a tooth there on an x-ray.
My lower right never put in an appearance, though I don't think there was ever any sign of a tooth there on an x-ray.
Neither my lower right 8 nor my lower right 5 put in appearance. That's just the way I was made. (The lack of chewing teeth in my right lower quadrant is a nuisance following decades of sometimes indifferent care.)
Resorption of a formed and unerupted tooth is another matter and Questions Need to be Answered.
Resorption of a formed and unerupted tooth is another matter and Questions Need to be Answered.
There’s a child with its foot (or something) in my ribs. It will not move, I’ve tried everything. Very irritating, can’t sleep, can’t sit, can’t lie, can barely eat. I cannot shift this foot :-\
Fucking tick-box 'medicine'!
Fucking tick-box 'medicine'!Every year I get a request to attend an annual diabetes review from my GP surgery.
NHS-NoReply:How likely are you to recommend Bournbrook Varsity Medical Centre to friends and family if they needed similar treatment? Send 1 for extremely likely, 2 for likely, 3 for neither likely nor unlikely, 4 for unlikely, 5 for extremely unlikely or 6 for don't know to 07800000199
bournbrookmjog@nhs.net 4:54 PM
And now:Fuckin spurious feedback!Quote from: SMSNHS-NoReply:How likely are you to recommend Bournbrook Varsity Medical Centre to friends and family if they needed similar treatment? Send 1 for extremely likely, 2 for likely, 3 for neither likely nor unlikely, 4 for unlikely, 5 for extremely unlikely or 6 for don't know to 07800000199
bournbrookmjog@nhs.net 4:54 PM
:facepalm:
[OT] I bought some shoehorns from Amazon and they wanted feedback.Mount them on your wall as a big game hunter's trophy. Well, they are horns!
They said I should tell to what use I'd put them.
Well, I did not attempt to pick my nose with them for some inexplicable reason!
Reaching up and tilting a mug to my face also painful. Have resorted toTotally comprehending your pain on this.evil environment killinga straw to reduce tilting #NeedMyTea and that is helping...
Reaching up and tilting a mug to my face also painful. Have resorted toTotally comprehending your pain on this.evil environment killinga straw to reduce tilting #NeedMyTea and that is helping...
I should probably type less, but that's just not something I'm willing to do - Dragon and I still do not get on.
5k walk with MrsT this afternoon. On last 2.5 k I realized what a good thing it is that sphincters don't get cramp.
Hundreds of people in <insert place name here> are being admitted to hospital with 'Victorian' diseases like gout, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever.Gout a disease of poverty? Surely a disease of overly rich eating not poverty?
Exclusive figures from NHS Digital show there were at least 260 occasions in 2017/18 when people were treated as inpatients for one of 13 Victorian diseases.
They are classed as “Victorian” because they were commonly found in the 19th century, when poverty was rife. The figures count what the NHS refers to as “finished admission episodes” in 2017/18.
The WHO has named anti-vaccination sentiment as one of the top 10 health threats facing the world in 2019.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/nhs-gout-tuberculosis-scarlet-fever-2449042QuoteHundreds of people in <insert place name here> are being admitted to hospital with 'Victorian' diseases like gout, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever.Gout a disease of poverty? Surely a disease of overly rich eating not poverty?
Exclusive figures from NHS Digital show there were at least 260 occasions in 2017/18 when people were treated as inpatients for one of 13 Victorian diseases.
They are classed as “Victorian” because they were commonly found in the 19th century, when poverty was rife. The figures count what the NHS refers to as “finished admission episodes” in 2017/18.
GoutSome are clearly linked to poverty, others I can't really see the connection.
Tuberculosis
Malnutrition
Whooping cough
Measles
Scurvy
Typhoid
Scarlet fever
Diphtheria
Mumps
Rickets
Cholera
Vitamin D deficiency.
5k walk with MrsT this afternoon. On last 2.5 k I realized what a good thing it is that sphincters don't get cramp.
It's not absolutes, it's 'likelihood of contracting the disease' with poorer people suffering in larger numbers.
I suspect measles, mumps, scarlet fever are all more spreadable in overcrowded housing or people who have lower immune systems because of poor diet and living in shitty housing...
5k walk with MrsT this afternoon. On last 2.5 k I realized what a good thing it is that sphincters don't get cramp.
proctalgia fugax . clinical features. a severe, cramp-like pain of the rectum; lasts several seconds or minutes to up to half an hour; pain then disappears completely
DAMHIKT
I've received a text from "NHS-No Reply" saying they (who?) require an up to date blood pressure reading as part of my "health monitoring" and I should text a number they give with my "name, DOB & BP" so they can update their records. While I'm tempted to write this off as a bizarre phishing attempt, I think it actually means what it says: I'm expected to check my BP at home (how?) and tell someone (who?) as part of some "health monitoring" I wasn't hitherto aware of.
:DI've received a text from "NHS-No Reply" saying they (who?) require an up to date blood pressure reading as part of my "health monitoring" and I should text a number they give with my "name, DOB & BP" so they can update their records. While I'm tempted to write this off as a bizarre phishing attempt, I think it actually means what it says: I'm expected to check my BP at home (how?) and tell someone (who?) as part of some "health monitoring" I wasn't hitherto aware of.
Send them a blood pressure reading so low that you'd have to had been dead for a couple of days or so high that you'd have to be a London black cab driver and see if they send an ambulance.
I've received a text from "NHS-No Reply" saying they (who?) require an up to date blood pressure reading as part of my "health monitoring" and I should text a number they give with my "name, DOB & BP" so they can update their records. While I'm tempted to write this off as a bizarre phishing attempt, I think it actually means what it says: I'm expected to check my BP at home (how?) and tell someone (who?) as part of some "health monitoring" I wasn't hitherto aware of.I had one of these a couple of days ago.
I've received a text from "NHS-No Reply" saying they (who?) require an up to date blood pressure reading as part of my "health monitoring" and I should text a number they give with my "name, DOB & BP" so they can update their records. While I'm tempted to write this off as a bizarre phishing attempt, I think it actually means what it says: I'm expected to check my BP at home (how?) and tell someone (who?) as part of some "health monitoring" I wasn't hitherto aware of.I had one of these a couple of days ago.
It was deleted.
Bonus points for taking up most of the doc's time with the most trivial reason and having the most serious condition not being treated!I've received a text from "NHS-No Reply" saying they (who?) require an up to date blood pressure reading as part of my "health monitoring" and I should text a number they give with my "name, DOB & BP" so they can update their records. While I'm tempted to write this off as a bizarre phishing attempt, I think it actually means what it says: I'm expected to check my BP at home (how?) and tell someone (who?) as part of some "health monitoring" I wasn't hitherto aware of.I had one of these a couple of days ago.
It was deleted.
+1
Something to do with a rollout of the MyGP app. I can't say I'm surprised, defeating the evil guardian of the doc's calendar to advance to the waiting room of doom fits quite nicely into video game format.
I've never really been able to gargle (and haven't touch the Corsodyl bottle that's lodged for aeons in the bathroom either).
Apparently I'm allergic penicillin based meds - I really wish I'd found out in a less uncomfortable way.
Ouch. I hope your hip is ok :)
Sorry this is a bit of a whinge.
I took Amoxicillin for the first time Friday before last after a (not fully successful :() wisdom tooth extraction. Since then I've had a spotty rash by the Sunday (stopped taking the drugs on chemist's advice and started taking lots of antihistamines), then full chicken pox style itchy welts all over my arms, torso and legs (now thankfully just about gone), and the last couple days swollen calves/ankles. the swelling seems to be subsiding now, so just have itchy, and slightly spotty, feet.
Itchy feet are nothing like the most serious of those, and I feel much better, but they are very annoying.
Apparently I'm allergic penicillin based meds - I really wish I'd found out in a less uncomfortable way.
Lower left wisdom tooth has never erupted. Dentist spotted something on recent x ray that's baffled him. The tooth is gradually disappearing. He's sent me to the oral maxillo outpatients for them to have a look but that won't be until late February.
I've had a bit of a asearch but can't find anything on t'internet. Anyone had anything similar?
Lower left wisdom tooth has never erupted. Dentist spotted something on recent x ray that's baffled him. The tooth is gradually disappearing. He's sent me to the oral maxillo outpatients for them to have a look but that won't be until late February.
I've had a bit of a asearch but can't find anything on t'internet. Anyone had anything similar?
Seen a consultant today after a spinny round the head type X-ray. Spontaneous resorption of an unerupted Wisdom tooth. It sometimes happens and in this case it isn't sinister. :thumbsup:
He offered the option to extract what's left of the tooth but as that would seem to be a waste of resources and involve lots of pain I declined.
I had a phone call from Virtual Fracture clinic this morning
Nurse: "No fracture you can remove your splint and we will discharge you."
Me: "Really? I was told on first X-ray fractured Radius, then no fracture on first review possible scaphoid, then after proper look at X-ray yes hairline fracture of radius, now you tell me no fracture"
Nurse: rereads notes, "follow up X-ray was to check scaphoid, no scaphoid fracture was found however please keep using the splint for the radius fracture"
Me: "Ok but I will be contacting PALs as it was my confidence that challenged your opening statement"
[...] Appointment at 11am you'd better have a good book and nowhere else to be before lunch.
[...] Appointment at 11am you'd better have a good book and nowhere else to be before lunch.Unless you're actually bleeding out, it's unwise to attend hospital of any description without a book.
See also: Eating a full meal before going to the dentist.
Routine diabetes clinic, 9:20, seen about 10:30
I mentally write off the entire day
Unless you're actually bleeding out, it's unwise to attend hospital of any description without a book.
See also: Eating a full meal before going to the dentist.
I'd always squish the fracture site, even on the briefest of brief discharge clinic visits.Addingtons did this with me before discharge. Went over my skull, face, jaw, hip, knee, hand. Reassuringly thorough, particularly since I'd had CT of the skull.
I'm not convinced a phone/computer consult would/could do this.
Even if you ask a patient to do this, you can't really gauge how sore it is if you can't see their face/hear their voice.
(Good grip.
Full ROM.
0 BT
Disc...)
Surely that's Addenbrooke's?Yersh, Addenbrooke's.
Surely that's Addenbrooke's?Yersh, Addenbrooke's.
Maybe parts of my brain are still scrimbled!
My Twitterfeed has just informed me that deaths from liver disease have increased by 400% since 1970.To add to that, I remember reading somewhere that your liver could be 96% shot and you'd not necessarily notice.
I didn't have a clue that this was the case!
Liver disease is mostly preventable and treatable in the early stages. The commonest causes are
Alcohol
Obesity and metabolic syndrome
Infection
Many liver infections are prevented by immunisation and sanitation.
Look after your livers, people. Some liver disease is silent until well-advanced!
Troodat.My Twitterfeed has just informed me that deaths from liver disease have increased by 400% since 1970.To add to that, I remember reading somewhere that your liver could be 96% shot and you'd not necessarily notice.
I didn't have a clue that this was the case!
Liver disease is mostly preventable and treatable in the early stages. The commonest causes are
Alcohol
Obesity and metabolic syndrome
Infection
Many liver infections are prevented by immunisation and sanitation.
Look after your livers, people. Some liver disease is silent until well-advanced!
Also the liver has VAST potential for regeneration so that if treatable disease is caught before DISASTER, pretty well full recovery is possible.
End-stage liver disease is really horrible and an awful way to go.
Look after your livers, folk!
Yellowy eyes?
Same habit here, ever since I thought I might have thyroid issues, similar symptoms, turned out to be T1D in my case. Poo colour and changes in consistency can say a lot about ones health
If you're having regular liver function blood tests, it is unlikely you you will have develop a hidden issue.
Minimal changes in enzyme levels will occur long before symptoms emerge.
Funny coloured poop (very light colour).
If you're having regular liver function blood tests, it is unlikely you you will have develop a hidden issue.
Minimal changes in enzyme levels will occur long before symptoms emerge.
Which blood tests would you do for liver function?
J
I've done that before, different circumstances, I seem to remember being OK within the week, or I at least moderated activity to avoid the pain
Got the results yesterday of brain and spinal cord MRI I had in mid-December.That sounds like very good news (of sorts).
Brain unchanged.
Spinal cord has patchy signs of MS but this is first cord MRI.
Bones are showing my/their age.
This is the not news BONG!
Indeed.
I've had symptoms for 29 years and, touch wood, have been VERY stable for the last ten. I think retirement has been beneficial.
I think an MRI in 1990 would have shown much activity but I was effectively lost to follow-up after losing the will to live after excessive telephone waits. Being in the trade was a disadvantage when the neurologist told me to phone the secretary in in a few months if I still had symptoms; a formal appointment in which doctor, patient and notes convened might have led to different management.
It's moot if I might have been better served by earlier diagnosis.
Whilst it may recover itself in that time, it should not have happened and for it to happen on withdrawal is even more unusual.Thanks.
I would probably want to be seen by a peripheral nerve expert to confirm that it will get better and to have some nerve conduction studies. PM if you want some recommendations of where to go and who to see.
I say this as a peripheral nerve expert for the last 25 years
Also anyone who sneers about bottle feeding can get in the sea, if the small person is fed, clean, properly looked after and loved everything else is snobbery. My sister got flak for not breastfeeding, but bottle feeding was the *best* thing for her mental health and meant my BiL could do more babyfeeding work (which I'm always up for!).
The tendency to vehemently oppose vaccination as a Big Pharma conspiracy is almost certainly funded by Big Pharma, and with a profit motive. It is my belief that the anti-vaccination lobby are almost certainly being funded, and supported in misinformation by the people who will most benefit from children not being vaccinated, and unwittingly so. It is almost inconceivable that parents would willingly put their children at risk if it were not for the fake news and fake research that has been spread to undermine their faith in a well established medical benefit. The profit margins in vaccination are tiny compared to those that arise from hospital treatments and interventions to treat (and even save the lives) of children who fall ill with these dangerous, but cheaply, and easily prevented, diseases. Consider this recent example, where the medical costs of treating an unvaccinated child for Tetanus cost in excess of $800,000. https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l1172 Who benefits from that outcome? Tetanus vaccination only costs a few cents… Recent discoveries that Russian server farms have been implicated in manipulating US election results and Brexit make it clear that social media is an easy pathway to ‘innocculate’ the well-meaning innocent against the facts of vaccination - and stirring up anti-vaccination sentiments has to be easier than manipulating elections, the red flag of babies being harmed by faceless corporations has to be an easier sell than Donald Trump… Blame the anti-vaccination movement on Big Pharma and their secret farms in far away countries, but don’t blame anti-vaxxers for being unable to comprehend and respect the vast quantity of legitimate research supporting vaccination that is available - they are being artfully deceived.https://theconversation.com/measles-should-vaccinations-be-compulsory-114481
The story of oxycontin does suggest it is plausible.. They set up committees and task forces to define pain as something which should not be allowed and then provided oxycontin as the answer.
Result - massive profits and more dead americans from prescription narcotics than illegal drugs!
My daughter was advised to stop breast feeding. It may be "best for baby" but she was told it was inhibiting her recovery (two children, first involved a 4th degree tear, 2nd a planned caesarian).Also anyone who sneers about bottle feeding can get in the sea, if the small person is fed, clean, properly looked after and loved everything else is snobbery. My sister got flak for not breastfeeding, but bottle feeding was the *best* thing for her mental health and meant my BiL could do more babyfeeding work (which I'm always up for!).
This^^^ in spades.
I would add 'gaining weight/thriving' to The Kim's list.
Don't want to rant. Monday ended up at A&E for an ECG. I've been feeling a bit banjaxed for a couple of weeks, caught myself falling asleep in the shop more than once. As you're probably aware I bought a very heavy motorcycle recently and the effort required to reverse it into a shed that's only just wide enough... Well, I put it down to that.
Last week on a few occasions I was breathless and tight chested. On Monday I had a routine appt at the docs for a health check, turned up & the practice nurse took my pulse - three times - then failed to extract blood for samples from both arms and finally told me to foxtrot oscar to A&E.
The upshot is I'm now awaiting an appt with cardiology. Meanwhile I have 3 kinds of drugs to take & a GTN spray...
Or as my GP once put it: "I hope you're not making too many plans for your retirement." ::-)
Or as my GP once put it: "I hope you're not making too many plans for your retirement." ::-)
My mum's GP once told her (she was more than a bit dumpy) "why do you see so many little thin old ladies? All the fat ones are dead!" She made it to 87 all the same.
What is this telling us?Or as my GP once put it: "I hope you're not making too many plans for your retirement." ::-)
My mum's GP once told her (she was more than a bit dumpy) "why do you see so many little thin old ladies? All the fat ones are dead!" She made it to 87 all the same.
When I was six, I was out shopping in Woolworths with my grandmother. She stepped on the weighing scales at the back of the shop and put her 3d coin in the slot. The pointer swung to 14 stone (89kg). Said grandmother died 20 years ago, at 101.
What is this telling us?Or as my GP once put it: "I hope you're not making too many plans for your retirement." ::-)
My mum's GP once told her (she was more than a bit dumpy) "why do you see so many little thin old ladies? All the fat ones are dead!" She made it to 87 all the same.
When I was six, I was out shopping in Woolworths with my grandmother. She stepped on the weighing scales at the back of the shop and put her 3d coin in the slot. The pointer swung to 14 stone (89kg). Said grandmother died 20 years ago, at 101.
Your posts generally contain advice backed by years of experience (and medical knowledge); I'm not clear what to take from this one :-\
Maybe the kids Blyton knew were always eating but were very active...
Maybe the kids Blyton knew were always eating but were very active...
You missed the later additions to the series -
Five Create A Viral Internet Meme
Five Break Their CoD Killstreak Record
Five Binge-watch Game Of Thrones All Weekend
And to add injury to insult... the BP cuff inflates "every half-hour during the day and once an hour during the night" with a noise like a young alarm clock. It woke me every hour on the hour all night, with the exception of 4 am because I was still awake from 3 am. Then it decided that I should get up at 6 am because that's when it went into daytime mode.
Facebook Marketplace is flogging an unusual ice cream scoop...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1329592007198959/ (https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1329592007198959/)(click to show/hide)
Date confirmed for my knee replacement operation (26th June). Looking forward to it...Hope everything goes well. :thumbsup:
Date confirmed for my knee replacement operation (26th June). Looking forward to it.
Phil, hoping this is efficiency not severity.
High pressure injection injuries to the hand can be really nasty!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48599963 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48599963)
Avoid.
Get rapid expert treatment if affected.
Phil, hoping this is efficiency not severity.
Aortic aneurysms are drop dead awful and well worth the screening.
Mortality is HUGE once they leak or burst...
Edit with morning update: Well, slept a little better last night (5 hours) as I took a sleeping pill which helped me drop up (the first one I have taken in years!). However, the pain is still at a higher level than before and the numbness is still in my hands. I have, of course, spent the last 20 minutes looking up what it could be if its not gout. I know my doctor hate people doing that! At least I know its not West Nile Fever ;D
I suppose it can be good, Dr Google, for putting some peoples minds at rest and for knowing what questions to ask the doctor etc. However, I would still prefer to put my trust in someone who has trained for the job.
That said, I am not liking these Prednisolone tablets one bit. They have not decreased the pain at all: indeed I would argue my foot hurts more than it did, and it is now considerably more swollen than it was before I started taking them!
I do wonder whether this is actually gout but I suppose I will know for certain on Friday when my blood tests come back.
Goes off to look up: "erysipelas" Thanks Dave, T42 and Hellymedic.
I assume there are other reasons why you're on BBs. I recently went back on BP meds, and made a point of saying "No BBs!" and doc said "Oh no, we've got much more precise drugs these days for BP".
I then guessed she'd prescribe an ACE inhibitor like I was on previously, but even they're out now apparently - instead I'm on a CCB (Calcium Channel Blocker).
Can't say I've noticed any side-effects yet, but then again, my BP is still knocking around the 140/95 mark, so they're not exactly mind-blowingly effective.
:sick: from here too. Bet it flickers like a bastard too.
gobbets of wax,
another broken clavicle...
...fracture confirmed and into the fracture clinic today.
another broken clavicle. yesterday evening i decided to use the cycle path as i was worried that drivers would be hot, sweaty, and concentrating less. Perhaps i was concentrating less as I came to a park entrance across the path with normal curbs, hit the far curb and instead of mounting the curb went head over heels and landed on my shoulder. Then had to get up and finish cycling home using one hand. could feel the ends overlapping so pulled my shoulder out and back until I felt the ends engage and before the spasm set in.
My wife was away up North seeing family so I had a shower and a coffee before getting a taxi into the hospital. fracture confirmed and into the fracture clinic today.
That does sound very unpleasant. GWS (I did the same in 2015 but landed on my arm which resulted in soft tissue injury which lasted three years! The most impressive thing about it was that a BMW stopped to check I was okay.... ;D )
Anyway, I am now worried. My GP has just phoned. They have the results of the MRI check on my back and would like to see me.
Friday would be great, I said.
"Er, she has an appointment available this afternoon at 4pm. Could you make it then....?"
Bugger. I am quite a worrier so now I am scared it's something major....
The saga continues....
So, I return from seeing the Arthritis specialist with further tales of daring deeds and dragons put to the sword...
Actually, I return with tales of GP's not being able to read X rays and yet another change in my diagnosis from arthritis with bone spurs to gout plus a twice broken foot...... yes, back to gout! :facepalm:
It seems that I have been very unlucky and simply had a very bad attack of gout which has taken 10 weeks to clear (thankfully, its on the way out). Ten weeks is rather a long time, but not unknown I was told. My foot however, shows signs of me breaking my big toe at least once: there is a large piece of bone hanging off the side, while half of the bone below the little toe is also detached. I have no memory of either of these injuries but both are historic so not the cause of my recent issues. These had been misread by my GP as bone spurs.... GP's should stay away from X rays I was told!
So, the plan to take things forward is to have yet another blood test for the acid which causes gout to confirm this now the acid is no longer forming crystals and then onto the anti gout medication for life. This is likely to cause more gout in the short term which is brilliant and just what I need but should keep me clear thereafter. If that doesn't work, then they will look again but it's definitely gout...100%
Let's hope it is although I have sharpened my battle axe and my Squire has my chain mail ready...... ;D
Had my review X-ray this morning. Greater than 50%chance of non-union so surgery on Monday all being well.
Had my review X-ray this morning. Greater than 50%chance of non-union so surgery on Monday all being well.
Hope all goes well!
How much radiological union can you expect to see a fortnight after injury in an adult? I presume the decision for surgery is more based on the nature of the fracture.
Mend well anyway!
Not so much the absence of callus but the complete non contact between the ends and the movementHad my review X-ray this morning. Greater than 50%chance of non-union so surgery on Monday all being well.Hope all goes well!
How much radiological union can you expect to see a fortnight after injury in an adult? I presume the decision for surgery is more based on the nature of the fracture.
Mend well anyway!
Newton says that in the UK, regular e-cigarette use among young people “remains low”, but in America, worries abound about the 20% of high-schoolers who vape.It's a lot less than 20% in my son's year (14-15 year olds) but significantly, none of the vapers have ever smoked and their stated reason for vaping seems to be that it's "healthy". No idea which brands they use.
Been reading about Vaping Lung for a few months now
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/health/vaping-lung-disease-death-illinois-bn/index.html
These numbers are an increase from the 153 potential cases in 16 states that the agency reported Wednesday. At the time, there were no known deaths reported, the agency said.
The French seldom forget; T42 can remind them...
Been reading about Vaping Lung for a few months now
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/health/vaping-lung-disease-death-illinois-bn/index.html
These numbers are an increase from the 153 potential cases in 16 states that the agency reported Wednesday. At the time, there were no known deaths reported, the agency said.
I suspect this cluster is related to people vaping something other than normal nicotine-containing e-juice.
Having said that, I continue to believe it is too early to know if even “normal” e-juice is safe, and I remain amazed that PHE put their name to this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review
I think it is inevitable that some vapers, even those who do not vape anything other than normal e-juice, will go on to develop interstitial lung diseases or hypersensitivity-related conditions.
With that in mind I am weaning myself off at this very moment. Down to 0% nicotine tomorrow.
Nicotine suppositories might be an effective way of delivering the drug (or might not, I don't know) and clearly harmless (for lungs at least) but probably a challenge for the marketing department.I often pondered the most acceptable way to tell people what to do with their 'nicotine sticks'.
Nicotine suppositories might be an effective way of delivering the drug (or might not, I don't know) and clearly harmless (for lungs at least) but probably a challenge for the marketing department.
Been reading about Vaping Lung for a few months now
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/health/vaping-lung-disease-death-illinois-bn/index.html
These numbers are an increase from the 153 potential cases in 16 states that the agency reported Wednesday. At the time, there were no known deaths reported, the agency said.
I suspect this cluster is related to people vaping something other than normal nicotine-containing e-juice.
This. From the news reports I have seen, it's suggested that it might be linked to vaping cannabis or other drugs.
Sigh.
It feels like I've got a case of Epididymitis starting on my left nut :-( I wonder if it is related to my having a catheter for a couple of days when I was in hospital back in mid July? Whatever it is, it certainly feels like I've been kicked in the nut :sick: Luckily day off tomorrow, so I'll queue up outside my GP for it opening at 8am, and hopefully get an appointment (I'm needing a repeat prescription of anti depressants as well...)
:facepalm:
Good luck with the back - don't test it too much.
Nicotine is addictive.
I reckon a vaper (vapour?) is more likely to take up smoking than a non-vaper, thobut.Perhaps/probably. Essentially the same thing from the commercial point of view (ie. a nicotine consumer, along with the other "novel forms" such as heated tobacco) but obviously different health implications.
Presumably USAnian vaping restrictions could be easily circumvented by molishing the appropriate gubbins into a handgun...dont.give.them.ideas
I reckon a vaper (vapour?)Can we use “vapeur”?
Nicotine is addictive.
...but in itself Mostly Harmless. The problem comes from the common delivery method.
I reckon a vaper (vapour?)Can we use “vapeur”?
My left knee pain has now been diagnosed as arthritis :'(.
The beginning of the end of my cycling maybe.
My left knee pain has now been diagnosed as arthritis :'(.What type? Some are treatable.
The beginning of the end of my cycling maybe.
My left knee pain has now been diagnosed as arthritis :'(.
The beginning of the end of my cycling maybe.
I don't know what type I'm afraid. That was all that the physio told me. Maybe I should make a appointment at the doctors to see if I can find out.
I don't know what type I'm afraid. That was all that the physio told me. Maybe I should make a appointment at the doctors to see if I can find out.
My left knee pain has now been diagnosed as arthritis :'(.
The beginning of the end of my cycling maybe.
Thanks for all the advice everyone 😊
I will phone the doctors tomorrow and see what they say.
As for my pedaling the e assist means a slow (by even my standards) spin to get the best speeds out of it ::-)
And it's not just about mobility for you – getting out on the trike is obviously important for your mental well-being, a way to stay sane even. Can you make your GP understand this?
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Saw the doctor this morning and she sent me off to the hospital for a x Ray. She prescribed cocodimol and talked about the possibility of surgery. 🙂
I phoned the doctors today and they said that the x Ray was marked no action required so now I have to phone them tomorrow and actually speak to a doctor to find out if I have arthritis in my knee and if so what can they do about it ::-)
I'm supposed to be flying back from my holiday today. Except I'm not, because I didn't go: in a brilliant act of timing, I managed to get admitted to hospital on the day I was supposed to fly (Tuesday). Appendectomy yesterday.FTFYThis is aIt was a bit rubbish.
I don't know Teh Rules about flying after abdominal surgery, but ISTR they are strict and restrictive.
I also don't know where you are or whether surface transport could comfortably and practically get you home sooner.
I staved/jammed a finger playing football way back in late March. it swelled up and bruised nicely and after a few days I managed to remove my wedding ring (with a fair amount of swearing, washing up liquid and a bit of pain).
Coming up 3 months later I still can't get my wedding ring back on over the proximal interphalangeal joint.
...
Is it worth going to minor injuries or should I just leave it a bit longer?
I don't know Teh Rules about flying after abdominal surgery, but ISTR they are strict and restrictive.
Oh dear!
Hope things settle!
Worried about adhesions...
Makes me very grateful that my GPs are actually excellent, are one of the few to reference the Accessible Information Standard on their website and have a decent practice manager.
Hopefully going home tomorrow.
:thumbsup:
...and the breakfast trolley rattling past your door an hour before it reaches you.
Work is offering all their staff free flu vaccinations through a local chain of pharmacies. I wonder if they are doing it to benefit their staff? Or doing it to reduce staff off sick with flu? ???If posties are at risk of flu, perhaps because they come into contact with a wide range of people, then preventing them getting flu means they won't be ill either at work or at home. So how do you differentiate?
I expect the cost of flu vaccines compares favourably to the cost of disciplinary procedures and similar HR processes in the event of some employees getting properly ill[1]. It's just sound business sense.
I'm probably going to get the flu vaccination anyway, considering I'm already on a stage 1 attendance warning due being off following my laparotomy surgery in July...
[1] Given that flu tends to be nastier in the young and fit, this makes even more sense for posties.
It's been confirmed that I have got arthritis in my left knee. I am told that the plan is to control the pain as long as possible as the operation s only work for 10 years and the doctors says that I will need 3 of them :o. She must think that I look young for my age ;D
Feel better soon Kim :)
I have had the patnful tooth pulled out this morning and and now I am co codimol as the area is very sore now ::-) :'(
My body hates me, and is getting its revenge for yesterday's lung abuse through the medium of dizziness and lung grot, as well as the traditional tiredness and post-race 'aches and pains'[1].
[1] Read in an Norn Iron accent, it was a common complaint of my grandmother.
My experience was of general discomfort, but not pain - good drugs.
Only side effect was general belchiness for a few hours from the stomach inflation. I took the bus home.
The most annoying bit was that I couldn't see the monitor while they were doing it.
Any UK pharmacist can also give advice about medicines for this kind of query. It's massively under used and under known about.Trouble is when you ask the prescribing doctor and the pharmacist, and they give conflicting advice...
Any UK pharmacist can also give advice about medicines for this kind of query. It's massively under used and under known about.Trouble is when you ask the prescribing doctor and the pharmacist, and they give conflicting advice...
Any UK pharmacist can also give advice about medicines for this kind of query. It's massively under used and under known about.Trouble is when you ask the prescribing doctor and the pharmacist, and they give conflicting advice...
In that case you do whatever you like. But knowing my GP you'd get "you'd be better off without the alcohol anyway", so his reply would be suspect anyway.
Any UK pharmacist can also give advice about medicines for this kind of query. It's massively under used and under known about.Trouble is when you ask the prescribing doctor and the pharmacist, and they give conflicting advice...
In that case you do whatever you like. But knowing my GP you'd get "you'd be better off without the alcohol anyway", so his reply would be suspect anyway.
Doctors tend to know what they're talking about on this one, on account of being functional alcoholics.
Off to see the Dr this morning (for the second time, since the other dr didn't bother turning up, my 9:10am appointment was rescheduled for 11:30) for ongoing bowel crampy issues. Hopefully it won't be a repeat of last July, and ending up getting admitted for emergency bowel surgery to fix a twisted bowel... ???
Off to see the Dr this morning (for the second time, since the other dr didn't bother turning up, my 9:10am appointment was rescheduled for 11:30) for ongoing bowel crampy issues. Hopefully it won't be a repeat of last July, and ending up getting admitted for emergency bowel surgery to fix a twisted bowel... ???
Now been referred to see the surgeon at acute admissions at Victoria Hospital....
Hope low residue diet sorts things out, bowels are tricky beasts.
Get well soon
Don't die of BOREDOM!
Steps is an anagram of pests. I had one of those asinine watches until I got sick of the fatuous congrats and put it back in the box.
Tuesday is my rest day, and therefore my worst day for steps.
I was thinking this. (https://youtu.be/R8AOAap6_k4)Tuesday is my rest day, and therefore my worst day for steps.
Sorry, you deserve this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NO-h9PFum4), then
apparently it's something that's been happening for a year or so but this is the first time he's actually passed out.
Speaking as an inveterate passer-out-er, is he sure he's not pregnant?:D Should I suggest this possibility to his parents?
Like Sgt Pluck, I suspect a cardiac arrhythmia and feel this need urgent and thorough investigation.Hmm, not my child so not sure how to suggest that without scaring his parents. But his mum told me the GP said he's "just prone to fainting" but is doing bloods next week. Hopefully they'll pick anything up if it's there.
Like Sgt Pluck, I suspect a cardiac arrhythmia and feel this need urgent and thorough investigation.Hmm, not my child so not sure how to suggest that without scaring his parents. But his mum told me the GP said he's "just prone to fainting" but is doing bloods next week. Hopefully they'll pick anything up if it's there.
Speaking as an inveterate passer-out-er, is he sure he's not pregnant?
My GP also said I was probably just prone to fainting, but sent me for further investigations, just in case. Which is even more necessary if you're a teenager than it is if you're a woman in her 30s. On the plus side, one of the recommendations was to eat more crisps, so it could be a win for himSo you were told to eat more crisps because you were pregnant? :o :)
Passing out when you're mid-life onward and you stand up too quick is one thing;
Passing out when you're mid-life onward and you stand up too quick is one thing;
What causes this passing out from mid life onwards?
Age. Orthostatic hypotension is common in those who are age 65 and older. Special cells (baroreceptors) near your heart and neck arteries that regulate blood pressure can slow as you age. It also may be harder for an aging heart to beat faster and compensate for drops in blood pressure.
From: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/orthostatic-hypotension/symptoms-causes/syc-20352548
Like Sgt Pluck, I suspect a cardiac arrhythmia and feel this need urgent and thorough investigation.Hmm, not my child so not sure how to suggest that without scaring his parents.
But there is no way around the need to exclude a cardiac cause. Needs an ECG to be seen by a cardiologist and maybe an echo (ultrasound) of the heart. Both quick and painless.
Apparently they're suspecting diabetes.Like Sgt Pluck, I suspect a cardiac arrhythmia and feel this need urgent and thorough investigation.Hmm, not my child so not sure how to suggest that without scaring his parents.
There are benign causes, and the likelihood is that it’s one of those.
But there is no way around the need to exclude a cardiac cause. Needs an ECG to be seen by a cardiologist and maybe an echo (ultrasound) of the heart. Both quick and painless.
Get well soon
Don't die of BOREDOM!
Freegle seems to be an unusual place to advertise for a neurologist...
Yesterday, El Prez mentioned that while he was reading the paper he suddenly found himself not knowing where he was or what he was doing, and he was "incapable of reading two letters". Then the spell passed and he felt OK.
Sounds to me like a transient ischaemic attack. I told him he should talk to the doc about it, but he said he had done last time it happened(!) and the doc just said "wait and see what happens". His doc is the same old (or young, I don't know) fogey who gives antibiotics on demand. El Prez went on to say that he'd had lots of such spells for years.
So does the panel reckon he's heading for a fully-fledged stroke, or is there a less dramatic explanation? I'd very much like to point his nose in the right direction and give him a boot up the arse.
Sounds like what I've had for the last 4 weeks. The cough & sore throat have almost gone, but a few kms of walking today left me needing a 3 hour lie down. I'm sleeping about 9-10 hours a night as well, which is a lot for me.
Hope you feel better in the morning.
Time to restart the 100 pushup programme.
Time to restart the 100 pushup programme.
Yeah. Did 10 yesterday and nearly died.
I have just spoken to Jonathan notp and he is in hospital with suspected covid 19
H was difficult to understand. I spoke to his wife katherine who said that although he is seriously ill he is currently stable. His ms has been getting worse this year and he is often quite confused
Not looking good I'm afraid :(
I have just spoken to Jonathan notp and he is in hospital with suspected covid 19
H was difficult to understand. I spoke to his wife katherine who said that although he is seriously ill he is currently stable. His ms has been getting worse this year and he is often quite confused
Not looking good I'm afraid :(
Sorry to hear this; keeping fingers crossed for him and hoping he pulls through it.
I haven't drank rum or brandy in ages. Because I mostly only like spirits and can't always drink (meds/dizziness depending) so don't tend to reliably have the chance as I don't want to get completely piss0red.
Thanks for the kind thoughts/warning about too much drinking, I too have seen a lot of folk doing that which is a little worrying. I also come from a family of people with alcohol issues so I'm very aware of "over drinking" on my own and other terms. Most of my drinking is 1-2 units at a time and it's rare I drink twice in a week - just by habit as much as anything else.
Also, Kim would kick my head in if I drank too much or behaved obnoxiously :-D
I don't think the 2000+ pedal revolutions on my way home did it any good (68" fixed) - the dressing was soaked in blood when I got home.You might have been a big boy but that wasn't a very clever thing to do, was it? ;)
I don't think the 2000+ pedal revolutions on my way home did it any good (68" fixed) - the dressing was soaked in blood when I got home.You might have been a big boy but that wasn't a very clever thing to do, was it? ;)
(Hoping the biopsy result is good.)
Wounds on extensor surfaces (outside of joints) always take longer to heal than those on flexor surfaces. Give your knee a fortnight and good luck with the biopsy!
Your knee will heal and the delay from cycling home will be minimal. If they didn't give you a stitch-cutting blade, you can get one for pennies from ebay. These are also brilliant for delabelling garments without doing other damage.
Hope all goes well!
Did they tell you to apply vaseline every day?Yes. It's on the A4 Dermatology Wound Care Advice Sheet I was given, which also says I should arrange with the GP surgery for removal of stitches.
I had an apple-core biopsy done on my face, stitched up. Vaseline keeps wound from crusting over, makes it easier to remove stitches.
Doesn't everyone just remove their own simple stitches? Or have I spent too much time round medics and children of medics?
(https://i.imgur.com/lyjTIo0m.jpg)
I developed a mild ache on the outside of my lower leg towards the end of yesterday's ride, and when I got home discovered that balancing on that foot was painful. It looks like bruising from a mystery bash impinging on a peroneal something-or-other, but I've no memory of bashing it ???
Results came back as negative! So probably just a normal dose of man flu.
I had a small piece of knee removed this morning for biopsy purposes.And this morning I had a letter saying "no evidence of skin cancer, which is good news*" which is what I was expecting,
I had a small piece of knee removed this morning for biopsy purposes.And this morning I had a letter saying "no evidence of skin cancer, which is good news*" which is what I was expecting,
*just in case I was in any doubt as to whether cancer is a good or bad thing.
Er ...shit?
Er ...shit?
Indeed. Looks like the rest of 2020 is going to be a washout healthwise :-/ At least I seem to have fully recovered from last years twisted bowel though, so that's something. :facepalm:
I was offered a cancellation appointment for mri scan for Friday morning at 9:25am! :thumbsup:
I was offered a cancellation appointment for mri scan for Friday morning at 9:25am! :thumbsup:
Fab! Delighted for you and hope you get answers and possible treatments ASAP.
Stung on the tongue on the way to work this morning!Did you swallow?
Hurt a bit and I was worried about my tongue swelling up for a bit. Settled down to just a bit of pain now.
No, I wasn't wearing a mask ::-)
Stung on the tongue on the way to work this morning!Did you swallow?
Hurt a bit and I was worried about my tongue swelling up for a bit. Settled down to just a bit of pain now.
No, I wasn't wearing a mask ::-)
Well, after seeing the GP, I'm now in Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, having a battery of tests done... So far tonight blood tests, chest x-ray and CT scan, as well as test of reflexes and limb strength.
Talk of MRI scan of head tomorrow.
Dr unsure, but possibly TIA or stroke. MS was also mentioned as a possibility. ???
Well, after seeing the GP, I'm now in Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, having a battery of tests done... So far tonight blood tests, chest x-ray and CT scan, as well as test of reflexes and limb strength.Brian, so glad you are finally in the right place!
Talk of MRI scan of head tomorrow.
Dr unsure, but possibly TIA or stroke. MS was also mentioned as a possibility. ???
BTW, you folk who know you've got atrial fib: what does it feel like?
Hopefully I'll get MRI scan today. Meanwhile I seem to be getting institutionalised, I've only been in hospital since Thursday evening! ???
Well they've found nothing bad which is good news. But they don't know what's wrong with you , which isn't :( .
You are a postman. How do you carry your mail ? Do you do van deliveries or do you walk around with a honking great bag over one shoulder ? If so could that be the cause of the problem ?
I have registered with MyCare at UCLH.
This gives me access to blood test results and clinic letters. (Well some letters I saw one from 2011 but rather few since.)
One test result, from blood drawn yesterday at 4pm was available at 9am today. I still await some more.
I rather like seeing my results promptly!
ETA The FBC was drawn at 15.56, resulted at 17.56 and posted at 9am next day.
U&E and LFT seem to have vanished, previously having results within a few hours. Am chasing. They were definitely taken.
IME, topical antihistamine cream helps quite a bit will localized reactions (wasp stings etc)
I had a horsefly bite a few years ago that caused my left hand to swell up and - after a day or two - go a funny colour. Barakta, of the functional colour vision, was concerned about infection so made me see the world's least interested GP, who told me it was an antihistamine(sic) reaction and why was I bothering him.
It sounds as if it could be a horse fly bite rather than a wasp's.
Buck now been passed, and I'm getting referred to neurosurgery at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh ??? :facepalm:
Buck now been passed, and I'm getting referred to neurosurgery at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh ??? :facepalm:
Fingers crossed they'll be able to get to the root of the problem.
Good luck. My memories of the WG are of a splitting headache, a vast echoing ward, and an ancient in the opposite bed who had to have everything done for him. Yetch. Michael Gambon would've fitted right in. I hope your memories will be more pleasant.
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Meanwhile, I have a wonderful dose of whiplash, most likely sustained from a vicious bump I hit yesterday. It set in a couple of hours after I got home, which apparently is in the nature of the beast. Gets me when I move my upper body without thinking it through in advance. Not as bad now as it was last night, though.
Anyway, letter arrived for appointment for lower spine MRI. Sunday 23rd of August at 5:15pm. :thumbsup:
Less good stuff >:(
So I now have my appointment with the neurosurgeon.
A telephone consultation, at 10:50 am on the 2nd of October! :facepalm:
Yeah, I've been due for a touch of phlebotomy for the last month, but ICBA setting it up. PITA when appointments clash with cycling. Mañana. Ah, but that's Saturday, I'll have to put off procrastinating until next week.on my last visit to see the doc about a suspect lump he actually offered to get blood taken from me while I was there with no need to arrange a specific appointment or anything. And this was my routine annual blood test, not one related to the reason I was wasting his time with. I was shocked I tell you, shocked. I was also worried that he, the doctor, was suggesting that he’d attempt to take the blood. Fortunately he wasn’t.
Mind ewe, it all subsequently fell apart when the surgery thrice refused to fill a prescription request made by the pharmacy on my behalf, and only on the third time of asking did they bother to mention the reason, that being I needed an annual meds review (ie blood test). No one had bothered to update my records with the details of the above blood letting.
Fingers crossed. I'm shocked how long you've been left with severe symptoms, unable to work and not even given answers.
Fingers crossed. I'm shocked how long you've been left with severe symptoms, unable to work and not even given answers.
To be honest, i don't think the NHS has answers.... Working diagnosis when I was discharged from hospital at the end of July was "functional weakness". Which seems to mean "we don't know what's wrong, so can't give you any treatment".
What a horrid experience - and you with your heart stuff, too. So glad it seems to be sorted out. Have you any idea what caused the food-poisoning?
Best wishes,
Peter
OOoh, fancy!
Saw NHS physio via online consultation yesterday. I now have some prescribed exercises to do to try and improve the strength of my legs. You now get a link as well for a smart phone app, which also shows you your specified exercises! (Physiotools) :thumbsup:
That episode with Mrs T42 sounds really frightening.
Just in the queue for Hoka Europe as I need to arrange sending back a pair of running shoes I ordered (I ordered two pairs and one pair will be kept). It seems they forgot to add the Returns note into my box.
Anyway, when I first called I got a recorded message from a lady in German saying which options to press etc, but first she said "Hoka One One" as the company name, but pronounced it the German way, so "Hoka oh-nay oh-nay" :D
Oh is it? Even though it looks like a British company (or at least European central distribution is organised from the UK)
Interestingly, when my call was picked up after 50 minutes (!!!!) the woman on the end of the phone said "do you speak English"? I think she was relieved I did as it seemed she didn't speak German. Obviously they transferred the call to a different call centre...
Oh is it? Even though it looks like a British company (or at least European central distribution is organised from the UK)
Interestingly, when my call was picked up after 50 minutes (!!!!) the woman on the end of the phone said "do you speak English"? I think she was relieved I did as it seemed she didn't speak German. Obviously they transferred the call to a different call centre...
The name is Maori, the company is French. Go figure.
Palpitations, good or bad?
Phone consultation tomorrow. Probably harmless. I'm experimenting with no caffeine. So far a mild headache and a healthy BP seem to be the outcome, but no change in the palpitations. Home ECG from Apple Watch (not mine, it's too old) suggests not life threatening.
I've not had a reaction like that to stinging nettles before. It had better fuck off by tonight. >:(???Standard tile-bagging practise for me- I think it's the added brambles that do it?
I feel you Kim,.....:o I assume this is consensual?
Palpitations, good or bad?
Phone consultation tomorrow. Probably harmless. I'm experimenting with no caffeine. So far a mild headache and a healthy BP seem to be the outcome, but no change in the palpitations. Home ECG from Apple Watch (not mine, it's too old) suggests not life threatening.
Stress and lack of sleep kicks mine off - ectopic beats, so a missed beat followed by a big beat. It happened whilst I was being monitored in hospital once, and they were completely nonplussed by them in a kind of "Oh, everyone gets those, most people can't feel them" way.
My case has been referred to a cardiologist to decide whether ecg result merits further investigation. Looks like PVCs as suspected.
Good luck, Simon. I don't know if you saw the thread about heart stuff that I started after I had a TIA? That was a year ago. My numbers are seriously (as in death-defyingly) bad when it comes to heart efficiency but I'm still symptom-free and amazing such of the medical profession that can use a phone. I have Atrial Fibrillation but I'm still riding (carefully). There's an awful lot that can be done for heart troubles now. Again, good luck!
Peter
Well that escalated fast, after video consultation, cardiac CT scan also ordered to rule out CHD. I’m sure it’ll be fine.
<barakta-mobile> Fun times. Nurse doesn't wanna let terp into procedure room cos it's xray mot ultrasound
<barakta-mobile> Apparently letting Dr kafafy decide
<barakta-mobile> Success terp inside
<barakta-mobile> And it is ultrasound!
<barakta-mobile> All confused I can hear some things
Today I had a CT angiogram. Things I learned, among others:
1. Contrast fluid makes you feel hot. The heat gets to your groin and it feels like you wet yourself.
2. Cannula insertion is more painful than anticipated.
3. As is removal.
4. Nitroglycerin gives you a headache.
Today I had a CT angiogram. Things I learned, among others:
1. Contrast fluid makes you feel hot. The heat gets to your groin and it feels like you wet yourself.
2. Cannula insertion is more painful than anticipated.
3. As is removal.
4. Nitroglycerin gives you a headache.
Had one of those a long time ago, without the nitro. Quite entertaining.
Did they tell you anything about the results?
I'm sorry you had so much discomfort, Simon. I think they choose from groin and wrist for the insertion. I'm guessing yours was groin. I don't know how they decide, but mine was in the wrist and although I was aware of the possibility of the effects you described, I was lucky enough not to get any of them. I also got a good result: my heart is wrecked but it's not because of coronary artery disease!
I'm glad you seem to be getting such speedy intervention with the procedures. I had my TIA in July 2019 but in spite of the anxiety and recommendations of two echo-technicians that I be seen immediately by a cardiologist, I had to go private in December to see one. He it was who ordered an angiogram on the NHS, which I had in February. I still haven't seen a "doctor" face to face, since August 2019 (except the appointment with the private specialist) though I get regular medication checks. This is done by a team of excellent nurse-practitioners, over the phone since Covid. I'm hoping to get an echo again soon to see if the drugs have actually improved my heart function as opposed to solely arresting the deterioration. It can happen. I feel fine and cycle regularly (and. I hope, sensibly - I was relieved when they cancelled Paris-Roubaix!).
I'm hoping that the lack of urgency is partly down to the judgement that (EV of 8% notwithstanding) I don't represent an emergency but it would do me the world of good to have the back up of an improved echo. My heart rate is still all over the place but I don't feel any of that. blood pressure's fine, too.
I'm hoping for the best for you Simon! I think heart treatment is one of the great success stories in medicine and it looks like we've both been "got" soon enough.
Best wishes,
Peter
ETA: The weirdness - they were looking at my lungs! Hey - my lungs are up HERE people!
93 days since onset of my weird neurological gammy legs syndrome, and no further forward with diagnosis. >:(
93 days since onset of my weird neurological gammy legs syndrome, and no further forward with diagnosis. >:(
Fingers crossed that you hear something soon.
Sadly, you will have been triaged as 'not life threatening' and pushed down the priority ladder :(
Interesting...
Hope exercises start to help and you start to get support.
Appalling that they had a prospective diagnosis on your records but hadn't fucking well told you - that's just crass but oh so common.
Well, physios had team meeting with neurologists today. Looks like the neurologist wants me to get seen sooner, rather than later due to my symptoms. So hopefully a few more weeks, rather than months until I get the appointment for neurology.
Patience is a virtue innit.
In totally unrelated news, it's 4 weeks (yesterday in fact) since I had the angiogram. I'd like to know the result now.
Patience is a virtue innit.
In totally unrelated news, it's 4 weeks (yesterday in fact) since I had the angiogram. I'd like to know the result now.
Bloody hell, when I had my last one I watched the whole thing live on a screen and they told me what they were finding all through the exam. Afterwards the surgeon gave me a summing-up in my room and a week later I had the movie on a CD. Unfortunately not compatible with YouTube.
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In other news, the electronic bumf that came with my Afib watch contains the wondrous advice "If you have no symptoms of Atrial Fibrillation, consult your doctor urgently". Er...
Zero instances detected, BTW.
Well I got the letter today, doesn't say much.
I have very slight furring of one coronary artery, unlikely to cause symptoms, definitely doesn't explain my palpitations.
"Overall these are reassuring findings". I guess they were looking for something more significant. It would also suggest that my palpitations aren't the result of a silent heart attack.
Have to get my cholesterol checked. Still no explanation for the arrhythmia. Still trying to find out if I can book MRI and exercise stress test. I'm guessing that things are slow because of Covid.
The researchers found 90% of symptoms experienced by the patients were present when they took placebo tablets.
Statins are no great problem. I read a report the other day to the effect that most of the ills ascribed to them are psychosomatic - the so-called nocebo effect.QuoteThe researchers found 90% of symptoms experienced by the patients were present when they took placebo tablets.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/15/nocebo-effect-cause-of-most-statin-side-effects-research-suggests
I've been on them since 2006 and the only discernable effect is that I'm still getting older. Oh, and the cardiologist doesn't bellyache about my cholesterol levels.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-many-eggs-should-you-eat#
Our dogs used to love eggs. And winter's almost here, you'll be down to 30% production soon.
It's a bit puzzling, isn't it? Like T42, I got my angiogram result while I was still on the slab, or at least the broad finding that there was no significant arterial furring and certainly nothing to cause my almost negative ejection fraction. I'm glad that you have finally got a good result, Simon. The puzzle is the part that cholesterol might play in this if you haven't got significant furring - I thought that's what high cholesterol led to. Anyway, good luck with the investigations!
Peter
They've crossed off stenosis, so now...?
Keeping fingers crossed it is better than feared and someone takes some responsibility for treatment and so on.
Neuro appointment on Monday 14th. :'(
Picked up a dose of tennis elbow about a month back. Finally got into the physio today, where he proceeded with IMS treatment and it's now (as he warned it would be), *really* sore. 2-3 weeks for any real improvement, ~ 2 months to make it go away completely.
Is the same true for golfers' elbow?
there is a particular stretch I teach patients which may be mumbo-jumbo but which I used personally to good effect.Can you share? My tennis elbow has been niggling for 12 months this time around. Years ago I had the steroid injections - and found it very effective. I had almost had to stop working (I was milking cows). It's intermittent but annoying for me this time.
there is a particular stretch I teach patients which may be mumbo-jumbo but which I used personally to good effect.Can you share? My tennis elbow has been niggling for 12 months this time around. Years ago I had the steroid injections - and found it very effective. I had almost had to stop working (I was milking cows). It's intermittent but annoying for me this time.
https://youtu.be/LjnwsM4jCp4 (https://youtu.be/LjnwsM4jCp4) Should get you to the video.there is a particular stretch I teach patients which may be mumbo-jumbo but which I used personally to good effect.Can you share? My tennis elbow has been niggling for 12 months this time around. Years ago I had the steroid injections - and found it very effective. I had almost had to stop working (I was milking cows). It's intermittent but annoying for me this time.
Good luck Brian!
LP's not necessarily bad (at least mine wasn't!) but I had post LP headaches at 2pm every day for a week afterwards. Drink plenty and lie down if you do!
I've not had contrast for an MRI but have had my spinal cord imaged. I was able to wear my trousers as I had removed all metalwork from them. Having to change/undress can be a bit dehumanising so if you can find some metal-free trousers, I'd wear them.
https://youtu.be/LjnwsM4jCp4 (https://youtu.be/LjnwsM4jCp4) Should get you to the video.
Thank you. Very much appreciated.
https://youtu.be/LjnwsM4jCp4 (https://youtu.be/LjnwsM4jCp4) Should get you to the video.
Get well soon!
Shame the Pain Team are probably ensconced in CovidCare.
They could otherwise make you comfortably numb round the site of the fracture.
Ask them why you have not been given a paravertebral block or even an infusion. Should be standard of care these days. Also lignocaine patches can be used
I am not surprised she is fed up.
This sounds like a knee jerk reaction from the GP and the easy way out. Absolute cholesterol is much less important than the ratio of HDL:LDL.
Also the numbers needed to treat with statins to save one life is in the thousands so unless there are other significant causes of increased risk for heart disease relevant to your wife then she may decide to live with the risk.
Also does she eat a moderately ketogenic diet as that will push up your cholesterol but is not dangerous as the ratio goes in the right direction.
I think you need a zoom discussion with the GP about absolute and relative risk and what the benefit to your wife actually is.
Also before just adding statins have they checked her TSH levels as even mildly low TSH and can raise the cholesterol. Also lithium can raise cholesterol but may not increase risk. That seems much less known and I am very much outside my specialism now so these all need to be discussed with the GP
Ho hum.
Symptoms still not improving (slighty worse, perhaps)
and still no test results from the thoracic spine MRI on the 26th of January, nor from the blood results on the 14th of December.
Why have you waited so long for blood test results they should have been back ages ago unless it was an out of the ordinary test. Get on to your GP or check your notes online. If you are seeing a Consultant about your back make an appointment to see him. They can read the MRI results. When SWMBO went to she a Consultant and he asked for an MRI she booked another appointment to see him and the MRI at the same time. You have to be your own advocate with the NHS otherwise you can sit around for months and nothing happens. In the mean time people who went after you have rung them a few times and got their results.
Why have you waited so long for blood test results they should have been back ages ago unless it was an out of the ordinary test. Get on to your GP or check your notes online. If you are seeing a Consultant about your back make an appointment to see him. They can read the MRI results. When SWMBO went to she a Consultant and he asked for an MRI she booked another appointment to see him and the MRI at the same time. You have to be your own advocate with the NHS otherwise you can sit around for months and nothing happens. In the mean time people who went after you have rung them a few times and got their results.Bloods should have been done within a couple of days and the results available to gp within a day of that tops.
I woke up on Sunday with a big red patch on the white of my eye, but no other symptoms at all, so I basically ignored it (as per the NHS website) and figured it would just go away. It shrunk significantly, but has now stopped shrinking. I've sent a picture to the doc via their online portal, I am wondering if I ought to try to get a GP appointment (or an opticians one - I reckon the opticians are probably easier to see).
Equally how does one mess up ones back while soaping your lower legs in the shower? :facepalm:
Don't despair BrianI, I had over 9 months from my referral to get a scan until I got to talk to a consultant about that scan. Among many other funny delays like being referred to the same doctor that referred me, because the online booking couldn't book a specific doctor only time at a the clinic. Took a good 30min, once I got through, to explain in a way they could that got past the normal - computer says no - before the system and the person on the phone clocked that booking a time at 9am does not book a named doctor that I was asked to book.
Glad that you are getting it rather soon in these times, I wouldn't be surprised that there a longer waiting list out there atm
GWS
My left thumb (carpometacarpal joint) has started partially dislocating. The bone is moves off the joint and sometimes gets jammed there - I can move it back with my other hand.And resolved.
Very annoying, I presume it is a side-effect of my wrist injure in 2016.
Was daft enough today to have an espresso just before riding, and had very mild angina when heart was running over the cardiologist's theoretical max. Nothing startling, but enough to make me reduce the effort.
Do you know the glucose level at the time of these measurements?
A high sodium can indicate dehydration.
Water follows osmotic gradients and big shifts in osmolality can shove/suck water in & out of vital organs & cause mischief.
Potassium & glucose follow each other into the cells, under the influence of insulin, and sodium tends to move in the opposite direction to potassium.
Potassium levels are critical to healthy functioning, sodium less so.
It's all something of a merry-go-round,
I'd be interested to know your sodium level when your hydration is adequate and blood sugar is within healthy limits. I suspect it's OK...
We have peppermint in The garden growing luxuriously so we have taken to drinking peppermint tea. Which is great until the laxative effect becomes obvious.
I am probably empty enough that I could have a high quality colonoscopy with no further prep!!
pretty much the same effect, but gentlerWe have peppermint in The garden growing luxuriously so we have taken to drinking peppermint tea. Which is great until the laxative effect becomes obvious.
I am probably empty enough that I could have a high quality colonoscopy with no further prep!!
Picolax?
I don't think we have one of these in here.
Me leg is acting funny. Sometimes it spasms. Sometimes it goes on strike and goes floppy. Always when I'm walking and occasionally in public, which is amusing/embarrassing/'ucking ridiculous. Pick one.
GP decides it might be a problem with my knee. Well, unlikely, I have knees like a bullock (figuratively speaking). More likely my damaged/weak lower back. Never mind, another Physio referral will help anyway.
I usually get a little bit of hay fever in June or July. This year it's gone weird. I go camping and it clears up; come back home and my eyes itch and nose streams. It's not a cold and it's not something like dust, as it's seasonal, so I presume the culprit pollen is something in gardens or roadsides. There's a plane tree opposite, and they're not commonly seen out of towns, so perhaps it's that.
Visited parents yesterday; Started with sweat rash on my back, then spread & developed into hives.It's not just my parents then.
Last time we had a parental visit, barakta's dad and stepmother managed to aerosolise enough sesame that I had an asthma attack without even touching their food.
;D ;D ;DVisited parents yesterday; Started with sweat rash on my back, then spread & developed into hives.It's not just my parents then.
;D ;D ;DVisited parents yesterday; Started with sweat rash on my back, then spread & developed into hives.It's not just my parents then.
Seriously, my wheelchair cushions leave me sweaty & parents' flat is fairly hot.
Rash has all but disappeared, with occasional marks around elastic in clothing.
Partner thought I should see a mediquack; I see no point wasting time on the evanescent & self-limiting.
Seriously, my wheelchair cushions leave me sweaty & parents' flat is fairly hot.
Seriously, my wheelchair cushions leave me sweaty & parents' flat is fairly hot.
Have you tried Ventisit (https://www.ventisit.nl/)? It's not just for darksiders...
Hmm, one of my glands is up. Go away lurgy, whatever you are.It went away but is now back again :(
(The last time that happened I had shingles).
Meanwhile, the hubby of chum of MrsT's in England went into a small local hospital with a crippling headache and was diagnosed with a subdural haemorrhage. The docs there, all disconcertingly young, hummed & hawed and decided that the best thing was to wait and see what happened, rather than bother the BFO district hospital unnecessarily.I've had one of those. In my case I was admitted to hospital an hour or so after a taxi driver left me unconscious in the middle of the road, and the doctors apparently said that 20 minutes later it would have been too late. Very occasionally I still got a pain where they sewed my skull back together after letting the
What happened was that last night he was rushed to the BFO hospital and they're hoping he'll survive.
That there alcoholic solution is good for more than Covid.
Gout does not last a year. Gout is an Acute severe pain secondary to a rise in urate levels with Crystal deposition in the joint.I will believe what my GP has told me, instead of advice from a cycling forum (unless you are suitably
Pain lasting a year may be gout related damage but is not gout.
If your urate is so persistently elevated as to cause 12 months gout then you are very very sick!
Ask for an x-Ray and referral to a foot and ankle specialist.
Gout does not last a year. Gout is an Acute severe pain secondary to a rise in urate levels with Crystal deposition in the joint.Curious question; what happens to the crystals in the joint? Do they normally dissolve after a short period, or can they persist?
Pain lasting a year may be gout related damage but is not gout.
If your urate is so persistently elevated as to cause 12 months gout then you are very very sick!
Ask for an x-Ray and referral to a foot and ankle specialist.
Curious question; what happens to the crystals in the joint? Do they normally dissolve after a short period, or can they persist?
Thanks.Curious question; what happens to the crystals in the joint? Do they normally dissolve after a short period, or can they persist?
The crystals dissolve again. The synovial fluid (joint fluid) for some reason seems to either accumulate the urate or for some other reason it becomes saturated and the crystals occur. once the urate level in the blood reduces then the crystals dissolve and disappear. Takes a few days to about a couple of weeks for the severe pain to go.
* I was given another drug to stop the tummy inflammation, but I can't remember what it was.probably omeprazole or similar
* I was given another drug to stop the tummy inflammation, but I can't remember what it was.
probably omeprazole or similar
Some folk just produce more uric acid than others
Lifestyle choices are then important in the context of reducing the risk such as less red wine!
Spider bite. Still here. day 12, is angry and getting a tad sore now. Does look very much like a classic false widow bite, possibly a recluse. NHS advice if getting worse/painful seek medical advice. Surgery Reception, can I see a Nurse, No. Can I see Doctor, No. Can a doctor phone me back, No. I ask question as to how their Interwebby self service system work as is not very clear on their web site. This requires an allocated surgery ID. I am then requested to produce ID for myself which I do. It will be now be available to me from 6:30 pm tonight and then I will be able to make an appointment verbal or otherwise. My wife also has to attend and produce ID, notwithstanding my having signed a pro forma to act for her years ago, due to her disability. Strewth.
Boots now offer a £15 PIP qualified Pharmacist formal consultation. I may end up having to do that, if I can't get an appointment or talk with a GP, rather than loading more on our local A and E Dept. This will go very much against the grain. However I do not fancy a hole in my shoulder. If I can find a walk in centre nearby, I might try that.
Good going, Wow. I get fed up after walking for half an hour, and after an hour of it I'm ready to bite.Interesting, in fact worrying, energy to distance ratio. Seems your smartass watch is more jackass than smart.
Last time I did a decent ride my smartass watch informed me that I had done 2668 steps and travelled 3.3 km in 7h35, burning 4800 kcal and climbing 41 floors in the process.
Good going, Wow. I get fed up after walking for half an hour, and after an hour of it I'm ready to bite.Interesting, in fact worrying, energy to distance ratio. Seems your smartass watch is more jackass than smart.
Last time I did a decent ride my smartass watch informed me that I had done 2668 steps and travelled 3.3 km in 7h35, burning 4800 kcal and climbing 41 floors in the process.
Good going, Wow. I get fed up after walking for half an hour, and after an hour of it I'm ready to bite.
Last time I did a decent ride my smartass watch informed me that I had done 2668 steps and travelled 3.3 km in 7h35, burning 4800 kcal and climbing 41 floors in the process.
Finally got some meds via a walk in health centre and telephone triage. They got back to me within the hour. Not my own practice. My surgery, fobs people off insisting that you phone in each morning at 8am. Also, the fact that my own practice holds a 'hub' surgery in the evenings in a different locality for people urgently wishing to see a medical professional was made known to me by the walk in Health Centre. This was not communicated to me by the receptionist when I visited my own surgery. They probably 'forgot' to tell me that this was available. (oh really). Thought you may be interested in the gruesome detail. Not a good photo as it is behind me. Watch out for them there spiders people.
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Mend well soonest!
Trauma causes fluid retention, as do some pain medicines.
Expect a day/night of pi$$ing like a trooper, followed by dramatic weight loss, within the next few days.
Knowing the SCIENCE doesn't necessarily reduce the effects!
I suppose it's useful/reassuring to know this was a likely scenario.
Rest well.
Mend well!
My Daddy says 'Gravity Begins at Home'.
Enjoy your grutssoupe!
My Daddy says 'Gravity Begins at Home'.
Enjoy your soupe!
My wife has been diagnosed coeliac for 11 years. Yesterday we went to a chain Italian restaurant and after she ordered gf pizza they gave her a wholewheat base instead (and delivered it on the gf serving board)! When they realised and came over it was too late and we had all finished eating. Nothing to be done now, but if you are eating out, even if you trust the chain, it's probably worth checking that whatever arrives at your table definitely meets your dietary needs.That is shockingly bad. I hope your wife doesn't have a serious reaction. I've known people who would be hospitalised after an incident like that.
Reminds me of the habits of Parisian restaurants in the lunch hour, where one bloke is working the coffee engine full tilt and lining them up for the waiters. If someone orders a decaff the waiter just adds some hot water to one of the ones already waiting.It doesn't sound quite that bad, as it was clearly a genuine mistake (otherwise why would they apologise) rather than laziness. But it's also worse, because far more serious.
Well, that's the way it was in the 80s, last time I worked there.
I am glad it is being taken seriously. Hopefully it will be used to learn lessons and not blame low-paid people, but fix systems for the future.
Sympathies for the tooth.
I just had a good poke at the ACL I hurt on Wednesday. It should have make me yelp but nary a twinge, so I'm thinking that it was the meniscus getting pinched under the too-floaty kneecap that was mooted by the radiologist earlier this year. I'd much prefer it to be the ACL.
Sympathies for the tooth.
I just had a good poke at the ACL I hurt on Wednesday. It should have make me yelp but nary a twinge, so I'm thinking that it was the meniscus getting pinched under the too-floaty kneecap that was mooted by the radiologist earlier this year. I'd much prefer it to be the ACL.
Not sure how you are poking the ACL. Do you mean MCL (Medial Collateral) or LCL (Lateral Collateral)?
There is a meniscus attached to each of the MCL and LCL, but neither go particularly near the kneecap (you can pinch them between the femur and the tibia though)?
Sympathies either way.
That doesn't sound too good Brian. :(
--edit -- seems the NHS Fife email service / network blocks google drive links, so instead I have to send the video in on a cdrom by post... :facepalm:
--edit -- seems the NHS Fife email service / network blocks google drive links, so instead I have to send the video in on a cdrom by post... :facepalm:
Yes.
CD Rom might be tricky too.... not sure when I last saw a CD drive at work.
USB pens are probably also blocked, we're all working to NHS Scotland directives.
That doesn't sound too good Brian. :(
Or it could be the Neuro I saw today, trying to cover all bases. Certainly nothing in my MRIs of my brain or full spine, has hinted at that, so I've got the neuro stumped. I do think it's going to be Functional Neurological Disorder I'll get a diagnosis of, and Prof Stone is one of the leading authorities on that.
--edit -- seems the NHS Fife email service / network blocks google drive links, so instead I have to send the video in on a cdrom by post... :facepalm:
Yes.
CD Rom might be tricky too.... not sure when I last saw a CD drive at work.
USB pens are probably also blocked, we're all working to NHS Scotland directives.
Suppose you can seen being directed to Prof Stone in either light, bad that you're being referred to someone at that level because everyone else seems to be stumped, good that you're being referred to someone at that level because he literally wrote the website on FND https://www.neurosymptoms.org/en_GB/
Here's hoping, Brian. "FND" sounds like medispeak for "WTF".
Here's hoping, Brian. "FND" sounds like medispeak for "WTF".
Today begins my prep for surgery-
Stop taking theplacebosvitamins and supplements in case they have a blood thinning effect.
LFT #1
Order slippers.
Today begins my prep for surgery-When I went in for de-cataracting it was "order pyjamas".
Stop taking theplacebosvitamins and supplements in case they have a blood thinning effect.
LFT #1
Order slippers.
Bon courage!
Today begins my prep for surgery-
Stop taking theplacebosvitamins and supplements in case they have a blood thinning effect.
LFT #1
Order slippers.
Easy mistake to make if you have cataracts.
When I went in for de-cataracting it was "order pyjamas".
Bon courage!
Younger daughter doing media again: https://twitter.com/7newsmelbourne/status/1457948834684817408?s=21She seems to be picking up an Aussie accent (or is it just Essex?).
(Aussie news broadcast).
T'is done.(click to show/hide)
T'is done.(click to show/hide)
:o
They've removed a toe!
I doubt it, Peter. I might be there or thereabouts with cake, though
So they take out a whole pile of nerve then?Yes. You lose the pain but there's a high chance of continued local numbness. Also has a fairly poor success rate, apparently a significant minority (8%?) grow back. I have it in the other foot too, but nowhere near as frequently/severely.
So they take out a whole pile of nerve then?Yes. You lose the pain but there's a high chance of continued local numbness. Also has a fairly poor success rate, apparently a significant minority (8%?) grow back. I have it in the other foot too, but nowhere near as frequently/severely.
For me it's been debilitating enough to be worth the risks.
Apart from cyclists, it's also common for folks who do a lot of work up and down ladders. And wearers of high heels. All that localised pressure.
Sounds like superficial thrombophlebitis to me.Thank you.
Elevate, ibuprofen, exclude DVT and
Get Well Soon!
So Jakob, take your time don't try to rush it, there's a ski season next year.
Sounds like superficial thrombophlebitis to me.Thank you.
Elevate, ibuprofen, exclude DVT and
Get Well Soon!
D-dimers came back raised (impressed to get a call from the GP at 7:30pm) so she's arranging an appointment at the DVT Clinic tomorrow where they can ultrasound it.
I'm convinced too that it's superficial thrombophlebitis.
I'm not too sure that ibuprofen & anticoagulants are a great mix, but the GP suggested it, and the pharmacist didn't query it - and I can survive without the stuff.
Round 2 of root canal was on Friday, the temporary filling lasted till today...
Rounds 3 and 4 are on the 10th,
So far no discomfort from it not being there, do I accept eating on one side for 2 weeks or spent 2 hours whenever the dentist can replug the hole.
Edit: looks like the temporary dressing's cracked horizontally and the top bits off,
Meh.
The Brust lip is more annoying
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It is superficial thrombophlebitis - there's a 19cm length of vein that won't compress.
...
It's still bloody sore, and I still feel like poo, but at least it isn't a DVT
Just saying. The thought occurred to me in the dead of night that this all started about 10 days after my covid booster.
Is it worth filling in an MHRA yellow card?
(And, yes, I'd still rather have a sore leg than covid)
Yes.Fine - the leg is generally OK, I was dragged round a garden centre on Thursday, and my whole leg ached all that evening.
How are you doing?
Did they offer you support stockings?No - which I now think was a bit odd.I was too shell shocked at the clinic to pick up on that.
Double stab yesterday. Flu and COVID booster. Dual sore shoulders and exhausted today.
Solid medication in tablets doesn't really go 'off'.
I'm guilty of taking tablets past their 'use by' date.
I shouldn't use creams past their date but I do.
I note there's an expiry date on the dental floss, which I'll definitely ignore...
I had a small piece of knee removed this morning for biopsy purposes.
Because (a) I was a big boy and didn't cry (not the exact words she used) and (b) it would save me a trip to my local health centre, the consultant suggested I could remove the stitch myself, and gave me instructions.
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I don't think the 2000+ pedal revolutions on my way home did it any good (68" fixed) - the dressing was soaked in blood when I got home.
The local anaesthetic is now wearing off. Now where is that paracetemol?
I'm glad you have something in writing even though they're still wanting to rule stuff out. I hope you're holding up as well as you can.
Pus is usually better out than in. If this is a sebaceous/epidermoid cyst, it might recur or form a horn.Horn? Yep, that’s evil alright.
Pus is usually better out than in. If this is a sebaceous/epidermoid cyst, it might recur or form a horn.Horn? Yep, that’s evil alright.
Voyaged to York to spend Christmas with family. So the one who had COVID is now out of isolation, most of the rest of us are coming down with horrible chest infection, which tests negative on LFT .
Currently wearing a jumper in a warm house and feeling sorry for myself
We can't allow anyone in clinic who is wearing a uniform
Mrs M (ex Nurse) is convinced it's an infection control measure.
My (out dated, probably) perception of IC bods is that they live in a parallel universe.
Woke up this morning with a really sore TFL. can hardly walk upstairs. Getting older is no fun!
Tensor fascia Lata. Muscle on the outside of the hip.Woke up this morning with a really sore TFL. can hardly walk upstairs. Getting older is no fun!
What is a TFL other than a backwards Lateral Flow Test?
Ouch! Did the medics make any suggestion of possible treatment options for you?No. I've been told (before this latest set of x-rays) I'm too young for joint replacement surgery.
Well that's a bloody bastard. Can they pump the joint full of hyaluronic acid to give you a bit of interim cushioning and let other inflammation sites calm down a bit? I suppose they tried that already, though.Their treatment/management plan seems to be throw painkillers at it. I don't want to. Mostly because this is a degenerative disease and I want to know what activity exacerbates it and not drug myself daily so I can walk to the shop. There isn't any visible swelling or inflammation so NSAIDs seem pointless.
At least you can dodge the Vietnam draft.Every cloud ;D
Well that's a bloody bastard. Can they pump the joint full of hyaluronic acid to give you a bit of interim cushioning and let other inflammation sites calm down a bit? I suppose they tried that already, though.Their treatment/management plan seems to be throw painkillers at it. I don't want to. Mostly because this is a degenerative disease and I want to know what activity exacerbates it and not drug myself daily so I can walk to the shop. There isn't any visible swelling or inflammation so NSAIDs seem pointless.
Consultant for my foot says it's early days and they expect 3-6 months before it's fully healed. He signed me off despite me answering 'no' to 2 of his 3 questions, to whit: Is the wound healed (yes) Can you walk normally (no) Are you free from nerve pain (no).
Anyway, I'm now on a long and tedious path where I will be constantly nagging for better options and fighting for treatment they don't want to fund. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
The decision to undertake major surgery is multifactorial but includes patient condition as in the level of pain and disability, the health of the person in general and the psychological makeup.Which brings me back to Mrs M's knee replacement which has now been postponed until she's seen the High Risk Anaesthetic Team, which is likely to be late February.
(snip)
All of these factors have a different weighting for each patient and surgeon as well.
Well that's a bloody bastard. Can they pump the joint full of hyaluronic acid to give you a bit of interim cushioning and let other inflammation sites calm down a bit? I suppose they tried that already, though.
Well that's a bloody bastard. Can they pump the joint full of hyaluronic acid to give you a bit of interim cushioning and let other inflammation sites calm down a bit? I suppose they tried that already, though.
I'm getting this done this afternoon. Crossing my fingers for the potential 6 months relief. The physio implied that if it works I can keep getting it done at intervals until it stops working. I'm totally on board with that.
Well that's a bloody bastard. Can they pump the joint full of hyaluronic acid to give you a bit of interim cushioning and let other inflammation sites calm down a bit? I suppose they tried that already, though.
I'm getting this done this afternoon. Crossing my fingers for the potential 6 months relief. The physio implied that if it works I can keep getting it done at intervals until it stops working. I'm totally on board with that.
How's it going? First time I had it done it lasted a week or two, second wasn't so good. Cost 150€ a shot, too - I hope yours is 100% NHS-covered.
Well that's a bloody bastard. Can they pump the joint full of hyaluronic acid to give you a bit of interim cushioning and let other inflammation sites calm down a bit? I suppose they tried that already, though.
I'm getting this done this afternoon. Crossing my fingers for the potential 6 months relief. The physio implied that if it works I can keep getting it done at intervals until it stops working. I'm totally on board with that.
How's it going? First time I had it done it lasted a week or two, second wasn't so good. Cost 150€ a shot, too - I hope yours is 100% NHS-covered.
Heh £140. Plus £50 for the initial consult. She said positive effects could be felt in 2-4 weeks and last for yonks after. Next line of attack (if/when this doesn't work) will be PRP in the joint. Today was single leg drills on the rower as my range of movement is massively reduced. ::-) Early days.
I have an appointment to see a man about a plastic joint.Be careful. You might end up like Jake the Peg.
Looks like we might be getting another Longstaff (https://www.nhs.uk/profiles/consultant/4260538) in our house. Should I view this as a positive sign?
In Germany it’s still every year for me and I’m 50. I missed the last one as I didn’t fancy it due to COVID and am debating whether to hookup now. I don’t really like my Frauenarzt but it’s hard to get on the books of another. My GP is brilliant but they don’t do smears.
That picture made we wonder whether metallic L and R stickers would be a useful thing for X rays
Digitally the bits are meant to be displayed from the medics perspective not the patients.
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Hand surgeons – read the manual!Digitally the bits are meant to be displayed from the medics perspective not the patients.
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Is there a hand surgeon joke in there?
I got a letter from the NHS this morning, offering me a free Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening. It’s apparently offered to all men “in their 65th year”. My birthday is March 14th. My appointment is March 15th.
Don't buy aerosol sunscreen, kids!Doesn't look like you at all. No beard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ORMf4-KFU
(That's my younger daughter at work there).
I’ve got a really sore calf.Get it checked for DVT? Especially if there is any swelling.
Thanks. Mrs Dan checked me for swellings and bruises, though not with a tape measure. It’s no more painful when prodded either. A bit better today, but I’m still taking stairs with a wince.QuoteI’ve got a really sore calf.Get it checked for DVT? Especially if there is any swelling.
Not too likely as you have been active.
A&E doctor used a tape measure to check the size of each of my calves when I had a suspected DVT.
It wasn't a DVT, but that's a Long Story.
Baker's cysts are usually an out-pouching from the knee joint, I think… https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bakers-cyst/
GP surgery rang me this evening inviting me for repeat smear.
I told receptionist I thought I'd had a letter after my last, stating I was too old for any more.
Decided to go for it anyway.
Get offered an appointment for tomorrow.
Look at computer Calendar.
'Ooooh sorry, I've got Covid, I'm not supposed to go out!'
Silly me!
I've now booked another date.
Looked up routine screening: every 3 years up to 50.
Every 5 years age 50-64.
Stop after 65.
Which explains why I received letter with result just after I was 60, stating they'd stop.
I'll still go unless they cancel.
It looks as though 111 prescriptions count as private: there was a £35 price on the label, which Jan didn't have to pay.
Is the 111 service a price-gouging private enterprise?
I don't know how this is different from the actual case- which is a read-by-unqualified-person-script?QuoteIs the 111 service a price-gouging private enterprise?
Undoubtedly, and if my recent dealings with them are anything to go by, one that could be replaced by a small shell script.
I don't know how this is different from the actual case- which is a read-by-unqualified-person-script?QuoteIs the 111 service a price-gouging private enterprise?
Undoubtedly, and if my recent dealings with them are anything to go by, one that could be replaced by a small shell script.
And the results are in. Bowel movement dark but blood free. That's surprised me. Blood test shows I am low in iron and the doctor said something about reduced kidney function?. He's proscribed iron tablets 2 a day and wants me to redo blood test ia month or so and has booked me for a health check and urine sample on Monday. Interesting tim :)es ⏲ ???
AAA scan completed, and I’m signed off the programme as everything was normal. In and out in 10 minutes.
I still have no idea why my poo is dark. I haven't had black pudding for quite a few years.Beetroot is another one
AAA scan completed, and I’m signed off the programme as everything was normal. In and out in 10 minutes.
I did 270 hilly KM and my right knee started to hurt. I then remembered that the last time I was doing 200+in winter tights the same thing happened. Patellar bursitis from the pressure over the skin I reckon. Crepitus and slightly warm. Taking ibuprofen and hopefully it will settle soon.
Injuries to the coccyx are a pain in the arse but most improve over time.
Turned over in bed and got the worst vertigo I've ever experienced without the aid of playground equipment. Turned back and it did it again, but worse. Had to wake barakta and get her to grab the bin while I kept my head extremely still.
And then it stopped. No head movement seems to reproduce it. Autonomic nervous system now hates me (went hot and dripping with sweat, now tired and cold), but seem otherwise okay.
WTF? This had better not be BPPV. I've got mild snot, which I take to be early-season hayfever, but ears seem okay. COVID testin progressnegative.
Blimey Kim. How are you now?
Do you get nystagmus when you have the vertigo?
Blood pressure a bit low, but the machine hates me. Ears inconclusive, maybe some pressure on the left. Did the Epley manoeuvre, but it didn't seem to achieve anything. Basically, wait and see what happens, and if necessary refer toENTotolaryngologythe snot doctors.
big news in the treatment of Type 1 in England (not sure about the wider UK)
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations)
Looks on the face of it as if CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) is now available for all.
big news in the treatment of Type 1 in England (not sure about the wider UK)
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations)
Looks on the face of it as if CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) is now available for all.
big news in the treatment of Type 1 in England (not sure about the wider UK)
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations)
Looks on the face of it as if CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) is now available for all.
They seem to be being widely advertised in the cycling ( and no doubt other sport) media. That’s despite the devices being banned for racing.
big news in the treatment of Type 1 in England (not sure about the wider UK)
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations)
Looks on the face of it as if CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) is now available for all.
They seem to be being widely advertised in the cycling ( and no doubt other sport) media. That’s despite the devices being banned for racing.
I can't understand why a device telling you what your blood glucose is would be banned, I don't see how, in the case of a T1 racer it's anything other than a safety device.
big news in the treatment of Type 1 in England (not sure about the wider UK)
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/thousands-of-people-with-diabetes-set-to-benefit-from-real-time-information-after-updated-nice-recommendations)
Looks on the face of it as if CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) is now available for all.
Try using a rear-light as a torch when you get out of bed. You should see enough to have a visual reference and the light won't be powerful enough to disturb barakta. Won't clobber your night vision either. I also have dodgy balance and it works for me.
Try using a rear-light as a torch when you get out of bed. You should see enough to have a visual reference and the light won't be powerful enough to disturb barakta. Won't clobber your night vision either. I also have dodgy balance and it works for me.
A poll conducted by the college found two-thirds of women claim their feet have got wider in adult life, and 35% said they have got bigger. And the survey of 2,000 British adults found 48% of men said their feet have got bigger, and 61% said they are wider.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/03/british-feet-longer-wider-say-experts
My feet aren't getting fatter – even if the rest of me is!
Feet are getting fatter because people are getting fatter.
Mum's feet got longer in her last pregnancy, possibly because her arches sank.
I'm using larger shoes as my feet are swollen. Length appears unchanged.
Feet are getting fatter because people are getting fatter.
Mum's feet got longer in her last pregnancy, possibly because her arches sank.
I'm using larger shoes as my feet are swollen. Length appears unchanged.
My feet got wider, but did not change length, I put it down to taking up long distance running. Now that I'm not running any where near so much, they've not gone back
Hope Mrs M's recovery goes well and she is able to both stay mobile and convalesce accordingly.Thank you!
Who did the drawing?
Anyone here have experience of Morton's Neuroma?
Did it only hurt when on your feet? My foot is worse when I first get out of bed in the morning, which seems weird.Anyone here have experience of Morton's Neuroma?
Yes, I have. It felt like I was constantly walking on stones in my left foot for a couple of months about two years ago and I couldn't run without pain. I got a bit desperate, tbh, and I tried various things to try to relieve the pain.
I pretty much solved it with innersole in my cycling shoes that have a metatarsal pad. These ones: https://footactive.co.uk//metatarsalgia-full-length. It was trial and error to find the right innersole which could have been avoided if I had just gone straight to a podiatrist or cycling fitter that makes custom innersoles.
They felt very weird at first but now I don't notice them at all when cycling. Interestingly, I can't wear these innersoles when I'm walking as they are too invasive and press into my foot.
I know other people suffer badly so I'm glad to have found a solution.
My optician chain tells me their lens maker will not allow the near sight segment to be lower than 12mm in height, base of frame to top of segment, as they say that "you will not be able to see through it." :facepalm:
GWS & hope it’s not too uncomfortable.
Sounds like Blandford flies: https://www.deddingtonsurgery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/New-ajc-Blandford-Fly-Bite-Advice-Sheet.pdf
Sounds like Blandford flies: https://www.deddingtonsurgery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/New-ajc-Blandford-Fly-Bite-Advice-Sheet.pdf
HK is on antibiotics for her bite.
I've been trying to ignore it and hoping it will go away, on the basis it might be viral labyrinthitis or similar.
I'll be glad when my left nostril stops feeling like there's something growing in it.
(Srsly, WTF is going on up there?)
Didn't get to hear which day that would be, now I just wait for the next letter from them. It would be grand to know, even if I don't have a massively busy social and work life, just so that I don't end up booking something else on the new date, oh well.
If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.I'm surprised they didn't offer you a local anaesthetic from that description.
If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.
However this was a randomised placebo double blind trial and the difference in weight loss between placebo and other groups was significant.
Very interesting that it gives you a feeling of satisfaction through hormonal means and gets results similar to bariatric surgery.
They did, but it still F****** hurt.If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.I'm surprised they didn't offer you a local anaesthetic from that description.
Cold virus or hay fever? I have been fine at home for the last 3 years since having allergy treatment but arrived in Bavaria and got a massive dose of hay fever. I then remembered I had my worst ever hay fever about 4 years ago in Budapest in June. I noticed they are cutting the hay in al the fields so I suspect it is a massive pollen/ allergen release. Had to have an extra day off the bike as my eyes and nose were streaming so much I couldn’t safely ride. Now on steroid spray, antihistamine tablets, spray and eye drops as well as ibuprofen and was able to do another 100km today.
Cold virus or hay fever? I have been fine at home for the last 3 years since having allergy treatment but arrived in Bavaria and got a massive dose of hay fever. I then remembered I had my worst ever hay fever about 4 years ago in Budapest in June. I noticed they are cutting the hay in al the fields so I suspect it is a massive pollen/ allergen release. Had to have an extra day off the bike as my eyes and nose were streaming so much I couldn’t safely ride. Now on steroid spray, antihistamine tablets, spray and eye drops as well as ibuprofen and was able to do another 100km today.
Cold virus or hay fever? I have been fine at home for the last 3 years since having allergy treatment but arrived in Bavaria and got a massive dose of hay fever. I then remembered I had my worst ever hay fever about 4 years ago in Budapest in June. I noticed they are cutting the hay in al the fields so I suspect it is a massive pollen/ allergen release. Had to have an extra day off the bike as my eyes and nose were streaming so much I couldn’t safely ride. Now on steroid spray, antihistamine tablets, spray and eye drops as well as ibuprofen and was able to do another 100km today.Covid
Just tested, on the offchance.
Not ill before I left. Wore a mask on plane and train on Sun.
Bit of sore throat Tues. Distinctly rough by Wed. I'd forgotten to pack LFDs, and people aren't testing as much now that kits aren't free.
Bugger bugger. Probably spread it around the office. I'm still rough and struggling to eat enough.
Oh well, it is effective at removing the flab.
Cold virus or hay fever? I have been fine at home for the last 3 years since having allergy treatment but arrived in Bavaria and got a massive dose of hay fever. I then remembered I had my worst ever hay fever about 4 years ago in Budapest in June. I noticed they are cutting the hay in al the fields so I suspect it is a massive pollen/ allergen release. Had to have an extra day off the bike as my eyes and nose were streaming so much I couldn’t safely ride. Now on steroid spray, antihistamine tablets, spray and eye drops as well as ibuprofen and was able to do another 100km today.
I’ve got a paronychia down the side of my right-hand ring finger which has been irritating me for about 6 months and hasn’t cleared up. It’s been getting more painful recently whenever I’ve had it immersed in water; when the skin is dry and hard it’s quite resilient, but when the skin is softened it’s rather tender. I’ll see if I can get a photo to upload. It looks pretty insignificant (only about 1/2 an inch in diameter), but I’d much rather it go away!Never got round to uploading a gross-out pic, but I got an appointment this afternoon and was prescribed a course of floxapen which will hopefully see it off...
Eye test tomorrow. Better mention the "pale optic discs" which my neurologist flagged up last year. :facepalm:
Eye test tomorrow. Better mention the "pale optic discs" which my neurologist flagged up last year. :facepalm:
Suggest you request testing colour vision and visual fields...
Lumbar puncture can be negative even with a definite diagnosis of MS too. Mine was.
It can confirm a suspicion but is not definitive.
Keep REALLY well-hydrated for the next week!
Lie down if you get a headache.
Post-LP headache can be very gradual and insidious in onset!
If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.
If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.
Today’s visit to the Urology Department handed me the news I didn’t want to hear. On a scale between 2 – 10 (with 2 being the mildest form of the prostate cancer, and 10 being the most aggressive) mine is 7.
I have been given tons of information to read through, with the aim of choosing the most appropriate form of treatment.
If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.
Today’s visit to the Urology Department handed me the news I didn’t want to hear. On a scale between 2 – 10 (with 2 being the mildest form of the prostate cancer, and 10 being the most aggressive) mine is 7.
I have been given tons of information to read through, with the aim of choosing the most appropriate form of treatment.
Today’s visit to the Urology Department handed me the news I didn’t want to hear. On a scale between 2 – 10 (with 2 being the mildest form of the prostate cancer, and 10 being the most aggressive) mine is 7.Sorry to hear that, Michael. Both my brother-in-law and best friend were diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, the former a number of years ago and the latter in the past year. Both chose to have it surgically removed and both are making a good recovery and leading active and fulfilling lives. There is a range of other, effective treatments, which you'll no doubt read about. Wishing you all the best.
I have been given tons of information to read through, with the aim of choosing the most appropriate form of treatment.
Today’s visit to the Urology Department handed me the news I didn’t want to hear. On a scale between 2 – 10 (with 2 being the mildest form of the prostate cancer, and 10 being the most aggressive) mine is 7.
I have been given tons of information to read through, with the aim of choosing the most appropriate form of treatment.
If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.
Today’s visit to the Urology Department handed me the news I didn’t want to hear. On a scale between 2 – 10 (with 2 being the mildest form of the prostate cancer, and 10 being the most aggressive) mine is 7.
I have been given tons of information to read through, with the aim of choosing the most appropriate form of treatment.
Thanks for the kind words. I am very much upbeat about things, as I've addressed the issue early.Hear hear.
Besides, I want to enjoy my retirement :-D (after having worked for 42 years).
Just got a email from the doctors. Knee x ray confirms osteoarthritis :'(I've spent the last 12 months going from 'normal person levels of activity' to 'needs a crutch to get round a supermarket'.
Going to have a gastroscopy under anaesthetic next week and the anaesthetist wants me to stop taking clopidogrel until then. Asked cardiologist if I could still ride and he said no.
Colour me shit fed up.
Sorry to hear that Cycleman and indeed Fboab. I don't think many people realise how painful and debilitating arthritis is until they experience it.The notes I've been sent recommend swimming and.............cycling as good exercise for this condition 😯😀. I should cycle at 150 minutes a week. Well I'll try ;)
Hope both of you can get some decent treatment!
Sorry to hear that Cycleman and indeed Fboab. I don't think many people realise how painful and debilitating arthritis is until they experience it.The notes I've been sent recommend swimming and.............cycling as good exercise for this condition 😯😀. I should cycle at 150 minutes a week. Well I'll try ;)
Hope both of you can get some decent treatment!
As for pain management the notes say about the possibility of injections to the knees and when you're completely immobile knee joint replacement 🤔 😕Sorry to hear that Cycleman and indeed Fboab. I don't think many people realise how painful and debilitating arthritis is until they experience it.The notes I've been sent recommend swimming and.............cycling as good exercise for this condition 😯😀. I should cycle at 150 minutes a week. Well I'll try ;)
Hope both of you can get some decent treatment!
Both of those are reasonable suggestions, do they have any other advice about pain management?
I know your case is more complicated cos of your spinal injury but iirc there's things like medication or joint replacement.
Injections can be very effective in some cases. It has allowed my father (b.1929) to continue playing tennis, trundle a trolley round the supermaket, walk to the shops etc. They won't repeat them too frequently however, due to the risk of infection.As for pain management the notes say about the possibility of injections to the knees and when you're completely immobile knee joint replacement 🤔 😕Sorry to hear that Cycleman and indeed Fboab. I don't think many people realise how painful and debilitating arthritis is until they experience it.The notes I've been sent recommend swimming and.............cycling as good exercise for this condition 😯😀. I should cycle at 150 minutes a week. Well I'll try ;)
Hope both of you can get some decent treatment!
Both of those are reasonable suggestions, do they have any other advice about pain management?
I know your case is more complicated cos of your spinal injury but iirc there's things like medication or joint replacement.
I was poisoned yesterday with a radiation injection of some sort prior to having a whole body scan
People often feel hammered for a few days after a general anaesthetic.
You are not 'asleep'; you are POISONED with sub-lethal doses of dangerous drugs! It takes a while to eliminate the poisons and recover from the effects.
The language we use about anaesthetics is far too soft and cuddly...
My German speaking voice is lower too.I've observed this in myself (not with German). I think the reasons might be as much psychological as anatomical.
(I know the thread moved on, but this is germaine as this point).They did, but it still F****** hurt.If ever you go for a biopsy on your prostate watch out for the long needle that injects the anaesthetic! It's about 4 inches long! It made me scream as it was pushed inside me! Having the surgeons take the samples wasn't too bad. My first pee after the procedure was the colour of a dark red wine. I'm a bit tender below, so no riding for a few days.I'm surprised they didn't offer you a local anaesthetic from that description.
Ouch! There's nothing to do for broken ribs anyway, apart from not breathing too hard...
Another one that belongs on the feckulous div thread as well:
3-4 days later the sore ribs are still sore, and occasionally something goes click when I take a deep breath. But it's not every time, it's not a sharp pain and it doesn't always click in the same place, so who's worrying?
Did 146 km on Saturday. Had to take paracetamol at 30k but thereafter all was well.
Ribs hurt like hell yesterday.Seeing GP this afternoon to get a prescription for an X-ray.
Another one that belongs on the feckulous div thread as well:
3-4 days later the sore ribs are still sore, and occasionally something goes click when I take a deep breath. But it's not every time, it's not a sharp pain and it doesn't always click in the same place, so who's worrying?
Did 146 km on Saturday. Had to take paracetamol at 30k but thereafter all was well.
Ribs hurt like hell yesterday.Seeing GP this afternoon to get a prescription for an X-ray.
Over on Twitter, mu good friend Anna was taken for a walk by her dog, who darted off, causing A to fall forwards onto her ribs.
We were regaled with pictures of some spectacular bruising.
After 11 days, she was running out of painkillers, ribs are clicking and she gets an X ray: 6 ribs broken, some in two places...
Drinking tea may be linked to lower risk of death, study suggestshttps://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/aug/29/drinking-tea-may-be-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death-study-suggests
Data from UK Biobank suggests people who drink two or more cups of black tea a day have lower risk of mortality
I drink at least four cups of black tea every day, therefore I am immortal!QuoteDrinking tea may be linked to lower risk of death, study suggestshttps://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/aug/29/drinking-tea-may-be-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death-study-suggests
Data from UK Biobank suggests people who drink two or more cups of black tea a day have lower risk of mortality
I drink at least four cups of black tea every day, therefore I am immortal!QuoteDrinking tea may be linked to lower risk of death, study suggestshttps://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/aug/29/drinking-tea-may-be-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death-study-suggests
Data from UK Biobank suggests people who drink two or more cups of black tea a day have lower risk of mortality
On a more minor note. Another precious weekend day wasted cos I daren't stray too far from the toilet. :-\
This morning My Dear Wife and I went to the chemist's and were jabbed with anti-flu.
Best wishes for your recovery, De Sisti.Staples (from the incisions) were removed last Monday, along with the catheter. Virtually no abdominal strength. One of the nurses advised me to refrain from strenuous exercises for about 12 weeks (so the abdominal nerve endings that were severed during the procedure can heal; that means no cycling or indoor rowing. Never mind, on the bright side, my weight is down to 11st 2lbs. The lightest I've been since my late teens/early 20s. It may have something to do with my loss of appetite.
It wasn’t until I’d had keyholes (minor stuff by comparison to your op) that I realised just how much work your abdominal muscles are doing when you are walking without one being aware of it. Most noticeable when walking downhill, I recall.
Best wishes for your recovery, De Sisti.Staples (from the incisions) were removed last Monday, along with the catheter. Virtually no abdominal strength. One of the nurses advised me to refrain from strenuous exercises for about 12 weeks (so the abdominal nerve endings that were severed during the procedure can heal; that means no cycling or indoor rowing. Never mind, on the bright side, my weight is down to 11st 2lbs. The lightest I've been since my late teens/early 20s. It may have something to do with my loss of appetite.
It wasn’t until I’d had keyholes (minor stuff by comparison to your op) that I realised just how much work your abdominal muscles are doing when you are walking without one being aware of it. Most noticeable when walking downhill, I recall.
So, here I am in A&E following a strange episode at work today. I realised that I was struggling to read lines on websites. I have a very distant history of migraine and more or less knew this was one of my symptoms. I headed over to the main office on my Brompton, but once I got there I simply couldn't speak coherently and I couldn't even think of the words I wanted to say. Very weird. I put my feet up and got tingly hands, which was another symptom I used to have. Work have erred on the side of caution and have taken me to hospital, but I now feel much better, despite a mild headache. The question now is whether I want to wait six hours here to be seen. Probably not... Strange how migraine can wait 30 years to be triggered.
Didn't last long. No headache or vomiting.Very similar to my Migraine Aura experiences, and yes there's a thread elsewhere.
I think there's a migraine optical symptoms thread somewhere...
Didn't last long. No headache or vomiting.Very similar to my Migraine Aura experiences, and yes there's a thread elsewhere.
I think there's a migraine optical symptoms thread somewhere...
Best to get it properly diagnosed.
While rare, if you get TIA symptoms it is worth getting them checked out even if they suspect migraine cos there are cases where people thought "just migraine" and it was a TIA or more serious cerebral issue.About 11pm I'd been told I could go home, but was kept waiting even longer. I had scarcely had anything to drink, nor anything to eat since breakfast, so I was very weary. I approached the doctor and told him I was heading home. He asked me not to, as the consultant had requested a CT scan. I waited for that, of course, and that gave me the all clear. I got home around 2am. The TIA clinic called me the next day and, based on my symptoms and the CT scan, aren't going to call me in.
I am reading Oliver Sacks's book on migraine at the moment.
Our local hospital at early Sunday am, is right out of the 28 hour later intro, bar the garbage flying around. A bit weird to enter via ER when you got an appointment and like a Chinese finger trap to leave.
Had an echocardiogram yesterday morning (yep - Addenbrookes was doing NHS OP diagnostic clinics on a Sunday morning and my appt was 8.00 a.m.). Heart seems structurally fine.
The sonographer was a young chap for Porto. We talked Caminos.
Had an echocardiogram yesterday morning (yep - Addenbrookes was doing NHS OP diagnostic clinics on a Sunday morning and my appt was 8.00 a.m.). Heart seems structurally fine.
The sonographer was a young chap for Porto. We talked Caminos.
[OTish]
There is Fierce Debate on Twitter about asking folk 'Where are you from?'
I'd love to know how I can show a genuine interest in a person and their journey without appearing racist...
It helps if you come from overseas yourself. "Are you local? I'm really an Australian, only just moved into the area."Had an echocardiogram yesterday morning (yep - Addenbrookes was doing NHS OP diagnostic clinics on a Sunday morning and my appt was 8.00 a.m.). Heart seems structurally fine.
The sonographer was a young chap for Porto. We talked Caminos.
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There is Fierce Debate on Twitter about asking folk 'Where are you from?'
I'd love to know how I can show a genuine interest in a person and their journey without appearing racist...
This happens quite a lot when I'm out cycling alone. I now reply with:
There is Fierce Debate on Twitter about asking folk 'Where are you from?'
Career history in medical letters is doctor-code for "this person is valid"
I've wondered about these medical flagsThe notes of one of my recent encounters with medical staff includes this:
What are you people doing that, firstly, gets a doctor to write such non-medical stuff about you, and secondly, you see it?
What are you people doing that, firstly, gets a doctor to write such non-medical stuff about you, and secondly, you see it?
Mrs M being presently a resident of the local hospital in Inca, Majorca has discovered that Spanish clinical care is excellent, but that standards of Spanish personal care & dignity are not what an English lady of mature years expects.That sounds very frightening. Drowning, or near drowning, is really horrible.
She nearly drowned in the sea, and was looked after by some excellent lifeguards and the ambulance service.
She's now remembered that she 'just' missed her footing, keeled over on her front, and panicked being unable to get onto her back. That's when she inhaled some water.
She's making an excellent recovery, and we're hopeful of an early return to rain and cooler weather. I'll be happy to get away from the mosquitoes.
Mrs M being presently a resident of the local hospital in Inca, Majorca has discovered that Spanish clinical care is excellent, but that standards of Spanish personal care & dignity are not what an English lady of mature years expects.That sounds very frightening. Drowning, or near drowning, is really horrible.
She nearly drowned in the sea, and was looked after by some excellent lifeguards and the ambulance service.
She's now remembered that she 'just' missed her footing, keeled over on her front, and panicked being unable to get onto her back. That's when she inhaled some water.
Mrs M being presently a resident of the local hospital in Inca, Majorca has discovered that Spanish clinical care is excellent, but that standards of Spanish personal care & dignity are not what an English lady of mature years expects.
She nearly drowned in the sea, and was looked after by some excellent lifeguards and the ambulance service.
She's now remembered that she 'just' missed her footing, keeled over on her front, and panicked being unable to get onto her back. That's when she inhaled some water.
She's making an excellent recovery, and we're hopeful of an early return to rain and cooler weather. I'll be happy to get away from the mosquitoes.
Other ½ has entered an ironman (Copenhagen, August 2023) to celebrate a milestone birthday. She's a proper athlete, did national level pentathlon as a student and will be at the pointy end of the field if she can spend enough time training. (sadly, she says, no horses or swords allowed in triathlon)
Off to the specialist neurophysiotherapist this morning.
Probably another 40 minute drive each way for a 10 minute appointment where I'm told to "walk normally". :facepalm:
It is likely that the Physio suggested nordic walking precisely because Brian has trouble with his hands and shoulders.
the straps should remove the need for him to maintain a tight-precise grip.
the light-weight sticks will provide slight loading for his arms.
Moving the body with some loading helps develop the strength of nerve signals. that seems to be precisely what Brian would need.
If we hear 'Nordic walking' and think 'walking fast up and down hills', that is almost certainly not what is being recommended. I suspect the physio is thinking 'gentle short strolls on level ground, gradually increasing after evaluation'.
And issues with my balance and walking...... which the poles will likely assist with...
Sticks of any kind only work if your arms are up to the job thobut and I seem to recall Brian has difficulties with his hands as well as his legs.
Regardless, if Brian doesn't feel listened to, then the physio hasn't done their job. They've not made the time to listen and think rather than blat out advice willy nilly.
Brian, I am sorry, that really sucks.
Apparently we all have essential tremor to a lesser or greater extent. An explanation of mine apparently worsening was offered as a remote but possible reason which I'd prefer not to share so as to avoid speculation and criticism of the consultant.
What I would say though is that her suggestion of what I might do which does not involve medication is something that I will be working on over the coming months and years.
Nurses are becoming doctors. Slowly I accept but it is happening. 2 of my recent trainees were nurses. Another nurse in theatre has trained as a physician assistant. We have 3 nurses and 3 therapists who are doing work previously done by doctors (slowly and expensively). Each therapist sees a fifth of the patients seen by a trainee surgeon at the same cost.
GPS are doing more F2F appointments than ever but more people are turning up.
Everything now takes longer. I see about 20% less patients per clinic partly because I am getting older but largely because people want more explanation, discussion, etc. I am not objecting to that but you cannot have more appointments if you have not trained more doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.
This should nearly be in the grumble thread. Some months ago I had a scan at the hospital, who said they would send the result to my GP. Weeks later I contact GP via their fancy new system. Get a text reply back saying no results here yet. Some weeks later I contact GP via same system, since I have heard nada. GP comes back 3 days later, the results have gone back to the hospital and I should call them. I call the hospital, very nice staff on the bone, tells me that they can't give me the results. But will put a note in the system for the consultant to contact me with the result, though couldn't tell me how this would happen or when.
Now the question is, should I be worried, since the GP send the stuff back and what if it is serious have it become worse in the nearly 3 months since said scan.
A few months ago (late June to be a little more precise) youngest son commented that I seemed to have shaky hands. I didn't dismiss his observation but sought confirmation from family and friends. Having established that a few had noticed this I booked in to the quack. Quack booked me a consultation with the consultant.
I had that consultation on Tuesday. I have what is termed essential tremor and mine is so mild as to be uninteresting unless it ever gets worse. There is no imminent danger of anything even remotely bad, thankfully.
I was worried about it being Parkinsons as my father suffered from Parkinsons as does one of my cousins.
And coincidentally the background tension headache that I have been nursing and bearing for weeks has magically disappeared.
Nurses are becoming doctors. Slowly I accept but it is happening. 2 of my recent trainees were nurses. Another nurse in theatre has trained as a physician assistant. We have 3 nurses and 3 therapists who are doing work previously done by doctors (slowly and expensively). Each therapist sees a fifth of the patients seen by a trainee surgeon at the same cost.
GPS are doing more F2F appointments than ever but more people are turning up.
Everything now takes longer. I see about 20% less patients per clinic partly because I am getting older but largely because people want more explanation, discussion, etc. I am not objecting to that but you cannot have more appointments if you have not trained more doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.
A few months ago (late June to be a little more precise) youngest son commented that I seemed to have shaky hands. I didn't dismiss his observation but sought confirmation from family and friends. Having established that a few had noticed this I booked in to the quack. Quack booked me a consultation with the consultant.
I had that consultation on Tuesday. I have what is termed essential tremor and mine is so mild as to be uninteresting unless it ever gets worse. There is no imminent danger of anything even remotely bad, thankfully.
I was worried about it being Parkinsons as my father suffered from Parkinsons as does one of my cousins.
Sticks of any kind only work if your arms are up to the job thobut and I seem to recall Brian has difficulties with his hands as well as his legs.
Regardless, if Brian doesn't feel listened to, then the physio hasn't done their job. They've not made the time to listen and think rather than blat out advice willy nilly.
Brian, I am sorry, that really sucks.
Actually admin is great. Notes are now online, I can order tests online and I can see x-rays for almost half of England.When I compare the hospital and the GP IT systems of today (purely by looking over shoulders as a patient) with the 'wonderful' IT systems we thought we had when I retired from the NHS a decade ago, it's like night and day.
Staffing is probably the biggest impact on who I can operate on. Staff my theatre properly and I could operate on 50% more people.
IANAD but it sounds like a nerve pinch, possibly spine- or sacroiliac-related. I had a very nasty dose of that ~10 years back. It did eventually go away.Take a house point and a gold star.
:thumbsup:
Thanks, barakta. No further pain but area [of putative quad tear] a bit tender. The next ride will tell.
Two questions :
1) I've seen that beta-blockers can reduce these issues. Any experiences here & are they worth trying on a private prescription?
Worth thinking about!Two questions :
1) I've seen that beta-blockers can reduce these issues. Any experiences here & are they worth trying on a private prescription?
If you do consult your doc over them, make sure he knows you're a cyclist. You may find a dosage level that will allow you to stop them without risk on cycling days. A chum of mine managed that.
I hope your GP is supportive Mike, I think it's good to have it on their books that you are struggling, that you have limited capacity due to DaughterIssues TM but you'd like some short term help to manage things which may otherwise improve your general wellbeing and hopefully MH options in the future.Thanks
As for airport assistance, I don't believe there's rules on what you need to have to ask for it. If you feel it would assist with acute MH difficulties, then book and ask for it.
Started feeling unwell last Tuesday afternoon, thought it was a migraine, it lingered as I sometimes get (postdrome for 4-5 days and increased trigger risk isn't uncommon for me :( ) and then got worse again on Thursday, I thought triggered by being under a light which sometimes overloads photo-phobia brain.
Was off sick on Friday, couldn't look at screens then or all weekend until this evening.
I think if it started as a migraine, it's now not the only thing wrong. I think is sinuses which overlaps for me a lot. I've spent the last 2 days taking all the meds that might help symptoms to get "less shit" episodes, but not good. I did not go to work today even from home - too dead.
This feels like the weird atypical sinusitis I had in Oct 2017 that triggered my ENT-GP (former registrar) to write "Go straight to 2nd line antibiotics, do not delay on suspected respiratory anything" on my record. Sadly ENT-GP left (Covid burnout I think :( ) but the remaining colleagues have always served me well.
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I've suffered from blocked nose on and off for years. Sometimes had a spray which might relieve it for a while. Recently I read a drink recipe which has worked well after two or three doses. Hot water with honey and half of squeezed lemon, then add one tablespoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Might be worth a try?
I've suffered from blocked nose on and off for years. Sometimes had a spray which might relieve it for a while. Recently I read a drink recipe which has worked well after two or three doses. Hot water with honey and half of squeezed lemon, then add one tablespoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Might be worth a try?
I too broke a tooth (mine was on soft licorice, clearly not so soft) but I'm not allowed to get anything done by a dentist for another 36 days. Not that I'm counting.
In other news, bruising now extends from my ankle to the hip. Niiiiice.
After realizing that my coffee machine really was beeping I found this frequency test on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/qNf9nzvnd1k
It's simply a tone rising in frequency from 20Hz to 20 kHz. Useful because if you're not certain you can go back and repeat bits.
It was on here: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/how-high-can-you-hear-video-frequency-hearing-test/
I top out just short of 5 kHz. I used to be able to hear bats. :(
About 12kHz for me, which still doesn't mean I can always hear useful things like what people are saying to me.
'Masking' is a problem for me. I can't hear what D is saying when:
The kettle is on.
The fridge is purring.
The washing machine is spinning.
D is mumbling/walking away/in another room.
D says I'm deaf; that test says my hearing is 'under the age of 25'.
I'm 64.65 and think my hearing's OK.
Sounds like you might benefit from a proper audiogram and hearing test. Age related hearing is the higher frequencies going first. Hearing aids usually take you up to 8k covering full speech frequencies and modern programmable ones are quite clever these days.
Reduce the weight of your face as they are air-filledDrillium for the skull – that's real weight-weeny talk!
https://www.thecut.com/article/weight-loss-ozempic.html
https://www.thecut.com/article/weight-loss-ozempic.html
I understood all the words, but it's like the article was written by someone on another planet...
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Reduce the weight of your face as they are air-filled
Keep inside of nose moist, to humidify inspired air
Improving the quality of vocal output is secondary, I suppose.
I fortunately get little grief from my sinuses so might be biased!
I had such a vicious attack of cramp in my right calf last night that I am limping today. It feels a bit like my torn calf muscle of about 7 years ago, but not so bad and in the other leg.
If you put a dry dressing on it or a clean hankie, do you get any discharge onto the hankie?
If not the wound is sealed.
People seem to think wounds need days to weeks. Actually the wound is watertight within 30 minutes.
If you are worried get some waterproof dressings from the chemist. Go swim
Gallstones would have been a bit more than slight discomfort. Well, fucking agony is closer to the mark. This I know…
Storage isn't that expensive.
Indeed. Unfortunately, not all of the medics have got the memo, and may consequently miss gallstones if you neglect to scream.
Indeed. Unfortunately, not all of the medics have got the memo, and may consequently miss gallstones if you neglect to scream.
Thank you. My very sensible wife insisted thankfully. The initial triage was excellent but very slow to see the doctor.
Thank you. My very sensible wife insisted thankfully. The initial triage was excellent but very slow to see the doctor.
Thank you. Feeling somewhat better this morning although still some way to go.Good to hear.
If something came out of the toilet when I was sitting on it I think I might be somewhat alarmed...
That is interesting that you can fix it yourself at home.There's a few YouTube videos of DIY Epley - I've never had any luck with manipulating my own head. I'm sure there's a knack to it, I just ain't got it!
Utterly fed up with being ill. It's been 3 weeks now. Still occasionally coughing up lumps. Utter dragging exhaustion if I try exercise.That sounds grim.
Oh well, at least I have an Ultrasound booked for borked shoulder.
I seem to lapse into this state every time I get a minor virus. Been this way since the last time I had covid.Utterly fed up with being ill. It's been 3 weeks now. Still occasionally coughing up lumps. Utter dragging exhaustion if I try exercise.That sounds grim.
Oh well, at least I have an Ultrasound booked for borked shoulder.
Could it be a chest infection that needs a blast of antibiotic treatment?
LFTs aren't that accurate for the current variants of Covid, often needing quite a high viral load before they go off if at all.Do you have the reference for this? I am struggling to find source data for it. The second half of the statement has always been true relative to PCR but I am not aware that it has changed significantly.
LFTs aren't that accurate for the current variants of Covid, often needing quite a high viral load before they go off if at all.Do you have the reference for this? I am struggling to find source data for it. The second half of the statement has always been true relative to PCR but I am not aware that it has changed significantly.
I know there are a lot of people getting bad colds with negative LFD tests and these may be Covid or they may just be a bad cold.
GOV.UK suggests it can take p to 4 days after symptoms start for LFTs to show Covid positivity. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lateral-flow-device-performance-data/performance-of-lateral-flow-devices-during-the-covid-19-pandemic)
It doesn't seem to specify that the latest variants are less detectable, so I may have been wrong there, but like Helly says, Medic Twitter seems to be saying pretty much.
Regardless, it would be nice if people stayed the feck at home with their Whatever It Is Lurgy and took steps not to spread it if at all possible... My boss has come into work twice now with "just a cold" that turned out to be Covid n days later which is one reason I'm staying the feck away.
On the recent Not the Coronation camping weekend, we went to the local pub, which was Quite Posh and not cheap. The toilets were Quite Posh too – no marble or gold taps, but an acre of floor between urinals and wash basins, which were approximately equal in number. In there, I saw a man do something which seemed so remarkable, it was worth telling; he washed his hands. And he hadn't even had a shit.GOV.UK suggests it can take p to 4 days after symptoms start for LFTs to show Covid positivity. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lateral-flow-device-performance-data/performance-of-lateral-flow-devices-during-the-covid-19-pandemic)
It doesn't seem to specify that the latest variants are less detectable, so I may have been wrong there, but like Helly says, Medic Twitter seems to be saying pretty much.
Regardless, it would be nice if people stayed the feck at home with their Whatever It Is Lurgy and took steps not to spread it if at all possible... My boss has come into work twice now with "just a cold" that turned out to be Covid n days later which is one reason I'm staying the feck away.
Yesterday I had to sit through compulsory training videos.
One of which was about health and safety at work.
Pleasingly, it told people to stay away from the office if ill, and to wash hands.
Yes, the issue with LFTs was always that they were good at telling you you do have COVID, and bad at telling you that you don't. Which was fine until we started misusing them as a diagnostic test, rather than a practical way to do mass screening.
But ultimately, in terms of spreading infection at least, it doesn't matter that much whether it's COVID or some other lurgy. You should keep it to yourself, and your employers/school won't allow you to. 'twas ever thus.
Yes, the issue with LFTs was always that they were good at telling you you do have COVID, and bad at telling you that you don't. Which was fine until we started misusing them as a diagnostic test, rather than a practical way to do mass screening.
But ultimately, in terms of spreading infection at least, it doesn't matter that much whether it's COVID or some other lurgy. You should keep it to yourself, and your employers/school won't allow you to. 'twas ever thus.
It's the opposite now, the lower the actual prevalence, the less likely a positive result will be accurate. On the other hand, a negative test is very likely to be accurate.
And we should have learned, assiduously avoiding infection maybe isn't a great idea. Sometimes you've got to sniffle.
mike, if by 'non-serious', you mean that the fatality rates are low, then I agree with you.
However, there can be other effects. Since I last had covid (very mild bout), I've been persistently exhausted. One day's moderately strenuous exercise wipes me out. I sometimes get good weeks - but if I'm exposed to any virus, it is straight back to square one. Hesitate to call it CFS, because I've lived with someone with CFS, and I'm nowhere near as bad as they were.
Is it serious? Well, it is affecting my life on a daily basis. There are hundreds and hundreds of thousands affected in this way (I read one estimate of 2 million in the UK alone). I know of one person who has been unable to work since Nov 2022. They are a highly motivated and organised person who is utterly unable to work.
The effect on the uk economy will be huge. The effect on individuals will vary from 'annoying' (which, tbh, is where I am), to catastrophic.
None of those things are untrue of any other illness, though.
I do wonder what we’ve done to our children and society to create the epidemic of mental health problems we so clearly are facing.
I do wonder what we’ve done to our children and society to create the epidemic of mental health problems we so clearly are facing.
Surely that's obvious... *gestures around in exasperation*
I do wonder what we’ve done to our children and society to create the epidemic of mental health problems we so clearly are facing.
Surely that's obvious... *gestures around in exasperation*
I think some of it is and we all take a, probably similar, view but I remain cautious about ‘obvious’ as it can be too simplistic. Appreciating that you’re thinking isn’t simplistic.
I do wonder what we’ve done to our children and society to create the epidemic of mental health problems we so clearly are facing.
Surely that's obvious... *gestures around in exasperation*
I think some of it is and we all take a, probably similar, view but I remain cautious about ‘obvious’ as it can be too simplistic. Appreciating that you’re thinking isn’t simplistic.
Indeed. The usual simplistic view is that it's the smartphones[1] damaging young people's mental health. Rather than, say, lack of housing and financial security. Or the overwhelming pressure to secure the right qualifications. Or the prospect of growing up in an increasingly authoritarian society. Or lack of social mobility. Or being targeted by exploitative marketing practices. Or lack of access to healthcare. Or that UN report on LGBT discrimination referenced in another thread. Or rivers full of sewage. Or having their EU citizenship revoked. Or just being acutely aware of how little our society actually values young people. To say nothing of an overwhelming consensus on climate change which those in positions of power (everyone from their parents to Joe Biden) are determined to gaslight them into pretending isn't a thing out of business-as-usual self-interest.
Mental health services, such as they are, are mostly a way to prevent us having to fix all that.
[1] Which are obviously against the natural order of things, unlike television, rock music, books or [insert previous moral panic here].
FWIW - I’m a parent and I don’t pretend the climate crisis isn’t a thing and I know it frightens my children, much as it frightens me.
I've been getting increasingly worse & frequent episodes of vertigo.
I do wonder what we’ve done to our children and society to create the epidemic of mental health problems we so clearly are facing.
Surely that's obvious... *gestures around in exasperation*
I think some of it is and we all take a, probably similar, view but I remain cautious about ‘obvious’ as it can be too simplistic. Appreciating that you’re thinking isn’t simplistic.
Indeed. The usual simplistic view is that it's the smartphones[1] damaging young people's mental health. Rather than, say, lack of housing and financial security. Or the overwhelming pressure to secure the right qualifications. Or the prospect of growing up in an increasingly authoritarian society. Or lack of social mobility. Or being targeted by exploitative marketing practices. Or lack of access to healthcare. Or that UN report on LGBT discrimination referenced in another thread. Or rivers full of sewage. Or having their EU citizenship revoked. Or just being acutely aware of how little our society actually values young people. To say nothing of an overwhelming consensus on climate change which those in positions of power (everyone from their parents to Joe Biden) are determined to gaslight them into pretending isn't a thing out of business-as-usual self-interest.
Mental health services, such as they are, are mostly a way to prevent us having to fix all that.
[1] Which are obviously against the natural order of things, unlike television, rock music, books or [insert previous moral panic here].
And sometimes you can greatly reduce the amount of transmission with simple engineering. We treat drinking water to reduce the amount of infectious agents people are exposed to, which has generally been considered to be a Good Thing for public health, and there's no reason we couldn't do the same for the air in many public spaces (other than that nobody important stands to make a shitload of money from doing it). If COVID has taught us anything, it's that many diseases are more airborne than we like to imagine.
And it's not like we don't need a bit push to retrofit HVAC anyway to reduce carbon emissions, so why not set some standards to mandate a much higher number of air changes, or a sensible amount of filtration while we're at it? If nothing else, reducing the spread of diseases through hospitals, care homes, and the like would free up some healthcare resources.
Lingering Nerve Symptoms From Lyme Disease May Be Tied to Immune Response
By Leroy Leo
May 11, 2023
(Reuters) - Neurologic complications of Lyme disease such as hand and feet numbness and pain that do not resolve with treatment may be due to an exaggerated immune response rather than the infection itself, a study published on Wednesday suggests.
Researchers found that Lyme disease patients with persistent central nervous system problems have high blood levels of interferon alpha, an inflammatory protein produced by the immune system in response to infection.
These central nervous system symptoms that can also include weakness, facial muscle paralysis, vision problems, fever, stiff neck, and severe headache are known as Lyme neuroborreliosis.
If the findings are confirmed in larger studies, immunity-suppressing medicines might be used to treat patients with persistent disabling neurologic after-effects of the disease, said senior researcher Dr. Klemen Strle of Tufts University School of Medicine.
Each year, nearly 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease, with another 200,000 cases believed to occur in western Europe, researchers said. It is caused by a bacteria carried and spread by ticks prevalent in the U.S. upper Midwest and the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, as well as in Europe and some parts of Canada, especially in wooded areas.
Lyme neuroborreliosis occurs in up to 15% of those who contract the illness, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and most patients recover after treatment with antibiotics. However, around 10%-20% of patients continue to show symptoms even after treatment.
Earlier research found that Lyme-causing bacteria do not survive antibiotic treatment and therefore cannot be preventing recovery, according to the report in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a CDC publication.
For the current study, researchers in Slovenia took serial blood samples over the course of a year in 79 patients who had experienced Lyme neuroborreliosis during their acute infection, including 27 with new or lasting complications six months or more after treatment.
Patients whose symptoms had resolved by the start of the study had the lowest interferon levels. Those with the most severe and most persistent problems had the highest interferon levels, suggesting that the immune system never stopped responding leading to "low-grade, systemic inflammation," the researchers said.
Other illnesses with prolonged symptoms believed or known to be triggered by immune system over-reaction include COVID-19, influenza and mononucleosis, the researchers said.
(Reporting by Leroy Leo in Bengaluru; Editing by Nancy Lapid and Bill Berkrot)
I have a trapped nerve/pulled muscle/ crick in my neck. This has materialised the last two Sundays.
My shoulder hasn't been right since a tree branch hit it (I was taking down a small tree/very large bush). Hit me hard enough to knock me to the ground.Seen physio.
Gave it 6 weeks before seeing the doc, who referred me for an ultrasound.
Verdict a bit vague. They had trouble finding one tendon - it was surrounded by fluid and inflammation. Verbal report "Evidence of a torn tendon, muscle and historic calcification in the shoulder joint".
Seeing a physio on the 22nd.
It is a bugger, getting older. Things take a very long time to heal. Time was, I'd have bounced back from something like this in a week. Not over 2 months.
I’ve had enough now.
I saw the doctor last monday for an ear infection in my left ear which started on the previous Friday. By Monday it was hurting and the whole of the left side of my head was ‘tight’. The dr prescribed some ear spray.
The left side is still tender and hearing has not fully returned (fsvo fully obv.) but the right ear is now painful although the tightness hasn’t set in.
I might have to return to the doc to get oral antibiotics :(
Beardy have you tried Sudafed ? Does not kill the infection or remove the pain, when I have had ear infections, but have made it so I could at least think about other stuff that pain and cutting parts of my body off in hope of less pain.I’m currently on daily oral antihistamine and antihistamine nasal spray to limit a near constant cough. The ever present congestion exacerbates ear infections when I get them as ‘me tubes’ get blocked. So, no I’ve not tried Sudafed specifically, but I think the congestion is as controlled as it can be.
You’re all horrid :'(
You’re all horrid :'(
Because we luv you. O:-)
Doesn't seem serious. MRI shd show if there's damage but did a Graun Quick this morning easily as usual.
Hope so. We get all our x-rays back
Still stuck on stir, but waiting for MRI slot or doc's ok to get out. Been doing stairs to maintain legs, 28 floors yesterday. Boring. Luckily roomie is a good lad or I'd go bonkers.
I’m thinking of procuring a copy of Oticon Genie 2 / link thingy so that I can add components directly myself and fiddle with the programming without having to visit the clinic. I’ll also have to find a computer that will run a recent enough copy of windoz, so not a trivial task.
As an additional observation, the audiologist I was dealing with maintained the level of competence I’ve come to associate with her profession and actually tried to talk to me while she had my hearing aids in bits on the desk in front of her. :facepalm:
As an additional observation, the audiologist I was dealing with maintained the level of competence I’ve come to associate with her profession and actually tried to talk to me while she had my hearing aids in bits on the desk in front of her. :facepalm:
Hmm. I got blue tooth hearing aids last Tuesday. One week later and one has failed. ::-)
Hmm. I got blue tooth hearing aids last Tuesday. One week later and one has failed. ::-)
Bathtub curve applies to hearing aids, fail quickly or last ages.
Blimey. I took failed hearing aid down to audiology in Carmarthen yesterday. It has come back in first class post today!
That's not bad service. :thumbsup:
To be fair, I snark at myself for doing it too. Usually something to the effect of <me audiologist stupid>
levels of deaf awareness.
My father has hearing aids bluetoothed to his phone. Instead of him not hearing my mum because he can't hear, he now can't hear her because he's listening to something else. She *loves* this.
Mild electric shocks are out of the question, then?
Get it cut out and have done with it. Given you nothing but trouble for years, you'll be glad to get rid of it, T42
I've developed a salt water ulcer on my leg. Started as a tiny cut from a bumped shin, now 1.5cm sore with 3cm red swollen patch.
Gradually improving if I keep my trouser rolled up to let it dry out.
My back has gone into spasm today and I'm stuck on my sofa trying to avoid watching lizs TV programme choice. I feeling trapped and depressed. :'(
Just had an MRI to ascertain whether my brane had p'd off to Borneo while I wasn't looking.
GN: got the pics home on a CD
BN: dunno how to read them (natch). There's more than a 6502 in there.
'Ere's me 'ed (viewer discretion recommended):(click to show/hide)
Just had an MRI to ascertain whether my brane had p'd off to Borneo while I wasn't looking.
GN: got the pics home on a CD
BN: dunno how to read them (natch). There's more than a 6502 in there.
'Ere's me 'ed (viewer discretion recommended):(click to show/hide)
<sings>
There's an 'ole in the brain,
Dear Liza, dear Liza,
An 'ole in the brain,
Dear Liza, an 'ole.
You need a Dicom reader which is the medical image file. I use either Sante Dicom lite or Osiris both of which are free. Sante is probably easier to use.
I'd be happy if my brain looked like that.
It doesn't...
I'd be happy if my brain looked like that.
It doesn't...
My father has hearing aids bluetoothed to his phone. Instead of him not hearing my mum because he can't hear, he now can't hear her because he's listening to something else. She *loves* this.
This is why I do a significant amount of communication with barakta via IRC when we're in the same room.
Of course, it only works if she notices the hilight/notification. My historical work-around was a small keyring torch that lived on my desk, which I'd flash in her general direction. (This is now superseded by a cunning row of LEDs along the back edge of her desk, which - amongst other things[1] - I can cause to light up with the right invocation.) Failing that, and because our Victorian floorboards aren't rated for repeated shock loads so stamping-is out of the question, the back-up option is throwing things. Which I'm notoriously bad at.
[1] The most awesome and least obvious is them doing a little chase pattern when someone a) comes up the stairs or b) opens the bathroom door from the inside. The sort of thing hearing people unthinkingly know has happened by sound, as advance warning that someone might be about to enter the room.
Just had an MRI to ascertain whether my brane had p'd off to Borneo while I wasn't looking.
GN: got the pics home on a CD
BN: dunno how to read them (natch). There's more than a 6502 in there.
'Ere's me 'ed (viewer discretion recommended):(click to show/hide)
Tape measure used as a poking device.
I'd still test again in 24hrs
I do not have covid. (Just tested neg)
I will.I'd still test again in 24hrs
I do not have covid. (Just tested neg)
I have snots, fever, shakes. aching limbs.
I do not have covid. (Just tested neg)
I do have the first cold I have had since the start of covid.
S'no bad for three years.
Tape measure used as a poking device.
I believe that's on my list of things that I promised never to do again[1], on account of it being a little too effective.
[1] See also: Curing hiccups by sneaking up behind her and making myself look big (in the style of The Cat from the documentary Red Dwarf). Worked instantly, but it took her about half an hour to get over the shock.
cannot really see enough to be certain.
Any temperature, feeling sick, raised pulse?
It's not looking as if I actually have any underlying heart problems or asthma. Somewhat embarrassingly, I think it's general anxiety disorder. All the symptoms fit, as does the timing (it vanished for a week on holiday and returned on the very day we flew back).
back to the GP and my wife is coming to tell them how bad I really am.
Hope antibiotics help soonest.So do I😂. Seriously feel worse than when I had covid.
Hope antibiotics help soonest.So do I😂. Seriously feel worse than when I had covid.
Ultra-processed foods are products that have gone through multiple processes during manufacturing. They are often high in salt and sugar and may contain additives and preservatives. Often, the foods are low in fibre and lacking the nutrients present in fresh or minimally processed foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, plain yoghurt and homemade bread.
Previous studies have linked eating high levels of ultra-processed foods with a range of health problems including obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer.
Speaking to reporters in Amsterdam, one of the researchers behind the first study, Anushriya Pant, of the University of Sydney, said many people were unaware that food they assume is healthy, such as shop-bought sandwiches, wraps, soups and low-fat yoghurts, were in fact UPF. “It could be that foods you think are healthy are actually contributing to you developing high blood pressure,” she said.
It seems that I am into inadvertent nocturnal self-harm. Twice last night I woke myself up having dug a finger nail into my scalp. I think I shall have to wear cotton gloves when I go to bed.Were you not wearing a helmet?
Hope it settles down soon - sounds scary!
Bah, I’ve had 2 or 3 vitreous haemorrhages in my left eye since Friday... scary.
Hope time gets a bloody move on.
You can buy eye lid wipes from the chemist.
Wipes for blepharitis are not makeup removal wipes (are they??)
You can buy eye lid wipes from the chemist.
If you buy the ones that work on waterproof mascara, they helpfully double as a way to get chain schmoo off your hands after a mechanical.
Wipes for blepharitis are not makeup removal wipes (are they??)
I'd be nice to believe "I told you so" got GPs to listen if they don't wanna in the first place (I'm lucky, I have the kind of GPs who apologise if they get it wrong before I have a chance to anything and usually they're following protocol which they have to try first)...
I have a midge bite (I think) under my eyelid.
Currently looking like a victim of domestic abuse.
There are some things that really don't bear thinking about! Poor them!I have a midge bite (I think) under my eyelid.
Currently looking like a victim of domestic abuse.
Apropos of nothing much, whilst I was waiting to be seen at the emergency eye clinic (reasons above somewhere) a patient before me emerged from their consultation, and said to their companion "it isn't the stitch, I have a cold sore in my eye".
I came across a minor accessibility issue yesterday. Because of the number of floaters in my left ey, I found it easier to switch me Outlook to a dark grey theme, so white text on dark background. Then I tried reading a Word doc, which for whatever reason has also changed to a dark theme (classic Microsoft) and was unable to do so with the first page due to white "tiger stripes" running across it. Switched to the normal view and notice there are subtle pale grey stripes on the original template.
back to work today and I have been up all night with the runs.. Oh joy.Started metronidazole yesterday which almost instantly stopped the runs. Spent yesterday in bed. Did one teams meeting then spent all day on the couch.
Envelope from HMRC? That usually gets things moving. Right colour, too!
GP thinks clostridium difficile!I had that, BITD, and so did my 3 under 5. Fun times.
I can see why people die from it! I cannot remember ever feeling as week and tired as this.The clue is, of course, in the name. Nasty stuff.
GP thinks clostridium difficile!
GOOD LUCK BEARDY.PARDON?
hope you heard me!
I would immediately pull disability discrimination and pointless waste of time of telephone.They'll just say you should use TextRelay.
Start the day on a high!
Dr B delegated the task of ring the GP to Ms B the younger who is a little more feisty. She got me a F2F appointment THIS morn. I’m stunned.
A ton of them realised that working 80+hrs per week and getting abuse from patients and the government wasn't what they signed up for.Start the day on a high!
Dr B delegated the task of ring the GP to Ms B the younger who is a little more feisty. She got me a F2F appointment THIS morn. I’m stunned.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
What became of all the docs in the UK? Were they purged à la 1953 Russia or have they simply effed off to sunnier climes?
Start the day on a high!
Dr B delegated the task of ring the GP to Ms B the younger who is a little more feisty. She got me a F2F appointment THIS morn. I’m stunned.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
What became of all the docs in the UK? Were they purged à la 1953 Russia or have they simply effed off to sunnier climes?
Start the day on a high!
Dr B delegated the task of ring the GP to Ms B the younger who is a little more feisty. She got me a F2F appointment THIS morn. I’m stunned.
Asthma review. All good. Except weight: 15.5st! I knew I was heavy - heavier than ever - but 15.5st?
Something must be done.
This ^Asthma review. All good. Except weight: 15.5st! I knew I was heavy - heavier than ever - but 15.5st?
Something must be done.
Skinny bugger!
Asthma review. All good. Except weight: 15.5st! I knew I was heavy - heavier than ever - but 15.5st?
Something must be done.
Skinny bugger!
Asthma review. All good. Except weight: 15.5st! I knew I was heavy - heavier than ever - but 15.5st?
Something must be done.
Skinny bugger!
You do realise Paul is 3 ft 9” , short for his weight.? ;D
Odd. I'm on blood thinners but neither jab was even visible. They never are. On the plus side, I tested positive for covid 36 hours later.
Odd. I'm on blood thinners but neither jab was even visible. They never are. On the plus side, I tested positive for covid 36 hours later.
Positive for Covid or positive for the effects of the vaccine?
A jab in each arm - Covid to the left, flu to the right. The flu jab caused me to bleed on my lovely linen shirt.
A jab in each arm - Covid to the left, flu to the right. The flu jab caused me to bleed on my lovely linen shirt.
Interesting (FCVO). We also had Covid left, 'flu right. Must be the Pharmacists union decision.
When I got both last year I was told they were putting the flu jag in the dominant arm as there had been more reports of discomfort with the Covid jag.
I have the issue no one wants to jag me in the left arm (my more disabled arm) but if I even needed two jags they also wouldn't want to do two in the right arm. I did try to get them to do a leg jag at my first Covid jag to save wrecking my only good arm but they said they hadn't been trained on that and refused - nicely, to be fair and understood why I was asking (I got the proper doctor for being a bit weird).
I do need to see if the pharmacy will do me a flu stab as they were super keen to do so last year ;)
While the COVID vaccine knocked me out for about 2.5 days last week, I haven't had so much as a sore arm from the flu one on Monday.
While the COVID vaccine knocked me out for about 2.5 days last week, I haven't had so much as a sore arm from the flu one on Monday.
We both had two jabs today.
Await events...
Nonsense in medical records is normal and ordinary, but it does raise an interesting question of how that particular factoid got there. (Possibly a pharmacist in Huddersfield making a typo?)
This is why I don’t bother with the doctor unless it’s something chronic.
This is why I don’t bother with the doctor unless it’s something chronic.
Some of them are something chronic, it's true, but I have to sympathise with them occasionally: seeing a procession of old farts with virtually-identical conditions every day must be as boring as hell, not to mention smelly. But getting talked down to then slapped with a one-size-fits-all-(not you but live with it) cocktail of poisons and the same old screed of thou-shalt-nots gets up the nose faster than an LFT swab.
A consultant audiologist (or whatever they call ear doctors these days)
That's the one where you get out of bed and start to fall over backwards/sideways/anybloodyway, isn't it? Fortunately, when I built our bed I put metre-high posts at the corners.
A consultant audiologist (or whatever they call ear doctors these days)
Otolaryngologists, I think, AKA 'Snot doctors' in this household. Audiologists are the ones with the beepy headphones (and the good ones will have a random conversation with the patient in order to determine the pardon?-rate after jibbling hearing aids).
Throat flared up overnight, looks like the rubbish bin in a butcher's shop. Doc's away, locum's booked out (Monday, innit?). Dentist tomorrow. Hope antibiotic does something by Wednesday, but not so much that I feel too lousy to ride - the weather's perfect.
Gargle with soluble aspirin.I was given that advice by a GP decades ago, and it really does work.
Nonsense in medical records is normal and ordinary, but it does raise an interesting question of how that particular factoid got there. (Possibly a pharmacist in Huddersfield making a typo?)
The endocrinology team has now decided that there is an issue with my thyroid and has asked the GP to refer me. I've only been chasing this for three years.
I'm going to give the endocrinology team at Addenbrookes a call and see what the wait time is for an outpatient appointment. I have a feeling it might be a long time...
Bearable though. I'd rather put up with it than have surgery, with all the commensurate recovery bollocks.The commensurate recovery bollocks is a one time thing. The hip is arthritic, no doubt about that, so will need replacing sooner rather than later. Wait too long and the rest of me will be too worn out to appreciate the shiny! new! joint benefit.
Fresh antibiotics w. clavulanic acid topping to see if the Yellow Glob From Hell will succumb. If not, it's another round of specialist visits. I hate this f*cking year.That is weird. Last time I broke a wrist, it was set immediately and plastered.
In other news, MrsT recounts the story of one of her UK chums who went to A&E with a suspected broken wrist and got it X-rayed. The break confirmed, they got her an appointment with a fracture clinic. She just got it set & plastered, 2 weeks after the referral. :o
Fresh antibiotics w. clavulanic acid topping to see if the Yellow Glob From Hell will succumb. If not, it's another round of specialist visits. I hate this f*cking year.That is weird. Last time I broke a wrist, it was set immediately and plastered.
In other news, MrsT recounts the story of one of her UK chums who went to A&E with a suspected broken wrist and got it X-rayed. The break confirmed, they got her an appointment with a fracture clinic. She just got it set & plastered, 2 weeks after the referral. :o
IANAD, but I don't think you can set a break 2 weeks later, you'd have to 'rebreak' it (unless it was a hairline fracture and just needed holding in place, rather than 'setting').
Since my return to physical activity (in Nov 2022) from my radical prostatectomy operationSciatica, caused by my radical prostatectomy operation.
(Sept 2022) I've had a sharp pain in my right glute. I've been active all my life and have
never had that sort of pain before, but can't honestly put it down to the effects of the operation.
I've tried Pidgeon stretch, but that hasn't helped. I'm going to try a massage gun to see if it will
make things better.
That is weird. Last time I broke a wrist, it was set immediately and plastered.
IANAD, but I don't think you can set a break 2 weeks later, you'd have to 'rebreak' it (unless it was a hairline fracture and just needed holding in place, rather than 'setting').
I’m getting my flu jab this afternoon. It’ll be interesting to see if I get any reaction - several people I know who are normally fine with the jabs said it really knocked them back this year.
I’m getting my flu jab this afternoon. It’ll be interesting to see if I get any reaction - several people I know who are normally fine with the jabs said it really knocked them back this year.No reaction to either this year.
I'm not entirely certain I want to know the answer to this.
If someone is being given IV Vancomycin alongside IV flucloxacillin for an infection, does that signify an infection (bone) condition that is a matter of extreme concern? Full culture results are not available. MRSA is not a factor. Reading Vancomycin is an antibiotic of last resort makes me think so.
.. you don't want to let a bone infection take hold ...
I’m getting my flu jab this afternoon. It’ll be interesting to see if I get any reaction - several people I know who are normally fine with the jabs said it really knocked them back this year.
The endocrinology team has now decided that there is an issue with my thyroid and has asked the GP to refer me. I've only been chasing this for three years.
I'm going to give the endocrinology team at Addenbrookes a call and see what the wait time is for an outpatient appointment. I have a feeling it might be a long time...
I had a call from the endocrinology clinic admin bod - I should get an appointment in the next 4-6 weeks, which isn't bad. Plus it might be quicker if I can make a short notice slot. I explained I work from home and live a mile from the outpatients department. She said she'd let the team know... :thumbsup:
Some days I wish I'd stumped up for implants...
If your diet is as good as the food posts you sometimes share, they're probably unnecessary.
Vitamin D has all kinds of benefits though.
Also, there was no sugar rationing after WWII and sweets were cheap & easily available...
As were penicillin lozenges, over the counter without a prescription. My mum once gave me a full tube of them and told me to eat as many as I liked. Sweet and lemony they were.
As were penicillin lozenges, over the counter without a prescription. My mum once gave me a full tube of them and told me to eat as many as I liked. Sweet and lemony they were.
What is it with boomers and lozenges?
I once had an English teacher force-feed me one because I was having an asthma attack, thus confirming every prejudice I'd developed about language teachers' understanding of SCIENCE.
It's not really horrible, but if you're a bit sensitive or, say, eating, you might just prefer a warning:(click to show/hide)
Woke up this morning and the eczema on my hands is infected. That means another round of telephone consults with the GP to get some steroid+antibiotic cream.
It's not really horrible, but if you're a bit sensitive or, say, eating, you might just prefer a warning:(click to show/hide)
I had something similar, but never identified despite swabs. My "inny" became a swollen and extremely sore and prominent "outy" before equally mysteriously settling down, as a "flushy". Bodies eh?
Get a pair of white cotton gloves of the type worn by snooker referees and a hyooooge pot of emollient ointment. Prior to going to sleep slather your hands with the ointment and put on the gloves. The ointment will do its work overnight.
Technical bit - fold the gloves halfway inside out, so the hand bit is folded back over the fingers it is then easier to get them on with massively gooped-up hands by sticking your fingers in the finger holes of both gloves then using gloved fingers to fold the bottom part of each glove down to cover the rest of your hands.
GWS!
Partner's piano pupil yesterday had a cold and he reckons he'll get a Christmas cold too.
I think D still has his tonsils & adenoids but his colds tend to last longer and are much more miserable than mine.Isn't that cos "man flu"
He tends to announce he's dying, when I just need to blow my nose a bit more...
Yebbut women's immune systems mount stronger defences against infection because they evolved to cover the foetus as well as the mother. Thus "man flu" is a sexist myth.Harvard medical school completely disagrees with you.
Yebbut women's immune systems mount stronger defences against infection because they evolved to cover the foetus as well as the mother. Thus "man flu" is a sexist myth.Harvard medical school completely disagrees with you.
Women's immune systems have a less strong response.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/man-flu-really-thing-2018010413033 (https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/man-flu-really-thing-2018010413033)
Since flu symptoms are in large part due to the body's immune reaction, a lessened immune response in women may translate to milder symptoms.
So, I agree with the author of this new report, who states "…the concept of man flu, as commonly defined, is potentially unjust." We need a better understanding of how the flu affects men and women and why it may affect them differently.
Yebbut women's immune systems mount stronger defences against infection because they evolved to cover the foetus as well as the mother. Thus "man flu" is a sexist myth.Harvard medical school completely disagrees with you.
Women's immune systems have a less strong response.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/man-flu-really-thing-2018010413033 (https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/man-flu-really-thing-2018010413033)
Ian, I had been taught that women turn off one of their X but the study seems to suggest that a few immune related genes on the other X remain functional. Humans are so amazing.
Who on earth thinks up the names for ointments?
Anusol; guess where to be applied :demon:
There is another option. I have "varifocal" contact lenses. I once asked my optician if there was such a thing as varifocal contact lenses and he said no...but you can have different prescriptions in both eyes. The left eye is optimised for VDU use and the right eye for long distance. The brain then "picks the appropriate one" as necessary. It really works.
The brain then "picks the appropriate one" as necessary. It really works.I know quite a lot of folks who use one near and one distance contact lens successfully.
QuoteThe brain then "picks the appropriate one" as necessary. It really works.I know quite a lot of folks who use one near and one distance contact lens successfully.
Mostly orienteers who use one eye on the map in their hand and one on the terrain.
I tried this, but it just didn't work for me - my brain could not make the world look right and I kept falling over.
It was an expensive failure.
I once asked my optician if there was such a thing as varifocal contact lenses and he said no...but you can have different prescriptions in both eyes.I don't know when you had this conversation, but you can now get varifocal contacts. I have used two different sorts. The first when I was still trying to wear contacts all the time. They were not much cop and I had to use reading glasses as well for the computers which rather missed the point. I asked again a few years later, when my contact use case had changed, and was offered a newer style. These weren't too bad, although I only really used them when re-enacting (modern glasses do not mix well with the English Civil War). I was told at one point that they were just about legal for driving and I'd already found that I really didn't like driving any distance at all in them. I cannot have the one eye for close work and one for distance solution as my eyes are too different.
I don't know when you had this conversation, but you can now get varifocal contacts.
I have phoned hospital. They estimate another month waiting list.
The private physio around here has a 6-month waiting list, and she wouldn't be able to see my x-rays and scans.
I'm taking painkillers before going to bed so I can sleep. That usually lasts me until about 5:00. A.m.
I have phoned hospital. They estimate another month waiting list.You can submit a Subject access request to see your medical records and thus share relevant bits with private physio. (it's a data protection thing so you have to get everything held).
The private physio around here has a 6-month waiting list, and she wouldn't be able to see my x-rays and scans.
I'm taking painkillers before going to bed so I can sleep. That usually lasts me until about 5:00. A.m.
I doubt skye has better facilities.I have phoned hospital. They estimate another month waiting list.You can submit a Subject access request to see your medical records and thus share relevant bits with private physio. (it's a data protection thing so you have to get everything held).
The private physio around here has a 6-month waiting list, and she wouldn't be able to see my x-rays and scans.
I'm taking painkillers before going to bed so I can sleep. That usually lasts me until about 5:00. A.m.
currently that's the only way for patients to access their data up here.
which is a total faff.
It might be worth travelling to inverness or Skye for?
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you really pay more tax for better paid healthcare workers.
When you start comparing the differences of services it's mostly just political and health economic trade offs.
And if you manage to get a GP appointment in Cambridge there’s a 3 month waiting list for NHS physio assessment.
Luckily I could be seen by the physios at work the next day.
And if you manage to get a GP appointment in Cambridge there’s a 3 month waiting list for NHS physio assessment.
Luckily I could be seen by the physios at work the next day.
Not everyone has private physios at work
I can honestly say that I'm currently missing the private health access I had when living and working in Cambridge.And if you manage to get a GP appointment in Cambridge there’s a 3 month waiting list for NHS physio assessment.
Luckily I could be seen by the physios at work the next day.
Not everyone has private physios at work
I would go to the private clinic in Inverness and get a steroid injection
My dentist asks for a deposit. That said, I don't usually bother with the hygienist and let the dentist attack me with his power grinder.
I will have to have the eyes diluted to try and find out what has happened :'(
Appearances consistent with supraspinatus tendinosis and fluid around the biceps tendon. Features suggestive of adhesive capsulitis.So, basically frozen shoulder.
Felt great yesterday morning, after a day on the bike with no metformin. Nonetheless I took my 3x500g like a good little diabetic. Result: I've felt like shit warmed up on a shovel since I got up this morning.
May last yearOverdone it. Back to where I was a month ago. Shooting pain through shoulder now.
US at end of May.
Saw Physio a week later. She seemed to have only read first sentence from the US report.
I've started on sets of the recommended exercises for frozen shoulder.
Overdone it. Back to where I was a month ago. Shooting pain through shoulder now.
The reason cataracts
just done an online consultation at GP. I developed a small lesion on my lower eyelid which has been concerning. 5 minutes to log in, use NHS app credentials, upload details and a photograph and send it all off. promised response within 30 hours. We will see how they do.I find phone cameras dreadful for photographing lumps, bumps, and swellings. Something that looks red and inflamed, or has visible blood vessels, just looks 'flesh' coloured in the photo.
just done an online consultation at GP. I developed a small lesion on my lower eyelid which has been concerning. 5 minutes to log in, use NHS app credentials, upload details and a photograph and send it all off. promised response within 30 hours. We will see how they do.I find phone cameras dreadful for photographing lumps, bumps, and swellings. Something that looks red and inflamed, or has visible blood vessels, just looks 'flesh' coloured in the photo.
I find that interesting as photos are widely used by dermatology for follow up, etcjust done an online consultation at GP. I developed a small lesion on my lower eyelid which has been concerning. 5 minutes to log in, use NHS app credentials, upload details and a photograph and send it all off. promised response within 30 hours. We will see how they do.I find phone cameras dreadful for photographing lumps, bumps, and swellings. Something that looks red and inflamed, or has visible blood vessels, just looks 'flesh' coloured in the photo.
I find that interesting, as when I take photos (particularly of the inflamed eczema on my hands) it tends to make redness and inflammation look worse. Perhaps it's a phone brand/model thing..?
I find that interesting as photos are widely used by dermatology for follow up, etcjust done an online consultation at GP. I developed a small lesion on my lower eyelid which has been concerning. 5 minutes to log in, use NHS app credentials, upload details and a photograph and send it all off. promised response within 30 hours. We will see how they do.I find phone cameras dreadful for photographing lumps, bumps, and swellings. Something that looks red and inflamed, or has visible blood vessels, just looks 'flesh' coloured in the photo.
I find that interesting, as when I take photos (particularly of the inflamed eczema on my hands) it tends to make redness and inflammation look worse. Perhaps it's a phone brand/model thing..?
Most folk I know who’ve had cataract surgery have found it a fairly painless breeze, clearing their vision enormously, within a few days.
I wish you luck!
just done an online consultation at GP. I developed a small lesion on my lower eyelid which has been concerning. 5 minutes to log in, use NHS app credentials, upload details and a photograph and send it all off. promised response within 30 hours. We will see how they do.
just done an online consultation at GP. I developed a small lesion on my lower eyelid which has been concerning. 5 minutes to log in, use NHS app credentials, upload details and a photograph and send it all off. promised response within 30 hours. We will see how they do.
Excellent service from GP. They phoned me back within the 30 hour window (26 hours), had reviewed my information and the photograph and agreed that an urgent referral was appropriate. That was wednesday.
This morning I recieved a letter acknowedging the referral and giving a 4 day turn around for recieving an appointment.
Then this afternoon i recieved an email from the hospital via patientknowsbest (PKB) to say that my information had been updated, despite to my knowledge never previously enrolling! Initial transfer was via NHS login which is fine but then it needs another password with no information on how to set one up or change it. Very poor.
I’m wondering if this happens frequently...
BMI is indeed bollocks. It's also racist and I think sexist, based on cisgender white men at SomePointTM and doesn't account for women and various ethnic groups' "normal" body types.
Congrats on ditching the Metformin T42, hope the new thing's effects are manageable.
I had a Our Future Health screening last week. I new my cholesterol was a touch high but the instant tester came back with a reading of nearly 8, which is way too high. Anyway the woman doing the test said it was because the test wasn't done fasted and only a couple of hrs after b'fast.Same in my case.
Always fun seeing drug trends come round and round, a sign of getting old innit.
Our doctor's practice has been nagging us for several years to use statins, based on total cholesterol values.My wife is the same. We tend to be keto in our diet but with a plant based bent more recently. Her cholesterol is high but all her ratios are excellent. I sent a print our to the practice nurse who was doing the hassling.
When I tell them to look at the HDL/LDL ratio they tend to back off.
The on-line calculator for risk of a CV incident is fun. If I knock 5 years off my age, the risk goes down enormously.
So I reckon if I can keep fitter than the average bod 5 years younger, that will do.
BMI is indeed bollocks. It's also racist and I think sexist, based on cisgender white men at SomePointTM and doesn't account for women and various ethnic groups' "normal" body types.it's used in most health risk models, as its a fairly easy way of getting a crude idea of whether you're putting your organs under strain or not without having to use calipers or other methods.
Congrats on ditching the Metformin T42, hope the new thing's effects are manageable.
I had a Our Future Health screening last week. I new my cholesterol was a touch high but the instant tester came back with a reading of nearly 8, which is way too high. Anyway the woman doing the test said it was because the test wasn't done fasted and only a couple of hrs after b'fast.Unless the science has changed, or at least the interpretation of the science, the accepted wisdom during my (approx) 40 years of measuring Cholesterol, and its subtypes as they became measurable, was that fasting wasn't required to accurately measure Cholesterol (including HDL, LDL, & VLDL) - but fasting was most definitely needed for Triglyceride assay, which is generally measured by Laboratories at the same as cholesterol.
My dad had crooked little fingers, one bent at 90degrees. My brother's were a little crooked, mine not noticeable and it straightened.camptodactyly or clinodactyly depending on orientation
I think that was something different to Dupuytren's, erm Camptodactyly it is called
And out again, having had pink patch + divers blibs & blebs cauterized with liquid N2: "pre-cancerous". Cheery lass, the dermato, same age as my son, thought I was 10 years younger than I am so now I'm a cheery lad. Tell you what, though, liquid N2 on the bridge of your nose hurts.
Last time I had N2 treatment was at university, when a bored doc with a vast Dewar vessel daubed warts with a Q-tip.
Hope everyone else's skin issues turn out as trivial.
80% probability that it will never progress. Lower if you have a first degree relative with the cndition
Isn't Dupuytren’s straightening surgery one of the most effective ones? My stepmum had surgery for hers very successfully.
I have a finger stuck at 45 degrees for OtherReasons, it is annoying, but the hand is so generally impaired there isn't much that could be done, so thankfully no one tried to hack at it in the 1980s. Just a stupid splint that made my finger go blue so I binned it.
80% of nodules never progress to a contracture. If you are over 65-70 it is probably 90%. Even if it does progress to a contracture there are simple treatments available which are n and out in 30 minutes and using the hand the following day.80% probability that it will never progress. Lower if you have a first degree relative with the cndition
Do you mean 80% chance of it not progressing far enough for surgery to be recommended, or something else? If the former, that's comforting, thanks; the impression I got from the Dr was that it was almost inevitable. I'm not aware of any relative having it.
My dad had crooked little fingers, one bent at 90degrees. My brother's were a little crooked, mine not noticeable and it straightened.
I think that was something different to Dupuytren's, erm Camptodactyly it is called
80% of nodules never progress to a contracture. If you are over 65-70 it is probably 90%. Even if it does progress to a contracture there are simple treatments available which are n and out in 30 minutes and using the hand the following day.80% probability that it will never progress. Lower if you have a first degree relative with the cndition
Do you mean 80% chance of it not progressing far enough for surgery to be recommended, or something else? If the former, that's comforting, thanks; the impression I got from the Dr was that it was almost inevitable. I'm not aware of any relative having it.
Given Chris Bainbridge is THE MAN for this I'm astounded even Regulator feels the need to interject.
I guess with my lack of exercise, general lazyitis, and winter hibernation feeding, I'm becoming a lardy fatty. 205.8 lbs BMI 26.4, 0.56 waist to height ratio. :facepalm: Which is a bit concerning as both my dad, and grandad were very overweight, and had issues with their heart (dad died of sudden heart failure in 2016).Don't listen to BMI.
I guess with my lack of exercise, general lazyitis, and winter hibernation feeding, I'm becoming a lardy fatty. 205.8 lbs BMI 26.4, 0.56 waist to height ratio. :facepalm: Which is a bit concerning as both my dad, and grandad were very overweight, and had issues with their heart (dad died of sudden heart failure in 2016).
My BMI is at the level where I have been refused critical illness cover and the stats on hip replacement complications mean I won't do it, even if they would.I guess with my lack of exercise, general lazyitis, and winter hibernation feeding, I'm becoming a lardy fatty. 205.8 lbs BMI 26.4, 0.56 waist to height ratio. :facepalm: Which is a bit concerning as both my dad, and grandad were very overweight, and had issues with their heart (dad died of sudden heart failure in 2016).
I can't remember when I was last had a BMI of 26.4.... perhaps when I was a foetus.
My BMI is at the level at the moment where some providers might decline elective care.
My BMI is at the level where I have been refused critical illness cover and the stats on hip replacement complications mean I won't do it, even if they would.I guess with my lack of exercise, general lazyitis, and winter hibernation feeding, I'm becoming a lardy fatty. 205.8 lbs BMI 26.4, 0.56 waist to height ratio. :facepalm: Which is a bit concerning as both my dad, and grandad were very overweight, and had issues with their heart (dad died of sudden heart failure in 2016).
I can't remember when I was last had a BMI of 26.4.... perhaps when I was a foetus.
My BMI is at the level at the moment where some providers might decline elective care.
BMI might be a population measure but there's no real doubt that if you have big numbers and aren't a professional athlete, you're unhealthily fat.
26.4 is higher than my goal weight.
Back in the 80's the overweight Franz-Josef Strauß, Minister-President of Bavaria, caused a rule to be adopted to the effect that civil servants whose weight in kilos was greater than their height in cm minus 100 had six months to reduce it or they'd get the boot. In other words, if he was getting grief for his weight he'd do his best to make everyone else suffer too. Not a bad rule, though.
Anyway, I have just had the eBrute out without the battery for a 2km blast to try out my new cleats. Blood sugar dropped so fast I had half a fruit/peanut bar at the turnaround. Getting it under control is going to take a bit of work... Maybe (bleh) walking might be involved.
BMI might be a population measure but there's no real doubt that if you have big numbers and aren't a professional athlete, you're unhealthily fat.
The reason Hip (and I guess knee) procedures have BMI limits is about the forces through the femur. I think my dysplasia book says for every Kg of bodyweight there's approx 6 Newtons worth of force through the joint/femur. That's why they want us less heavy for hip surgeries and replacement may be even more so than the osteotomies. That is why I thought getting 10Kg off my weight in 2020 was worth doing, 60N being not insignificant.
I am sat here recuperating after removal of my eyelid lesion. Everybody is being very nice to me.
I am sat here recuperating after removal of my eyelid lesion.
Everybody is being very nice to me.
Bowl of "coffee" with a length of split baguette with butter to dunk in it. Sure you end up with butter floaters but that just adds to the charm. Slurp!Will you please stop going on about the advantages of living in France, this talk of bowls of coffee, patisseries, croissants, etc is really quite of putting for most of us. Most of us still have to put up with stale dishwater, cheap bacon sandwiches and stale flapjack at our stops.
Brian, that doesn't sound irretrievable. I too am lardy (similar BMI to you I think) due to immobility and slightly suboptimal diet.
I'm hoping once this leg has healed I can look at my options to do something about it as I do know weight-management is one of the few things that helps hip dysplasia. Although my excellent physios also counselled me not to get too fixated on 'being lardy' as I'm not close to worrying them and they didn't want me to go underweight either.
I hope you can look at your options and find something that works for you without fucking your head up too much cos weightloss is surrounded by much fuckery/stigma.
Mindfulness about eating sounds wise. You may be one of those people who will gradually lose weight with a small deficit of calories, or may not, but either way, if you can stop the gain, and related habits which lead to gain, you can re-assess for weightloss another time.
I'm very much not worrying right now while in recovery, trying to get my veg/vitamin/calcium, iron and protein uptake as high as manageable, worry about the rest later.
The doctor said go to a and e which I think 111 should have advised.
Anyway, hope TEH GOOD DRUGZ help, and you aren't stuck with the extra plumbing for too long...
Could be up to 6 hours to be seen :o
My mum treated our verrucae, with razor blades and salicylic acid. Nurses really are fucking sadists.
Your be lucky barakta, I was lucky to get a pillow. Rare apparently in wexham hospital a and e
I ended up having a scan in what looked like donut 🍩 before getting painkillers.
Now back at home and have spent most of the day sleeping 😴. So far so good :)
I have been given a appointment at heatherwood hospital ascot on 20th March with urology. At 0845 in the morning. I don't think I can cycle there and the bus doesn't start early enough and awkward to Get to. I don't know anyone who could give me a lift so a expensive taxi both ways it will probably be.. if they follow what they did last time they will remove the catheter and fill me up and see if my plumbing works. If it does no more catheter :thumbsup:, if it doesn't..........
So, today the (very nice) quack took some photies of the lump on my face. She seemed quite excited to do so. We had a look at Google images of the various likely things that lumps the face can be. She reckons it's most likely a basal cell carcinoma. I'm getting referred to Dermatology (average 22 week waiting time in NHS Teuchter) to no doubt get hacked with a rusty scalpel by a recently graduated PSO leech.
It is a very simple process. I took three readings and they were all different.
I'm making huge strides in recovering from frozen shoulder.
I received a text from my gp practice inviting me to submit blood pressure readings.Yesterday I received another text from the gp surgery, apologising for sending out the original
They informed me that they have a machine in there that 'robotically' does it for you.
It is a very simple process. I took three readings and they were all different.
No1: 149/93 hr 59
No2: 142/92 hr 60
No3: 138/85 hr 58
I returned home, replied to the text and submitted reading no:3.
Some of the woo behind the ZOE stuff being questioned. I think Spector means well, but that is a business monetising health (s)care founded by an “entrepreneur”. IMO of course.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68452019
Some of the woo behind the ZOE stuff being questioned. I think Spector means well, but that is a business monetising health (s)care founded by an “entrepreneur”. IMO of course.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68452019
I think most people that have done the Zoe thing, at least those I know personally, use it as a learning exercise and take what they can from it without seeing it as being definitive about what they should or should not eat.
but those adverts really wind me up......and that's my issue :-)
What I really resent, is the language of some of the adverts on You Tube.
UTIs can have general awful effects, on you state of mind, not just physical (one dragging down the other).
Fingers crossed they can sort it quickly, so you can start to recover.
... This Too Shall Pass.
Very small bowel movement this morning but the day is still young. Many thanks everyone your support does help me :)
Up to heatherwood hospital in the morning to hopefully get the catheter removed. I will go for a ride whatever the weather if I have a success :)
Given the sunshine this morning I wish you well on your ride.
And the hateful catheter is gone :thumbsup: . Hopefully it won't be back for years :-) . Thank you all for the support and advice. You have helped me keep slightly sane :P
Hmm.
I was on Omeprazole for years.
2 doses a day of slow release, it was expected to gradually build up. I found less than 24 hours before it was noticeably beneficial.
I suspect that your gastro expert was thinking of non-slow release omeprazole. the slow stuff is capsules filled with granules; these are coated and release gradually, so there is a sustained dosage throughout the day.
And the hateful catheter is gone :thumbsup:. Hopefully it won't be back for years :). Thank you all for the support and advice. You have helped me keep slightly sane :P
Cycleman was introduced to Sanity and they soon became fast friends – but only on Facebook. They get along very well as long as they don't have to meet in person.And the hateful catheter is gone :thumbsup: . Hopefully it won't be back for years :-) . Thank you all for the support and advice. You have helped me keep slightly sane :P
“Sane” & “Cycleman”. Words rarely used in the same sentence…..
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Leicester University is doing a study into Atrial Fibrillation in endurance athletes.
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/afletes-mri?fbclid=IwAR3W2VTGvTCqqL3VVcTGZPhk2s1Oz0p0VYvxlUkUZ0DpHh6ga82ETbTCcIE_aem_AXP951Rh7iHQ9jmRGFtKzGSumZZ-AAAz-GdJusLeyt-FHehPAVWrCiDxuaDBG07DCzpxRVn8xdodZAwa7z2P1_fz (https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/afletes-mri?fbclid=IwAR3W2VTGvTCqqL3VVcTGZPhk2s1Oz0p0VYvxlUkUZ0DpHh6ga82ETbTCcIE_aem_AXP951Rh7iHQ9jmRGFtKzGSumZZ-AAAz-GdJusLeyt-FHehPAVWrCiDxuaDBG07DCzpxRVn8xdodZAwa7z2P1_fz)
Yes. I have "ex-smoker". Nearly 60 years ago for me. It's like an accusation. It never appeared until I was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation a few years ago. Apparently, according to an unrelated investigation, I also have COPD (no symptoms). I wonder if future observers might see the COPD and "ex-smoker", tap their noses and go, "Ah!". A doctor friend told me that in connection with COPD, "lives in Manchester" would be a far more pertinent remark!
Ha! Fencing is a great skill. Tree surgeons just flattened ours, so we are looking for someone! ;) ;DTried fencing for a year or so. Bloody hard work and completely asymmetric.
Had a gander at the report of my coronarography. Amongst other notes: "tabagisme sevré", i.e. smoker, stopped. Yeah, >50 years ago but they bear grudges. >:(yes I asked about this one years ago.
Ha! Fencing is a great skill. Tree surgeons just flattened ours, so we are looking for someone! ;) ;DTried fencing for a year or so. Bloody hard work and completely asymmetric.
I kind of fell out with the club because all I wanted was the fitness, they only wanted competivity.
Both my parents fenced. My mother was the Southern African women’s foil champion, back in the early 60s.
So I bought myself a blood pressure monitor today,
a "Kinetic Wellbeing Blood Pressure Monitor" from the store which used to have a Laminated Book of Dreams.
The monitor showed a reading of 131/89 which according to the NHS Check your Blood Pressure Website is High!
https://www.nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/check-your-blood-pressure-reading
No doubt it's my FND as well causing this.
I do think I'll monitor it for a couple of weeks then make appointment with GP to discuss, especially as I'm still having a "pressurised head" feeling.
So I bought myself a blood pressure monitor today,
a "Kinetic Wellbeing Blood Pressure Monitor" from the store which used to have a Laminated Book of Dreams.
The monitor showed a reading of 131/89 which according to the NHS Check your Blood Pressure Website is High!
https://www.nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/check-your-blood-pressure-reading
No doubt it's my FND as well causing this.
I do think I'll monitor it for a couple of weeks then make appointment with GP to discuss, especially as I'm still having a "pressurised head" feeling.
Don't believe a single reading. Always take three over a period of time and the lowest will probably be the most accurate. The first one is normally the worst... with a bit of 'white coat' effect.