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BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3225 on: 09 August, 2020, 10:13:48 am »
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.

---o0o---

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.

Hopefully T42, although I'm hoping it'll still be 2020 when I get my appointment to see the neurologist...  :facepalm

I hope you feel better soon yourself, though!  :thumbsup:

T42

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3226 on: 09 August, 2020, 10:57:11 am »
Clearing slowly, thanks, Brian.  Reckon I'll get out again tomorrow and do it all over again.
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Kim

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3227 on: 10 August, 2020, 01:08:23 pm »
Discussing some acute and mysteriously non-standard knee pain[1] last night:

Barakta: Is that one Bad Knee?
Me: Yes.  Does that make the other one Little Monster Knee?
Barakta: We're *not* naming your knees after ian's cats.


[1] Later resolved by walking *up* the stairs.

BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3228 on: 10 August, 2020, 01:47:53 pm »
Anyway, letter arrived for appointment for lower spine MRI. Sunday 23rd of August at 5:15pm.   :thumbsup:

barakta

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3229 on: 10 August, 2020, 01:56:11 pm »
Anyway, letter arrived for appointment for lower spine MRI. Sunday 23rd of August at 5:15pm.   :thumbsup:

EXCELLENT!


T42

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3230 on: 10 August, 2020, 02:46:39 pm »
 :thumbsup:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3231 on: 10 August, 2020, 08:45:02 pm »
Good news Brian, sounds like you might be on the way to getting this sorted out.
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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3232 on: 10 August, 2020, 08:51:01 pm »
Good stuff.   :thumbsup:

BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3233 on: 15 August, 2020, 11:27:10 am »
So I now have my appointment with the neurosurgeon.

A telephone consultation, at 10:50 am on the 2nd of October!  :facepalm:

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3234 on: 15 August, 2020, 12:44:46 pm »
Less good stuff  >:(

BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3235 on: 15 August, 2020, 01:45:06 pm »
Less good stuff  >:(

No doubt a 3 month waiting list after that to actually see him in person...

T42

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3236 on: 15 August, 2020, 02:21:44 pm »
Bummer again. :(

---o0o---

It sounds like I'm only getting to the angiologist because the usual bloke is on hols and nobody wants to see his scotum locum.
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FifeingEejit

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3237 on: 16 August, 2020, 12:26:33 pm »


So I now have my appointment with the neurosurgeon.

A telephone consultation, at 10:50 am on the 2nd of October!  :facepalm:

They won't have you actually in the hospital until they're doing stuff they can't deal with through interview and over near me (video consultation)

A month and a half isn't too bad for transfer...

Shite not being able to do stuff tho but.


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BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3238 on: 17 August, 2020, 04:20:07 pm »
Saw GP today to arrange extension to fit note (taking me up to September now).  GP wants me to get a blood test to check for Vit B12 and folate levels, so that's organised for tomorrow with the phlebotomist

T42

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3239 on: 21 August, 2020, 08:45:52 am »
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.
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BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3240 on: 22 August, 2020, 10:30:57 am »
Orthopaedic surgery clinic appointment Wed 9th September.  ??? Hopefully it's to discus results on tomorrows MRI scan of lower spine...  And not just to say "we'll refer you to $department, with a x month waiting list".   

T42

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3241 on: 22 August, 2020, 10:41:04 am »
Good luck.
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barakta

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3242 on: 22 August, 2020, 02:40:13 pm »
Fingers crossed. I'm shocked how long you've been left with severe symptoms, unable to work and not even given answers.

Beardy

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3243 on: 22 August, 2020, 05:48:21 pm »
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.
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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3244 on: 22 August, 2020, 06:07:01 pm »
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.

This sort of thing happens to me with tedious regularity because my GP, while lovely, emits bogons and shouldn't be allowed near a computer.

BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3245 on: 22 August, 2020, 06:40:37 pm »
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".

barakta

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3246 on: 22 August, 2020, 07:13:06 pm »
Fingers crossed new neuro will have ideas cos it seems utterly bizarre to have sudden onset and no especial answers.

FifeingEejit

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3247 on: 23 August, 2020, 01:54:10 pm »
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".

Consultants have opinions, they may differ from the opinions of other consultants even though based on the same source information.
Don't let the lack of answers so far get you down, there is an answer out there, you just need to find the consultant(s) that can see it and unless it's extreme should be able to find them under NHS Scotland funding.

I'm assuming that your appointments with the consultant in Edinburgh is automatic and part of your NHS Fife care rather than because you've asked for a second opinon or for transfer to NHS Lothian's care.

So this is based on that:
NHS Fife are very limited in a number of areas as to the services they provide locally and contract other boards to provide services to them*; you're still under NHS Fife's care for the Edinburgh consultant.
If after working with the Edinburgh consultant you're still not happy with the diagnosis or case management, you can ask for either a second opinon (Which will be arranged by NHS Fife with a consultant elsewhere, probably Glasgow) or for the case to be transferred to another board.

The problem is if necessary both the second opinion and transfer routes takes time, effort and energy to argue for, the important bit to make clear to them is you want to work and you want to ride your bike if at all possible and you're not giving up until all routes are exhausted, many people give up and get retired due to ill health and sloth.

A friend had her ACL replacement transferred to NHS Lothian from NHS Tayside because she was unhappy with the consultant in Tayside (like proper unhappy, as far as she was concerned what was being proposed was batshit crazy experimental stuff and she wanted the tried and tested ACL graft that would allow her to ski again (Also helped she's medically trained))


* This is normal in Scotland, there's no point trying to recruit 14 shit hot Neurologists as you'll have 14 bored shit hot Neurologists looking for another post.
The structure is for the larger boards (Lothian, Glasgow, Grampian, Tayside) to cover most of the more specialized work on behalf of the smaller boards (A&A, Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles, Fife, Borders, D&G), with the medium sized boards (Highland, Forth Valley and Lanarkshire) doing a bit more than the smaller ones.

Even in the larger boards work is covered by Lothian and Glasgow for Tayside and Grampian, for example any cardiology work beyond fitting Stents is likely to go to Lothian and Glasgow no matter where you are.  The cardiologist we work with is registered as a provider to Lothian, Fife and Tayside, and his private work and then there's his involvement in Digital and his own software development work... (Workaholic or what)

BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3248 on: 23 August, 2020, 07:37:09 pm »
No, I've not asked for second opinion yet or anything.


Lumbar spine MRI done today, so hopefully should get the results when I see ortho consultant (who specialises in Arthroplasty, knees and trauma according to their bio  ??? ) on the 9th of September.  ???

Hopefully should get blood results back this week sometime...

BrianI

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Re: The health and fitness thread about random things
« Reply #3249 on: 24 August, 2020, 04:22:07 pm »
Blood tests back today. Now I'm on a 3 month prescription for 5mg folic acid daily!