Author Topic: The health and fitness thread about random things (Read 479332 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #3725 on:** 16 December, 2021, 05:21:14 pm »

The term solar (actinic) keratosis springs to mind.

This is a thought on the Internet from somebody who has not seen anything & comes with usual caveats.

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #3726 on:** 17 December, 2021, 10:26:09 am »

Woke up this morning with a really sore TFL. can hardly walk upstairs. Getting older is no fun!

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #3727 on:** 25 December, 2021, 06:32:20 pm »

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

hellymedic · « **Reply #3728 on:** 25 December, 2021, 07:04:30 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 25 December, 2021, 06:32:20 pm

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

Please get a PCR ASAP! LFTs are for screening folk who DON'T have symptoms!

Sorry!

Get Well Soon!

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #3729 on:** 26 December, 2021, 07:57:20 pm »

Pcr ordered

Pulse ox swings between 92 and 95

hellymedic · « **Reply #3730 on:** 26 December, 2021, 10:42:14 pm »

Get well soon!

woollypigs · « **Reply #3731 on:** 30 December, 2021, 10:20:32 am »

Well that's my getting back to rowing after crimbo delayed. While out walkies I felt like something hit me on the calf or I had touched a electric fence with my calf.

Moving foot around and bending leg and even touching the place I got "hit" I feel just fine. Just at certain weight bearing I get pain.

An image search.with Dr Google says I've stained the Gastrocnemius.

So I'll have to take it easy, rest and ice it for a few days and then see what is what.

T42 · « **Reply #3732 on:** 02 January, 2022, 08:19:09 am »

Funny one, hopefully insignificant: doing our usual 5k dander with MrsT yesterday I felt light pressure round my left ankle, as from a too-tight sock or even a hand resting on it. At the same time, my left foot wanted to turn inwards slightly. The feeling is there again this morning; different socks, though, and gutties rather than walking shoes.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3733 on:** 03 January, 2022, 08:37:55 pm »

I have a face-to-face rheumatology appointment tomorrow. I've just done an LFT (negative) and been re-reading my appointment letter. Everything is clear but for one puzzling condition:

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We can't allow anyone in clinic who is wearing a uniform

I can't understand this. There are some conditions only being allowed to attend on your own unless you need a carer for some reason. But quite a lot of carers wear uniforms as part of their job.

Are any of our medical professionals able to throw light onto this?

Kim · « **Reply #3734 on:** 03 January, 2022, 08:45:16 pm »

I'd assume it's so they can't be mistaken for a member of staff^[1]. Obviously that's more likely in the case of non-hospital healthcare workers or military uniforms than someone wearing, say, the uniform of The Scottish Restaurant, but I suppose they want to keep it simple^[2].

It's not unusual for carers to not wear uniforms when accompanying a client in the outside world, so as not to attract abuse.

_{[1] Not that it necessarily works. IME walking around a hospital while looking like you know what you're doing is perfectly sufficient to get you mistaken for a member of staff. As is arriving by bicycle.
[2] Unlike the average NHS trust uniform policy, which will be full of important distinctions of the different shades of blue, and be almost, but not quite entirely, unlike those of the adjacent trusts.}

MikeFromLFE · « **Reply #3735 on:** 03 January, 2022, 09:50:09 pm »

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.

Kim · « **Reply #3736 on:** 03 January, 2022, 10:05:59 pm »

Quote from: MikeFromLFE on 03 January, 2022, 09:50:09 pm

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.

A strange parallel universe where people care about controlling infection, yes.

Seems plausible.

woollypigs · « **Reply #3737 on:** 04 January, 2022, 11:31:51 am »

I have self diagnosed phantosmia, where I smell cigarette smoke.

In various strength from someone walking past who have just smoked to someone blowing into an ashtray aimed into your face (yes that was "fun" back in the mid/late 80's in DK).

It is often that strong/real that it causes me to cough, like back when I was 9 and sneaked a puff from my folks cancer sticks. When it is bad I can't taste or smell anything but cigarette smoke.

I think I got the smell all the time, just got used to it. When it flares up it is at random times, haven't found a pattern like when drinking, it's cold or if it is food linked.

It started after I went to an ENT specialist* in 2015. After I had suffered with badly with middle ear infection for a long period. That taking sudafed daily like gumdrop didn't even touch.

The specialist gave me steroids which made everything worse - worse pain, length of time when it was REALLY bad, and nose gunk flow and I felt even worse with general energy etc. After a month I went back and the specialist said - I don't know why the steroids is making it worse and what do you want me to do.

Since I have had all the other test while looking into what was wrong with me with CT/MRI scans, blood tests and even eletro zapping of my nerves etc. I'm pretty sure it is not a stroke, head injury, brain tumor, neuroblastoma, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease as I haven't got any other signs of these issues just the god awful smell.

What I have read it's a serious bout of sinus infection or a nasty cold can cause these phantom smells, but they should disappear in a few weeks to month. There is various drugs you can take to remove it but by the sound of it, it isn't really the drug that helps - it is time. From reading online GP's don't really understand it and also don't want to give you these drugs.

The only thing I have found that removes this horrid smell is eating Fisherman's Friend.

* the final doctor/specialist I got send to and requested to see, in my 3+ years of trying to figure out with regards to the pain I had in my arms, remember that https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=65523.0

Lightning Phil · « **Reply #3738 on:** 05 January, 2022, 07:03:23 pm »

Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 17 December, 2021, 10:26:09 am

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?

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #3739 on:** 06 January, 2022, 11:58:34 am »

Quote from: Lightning Phil on 05 January, 2022, 07:03:23 pm

Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 17 December, 2021, 10:26:09 am
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?

Tensor fascia Lata. Muscle on the outside of the hip.

Thankfully all settled with a day or two of rest, foam rolling and use of electrothumper massage

L CC · « **Reply #3740 on:** 12 January, 2022, 12:58:18 pm »

Feedback on my latest x-rays yesterday. Severe arthritis and bone spur on the inside of the joint of my right knee. Hobbling about not being able to use my left foot post surgery has exacerbated the existing damage to the point I am now almost totally out of cartilage in there. I can't walk without aids and can only cycle for about an hour.
And the operated foot? It hasn't made any difference. I'm still getting hotfoot after 45 minutes riding. Looks like recurrent bursitis on the metatarsal joint.

FML, as they say.

woollypigs · « **Reply #3741 on:** 12 January, 2022, 01:17:25 pm »

Bugger, but you are doing good times on the rower

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #3742 on:** 12 January, 2022, 02:00:31 pm »

Bugger, squared!

Kim · « **Reply #3743 on:** 12 January, 2022, 02:12:00 pm »

Well that's shit

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3744 on:** 12 January, 2022, 05:42:01 pm »

barakta · « **Reply #3745 on:** 13 January, 2022, 12:35:37 am »

Ouch! Did the medics make any suggestion of possible treatment options for you?

T42 · « **Reply #3746 on:** 13 January, 2022, 09:12:21 am »

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.

Pingu · « **Reply #3747 on:** 13 January, 2022, 09:31:55 am »

At least you can dodge the Vietnam draft.

L CC · « **Reply #3748 on:** 13 January, 2022, 10:59:13 am »

Quote from: barakta on 13 January, 2022, 12:35:37 am

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.
I'm being referred.

Quote from: T42 on 13 January, 2022, 09:12:21 am

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.

Quote from: Pingu on 13 January, 2022, 09:31:55 am

At least you can dodge the Vietnam draft.

Every cloud

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3749 on:** 13 January, 2022, 01:29:32 pm »

Not good news. I hope something can be done about it, at some point.