The health and fitness thread about random things

[Basil]

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.

^ This

[chrisbainbridge]

I had a lovely 20 mile ride home from work, made tea and then metaphorically collapsed, shattered.  Desperate for some toast and butter.  Most unlike me.

Then realised, I had my Covid booster at lunchtime.

Eat the toast and go to bed

And I broke a tooth eating tea!

[T42]

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.

[DuncanM]

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.

[T42]

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.

Ta, and I see what you mean.  Funny how you can labour under a misapprehension and no-one puts you right for 35 years.  Pain might have been caused by my floaty left kneecap, then - GP remarked on it last time I had a knee problem.  Anyway, I did an energetic 86k with only a mild ache yesterday so I'm putting it on the don't worry list and not carrying 10kg baskets of logs up from the cellar for now.

[BrianI]

So I have my face to face neurologist review appointment tomorrow (which I can't help but think I'd still be waiting on if I hadn't grinked to my local political councillors).

So will I have some answers tomorrow afternoon?

Or will the diagnosis can be kicked down the road for another 12 to 18 months as I get referred to see someone else, with an 18 month waiting list for a  referral to go on the waiting list, waiting list...   

[T42]

Sounds like a Cop26 allegory.

[BrianI]

Well, no real answers today from my appointment. A "working" diagnosis of potentially "Functional Neurological Disorder", as well ad the neurologist saying "it may be something degenerative in my brain or  spinal cord"

The neurologist did record a video of my shoogly walking, which he will email to Prof Jon Stone, Professor of Neurology, one of the top neurologists in the UK, who I  will now been referred to. 

--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...   

[Cudzoziemiec]

That doesn't sound too good Brian. 

[BrianI]

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.

[FifeingEejit]

--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...   

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/

[Pingu]

--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...   

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.

How about Flickr?

[Peter]

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.

Brian, Functional Neurological Disorder sounds like a diagnosis - but it isn't really.  It's an admission that they don't yet know what is causing your problems.  What is good is that they seem to be moving you up the chain, which is not before time.   The very best of luck!

[BrianI]

--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...   

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/

Well the neuro i saw said to put it on a cdrom? Hopefully that'll work otherwise I don't know what else to do.

[T42]

Here's hoping, Brian.  "FND" sounds like medispeak for "WTF".

[Peter]

It is!

[L CC]

Today begins my prep for surgery-

Stop taking the placebos vitamins and supplements in case they have a blood thinning effect.

LFT #1

Order slippers.

[BrianI]

Here's hoping, Brian.  "FND" sounds like medispeak for "WTF".

It's a real condition, according to Prof Stone.

[Peter]

Let's hope you can get some action, then, Brian.  And my apologies if I made you anxious.  My statement was based on my communications with parents who have had such experiences with their children's treatments.  Good luck! 

[barakta]

Brian that sounds potentially positive, FND is absolutely a thing, which has been massively under-recognised for ages. I know 2 or 3 people with it as one of their diagnoses. One managed to get intensive treatment in London that massively improved her impairment levels.

Fingers crossed sending the CD to this Prof will get you noticed and checked out by him. Frustrating that it is more waiting though.

[barakta]

Good luck for surgery Fboab!

[hellymedic]

Here's hoping, Brian.  "FND" sounds like medispeak for "WTF".

I thought it was merely 'IDK' but it does seem to be taken seriously, which is some progress.

[T42]

Today begins my prep for surgery-

Stop taking the placebos vitamins and supplements in case they have a blood thinning effect.

LFT #1

Order slippers.

When I went in for de-cataracting it was "order pyjamas".

Bon courage!

[hellymedic]

Today begins my prep for surgery-
Stop taking the placebos vitamins and supplements in case they have a blood thinning effect.
LFT #1
Order slippers.

When I went in for de-cataracting it was "order pyjamas".
Bon courage!

Few folk have pyjamas…

Hope all goes well!

Hope all goes well

[Peter]

Today begins my prep for surgery-

Stop taking the placebos vitamins 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!