General Medical issues thread

[Pushka]

Yes but generally no.

Well that sorts out MrP then. He had it 10 years ago on his side. He was uncomfortable but not incapacitated so much.

 

[JohnK]

Is there such a thing as a 1 day flu? Hope so.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Is there such a thing as a 1 day flu? Hope so.

Not for Men.

 

[whatmeworry]

Hopefully it will put a spotlight on the industry and better regulation. That the owner was comfortable letting someone lacking qualifications recognised here (studied dermatology overseas apparently - but not clear if it was actual medical qualification or cosmestic) and on a tourist visa perform the procedure makes you wonder what would have been done in the clinic.

The 'nurse' in the room was also not qualified according to an article I read - and administered the wrong dose of drugs.

It does astound me a little that people are prepared to put their health (and life it seems) into the hands of people other than fully qualified and registered medical practitioners.

Sometimes with the cosmetic/plastic industry it can be hard to distinguish experts from the BS artists. IIRC some GP's have been caught out doing cosmetic procedures they were not qualified for.

 

[JohnK]

Was feeling very awful yesterday. Fever and every muscle in my body was aching. Fully expecting the beginning of the flu. Didn't sleep well through the night and my daughter kept waking up as she has fever and cough and gave it to me.

Woke up this morning with dry cough and phlegm, very slight fever, muscles aching a little but nothing like yesterday, sore eyes and headache. Have I dodged the flu?

 

[cove]

Somehow I seem to have picked up man flu from a lady who sat next to me at a Melbourne dinner. She spent 5 days in hospital about two days after that meal. I didn't think I could cop a dose of man flu this way.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Was feeling very awful yesterday. Fever and every muscle in my body was aching. Fully expecting the beginning of the flu. Didn't sleep well through the night and my daughter kept waking up as she has fever and cough and gave it to me.

Woke up this morning with dry cough and phlegm, very slight fever, muscles aching a little but nothing like yesterday, sore eyes and headache. Have I dodged the flu?

APDS? (AFF posting deprivation syndrome)

 

[whatmeworry]

Blood supplies are down to one day because of this extended flu season.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks for the link. As I'm a bit of a woose, I will probably end up spending the money with the dentist here.

I think the article is bang on. You need to do your research. I wouldn't be walking into a random clinic on the side of Silom Road. But one of the major dental hospitals, or a private clinic where you have good recommendations are a different story. My dentist in Bangkok has newer equipment and better procedures than my (very expensive) dentist here.

I would agree that something like implants, which can go wrong, can be done in Australia. They cost about the same whether you get them done here or there by the time you get a private health rebate and pay your airfare. But for crowns, veneers, all those sort of things, somewhere like thailand can be a huge saving.

I don't think it's true that people only go overseas for major work... even minor work like a single crown will more than pay for the trip. While my dentist in Australia is still using putty (or whatever it is) for impressions, in thailand they've gone digital.

 

[JohnK]

Blood supplies are down to one day because of this extended flu season.

Terrible year. Mum was supposed to have the other eye operated on tomorrow morning but got sick taking care of my daughter this past week. She's still not well and operation tomorrow morning has now been deferred to a date to be advised. Not sure when that will be as she has been waiting a long time.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I think the article is bang on. You need to do your research. I wouldn't be walking into a random clinic on the side of Silom Road. But one of the major dental hospitals, or a private clinic where you have good recommendations are a different story. My dentist in Bangkok has newer equipment and better procedures than my (very expensive) dentist here.

I would agree that something like implants, which can go wrong, can be done in Australia. They cost about the same whether you get them done here or there by the time you get a private health rebate and pay your airfare. But for crowns, veneers, all those sort of things, somewhere like thailand can be a huge saving.

I don't think it's true that people only go overseas for major work... even minor work like a single crown will more than pay for the trip. While my dentist in Australia is still using putty (or whatever it is) for impressions, in thailand they've gone digital.

Sheesh. Need to change your dentist. Ours abandoned 'putty' more than 20 years ago and has been doing digital crowns while you wait for longer than I can remember.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Sheesh. Need to change your dentist. Ours abandoned 'putty' more than 20 years ago and has been doing digital crowns while you wait for longer than I can remember.

If they abandoned taking a mold 20 years ago what were they using? Digital has only been around since 2010 or something? And even then it seems it was fairly rare given the high set up costs. There seems to have been significant advances in technology which make digital pretty good now.

 

[TheRealTMA]

If they abandoned taking a mold 20 years ago what were they using? Digital has only been around since 2010 or something? And even then it seems it was fairly rare given the high set up costs. There seems to have been significant advances in technology which make digital pretty good now.

No, much longer than 2010 - Digital Dentistry

 

[MEL_Traveller]

No, much longer than 2010 - Digital Dentistry

Interesting. Doing some research it looks like the first case of digital scanning was around 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEREC New (and current?) imaging technology introduced in 2009.

 

[Pushka]

Can any Drs here tell me what a spiral fracture of the leg means? A friend fell down stairs on Saturday and now has this fracture. Currently in Epworth. Is not allowed any weight bearing for 8 weeks then 3 months recovery then 12 months in physio rehab.

 

[love_the_life]

Can any Drs here tell me what a spiral fracture of the leg means? A friend fell down stairs on Saturday and now has this fracture. Currently in Epworth. Is not allowed any weight bearing for 8 weeks then 3 months recovery then 12 months in physio rehab.

That's what daughter had, in her case, just above the ankle. The ortho put in a plate to stabilise it though she had it removed about 6 months later as the tendon was rubbing on it and restricting movement. Your friend's sounds like it is worse that daughter though. Her recovery was quicker than that. She was on crutches for about 6 or 7 weeks I think, though she went back to Sydney after 2 weeks to finish her last year's uni.

 

[Pushka]

That's what daughter had, in her case, just above the ankle. The ortho put in a plate to stabilise it though she had it removed about 6 months later as the tendon was rubbing on it and restricting movement. Your friend's sounds like it is worse that daughter though. Her recovery was quicker than that. She was on crutches for about 6 or 7 weeks I think, though she went back to Sydney after 2 weeks to finish her last year's uni.

Ah. Yes in my friend's case in addition she also has a broken ankle separate to the injury. How did hers happen again? I take it my friend dashed down the stairs as her daughter was ill and they were all rather stressed. She just had her 60th.

 

[love_the_life]

Ah. Yes in my friend's case in addition she also has a broken ankle separate to the injury. How did hers happen again? I take it my friend dashed down the stairs as her daughter was ill and they were all rather stressed. She just had her 60th.

In daughter's case, it was a fall from her horse. She was living in Sydney and the horse was agisted out at Shane Rose's property near Camden. We drove down and collected her from Camden Hospital to bring her back to Canberra to see an ortho here and have surgery. It was lucky that Dios was agisted there as Shane was able to ride him for daughter and eventually bought him from her. We heard that the horse was eventually sold to an eventer in the US.
There was a bit of a stoush with the uni as she missed 2 weeks practice in the Vet Clinic there and the uni was deciding whether she would be eligible to graduate that year. In the end she had to do 2 extra weeks after the end of term. Sydney Uni graduation order was in order of merit and daughter came third (she was a bit annoyed at that), so why there was so much fuss I have no idea.

 

[Pushka]

There was a bit of a stoush with the uni as she missed 2 weeks practice in the Vet Clinic there and the uni was deciding whether she would be eligible to graduate that year. In the end she had to do 2 extra weeks after the end of term. Sydney Uni graduation order was in order of merit and daughter came third (she was a bit annoyed at that), so why there was so much fuss I have no idea.

Clearly they just wanted to do all the ticks in the process rather than look at outcomes.

 

[Quickstatus]

Can any Drs here tell me what a spiral fracture of the leg means? A friend fell down stairs on Saturday and now has this fracture. Currently in Epworth. Is not allowed any weight bearing for 8 weeks then 3 months recovery then 12 months in physio rehab.

spiral fracture means just that - the fracture line resembles a spiral along some part of the length of the bone. These heal the best rather than a break across the bone because the contact surface area in a spiral is greatest and tends to be more stable