General Medical issues thread

Pushka said:
Doesnt exactly get rave reviews though.
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What does one do when people write that the bag works perfectly - and give details of their trip - and when others say that it needs to be beefed up to work okay, and others say it doesn't work at all - and give details of their trip?

They can't all be right.

But the bag looks snazzier than the make-do one I made up for my trip to Bali last year.
Cheers,
Renato
 
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Renato1 said:
What does one do when people write that the bag works perfectly - and give details of their trip - and when others say that it needs to be beefed up to work okay, and others say it doesn't work at all - and give details of their trip?

They can't all be right.

But the bag looks snazzier than the make-do one I made up for my trip to Bali last year.
Cheers,
Renato
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Yep, confusing. But really if its only thyroid meds I am not going to bother. I'd rather have a better way of transporting all my meds but given we are supposed to keep the original packaging its a bit tricky.
 
Pushka said:
Yep, confusing. But really if its only thyroid meds I am not going to bother. I'd rather have a better way of transporting all my meds but given we are supposed to keep the original packaging its a bit tricky.
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My wife got her thyroid meds cool bag from the Australian Thyroid Foundation - but it won't take the box of pills (unless one folds the box flat)
Thyroid Foundation - Medication Travel Pack.

Unusually, one has to put the entire bag in the freezer - the gel packs cannot be taken out.
Regards,
Renato
 
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Based on this thread I have joined the ATF ($30 concession) and ordered their travel pack
 
rogerkambah said:
Saw my endocrinologist yesterday. Recent blood test showed TSH, T3 T4 to be all in range. Decided that maybe the pazopanib had been affecting levels while on treatments for mets.
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I can’t remember the last time my thyroid stuff is in range. I’ve had so many dosage changes. When I feel best the tests show I’m a bit hyperactive so they reduce dosage and then I feel rubbish again and TSH shoots up. So they increase the meds again. It seems a common issue on the thyroid boards. I reckon once you’ve got a thyroid issue then the concept of normal ranges goes out the door and being a bit hyper is better.
 
Pushka said:
I can’t remember the last time my thyroid stuff is in range. I’ve had so many dosage changes. When I feel best the tests show I’m a bit hyperactive so they reduce dosage and then I feel rubbish again and TSH shoots up. So they increase the meds again. It seems a common issue on the thyroid boards. I reckon once you’ve got a thyroid issue then the concept of normal ranges goes out the door and being a bit hyper is better.
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I think many doctors forget that the normal range for virtually any pathology test is from 2.5%-97.5% of normal people.Therefore 1 in 40 patients who are normal will have a TSH for example that is lower than normal and 1 in 40 a TSH higher than normal.
You are not the first to have that problem.
 
drron said:
I think many doctors forget that the normal range for virtually any pathology test is from 2.5%-97.5% of normal people.Therefore 1 in 40 patients who are normal will have a TSH for example that is lower than normal and 1 in 40 a TSH higher than normal.
You are not the first to have that problem.
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I wish you were in Adelaide :). I’ve had hashimotos since my twenties (despite one old fart telling me it was an old woman’s disease and every menopausal woman had it - misyogynist cough) so I know more about this than many doctors and what it means for me. Actually the rheumatologist is great, she gets it. It’s the GP’s (some of them ;) ) who struggle with that.

What I’ve learnt is that they only follow the TSH. And ignore the T4 and rarely test the T3. My rheumatologist tests them all. I don’t get why they take no notice of the ‘active‘ parts - (T3 and to a lesser extent T4) and only look at the TSH. If that is too low - they panic = hyper = reduce dose even when T4 and T3 is smack in mid range. I’m way better when TSH is low. On the other hand as soon as TSH is just slightly towards the higher end of normal I start to feel rubbish. Normal is around 3, the rheumatologist took control of dosage when it hit 43. And that is where it was last year love_the_life when we were doing our cruise. I had to sleep every afternoon.
 
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Except I am down from SA at the moment enjoying the bracing morning temps of North West Tasmania.
 
On a less serious note daughter vomiting and diarrhea 2 days ago then last night waiting for taxi in Pattaya hotel to go to Bangkok wife not feeling well and dizzy. She vomited 3-4 times early in the trip and then halfway through the 2+ hour trip I woke up and vomited 3-4 times. Both had diarrhea at hotel but nothing for me since.

Took imodium earlier and everything ok so far. Trying to work out what may have caused it is doing my head in. I didn't have dinner 2 days ago and didn't eat much yesterday other than hotel brekfast of fried egg and bread. The only thing we ate together each day was hotel breakfast of eggs and rice soup. Strange.
 

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