General Medical issues thread

[TheRealTMA]

I'm sorry you are bored with my excitement.

I am happy if you are happy, and pleased for you, but it does not occupy my thoughts.

Am I missing something here? Why aren't mother and daughter with you or you with them?

 

[Pushka]

I'm sorry you are bored with my excitement.

I dont think its that but rather the thought of parenting again after you've already done it.

A group of us girls were having this discussion today about having a first child in the forties, as a mutual friend is doing. We concluded that if its your first time around then maybe you just aren't as knackered as those of us who have already been through the whole parenting thing and cannot imagine doing it all over again.

 

[wandering_fred]

Having been accused of providing TMI on another social network with respect to some medical photos, I will offer some medically related thoughts here as well..

Statins have been shown to reduce the coQ10 levels especially in older people (straitman and mrs are the only ones I know that could come close to me). This substance (or rather lack of it) is related to muscle degeneration/pain. Typically experienced in the legs. But applies to all muscle tissue (including the heart)... Fish oil and exercise keeps my HDL level high enough to keep the GP at bay, though we have a deal going on one of the new non-statin cholesterol reducers... Maybe because I have only used olive oil for cooking over the last ten years, the families' cardiac calcium levels are fantastically low.

In other matters, I seem to have a number of anomalies, for which the specialists have no concrete explanation, other than to suggest I keep on keeping on.... The current blood pressure reduction tablets work fine during the day, but I continue to require a certain amount of activity to keep the levels acceptably high at night.

Yes the GPs occasionally find me "interesting".

PS Congratulations to JohnK and family.

I'll now continue wandering

Fred

 

[pootle]

But I bet there's not many here with a brand new baby daughter

Congratulations!! That such awesomeness xx hope all of you are well x

 

[rogerkambah]

......I haven't had to have any medications for at least a couple of years (touch wood). Trying to remember when I last went to the doctor.

I'm impressed, but I'm making up for your lack of medical consultation. I used to go to the docs twice a year just to get repeat scripts and referrals for yearly blood tests.

However, since May that has all changed. I've had 11 level B consultations, 4 CT scans, 1 MRI, 3 ultrasound scans, 2 ECGs, 3 oncologist consultations and so many blood and urine tests I have stopped counting, not to mention 6 days in hospital for surgery.

 

[love_the_life]

I'm impressed, but I'm making up for your lack of medical consultation. I used to go to the docs twice a year just to get repeat scripts and referrals for yearly blood tests.

However, since May that has all changed. I've had 11 level B consultations, 4 CT scans, 1 MRI, 3 ultrasound scans, 2 ECGs, 3 oncologist consultations and so many blood and urine tests I have stopped counting, not to mention 6 days in hospital for surgery.

I wouldn't be impressed. There have been times when I probably should have gone to dr but things resolved and I really should have those recommended tests! I'm also very lazy when it comes to making appointments of any kind.

 

[get me outta here]

I agree and found the same when I switched to US Keen 'waterproof' leather shoes for winter and their washable sandals in summer. I say that they take me all over the world.

My feet loved me when I switched from Bally/Feragamo to Clarks US and New Balance super wide sneakers. Never let your feet hurt for fashion.

 

[Flashback]

Laid up in my hotel again - as I was traversing Cruz del Condor at Colca Canyon the ankle gave way again and I took a bit of a tumble this morning. Fortunately an off duty (aka on holiday!) physiotherapist saw it all and came to my rescue, even had a bag full of kit to get me strapped up and on my way! Annoying, but will have to just keep taking it easy.

At least I got some great pictures of the condors from my new found spot on the ground :mrgreen:

Oh, and the wife seems to be suffering from altitude sickness! What a couple! She can't stand the coca leaf tea but I'm making her drink it anyway. It did help this morning....

 

[love_the_life]

I agree and found the same when I switched to US Keen 'waterproof' leather shoes for winter and their washable sandals in summer. I say that they take me all over the world.

I'm glad you like the Keen. I have a pair of their sandals and they don't seem to fit my foot very well at all. In fact I think they are even in the bag to go to the Brotherhood bin. They have been worn maybe 3 or 4 times only. Maybe they were the wrong style. I think I bought them when we were going to the Galapagos for wet landings. That was one problem right there - they filled up with sand . I noticed the guides wore (gulp) Crocs.
Every now and then I toy with the idea of heels and buy a pair - wrong! They are worn maybe once and then languish in the wardrobe for several years before finally moving on. I should know better by now.

 

[love_the_life]

Oh no Flashback. That doesn't sound good at all. Hope the ankle does start behaving itself soon.

 

[Pushka]

Goodness Flashback, what a pair! The altitude illness is interesting. I experienced exactly the same in the Mont Blanc/Chamonix area on the lift - the one that got stuck last week for the night - I now wonder if it was part of my blood clotting syndrome. Could barely move my legs and so dizzy.

 

[Flashback]

Goodness Flashback, what a pair! The altitude illness is interesting. I experienced exactly the same in the Mont Blanc/Chamonix area on the lift - the one that got stuck last week for the night - I now wonder if it was part of my blood clotting syndrome. Could barely move my legs and so dizzy.

Mrs Flashback said it feels like a migraine for her (she does get these, so guess she knows best!). Some coca leaf tea this morning sorted her out, but alas hasn't done the trick this evening. Going to a lower altitude doesn't seem to have worked (we're back in the main town now, which is lower than we had been today); however it is still quite high in itself. Rest is probably the only option, with maybe some oxygen treatment. We're off to Cusco tomorrow - not sure if the Hilton there has that available.

 

[Pushka]

Try some aspirin and see if that helps.

 

[Flashback]

Laid up in my hotel again - as I was traversing Cruz del Condor at Colca Canyon the ankle gave way again and I took a bit of a tumble this morning. Fortunately an off duty (aka on holiday!) physiotherapist saw it all and came to my rescue, even had a bag full of kit to get me strapped up and on my way! Annoying, but will have to just keep taking it easy.

At least I got some great pictures of the condors from my new found spot on the ground :mrgreen:

Oh, and the wife seems to be suffering from altitude sickness! What a couple! She can't stand the coca leaf tea but I'm making her drink it anyway. It did help this morning....

I was thinking this shot of a condor I snapped kind of looks like the AA logo?

 

[Flashback]

Try some aspirin and see if that helps.

I have a feeling that's the one drug we didn't bring! Might get the concierge to source some from the local Farmacia.

 

[Pushka]

I have a feeling that's the one drug we didn't bring! Might get the concierge to source some from the local Farmacia.

Ibuprofen might help also but aspirin may be better.

 

[Flashback]

Ibuprofen might help also but aspirin may be better.

For myself or Mrs? If Mrs, hasn't been allowed to have Ibuprofen since the stroke.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I'm impressed, but I'm making up for your lack of medical consultation. I used to go to the docs twice a year just to get repeat scripts and referrals for yearly blood tests.

However, since May that has all changed. I've had 11 level B consultations, 4 CT scans, 1 MRI, 3 ultrasound scans, 2 ECGs, 3 oncologist consultations and so many blood and urine tests I have stopped counting, not to mention 6 days in hospital for surgery.

Thinking of you everyday and I am sure many on here are - the support may be silent but it is there!

Mr FM had two brain abscesses about 9 years ago and in less than a year he had clocked up 3 months in hospital/hospital in the home, nearly 40 scans (mainly MRI, but some CT and ultrasound). I used to take the MRIs home and pore over them hoping to see a franctional decrease in the abscess, which they couldn't aspirate because it was too deep.

He was seeing a neurologist, neuro surgeon, infectious diseases guy (the absolutely brilliant Dr Collignon - just loved him, he was so supportive) and sporadically a haematologist. Our whole life was taken over by doctors and scans and medications. I know at its worst I was spending all day and most of the evening at the hospital and then trying to run a business and a family in the evening. I once sent Miss FM to bed without any dinner, because she was faffing around with something and I yelled at her to go to bed, as it was 11pm and she was too scared to tell me she hadn't eaten yet!

It it took two years but he was finally able to get off all the medications, including Dilantin and is 90% recovered. So understand a little of what your life is like at the moment and do hope once you get through it, it will be good for you as well.

 

[love_the_life]

Flashback, I would think that the Hilton in Cusco does have oxygenated rooms, most of the big hotels seem to. Cusco was the only place I felt a bit wonky but managed to plough on. Mr L_t_L seemed to be fine.
Hope MrsF gets used to the altitude. One good thing is the Machu Picchu is a lower altitude than Cusco. Just be careful with the uneven paving everywhere; could be another nasty ankle incident.

 

[Pushka]

For myself or Mrs? If Mrs, hasn't been allowed to have Ibuprofen since the stroke.

Ok. Then aspirin not much good either.