General Medical issues thread

[tgh]

Today it's the elbow, tomorrow it's the hip, the next day it's the knee then the shin and so on.

based upon that summary.. is your will current ??

 

[drron]

Though sometimes there is a better outcome with unintentional weight loss.Had a patient that had lost weight.His GP got tests done and had several nodules in the lung reported as malignant.Patient had given up.Came into hospital with pneumonia.The nodules hadn't changed in 3 months.found a nodule just under the skin-biopsied-Rheumatoid nodule.PET scan then found the lung nodules were more likely due to Rheumatoid disease than malignancy.result-1 happy patient.

 

[Flashback]

I've lost about 4kg in the last week and haven't been doing anything different really - just my usual amount of exercise, meal sizes/types etc. The only explanation I can think of is I had been in the US for a week and a half and put on a few KG (amazing how quick their food can do it and that was with having walked at least 5 miles a day while we were there!) so probably just shedding that to get back down to normal

 

[codash1099]

I've lost about 4kg in the last week and haven't been doing anything different really - just my usual amount of exercise, meal sizes/types etc. The only explanation I can think of is I had been in the US for a week and a half and put on a few KG (amazing how quick their food can do it and that was with having walked at least 5 miles a day while we were there!) so probably just shedding that to get back down to normal

I should be so lucky

 

[Milboo]

I don’t get this idea of only presenting one issue at a time to a GP. If you’re going to the doctor, surely you raise all issues as you may not think things are related but they present the overall picture of your health.

I see 2 different GPs. One near home for when I am sick or injured and one I’ve been seeing for 12 years. I see her for more long term stuff and the usual female stuff. And I make sure they both know if anything arising from visits to the other.

 

[love_the_life]

Friend whose companion just diagnosed with secondary liver cancer, talking to her yesterday, adult son just went to hospital yesterday, and being kept in overnight, apparently with pneumonia. Never rains it pours. She wrote off her car in early Dec on a trip to Sydney where she’d been helping her daughter who has a 2 yr old and had twins in August (partner had gone to sea with Navy). And she’s the one tha Centrelink much around for nearly 6 months about her aged pension application. So these things are just so unfair.

 

[RooFlyer]

I don’t get this idea of only presenting one issue at a time to a GP. If you’re going to the doctor, surely you raise all issues as you may not think things are related but they present the overall picture of your health.

That's definitely a 'thing' at my local GP clinic. If you have more than 1 unrelated issue, then book a double appointment (they say, and I do ).

And I can understand why. Appointments have a standard length which I guess is calculated to be enough to 'sort' a 'standard' ailment (with flexibility to go over of course if needs be). If you present with two, then that's almost bound to go overtime, inconveniencing those that follow.

Or maybe your GP is very efficient

Both my present GP, and the one who retired a year ago were always very generous with their time and would almost always go over time, which is OK for the patient, but by late morning both would be and are always are about an hour behind. Therefore if I can, I always book either the first or second appointment of the day.

 

[Pushka]

That's definitely a 'thing' at my local GP clinic. If you have more than 1 unrelated issue, then book a double appointment (they say, and I do ).

And I can understand why. Appointments have a standard length which I guess is calculated to be enough to 'sort' a 'standard' ailment (with flexibility to go over of course if needs be). If you present with two, then that's almost bound to go overtime, inconveniencing those that follow.

Or maybe your GP is very efficient

Both my present GP, and the one who retired a year ago were always very generous with their time and would almost always go over time, which is OK for the patient, but by late morning both would be and are always are about an hour behind. Therefore if I can, I always book either the first or second appointment of the day.

I try book the first appointment of the day only to find the Dr had taken in a Sales Rep for a Drug Company and made me late for my appointment. Not even an apology. I think I left shortly after. She was the one who said she wouldn’t test me for hypothyroid because A I wasn’t fat. B I was only 30. And C I didn’t have a goitre (lump in the neck). These were the days before internet btw. But my mum had a thyroid storm when she was 17 and I just knew I had a similar issue although the opposite, if that makes sense. After 12 months of me badgering her to do the test I just said “humour me”. Of course the test came back wildly hypothyroid and she had the gall to call me and say “you are very hypothyroid” like it was a discovery SHE had made. I just said, yes, I know, that’s why I asked to be tested a year ago.

 

[Milboo]

Neither of my GPs take appointments, so don’t have that constraint of running late for the next appointment. I normally visit around 8am on a Sunday morning, put my name down, wander off and get a coffee and the papers and wait.

 

[Renato1]

Neither of my GPs take appointments, so don’t have that constraint of running late for the next appointment. I normally visit around 8am on a Sunday morning, put my name down, wander off and get a coffee and the papers and wait.

Neither of my two GPs at two different clinics take appointments either. I've found the sweet spot to seeing them quickly is to arrive there at between 3.15pm and 3.45pm - after the lunchtime rush and before the evening rush. I always get easy carparking in their respective carparks at that time too.
Regards,
Renato

 

[Pushka]

Neither of my two GPs at two different clinics take appointments either. I've found the sweet spot to seeing them quickly is to arrive there at between 3.15pm and 3.45pm - after the lunchtime rush and before the evening rush. I always get easy carparking in their respective carparks at that time too.
Regards,
Renato

That’s the time I love to go to the supermarket too.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

That’s the time I love to go to the supermarket too.

When we lived in the Hunter Valley the best time to go to the supermarket was when "Days of our Lives" was on the telly !!!!

 

[Pushka]

When we lived in the Hunter Valley the best time to go to the supermarket was when "Days of our Lives" was on the telly !!!!

That would be......1.30pm I used to watch it as a break from Uni studies with my granny who lived with us.

 

[love_the_life]

That’s the time I love to go to the supermarket too.

But you also have to dodge the mothers doing groceries before or after picking up their darlings from school.

 

[Pushka]

But you also have to dodge the mothers doing groceries before or after picking up their darlings from school.

Totally. If you aren’t there by 3.15 the traffic is a mess.

 

[straitman]

Totally. If you aren’t there by 3.15 the traffic is a mess.

Agreed. We have 3 sets of traffic lights in our town and it's horrible if you mistime your trip. I got held up by 3-4 minutes one day!

 

[Renato1]

That’s the time I love to go to the supermarket too.

My favourite supermarket time is 6.30pm to 7.30pm at my local Woolworths - ridiculous bargains e.g. Roast Chicken at $1.80. Tuna Bake reduced from $14 to $3.60. Once I even had Porterhouse Steak reduced from $20 to $2.60, cakes reduced from $7 to $1.60 (and still fresh)/
And I can get there after seeing the Doctor.

But, as always, the manager will eventually change and the bargains disappear.
Cheers,
Renato

 

[Pushka]

My favourite supermarket time is 6.30pm to 7.30pm at my local Woolworths - ridiculous bargains e.g. Roast Chicken at $1.80. Tuna Bake reduced from $14 to $3.60. Once I even had Porterhouse Steak reduced from $20 to $2.60, cakes reduced from $7 to $1.60 (and still fresh)/
And I can get there after seeing the Doctor.

But, as always, the manager will eventually change and the bargains disappear.
Cheers,
Renato

Not my time to shop. I’m over shopping by then. Sounds like some good bargains to be had if you want to buy those items though.

 

[Renato1]

Not my time to shop. I’m over shopping by then. Sounds like some good bargains to be had if you want to buy those items though.

It's the best time to shop - not many people around (except for people doing the discount labels), plenty of car-parking, no long queues with the check-out people struggling to fill the re-useable bags.
Regards,
Renato

 

[JohnK]

So a bottle of Lasix and an appointnent for a non-bulk billed echocardiogram in 2 weeks after todays visit to GP.