General Medical issues thread

[sinophile888]

Busted my toe at hockey today. Lots of blood, very black and blue.. doesn't look like the nail will fall off (for a change). Throbbing with pain. Assume not much one can do?

Give up hockey????

 

[love_the_life]

Turns out my son has hemochromatosis. I have one gene, except - he's adopted . So now his son is having a check when needed. His partner is a GP so he's in good hands.

And meanwhile daughter has just had an iron infusion.
She has been quite unwell after it though and needed to have the anti-nausea script filled.

 

[cove]

Well @andye that word conniption was a word my parents would use..... I remember when Medical Defence cost $85 back in the seventies.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Well @andye that word conniption was a word my parents would use...

It was a favorite word used by my nana, several things gave her conniptions

 

[drron]

Well I always used the paper clip method for nails.Usually happened playing cricket.

 

[prozac]

Well I always used the paper clip method for nails.Usually happened playing cricket.

I've got a thumb nail growing out even as we speak.

 

[Flashback]

Give up hockey????

Nooooooo! Been playing since I was 6!

Well I always used the paper clip method for nails.Usually happened playing cricket.

Cricket?! How!?

I've got a thumb nail growing out even as we speak.

My right toenail won't grow properly anymore....... starts growing then digs in, then I have to cut it back. Annoying!

 

[Flashback]

Well what I didn't appreciate last night is that my whole toe is also blue, usually when a nail is about to go it's just the nail. This time the whole toe was scuppered. Doh.

 

[love_the_life]

Well what I didn't appreciate last night is that my whole toe is also blue, usually when a nail is about to go it's just the nail. This time the whole toe was scuppered. Doh.

Broken toes are sooo painful and not much you can do.

 

[Flashback]

Broken toes are sooo painful and not much you can do.

Not quite true, you can grin and bare it

 

[drron]

It was from a bowler who was pretty fast. Got hit over the left great toe with a yorker just outside leg stump. my foot was following through and I got 4 leg byes over mid on. But my toe nail was ripped out. That was 30 years ago and still not grown back. Like you I had to cut back the toe nail as it was awful.About 10 years ago just fell off again. now have a not too bad looking 3/4 toe nail.

 

[Flashback]

It was from a bowler who was pretty fast. Got hit over the left great toe with a yorker just outside leg stump. my foot was following through and I got 4 leg byes over mid on. But my toe nail was ripped out. That was 30 years ago and still not grown back. Like you I had to cut back the toe nail as it was awful.About 10 years ago just fell off again. now have a not too bad looking 3/4 toe nail.

I could show some pics of both my nails but both would horrify!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Not quite true, you can grin and bare it

Mistype. Gin.

 

[Pushka]

Nooooooo! Been playing since I was 6!

Cricket?! How!?

My right toenail won't grow properly anymore....... starts growing then digs in, then I have to cut it back. Annoying!

Likely ball hits finger and squeezed into bat.

 

[Quickstatus]

plasma was cloudy

“A sausage roll”

Include Maccas in that list

 

[Flashback]

How's this one?

 

[prozac]

How's this one?
View attachment 265008

It's a start ...

 

[Katie]

It is an issue that Aus Red Cross (or LifeBlood) are extremely conservative in their Q&A.
- lived in the UK for 6+ months 1980-96. Sorry. No test for vCRJ
- recent dental / tattoo work. Sorry.
- homosexual man with exclusive partner. Must abstain for 3 months (and that's an improvement on previous policies)

I'm sure I've told this anecdote here before, but I still laugh at my stupidity.

I once ticked yes to having homosexual sex. But I'm a cisgender woman who has not had homosexual sex. The Red Cross staff took the mistake seriously, though still appropriate, and satisfied themselves that it was a simple ticking mistake on my part. Sigh.

 

[Katie]

My (new to me, thanks to my old one leaving the clinic) GP has recommended that I take Nexium for suspected reflux, due to frequent nausea in the morning and gagging while brushing my teeth. Oddly, getting a dental checkup doesn't cause any gag reflex. :/
(And no, the nausea is not some other condition that frequently occurs to women )

Anyway, I would not have thought I had reflux before taking this medication. Now I feel like it all the time. I understand the medication is to reduce the acid levels in the gut, not to stop reflux. But cripes, there was basically no aeosophageal pain before, and now there is. Weird, to me.
Of course, I eat spicy food, don't mind peppermint chocolate after dinner, drink alcohol, frequently go to bed within two hours of eating dinner ...

I think I need to remember to take Gaviscon as well. (Whinge alert) And maybe reduce my stress levels with a child needing multiple allied health treatments, deciding to add a puppy to our family (and no-one else seems invested in training him ), coordinating everything that isn't family meals, Oh yeah, and working ~32hrs/week.

I had an endoscopy four years ago which saw no reason for my nausea/gagging.
Saw an ENT earlier this year, she suspected reflux, and said to try Gaviscon. I did, but as I couldn't discern any symptoms in the first place, let alone realise if any were getting better, I stopped.

GRR. Bodies can be annoying. I guess I'll finish the first script of this medicine, and then see my GP again.

 

[andye]

My (new to me, thanks to my old one leaving the clinic) GP has recommended that I take Nexium for suspected reflux, due to frequent nausea in the morning and gagging while brushing my teeth. Oddly, getting a dental checkup doesn't cause any gag reflex. :/
(And no, the nausea is not some other condition that frequently occurs to women )

Anyway, I would not have thought I had reflux before taking this medication. Now I feel like it all the time. I understand the medication is to reduce the acid levels in the gut, not to stop reflux. But cripes, there was basically no aeosophageal pain before, and now there is. Weird, to me.
Of course, I eat spicy food, don't mind peppermint chocolate after dinner, drink alcohol, frequently go to bed within two hours of eating dinner ...

I think I need to remember to take Gaviscon as well. (Whinge alert) And maybe reduce my stress levels with a child needing multiple allied health treatments, deciding to add a puppy to our family (and no-one else seems invested in training him ), coordinating everything that isn't family meals, Oh yeah, and working ~32hrs/week.

I had an endoscopy four years ago which saw no reason for my nausea/gagging.
Saw an ENT earlier this year, she suspected reflux, and said to try Gaviscon. I did, but as I couldn't discern any symptoms in the first place, let alone realise if any were getting better, I stopped.

GRR. Bodies can be annoying. I guess I'll finish the first script of this medicine, and then see my GP again.

Mrs andye (who had atypical reflux too) found reflux worse with generic rabeprazole but better with branded Pariet