General Medical issues thread

[Pushka]

Acute Pancreatitis is very very painful . However thats a different test - "Lipase". Does not cause liver tests to go up like that posted. if related to gallstones GGT and Alk phos will go up by much more than ASL/ALT.

Apart from tests suggested above, Im sure the medicos will do serial LFT to see the trend in the numbers.

Sure. But if liver is inflamed maybe its irritating pancreas?

 

[Quickstatus]

The process that inflames the liver can also do the same to pancreas. Generally not a side effect of inflamed liver.

Anyway illness has a habit of reminding us of of our mortality. In spite of the countless $$ spent on health care the mortality of the human race is 100%.

 

[Pushka]

I'm on a Facebook group for one of my conditions. It is interesting when people post of relatives in their '90's and who expect them to recover fully from major surgery and are crazy worried when their elderly don't seem to be totally well. It's like people expect to live forever now and in peak fitness. We just can't afford the medical bills anymore.

 

[Flying mermaid]

1532585[/URL]]REMEMBER: 70 is the new 50. Go look at the photos of your great-grand-parents when they were 70.

On the other recent subject, by the time you get to the (new) 50 an annual skin check is probably not a bad idea. And basal cell and squamous growths will more likely simply be a reason that the Red Cross will no longer accept blood donations. But the liquid nitrogen does a good job on Seborrheic Keratosis aka "waxy warts" ( but no relation to the real thing apparently caused by one or more of the many HPV virus strains)

Maybe there is a reason scripts normally only function for 6 months at a time.

Happy wandering

Fred

Mr FM has been doing annual checks for many years - he has a family history and has had many cut, frozen, burnt and creamed off.

Earlier in the year I noticed a really strange shaped and very black freckle. After agonising over it for some months, I showed it to Mr FM. He didn't like it and said to see a doctor. My GP didn't like it and said if it was his leg he would have it off. So six stitches later the biopsy came back and it was ..... a freckle. Still better safe than sorry.....

 

[Pushka]

Freckles are moles. I always thought they were just freckles.

I have a freckle in my right eye. Cant see it but it shows when they take special photos at the optometrist. Have to have a check every year to make sure it doesn't change.

 

[Flying mermaid]

1533019[/URL]]Freckles are moles. I always thought they were just freckles.

I have a freckle in my right eye. Cant see it but it shows when they take special photos at the optometrist. Have to have a check every year to make sure it doesn't change.

Mine was a Lentigo, which is your plain jane, vanilla freckle and technically not a mole.

 

[QF WP]

CT ended up being Abdominal & Pelvis and I had explained to me about contrast (never having had one, nor any desire).

Strange that the GP hasn't prescribed any pain relief along with the Omeprazole - personally I'd be on my trusty 50 mg Diclofenac.

 

[QF WP]

Update time. CT scan results were eye watering:



Dr asked for repeat bloods which came today:

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Nice to see some down but not by much. Referral to Liver Specialist @ Holy Spirit organised, due to Dr concerns he rang the Specialist to request immediate appointment. Will find out date/time tomorrow. Repeat bloods to be done day prior to appointment with copies to Dr and Specialist.

He also finally gave prescription for pain management. Palpable relief for patient last night.

 

[Pushka]

The report doesn't sound too bad?

 

[QF WP]

Pushka, well ALP & both Bilirubin results are (worryingly) up, but the others (particularly the LFT's) are significantly down. Swings and roundabouts. Always good to put life into perspective and concentrate on the important things...

 

[Pushka]

Life is a T junction. It surprises me at any point in time blood tests can be quite nasty then a few weeks later all back to normalish or trending that way. Guess if the tests are done at the critical time the results can be scary but the body (sometimes) sorts itself out. Which is why retests are done.

 

[suze2000]

I just want to make sure that the LFTs are not a once-off - there's been more than one abnormal set? I really would like to see an amylase and lipase result. Has there been one?

ETA: I am not a doctor.

 

[JohnK]

Life is a T junction.

I would say multiple T junctions.

It surprises me at any point in time blood tests can be quite nasty then a few weeks later all back to normalish or trending that way. Guess if the tests are done at the critical time the results can be scary but the body (sometimes) sorts itself out. Which is why retests are done.

I used to suffer from high liver function mainly thanks to my autoimmune disorder. Gamma GT and ALP were higher than normal for a long time. Also issues with low platelet count which still occurs and surprises some doctors. High liver function is now a thing of thing past but I still do regular blood tests.

 

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[cove]

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[cove]

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[Pushka]

I pretty much knew I have dodged a bullet but today revisiting the GP who ordered the ultrasound that found the DVT in my neck said that he expected me to have occult metastatic cancer and a complex oncologist referral. He said he was only telling me now, 9 months later because he had just read the rheumatologist report which has found the cause and so he felt he could fess up.

He printed the report off and I thought he was going to give it to me but he didn't. He verbally told me what it said and which was consistent with the specialist appointment so not a problem.

He said that he was at a dinner with a Physician in Adelaide who is on the examination Board. He asked the physician what separated the student who earned Distinction/Faculty prizes from the rest. He recounted my history to the Physician (anonymously obviously) and the Physician's response was that the diagnosis of my presentation would be a great exam test.

I didn't tell him that my Sister in Law who is an intensive care nurse at a major Public Hospital said when I first presented with the DVT that she thought I could have Lupus and blood coagulation syndrome (Hughes syndrome) and not cancer. And she was right. Just took three specialists to get there.

I still have to monitor kidney function every 3 months and more baseline and monitoring tests now that the coag disorder has been identified, have my eyes tested every 12 months (side effect of the treatment) and be on anti coag medicine for life. I also have a bit of a short memory issue and I sometimes transpose numbers and forget words. I don't seem to be able to multi task as well. All to do with the 'sticky blood'. I was always carp with names but at least now I have an excuse. It should improve on treatment. But we agreed that seems a much better outcome than he predicted.

And I wont begrudge paying Medicare anymore. Just need a suitcase to lug my prescriptions in now. And wear a medic alert bracelet which identifies the bleeding issue. But at least I have found a fashionable one from the US and one even in Rose Gold!

When did that all happen? Even the day I first went to the Dr I didn't feel unwell. But it all kind of unravelled a bit from then on.

 

[Flashback]

I also have a bit of a short memory issue and I sometimes transpose numbers and forget words. I don't seem to be able to multi task as well.

Just blame it on the champagne! You can take up a new diagnosis of alcoholic, it might be easier to explain Glad it's all come to a head at least, must be a relief.

 

[Pushka]

Just blame it on the champagne! You can take up a new diagnosis of alcoholic, it might be easier to explain Glad it's all come to a head at least, must be a relief.

Indeed a relief. Although I do remember House saying he didn't want to diagnose Lupus as it was a bad diagnosis. But at least manageable and treatments improving all the time. And now a fantastic specialist.

I need to chill the champagne don't I!