General Medical issues thread

[cove]

My left knee replacement operation is now about 3 and a half months ago. I exercise mostly in my local hydrotherapy pool so that my full body weight is reduced. I feel that I can now walk about a mile and have to remember to go heal down first when I am out of that pool walking in the street.
I used a tubi grip over the knee area on the longhaul flights and that worked well to prevent swelling.
i won’t be running any time soon but am happy with my progress.

 

[Quickstatus]

UTI

First thing that popped into my head

 

[prozac]

My left knee replacement operation is now about 3 and a half months ago. I exercise mostly in my local hydrotherapy pool so that my full body weight is reduced. I feel that I can now walk about a mile and have to remember to go heal down first when I am out of that pool walking in the street.
I used a tubi grip over the knee area on the longhaul flights and that worked well to prevent swelling.
i won’t be running any time soon but am happy with my progress.

Doesn't seem that long ago. Time flies. Glad it is going well and maybe you can step off the medical roundabout.

 

[JohnK]

First thing that popped into my head

Me too although I was more thinking cold/flu. Wife was on Augmentin Forte for 5 days and I think that helped but in hindsight we should have had another course of 5 days.

Note that previously wife has had stubborn UTI that managed to hide itself in kidneys and needed antibiotic via drip in hospital.

 

[Katie]

Me too although I was more thinking cold/flu. Wife was on Augmentin Forte for 5 days and I think that helped but in hindsight we should have had another course of 5 days.

Note that previously wife has had stubborn UTI that managed to hide itself in kidneys and needed antibiotic via drip in hospital.

Total anecdote, but there's been quite a few people sick in the office (or WFH due to being sick) with assorted reports of cold, flu, fever, cough symptoms. Some kind of bug (or likely a few!!) definitely going around Brisbane.

 

[drron]

The bug transfer stations have been open for 2 weeks in Queensland so should be at peak for bugs around now.

 

[SuePa]

The bug transfer stations have been open for 2 weeks in Queensland so should be at peak for bugs around now.

Aka schools?

 

[Quickstatus]

Covid ward reopened again with 11 clientele today. Dont know if "with" or "for"...

 

[Pushka]

Covid ward reopened again with 11 clientele today. Dont know if "with" or "for"...

Everywhere in SA currently.

 

[Pushka]

Still negative six days after significant exposure around a toddler (and two positive adults) for two days. No symptoms. Ive tested 3 times. Maybe Trump was right. Hydroxychloroquine might work?

 

[JohnK]

So wife had/has pyelonephritis.

Went to RBWH Friday morning 3:00am as wife in a lot of pain, dizziness and vomiting even though there's nothing in stomach.

Diagnosis UTI with pyelonephritis. They'll keep her there until she can go home. They moved her from emergency to short stay ward.

Went to see her 7:00pm last night (<24 hours) and they want to discharge her. Wife not feeling 100% and blood pressure 90/65 so they'll keep her another 12 hours (reluctantly) and check again in the morning. She's had 1 dose of antibiotic (forget name) on drip plus 3 doses of ampicillin via injection into canula.

Wife calls 9:00am to come and get her. Not quite 30 hours. She's still not right. Shes not eating and feels like vomiting. Script for 10 days of Augmentin due forte. Ive taken daughter to a birthday party and wife calls that shes not well. She calls as she feels fever coming on and still nauseous.

I'm struggling to understand why the rush to discharge. She was clearly not right this morning. My wife does not like to push back. If I was there she wasn't coming home yet. Now may need to go back to ER. Sad.

 

[love_the_life]

Still negative six days after significant exposure around a toddler (and two positive adults) for two days. No symptoms. Ive tested 3 times. Maybe Trump was right. Hydroxychloroquine might work?

Wash your mouth out Missy

 

[MARTINE]

Wash your mouth out Missy

… and not with bleach…

 

[Himeno]

I'm struggling to understand why the rush to discharge. She was clearly not right this morning. My wife does not like to push back. If I was there she wasn't coming home yet. Now may need to go back to ER. Sad.

In 2015, I was repeatedly vomiting for days. Couldn't keep anything down. After 3 days and not being able to sleep, I called an ambulance and went to the ER at 2am.
They put in an IV and sent though a few bags of Saline.
They couldn't work out the cause, by that afternoon I was feeling much better and had stopped vomiting. They needed the ER space and sent me home.

That night, I started vomiting again and went back to the hospital in the morning. Back on the IV drip and got blood tests back. Had some form of blood infection, which the ID specialist had never seen before outside of a study from Europe. No idea how I might have gotten it.
They put through a bag of iv penicillin, then sent me home with a course of penicillin tablets.

 

[Pushka]

Any thoughts from anyone on using methotrexate as a steroi_ sparer? It was an option discussed with me today especially if bone density scans have worsened (I'm not expecting that but one never knows) as so far it seems I'm not so successful at tapering from 5mg steroi_s. Damn inflammation markers and all that. It's been just over 13 months. Not that I'm counting.

A related question. Why are inflammation markers so important? If I can deal with certain aches etc from PMR then are rising inflammation markers so important? Do they signal something else?

 

[drron]

Because 5 -15% of patients with PMR get Giant cell arteritis. Predominanty temporal arteritis. A complication of which is blindness. That can can cause the rise in inflammatory markers. Hence the obsession with keeping them normal.

 

[prozac]

Apparently my immunity level is low. I think that is a measure of lymphocytes. Talk of blood product infusion. I gather that might be plasma which I used to give many moons ago.

 

[Pushka]

Because 5 -15% of patients with PMR get Giant cell arteritis. Predominanty temporal arteritis. A complication of which is blindness. That can can cause the rise in inflammatory markers. Hence the obsession with keeping them normal.

Yes, rheumatologist was steadily checking my head today. I did get the worst headache I'd ever experienced about a month before PMR arrived. And yes my teeth on left side hurt like crazy. It took three days to abate. Dr is not sure if it's related. So Dr is always checking on headaches. I'm on the watch. I never want to experience that again. I was in Melbourne and didn't budge from the hotel room for 3 days. I couldn't. I was so close to asking to go to hospital but being interstate it was too complicated. If I was in Adelaide I likely would have.

 

[JohnK]

They put through a bag of iv penicillin, then sent me home with a course of penicillin tablets.

Reminds me of the time we called ambulance and went to private hospital nearby instead of public hospital. Said it was inflammation and gave me an injection for the pain in my chest and sent me home. That night I saw a ghost looking at me in the mirror but I somehow survived.

Of course it was severe chicken pox infection and went to RBWH next night in ambulance as I'd almost died and they kept me 11 nights and to be honest I should have stayed another 2-3 nights as l was clearly not ready.

The private hospital sent me a bill for $600 or so and I fought and it was waived as the treatment they provided was not adequate and they also offered apology for what I went through. If that doctor had seen symptoms of chicken pox 1 day early the chicken pox infection may not have been severe.

Anyway they erred with my wife. She was still struggling a few days ago but seems to have improved now. Blood pressure is still low but that is a chronic problem not just related to latest infection.

 

[drron]

An article that may be of interest @Pushka .

Study Offers New Clues to Why Most People with Autoimmune Diseases Are Women

As many as 50 million Americans have one of more than 100 known autoimmune diseases, making it the third most prevalent disease category, surpassed only by cancer and heart disease. This category o…

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