General Medical issues thread

[TheRealTMA]

I'll just leave this here
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LOL. Excellent, PF, Excellent.

 

[Flashback]

In picture format.... Great Circle Mapper

 

[Hvr]

Am home now and it all went well. Lost the dignity with the hospital gown and paper underpants then into surgery.

The surgeon I knew, but the anesthetist looked about 12! Still he put me to sleep and then woke me up again.

The recovery room nurses were excellent and looked after me very well. I have a semi face mask across the nose and had the nurses laughing when after listening to the final care instructions I reminded them that I wouldn't be permitted entry to a bank.

I was last to leave with mum picking me and taking me home. Got to love your mum.


Thanks all for your good wishes and now time to enjoy a week off recovering. I can already breathe better.

 

[Pushka]

or Princess Fiona, kpc, et al

I would expect that the largest improvement will be between the first two blood tests and may taper after that (as in weight loss, etc)

I think drron and rooflyer have haemochromotosis?

This is great news hvr. Breathing better already? Wow! Are you in Melbourne?

There certainly is a role for diet but unless your food is weirdly wrong then something else is up.

It's ok Princess Fiona - all my 'drugs' are prescribed by GP or specialist. I am up to four morning prescribed tablets plus Vitamin D drops and Omega 3. I rattle. I am confused enough without going near alternative medicines!

 

[Hvr]

I think drron and rooflyer have haemochromotosis?

This is great news hvr. Breathing better already? Wow! Are you in Melbourne?

Yes am Melbourne based.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I think drron and rooflyer have haemochromotosis?

This is great news hvr. Breathing better already? Wow! Are you in Melbourne?

Have a relative with haemochromatosis. One in seven humans have this according to reports. Treated "relatively" easily is my understanding...

 

[Pushka]

Yes am Melbourne based.

Might be in touch next year for more info when we look to semi living in Melbourne.

 

[Denali]

Have a relative with haemochromatosis. One in seven humans have this according to reports. Treated "relatively" easily is my understanding...

A good old fashion blood letting, apparently.

Hubby tells me blood donation (something starting with V) every couple of weeks.

Meanwhile I have zero natural iron levels, we're totally mixed up here.

 

[TheRealTMA]

A good old fashion blood letting, apparently.

Hubby tells me blood donation (something starting with V) every couple of weeks.

Meanwhile I have zero natural iron levels, we're totally mixed up here.

Yes, donate blood regularly. Leaches of the non-human kind used to be used.

 

[cove]

A neighbour with a three level home is having a hip replacement today. She won't be able to get up those stairs so she will be moving into a ground floor unit for a couple of weeks.
I do find having a similar home to be ok now but not so sure when we get a lot more miles on the clock. Mrscove insists we turn on lights going up and down the staircases as there are so many stories about bad falls among our older friends.

 

[Flashback]

A neighbour with a three level home is having a hip replacement today. She won't be able to get up those stairs so she will be moving into a ground floor unit for a couple of weeks.
I do find having a similar home to be ok now but not so sure when we get a lot more miles on the clock. Mrscove insists we turn on lights going up and down the staircases as there are so many stories about bad falls among our older friends.

My parents place has some nifty lighting all the way up the stairs which light up the area - works well. I saw an ad the other day for a nice chair lift thing going up stairs, looked pretty cool!

 

[cove]

Mrscove wants a lift Flashback. Our neighbors have put in a beauty so his mother in law can sleep upstairs. I am sure the chair would be much less but would detract from the look of the sweeping staircase. We have a bedroom on the entry level so no real rush.
It is a lot quieter now that our sons have moved out and the olds prefer to sleep in their home.

 

[Denali]

We're planning on building a 3 level split house and stairs/age is something Ive thought of as well.

For lights, wall sensor lights close to the floor is something we've looked at.

Or don't KDR and aged care town houses instead. Joy, oh joys of getting older.

I currently have no iron, and no thyroid for that matter, and the past week, when I get into bed, I get very dizzy when I get horizontal. Fun, fun.

 

[Deleted member]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I have recently been diagnosed with a human version of this condition, although it is late onset, around fifty years of age, so it is just starting to affect me. Not in a nodding head kind of way fortunately. More of a "your cerebellum is killing itself" type of thing.

I recently saw an ABC TV piece about a rower that with an associated condition who will be competing in the Rio Paralympics. Apparently I would have a better chance of winning lotto than having this, but such is life.

Like the dog, there is no treatment or cure. I am not aware of any research into my condition either. I'm quite surprised that they state that they don't want to tell the breeder as it may upset them. As it's genetic there is probably a 50% chance of passing it on to any offspring. I have certainly told my son that if he wants to start breeding he needs to make sure he doesn't pass it on.

The positive for the dog is that it's entitled to be euthanaised. When I can no longer walk or swallow I will get to lay in a bed and be fed pulverised food.

Or find a less humane way to end the suffering.

And I will be donating my body to scientific research, just to save on the funeral costs .

I am not always sure how to respond to something like this, in spite of over 30 years of work in the life insurance business, paying claims and the like.
But thank you for your frank and and open post about your condition.
This must be a very daunting prospect to have to live with.
We often forget on these pages that behind the keyboard sits a real flesh and blood person, with hopes and aspirations, illness's and difficulties, and a family who share in the journey.

 

[Pushka]

We're planning on building a 3 level split house and stairs/age is something Ive thought of as well.

For lights, wall sensor lights close to the floor is something we've looked at.

Or don't KDR and aged care town houses instead. Joy, oh joys of getting older.

I currently have no iron, and no thyroid for that matter, and the past week, when I get into bed, I get very dizzy when I get horizontal. Fun, fun.

I haven't had thyroid function since my twenties so I cant blame old age!
Dizziness - sounds like your crystals have dislodged. Again - can happen at any age.

See - you are not old at all.

 

[Denali]

Dizziness - sounds like your crystals have dislodged. Again - can happen at any age.

I was Dr Googling this last night but it was 9pm and thats my bedtime... see, old but I was going to see my awesome physiotherapist and ask if hes familiar with this for treatment

Had my thyroid removed about 25yrs ago and have just run myself ragged lately - I need a holiday

 

[rogerkambah]

Am home now and it all went well. Lost the dignity with the hospital gown and paper underpants then into surgery.

Paper underpants - Luxury. I didn't get those for my op. As my operation was abdominal I suppose the gown was just pulled up rather than taken off. Any docs/nurses can shed light?

 

[Pushka]

Paper underpants - Luxury. I didn't get those for my op. As my operation was abdominal I suppose the gown was just pulled up rather than taken off. Any docs/nurses can shed light?

Ya know, some things you just dont want to know, that is why the amnesia drugs pre op are so wonderful.

 

[Hvr]

Paper underpants - Luxury. I didn't get those for my op. As my operation was abdominal I suppose the gown was just pulled up rather than taken off. Any docs/nurses can shed light?

I had an abdominal operation last year and was sans underwear. The gown was on so that it was open frontwards so I'm assuming it was just opened.

 

[suze2000]

Thanks all for your good wishes and now time to enjoy a week off recovering. I can already breathe better.

Your nose isn't packed with cotton?