General Medical issues thread

[Flying mermaid]

Elevate the injured foot by all means but be careful with Nurse Nightingale and your bell calls. Were our parents correct with the idea of elevating the injured foot/ankle to speed a recovery?

My doctor said to elevate and I was very good for the first two weeks with resting and elevating and I kept a compression bandage on it for the first week which really helped as well.

 

[Flying mermaid]

So have seen my GP and done a swag of tests including an ecg and go back to see her on Monday. In the interim I have to take blood pressure 8 times a day (2 sitting, 2 standing, morning and night) and record it. - all very boring. The medication seems to be working well and I feel good compared to last week. Hopefully there is no underlying cause and it is just what Dr FM calls essential hypertension which I gather means, "you are getting old, everything falls to pieces, get used to it".

 

[QF WP]

God I feel positively healthy against some of you

Always learning something reading these posts. Thankfully, i have lots of friends and clients who are all different types of doctors.

 

[Denali]

So have seen my GP and done a swag of tests including an ecg and go back to see her on Monday. In the interim I have to take blood pressure 8 times a day (2 sitting, 2 standing, morning and night) and record it. - all very boring. The medication seems to be working well and I feel good compared to last week. Hopefully there is no underlying cause and it is just what Dr FM calls essential hypertension which I gather means, "you are getting old, everything falls to pieces, get used to it".

Boring blood pressure results are good. I had to take a coworker to the hospital 2 weeks ago as her blood pressure reached "life threatening event", I was dumb to how potentially dangerous it was.

I hope Dr FM didnt charge you for that consult

 

[whatmeworry]

With all the good rain about and now the warm weather, my hayfever started earlier this year. If I don't take antihistamines I have symptoms similar to a bad cold.

 

[Flashback]

Re: calling airlines to arrange assistance - as all my tickets are booked using Avios, I wonder if I can call IB / BA and arrange it that way, or whether I'm going to need to get in touch with each airport that I'll be passing through. Going into work yesterday, whilst needed, was a bad bad idea. In agony this morning. Grr.

 

[Flashback]

With all the good rain about and now the warm weather, my hayfever started earlier this year. If I don't take antihistamines I have symptoms similar to a bad cold.

I'm much the same - more or less take it year round actually. Hayfever is, oddly enough, much worse over here than it ever was in Australia which I was surprised by!

 

[whatmeworry]

I'm much the same - more or less take it year round actually. Hayfever is, oddly enough, much worse over here than it ever was in Australia which I was surprised by!

I think it's something to do with the species endemic to the UK and those imported to Australia.

I found if I can skip the first month of spring downunder, the weather gets better and dries out the responsible vegetation by October.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I hope Dr FM didnt charge you for that consult

no - just gave me her usual whine that her speciality was paediatrics, not geriatrics

 

[Flying mermaid]

Going into work yesterday, whilst needed, was a bad bad idea. In agony this morning. Grr.

so sorry to hear that. . You really need to put yourself first and rest that foot. In the long term (both for holidays and work), rest now will mean a quicker recovery and better productivity.

 

[QF WP]

The only positive was if by you attending the office, you were able to bang some heads together, delegate all your work and give them deadlines to give it back to you so it can be reviewed and delivered to the client BEFORE you head off globetrotting.

Now it's time to take it easy again. Rest, elevate your ankle, tap away on your laptop, ring some people etc...

Re: calling airlines to arrange assistance - as all my tickets are booked using Avios, I wonder if I can call IB / BA and arrange it that way, or whether I'm going to need to get in touch with each airport that I'll be passing through. Going into work yesterday, whilst needed, was a bad bad idea. In agony this morning. Grr.

 

[Flashback]

The only positive was if by you attending the office, you were able to bang some heads together, delegate all your work and give them deadlines to give it back to you so it can be reviewed and delivered to the client BEFORE you head off globetrotting.

Now it's time to take it easy again. Rest, elevate your ankle, tap away on your laptop, ring some people etc...

Pretty much spot on QF WP! Ear is already glued to my phone, going to be another one of those days

 

[Pushka]

We really did need a medical thread hey?

 

[Flashback]

We really did need a medical thread hey?

If you build it, they will come....

 

[JohnK]

We really did need a medical thread hey?

Did we? Pretty soon everyone will be a hypocondriac.

 

[empressjo]

I returned to work because 'they couldn't survive without me' after serious injury. It took me more than 6 - yes six - years to recover enough to try to return to some kind of work!

It's not worth it & when your in that much pain or suffering for your choice to go in, I can guarantee you, work moves on (but lost all their good clients.....) & don't even check in to see how your going.

 

[Milboo]

Embrace the airport assistance if injured. I swallowed my pride and did it for a NZ trip when in a moon boat and was so grateful I did. CUZ airport is small but the queues are long! You want to avoid spending lots of time standing in queues.

Machu Picchu would be doable - the initial walk from the entry is not far. You might not be able to get up to the guard hut for that iconic view point but a lot of it will be accessible. We came across a guy on crutches several times!

HVR - was it a turbinate reduction you had?

I ended up at the doctors today and am on a short course of cortisone - having a big psoriasis flare up - maybe related to the injured shoulder but was driving me crazy. Doctor has not liked a few things so now I too am in the immune condition investigation cycle.

 

[Hvr]

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HVR - was it a turbinate reduction you had?

Yes that's it.

 

[Pushka]

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I ended up at the doctors today and am on a short course of cortisone - having a big psoriasis flare up - maybe related to the injured shoulder but was driving me crazy. Doctor has not liked a few things so now I too am in the immune condition investigation cycle.

Psoriatic arthritis? Auto immune. And painful I hear.

 

[blackcat20]

Yes that's it.

I think the plan is to get that done when I get my septum fixed.... I have a runny nose all year round.