General Medical issues thread

[SYD]

Ha! That's what I reckon gave me cancer!

Arguably the opposite if you had C19 previously (along with many of us!)?

Hope your current treatment is quick and effective none the less!

 

[prozac]

Arguably the opposite if you had C19 previously (along with many of us!)?

Hope your current treatment is quick and effective none the less!

Thank you. I have not had covid.

 

[Himeno]

Have a phone consult booked with the urologist today after the test in late Sep.
Today was the first time we were both available after getting the test results.

Booked in for 11am. Just got a message, an hour after the booking, that they've rebooked to 4pm due to an emergency case this morning (I'm guessing she was called to an emergency surgery or similar).

Last time I had a consult booked with her, I got a message before the booked time saying she was running late.

 

[Quickstatus]

she was running late

Maybe that was for the previous appointment

 

[Himeno]

Just got off the phone. She seems to be working late today (their office closed at 5, got the call at 530).

Based on the test results, she wants to try to get in there with a scope and stretch out the problem area where the stricture is (something my GP suggested as an option back in Feb), remove the SPC and see how that goes. Then look at surgery depending if that works.
Can't explain why it's been closing every 3 months or so and reopening with anti inflammatories.

 

[Quickstatus]

methanol issue

Terrible

For the technically minded...

Methylated spirits used to contain max 10% methanol but no longer. The "methylated" refers to the denaturing of the ethanol by adding methanol, or trace amounts of other chemicals to make it unpalatable

The reason methanol is so dangerous is not the methanol per se but what it is metabolised to. It is metabolised to formic acid which stops cells using oxygen. Similar to Cyanide though the cyanide mechanism is different but the end effect of both is the same - the cells can't use oxygen and the body is basically starved of oxygen

Treatment is dialysis and/or reducing the metabolism of methanol to formic acid by flooding the body with ethanol via an ethanol infusion. The body can metabolise only a certain amount of alcohol at a time whether ethanol or methanol so by flooding the body with ethanol, the proportion of methanol going through metabolism is lowered in proportion. These days if available, there is a drug called 4MP which does the same as ethanol infusion but does not have the side effects of ethanol infusion.

The methanol in many cases comes from unregulated backyard fermentation and distillation. There is no way to physically differentiate between methanol and ethanol without advanced chemistry equipment

Some interesting methanol poisoning data (it is not limited to Asia)

Can anyone translate please (link)

 

[TheRealTMA]

Terrible

For the technically minded...

Methylated spirits used to contain max 10% methanol but no longer. The "methylated" refers to the denaturing of the ethanol by adding methanol, or trace amounts of other chemicals to make it unpalatable

The reason methanol is so dangerous is not the methanol per se but what it is metabolised to. It is metabolised to formic acid which stops cells using oxygen. Similar to Cyanide though the cyanide mechanism is different but the end effect of both is the same - the cells can't use oxygen and the body is basically starved of oxygen

Treatment is dialysis and/or reducing the metabolism of methanol to formic acid by flooding the body with ethanol via an ethanol infusion. The body can metabolise only a certain amount of alcohol at a time whether ethanol or methanol so by flooding the body with ethanol, the proportion of methanol going through metabolism is lowered in proportion. These days if available, there is a drug called 4MP which does the same as ethanol infusion but does not have the side effects of ethanol infusion.

The methanol in many cases comes from unregulated backyard fermentation and distillation. There is no way to tell the difference.

Some interesting methanol poisoning data.

Can anyone translate please:
View attachment 415698

To translate, use Google Translate to translate image.

 

[Quickstatus]

To translate, use Google Translate to translate image.

Thanks
Unfortunately it missed the translation for the pie chart at the bottom left.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Thanks
Unfortunately it missed the translation for the pie chart at the bottom left.

GIYF.