General Medical issues thread

[get me outta here]

I got flu last year for the first time in as long as I can remember after returning from a trip. I was really unwell and the blood test confirmed it. And, I’d had the vac as I do every year just before my May trip.
After every trip last year I came home and got sick and mercifully got better before the next trip. So at least the timing was happy.

 

[love_the_life]

I am not sure whether I have had flu or not. Never been diagnosed with it, but then I wouldn’t go to the doctor for anything unless I was really ill, so clearly I have never been that ill even if I did have the flu. I do once every two or three years get a cold, some worse than others.

we got the flu vaccination for the first time 2 years ago - it was free, why not . But we didn’t really feel we needed it.

Mr FM always has the flu - I got a bit snappy with him last year and told him that he didn’t - a bit of a snuffle and a cough is not the flu. He said his Mum always called it the flu

You being snappy with Mr FM? Never!

 

[tgh]

Why did I immediately think of @john k when I saw this...

 

[drron]

I haven't had the flu-but for at least 20 years I have had the vaccine.
Though in 2018 did have the Respiratory Syncytial Virus.diagnosed as a lot of flu where I was working.I just had a minor sniffle.Told I couldn't go to the Paediatric ward-which I had never seen.We were all swabbed.

 

[Pushka]

I am not sure whether I have had flu or not. Never been diagnosed with it, but then I wouldn’t go to the doctor for anything unless I was really ill, so clearly I have never been that ill even if I did have the flu. I do once every two or three years get a cold, some worse than others.

we got the flu vaccination for the first time 2 years ago - it was free, why not . But we didn’t really feel we needed it.

Mr FM always has the flu - I got a bit snappy with him last year and told him that he didn’t - a bit of a snuffle and a cough is not the flu. He said his Mum always called it the flu

If you have the flu, you will know that you have it. You cannot move. Even your skin hurts to touch. Most people when they say they have the flu just don’t. And it takes a minimum of a week to even start to think about feeling well.

 

[drron]

If you have the flu, you will know that you have it. You cannot move. Even your skin hurts to touch. Most people when they say they have the flu just don’t. And it takes a minimum of a week to even start to think about feeling well.

Sorry not all flu is severe and there are definitely asymptomatic carriers.

Time Lines of Infection and Disease in Human Influenza: A Review of Volunteer Challenge Studies

Abstract. The dynamics of viral shedding and symptoms following influenza virus infection are key factors when considering epidemic control measures. The author

academic.oup.com

 

[blackcat20]

If you have the flu, you will know that you have it. You cannot move. Even your skin hurts to touch. Most people when they say they have the flu just don’t. And it takes a minimum of a week to even start to think about feeling well.

I wish it only took a week to feel better, it was several weeks of agony. The pain in my ankles was ridiculous. If I ever get flu again I want to be knocked out cold.

 

[Pushka]

I wish it only took a week to feel better, it was several weeks of agony. The pain in my ankles was ridiculous. If I ever get flu again I want to be knocked out cold.

True. I was thinking that it takes a week before you can bear the thought that you are still on the planet.

 

[Pushka]

Sorry not all flu is severe and there are definitely asymptomatic carriers.

Time Lines of Infection and Disease in Human Influenza: A Review of Volunteer Challenge Studies

Abstract. The dynamics of viral shedding and symptoms following influenza virus infection are key factors when considering epidemic control measures. The author

academic.oup.com

Agree re the asymptomatic carriers. I’m probably one of those. Maybe those who didn’t experience significant health issues when given the laboratory virus were women?

 

[tgh]

I suspect that many of us become laid low by a whole cornucopia of bugs that many describe as the flu
I have been very robust but have bowed to the inevitable and now have flu shots.
I can mostly cope with the au resident bugs, it is those scurrilous troublemakers lurking in overseas locations that nail me

 

[rogerkambah]

Except - All of South Australia has 08. Guess we’d better expect a landslide of cancers. I think it’s a myth maybe? And 8 is lucky in Chinese culture anyway.

Hmmm - I lived in SA for almost 40 years and before I got a mobile phone. Must have contributed.

 

[JohnM]

All of WA has 08, too. And I've lived here for 70 years.

 

[Tropic]

Agree that if you ever catch the "real" flu you will know it!! Actually caught when I was single at uni and remember drifting in and out of delirium worrying about how my parents would deal with my death... seriously not an experience I'd want to have again.

 

[Cossie]

Well not the outcome we had hoped for. The boss felt "something" in her foot 12 months ago in Mandalay, kept doing what we normally did, finally through a mix of things she has been on and off in a boot for the last 6 months, had x-rays, nothing obvious showing up, foot specialists flummoxed, finally had an MRI which showed that ankle is knackered, talus bone necrosis, bone on bone.
Of course her being her, she kept doing all the things she did previously, especially hours in the garden, I tried to tell her to relax, but she just got crabby!
So 2 weeks in back slab, 6 weeks cast, 6 weeks boot, all non weight bearing, 6 to 9 months recovery and of course limited ankle movement afterwards.
We have several trips planned, so the virus mightn't be the thing that stops us going anywhere. We have to get it sorted sooner rather than later.

 

[cove]

I am hoping this is the final week of recovery from the removal of a BCC on the shin and a skin graft to take. Have leg elevated for as much of the time as I can. Got the all clear that the surgery took it all with margins so I am not expecting a redo. It grew while I put off seeing the dermatologist so I won’t do that putting off thing again.

 

[SuePa]

Has anyone heard of von Willebrand disease?
My niece has just been diagnosed with it and it seems I may have it and my father probably did too. It is an inherited blood disorder, not too serious in our case. I'm just wondering why no-one medical ever bothered to 'name' it before. Dad and I were always just labeled 'bleeders' and given medication before operations.

 

[Pushka]

Has anyone heard of von Willebrand disease?
My niece has just been diagnosed with it and it seems I may have it and my father probably did too. It is an inherited blood disorder, not too serious in our case. I'm just wondering why no-one medical ever bothered to 'name' it before. Dad and I were always just labeled 'bleeders' and given medication before operations.

Yes. It was thrown around when my niece suffered from multiple blood noses and heavy period. Must be a thing about nieces?

 

[love_the_life]

Well not the outcome we had hoped for. The boss felt "something" in her foot 12 months ago in Mandalay, kept doing what we normally did, finally through a mix of things she has been on and off in a boot for the last 6 months, had x-rays, nothing obvious showing up, foot specialists flummoxed, finally had an MRI which showed that ankle is knackered, talus bone necrosis, bone on bone.
Of course her being her, she kept doing all the things she did previously, especially hours in the garden, I tried to tell her to relax, but she just got crabby!
So 2 weeks in back slab, 6 weeks cast, 6 weeks boot, all non weight bearing, 6 to 9 months recovery and of course limited ankle movement afterwards.
We have several trips planned, so the virus mightn't be the thing that stops us going anywhere. We have to get it sorted sooner rather than later.

And how is the good woman taking it? I can imagine it will pretty hard for her.

 

[prozac]

Signed my life away today. Cardiologist is writing a paper on my case and needed my written permission.

 

[drron]

Has anyone heard of von Willebrand disease?
My niece has just been diagnosed with it and it seems I may have it and my father probably did too. It is an inherited blood disorder, not too serious in our case. I'm just wondering why no-one medical ever bothered to 'name' it before. Dad and I were always just labeled 'bleeders' and given medication before operations.

von Willebrand disease - Haemophilia Foundation Australia

Information about von Willebrand disorder or disease (VWD), how common it is, how it is passed on, inheritance and treatment.

www.haemophilia.org.au