General Medical issues thread

[drron]

The improvement continues. Today I have ended my Wellbeing week with the highest weekly step count for a year. Reached 97000 steps. And to think just using a walking stick for longer walks has made an amazing difference.
So any one out there with mobility problems go and try a walking stick. Nothing to lose but can be incredible gains.

 

[drcam]

drron, I used an umbrella as a walking stick! Worked like a dream.

 

[Himeno]

Got the last tube out. The head Urology nurse at the outpatient clinic got confirmation from the Urologists in Sydney on Friday afternoon and had it out today within 10 minutes of her seeing me after I arrived (she had said on Friday to just come any time today). 596 days after it was first put in and don't have to deal with it anymore.

Follow up call with the community nurses next week and they'll close of the case on their end if all is still good. Otherwise just a test in Sydney in Jan with the Urologist to check everything is still good.

Also means if I end up in ER with another Urology problem, I can skip the ER doctors trying to work it out and go right to the specialist.

 

[Quickstatus]

Well done @Himeno
People are not designed to have plastic tubes sticking out
Good to see the public health system had worked for you in this case.

 

[Quickstatus]

Mrs QS said her endocrinologist said to get the Vit D with K2, not just D. (For the bones)

 

[Pushka]

I love pink grapefruit. I knew it was an issue for people on statins but now find out it's an issue for those on the particular BP tablets I'm taking plus Xarelto anticoagulant. And I got four home grown ones on the weekend. I ate one before I did some research. They taste wonderful. No one told me.

 

[love_the_life]

I love pink grapefruit. I knew it was an issue for people on statins but now find out it's an issue for those on the particular BP tablets I'm taking plus Xarelto anticoagulant. And I got four home grown ones on the weekend. I ate one before I did some research. They taste wonderful. No one told me.

I know there is an issue with some BP medications - MrLtL couldn't have grapefruit when he was on one particular one some years back. Luckily for him, he doesn't like grapefruit.

 

[prozac]

I love pink grapefruit. I knew it was an issue for people on statins but now find out it's an issue for those on the particular BP tablets I'm taking plus Xarelto anticoagulant. And I got four home grown ones on the weekend. I ate one before I did some research. They taste wonderful. No one told me.

I think one once in a while will not be an issue from what I have read.

 

[Quickstatus]

I love pink grapefruit. I'm taking plus Xarelto anticoagulant.

There is a lot of "if this then don't do that" in official medical advice. However one has to live too

 

[hydrabyss]

I love pink grapefruit. I knew it was an issue for people on statins but now find out it's an issue for those on the particular BP tablets I'm taking plus Xarelto anticoagulant. And I got four home grown ones on the weekend. I ate one before I did some research. They taste wonderful. No one told me.

I feel your loss as I had purchased some earlier in the year having never tried them before, they remind me of a lemonade lemon. For me blood oranges also are one to avoid.
As I take immune suppressants I need to avoid a number of foods which I am slowly finding out as I go along..

 

[Pushka]

There is a lot of "if this then don't do that" in official medical advice. However one has to live too

I like that. I'm a bit wary of the blood thinners thing but maybe if I just have one every now and then...

 

[prozac]

I like that. I'm a bit wary of the blood thinners thing but maybe if I just have one every now and then...

I was only on xeralto for 7 months (30cm clot in subclavian vein) and I do not recall being given any food warnings.

 

[cove]

I keep Xeralto in my travel bag along with Anginine spray and tablets when I am travelling long haul. Never had to use any and it is a just in case thing.

 

[prozac]

I keep Xeralto in my travel bag along with Anginine spray a tablets when I am travelling long haul. Never had to use any and it is a just in case thing.

Hadn't thought about that in the travel kit. I carry nitro-lingual in my pocket as a precaution and @Monday's cardio visit he suggested I start on a new drug (new for me maybe) that cuts risk of HA by c.20%. It seems I will need to have old stents re-ballooned every 6-12 months. 'You're my most complicated patient' is not what I want to hear every year.

 

[Pushka]

I keep Xeralto in my travel bag along with Anginine spray and tablets when I am travelling long haul. Never had to use any and it is a just in case thing.

Curious. How would you know if you 'needed' Xarelto? In an emergency it's heparin. And wouldn't you need a Doctor to diagnose a DVT anyway? I wonder if that's an idea I might think about?

Hadn't thought about that. I carry nitro-lingual in my pocket as a precaution and @Monday's cardio visit he suggested I start on a new drug (new for me maybe) that cuts risk of HA by c.20%. It seems I will need to have old stents re-ballooned every 6-12 months. 'You're my most complicated patient' is not what I want to hear every year.

Yeah. I got that too from my GP but he said 'most interesting'.

 

[andye]

Hadn't thought about that. I carry nitro-lingual in my pocket as a precaution and @Monday's cardio visit he suggested I start on a new drug (new for me maybe) that cuts risk of HA by c.20%. It seems I will need to have old stents re-ballooned every 6-12 months. 'You're my most complicated patient' is not what I want to hear every year.

Empagiflozin?

 

[prozac]

Empagiflozin?

Not sure but I will contact him and ask. Now I have thought about it for a day or two I might have dismissed it too quickly as I am always looking to cut back medications. Like others who participate in this thread the morning and evening tablet regimen is a thing to see.

 

[prozac]

Curious. How would you know if you 'needed' Xarelto? In an emergency it's heparin.

Though not DVT ...
A doctor in ED tried to tell me this was an infection and rejected my requests for a scan to check for clotting. My then 17y/o daughter, now science graduate, picked it in 3 seconds.

 

[Quickstatus]

I keep Xeralto in my travel bag

Curious. How would you know if you 'needed' Xarelto?

The problem with Xarelto is that the effect lasts for 2-3 days

The scenario is this:
Travelling, so thinking of long haul DVT
Take xarelto
Then have a fall while travelling and break a leg/hip or hit the head and get a brain bleed
Problem is Xarelto officially cannot be reversed with a antidote (though the TGA has given provisional approval to a new antidote)
So depending on situation, may not be able to have a corrective surgery for 2 days and /or may have excessive bleeding from the injury.

Whereas, it is better to have an anticoagulant which is not long lasting
Something like Clexane - which hangs around for 12hrs. But its an subcutaneous injectable (like insulin)

 

[Pushka]

The problem with Xarelto is that the effect lasts for 2-3 days


Whereas, it is better to have an anticoagulant which is not long lasting
Something like Clexane - which hangs around for 12hrs. But its an subcutaneous injectable (like insulin)

Yes. Across all that. But not getting into the injectables and my mother either stroked or had a brain bleed on warfarin. Although my niece is on it. Given I'm at 24 hour risk of DVT then 12 hours protection means two shots a day. Nup.