General Medical issues thread

[Pushka]

I used to annoy mrsdrron immensely.I would get bad sunburn but wake the next morning brown.Was to do with my high iron levels.

Like a girlfriend who returned from climbing Kilimanjaro with what she thought was a nice healthy tan. Her husband who is a respiratory specialist and who didn’t go but met her on arrival in Australia knew immediately she actually had hepatitis! She recovered fine.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

My Mum put cold tea on our back for sunburn.

When I was 13/14 I fell asleep on Manly Beach, lying on my stomach, I came home that arvo, and by that night had blisters the size of plates on my knees and back. My mother thought I needed to go to hospital, but my grandmother who lived with us, made a bath of cold tea, pricked the blisters, and I then sat in a bath of cold/tepid tea for an hour, The next day I was OK !! Grannie/Old Wives medicine !!

 

[rogerkambah]

When I was 13/14 I fell asleep on Manly Beach, lying on my stomach, I came home that arvo, and by that night had blisters the size of plates on my knees and back. My mother thought I needed to go to hospital, but my grandmother who lived with us, made a bath of cold tea, pricked the blisters, and I then sat in a bath of cold/tepid tea for an hour, The next day I was OK !! Grannie/Old Wives medicine !!

Its not so much of a long bow really. The tea has tannic acid in it. I remember that in the fifties we had a tube of Tannafax ointment in the bathroom cupboard that was applied to sunburn.

 

[Antoallison]

I have had vinegar, sliced cucumber and sliced tomato applied to sunburn..
...but not together

 

[Pushka]

I have had vinegar, sliced cucumber and sliced tomato applied to sunburn..
...but not together

And a dash of vodka?

 

[coriander]

I can’t have the measles shot as it’s a live one.

I've just had my first round of "baby" shots last week as my stem cell transplant has, inter alia, performed a Ctrl-Alt-Del on my immune system. Five injections, then four, then five at monthly intervals. Then at 6, 18 months.

No MLV or Shingles vax for 2 years as they're live virus. Peter Mac will perform measles serology next month to see if I'm immune as some immunity is carried outside the bone marrow.

Vic Health had a warning about measles carriers on my tramline this week so I was a little concerned.

 

[get me outta here]

I wonder if the pneumococcal vaccination helps to lower the risk of pneumonia developing from the coronavirus?

 

[coriander]

I wonder if the pneumococcal vaccination helps to lower the risk of pneumonia developing from the coronavirus?

Unlikely, pneumococcus is a bacteria, coronavirus is a virus.

 

[andye]

Any effect likely to be small.
Although pneumoccus is a common cause of primary bacterial pneumonia, it's less so as a cause of secondary bacterial infection in the presence of a viral infection.
When these respiratory viral infections turn nasty (such as with SARS) its usually due to the systemic immune response, rather than secondary bacterial infection.

 

[Deleted member]

I have had vinegar, sliced cucumber and sliced tomato applied to sunburn..
...but not together

I remember those salad days myself

 

[Flying mermaid]

Saw my neurologist yesterday and he doesn’t want to see me again. He still thinks it was a spike in blood pressure that caused the no symptom stroke, but as all the readings were fine that I had done at home, he isn’t increasing my medication (5mg Amlodipine). So just continue with that plus low dose aspirin. I have to take it every couple of days and if it increases consistently see my GP.

next time I plan to travel it should make getting pre existing condition insurance interesting. At least it is now a year since the stroke and haven’t had another that we know about, although we wouldn’t have known about the first without the silly MRI.

 

[mrsterryn]

@Flying mermaid USA was our biggest issue/cost with husband's brain tumour
When he turns 70 we expect that the insurance will be astronomical

 

[Pushka]

Saw my neurologist yesterday and he doesn’t want to see me again. He still thinks it was a spike in blood pressure that caused the no symptom stroke, but as all the readings were fine that I had done at home, he isn’t increasing my medication (5mg Amlodipine). So just continue with that plus low dose aspirin. I have to take it every couple of days and if it increases consistently see my GP.

next time I plan to travel it should make getting pre existing condition insurance interesting. At least it is now a year since the stroke and have hadn’t another that we know about, although we wouldn’t have known about the first without the silly MRI.

Its a hard call. Sometimes I wonder if we didn’t explore then we wouldn’t find and then life would just proceed as normal and we might never have any impact. On the other hand it may have been an early warning call. I think that sometimes prostate tests are like that. Of course some tests reveal malignancy that might cause significant issues but on the other hand many issues are only found on death from a completely different cause.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Its a hard call. Sometimes I wonder if we didn’t explore then we wouldn’t find and then life would just proceed as normal and we might never have any impact. On the other hand it may have been an early warning call. I think that sometimes prostate tests are like that. Of course some tests reveal malignancy that might cause significant issues but on the other hand many issues are only found on death from a completely different cause.

Yes I guess on the whole better to know than not, although everyone has washed their hands of the double vision issue and put it into the too hard basket and I have learnt to live with it.

without the MRI I wouldn’t have been talked into statins and had 10 months of consequences from them. On the other hand the low dose aspirin could stop another stroke so that’s a positive.

the cardiologist I saw seemed to find it quite amusing that an MRI for double vision had led to the whole catastrophe in my life with the statins, but I guess he was looking at it from the point of view that I had no cardiac problems

 

[Pushka]

Yes I guess on the whole better to know than not, although everyone has washed their hands of the double vision issue and put it into the too hard basket and I have learnt to live with it.

without the MRI I wouldn’t have been talked into statins and had 10 months of consequences from them. On the other hand the low dose aspirin could stop another stroke so that’s a positive.

the cardiologist I saw seemed to find it quite amusing that an MRI for double vision had led to the whole catastrophe in my life with the statins, but I guess he was looking at it from the point of view that I had no cardiac problems

One thing messes with something else

 

[prozac]

One thing messes with something else

One stent operation about a year ago has seen me in hospital another 4 times with 3 more procedures and one misdiagnosis where attending cardio said my problems were not cardiac related. Really.
In the first procedure one stent was located in left branch artery but it projected out into the Left Descending Artery where it ended up collapsing. Only after requesting the use of intravenous ultrasound on the 3rd operation was this picked up.
Well I knew it was too good to last and now being woken every other night with chest pain. I take some nitro-lingual spray and panadol and prop myself up with pillows and it subsides after some time. Also getting chest pain on minimal exertion and now have difficulty walking around the block. I'll see what cardio says at appointment on Friday.

I had no debilitating issues either before that first operation @Pushka and wish I could go back in time.

 

[cove]

My latest cardiologist is a split stick figure but despite his lack of weight he is a real precision type of doctor. Sure I preferred my previous cardiologist who retired at 72 with a balloonIng weight.
The biggest issue is my blood glucose reading has been over 6 and getting that lower takes months rather than days.

 

[get me outta here]

Does say a 3 day fast help?

My latest cardiologist is a split stick figure but despite his lack of weight he is a real precision type of doctor. Sure I preferred my previous cardiologist who retired at 72 with a balloonIng weight.
The biggest issue is my blood glucose reading has been over 6 and getting that lower takes months rather than days.

 

[tgh]

has been over 6 and getting that lower takes months rather than days

You can lower your daily average bsl to whatever level you wish in a day.. it's a very simple equation of food-v-exercise.
What takes the time is to get the Glycated result down because it is averaged over 3 months.
The gp "health state " box ticking process is fixated on hba1c tests ...

As an aside , Diabetes is diagnosed by glucose tolerance testing .
Great control with low hba1c's simple means you are in total control of the disease rather than being free of it.

 

[Denali]

Does say a 3 day fast help?

Hubby partially fasts 2 days per week, suggested by a specialist his GP sent him to after blood results. He has breakfast, exercise, a meal and stops eating about 10am until 5.30am the next day.