General Medical issues thread

[Pushka]

Turns out my son has hemochromatosis. I have one gene, except - he's adopted . So now his son is having a check when needed. His partner is a GP so he's in good hands.

 

[drron]

Turns out my son has hemochromatosis. I have one gene, except - he's adopted . So now his son is having a check when needed. His partner is a GP so he's in good hands.

Another real ironman!

 

[Quickstatus]

ironman

But hopefully not too bronze…

 

[Pushka]

Another real ironman!

Illustrious company here on AFF. Also, he’s from Sri Lanka so he’s very bronzed.

 

[rginoz]

For anyone who might be interested, an update on my posts from a few months ago following my second Head & Neck surgery and second series of 30 radiation therapy treatments. I've recently had a follow up PET Scan and that has shown no evidence of any cancer anywhere in my body.

I'm cautiously thinking that I've been cured, and my surgeon and radiation oncologist agree with this too. I'll still need to be monitored into the future. But this is such a relief and I'm so grateful to the many people who have been involved in my treatment.

 

[beefarmer]

For anyone who might be interested, an update on my posts from a few months ago following my second Head & Neck surgery and second series of 30 radiation therapy treatments. I've recently had a follow up PET Scan and that has shown no evidence of any cancer anywhere in my body.

I'm cautiously thinking that I've been cured, and my surgeon and radiation oncologist agree with this too. I'll still need to be monitored into the future. But this is such a relief and I'm so grateful to the many people who have been involved in my treatment.

I have read back only the odd pages from now back to something like early 2019, pre covid and I notice your earlier comments. Let me know of the initial diagnosis, and thankfully you have done well. I think this might be my third post, but surprisingly and I don't know why since I had post one in this forum , another episode of same was discussed in today's news media.

 

[rogerkambah]

For anyone who might be interested, an update on my posts from a few months ago following my second Head & Neck surgery and second series of 30 radiation therapy treatments. I've recently had a follow up PET Scan and that has shown no evidence of any cancer anywhere in my body.

I'm cautiously thinking that I've been cured, and my surgeon and radiation oncologist agree with this too. I'll still need to be monitored into the future. But this is such a relief and I'm so grateful to the many people who have been involved in my treatment.

Wow, that is really great news. Let's hope that is it, and you are now in the clear.
Cheers R

 

[RooFlyer]

Thanks for the comments re ectopics. All previously covered by my specialist (and more).

Just to note,

There are premature atrial contractions and premature ventricular contractions.
You can’t actually feel the atrial contraction only the ventricular contraction.

I can feel both the atrial and ventricular types (not saying I feel them all! ), and the difference between them, as assisted by my 6 channel Kardia unit recording as they variously occur. 2 fingers of each hand on the touch panels, the touch panel underneath rests on your knee:

Or Likely an extra ventricular contraction after an extra atrial electrical impulse

Sometimes the Heart rate drops a beat rather than an extra.
Sometimes it’s AF rather than just ectopics
Causes:
Hypertension
Preexisting heart disease
Alcohol
Stimulants - caffeine, cocaine, nasal decongestants
Exercise
Fatigue, lack of sleep
Anxiety
mRNA CovidJabs
And Getting old @RooFlyer

All the suggestions I know about for ectopics in general, but I'm more interested in what may induce the onset of the 'swarms' I get: periods of days to weeks of much more ectopic activity, then it reduces again. I recently had a doozy period of them (atrial). I don't vary lifestyle much week on week or even day to day (including no caffine from beverages, alcohol only on special occasions these days, lots of exercise (3 hrs in the gym 6 days/week), no hypertension for 12 months (home Omron unit) etc etc. But I am getting older! Anxiety - am I losing my good looks?

Need ECG as baseline

I can do as many 6 channel ECGs as I like with my Kardia (1-2 minutes) and of course have had quite a few by my specialist over rthe past few years.



I might leave it there - just thought it would be an interesting discussion; as I said, I'm under a very good specialist, and in no immediate state of concern. But curious on the causes of onset of periods of much more intense ectopic activity.

 

[cove]

Yes you can recover from heart issues provided you listen to your specialist and avoid reading crank articles. My cardiologist is very good and with his 4 children at private school I remain hopeful he won’t be retiring any time soon. It is just over 27 years since my quadruple bypass and my unwritten warranty is holding.

 

[tgh]

I often wonder about the relationship over time ( say 20 years) with routine heart rate exercise stress and longevity in humans
I read about fit folks falling off the perch.. but is there any academic correlation ?
Horses for example like many flight animals can perform aerobically right until their demise. (They get a bit slower and get caught…)
Predators otoh, tend to sentience but is this a longevity indicator ?
Cats seem to live to be quite old even the fat and lazy ones...
So many questions..so little time...

 

[prozac]

I often wonder about the relationship over time ( say 20 years) with routine heart rate exercise stress and longevity in humans
I read about fit folks falling off the perch.. but is there any academic correlation ?
Horses for example like many flight animals can perform aerobically right until their demise. (They get a bit slower and get caught…)
Predators otoh, tend to sentience but is this a longevity indicator ?
Cats seem to live to be quite old even the fat and lazy ones...
So many questions..so little time...

When I was at uni I shared a house with a lightly built science student. He said he wouldn't exercise because he figured he was given only so many heart beats when born and he didn't want to use them up early.

 

[Quickstatus]

Trivia for all:

Which is the ectopic? - red, blue, or green
And is it ventricular or atrial?

 

[RooFlyer]

Which is the ectopic? - red, blue, or green
And is it ventricular or atrial?

Pity I could only capture this much as a screen shot on my phone.

 

[Pushka]

I'm on 225mcg thyroxine as I have zero thyroid function due to auto immune illness. So I take 1 200mcg and 1 25mcg. I've been feeling very fatigued recently and just old, but put that down to lots of driving, babysitting a two year old, a heavy cold and moving out and moving in to a second house.

I was putting all the meds I take into a 7 day container as I find that much easier and accidentally dropped two of one of those tablets into one slot. So I had to check which one I'd duplicated. To my concern they were all the same dosage, 25mcg. Thought that was weird then checked the original container. They both contained 200 - the number of tablets, but both were only 25mcg meaning that instead of 225 mcg I'd been severely underdosing for a couple of months now, maybe longer on just 50 mcg. Not sure of the pharmacist made the error as they on two separate scripts. Or me. So as I have no 200 mcg I'm now taking 7 25mcg tablets a day until I can get to the pharmacist. Sigh.

 

[andye]

I'm on 225mcg thyroxine as I have zero thyroid function due to auto immune illness. So I take 1 200mcg and 1 25mcg. I've been feeling very fatigued recently and just old, but put that down to lots of driving, babysitting a two year old, a heavy cold and moving out and moving in to a second house.

I was putting all the meds I take into a 7 day container as I find that much easier and accidentally dropped two of one of those tablets into one slot. So I had to check which one I'd duplicated. To my concern they were all the same dosage, 25mcg. Thought that was weird then checked the original container. They both contained 200 - the number of tablets, but both were only 25mcg meaning that instead of 225 mcg I'd been severely underdosing for a couple of months now, maybe longer on just 50 mcg. Not sure of the pharmacist made the error as they on two separate scripts. Or me. So as I have no 200 mcg I'm now taking 7 25mcg tablets a day until I can get to the pharmacist. Sigh.

Fingers crossed the fatigue improves once you are euthyroid again

 

[Pushka]

Fingers crossed the fatigue improves once you are euthyroid again

Thankyou. Also have lupus and APS so it's hard to unravel which one goes with what issue but certainly expect it to be much improved.

 

[beefarmer]

I'm on 225mcg thyroxine as I have zero thyroid function due to auto immune illness. So I take 1 200mcg and 1 25mcg. I've been feeling very fatigued recently and just old, but put that down to lots of driving, babysitting a two year old, a heavy cold and moving out and moving in to a second house.

I was putting all the meds I take into a 7 day container as I find that much easier and accidentally dropped two of one of those tablets into one slot. So I had to check which one I'd duplicated. To my concern they were all the same dosage, 25mcg. Thought that was weird then checked the original container. They both contained 200 - the number of tablets, but both were only 25mcg meaning that instead of 225 mcg I'd been severely underdosing for a couple of months now, maybe longer on just 50 mcg. Not sure of the pharmacist made the error as they on two separate scripts. Or me. So as I have no 200 mcg I'm now taking 7 25mcg tablets a day until I can get to the pharmacist. Sigh.

We are all human but the drug man appears to have filled your two scripts correctly. It's when we put a 200mcg eutroxsig label onto a 200mg lamotrigine box that we start needing the anxiolytics. Also, you would be surprised that people swallow pills with other people's names on them which was an obvious dispensing error in the first place yet they swallow then realise later. Go figure. When you do a few hundred million, one will slip the keeper.

 

[Pushka]

We are all human but the drug man appears to have filled your two scripts correctly. It's when we put a 200mcg eutroxsig label onto a 200mg lamotrigine box that we start needing the anxiolytics. Also, you would be surprised that people swallow pills with other people's names on them which was an obvious dispensing error in the first place yet they swallow then realise later. Go figure. When you do a few hundred million, one will slip the keeper.

Yes. We had a couple of 'wrong names' on the dispensing bottle before when we've both had a script filled at the same time.

 

[Quickstatus]

are all human but the drug man appears to have filled your two scripts correctly

If true, It’s actually considered to be a serious medication error.

Medications errors are viewed seriously and should be reported - at least back to the pharmacist in charge of the pharmac_

Reporting is not to punish but to improve processes and checks.
….

Pity

Nope all the information is in that photo for a trivia questions like that

 

[sinophile888]

I'm on 225mcg thyroxine as I have zero thyroid function due to auto immune illness. So I take 1 200mcg and 1 25mcg. I've been feeling very fatigued recently and just old, but put that down to lots of driving, babysitting a two year old, a heavy cold and moving out and moving in to a second house.

I was putting all the meds I take into a 7 day container as I find that much easier and accidentally dropped two of one of those tablets into one slot. So I had to check which one I'd duplicated. To my concern they were all the same dosage, 25mcg. Thought that was weird then checked the original container. They both contained 200 - the number of tablets, but both were only 25mcg meaning that instead of 225 mcg I'd been severely underdosing for a couple of months now, maybe longer on just 50 mcg. Not sure of the pharmacist made the error as they on two separate scripts. Or me. So as I have no 200 mcg I'm now taking 7 25mcg tablets a day until I can get to the pharmacist. Sigh.

I hope you are taking Eltroxin. It doesn't need to be refrigerated, so is ideal for travelling. Whenever that is.