General Medical issues thread

[aspro2]

Wow that is just appalling that you've had to wait so long. And IMO with very significant and increasing impact on daily living. Don't be one to suffer in silence, "the squeaky wheel..."

Thank you. The squeaky wheel approach is essentially what the GP recommended today, as the updated referral remains untriaged, so I'll be following up directly with the hospital. Waiting lists in Victoria are very long at the moment and GPs get very little feedback from the hospitals.

 

[prozac]

Figured I should post this in Humour, but it is kinda medical. Me in hospital on Thursday ...

 

[tgh]

How was your day prozac ?

 

[prozac]

Back in NBH. Angio this morning showed stents that were ballooned at Christmas now 90% blocked. Cardio ran an IVUS in and measured opening size in order to select best size balloon and then screwed open the pressure valve until the arteries now look like a big fat bech-de-mer or one of Gerald Depardieu's fingers. We'll see how long it lasts this time.

EDIT: Crossed messages @tgh
Thanks for asking @tgh. Answer above.

 

[tgh]

I am due for my year two "inspection"… fit as a Mallee bull and would be very disappointed to need any maintenance..
Why do stents block ?
docs ….hello… coooeeeeee…….

 

[prozac]

I am due for my year two "inspection"… fit as a Mallee bull and would be very disappointed to need any maintenance..
Why do stents block ?
docs ….hello… coooeeeeee…….

Last week i was tested for something or other to see if i am making cholesterol. Doc's care to take a stab at what it is? I know I had to pay eighty bucks for this privilege.

 

[andye]

Last week i was tested for something or other to see if i am making cholesterol. Doc's care to take a stab at what it is? I know I had to pay eighty bucks for this privilege.

Lipoprotein(a) maybe
Nice to see you

 

[prozac]

Lipoprotein(a) maybe
Nice to see you

Also nice to see you again @andye . Always nice to receive a visitor.
Lipoprotein (a) looks super low @ 6.9

 

[andye]

One of the drug companies was offering free Lp(a) testing at a stroke conference I went to recently. Fine, though a few attendees looked perturbed when they received an abnormal result.

 

[JohnK]

So now onto diet v29.3 and struggling.

The obesity clinic is offering 12 month program for free. First 12 weeks is 3 x VLCD shakes per day plus 2 cups vegetables. The goal is to lose 2.5kg/week which I think is unrealistic and difficult.

I've obviously decided against it. I've purchased the Fat Blaster weight loss shakes to slowly incorporate into my own version of the diet. So counting calories again and try to limit to around 1500 calories per day.

One problem is trying work out calories of meat before and after cooking. I'm searching on Google and the general consensus is the calories of meat cooked will be the same before and after? How? Meat contains fat and if there's 22gm fat before cooking there'll more than likely be 15gm fat after cooking. That's a significant loss of fat which has to equate to loss of calories adds fat is factored in raw meat calorie count before cooking.

Note I do not use oil to cook. Lamb in frypan starts to lose fat and is cooked in fat and there's a lot left over in frypan so there has to be loss of calories? Beef/pork is cooked in frypan without oil until all water is released then let it cook that way or add some lamb fat. Surely beef/pork losing fat has to equate to calories loss? Chicken us usually boiled so again there will be loss of calories.

Anyway have consumed between 1500-1700 calories this week. Have to try and reduce that intake. Goal is 1kg/week for 8 weeks before going to Thailand.

 

[tgh]

Good to see you still working at the diet , how is the walking coming along ?

 

[drron]

And a good story for a change. Many may have read about my problems with mobility and pain since May last year. Just with persistence with walking I can gradually walk further.
In May this year we stayed at the IC Singapore and met a couple our age. He had very similar symptoms to me and told me a walking stick made an incredible difference to his walking ability. So on this trip I decided to take a walking stick and it really does help. I can walk several thousand steps now without absolutely needing to stop.

In May I was walking an average of 4000 steps a day. June it was 8000 steps a day. In the last few days I am up to 12500 steps a day. So any one else having difficulty walking due to pain in legs/back give a walking stick a try.

 

[Himeno]

Finally getting somewhere with this urology thing. Booked in for a procedure at RPA next week. Don't find out when until the afternoon before (which makes sorting out travel arrangements from Canberra to Sydney a bit annoying).
Still waiting for them to work out if the follow up stuff a few days later can be done in Canberra instead of Sydney.

Hopefully nothing happens at RPA at day to cause the procedure to get bumped. This should sort out the main problem, stop the repeated UTIs over the past 9 months and end having to get the SPC changed every 6 weeks.

 

[prozac]

Back in NBH. Angio this morning showed stents that were ballooned at Christmas now 90% blocked. Cardio ran an IVUS in and measured opening size in order to select best size balloon and then screwed open the pressure valve until the arteries now look like a big fat bech-de-mer or one of Gerald Depardieu's fingers. We'll see how long it lasts this time.

EDIT: Crossed messages @tgh
Thanks for asking @tgh. Answer above.

Discharged today. Lost my car in the multi-level parking. This never happens to me. I should have taken a photo of the level when I parked yesterday.
Stopped to buy some household staples on way home. Big mistake. Felt awful when i got home.

 

[Quickstatus]

Similar to the e-scooter data which suggests using one after 10pm at night, especially on weekends, is a baaaddd idea (at any age). Confounder there is of course, alcohol.

XY chromosome more likely.

One bloke we treated many years ago was riding a BMX bike at 2am. He had lost his car license. BMX bikes don't come with lights and some, like his bike didn't have brakes (apparently that's a thing)
Bloke hit a pothole, supermanned over the handlebars. # both scaphoid, both wrists, # both elbows. Means he can't use his thumb, hand and forearm on both arms. Means he can't feed himself and more importantly can't wipe his A***

His mother and girlfriend (reasonably) refused to wipe his A***for the 6weels he was out of action.

 

[prozac]

XY chromosome more likely.

One bloke we treated many years ago was riding a BMX bike at 2am. He had lost his car license. BMX bikes don't come with lights and some.
Bloke hit a pothole, supermanned over the handlebars. # both scaphoid, both wrists, # both elbows. Means he can't use his thumb, hand and forearm on both arms. Means he can't feed himself and more importantly can't wipe his A***

His mother and girlfriend (reasonably) refused wipe his A***

That's what the garden bidet is for. AKA a garden hose.

 

[Denali]

XY chromosome more likely.

One bloke we treated many years ago was riding a BMX bike at 2am. He had lost his car license. BMX bikes don't come with lights and some.
Bloke hit a pothole, supermanned over the handlebars. # both scaphoid, both wrists, # both elbows. Means he can't use his thumb, hand and forearm on both arms. Means he can't feed himself and more importantly can't wipe his A***

His mother and girlfriend (reasonably) refused wipe his A***

The only answer is a bidet. Heated seat and water and ours includes the puffs of air to dry the tush tush is temp controlled If he cant press the button on the app or remote then he has issues. He could use his nose to press the screen

 

[Quickstatus]

AKA a garden hose.

he cant press the button

Well his mother or girlfriend would have had to do it as both his arms were in a cast from hands up to armpits

We called him the NightRider

 

[Hvr]

XY chromosome more likely.

One bloke we treated many years ago was riding a BMX bike at 2am. He had lost his car license. BMX bikes don't come with lights and some, like his bike didn't have brakes (apparently that's a thing)
Bloke hit a pothole, supermanned over the handlebars. # both scaphoid, both wrists, # both elbows. Means he can't use his thumb, hand and forearm on both arms. Means he can't feed himself and more importantly can't wipe his A***

His mother and girlfriend (reasonably) refused to wipe his A***for the 6weels he was out of action.

Post in thread 'A bit of humour'

Jul 18, 2025

Neither one really appeals to me.

But I do love a real bidet.

• Hvr

• 

My post from the 'humour' a few days ago addressed this very issue.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So now onto diet v29.3 and struggling.

The obesity clinic is offering 12 month program for free. First 12 weeks is 3 x VLCD shakes per day plus 2 cups vegetables. The goal is to lose 2.5kg/week which I think is unrealistic and difficult.

I've obviously decided against it. I've purchased the Fat Blaster weight loss shakes to slowly incorporate into my own version of the diet. So counting calories again and try to limit to around 1500 calories per day.

One problem is trying work out calories of meat before and after cooking. I'm searching on Google and the general consensus is the calories of meat cooked will be the same before and after? How? Meat contains fat and if there's 22gm fat before cooking there'll more than likely be 15gm fat after cooking. That's a significant loss of fat which has to equate to loss of calories adds fat is factored in raw meat calorie count before cooking.

Note I do not use oil to cook. Lamb in frypan starts to lose fat and is cooked in fat and there's a lot left over in frypan so there has to be loss of calories? Beef/pork is cooked in frypan without oil until all water is released then let it cook that way or add some lamb fat. Surely beef/pork losing fat has to equate to calories loss? Chicken us usually boiled so again there will be loss of calories.

Anyway have consumed between 1500-1700 calories this week. Have to try and reduce that intake. Goal is 1kg/week for 8 weeks before going to Thailand.

Interesting question! I googled… which seems to suggest that for raw meat, the calorie count is not the raw state, it’s the ‘ready to eat’ state… which includes cooking. So if you have a pack of raw sausages and they’re 200 calories each,that would assume you’ve cooked them. Could be slightly less than 200 cal if you were to air fry, no oil, or could be slightly more if you use an oil or fat to cook them..l but the calorie count for the oil or fat will be listed on that product?