General Medical issues thread

[Seat0B]

Today MrsP went in for the cognitive drug trial medical review, eligibility criteria check, & cognitive assessments. I might have indicated previously she had been accepted. Not the case. Today's battery of tests were to determine if she fitted the trial criteria. She does, and has now been formally accepted into the trial. It is a double blind study for 40 weeks and then she will be offered to be rolled into an open-label extension phase where she will be on the actual drug. So in the first phase she has a 50% chance of recieving a placebo or 50% for the drug being reviewed. The chances this drug will work are probably slim, but if you are not in the game you can't win a prize, so we have our fingers crossed.

I hope it goes well for her @prozac

 

[drron]

So, visit today, he said basically nothing wrong with the mechanics of my knee, said the meniscus tear wasn't worth worrying about, I have a little bit of arthritis.
When I asked why I was in so much pain and could hardly walk, he put it down to overuse and carrying my camera bag. I really don't believe that as it was hurting weeks before I left and I nearly cancelled.
Oh well, he is meant to be one of the best, if not the best Knee/hip person in Canberra.
He suggested I go and do the GLAD programme and go to my GP if I am still having issues. Honestly, I feel like I wasted my time, I think I have a very high pain threshold, so I was surprised to be in agony even though I was taking anti inflammatories and panadol osteo.

The problem may not be the knee. Pain in the knee can be referred pain. A common culprit can be the hip. But when my knee pain got suddenly worse it was in fact the first indication of my spinal canal stenosis. Even a simple xray of the hip and lumbar spine may give an answer and then the appropriate scan done.