General Medical issues thread

[drron]

I continue to prove exercise is a good way to help reduce pain. got back from our recent trip relatively unfit and daily step count ~ 4/5000 per day. !0 days before yesterdy were 10000 steps. yesterday sitting all day at a conference. When Igot home walking quite painful but I kept walking and it got better. But only got to 8600 steps.

 

[tgh]

Keep up the good work .
I had a recovery week off after a series of 20k+ weeks and have also been fairly quiet this week ; save for wednesday
with a flat out 5k @ 9.17m/km followed by a busy day in the workshop.
Watch gave me 20k steps and 15k , so I slept well.
Next week will try for another 4 week cycle of stress and distance with steadily increasing jogging segments.
Of course time and the looming grim reaper will eventually beat me , I am not kidding myself…..but I will go down swingin'….

 

[Himeno]

Had a meeting at work with the store manager and the rehab coord on Wednesday. Went as expected. Just planning for the expected clearance to light duties in 2 weeks and confirming all the details thus far for the rehab coord.
Sling came off the arm yesterday, according to the plan given by the fracture clinic. There's been more pain without the sling.

The zone injury care partner called earlier. She asked if it was possible to move the next GP visit forward and see if I could get back to work earlier, before the fracture clinic said I should.

Has taken 2 1/2 weeks to get the workers comp payments through. Had to prod them this week and the reimbursement for the last GP visit and 2 1/2 weeks wages finally got processed last night.

 

[Flashback]

I continue to prove exercise is a good way to help reduce pain. got back from our recent trip relatively unfit and daily step count ~ 4/5000 per day. !0 days before yesterdy were 10000 steps. yesterday sitting all day at a conference. When Igot home walking quite painful but I kept walking and it got better. But only got to 8600 steps.

I've been trying to do at least 70k steps/week, as well as having made some other lifestyle/health changes. I've gone from 94kg (worst I've ever been) down to a current 81kg. Minimal effort so far as I can't do overly intensive exercise due to my ankle injury, but seems to be working pretty well and maintaining. Diet and portion size plays a big part too.

 

[DejaBrew]

Posted yesterday in the WCMO thread about being T-3 days to holiday and coming down with a sore throat + sniffles. Well, last night I went into full uncontrolled shivering mode and a cold sweat despite the pleasant 20 degrees ambient temp.

Woke up this morning feeling (surprisingly) not too bad. A little bit of the sniffles, minimal-to-nil sore throat and minimal muscle/joint ache (which could very easily be remnant of the mass shivering event last night).

Wondering if I’m lucky enough to have had this thing rip through me at a rate of knots and allow me to be relatively fine in time for the trip?

 

[Pushka]

Posted yesterday in the WCMO thread about being T-3 days to holiday and coming down with a sore throat + sniffles. Well, last night I went into full uncontrolled shivering mode and a cold sweat despite the pleasant 20 degrees ambient temp.

Woke up this morning feeling (surprisingly) not too bad. A little bit of the sniffles, minimal-to-nil sore throat and minimal muscle/joint ache (which could very easily be remnant of the mass shivering event last night).

Wondering if I’m lucky enough to have had this thing rip through me at a rate of knots and allow me to be relatively fine in time for the trip?

Hmm. Where are you travelling to and what kind of trip. Last September I came down with something, brief recovery but had started travelling. Then 10 days of immense fatigue and weakness, no temp, but feelings of faintness. Trouble is, we were in USA and thoughts of going to the doctor were tempered with the dread of going through a big medical insurance claim. So, where to?

 

[Quickstatus]

He was given a little bit of morphine (and maybe something else?)

Likely midazolam. They mix the coughtail into a 10mg syringe - generally morphine and midazolam and sometimes an antiemetic and ,perhaps an antipsychotic depending on situation and run the syringe with a battery syringe driver called a Niki pump over 24hrs via a subcutaneous line.

PPM wires

There are Wireless pacemaker

 

[Quickstatus]

I went into full uncontrolled shivering mode and a cold sweat despite the pleasant 20 degrees ambient temp.

= Rigors

Basically your body is mounting an immune response. One of the ways is to raise your body temp above 37deg by shivering.

Hope you feel better

 

[DejaBrew]

So, where to?

Japan for 2 and a bit weeks, followed by Hong Kong (1 day) then Singapore (3 days).

Hope you feel better

Thanks.

Basically your body is mounting an immune response. One of the ways is to raise your body temp above 37deg by shivering.

Indeed. And my Apple Watch was all over it

 

[Quickstatus]

Apple Watch was all over it

Rigors dramatically increases your oxygen demand and CO2 production. Often people feel short of breath and they also get a tachycardia because the heart is pumping blood faster to supply the increased oxygen demand

 

[prozac]

There are Wireless pacemaker

Whilst they have wireless 2 chamber devices I don't think they have a wireless defib device .. at least not offered when I asked recently.
An 80y/o friend got his first PPM a couple of months ago which was wireless dual chamber.

 

[Pushka]

Japan for 2 and a bit weeks, followed by Hong Kong (1 day) then Singapore (3 days).


Thanks.


Indeed. And my Apple Watch was all over it

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Hope your recovery continues. Best wishes.

 

[Quickstatus]

wireless defib device

There are subcutaneous ICD devices

 

[drron]

Japan for 2 and a bit weeks, followed by Hong Kong (1 day) then Singapore (3 days).


Thanks.


Indeed. And my Apple Watch was all over it

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Back in the olden days we had an easy explanation for both you and @Pushka . We just called it a 24 hour virus. But as Pushka found out it is not uncommon for viral illnesses to be followed by fatigue. The EB virus is a classic for that.

 

[prozac]

There are subcutaneous ICD devices

Yes, that is what I said I will be getting to replace my current 2 lead device.

 

[JohnK]

I continue to prove exercise is a good way to help reduce pain.

Curious how you fight through the pain to do that many steps? I did close to 6000 steps today but that was over 3-4 hours at BNE DFO. Stop, start. I do not have that sort of time weekdays as Im working.

Severe back pain slows me down but past few weeks have been fighting severe groin pain. Really struggling to walk as that is causing thigh, hamstring and calf muscle pain.

Today the right ankle joint collapsed twice and I managed to save myself falling flat on my face. Totally unexpected.

 

[hydrabyss]

Curious how you fight through the pain to do that many steps? I did close to 6000 steps today but that was over 3-4 hours at BNE DFO. Stop, start. I do not have that sort of time weekdays as Im working.

Severe back pain slows me down but past few weeks have been fighting severe groin pain. Really struggling to walk as that is causing thigh, hamstring and calf muscle pain.

Today the right ankle joint collapsed twice and I managed to save myself falling flat on my face. Totally unexpected.

Have you looked into using a sauna. I have been looking into using it after exercise which may help when you are restricted from doing a full workout.