My health is pretty good and I hope yours is too

Thanks for creating this thread, mun.
The old one on the Slorum was really helpful.

paging mattys ass

Don't worry; I'm here. I'm a bat doctor.

When the special medical marjarana doctor asks if you've experienced any psychosis, are you supposed to say, "nah but I got a couple psycho bros" or are they just looking for a yes/no?

I've asked my friend to stop by too.
He's a real doctor.

I have an MRI next week to look at some irregularities in my kidneys and I'm talking to a gastro. I'm pretty sure the conflict between two of the meds I take have pushed me to this point, and I'm pretty scared that the damage is permanent.

I want to change my med doctor and get a therapist/med doctor combined but I'm terrified of talking to my med doctor about this. Does anyone have advice on how to fire a doctor?

Thank you for opening this thread. I'm really scared about the MRI because I've never had one before, and I'm nervous about what the results are.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/insurance-denied-800000-drug-twice-state-run-panel-helped-north-caroli-rcna248068?

The denial was overturned by the North Carolina Department of Insurance, a state agency that oversees health insurers and helps patients challenge denied claims.

Every state has some form of insurance department or commission, although what programs they offer and the amount of resources they have can vary. Experts say that while most patients don’t know these agencies exist, they can guide individuals or families through an additional step beyond the insurer’s internal appeals process: an external review.

This is news to me

Scarlet said:

I'm terrified of talking to my med doctor about this. Does anyone have advice on how to fire a doctor?

If you don't feel comfortable talking with your doctor about important things then it certainly seems like time for a new doctor if you can get one

If you find a new doctor first they can request records from your old doctor and you won't even have to interact with them if you aren't comfortable or just plain don't want to.

Hai. Fairly healthy over all but at 61 im finally learning about menopause.
If you want a happy homelife and your female partner is approaching 50, you need to learn about menopause.

Im learning more from stupid FB reels than I ever learned from a doctor or school, (the reels i watch are by a dr)

anyway, im going to talk to my dr about hormonal treatments. Brain fog, joint pain, and did you know....a womans inner labia shrink to the point of being almost gone>? I saw that and reached down trou and WTF!?

I'm done now, but while going through it my bones would literally ache when I either was getting my period or supposed to get it. I would bring it up to the doctors and they had no clue what it could be. I assure you it was hormonal.

I had perimenopausal symptoms - brain fog, irritability, hot flashes, tiredness, heart palpitations and sleep issues
I was placed on HRT and it helped tremendously.
Even protected my brain somehow from depression or whatever as I stopped ruminating (real or imagined) which can be torturous
I have about 3 years left and then I'll go through estrogen withdrawal :(

Back in Houston. Biopsy Tuesday morning.

Wild to think that I'm hoping to have a second treatable cancer and not the same ol treatment resistant one just in a new inoperable location.

Live like you're dying while you're still living.

Stage IV Colorectal with lung and pleural metastases. Next: VA treatment options.

Incurable & Inoperable.

Looking for systemic treatment options though the VA now.

god fucking damn it

I'm sorry

That sucks

#FuckCancer, just fuck it!

fuck fuck fuck

Y'all cursing or we partying?

😁

Yes

Fuck Cancer.. that sucks groober. 100 percent fucking sucks

fuckin' hell

Just got out from MD Anderson

No clinical trial for me

Recommendation to start chemotherapy with the VA locally after another CT scan to use as baseline

1 week on, 1 week off, scan again in 2-3 months

Hopefully I see some reduction or stabilization

I should expect 8-12 months of effective treatment

Eventually the the treatment will become ineffective

Expectation is 8-12 months on the good end for effectiveness

Then it's time to discuss hospice

I am so sorry.
How do you think you are handling all of this?
How is your family handling it?
Anything I can do for you?

FOLFIRI - Google it I guess

I'm good I guess.

We're playing Five Crowns together right now.

No one is happy about it, obv

Told my mom after lunch. She didn't have the emotional bandwidth to process at the moment.

I dunno. I guess I'm going to try and enjoy the last couple of days I've got before starting my end run.

Once I start chemo, I'll try to go as long as I can.

Inoperable. Incurable. Eventually unresponsive to treatment, and terminal.

Going on disability.



gg wp

:'-(

My score in Five Crowns

67

🫲6-7🫴

I was saving this link for myself because I was so impressed by the thoroughness of her action plan that I couldn't NOT save it. I'll leave it here
https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/s/4EjEa9brFw

Thanks for the link. I think I can make use of it.

^that is a very good checklist, BbBb,

stupid ear did this thing where it kind of went into low power mode late last night
almost like i went to a punk show and had an ear plug protecting only my right ear.
It sucked and made me nervous
better this morning but still feels like the day after a really loud music event - kind of squealy tinnitussy
has happened a few times in recent memory
not a big fan
not my favorite thing

Had that a couple years ago. Called Meniere's Disease. Resolved itself in a few days, but the tinnitus stayed, so that's great.

hey, I had that in 1993
I've been listening to tinnitus ever since
plus I've gone just about deaf
which is cool

I'm going in for surgery on both eyes on Monday. I've been dealing with double-vision aka strabismus for 5-7 years. I first told an optometrist about it, her take was that i was probably tired or had too much to drink...

two years later i told the next optometrist and she said that theres not really much you can do about it other than live with it until it gets too bad to deal with and then they fix it with glasses - but they don't like to fix it with glasses until they have to because that usually makes it worse

I finally asked my doctor about it a couple of years later and he sent me to a specialist who all but said I should have gone to them immediately. I've gone through dozens of tests and even tried having Botox injected into my eye muscles on the inner-side. Botox was largely developed to treat strabismus but it had absolutely no effect on me.

So, as I said, monday i'm going in to have some of the muscles physically cut from and reattached to both of my eyeballs to kind of pull them to where they should be

They're making me take 2 weeks off of work - i've never taken medical leave before.. but they said the recovery isn't too bad other than some pain and swelling. I'm not supposed to go in a steam room or really put my head underwater, but as long as I feel good about it, I'm allowed to run or lift weights or basically anything.

It's pretty scary though.

Guys, if you ever have any problem with one of your major senses, go to the doctor immediately okay? thanks.

May the force be with you

Found out about 6 weeks ago from blood work that my Vitamin D levels were very low. I've been taking a 50,000 unit capsule once a week for the past 6 weeks to try and get the numbers back up to normal.

As things start to improve I am realizing that I was having a bunch of issues because of this that I had just written off as getting older or just part of my life now. In particular night sweats and bad chills/anxiety in the mornings when I wake up. My cortisol levels would spike rapidly and make me just not want to get out of bed.

Now for the first 3 days after I take that pill I feel amazing in the mornings and wake up ready to get out of bed and go. I hope that it continues to improve to be better every day eventually.

Moral of the story is that I am now a big fan of getting bloodwork done!

i never heard about any of that and it's good to know.
may your face eggs be aligned and remain unhatched JD

and good reminder hef
Humans are chronically low vit d as a species since we started building dwellings or some shit. My wife's birthday MS doc told me that, at least. I need to get back on my supplement. Glad to hear it's working for you

It's getting there, but now that some days are so much better than the others I'm getting impatient LOL. I want to feel good EVERY day now that I know it's possible.

greedy ass mf

i solved or altered a lot of my gripes for the better with strict adherence to an exercise (punishment) routine over the last couple years. It has sucked, but the benefits have so far outweighed the desire to slob.

Nice, I applaud your willpower.

JD I've got the same bullshit I think.
I can only focus one eye at a time...
Like they both have clear (though slightly different) vision individually, but I can't seem to make them work together.
It's bizarre because there is like no dominant eye, and focusing one unfocuses the other.
I need to go to the eye doc bad I guess, but in the back of my mind I keep thinking they aren't going to be able to do shit about it.
... but what you described sounds extreme too
ugh

I was blaming my two different kinds of laser eye surgery I had 15 years ago. One has the flap and the other doesn't... and it kind of seems like they drifted in quality ever since then. But it was only recently that I sort of self discovered it was more of a consistent focusing issue than any myopia.

Welp, eye insurance is turned back on for this year.

50k IU? DAAAAAMN
My vit D is low and they're like "keep taking your 1000iu supplement :)" and I'm like, I've been taking 5000?? and they're like, "okay keep doing that :)"

that's the same attitude we got from her superspecialist research doc.

there's been research to suggest that vit d could play an important role in xyz blah blah blah

Cool how much should we take

lol iunno. just feel it out don't sweat the small stuff baby you got a stew goin

just head down to the walmart vitamin section and get silly lol it ain’t gon kill u or nothin

wozza vita d poisoning

bridbran said:

50k IU? DAAAAAMN
My vit D is low and they're like "keep taking your 1000iu supplement :)" and I'm like, I've been taking 5000?? and they're like, "okay keep doing that :)"

Yeah, it’s a high number for sure but my D was like really low. Apparently this is a common short-term approach with the end game being that I take a much smaller daily dose after the 12 week ramp up.

Did you notice symptoms when yours was lower?

hef got the low D