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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 15:22:53 GMT
That sounds a lot like stuff I've read about long covid toof.
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Post by Binky on Sept 21, 2021 15:26:46 GMT
Els, that sounds like a dose of the Rona to me. The symptoms are quite similar to be fair! Except I don't think you can pass on sinusitis and kill your nan.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 21, 2021 15:27:24 GMT
Not sure it is, never had one of the typical rona symptoms, no temperature, loss of smell etc. Did wonder if I got long covid from the vaccine for a while during a high spell anxiety, the sinus thing all started around the time of my second jab. The doctor reckons most likely chronic sinusitis from the symptoms as well so that’s good enough for me
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Post by razz on Sept 21, 2021 15:38:24 GMT
oops, sorry mods! Didn't realise there was already a health thread. Told you I was tired. There is? Oops, I couldnt find it and started this one. I had sinus surgery about 22 years ago, only one nostril though as I failed to turn up for the second op, I was a stupid teenager... Wish I got it as I now have one awesome nostril and a near useless one. The awesome one gets really cold and dry as it did the bulk of the work, pah. Still that's nothing compared to chronic sinusitis, sorry pal.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 15:52:37 GMT
You can't get long covid from the vaccine, there's no actual covid in it.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 21, 2021 15:53:42 GMT
Of course, I was just offering a glimpse of the irrational anxieties the infection has provided
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Post by スコットランド on Sept 23, 2021 17:16:38 GMT
I got diagnosed with a hernia in my right groin about 5 years ago but it wasn’t so bad so doc recommended not operating, the pain stopped for years but just started again this morning. I’m going to have to go under the knife, aren’t I? Wonder why it just got worse.. I had a hernia op about 8 years ago in the right groin area. Mine got so bad that if I laid down and put my hands either side of the hernia and coughed it would bounce up and down! I ended up going private because of the long wait and "they say" keyhole is better. Not wanting to put you off but I've had problems ever since with pain and eventually it stopped me playing badminton and footy. I've had various trips back to the docs and scans which never revealed anything. I was dismissed as being a wuss. It got quite bad earlier in the year (from pain around the hernia area to shooting pains into my sacks as well). Luckily I found a doctor that actually wanted to help and he sent me for an MRI. It turns out I was right all along as I have a load of fat/lumps where the mesh was inserted which is rubbing against my nerve ends and he doesn't think my body reacted well to the mesh being a foreign object. One of the nerves feeds directly into my man globes which is causing the ball ache. He thinks this was all caused by internal bleeding post op, so now I have a choice of living with it (he suggests I do this) or have another op which he can't guarantee anything and could cause more issues because of the existing mesh (which can't be removed) and mess I'm in. I've got a few weeks to decide what to do. I guess I'm really unlucky because the latest doc said key hole usually doesn't causes any issues like this. I hope yours goes better than mine if you go ahead with it and if you do be persistent if something doesn't feel right. Thanks a lot, mate. Sorry for your groin woes, the pain seems to have gone again, not sure what the script is..
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Post by Lukus on Sept 23, 2021 18:36:54 GMT
Hernias are notoriously difficulty to fix. The general problem surgeons have is they end up doing the repair too tight, which causes problems, or they do them too loose and they just come back within a few months or years. If you can live with it, it doesn't look too ridiculous and it's not causing any other problems, you might as well stick with it. Though the danger is it gets bigger and starts causing bigger issues.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 23, 2021 19:36:58 GMT
Lots of MRI chat in here I see. A couple of slightly surprising comments. I'm an MR physicist btw, so if at all helpful, fire away with questions.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 23, 2021 19:43:35 GMT
What happens if you leave a metal spoon in an MRI scanner
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Post by Tomo on Sept 23, 2021 19:47:42 GMT
It self stirs. So if you use a whisk instead and put some eggs in, you get stiff peaks
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Post by Vortex on Sept 23, 2021 20:02:31 GMT
Stiff peaks.
Hot.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 23, 2021 20:08:50 GMT
Just to clarify... That was fake news. Keep your spoons away from the scanner kids.
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Post by Lukus on Sept 23, 2021 20:13:05 GMT
Can you make out the outline of people's junk in an MRI scan?
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Post by elstoof on Sept 23, 2021 20:51:01 GMT
Does it really take that long to do the scan or are you all just lazy fuckers stretching it out
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Post by Vortex on Sept 23, 2021 20:51:40 GMT
Only if its tied to a spoon and gets ripped off by the big magnets.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 23, 2021 21:00:48 GMT
Can you make out the outline of people's junk in an MRI scan? Not just the outline.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 23, 2021 21:02:14 GMT
“Give Mrs Jenkins another 20 minutes in there Nige, my cappuccinos still a bit too hot to drink”
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Post by Tomo on Sept 23, 2021 21:02:47 GMT
Does it really take that long to do the scan or are you all just lazy fuckers stretching it out Yeah, there is little faffing with MRI scans. If you're done in <30 mins, count yourself lucky. For instance, pregnant women can go in for more than an hour and they can get really uncomfortable, so man the fuck up with your sissy little sprained ankle.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 23, 2021 21:54:16 GMT
A friend at uni was studying radiography, she told me a significant amount of the job was x raying people with strange objects stuck in their arses, every one of them armed with an excuse for getting it stuck up there. I think the training was mainly about how to keep a straight face
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 23, 2021 22:18:49 GMT
That's probably why it takes so long - getting their mates to come over and have a laugh
I can't think of a legitimate reason for something ending up inside your rectum without you actively wishing it there, at least partially
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Post by Tomo on Sept 24, 2021 1:58:09 GMT
A friend at uni was studying radiography, she told me a significant amount of the job was x raying people with strange objects stuck in their arses, every one of them armed with an excuse for getting it stuck up there. I think the training was mainly about how to keep a straight face Yeah, talking to GPs is funny for similar stories as well. The best scanner related story I heard was at a hospital where there are two scanners adjacent to each other. One of them is used for scanning quite severe patients, whereas the other tends to be less urgent. Anyway, during this session, the patient on the more severe scanner was a little crazy in the membrane. They got up midway through the scan and climbed out of the bore. Concerning, but nothing awful at this stage. The radiographers go in to attend, but then the patient removes their gown, is completely starkers and begins whipping the rads with their gown. The patient is being very uncooperative, then runs out of the scanner room towards a nearby door which happens to be the other scanner. They enter and then climb on top of the other patient being scanned... The rads come in and pull the invading patient away and take them away. The rads scanning the second patient finish up scanning and apologise to the patient about all of this but patient two just says they were asleep and didn't notice it happen!
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Post by hedben on Sept 24, 2021 5:26:16 GMT
This famous MRI study is 20 years old, probably due for an update www.bmj.com/content/319/7225/1596Especially since they have wide-load MRI machines in America now, plenty of room for 2
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Post by chug666 on Sept 24, 2021 6:31:40 GMT
I joined the arse camera club this summer too, to check that there wasn't anything untoward lurking in my gut (just piles, woo). It was unpleasant but bearable until the enterologist asked 'have we met before?', definitely not what I was expecting or wanting to hear as he lubed me up. Turns out we were in the same antenatal classes a few years back, and what followed was both physically and socially uncomfortable- making small talk about our kids as he rummaged about in my insides.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 24, 2021 6:33:59 GMT
Haha, that's brilliant
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Post by simple on Sept 24, 2021 7:04:53 GMT
My toe surgery looked like it was healing fast, drying and scabbing up as intended, but has got a bit sticky again this week.
Doesn’t really fill me with confidence that the symptoms if infection and the characteristics of normal healing are both redness, discomfort and yellowish discharge.
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Post by convercide on Sept 24, 2021 13:09:22 GMT
Hernias are notoriously difficulty to fix. The general problem surgeons have is they end up doing the repair too tight, which causes problems, or they do them too loose and they just come back within a few months or years. If you can live with it, it doesn't look too ridiculous and it's not causing any other problems, you might as well stick with it. Though the danger is it gets bigger and starts causing bigger issues. Yeah, mine was getting ridiculous. Glad it was fixed. Have some issues now and again but nothing as bad as other stories I've read. The area can occasionally hurt but it's usually not more than a few hours every few weeks so it's liveable. Rather that than have my intestines saying hello.
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Post by pierrepressure on Sept 24, 2021 13:56:33 GMT
I had really bad reflux for a while, which meant gastroscopy (pretty horrible), endless smaller cameras down the nose which fucked up my right nostril so much it can't be used for that again, and manometry (absolutely ghastly experience with a completely unsympathetic nurse who must have learned her bedside manner from Dr Mengele). I also had to wear a pH meter for 24 hours at a time on a couple of occasions which was fucking horrible (tube down nose into stomach and you have to wear it for a day) and the device was like something from the Soviet days. I have really bad reflux and stomach pains, gaviscon worked for a while but not really a permanent solution. Ended up with a camera down the throat to have a look at my stomach but that came back clear. They asked if I wanted to be sedated which I jumped at the chance, never understood why you would turn it down. I've been on omeprazole for a few months which has been amazing but recently cut down the dose and am starting to get some mild symptoms again. All the GP has said is sometimes bodies produce higher amounts of acidity which causes the reflux/stomach pain. So no real cure and they want to take me off the drug next month which feels me with dread.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 14:16:42 GMT
I had really bad reflux for a while, which meant gastroscopy (pretty horrible), endless smaller cameras down the nose which fucked up my right nostril so much it can't be used for that again, and manometry (absolutely ghastly experience with a completely unsympathetic nurse who must have learned her bedside manner from Dr Mengele). I also had to wear a pH meter for 24 hours at a time on a couple of occasions which was fucking horrible (tube down nose into stomach and you have to wear it for a day) and the device was like something from the Soviet days. I have really bad reflux and stomach pains, gaviscon worked for a while but not really a permanent solution. Ended up with a camera down the throat to have a look at my stomach but that came back clear. They asked if I wanted to be sedated which I jumped at the chance, never understood why you would turn it down. I've been on omeprazole for a few months which has been amazing but recently cut down the dose and am starting to get some mild symptoms again. All the GP has said is sometimes bodies produce higher amounts of acidity which causes the reflux/stomach pain. So no real cure and they want to take me off the drug next month which feels me with dread. I've had the throat check with and without sedation. Sedation wins 100%. I've no recollection as to what happened and it felt like I just fell asleep. The first time though it felt like they were trying to choke me. I can't even remember why I had the checks now. Just been to get an itchy and changing mole looked at. Thankfully they think its all fine and I just need to monitor and put some vaseline on it. I'd been worrying about it after noticing the bleedin' thing itching.
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Post by 😎 on Sept 24, 2021 14:27:13 GMT
Yeah, sedation every time for me if it’s offered. A light pinch on the arm for the IV, then a nice nap. I have crazy stomach issues so get them fairly regularly. Got an appointment next week with the gastro peeps incidentally - not a camera down/up a hole though.
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