Health Problems

Yesterday another visit to the ER. I sleep with a baby moniter. Laid down to take a nap. Apparently I went unconcious or had a seizuer. I swallowed my tongue and was choking. ER didn't come up with anything. Another MRI, no lesions at all. All the ones I had 5 years ago are gone, no new ones.

I mean it's a fucked up way to get good news.

No legions where you previously had legions is a good thing.

iannis said:

No legions where you previously had legions is a good thing.

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Tell that to the Roman Empire.

I go in for another MRI later this week. Over the weekend had a brain MRI. This one is a spinal MRI. Dr. brought up that if it's progressive MS most times all lesions are produced on the spine and not the brain. No medication for progressive MS. You just live with it or not. It just steadily (or sometimes not steadily) detoriates without an attack or relapse most people would call an attack. Some people have progressive MS for years if not decades. We will see. I've had one spinal in the past a little over 2 years ago and I had lesions. But nothing at the onset/attack 5 years ago to compare it to.

I know I'm britching a lot but my head is lagging. I feel like I'm almost a vegetable now. Nothing has had an impact on it. Started with ibuprofen for inflamation which didn't touch it. Then tramadol, nothing. Then hydrocodene. Nothing. Then oxy and it kind of touched it but not enough to make it worth taking again.

Oddly enough in the past when nothing touched it I had luck with several doan's pills which apparently contain not just a mild pain releiver but some sort of NSAID, non steroid anti imflamator like ibuprofen but different. But I'm out will have to wait till tomorrow.

Good news Gents. My scan from yesterday showed a small amount of shrinkage which surprised my doc since my last treatment was end of April. The plan is to start treatment again August 13. Also went from 210 down to 189 now. Finally getting my shit back together with my diet and exercise.

I mean yeah, you would adapt to it.

But no, you don't want one.

Well, you could always find a local friend like Kuriin if you need your rectum stretched.

From bad to worse. Kind of had sinus off and on for a while. Yesterday laid down to take a nap. Now sitting on the bed I look like weebles wobble but I do fall down. It's all I can do to walk to the bathroom and back. Just got out of the bathtub. That was an adventure. If I sit still in a chat like at the computer long enough it gets better. Laying down makes it 10x worse. Yes also totally deaf in that ear. Going to the clinic or Er tomorrow. Sometimes if I sit down long enough I can get up and walk relatively OK. If I get up from laying down I have to have a can and hold onto the wall. It's pretty fish out of water situation at times.

This sucks.

I had a pretty bad earache a couple of weeks ago in the other ear. Used some earache stuff you warm up and put in ear and it solved itself over night. Which is the one reason makes me think it's not neurological as it just drainage ear problems. If I tap on the bone inside my ear/jaw I can hear that pretty well.

I just found recently one of my brain MRI's the radiologist that read it and did the report called the neurologist that ordered it and said he has a pretty large sinus infection I can see on the MRI. The doctor never mentioned it. Most likey he talked to the nurse and that was the end of it.

I went to the walk in clinic. I feel like Dalton from Road House. I walk in and carry copies of all my records so they don't order the same shit over and over. This doctor wanted to do an A1C and I broke out my records and had one done last month.

No build up in the ear. He ordered some antibiotics I've never had, and some other stuff to see if it helps the sinus.

The doctor did say you are the most organized patient I've ever had lol. Then we talked politics.

Been kind of leary of the walk in clinics. Mom had gone there before and said it was OK. I got the doctor that owns the place and I think they have one other.

Obligatory fuck cancer post.

My dad just got a diagnosis of prostate cancer at 68. It looks like he found it early, so barring something drastic the prognosis is good. My whole family is traumatized already, though, since my mom died of biliary cancer at 53.

Stem cell CRISPR nanobots can't come soon enough.

Take the mesh lap. My dad has pulled hernias a lot in his life. He got a mesh lap about two years ago. He was back to active inside a week and it fixed his lifelong issue.

Dude likes to strain.

I firmly believe it's a better mousetrap.