Health Problems

I don't know either. It's all over. At times it gets really bad in spots. Bad enough I've had multiple biopsies and test for Lupus. The following week or two it goes away and moves someplace else. One day I was sitting outside wearing shorts and the skin was shinning on my legs. It almost looked as if my leg was made of plastic, or coated in something. No idea.

I have to take off my glasses and clean them multiple times a day, on the inside. I haven't noticed any difference in the weather. Of course I don't go out near as much as I used to.

The answer is in your question. You've got two quantities and a ratio. One quantity of high, one low, the ratio is high.

When considered alone one is high range of normal, the other low range. When considered together their ratio is higher than you would like to see. These two added do not make a whole, that might be the missing bit. Even together they're partial.

It's getting to the mechanisms of interactions.

It's not the worst possible outcome.

Dom said:

What are some good (preferably affordable) ways to keep daily track of ones blood pressure and heart rate? Something more reliable than a fitbit, but not too much fuss to use would be a minimum.

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You can buy blood pressure monitors at any pharmacy, manual or automatic as you see fit. $50+ for a decent one.

The pharmacy armcuffs are accurate enough. They also make them with heartrate indicators.

You just want to keep a little book. Try to keep your measures around the same timeframe (BP varies throughout the day as well as based on activity). You are interested in resting BP but you also want to know where your BP is capping. So take it after some physical stress to see.

You will probably run higher at one point in the day than another. Some people are higher in the mornings, other higher in the evenings. That can explain discrepancies when you go to your GP and your pressure is different than what you get when you take it at home. Plus, for whatever reason it's a real thing that exists, your pressure will run a little bit higher when you're at the doctors office.

And don't get crazy with it. There's no point in taking it every 30 minutes, not for you at home. It won't tell you anything useful to you. I've seen people fixate on it.

Izo said:

And if not, well...

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This chart is wrong. Anyone who works in surgery knows you always, always blame anesthesia. Always.

What are the best treatments for a nagging tennis elbow? I initially tore it summer of 2015 squeezing the trigger for 8 hours a day on an electrofishing wand and it has never been able to fully heal. It gets better but it seems if I tweak it the wrong way I'm right back to square one.

TheBeagle said:

What are the best treatments for a nagging tennis elbow?

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As much rest as possible and the standard PT exercises you can find online. I had a nasty case from martial arts and it took nearly a year to go away. For my case the best exercise was wrist extensor flexes. The finger contraction muscles were incredibly tight.

TheBeagle said:

What are the best treatments for a nagging tennis elbow? I initially tore it summer of 2015 squeezing the trigger for 8 hours a day on an electrofishing wand and it has never been able to fully heal. It gets better but it seems if I tweak it the wrong way I'm right back to square one.

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NSAID for the flare. Steroid / blockade helps some. Physical thereapy helps yet some. Synj might know if dissektion of the m. extensor carpi radialis brevis from the lateral epicondyle might help you in your chronic stage. I'd get a referral for US by an ortho to confirm the diagnosis and treatment options.

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I’ve been consistently having night terrors most of this year. They’ve gone from a couple times per week, to basically every night. Lately, the terrors that I’ve remembered have been all of my surgical scars opening up and bleeding uncontrollably. Needless to say, I don’t remember my last good nights sleep. It’s gotten to the point that it’s starting to disturb my girlfriend-o’s sleep, and she’s starting to worry.

Well that is worrisome.

I doubt that chemical solutions will solve anything, but they might provide relief.

I mean legit ones, not drinking yourself into a stupor or gettin high.

That's a trauma response and it will take some kind of talking therapy to resolve. But how to get you to stop being terrified of that is not immediately obvious and something that men spend a decade studying how to do. That's a deep, deep physical insecurity.

My grandfather had that after his lung surgery. He'd wake up afraid that someone was coming to steal parts of him. Which is -exactly- what had happened. It's not that he or you are wrong. That's the problem, you're not wrong. But it's a physical trauma response.