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Borzak

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This may not be news. But before I got an actual diagnosis every doctor just piled on pain releivers to no end, seems like at one time I had a prescription for all kinds except for morphine and fentanyl. I didn't need most of them and filled them and just kept them for "later". Now that I have an actual diagnosis which one of the known symptoms is pain it's like the one thing nobody will touch with a 10 foot pole.

Speaking of eyes I have never had an issue being a diabetic for 50 years now. They used to use dye in your blood to look at the vessels and now they use a photo of whatever tech. I can tell you what is a pain the ass. I almost wished I had bad eyesight in both eyes. Eye doctors can't leave it alone. The retina comes back okay every time and they simply skip over the entire "have a lesion on my optic nerve of the bad idea" entirely.
 
Noodleface

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Borzak said:
This may not be news. But before I got an actual diagnosis every doctor just piled on pain releivers to no end, seems like at one time I had a prescription for all kinds except for morphine and fentanyl. I didn't need most of them and filled them and just kept them for "later". Now that I have an actual diagnosis which one of the known symptoms is pain it's like the one thing nobody will touch with a 10 foot pole.

Speaking of eyes I have never had an issue being a diabetic for 50 years now. They used to use dye in your blood to look at the vessels and now they use a photo of whatever tech. I can tell you what is a pain the ass. I almost wished I had bad eyesight in both eyes. Eye doctors can't leave it alone. The retina comes back okay every time and they simply skip over the entire "have a lesion on my optic nerve of the bad idea" entirely.
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I got diagnosed first via just general exam but they had to put the dye in me to really check the vessels. That sucked ass
 
Kajiimagi

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Borzak said:
This may not be news. But before I got an actual diagnosis every doctor just piled on pain releivers to no end, seems like at one time I had a prescription for all kinds except for morphine and fentanyl. I didn't need most of them and filled them and just kept them for "later". Now that I have an actual diagnosis which one of the known symptoms is pain it's like the one thing nobody will touch with a 10 foot pole.

Speaking of eyes I have never had an issue being a diabetic for 50 years now. They used to use dye in your blood to look at the vessels and now they use a photo of whatever tech. I can tell you what is a pain the ass. I almost wished I had bad eyesight in both eyes. Eye doctors can't leave it alone. The retina comes back okay every time and they simply skip over the entire "have a lesion on my optic nerve of the bad idea" entirely.
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re: Pain. Not sure how the rules are in TX (where I recall you being from?) but speaking as someone who has had pain his whole life and has had fentanyl patches in the past, you now have to specifically ask for pain medication. You will feel slimy for asking but it sure beats suffering. Guess that way the doc can say they are not pushing meds on ya? I actually go see a pain management doc once a month to make sure I'm not getting a monkey.
Hope this is of some help. Anyhow bro , be well.
 
TheNozz

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Two month mark after ablation procedure was Feb 3.

cardiologist thinks my progress is going well.

told me I could slowly start going off anti arrhythmic drugs and yesterday was the last day for them.

next major milestone is going to be sometime around the end of March. I’ll need to wear a heart monitor for two weeks, beginning March 3. If I don’t have any irregularities while wearing it, doctor said I could go off blood thinners and at that time, I’d be tentatively declared cured.

however, the cannot officially discharge me/declare me fixed until December 3, one year after the procedure
 
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Prodigal

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TheNozz said:
Two month mark after ablation procedure was Feb 3.

cardiologist thinks my progress is going well.

told me I could slowly start going off anti arrhythmic drugs and yesterday was the last day for them.

next major milestone is going to be sometime around the end of March. I’ll need to wear a heart monitor for two weeks, beginning March 3. If I don’t have any irregularities while wearing it, doctor said I could go off blood thinners and at that time, I’d be tentatively declared cured.

however, the cannot officially discharge me/declare me fixed until December 3, one year after the procedure
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Was this for atrial fibrillation? Curious as I’ve had three occurrences over the last 20 years, but never had an ablation done.
 
Noodleface

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Sugar has been a bit higher this week despite me eating relatively low carb, also my hunger kind of spiked. I wonder if my dose of ozempic was ineffective or something n
 
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