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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.
 
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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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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
 
Punko

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I've smoked a pack a day (20 cigs) for over 25 years. Copious amounts of alcohol. Lots of weed, experimenting with drugs.

Zero gym time or whatever. At age 43 I went to a local festival, 3 days of drinking and smoking 18 hours a day.

Ran the 4 miles home in 38 minutes, including documentation (pics) because some folks that know me wouldn't believe it. (3 hour wait for taxi)

Had 1 day of muscle pain.

Feels like living unhealthy doesn't have much of an impact unless you get shit luck.
 
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Punko said:
I've smoked a pack a day (20 cigs) for over 25 years. Copious amounts of alcohol. Lots of weed, experimenting with drugs.

Zero gym time or whatever. At age 43 I went to a local festival, 3 days of drinking and smoking 18 hours a day.

Ran the 4 miles home in 38 minutes, including documentation (pics) because some folks that know me wouldn't believe it. (3 hour wait for taxi)

Had 1 day of muscle pain.

Feels like living unhealthy doesn't have much of an impact unless you get shit luck.
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Get old. All that shit catches up to you and mows you down as all your internal organs turn to dog shit.
 
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Kajiimagi

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Fucker said:
Get old. All that shit catches up to you and mows you down as all your internal organs turn to dog shit.
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yeah I saw my FIL go out of his way to drink & smoke despite what the doc was telling him . Purposely would not eat veggies (candy and fried food exclusively) when it caught up with him he went down hard.
 
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Punko said:
I've smoked a pack a day (20 cigs) for over 25 years. Copious amounts of alcohol. Lots of weed, experimenting with drugs.

Zero gym time or whatever. At age 43 I went to a local festival, 3 days of drinking and smoking 18 hours a day.

Ran the 4 miles home in 38 minutes, including documentation (pics) because some folks that know me wouldn't believe it. (3 hour wait for taxi)

Had 1 day of muscle pain.

Feels like living unhealthy doesn't have much of an impact unless you get shit luck.
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Father in law was the same way. Now he's having heart and lung issues right as he entered retirement.

I feel like nothing you said here is anything to brag about
 
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moonarchia

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Punko said:
I've smoked a pack a day (20 cigs) for over 25 years. Copious amounts of alcohol. Lots of weed, experimenting with drugs.

Zero gym time or whatever. At age 43 I went to a local festival, 3 days of drinking and smoking 18 hours a day.

Ran the 4 miles home in 38 minutes, including documentation (pics) because some folks that know me wouldn't believe it. (3 hour wait for taxi)

Had 1 day of muscle pain.

Feels like living unhealthy doesn't have much of an impact unless you get shit luck.
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Health is a long term thing. When, not if, it catches up to you, you'll understand why people tried to warn you. Good luck.
 
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Springbok

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“I ate 5 pounds of asbestos and ran 5 miles and nothing happened. Seems like asbestos exposure is overblown”
 
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Been a long time since I've felt this bummed out. Been about 3.5 weeks since my eye procedure, couldn't see much of anything at all until a few days ago (expected part of the healing process). But vision is starting to clear up and last night I noticed a new, more pronounced, more centralized floater. This is almost definitely retinal re-detachment. Meaning the surgery didn't work and in fact seems to have made it worse.

Trying not to let the internet and google fuck with my head, gotta wait until the surgeon's office opens and hopefully get seen today. I really don't want to have to go in for more surgery...
 
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Punko

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Springbok said:
“I ate 5 pounds of asbestos and ran 5 miles and nothing happened. Seems like asbestos exposure is overblown”
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I enjoy asbestos and have accepted the potential consequences.

Better 50 good years then 80 shit ones. I don't intend to get old, being old is shit.

"congrats, you are a healty 80 year old, you only shit yourself once a week"

No thanks for that.
 
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Izo

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Punko said:
I enjoy asbestos and have accepted the potential consequences.

Better 50 good years then 80 shit ones. I don't intend to get old, being old is shit.

"congrats, you are a healty 80 year old, you only shit yourself once a week"

No thanks for that.
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moonarchia

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Punko said:
I enjoy asbestos and have accepted the potential consequences.

Better 50 good years then 80 shit ones. I don't intend to get old, being old is shit.

"congrats, you are a healty 80 year old, you only shit yourself once a week"

No thanks for that.
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That's reasonable then. Just going to really suck for you if you don't check out at 50, though. Being an unhealthy 80 year old who has to use a walker to move and can't breathe without an O2 tank and has had serious issues the past 30 years isn't something I would wish on my enemies.
 
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Gurgeh

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moonarchia said:
That's reasonable then. Just going to really suck for you if you don't check out at 50, though. Being an unhealthy 80 year old who has to use a walker to move and can't breathe without an O2 tank and has had serious issues the past 30 years isn't something I would wish on my enemies.
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When I was kid, we used to go to in a gasthaus in Austria, during winter, for skiing. we went to the same house for 15 years, the dude and grandma were already old and retired when we started going there, once they went skiing with us, I was like 12 and the dude was over 80, probably around 85. And he was better at skiing then than me. That's the kind of stuff I'm looking up to, skiing with my grandkids when I'm over 80. Yeah there is a price to pay in your early 40's to maximize your chance of this happening, but seeing my father taking all the wrong turns healthwise and having a shitty live starting at 70 isn't great, especialy when it was almost certainly avoidable.
 
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