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2024.04.28 21:15 ScholarThink5589 the unknown
in your bunk, surrounded by crows,
emotions crumbled, while egos arose
as the touch of fingertips slowly withers,
to blankets and pillows you are tethered
in the dark isolated room you are un-eased,
from the foot to the mind, it spreads a disease
clouded dreams and hopes you have bemoaned,
yet you stood up and faced the cyclone
fears that are giants, but you have outgrown,
and decided to not borrow grief from the unknown
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emotions crumbled, while egos arose
as the touch of fingertips slowly withers,
to blankets and pillows you are tethered
in the dark isolated room you are un-eased,
from the foot to the mind, it spreads a disease
clouded dreams and hopes you have bemoaned,
yet you stood up and faced the cyclone
fears that are giants, but you have outgrown,
and decided to not borrow grief from the unknown
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2024.04.28 21:07 Ok-Road4331 Are new symptoms necessarily new disease activity?
Hi everyone, I’m starting to wonder about what signs actually point to new disease activity, versus what’s residual from old damage.
I had my first major flare 8 months ago and things only started to really improve about 4 months after that. I initially had extreme numbness, upper extremity muscle weakness and hand coordination issues.
My numbness improved but then gradually over the last months, I’ve noticed more aches and pains than were not present while my relapse was at its peak. Some other symptoms have either faded to a point where I rarely experience them or are gone all together but it feels like some newer symptoms have taken their place. Most of them are linked to weird but mild bodily sensations or fleeting pain.
[More on me: don’t know what type of MS I have yet. Had two relapses that I’m aware of. I’m impatiently waiting to start my first DMT - vaccine updates are taking a long time. ]
What are your thought in this issue?
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I had my first major flare 8 months ago and things only started to really improve about 4 months after that. I initially had extreme numbness, upper extremity muscle weakness and hand coordination issues.
My numbness improved but then gradually over the last months, I’ve noticed more aches and pains than were not present while my relapse was at its peak. Some other symptoms have either faded to a point where I rarely experience them or are gone all together but it feels like some newer symptoms have taken their place. Most of them are linked to weird but mild bodily sensations or fleeting pain.
[More on me: don’t know what type of MS I have yet. Had two relapses that I’m aware of. I’m impatiently waiting to start my first DMT - vaccine updates are taking a long time. ]
What are your thought in this issue?
2024.04.28 20:58 AFKparty Hopeful
So I'm going to Canada for three months for treatment on Tuesday. While I do have MS (20+ lesions), I think it may have been caused by Lyme disease and coinfections and heavy metals.
The treatment includes lodging, meals, and supplements for 3 months then additional supplements for 12 months. The idea is to fortify my mitochondria, and then boost the brains ability to heal itself with different supplements and then there's physiotherapy too.
This is the website:https://drgoodenowe.com/perpetual-health-cente
This is a video the doctor did on. MS: https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw (https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw)
My Lyme disease doctor actually referred me to the program. he has helped a lot of people with autism Alzheimer’s and ALS and MS. In the video, an interviewer describes a patient who had MS and was blind for 32 years in one eye, but can now see and is regaining strength.
It’s not cheap ($75,000), but I will do anything I can to heal.
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The treatment includes lodging, meals, and supplements for 3 months then additional supplements for 12 months. The idea is to fortify my mitochondria, and then boost the brains ability to heal itself with different supplements and then there's physiotherapy too.
This is the website:https://drgoodenowe.com/perpetual-health-cente
This is a video the doctor did on. MS: https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw (https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw)
My Lyme disease doctor actually referred me to the program. he has helped a lot of people with autism Alzheimer’s and ALS and MS. In the video, an interviewer describes a patient who had MS and was blind for 32 years in one eye, but can now see and is regaining strength.
It’s not cheap ($75,000), but I will do anything I can to heal.
2024.04.28 20:58 AFKparty Hopeful
So I'm going to Canada for three months for treatment on Tuesday. While I do have MS (20+ lesions), I think it may have been caused by Lyme disease and coinfections and heavy metals.
The treatment includes lodging, meals, and supplements for 3 months then additional supplements for 12 months. The idea is to fortify my mitochondria, and then boost the brains ability to heal itself with different supplements and then there's physiotherapy too.
This is the website:https://drgoodenowe.com/perpetual-health-cente
This is a video the doctor did on. MS: https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw (https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw)
My Lyme disease doctor actually referred me to the program. he has helped a lot of people with autism Alzheimer’s and ALS and MS. In the video, an interviewer describes a patient who had MS and was blind for 32 years in one eye, but can now see and is regaining strength.
It’s not cheap ($75,000), but I will do anything I can to heal.
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The treatment includes lodging, meals, and supplements for 3 months then additional supplements for 12 months. The idea is to fortify my mitochondria, and then boost the brains ability to heal itself with different supplements and then there's physiotherapy too.
This is the website:https://drgoodenowe.com/perpetual-health-cente
This is a video the doctor did on. MS: https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw (https://youtu.be/ki-Wt7tHhlw)
My Lyme disease doctor actually referred me to the program. he has helped a lot of people with autism Alzheimer’s and ALS and MS. In the video, an interviewer describes a patient who had MS and was blind for 32 years in one eye, but can now see and is regaining strength.
It’s not cheap ($75,000), but I will do anything I can to heal.
2024.04.28 20:57 Walkaway20 Opinion This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans, and We Are Blowing It (Gift Article)
Zeynep Tufekci is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, the author of “Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest” and a New York Times Opinion columnist.
[The outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza among U.S. dairy cows, first reported on March 25, has now spread to at least 33 herds in eight states. On Wednesday, genetic evidence of the virus turned up in commercially available milk. Federal authorities say the milk supply is safe, but this latest development raises troubling questions about how widespread the outbreak really is.
So far, there is only one confirmed human case. Rick Bright, an expert on the H5N1 virus who served on President Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told me this is the crucial moment. “There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1,” he said. “By the time we’ve detected 10, it’s probably too late” to contain.
That’s when I told him what I’d heard from Sid Miller, the Texas commissioner for agriculture. He said he strongly suspected that the outbreak dated back to at least February. The commissioner speculated that then as many as 40 percent of the herds in the Texas Panhandle might have been infected.
Dr. Bright fell silent, then asked a very reasonable question: “Doesn’t anyone keep tabs on this?”
The H5N1 outbreak, already a devastating crisis for cattle farmers and their herds, has the potential to turn into an enormous tragedy for the rest of us. But having spent the past two weeks trying to get answers from our nation’s public health authorities, I’m shocked by how little they seem to know about what’s going on and how little of what they do know is being shared in a timely manner.
How exactly is the infection transmitted between herds? The United States Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all say they are working to figure it out.
Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox.
According to many public health officials, the virus load in the infected cows’ milk is especially high, raising the possibility that the disease is being spread through milking machines or from aerosolized spray when the milking room floors are power washed. Another possible route is the cows’ feed, owing to the fairly revolting fact that the U.S. allows farmers to feed leftover poultry bedding material — feathers, excrement, spilled seeds — to dairy and beef cattle as a cheap source of additional protein.
Alarmingly, the U.S.D.A. told me that it has evidence that the virus has also spread from dairy farms back to poultry farms “through an unknown route.” Well, one thing that travels back and forth between cattle farms and chicken farms is human beings. They can also travel from cattle farms to pig farms, and pigs are the doomsday animals for human influenza pandemics. Because they are especially susceptible to both avian and human flu, they make for good petri dishes in which avian influenza can become an effective human virus. The damage could be vast.
The U.S.D.A. also told me it doesn’t know how many farmers have tested their cattle and doesn’t know how many of those tests came up positive; whatever testing is being done takes place at the state level or in private labs. Just Wednesday, the agency made it mandatory to report all positive results, a long overdue step that is still — without the negative results alongside them — insufficient to give us a full picture. Also on Wednesday, the U.S.D.A. made testing mandatory for dairy cattle that are being moved from one state to another. It says mandatory testing of other herds wouldn’t be “practical, feasible or necessarily informative” because of “several reasons, ranging from laboratory capacity to testing turnaround times.” The furthest the agency will go is to recommend voluntary testing for cattle that show symptoms of the illness — which not all that are infected do. Dr. Bright compares this to the Trump administration’s approach to Covid-19: If you don’t test, it doesn’t exist.
As for the F.D.A., it tells me it hasn’t completed specific tests to confirm that pasteurization would make milk from infected cows safe, though the agency considers it “very likely” based on extensive testing for other pathogens. (It is not yet clear whether the elements of the H5N1 virus that recently turned up in milk had been fully neutralized.) That testing should have been completed by now. In any case, unpasteurized milk remains legal in many states. Dr. Bright told me that “this is a major concern, especially given recent infections and deaths in cats that have consumed infected milk.”
Making matters worse, the U.S.D.A. failed to share the genomes from infected animals in a timely manner, and then when it shared the genomes did so in an unwieldy format and without any geographic information, causing scientists to tear their hair out in frustration.
All this makes catching potential human cases so urgent. Dr. Bright says that given a situation like this, and the fact that undocumented farmworkers may not have access to health care, the government should be using every sophisticated surveillance technique, including wastewater testing, and reporting the results publicly. That is not happening. The C.D.C. says it is monitoring data from emergency rooms for any signs of an outbreak. By the time enough people are sick enough to be noticed in emergency rooms, it is almost certainly too late to prevent one.
So far, the agency told me, it is aware of only 23 people who have been tested. That tiny number is deeply troubling. (Others may be getting tested through private providers, but if negative, the results do not have to be reported.)
On the ground, people are doing the best they can. Adeline Hambley, a public health officer in Ottawa, Mich., told me of a farm whose herd had tested positive. The farm owner voluntarily handed over the workers’ cellphone numbers, and the workers got texts asking them to report all potential symptoms. Lynn Sutfin, a public information officer in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, told me that response rates to those texts and other forms of outreach can be as high as 90 percent. That’s heartening, but it’s too much to expect that a poor farmworker — afraid of stigma, legal troubles and economic loss — will always report even mild symptoms and stay home from work as instructed.
It’s entirely possible that we’ll get lucky with H5N1 and it will never manage to spread among humans. Spillovers from animals to humans are common, yet pandemics are rare because they require a chain of unlucky events to happen one after the other. But pandemics are a numbers game, and a widespread animal outbreak like this raises the risks. When dangerous novel pathogens emerge among humans, there is only a small window of time in which to stop them before they spiral out of control. Neither our animal farming practices nor our public health tools seem up to the task.
There is some good news: David Boucher, at the federal government’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, told me that this virus strain is a close match for some vaccines that have already been formulated and that America has the capacity to manufacture and potentially distribute many millions of doses, and fairly quickly, if it takes off in humans. That ability is a little like fire insurance — I’m glad it exists, but by the time it comes into play your house has already burned down.
I’m sure the employees of these agencies are working hard, but the message they are sending is, “Trust us — we are on this.” One troubling legacy of the coronavirus pandemic is that there was too much attention on telling the public how to feel — to panic or not panic — rather than sharing facts and inspiring confidence through transparency and competence. And four years later we have an added layer of polarization and distrust to work around.
In April 2020, the Trump administration ousted Dr. Bright from his position as the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the agency responsible for fighting emerging pandemics. In a whistle-blower complaint, he alleged this happened after his early warnings against the coronavirus pandemic were ignored and as retaliation for his caution against unproven treatments favored by Donald Trump.
Dr. Bright told me that he would have expected things to be much different during the current administration, but “this is a live fire test,” he said, “and right now we are failing it.”]
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.WeRo.Igp4uj_lGZo4&smid=url-share
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[The outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza among U.S. dairy cows, first reported on March 25, has now spread to at least 33 herds in eight states. On Wednesday, genetic evidence of the virus turned up in commercially available milk. Federal authorities say the milk supply is safe, but this latest development raises troubling questions about how widespread the outbreak really is.
So far, there is only one confirmed human case. Rick Bright, an expert on the H5N1 virus who served on President Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told me this is the crucial moment. “There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1,” he said. “By the time we’ve detected 10, it’s probably too late” to contain.
That’s when I told him what I’d heard from Sid Miller, the Texas commissioner for agriculture. He said he strongly suspected that the outbreak dated back to at least February. The commissioner speculated that then as many as 40 percent of the herds in the Texas Panhandle might have been infected.
Dr. Bright fell silent, then asked a very reasonable question: “Doesn’t anyone keep tabs on this?”
The H5N1 outbreak, already a devastating crisis for cattle farmers and their herds, has the potential to turn into an enormous tragedy for the rest of us. But having spent the past two weeks trying to get answers from our nation’s public health authorities, I’m shocked by how little they seem to know about what’s going on and how little of what they do know is being shared in a timely manner.
How exactly is the infection transmitted between herds? The United States Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all say they are working to figure it out.
Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox.
According to many public health officials, the virus load in the infected cows’ milk is especially high, raising the possibility that the disease is being spread through milking machines or from aerosolized spray when the milking room floors are power washed. Another possible route is the cows’ feed, owing to the fairly revolting fact that the U.S. allows farmers to feed leftover poultry bedding material — feathers, excrement, spilled seeds — to dairy and beef cattle as a cheap source of additional protein.
Alarmingly, the U.S.D.A. told me that it has evidence that the virus has also spread from dairy farms back to poultry farms “through an unknown route.” Well, one thing that travels back and forth between cattle farms and chicken farms is human beings. They can also travel from cattle farms to pig farms, and pigs are the doomsday animals for human influenza pandemics. Because they are especially susceptible to both avian and human flu, they make for good petri dishes in which avian influenza can become an effective human virus. The damage could be vast.
The U.S.D.A. also told me it doesn’t know how many farmers have tested their cattle and doesn’t know how many of those tests came up positive; whatever testing is being done takes place at the state level or in private labs. Just Wednesday, the agency made it mandatory to report all positive results, a long overdue step that is still — without the negative results alongside them — insufficient to give us a full picture. Also on Wednesday, the U.S.D.A. made testing mandatory for dairy cattle that are being moved from one state to another. It says mandatory testing of other herds wouldn’t be “practical, feasible or necessarily informative” because of “several reasons, ranging from laboratory capacity to testing turnaround times.” The furthest the agency will go is to recommend voluntary testing for cattle that show symptoms of the illness — which not all that are infected do. Dr. Bright compares this to the Trump administration’s approach to Covid-19: If you don’t test, it doesn’t exist.
As for the F.D.A., it tells me it hasn’t completed specific tests to confirm that pasteurization would make milk from infected cows safe, though the agency considers it “very likely” based on extensive testing for other pathogens. (It is not yet clear whether the elements of the H5N1 virus that recently turned up in milk had been fully neutralized.) That testing should have been completed by now. In any case, unpasteurized milk remains legal in many states. Dr. Bright told me that “this is a major concern, especially given recent infections and deaths in cats that have consumed infected milk.”
Making matters worse, the U.S.D.A. failed to share the genomes from infected animals in a timely manner, and then when it shared the genomes did so in an unwieldy format and without any geographic information, causing scientists to tear their hair out in frustration.
All this makes catching potential human cases so urgent. Dr. Bright says that given a situation like this, and the fact that undocumented farmworkers may not have access to health care, the government should be using every sophisticated surveillance technique, including wastewater testing, and reporting the results publicly. That is not happening. The C.D.C. says it is monitoring data from emergency rooms for any signs of an outbreak. By the time enough people are sick enough to be noticed in emergency rooms, it is almost certainly too late to prevent one.
So far, the agency told me, it is aware of only 23 people who have been tested. That tiny number is deeply troubling. (Others may be getting tested through private providers, but if negative, the results do not have to be reported.)
On the ground, people are doing the best they can. Adeline Hambley, a public health officer in Ottawa, Mich., told me of a farm whose herd had tested positive. The farm owner voluntarily handed over the workers’ cellphone numbers, and the workers got texts asking them to report all potential symptoms. Lynn Sutfin, a public information officer in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, told me that response rates to those texts and other forms of outreach can be as high as 90 percent. That’s heartening, but it’s too much to expect that a poor farmworker — afraid of stigma, legal troubles and economic loss — will always report even mild symptoms and stay home from work as instructed.
It’s entirely possible that we’ll get lucky with H5N1 and it will never manage to spread among humans. Spillovers from animals to humans are common, yet pandemics are rare because they require a chain of unlucky events to happen one after the other. But pandemics are a numbers game, and a widespread animal outbreak like this raises the risks. When dangerous novel pathogens emerge among humans, there is only a small window of time in which to stop them before they spiral out of control. Neither our animal farming practices nor our public health tools seem up to the task.
There is some good news: David Boucher, at the federal government’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, told me that this virus strain is a close match for some vaccines that have already been formulated and that America has the capacity to manufacture and potentially distribute many millions of doses, and fairly quickly, if it takes off in humans. That ability is a little like fire insurance — I’m glad it exists, but by the time it comes into play your house has already burned down.
I’m sure the employees of these agencies are working hard, but the message they are sending is, “Trust us — we are on this.” One troubling legacy of the coronavirus pandemic is that there was too much attention on telling the public how to feel — to panic or not panic — rather than sharing facts and inspiring confidence through transparency and competence. And four years later we have an added layer of polarization and distrust to work around.
In April 2020, the Trump administration ousted Dr. Bright from his position as the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the agency responsible for fighting emerging pandemics. In a whistle-blower complaint, he alleged this happened after his early warnings against the coronavirus pandemic were ignored and as retaliation for his caution against unproven treatments favored by Donald Trump.
Dr. Bright told me that he would have expected things to be much different during the current administration, but “this is a live fire test,” he said, “and right now we are failing it.”]
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.WeRo.Igp4uj_lGZo4&smid=url-share
2024.04.28 20:48 ReferendumAutonomic Biden was briefly depressed
hypocrisy
"Biden shared how after the passing of his first wife and 1-year-old daughter, he had a fleeting suicidal thought. "You don't have to be crazy to commit suicide. If you've been at the top of a mountain, you think it's never gonna be there again." But I get a life sentence for not wanting to be in a painful dictatorship of constant physical abuse. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/howard-stern-interview-biden-happy-debate-trump/story?id=109695601homeless
"Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won’t End Homelessness...alternatives to involuntary inpatient treatment like peer support networks." https://progressive.org/op-eds/forced-treatment-criminalization-wont-end-homelessness-fairbanks-240426/redundant
england, “Staggering” cost of locum psychiatrists...Have those in charge got any idea how traumatic it is having to explain the trauma and abuse they've suffered and witnessed every time they see a different locum psychiatrist?" If they would read my Advance Directive there'd be no problem. https://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/health/staggering-cost-of-locum-psychiatrists-4607449experiment
757 swedes, "increased mortality rate among patients with schizophrenia was mainly due to unnatural causes of death and cardiovascular diseases, particularly among males." https://www.avhandlingar.se/avhandling/8d19d87b32/#google_vignette"their (pharma companies) influence corrupts the results. The research should also be funded by governments or noncommercial organizations. That would eliminate all the supposed arguments for patents on medicines." To get approval a drug should be much more effective than placebo. https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#27_April_2024_(Drug_trial_to_prove_cost_of_tuberculosis_treatment)
excessive
india "keeping the patients in hospitals even after their recovery...number of states still lack Medical Boards that are tasked with reviewing complaints of alleged medical negligence, which must be addressed on priority." https://archive.is/vJr9Dpregnacy
"bipolar disorder medications have the potential to cause birth issues including neural tube defects, heart defects as well as developmental delay...medications left (selena gomez) feeling "gone," she explained, until a different psychiatrist took her off all but two drugs...I had to detox, essentially, from the medications." https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/selena-gomez-says-she-may-153123378.htmlslavery
nigerian-american psychiatrists husband and wife, "maximum of 20 years in prison for each forced labor count." My parents also stole passport, forced to do office work under physical/chemical abuse. https://mybeachradio.com/ixp/385/p/nj-couple-bolarinwa-abused-women-forced-labor-burlington-county-moorestown/sleep
“I’ll say, sleep eight hours a night for the next two weeks,”...they’re at 50 percent of their stress level two weeks later with no therapy at all...more people confusing “milder forms of distress as mental health problems,” according to one academic paper...Stress is when you have too many demands and not enough resources, like time or money to outsource some responsibilities, Rosmarin says...“Even if you do have anxiety, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have an anxiety disorder,” says psychologist Juli Fraga." https://www.vox.com/even-bette24140293/anxiety-catchall-unpleasant-emotion-emotional-intelligence-mental-healthgender
"differences between male and female brains but also help understand how neuropsychiatric conditions that affect women and men differently." https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/science-has-discovered-that-men-and-women-s-brains-actually-do-work-differently/ar-BB1iC7X9?ocid=iSEM_L_Moneypersonal experiences
April 27 1 PM mother said for September 2022 I was not recovered unless forgiving (never) and talking to her.2024.04.28 20:47 Proudhon1980 Hi. I used to read the Transformers comics from back in the early to mid 80s and I was way too young for them, but does anyone know?…
…where those runs (if at all) are available? I remember some amazing, very dark storylines but not in detail - just vague images - such as one where there’s some ‘micro-bug’ disease which was able to eat the transformers from inside out and it was pretty scary for an under 10.
There was another where some transformer who can change into a wolf (I think?) who was out for revenge and he breaks into a security compound held by others surrounded by laser fences and picks everyone off.
I remember zombie transformers too and more besides. Just brilliant stories that I was too young to appreciate and have always wanted to rediscover them. I lost them and all my toys after moving so many times as a kid. 😞
I remember one cover too with both Megatron and Galvatron standing atop a pile of defeated foes. I would love that cover so I can get it printed on a t-shirt.
Can anyone help a newb fast approaching middle-age who just wants to recapture his youth?
Are all those gone forever except for collectors or are there annuals available or online versions to read?
Any pointers would be very appreciated.
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There was another where some transformer who can change into a wolf (I think?) who was out for revenge and he breaks into a security compound held by others surrounded by laser fences and picks everyone off.
I remember zombie transformers too and more besides. Just brilliant stories that I was too young to appreciate and have always wanted to rediscover them. I lost them and all my toys after moving so many times as a kid. 😞
I remember one cover too with both Megatron and Galvatron standing atop a pile of defeated foes. I would love that cover so I can get it printed on a t-shirt.
Can anyone help a newb fast approaching middle-age who just wants to recapture his youth?
Are all those gone forever except for collectors or are there annuals available or online versions to read?
Any pointers would be very appreciated.
2024.04.28 20:44 forkoff_ I’m only 21 and I feel like I’m dying!
I (21f) am newly diagnosed with Hashimoto’s (and POTS) and I am struggling so much. I’m needing to know, does this get better? I need to rant, and maybe some reassurance from others who have gone through this. :(
I was completely normal about six months ago when I got sick back to back. Now I feel disabled and my mental health is struggling a lot with the weight of it. Very few people around me understand, and a lot of people say I’m young so I should be healthy. I feel the same and I’m so frustrated!! I want my life of hiking and hanging out with friends spontaneously back.
All of this started back in November and I’m not sure my journey on this has been the same as others? I would like to know how other peoples onset appeared. Basically, I started off with the classic symptoms of hyperthyroidism. My doctor immediately wanted to check my thyroids when I described my issues. We did the labs, and my TSH was 4.4, and I had PCOS. On top of that, my cortisol was very high (since then, it has gone up exponentially). At this point, my doctor wanted to treat my PCOS with hormonal replacement therapy in the hopes it would help my subclinical hypothyroidism. This treatment messed me up very badly and I believe caused the onset of my POTS. I was on spirinolactone, which lowered my blood pressure and led to many dizzy spells and an elevated heart rate. I have since been seeing a cardiologist, and while I got better for a while, it has come back with a vengeance months since being off the medication. I’m currently in cardiac rehab to help my POTS.
My TSH stayed around 4.4 in January when I was checked again, then in February it shot up to 10.1, and my antibodies were on the verge of being out of the normal range. At this point, I expressed my concerns of having Hashimoto’s disease, and my doctor at the time said there was no way I could have it because I’ve been losing weight, not gaining. However, I did get put on 50 mcg of Levothyroxin at this point. It got lowered when my heart rate was shooting up to 25 mcg, and I felt better for a little bit. At this point, my TSH was 5.1, and my TPO antibodies were rising (and no longer in the normal range).
Last week, I started feeling terrible. I went to a concert and the next day I felt hungover! I didn’t drink but my body felt miserable. I then started noticing all the classic hypothyroidism symptoms: being super cold, dry skin, extreme fatigue, and so on. I saw my doctor last Wednesday and we raised my dosage to 75 mcg and switched to Synthroid. I didn’t get the chance to pick it up that night and ended up feeling so bad I went to the ER. (I had chest pain, shortness of breath, and my heart rate kept shooting up, plus the hypothyroidism symptoms). They treated me for anxiety because my EKG and chest xray came back fine. During this visit, they did bloodwork and my TSH is now 13.1! It's raised to the highest it’s been despite taking thyroid medication. I know I was on the lowest dosage though, so I am trying to wait it out. I have not felt good since being released and my discharge papers say to seek medical help if I experience certain symptoms, all of which I HAVE been experiencing and continue to on a daily basis.
Through all of this, I am STILL waiting to see an endocrinologist. I am at my wits end and I’m just so terrified and frustrated. My life is entirely on pause, I can barely even work when I am in an episode, and I can barely hang out with my friends. I am only 21 and so frustrated my body seems to have shut down on me. I’ve felt like I was dying too many times to count and each time is so traumatizing. I have been so terrified I am going to spend the rest of my life feeling this way and I just don’t know I can handle that. There’s so much I want to do and I can’t do it if I’m in bed all the time. :( sorry for the long rant, it’s been difficult because no one around me gets it. I have amazing friends but it’s definitely put a strain on our relationships.
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I was completely normal about six months ago when I got sick back to back. Now I feel disabled and my mental health is struggling a lot with the weight of it. Very few people around me understand, and a lot of people say I’m young so I should be healthy. I feel the same and I’m so frustrated!! I want my life of hiking and hanging out with friends spontaneously back.
All of this started back in November and I’m not sure my journey on this has been the same as others? I would like to know how other peoples onset appeared. Basically, I started off with the classic symptoms of hyperthyroidism. My doctor immediately wanted to check my thyroids when I described my issues. We did the labs, and my TSH was 4.4, and I had PCOS. On top of that, my cortisol was very high (since then, it has gone up exponentially). At this point, my doctor wanted to treat my PCOS with hormonal replacement therapy in the hopes it would help my subclinical hypothyroidism. This treatment messed me up very badly and I believe caused the onset of my POTS. I was on spirinolactone, which lowered my blood pressure and led to many dizzy spells and an elevated heart rate. I have since been seeing a cardiologist, and while I got better for a while, it has come back with a vengeance months since being off the medication. I’m currently in cardiac rehab to help my POTS.
My TSH stayed around 4.4 in January when I was checked again, then in February it shot up to 10.1, and my antibodies were on the verge of being out of the normal range. At this point, I expressed my concerns of having Hashimoto’s disease, and my doctor at the time said there was no way I could have it because I’ve been losing weight, not gaining. However, I did get put on 50 mcg of Levothyroxin at this point. It got lowered when my heart rate was shooting up to 25 mcg, and I felt better for a little bit. At this point, my TSH was 5.1, and my TPO antibodies were rising (and no longer in the normal range).
Last week, I started feeling terrible. I went to a concert and the next day I felt hungover! I didn’t drink but my body felt miserable. I then started noticing all the classic hypothyroidism symptoms: being super cold, dry skin, extreme fatigue, and so on. I saw my doctor last Wednesday and we raised my dosage to 75 mcg and switched to Synthroid. I didn’t get the chance to pick it up that night and ended up feeling so bad I went to the ER. (I had chest pain, shortness of breath, and my heart rate kept shooting up, plus the hypothyroidism symptoms). They treated me for anxiety because my EKG and chest xray came back fine. During this visit, they did bloodwork and my TSH is now 13.1! It's raised to the highest it’s been despite taking thyroid medication. I know I was on the lowest dosage though, so I am trying to wait it out. I have not felt good since being released and my discharge papers say to seek medical help if I experience certain symptoms, all of which I HAVE been experiencing and continue to on a daily basis.
Through all of this, I am STILL waiting to see an endocrinologist. I am at my wits end and I’m just so terrified and frustrated. My life is entirely on pause, I can barely even work when I am in an episode, and I can barely hang out with my friends. I am only 21 and so frustrated my body seems to have shut down on me. I’ve felt like I was dying too many times to count and each time is so traumatizing. I have been so terrified I am going to spend the rest of my life feeling this way and I just don’t know I can handle that. There’s so much I want to do and I can’t do it if I’m in bed all the time. :( sorry for the long rant, it’s been difficult because no one around me gets it. I have amazing friends but it’s definitely put a strain on our relationships.
2024.04.28 20:30 ThinkingApe Anyone here done Follistatin gene therapy or similar?
I found a study with pretty remarkable results on IBM.
In conclusion, this is the first clinical trial to show clear evidence of a treatment benefit in sIBM. This is an important step for this disease, and further studies are warranted. Questions continue regarding how long the treatment benefit will persist and in what range of severity we can expect to see improvement. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383643/
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I found a study with pretty remarkable results on IBM.
In conclusion, this is the first clinical trial to show clear evidence of a treatment benefit in sIBM. This is an important step for this disease, and further studies are warranted. Questions continue regarding how long the treatment benefit will persist and in what range of severity we can expect to see improvement. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383643/
2024.04.28 20:30 strawbrmoon Help, Please: menu ideas for sweet, sick fogeys ❤️
I need recipe suggestions for a pair of unwell American octogenarians. Assume a host of inflammatory diseases, Type 2 diabetes, the usual SAD effects. I’ll be cooking, so it’s okay if there’s effort involved (I can handle heavy prep, like chopping turnips or shredding cabbage by hand). Looking for some tasty foods that feel familiar, though they’ll also enjoy international flavours, spices, etc. Suppers are the main concern, but bonus points for snack foods that will allay cravings for people who regularly eat the usual addictive stuff.
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2024.04.28 20:18 aintnothin_in_gatlin Vitamin C and folliculitis
I’ve struggled with folliculitis since 2018, and it started seemingly out of nowhere. Had biopsies (unspecified folliculitis - wth does that even mean) and tried every treatment, you name it - I’ve done it. It’s dramatically changed my life bc I’m always worried when a new bump forms on my face…they take forever to go away. Resembles hormonal acne and stays as long as cystic acne. I know the struggle. I know many of us would try basically anything to get this to go away. Trust.
I’m going to suggest this bc somehow it appears to be working (crossing fingers) but will update if the progress changes.
I’ve started vitamin c, in what some would call megadoses. I take 1000 mg once in the am and once in the evening. So far, no new bumps. Im actually considering going up in dosage a bit more if more bumps form. I’ve done research on studies of vitamin c and folliculitis, here is one that caught my interest:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040229/
“Vitamin C in other dermatological diseases is seen as an adjuvant for use in combination with other drugs or for physical therapy. It has good therapeutic potential in a variety of dermatological diseases, such as acne, allergic contact dermatitis, psoriasis, and progressive purpura, especially when used in combination with other clinical drugs (Table Table22). Propionibacterium acne (P. acne) plays an active pro-inflammatory role in the whole process of acne and is involved in the skin keratinocytes and sebaceous glands of the pilosebaceous follicle, resulting in the generation of acne (Beylot et al., 2014). The combination of zinc and clarithromycin, along with vitamin C, has an antibacterial effect against clarithromycin-resistant…”
Worth a try. Will update once a couple weeks have passed. Reddit has a bunch of great info on vitamin c and its benefits, too, if you feel like doing a deeper dive.
I’m currently taking Liposomal vitamin c, which is expensive. Switching to pills once this batch of Liposomal runs out, to see if that will also work for me.
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I’m going to suggest this bc somehow it appears to be working (crossing fingers) but will update if the progress changes.
I’ve started vitamin c, in what some would call megadoses. I take 1000 mg once in the am and once in the evening. So far, no new bumps. Im actually considering going up in dosage a bit more if more bumps form. I’ve done research on studies of vitamin c and folliculitis, here is one that caught my interest:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040229/
“Vitamin C in other dermatological diseases is seen as an adjuvant for use in combination with other drugs or for physical therapy. It has good therapeutic potential in a variety of dermatological diseases, such as acne, allergic contact dermatitis, psoriasis, and progressive purpura, especially when used in combination with other clinical drugs (Table Table22). Propionibacterium acne (P. acne) plays an active pro-inflammatory role in the whole process of acne and is involved in the skin keratinocytes and sebaceous glands of the pilosebaceous follicle, resulting in the generation of acne (Beylot et al., 2014). The combination of zinc and clarithromycin, along with vitamin C, has an antibacterial effect against clarithromycin-resistant…”
Worth a try. Will update once a couple weeks have passed. Reddit has a bunch of great info on vitamin c and its benefits, too, if you feel like doing a deeper dive.
I’m currently taking Liposomal vitamin c, which is expensive. Switching to pills once this batch of Liposomal runs out, to see if that will also work for me.
2024.04.28 20:15 Yurii_S_Kh Venerable Maelrubha of Applecross
 | submitted by Yurii_S_Kh to SophiaWisdomOfGod [link] [comments] St. Maelrubha of Applecross St. Maelrubha (Maolrubha) has been venerated as one of the apostles of the Picts in Scotland and of Skye—a mountainous island in the Inner Hebrides that is now linked to the western shore of Scotland by a bridge. This saint is mentioned in many Irish annals of the time. Unfortunately, there is no extant hagiography of him, although he is mentioned in the Lives of other contemporary saints and in the later Aberdeen Breviary. Maelrubha was born in 642 in Ireland in what is now County Londonderry. The future saint was descended from King Nial of Ireland and his mother was a niece of the saintly abbot Comgall of Bangor. He took up monasticism and until 671 lived and studied in Bangor Monastery in present-day County Down. It was there that he was ordained a hieromonk. Wishing to imitate St. Columba of Iona, who had lived 100 years before him, Maelrubha decided to evangelize the pagan Picts in Scotland. Thus, in the year 671, together with a group of monks he moved to Scotland where he first lived on the famous Isle of Iona. In the Scottish lands the saint of God led a perfect ascetic life and was noted for his piety, learnedness, and the many miracles that he performed. In the first two years of his life in Scotland, Maelrubha travelled extensively in the Argyll region in the west where he founded many churches—there are sites dedicated to the saint in those places to this day. St. Maelrubha was the founder of the monastery of Applecross (the original name: Aber Crossan) on the very northwestern coast of Scotland in the present-day Highland region. At that time it was the land of the Picts. The date of the foundation of Applecross monastery is 673. It was from there that the revival of monastic traditions in Scotland began. Later a notated Paschal table was produced there. The very name “Applecross” is derived from an old Gaelic word meaning “sanctuary”. Originally this monastery of St. Maelrubha was surrounded by crosses marking the border of the monastic settlement. Unfortunately, only one of those crosses partly survives within a farm. According to the annals of the time and other sources, Applecross was a significant Christian and monastic center of that time from whence the Orthodox faith and Gaelic culture spread rapidly over the north of Scotland. Presumably monastic life in Applecross flourished until the ninth-century Viking raids. Loch Shin, Sutherland Using his monastery as a base, Maelrubha undertook much very active missionary work, sowing the seeds of Christianity everywhere. In particular, he enlightened the island of Skye along with neighboring areas and converted their inhabitants to Christ. Then he moved north and reached the sea loch (a Scottish term for an arm of the sea) of Loch Broom in Ross and Cromarty. The venerable man enlightened most of the island of Lewis and Harris, the towns of Forres and Keith in the Moray region, preached in Farr and Durness in the Highlands and travelled as far as the freshwater lake of Loch Shin in Sutherland. Islands in Loch Maree The saint also founded a church in one of the numerous islands of the large and beautiful lake called Loch Maree in the northwestern Scottish Highlands. The saint may have lived as a hermit on it. This island has been known as Isle Maree (“St. Maelrubha’s Island”) since ancient times. There is a very early holy well associated with our saint on Isle Maree, which has curative properties. Most widespread were cases of healings of lunatics and the mentally ill who bathed in it. This saint’s name is still invoked against madness and related diseases. As late as the eighteenth century, long after the Reformation, the faithful believed that if a sick person was taken around the isle, fastened behind a rowing boat, he would certainly be cured. In the eighteenth century there existed a custom to give madmen water from Maelrubha’s well and then dip them three times a day into the loch’s water for three weeks for them to receive healing. According to a local belief (or, rather, a superstition), one shouldn’t take any items from Isle Maree, even small stones—otherwise the former disease will inevitably return. Apart from this well, there was presumably another holy well on the island connected to St. Maelrubha. St. Maelrubha of Applecross It is certain that Maelrubha’s mission extended to Islay—the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, and to the valley called the Great Glen, or Glen More. It is traditionally believed that St. Maelrubha reposed in the Lord peacefully in 722 (though the dates 721 and 724 are possible as well), at the age of eighty at his beloved monastery of Applecross. According to another less reliable tradition, the holy abbot-missionary was killed by pagans—either the Danes or Norwegians, whom he unsuccessfully tried to convert to Christ. If the man of God was indeed martyred during his last missionary journey, then the supposed site of his martyrdom was either Teampull where he had a hermitage cell (and, according to the local tradition, was buried nearby and his grave is still allegedly marked by a stone) or Urquhart (now a tiny village in Moray). Such names and toponyms as Mulruby, Mury, Maree, Summuruff, Summereve and many others bear the memory of the saint. Numerous place names in the western Highlands, especially between the sea lochs of Loch Carron and Loch Broom, are associated with his name. No fewer than twenty-one ancient parishes of Scotland were dedicated to St. Maelrubha, which indicates his general veneration. Today dozens of parish churches bear his name, including those in the north of Scotland and on Skye. In many cases it is impossible to discern whether one or another place is named after the Mother of God or St. Maelrubha as the name “Mary” and popular corruptions of his name are very similar. Remarkably, according to some information, there are over forty forms of his name that can be found in various regions. Maelrubha is one of the principal saints of northwestern Scotland after St. Columba. He is still widely venerated in both Scotland and Ireland. He is also especially celebrated in Aberdeen in Scotland and the Irish province of Connacht. St. Rufus Church in Keith, Moray Maelrubha has also been commemorated for centuries in the following places: Applecross and surrounding areas, mentioned above; the town of Keith (the original name “Cèith Mhaol Rubha”) where there is a church in honor of “St. Rufus”—a corruption of the name “Maelrubha”—that was rebuilt in the nineteenth century; Isle Maree, mentioned above; a town called Dingwall in Highland, which held St. Maelrubha’s fair in old times; a small town of Tain in the same region which also had a St. Maelrubha’s fair; the village of Amulree (“St. Maelrubha’s Fort”) in Perth and Kinross where there was a church of St. Maelrubha from the earliest times—it was abandoned early in the eighteenth century and a replacement parish church was built nearby by 1752; and the township of Ashaig on Skye. Amulree new church (source - 'Undiscovered Scotland' website) St. Maelrubha's well at Ashaig, Skye (source - Carys Brewster from Geograph.org.uk) Clachan Church at Applecross (source - John S Ross from Geograph.org.uk) Today the name “Applecross” applies to an isolated small peninsula in northwestern Highland where there are several villages. The area is still very quiet, remote and difficult of access. Close to the site of St. Maelrubha’s monastery you can find a parish church, called Clachan church, the present building of which dates from the early nineteenth century. The churchyard has the shaft of a very ancient large Irish cross, while a few fragments of other crosses are kept inside the church as memorials to the once renowned monastery. Close to the church there is Applecross Heritage Center, which provides a detailed account of the saint’s life and achievements. Two stones at the village cemetery at Applecross are sometimes referred to as the site of Maelrubha’s grave. 'Wishing' tree on Isle Maree (photo from Pinterest.com) On Isle Maree, which for many centuries has been a popular pilgrimage site, you can find the ruins of a chapel, a wonder-working well, a cemetery, and a tree (sometimes called “a wishing tree”) which are all associated with Maelrubha. At the cemetery are fragments of two very old crosses which obviously belonged to the original monastery. This site is very holy. It is even believed that all the water of Loch Maree is miraculous. In Ashaig, on the Isle of Skye, one still can see the ancient holy well of St. Maelrubha, which gushed forth immediately after the saint had struck a low tree on that spot. There is a stone well-house over it, and the water is still of excellent quality. A little up river there is a rocky cliff, which, according to tradition, Maelrubha once used as a pulpit to deliver a sermon. In olden times there hung St. Maelrubha’s personal bell on a local tree, which occasionally rang by itself, calling the faithful to prayer; this bell no longer exists. As late as the mid-nineteenth century the ruins of a medieval church could be distinguished in a local graveyard. Another memorial site that commemorates Maelrubha on Skye is its south peninsula of Strathaird where he worked. Among its villages is Kilmarie, which means “the cell” or “church of St. Maelrubha”. He may have founded a church or a monastery there, although nothing remains apart from an ancient graveyard close to the parish church. The saint also lived in a cave nearby. View from Knapdale towards Jura Island, Argyll and Bute Keills Chapel with Celtic cross, Knapdale, Argyll and Bute Inside Keills Chapel, Knapdale, Argyll and Bute Our saint most probably labored in the present-day rural district of Knapdale in Argyll and Bute. There many sites are still connected with him. Among notable shrines of the area are: a very early, isolated chapel, called Keills Chapel, which houses a collection of early Christian crosses and one large Celtic cross, probably erected by Maelrubha himself; the splendid Kilmory Chapel, which is the site of a hermitage—it houses a huge collection of Celtic (eighth—twelfth century) crosses, gravestones, medieval and later crosses, some of them decorated and some connected with the Knights Templar; three villages of this area are named after the saint: Kilmory Oib (the settlement is now deserted, although it does have stone ruins, parts of early crosses and a holy well of Maelrubha), Kilmory Ross and Kilmory Knap. This region also has shrines connected with St. Columba, St. Moluog and St. Cormac. Among modern sites commemorating Maelrubha let us mention the village of Poolewe in Ross and Cromarty, where there is a Scottish Episcopal church that bears his name. Kilmory Chapel, Argyll and Bute Holy Father Maelrubha, pray to God for us! |
2024.04.28 20:12 Polakala As humans we should do this
I strongly urge everyone to not vote for TDP and especially CB on humanitarian grounds. S/o Bhuvi told that CB will be CM if at all their alliance comes to power. But CB is old. Popularly known for his U-turns, Some of his past and present words contrast each other making me wonder if he is retarded!? Furthermore, he is out on bail based on medical conditions owing to many different diseases and old age. If he is unfit to serve his time in judicial custody based on medical grounds, he is unfit to serve any govt position also based on medical grounds. Given his 40 year industry his ego may be coming in the way for political retirement. Also given that he failed to get his wife's son settled politically, he might be postponing his retirement. But as humans, we should give a clear mandate to him and his party to sit in their home and get all the necessary medical treatment. This is the least we can do for a sick old aged CB.
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2024.04.28 20:04 loverofneuro School List Help
 | Hi! I really need some help with my school list!!! I’ve created this primarily with admit.org and MSAR, but I want to make sure I’m not applying to any seriously IS-biased schools/schools I’d have zero chance at. Also the color coding may very well be wrong, I just copied from admit.org LOL. I currently have 47 MD schools on my list and I think I should narrow it down to 40, as I work full-time and worry about secondaries. I am also not sure if I should apply DO??? I’m primarily interested in surgery residencies so ideally I’d prefer MD. Any advice is SO appreciated :) No one in my family is in medicine so I’m totally lost lol. submitted by loverofneuro to premed [link] [comments] cGPA 3.62/sGPA 3.42 MCAT: 518 CA Resident, no strong ties to anywhere else in the US ORM
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2024.04.28 20:02 markko79 Have you ever heard of a coronary calcium scan?
Have you all heard of a coronary calcium scan (also known as a coronary CT scan) with definitive calcium scoring of all of the coronary arteries? It's a noninvasive, painless CT test done with contrast dye that evaluates for the presence of damaged or diseased heart anatomy and coronary arteries. It easily identifies any blockages or narrowing of the coronary arteries and detects any problems with the pumping function of the heart chambers.
My nearest cardiac specialty center, St. Paul Heart, which is based at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, does the ten minute test on a walk-in basis in exchange for a crisp $100 bill. The entire test and reading of the resulting CT scan takes about 20 minutes and you walk out with copies of the radiologist and cardiologist reports in hand. Your primary care provider also receives copies of the reports.
Heart disease doesn't run in my family and my results showed a calcium score of zero (no plaque, calcium, fat, or cholesterol) in the right coronary artery, sinoatrial nodal artery, circumflex artery, right posterior descending artery, acute marginal artery, left anterior descending artery, left circumflex artery, obtuse marginal artery, septal perforator artery, or the diagonals. My left coronary artery was the only one with any foreign material in it and had a calcium score of 0.2, which might as well be zero. In other words, I was elated when I read the reports stating my coronary arteries were squeaky clean and free of stuff that causes angina and MI's. People with moderate coronary artery disease routinely have scores in the 30's. People with severe coronary artery disease have scores in the 70's and are heart attacks just waiting to happen; they tend to have chronic angina and carry nitroglycerine with them at all times. People with scores in the 70's are typically in very poor health.
About six years ago, a chest MRI showed I had a small ascending aortic aneurysm that was dilated 0.2 mm larger than normal right where it attached to my left ventricle. Knowing that there was nothing that could be done to treat such a small aneurysm, I just chose to live with it. Curiously, my coronary calcium scan, which was done at St. Paul Heart eleven months ago, showed the aneurysm was totally gone and my ascending aorta was now of normal size. The scan also showed very mild left ventricular hypertrophy, something that's been stable for the past 30 years; I'm now 63 years old. I occasionally get edema in my left ankle that's related to having a left distal fibula fracture in 1983 when I fell out of an ambulance. The edema is worse if I've been on my feet all day, but otherwise I have no signs or symptoms of CHF.
I'm curious about carotid stenosis and plaque buildup because my dad had a bad case of it that started when he was 75 years old. Fortunately, he never had any associated CVA's or TIA's and died of cancer when he was 83 years old. No doubt, due to my family history, my doctor will want me to have a carotid ultrasound sooner than later to check for plaque and other carotid crud.
I'm surprised that more primary care providers don't refer more of their patients for coronary calcium scans. The results are quite definitive and the diagnoses are completely accurate. Surely, any middle-aged males whose families have cardiac histories should have the test done... if for nothing else, at least for the peace of mind it brings. Even now, nearly a year after having the coronary calcium scan, I simply can't believe that I have virtually no chance of ever having an MI due to familial heart disease.
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My nearest cardiac specialty center, St. Paul Heart, which is based at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, does the ten minute test on a walk-in basis in exchange for a crisp $100 bill. The entire test and reading of the resulting CT scan takes about 20 minutes and you walk out with copies of the radiologist and cardiologist reports in hand. Your primary care provider also receives copies of the reports.
Heart disease doesn't run in my family and my results showed a calcium score of zero (no plaque, calcium, fat, or cholesterol) in the right coronary artery, sinoatrial nodal artery, circumflex artery, right posterior descending artery, acute marginal artery, left anterior descending artery, left circumflex artery, obtuse marginal artery, septal perforator artery, or the diagonals. My left coronary artery was the only one with any foreign material in it and had a calcium score of 0.2, which might as well be zero. In other words, I was elated when I read the reports stating my coronary arteries were squeaky clean and free of stuff that causes angina and MI's. People with moderate coronary artery disease routinely have scores in the 30's. People with severe coronary artery disease have scores in the 70's and are heart attacks just waiting to happen; they tend to have chronic angina and carry nitroglycerine with them at all times. People with scores in the 70's are typically in very poor health.
About six years ago, a chest MRI showed I had a small ascending aortic aneurysm that was dilated 0.2 mm larger than normal right where it attached to my left ventricle. Knowing that there was nothing that could be done to treat such a small aneurysm, I just chose to live with it. Curiously, my coronary calcium scan, which was done at St. Paul Heart eleven months ago, showed the aneurysm was totally gone and my ascending aorta was now of normal size. The scan also showed very mild left ventricular hypertrophy, something that's been stable for the past 30 years; I'm now 63 years old. I occasionally get edema in my left ankle that's related to having a left distal fibula fracture in 1983 when I fell out of an ambulance. The edema is worse if I've been on my feet all day, but otherwise I have no signs or symptoms of CHF.
I'm curious about carotid stenosis and plaque buildup because my dad had a bad case of it that started when he was 75 years old. Fortunately, he never had any associated CVA's or TIA's and died of cancer when he was 83 years old. No doubt, due to my family history, my doctor will want me to have a carotid ultrasound sooner than later to check for plaque and other carotid crud.
I'm surprised that more primary care providers don't refer more of their patients for coronary calcium scans. The results are quite definitive and the diagnoses are completely accurate. Surely, any middle-aged males whose families have cardiac histories should have the test done... if for nothing else, at least for the peace of mind it brings. Even now, nearly a year after having the coronary calcium scan, I simply can't believe that I have virtually no chance of ever having an MI due to familial heart disease.
2024.04.28 19:57 awesomeflyinghamster Anyone else just have pain?
I don’t know what I’m looking for, as I know you guys aren’t doctors, but I guess it would feel good to know I’m not alone.
My PN symptoms right now are mostly in my feet. It started over a year ago with what was diagnosed as a Morton’s neuroma (shooting pain like carpal tunnel).
6 months later I got an invisible but excruciating“blister” under my pinky toe metatarsal that was diagnosed as just bad foot mechanics.
3 months after that, the “blister” area mirrored on the other side of my body, so both fifth Mets.
And in short order, I started experiencing hypersensitivity (any socks are painful), and shooting pain on pressure points (almost feels like I’m stepping on a swollen nerve below my big toe met, or my heel bone).
My front of shin muscles are also now really tight, maybe just from walking funny. I only wear foam Birkenstocks now, and just barely on some days. I can’t go barefoot, it’s just hard to walk.
The weird thing is, I went through an extremely similar process 4 years ago with my upper extremity. I eventually was diagnosed with bilateral cubital, carpal, and radial tunnel - possibly due to thoracic outlet compression. Even had forearm tightness similar to my shin tightness now. It’s like the nerves are all just swollen and unhappy. My upper body did heal somewhat, but it’s never been the same since the initial episode.
Anyone had anything like this before? I have a good doctor, but she honestly doesn’t know where to start. Blood tests are uninteresting - if anything my B12 is on the high end. No celiac, no genetic factors.
I’m 34 and I honestly don’t know where I’ll be in another 5-10 years if this keeps progressing. I thought my arms were bad, now my legs as well? All with a mystery disease half the specialists I see don’t even believe exists. As if I would fake it just to get to use a cane at 34.
Would love any support or even just ideas on tests or angles to share with my doctor. Thanks 🙏
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My PN symptoms right now are mostly in my feet. It started over a year ago with what was diagnosed as a Morton’s neuroma (shooting pain like carpal tunnel).
6 months later I got an invisible but excruciating“blister” under my pinky toe metatarsal that was diagnosed as just bad foot mechanics.
3 months after that, the “blister” area mirrored on the other side of my body, so both fifth Mets.
And in short order, I started experiencing hypersensitivity (any socks are painful), and shooting pain on pressure points (almost feels like I’m stepping on a swollen nerve below my big toe met, or my heel bone).
My front of shin muscles are also now really tight, maybe just from walking funny. I only wear foam Birkenstocks now, and just barely on some days. I can’t go barefoot, it’s just hard to walk.
The weird thing is, I went through an extremely similar process 4 years ago with my upper extremity. I eventually was diagnosed with bilateral cubital, carpal, and radial tunnel - possibly due to thoracic outlet compression. Even had forearm tightness similar to my shin tightness now. It’s like the nerves are all just swollen and unhappy. My upper body did heal somewhat, but it’s never been the same since the initial episode.
Anyone had anything like this before? I have a good doctor, but she honestly doesn’t know where to start. Blood tests are uninteresting - if anything my B12 is on the high end. No celiac, no genetic factors.
I’m 34 and I honestly don’t know where I’ll be in another 5-10 years if this keeps progressing. I thought my arms were bad, now my legs as well? All with a mystery disease half the specialists I see don’t even believe exists. As if I would fake it just to get to use a cane at 34.
Would love any support or even just ideas on tests or angles to share with my doctor. Thanks 🙏
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2024.04.28 19:50 samodamalo Random thought: could plastic in our blood have contributed to rising gluten intolerance?
This is just a vague hypothesis (edit: let’s call it conjecture). I’m not claiming anything here to be true, just speculating.
Googling about plastics in our blood, I find studies regarding Bisphenol A affecting our immune system, as well as metals like amalgam in teeth and in fish, mentioning thyroid problems and other things that even other studies have connected with undiagnosed celiac disease (like hashimotos).
Not to sound way too much like a conspiracy theorist since I have no proof, but would it be plausible that it can be a real legitimate cause which has triggered gluten intolerance in more people today?
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Googling about plastics in our blood, I find studies regarding Bisphenol A affecting our immune system, as well as metals like amalgam in teeth and in fish, mentioning thyroid problems and other things that even other studies have connected with undiagnosed celiac disease (like hashimotos).
Not to sound way too much like a conspiracy theorist since I have no proof, but would it be plausible that it can be a real legitimate cause which has triggered gluten intolerance in more people today?
2024.04.28 19:44 Gyron5urg3 What’s happening to this broccoli? New to gardening, just giving it a shot.
Hey gardeners, newbie here, just planted about 5 broccoli plants in some pots/planters to see if I can successfully grow it. Most of each plant looks fine (green and stiff) but a couple of the leaves on each plant have these weird yellow squiggles/spots. I think it’s some sort of disease, but I’m not sure. They’re planted in “raised bed soil” that I got cheap at Lowe’s in 8”x 10” pots and 6” x 24” long planters. What’s going on with these plants and what can u do to help them out? I water them a little daily if it’s hot, I’m in the southern US so late April is fairly warm and it hasn’t rained all that much.
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2024.04.28 19:42 Edgar_Allan_JoJos I want penicillin for GBS. Partner does not.
I have tested positive in a urine culture for group B step. I have done my research and definitely want penicillin (nkda)
I’ve listened to a few episodes on the Evidence Based Birth podcast and have tried to find evidence that could change my opinion because my partner does not think i should take the antibiotics because the chance of early GBS is so small and there is still a 0.2% they will get it- and he thinks the impact on the microbiome is 100% so the cons don’t out weigh the pros.
Ultimately it’s my choice and no matter what i will be blamed for negative outcomes (kiddo gets GBS disease or if they have any challenges like weak immune system which could be blamed on my planned antibiotic intake when in labor).
My question is- what studies/proof and what beliefs make families choose to not take antibiotics in this situation?m
I plan to talk to our nurse at the next checkup but i want to see what reddit has to say.
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I’ve listened to a few episodes on the Evidence Based Birth podcast and have tried to find evidence that could change my opinion because my partner does not think i should take the antibiotics because the chance of early GBS is so small and there is still a 0.2% they will get it- and he thinks the impact on the microbiome is 100% so the cons don’t out weigh the pros.
Ultimately it’s my choice and no matter what i will be blamed for negative outcomes (kiddo gets GBS disease or if they have any challenges like weak immune system which could be blamed on my planned antibiotic intake when in labor).
My question is- what studies/proof and what beliefs make families choose to not take antibiotics in this situation?m
I plan to talk to our nurse at the next checkup but i want to see what reddit has to say.
2024.04.28 19:37 Illustrious-Job6379 I have way more potential than this. Please, help.
I was never the one who was going to be successful. It was never believed by my family, my peers, or my teachers… And inevitably, it was never believed by myself… However, I did it. I graduated college after finding my calling in helping youth. (And, after failing out of my first program… as if to add fuel to the fire”you’re gonna fail” fire).. I got a car, a place, landed my dream job, and met the man I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I had a SOLID social network, work network, and self care routine. I ran 25km a week, had a healthy relationship with alcohol, practiced yoga twice a day, wrote poetry, music and spent my down time working hard to keep my past traumas at bay… and it worked.
My job was high pressure. I was in over my head, but I was treading water and my programs were wildly successful. I managed to get an expansion grant from one of my youth programs, that was about half a million dollars. Shortly after, my manager, who personally had a vendetta against me, stripped away my programs, piece by piece, until I had nothing left. They couldn’t fire me. I had just moved from contract to permanent… but they could … “shuffle” me. And they did. To a program that they knew was about to be defunded, effectively putting me out of a job. I quit shortly before it actually happened, and was able to walk out the doors on my terms, with my integrity in tact. That manager ended up being walked out a few years later, but that’s a story for another time.
I got a new job in childcare. It was a step down in regards to responsibility. But it was a breath of fresh air. I was being lined up for leadership, I had made a name for myself… and I was ready to step back into more responsibility again…
And then, my partner met someone else. We had been living together.. he cheated, gave me an STD, lied about it, and effectively broke my heart into a million jagged pieces. And then, the pandemic happened.
It didn’t happen over night. I think it started when my Dad got sick again. And got mean again. And then ended up loosing his leg due to peripheral artery disease. I threw my life into a fundraiser for him… hoping he would see the community surround him, and that it would give him hope… but he was too deep in his own pain to care.
I ended up falling into a deep, deep depression. I never knew anything so dark.
Anyway, to shorten a long story… my docs maxed me out on my meds, and I turned into a zombie for about 2 years. I finally got to the point that I could work again, and then I reached clinical burnout. I was so over medicated that I was incapable of working through the pressure that was building moment by moment.. and I collapsed, figuratively.
I spent 5 months decreasing my meds to an appropriate level, and moved back to the town I went to college in (I had moved “home” when my Dad got sick - the proximity was impossible to manage and I was loosing myself)
I’m back at the agency I worked for, the one that was lining me up for leadership… But everything is different now. It used to sparkle. The leaders used to be kind, curious… they cared. Now, it’s cold. And toxic.
I see ways through, but they no longer care for my ideas. And I’m stuck in this unnecessary position.. I’ve never felt more under utilized. I’m ready for more. But in the same breath, I’m so scared. I’m still so hurt, so sad, and so afraid I will fail that I can’t move. I used to be brave. I used to take on challenges, simply for the sake of seeing if I could. Now, I play it so safe. And I’m so bored.
I thrive under pressure. And I want it. My passion is dwindling with the lack of challenge where I am at, but I’m still healing… still licking the wounds of the last 4 years of my life. I feel stuck and trapped. Like I should stay down and heal, but staying down isn’t matching the potential I know I have in me, and it’s making it easier to stay stuck.
Please help.
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My job was high pressure. I was in over my head, but I was treading water and my programs were wildly successful. I managed to get an expansion grant from one of my youth programs, that was about half a million dollars. Shortly after, my manager, who personally had a vendetta against me, stripped away my programs, piece by piece, until I had nothing left. They couldn’t fire me. I had just moved from contract to permanent… but they could … “shuffle” me. And they did. To a program that they knew was about to be defunded, effectively putting me out of a job. I quit shortly before it actually happened, and was able to walk out the doors on my terms, with my integrity in tact. That manager ended up being walked out a few years later, but that’s a story for another time.
I got a new job in childcare. It was a step down in regards to responsibility. But it was a breath of fresh air. I was being lined up for leadership, I had made a name for myself… and I was ready to step back into more responsibility again…
And then, my partner met someone else. We had been living together.. he cheated, gave me an STD, lied about it, and effectively broke my heart into a million jagged pieces. And then, the pandemic happened.
It didn’t happen over night. I think it started when my Dad got sick again. And got mean again. And then ended up loosing his leg due to peripheral artery disease. I threw my life into a fundraiser for him… hoping he would see the community surround him, and that it would give him hope… but he was too deep in his own pain to care.
I ended up falling into a deep, deep depression. I never knew anything so dark.
Anyway, to shorten a long story… my docs maxed me out on my meds, and I turned into a zombie for about 2 years. I finally got to the point that I could work again, and then I reached clinical burnout. I was so over medicated that I was incapable of working through the pressure that was building moment by moment.. and I collapsed, figuratively.
I spent 5 months decreasing my meds to an appropriate level, and moved back to the town I went to college in (I had moved “home” when my Dad got sick - the proximity was impossible to manage and I was loosing myself)
I’m back at the agency I worked for, the one that was lining me up for leadership… But everything is different now. It used to sparkle. The leaders used to be kind, curious… they cared. Now, it’s cold. And toxic.
I see ways through, but they no longer care for my ideas. And I’m stuck in this unnecessary position.. I’ve never felt more under utilized. I’m ready for more. But in the same breath, I’m so scared. I’m still so hurt, so sad, and so afraid I will fail that I can’t move. I used to be brave. I used to take on challenges, simply for the sake of seeing if I could. Now, I play it so safe. And I’m so bored.
I thrive under pressure. And I want it. My passion is dwindling with the lack of challenge where I am at, but I’m still healing… still licking the wounds of the last 4 years of my life. I feel stuck and trapped. Like I should stay down and heal, but staying down isn’t matching the potential I know I have in me, and it’s making it easier to stay stuck.
Please help.
2024.04.28 19:32 DreamBoyQuarius My namom has me financially ensnared to her. Please please help.
Long story short, I am a neurodivergent adult male , late diagnosed ADHD (unmedicated by choice), and my mom uses it to shame me without acknowledging that I have a disease in the first place. She pays for everything and won’t let go of control of my rent for MY house.
But she has always given me money my whole life and now that I have my own house and working on my mental health I want her gone. I want her out of my life for good but if I want to buy a one dollar can of soda I have to call her and do the whole silent treatment and shame, guilt-trip thing every single day and every single time I need money . She refuses to open up her cash app requests option so I can avoid texting go straight to issue. she refuses to do an allowance also, just wants me to feed into her narrative of how she’s such a victim, but taking care of me at the same time.
I WANT MY LIFE BACK! I even thought about suing her for emotional abuse, and she won’t relinquish control of my own fucking rent money!!! Even my therapist was no help and what the hell is. What should I do? Please help anyone.!
I’m not asking for people to tell me to get a job . I have had over 30 jobs. My entire lifetime and I’m only 32. There is something else at play here and I’m just looking for the road that leads to me being 100% not relying on my mom for anything. Also, I am a minimalist, which I just discovered after leaving her and her intrusive ideals about me. I really don’t need much in life.
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But she has always given me money my whole life and now that I have my own house and working on my mental health I want her gone. I want her out of my life for good but if I want to buy a one dollar can of soda I have to call her and do the whole silent treatment and shame, guilt-trip thing every single day and every single time I need money . She refuses to open up her cash app requests option so I can avoid texting go straight to issue. she refuses to do an allowance also, just wants me to feed into her narrative of how she’s such a victim, but taking care of me at the same time.
I WANT MY LIFE BACK! I even thought about suing her for emotional abuse, and she won’t relinquish control of my own fucking rent money!!! Even my therapist was no help and what the hell is. What should I do? Please help anyone.!
I’m not asking for people to tell me to get a job . I have had over 30 jobs. My entire lifetime and I’m only 32. There is something else at play here and I’m just looking for the road that leads to me being 100% not relying on my mom for anything. Also, I am a minimalist, which I just discovered after leaving her and her intrusive ideals about me. I really don’t need much in life.