Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Off to hospital tonight :|
Good luck & a speedy recovery.
Trooper wrote:
Good luck dude, make sure you pay the £5 a minute internet fee to keep us in the loop.
And the ridiculous TV card viewing system.
If hospital doesn't help, try extremely diluted apricot pits.
Curiosity wrote:
If hospital doesn't help, try extremely diluted apricot pits.
you bastard - I had a pen lid in my mouth just then and almost choked on it.
Kalmar clearly isn't funny.
I will put LOL next time.
Good luck Doc!
Oh! I didn't see Kalmar's post. I shall choke on a second pen lid now.
Good luck Doctor G.
Also, don't let them put you in the childrens ward by mistake.
Edit: Because of his height! His height, God dammit! Honestly, you people....
Also, don't let them put you in the childrens ward by mistake.
Edit: Because of his height! His height, God dammit! Honestly, you people....
They might put him on the Gayward though.
Because he is a gay.
I believe the Hospital Radio DJ is excellent.
Hope everything goes ok Gaywood and I'm glad that you've got Danielle there to look after you through this. Hugs for both of you xx
Be well, Rich.
All the best, Doc!
Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone. I'm back home again with a chronic case of Don't-Know-ism. Update: http://fscked.co.uk/post/2720907432/diagnosis-murder
Well, a lack of solid info, but at least you're getting stuff done. O2 at 95 isn't bad - being a smoker, mine ticks around 96 most of he time. Did I read it was down at 80-something before, or am I making that up?
Hope things start improving soon.
Hope things start improving soon.
95 was after about twenty minutes led in a bed without moving. The other day, with a Pulseox on my finger, two minutes of moderate paced walking around a car park put my O2 sat at 88% and my pulse at 163bpm. These are bad numbers.
They gave you an injection to test your blood-oxygen saturation? They can test that by putting a "magic thing" onto the end of your finger.
Grim... wrote:
They gave you an injection to test your blood-oxygen saturation? They can test that by putting a "magic thing" onto the end of your finger.
That's the pulse-ox right? Neat little device. I got that when I went recently - the last time I'd had my pulse checked was probably 20 years ago and it was done by hand, and counting.
The injection is for blood thinning, I think he wrote.
I had a pulseox, yes, but they aren't totally accurate and he was basing the let-me-go-or-keep-me-in decision on the reading. So they did a blood gas test, which involves drawing blood from an artery (not a vein) usually in the wrist.
Then I had another injection for the thinning drug. In all, I've been stuck with needles five times in the last 48 hours (two normal blood tests, blood gas test, local anaesthetic before the blood gas test (without that apparently wrist injections hurt like a fucker), and the thinner stuff).
Then I had another injection for the thinning drug. In all, I've been stuck with needles five times in the last 48 hours (two normal blood tests, blood gas test, local anaesthetic before the blood gas test (without that apparently wrist injections hurt like a fucker), and the thinner stuff).
You big girl. I have thick skin, then they couldn't find a suitable vein, so I was stabbed more than that in five minutes.
I forgot to get the curry out of the freezer last night.
Zardoz wrote:
I forgot to get the curry out of the freezer last night.
*taps nose and nods*
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
A sparrow has no need for keys. He opens locks with his song...
Warhead wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
I forgot to get the curry out of the freezer last night.
*taps nose and nods*
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
I knew exactly what Mr Cantona was talking about when he said that, and still don't to this day understand the brouhaha over the statement.
The song of the night grows louder at dawn...
MaliA wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
I forgot to get the curry out of the freezer last night.
*taps nose and nods*
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
I knew exactly what Mr Cantona was talking about when he said that, and still don't to this day understand the brouhaha over the statement.
I suspect every tabloid journo knew exactly what he was getting at. But they're never likely to go "maybe he's right, we are vultures!" were they. Much easier to say "FRENCH MENTAL SAYS WEIRD THING"
MaliA wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
I forgot to get the curry out of the freezer last night.
*taps nose and nods*
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
I knew exactly what Mr Cantona was talking about when he said that, and still don't to this day understand the brouhaha over the statement.
That's what he wanted you to think.
#notes" class="postlink">Update, for those of you not directly following my blog (I'll stop spamming links if everyone is already reading it over there though...)
Paging Dr House!
Be well, Rich..
Be well, Rich..
It's definitely Lupus.
kalmar wrote:
Paging Dr House!
Be well, Rich..
Be well, Rich..
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“Found it! Turned out he had a tick on his vagina.”
Hope it all gets worked out soon! The not knowing must be frustrating.
Malaboob wrote:
“Found it! Turned out he had a tick on his vagina.”
That's where I left my watch!
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
#notes" class="postlink">Update, for those of you not directly following my blog (I'll stop spamming links if everyone is already reading it over there though...)
Best of luck for Monday then. Keep posting here - I only see your blog posts in Reeder at home, so not during the day.
What's your concern around travelling - flying while on Warfarin, potential DVT complications (if they find a clot but don't identify a source), or not being able to get insurance?
.. or not being able to take needles on planes? No, scratch that, of course you can take them in luggage 
Craster wrote:
What's your concern around travelling - flying while on Warfarin, potential DVT complications (if they find a clot but don't identify a source), or not being able to get insurance?
DVT complications mostly. Once you've had one clot, you're at risk of more, and obviously flying multiplies that risk many times over. Warfarin should guard against it, but it's still a concern.kalmar wrote:
or not being able to take needles on planes
Nah, the needles are just for now, thank god (they really bloody hurt and/or I'm a big baby). If I am diagnosed with a clot, long term care will be oral tablets. Fingers crossed for you Rich. Please continue not to die.
I concur with the wellwishers. Please get well, Rich, I hope it's just patheticness on your part 
I have a tummy nay
I have struggled to eat properly for a few weeks now. More or less every time i have a meal, my stomach feels like it's having a battle with itself. I have been drinking Milk of Magnesia (bleugh!!) and reducing what i eat to basically next to fuck all. I haven't had a meal since Friday and last night I had a sausage and a piece of toast and this morning, my stomach was like a huge bloated rock Urgh.....time for a doctors appointment I think.
I have a tummy nay
I have struggled to eat properly for a few weeks now. More or less every time i have a meal, my stomach feels like it's having a battle with itself. I have been drinking Milk of Magnesia (bleugh!!) and reducing what i eat to basically next to fuck all. I haven't had a meal since Friday and last night I had a sausage and a piece of toast and this morning, my stomach was like a huge bloated rock Urgh.....time for a doctors appointment I think. flis wrote:
I concur with the wellwishers. Please get well, Rich, I hope it's just patheticness on your part
Ditto. I hate needles too, though.
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I have a tummy nay I have struggled to eat properly for a few weeks now. More or less every time i have a meal, my stomach feels like it's having a battle with itself. I have been drinking Milk of Magnesia (bleugh!!) and reducing what i eat to basically next to fuck all. I haven't had a meal since Friday and last night I had a sausage and a piece of toast and this morning, my stomach was like a huge bloated rock Urgh.....time for a doctors appointment I think.
I have struggled to eat properly for a few weeks now. More or less every time i have a meal, my stomach feels like it's having a battle with itself. I have been drinking Milk of Magnesia (bleugh!!) and reducing what i eat to basically next to fuck all. I haven't had a meal since Friday and last night I had a sausage and a piece of toast and this morning, my stomach was like a huge bloated rock Urgh.....time for a doctors appointment I think.Still, no need for a New Year's diet then?
Get better, you.
Everyone needs to stop being ill.
*prepares rose petals*
*prepares rose petals*
Well, they do now, because Richard is clearly winning.
Also: hope things turn out OK, Doccy G.
Also: hope things turn out OK, Doccy G.
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Ditto. I hate needles too, though.
On the bright side, this is exactly the sort of thing that gets you well accustomed to it. After a year of having to stick myself 3 times a week, I am now not even slightly bothered by needles.
Are you dead yet Doc?
Only if you're on the way out I'll need to ask all my SCIENCE questions now rather than spacing them over the months.
Only if you're on the way out I'll need to ask all my SCIENCE questions now rather than spacing them over the months.
Craster wrote:
On the bright side, this is exactly the sort of thing that gets you well accustomed to it. After a year of having to stick myself 3 times a week, I am now not even slightly bothered by needles.
It's not the needle as such with this. It feels like it has an acidic carrier, and the dose is fairly high -- 125mg or so -- so it stings like a motherfucker for about 30 minutes after the jab. 
Bit late to this but I want to extend my best wishes to you Doc. Hope all works out for you! 
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Last Tuesday I went to the doctor's with a dry, hacking cough I'd had for a couple of weeks and get every so often. They started to chase a diagnosis of asthma. I did peak flow readings, but they were all super high, suggesting no asthma; plus Ventolin didn't help at all. Over the weekend, I started getting breathless with a 100+ bpm heart when doing anything physical at all - even walking up stairs. I'm also fatigued and achey all the time and I still have the cough.
At a doctor's appointment today, she was a hair's breadth away from sending me to hospital for observation for the breathlessness and high heart rate I am suffering from, following an ECG (which was clear) and Pulseox test she didn't like the look of. As it was, I got a strong dose of antibiotics in case it's a bacterial infection, and I have to go back for more tests tomorrow. If I disappear, I'm in hospital. Next most likely diagnosis is a viral infection; then obscure-ish variants of pneumonia etc, and some way out on the probability curve after that is a blood clot on the lung. I'm statistically at a very low risk of that, but I'm a bit alert to the possibility because of recent events.
So, umm, yeah.
At a doctor's appointment today, she was a hair's breadth away from sending me to hospital for observation for the breathlessness and high heart rate I am suffering from, following an ECG (which was clear) and Pulseox test she didn't like the look of. As it was, I got a strong dose of antibiotics in case it's a bacterial infection, and I have to go back for more tests tomorrow. If I disappear, I'm in hospital. Next most likely diagnosis is a viral infection; then obscure-ish variants of pneumonia etc, and some way out on the probability curve after that is a blood clot on the lung. I'm statistically at a very low risk of that, but I'm a bit alert to the possibility because of recent events.
So, umm, yeah.
Have you improved at all, Rich? Believe it or not (I didn't post about it on here in case it heightened my worry with people throwing suggestions at me and stuff), but around my birthday in December, I had EXACTLY, EXACTLY the same symptoms. Went to A&E and everything was "fine" - they did all of the tests on me that they did on you it seems (ECG, etc). It turns out (after a couple of weeks of this shit), that I had a bacterial respiratory infection which was making me a tad breathless, but anxiety was causing this to snowball and the more worrying symptoms. I'd basically worked myself into a state where I was convinced I was having a heart attack/lung cancer/doom. I was working myself into full-on anxiety attack mode sub-consciously (for various reasons - well, reasons I suspect were the reasons - which I won't go into), then I'd realise when the symptoms came on, and I'd consciously work myself up even more with the doom-thoughts.
It was absolutely awful. I was up all night a few times genuinely worried that if I fell asleep, I'd be dead by morning. I'm okay now pretty much. I hope in your case, it's the same deal.
Updates on my blog, WTB (I have to centralise them or I end up posting them in a dozen places). No, is the short answer, and it's not psychological either.
Ah bugger, sorry man - I'll go read up - I kinda jumped in after seeing your initial post. Hope you're alright.
edit: Read up, again, I genuinely hope everything turns out alright - you must be pretty stressed about it all. I wish I could offer you some advice, but the best I can come up with is: relax - there's very little you can do yourself as far as waiting on medical gubbins is concerned.
edit: Read up, again, I genuinely hope everything turns out alright - you must be pretty stressed about it all. I wish I could offer you some advice, but the best I can come up with is: relax - there's very little you can do yourself as far as waiting on medical gubbins is concerned.
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