Health Problems

Kajiimagi said:

There was a time when that was an option. I wasn't going to do that to my wife financially. Thankfully I it looks more and more like that was just a really bad year & 1/2.

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If there was a specific cause for my symptoms then there would be a potential cure. Instead my increasingly bothersome memory issues are apparently just age and the tinnitus/nascent migraines are who the fuck knows.

TheNozz said:

Update:

This AFIB has ruined my life.

Prescribed medicine does fuck all to prevent it or stop it once it has started.

Had to go to ER for pneumonia the other day and started AFIBing while I was there. they injected liquid metoprolol into my system and that still wouldnt stop it.

I feel utterly fucking hopeless. I ripped out a chunk of my hair today. I get frustrated at times and slam my fist into my heart in a vain attempt to stop this shit.

This is easily the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

Asked for ablation back in July, and cardiologist wouldnt sign off on it. seeing new cardiologist Tuesday and hopefully they'll feel differently

I cant fucking do this anymore

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Finally got some progress.

second cardiologist unfortunately couldn’t do anything for me but told me I could go to a more specialized department: electrocardio therapy

both the electrocardiologist and my general practitioner were baffled as to why I wasn’t sent there back in July when the first cardiologist denied my request for ablation. He ended up recommending me for the procedure after I told him all that’s been going on back at the beginning of November

I’m going to have the ablation done tomorrow around 12 noon PST.

In the meantime, he prescribed me a new drug called flecainide. It actually stops AFIB incidents in its tracks. All I could think about as he told me about this drug

was that I’ve been slowly going insane since April, telling every doctor that metoprolol doesn’t work and

You mean to tell me there was a drug that could have shut it off, along with my stress, that could have been recommended to me months ago?

Cad said:

Not trying to be flip but when I saw you say this, I was like, was it not Van Halen? Took me a minute to remember it was actually David Lee Roth and the guitarist I think was Van Halen. That shit was a LONG time ago dude! Your memory might not be as bad as you think.

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Who the hell is Van Halen?

Punko said:

Izo

doctor said I might need surgery after healing to remove the lipoma

doubt that will be the case, since I just pulled a few grams of fat tissue out of the wound

this was relatively painless, but extremely gory

if anyone needs liposuction I'll soon be self-certified to do that

jezus fuck what a ride, this is the nastiest shit I have ever seen

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Mmm. The capsule needs to be removed, scraped/cleaned, so the lipoma doesn't grow back. Same with abscess. Usually why it's a good idea to let an orto/gp have a look, do the pokey-pokey with sharp surgical spoon in local anae, put wound care stuff in and let the crater heal from inside and out, e.g. not close the wound like usual lacerations etc.

TheNozz said:

Finally got some progress.

second cardiologist unfortunately couldn’t do anything for me but told me I could go to a more specialized department: electrocardio therapy

both the electrocardiologist and my general practitioner were baffled as to why I wasn’t sent there back in July when the first cardiologist denied my request for ablation. He ended up recommending me for the procedure after I told him all that’s been going on back at the beginning of November

I’m going to have the ablation done tomorrow around 12 noon PST.

In the meantime, he prescribed me a new drug called flecainide. It actually stops AFIB incidents in its tracks. All I could think about as he told me about this drug
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was that I’ve been slowly going insane since April, telling every doctor that metoprolol doesn’t work and
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You mean to tell me there was a drug that could have shut it off, along with my stress, that could have been recommended to me months ago?

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Procedure finished

some nausea afterwards and chest discomfort because of the breathing tube but otherwise ok