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Kraykray kraytos kraykray whatever probably won't fly too well due to job. (Federal contractor with a gun)

Using saline instead of tap water so i dont get brain amoebas I've still done really poorly with nasal sprays and stuff. Can't stand shit going up my nose. Maybe it's coming somewhat close to drowning in the deep end of a pool once or I'm just a sissy (can't stand thought of contacts either).

Though not sure neti would help with pressure change headache, I know they are good for clearing out congested sinus pressure. When I get these migraines it's without any snot issues.

I'm home now and everything went fine. There were 3 polyps, 2 he was able to remove and 1 that was too deep for him to get to. Going to head to Dana Farber for that one. They really had to pump me full of air to get at the damn things. I just want to take a giant explosive NASA rocket launch shit. I know I'd feel so much better. lol

He inflated you to 25 psi!

It definitely felt like it. I vaguely remember belching non stop in recovery while waking up. Dropped a couple giant farts as well. Kinda bummed I wasn't fully conscious to appreciate them.

@a_skeleton_03 hope you've found something out by now., But If not I just wanted to suggest looking into FTD.
Very rare and researchers are trying to raise money for early detection. I realize this is from four years ago.


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Wierd post surgery calf pain escalating pretty bad. Still can't do leg raise without tightness pain so i know leg is still messed up somewhat even if the back and thigh pain gone. The lower leg pain though is persistent like 6 in pain even sitting/resting. When i get up i can barely put weight on it and i kinda hop to bathroom.. End up taking my hydro and a tramadol and laying on couch until they start to kick in.


Once they are working i can walk kinda haltingly in short Syria and really prone to turning the leg way out penguin style to take steps without pointing the foot up. Stairs i take leading hurry leg so as not to bend. Trying to stretch it out send to be minimal or even worse effect.

The calf is very tender to touch on the back side diffusely and on the front in kinda a v where the nerves or tendons run on either side of the bone.


I was thinking oh i flexed in surgery and sprained it but it went from discomfort to absolute agony. I fear it will continue to worsen like before to where i can't work even on meds. I had missed the free days before my last.


Tomorrow i have follow up to remove stitches. Plan was more prednisone to give it time and reduce inflamation but given the history of it and how i feel think I'm going to ask to go straight to another mri and surgery. I can only assume be didn't remove enough or more had shifted over to hit nerves differently causing pain in lower leg rather than upper.




Or should i be finding a lawyer because maybe he actually fucked me up? I hate that there's no way to make visits on weekends so I'm getting fucked with with having to take days off and i expect is going to have the bosses starting to get involved before long but to mention just dip in pay from lousy hours.

Its been two weeks. I don't know what kind of surgery you had specifically or how a disc can involve the calf area. But you are still in the recovery phase of this surgery as far as I'm concerned.

No physical therapy is extremely dubious, but again as I'll state many times I don't know much about the specifics of back surgery. I've received physical therapy for non-surgical traumas such as slip and fall, I dont see why you aren't in therapy. I had to pay mostly out of pocket for therapy though. I guess insurance isn't friendly with most therapy.

I'd be seeing your GP about it, and getting referred to the appropriate specialist regarding your loss of function in your calf Sludig

I don't want to speculate too much more as I am mostly unfamiliar with back surgery and possible complications. You have a new condition post-surgery, you need to present that to your follow-up. If they don't acknowledge it, you take it to your GP and then hopefully a specialist will give you a square answer as to whats normal. It should technically be from the surgeon, but today its mostly about avoiding any malpractice so they avoid acknowledging any problems or complications.

You're probably going to bounce from doctor to doctor on this one, but thats just a guess. Your GP + Specialist will be the ones to hopefully help you get an answer. I doubt your surgeon is going to really want to look into it. Any complaint about anything really, and any doctor starts to clam up and look the other way.

The nurse I'd bet won't even raise the issue to the doctor at your follow-up. And your visit isn't even with the doctor himself on follow-up correct?

jayrebb said:

Its been two weeks. I don't know what kind of surgery you had specifically or how a disc can involve the calf area. But you are still in the recovery phase of this surgery as far as I'm concerned.

No physical therapy is extremely dubious, but again as I'll state many times I don't know much about the specifics of back surgery. I've received physical therapy for non-surgical traumas such as slip and fall, I dont see why you aren't in therapy. I had to pay mostly out of pocket for therapy though. I guess insurance isn't friendly with most therapy.

I'd be seeing your GP about it, and getting referred to the appropriate specialist regarding your loss of function in your calf Sludig

I don't want to speculate too much more as I am mostly unfamiliar with back surgery and possible complications. You have a new condition post-surgery, you need to present that to your follow-up. If they don't acknowledge it, you take it to your GP and then hopefully a specialist will give you a square answer as to whats normal. It should technically be from the surgeon, but today its mostly about avoiding any malpractice so they avoid acknowledging any problems or complications.

You're probably going to bounce from doctor to doctor on this one, but thats just a guess. Your GP + Specialist will be the ones to hopefully help you get an answer. I doubt your surgeon is going to really want to look into it. Any complaint about anything really, and any doctor starts to clam up and look the other way.

The nurse I'd bet won't even raise the issue to the doctor at your follow-up. And your visit isn't even with the doctor himself on follow-up correct?

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I do understand the healing is a process and new pains can crop up. I wish this was the future and I could cyber link the results of my nerve feelings to folk to know exactly what is going on. The first week I filed it away as just vagaries of post surgery, but as I said I can barely stand in the morning and make it down stairs to take my medicine. I'd say even today next to yesterday the hydro is taking less of the pain away which is my big fear is getting debilitated like I was before to where I am unable to work even though work.

Are you canadian/british? Some of your phrasing just seems like at least from a different region. I don't have a GP, around here they just call the PCP generally and I don't have one. I'm young and healthy so virtually never visit doctors and I live like half an hour from most urban areas so I'm a bit away from just a general practice. My insurance allows me to go straight to a specialist without a referal.

My specialist is the same as the surgeon. I had selected him for being somewhat close paired with the most favorable to unfavorable ratings I could find.

Phys therapy does make a lot of sense for sports injuries and anything like that. My injury was a herniated disc which was pressing on my sciatic nerve. Phys therapy won't help that. Post surgery I was given light weight lifting restrictions, minimal bending and a lot of walking which I followed. I tried researching my problem and results were a little mixed, it does sound like there are different areas of nerve in the back that link down to the nerves in the calf.

Until it was explaind to me I thought I had a leg injury because it was so wierd to not really have back pain but have the thigh feeling like I'd snapped something. I'm trying to stay positive that it's just more disc has come thru the herniation point and just pressing on the nerve a bit different. (Like I said while leg pain mainly gone I still can't do the straight leg raise like if you are sitting and want to put it up on a table)

I just also fear this guy fucked something else up. Generally over the last few months I talk to his PA-C which is basically a nurse practitioner falls between a doc and a nurse. I'm seeing a different PA today just to remove stitches and going to talk to them about possibly a longer duration high dose steroid instead of the 6 day packs which give me one day of feeling great with old problem then back to hurting as they taper down. I know longer term prednisone is bad, but a week at high dose is only way I really see itletting things subside. Really if I can I want the MRI update see what's going on. Depending what's on there I figure out if I want to still work with this doctor or possibly find someone else and start seeing if what he did might be malpractive. (i'm very against lawsuits unless warranted and right now the amount of pain as well as risk to my job I'm taking seriously.)


The doctor bouncing is some of why when I first had any issues with the original condition I was slow to want to be seen. I've had one other thing years ago where I wasted time seeing 4 docs to get it addressed. (First one sends me to wrong 2nd one, 2nd one sends to me to 3rd who is like interesting, but not my thing heres guy #4)

My update is things getting worse as i feared. Pinching cramping trying to go to bed and i dread getting out of bed. Had a ultra sound to check for clots, mri on 28th long wait....

Usually i deal with pain pills kick in and i go to work. Today thru first fee hours of work still hurting. Took a second hydro so total of 2 5mg hydro a tramadol and a valium just to get edge of.

Pain has spread up the leg some so pain in knee quite a bit, a tiny bit in thigh and a little in buttocks around the hip.


May be imagination but messed up leg when leg straightened knee cap seemz way looser than other.

LachiusTZ said:

I am damn near 34, and was given the option of having my tonsils taken out. Read a few articles that the help produce Tcells, and there was information dating all the way back to the 1920s stating they serve an important function. Studies that show they help keep shit out of your lungs etc etc.

Anyone have some input on this? Or some more info on it? At times they get a bit tender . . . but not big on having organs cut out of my body, vestigial or not.

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You speak of the tonsils. What about your glands in your neck? Do they get swollen or sore around this time when your tonsils are hurt?

How do you know you aren't fighting a latent infection? That would be a major reason I wouldn't want them removed. "My tonsils bother me!" "Oh ok kid, we can cut them out because junk science said its as worthless as the appendix". cha-ching $. I had EBV and glandular fever and strep throat so many times as a kid. I got FUCKED up man, harder than Raistlin Majere. I was sick so fucking often. The doctor was pushing tonsil removal, all the cool kids were having their tonsils removed. I thought how this makes absolutely no fucking sense. Thankfully my parents didn't push it. They weren't as wise about circumcision and dentistry-- but that's another story. I haven't had a sore throat in 20+ years. Immunity works.

The mouth is the most toxic point of the body, arguably far far more toxic than an asshole when the person lacks active infections of the bowels. The reason you have tonsils is because of the sheer amount of inhaled and licked up bacteria and virii was so high we needed additional forward batteries to help out. The tonsils actually vent material from the sinus/ears, its a collection point for your body to focus bad materials so it can move it down your digestive track. See: tonsil stones. This function is more important than the Tcell stuff and is arguably one of the major functions of the tonsils.

Do you have swollen adenoids when they hurt? Google and examine your own adenoids. Flex your throat forward and look at them. Swelling of adenoids can be allergic. Do you have allergies? Seasonal, food, dust etc.

Do you get noticeable tonsil stones? If so, how often? This will help work up whether an allergy is a potential problem.

a_skeleton_03 said:

Failed my liver function test, whatever that means. Doc said new blood test in 6 weeks.

Chemo probably wrecked it, oh well.

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Wouldn't worry much about it if they said 6 weeks. I've learned if they don't hand me a piece of paper and tell me to "drop by" the hospital on the way home it isn't serious yet.
My liver has been out of range/function lite several times and recovered. My issue the past few months has been below range BUN/Creatinine. Cutting fluids more and eating more proteins. If I cut fluids much more I'll be drinking a 20oz bottle for the entire day soon. Nothing more fun than dying of thirst and told cut back moooooar.