Yeah my wife gets fibrous cysts in hers often and the docs just said that happens.
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Ct scan came back with no growths. However what I thought was a fat on my left side is actually fluid. A lot of it. Probably won't slice me open again which means needles. Yaaaaayyyyy
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Well 4 needle sticks, 30 - 60CC syringes, and half an hour drained approximately 2 liters of fluid. I'm down about 5 pounds as well. Back next week to do it again and every week thereafter until it's resolved.
Doc is hoping to stay away from putting a drain in as it would greatly increase the risk of infection which would be my worst enemy.
Lemme tell yas it's something to look down and see an uncapped needle sticking out of your abdomen slowly dripping inner fluids. The bullshit I have to put up with to stay healthy is never ending.
Doc is hoping to stay away from putting a drain in as it would greatly increase the risk of infection which would be my worst enemy.
Lemme tell yas it's something to look down and see an uncapped needle sticking out of your abdomen slowly dripping inner fluids. The bullshit I have to put up with to stay healthy is never ending.
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Wasn't sure to like that post or not, so settled on replying. I hope you continue to improve. I have fluid retention and it ins't as bad as it would seem ( legs mostly ) in fact it helps me know when I've had too much sodium or my heart isn't doing well. I'm not sure about having it in the face though. Reaction to medicine or does that signify another condition?
As for me, I went Monday for INR/PT and for the 3rd month in a row my blood was too thick. This is really confusing me because I had picture perfect INR/PT for over 12 months without a single deviation. So now I am up to 11.25mg warfarin a day and will see in 2 weeks if I am back to at least therapeutic level. They also increased my metoprol to 300mg(150x2) a day due to multiple arrhythmia events in the past month where my heart just took off to 140+ bpm and oxygen saturation dropped during those events. They also increased pain medication and lasix.
I don't feel terrible other than those events mostly because I only do 3 things. Rest, light exercise and sleep. I feel better than last year where I attempted to work even if a few hours daily but I've learned how I feel and my actual condition are not always the same thing. The increases to the majority of my medicines worry me as that signifies to me everything is progressing worse. Still confused why I my blood wants to be so thick. I know people locally in heart failure from groups and such and none of them take near what I do when it comes to getting to a controlled number.
Still no word after 2 months waiting on pain specialist for treatment. Oh and my blood pressure which has been excellent most of the past year was very high. 167/104. That also after all year being 110/60ish.
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All of this fluid is from the surgery I just had. They really should have put a drain in on my left side too but at least now hopefully we have it under control.
And shit man I'm all good you worry about yourself and get yourself feeling better.
ps. fuck warfarin. Being on that stuff is a constant PT/INR roller coaster. Incredibly frustrating and terrifying when your shit is like a 8-10 instead of a 2.
And shit man I'm all good you worry about yourself and get yourself feeling better.
ps. fuck warfarin. Being on that stuff is a constant PT/INR roller coaster. Incredibly frustrating and terrifying when your shit is like a 8-10 instead of a 2.
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My issue has never been too high really but for some reason constantly low. I was a 1.8 this last time and 1.6 the last 2 months instead of the near 3 they want me at. It is just odd after being literally within .1 of target for a year then suddenly much lower than normal without diet change. Oh they also put me on hydroxyzine which I have never taken and not picked up yet. I guess they are worried about stress triggering heart attacks now as well. Was told if I start freaking out about finances, life or events in general to be home, take it and go to sleep.
I choose warfarin early on in 2015 because I was still working in construction when able. Risk was high I would get cuts and I needed to be on something that could reverse quickly if needed. I don't mind the testing monthly or more because often I need other tests anyways. They were pushing Xarelto at the time but now it is filled with lawsuits it seems. I've taken the stance of give me medications that has been around decades over the newer stuff.
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Been cooped up in Detroit Medical Center since the 2nd for my High-Dose Chemotherapy, with seemingly no end in sight for my recovery. Can't eat solid foods because my fuxking throat is so sore. Can't even get down oat meal because it goes down the wrong pipe. They finally started me on Neupogen last night so maybe my immune system will come back and work things out. Docs said I'll still probably be here for another 8-9 days at least. FML.
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To all of you with health problems you need to look into fasting. Prolonged fasting has been proven to completely rebuild your immune system and to regenerate your organs dramatically. It's literally the most profound thing you can do for your health. It has to be done quite carefully though. The 2016 Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of autophagy which can be induced through a prolonged fast. Basically it causes your body to consume unhealthy/dying cells for energy and replaces them with new fully functional/healthy cells. It's essentially a recycling/reset button for your body. Worth looking in to.
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You can Picard me all you like but the fact is that I'm about to be 35 and have no health problems at all and look like I'm in my early 20's. I know what I'm talking about and everything I've said over the years in regards to health is in fact 100% true.
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Looking 20 as you age has everything to do with luck and genetics. I'm 40 and look 20 and I do none of the stupid bullshit you spout.
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Yep stupid bullshit that is scientifically proven facts...right. Lol. I guess the 2016 Nobel prize for health and medicine should be rescinded according to you.
Oh and Genetics has little to do with it. It's merely a predisposition. It helps sure but it's not the end all be all. Everyone can overcome "poor genetics" with a healthy life style. This is a proven fact.
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I was disabled being unable to walk for a number of years - in part due to bad doctors that diagnosed me as having neurological issues when it wasn't and putting me on treatments that actually made the problem worse in the longrun. So I had plenty of time to post before. I've had maybe 1k posts in the 18 months I've been well and doing real work rather than running online shops and such where I was at the keys 18 hrs a day for both work and play. (And besides the leg issue, likely a lifestyle that you'd envy - tied down happily with my woman for 22 yrs, live on a canal, no financial worries [I work to entertain myself more than for the $$ - I could retire tomorrow with our passive income])
And Nobel Prize's mean jack shit. Obama - need more be said.
That's not to say fasting can't have some benefits now and again - but expecting extreme results is laughable. Based on that theorem - my entire batch of in-laws would be the healthiest people on Earth (they're Jewish, and a few long fasts are part of Jewish tradition) - and trust me, no one is giving them any awards for good health.
And please, tell me how to overcome "poor genetics" like oculodentodigital dysplasia
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I'm 33 but a lot of times now I'll meet some old ass scraggly dude that looks to be about 45 and he'll say he's 33 tok
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So you've experienced first hand how doctors can be a bunch of fuck ups and yet still think that naturalistic cures are bullshit? You know that Hippocrates, the father of medicine, only ever prescribed naturalistic cures? The three main things that Hippocrates prescribed to patients was honey, apple cider vinegar and garlic.
"Hippocrates, the revered physician, prescribed garlic for a variety of conditions. Garlic was given to the original Olympic athletes in Greece, as perhaps one of the earliest "performance enhancing" agents. It is of interest that cultures that developed without contact with one another came to similar conclusions about the efficacy of garlic. Modern science is tending to confirm many of the beliefs of ancient cultures regarding garlic, defining mechanisms of action and exploring garlic's potential for disease prevention and treatment."
Interesting.
"One of my favorite studies was published in Food Chemistry, January 2009 called,
“The antiproliferative and antioxidant activities of common vegetables: A comparative study”
Researchers studied the inhibitory (cancer-stopping) effects of 34 vegetable extracts on 8 different tumor cell lines.
They basically just ran vegetables through a juicer and then dripped the extracted juice on different cancer cells to see what would happen. Here are the top 10 anti-cancer vegetables from this study…
The #1 most powerful anti-cancer food was Garlic.
Garlic stopped cancer growth COMPLETELY against these tumor cell lines:
- Breast cancer
- Brain cancer
- Lung cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Childhood brain cancer
- and stomach cancer"
Yep, total bullshit, clearly!
"And Nobel Prize's mean jack shit. Obama - need more be said."
Well, Obama was merely given an honorary Nobel prize and didn't actually earn it just like many famous people are given honorary degrees at Universities for publicity or because they helped that college tremendously with donations or whatever. The dude that discovered autophagy actually earned it.
"That's not to say fasting can't have some benefits now and again - but expecting extreme results is laughable. Based on that theorem - my entire batch of in-laws would be the healthiest people on Earth (they're Jewish, and a few long fasts are part of Jewish tradition) - and trust me, no one is giving them any awards for good health."
Well for starters, most people who fast don't do it correctly and tend to cheat quite often and just because it's part of tradition doesn't mean they're actually doing it. Even a small caloric intake or anything that triggers a metabolic response essentially restarts the fast. Also, they might not be eating very healthily when they're not fasting or perhaps don't exercise much or at all. While fasting is indeed miraculous in what it can do, it's not the only step necessary for supreme states of health. You also need to do cardio and weight resistance exercises to build muscle and cycle blood and therefor oxygen/nutrients throughout the body more properly and efficiently.
Not to mention that in order for a true prolonged fast to have a dramatic effect you generally have to go at least 4 days without any food whatsoever whereas most religious fasts generally only last for a day at most. Autophagy does not truly begin until after 3 days of fasting. It's at this point that your organs will begin to shrink and your white blood cells will die off en masse and then your body will focus all effort into regeneration/healing and begin to recycle all of the unhealthiest cells consuming them for energy and turning them back into healthy cells. You'll then completely reset your immune system with a fresh batch of newly formed white blood cells that are superior to the old ones in every way. Then when you reintroduce food back into your diet your organs will begin to grow back to their normal size and be much stronger than they were before. It's a similar process to what happens to bears when they hibernate.
"And please, tell me how to overcome "poor genetics" like oculodentodigital dysplasia"
Well, that's more of an extreme example and a birth defect caused by severely compromised health within the parents. When I say poor genetics I'm referring more to relatively normal people that have a family history of certain/specific illnesses. Like if your father, grand father & great grand faster all had heart disease/heart attacks or something etc, you can overcome that through specific diets/life style choices quite easily. The real reason it appears to be genetics has more to do with the fact that you tend to adopt your parents life styles since you grow up eating the food that they served you and therefor were eating themselves.
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Have you ever though about getting your telomere length checked? There is science right now that telomere length, as a biomarker of cellular aging, can also predict disease risk-- and I suppose it should also correlate to physical appearance. Its like a DNA test for your age.
I'm not getting involved here in the back-and-forth. I'm "Just Saying" it would be cool if some of you guys who claim youth in your 30's and 40's would go ahead and get a telo test done. Its pretty well accepted that telomeres are a biomarker of cellular aging at this point. Anecdotally, it would make these kinds of statements a lot cooler when you post them. JUST SAYING.