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moonarchia

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Maybe she wanted to give you a handjob? A small intro to the cult's deviant sexual rituals as it were?
 

Borzak

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Have you tried any other MS drugs before since there are quite a few? I would get a second opinion if this was the first or even second drug the doc suggested since there are multiple other drugs that could be used. However, capoxone is a very specific cocktail of protein to immunosupress MS so I could also see how only one drug company has a patent on the drug and is manufacturing it. But all in all, if anything seems fishy its not unreasonable to get a second opinion if that is possible for you. That nurse though seems super unprofessional, if you could report her, you would be doing other patients a great service.

If you want any info on the capoxone, I have access to a website called uptodate which is the first line reference that almost every physician uses that I can give you more information on it.

I don't have a real diagnosis of MS. But the MS doctor at the MS clinic was like take this, no side effects and it won't hurt. The doctors I work with at the mayo clinic and USC medical were ju stay off it until we can come to a conclusion. I just found it odd that all the infomation has to come and go thru the company that fronts for the maker. They may all work like that for all I know.
 
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Erronius

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supposedly an MRI of a gunshot wound?

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Kithani

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That looks like a CT scan of buckshot IMO you can google "CXR shotgun" for some similarly cool images.
 
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sleevedraw

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Could be bullet fragments but I didn't really see an explanation of the circumstances.
I thought bullets were ferromagnetic. Not sure why they'd be doing a MRI.

Unrelated, my best friend's dad just got admitted to hospice due to pancreatic CA. He's younger than 55. Prayers.
 
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Gamma Rays

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Just an amateur taking a guess here . . .

But isn't that the ribs we're seeing to start with and then at the end of the sequence it's the top of the pelvis? Which means a lot of digging to get those pieces out, yikes.
 

Kuriin

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I mean, it could be a CT scan. Hard for me to tell. But, yes, you can clearly see the pelvis at the end.
 

ToeMissile

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I thought bullets were ferromagnetic. Not sure why they'd be doing a MRI.

Unrelated, my best friend's dad just got admitted to hospice due to pancreatic CA. He's younger than 55. Prayers.
Found out last week my uncle has leukemia. Still very early and it's apparently not far along, but shitty news.
 

moonarchia

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So, it may be time to pay the piper soon. Past week I have been rapidly losing sensation and mobility in my hands. They don't know the cause, and fucking neurologists won't see anyone before Thanksgiving throughout Denver. Going to ER to get an emergency referral now. If I stop posting in the near future it's been a lot of fun, folks.
 
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pharmakos

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I've had horrible back pain for a few months now. I don't think it's related to my cancer. Usually once I get up and moving in the morning it goes away, but the past week it's been CONSTANT and my morphine prescription is barely doing enough to fix it. Got a CT scan scheduled on Monday, hopefully we figure something out. I'm pretty worried about it, it's the worst persistent pain I've ever had. And I've been dealing with cancer for three and a half years now, so that's saying something...

OTHERWISE everything is pretty okay, my cancer is doing alright. My keto diet is fighting it really well, suprisingly. (#LumiWasRight)
 

jayrebb

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I've had horrible back pain for a few months now. I don't think it's related to my cancer. Usually once I get up and moving in the morning it goes away, but the past week it's been CONSTANT and my morphine prescription is barely doing enough to fix it. Got a CT scan scheduled on Monday, hopefully we figure something out. I'm pretty worried about it, it's the worst persistent pain I've ever had. And I've been dealing with cancer for three and a half years now, so that's saying something...

OTHERWISE everything is pretty okay, my cancer is doing alright. My keto diet is fighting it really well, suprisingly. (#LumiWasRight)

keto should throw a big wrench in the pace.

im always surprised by how many people who have completed radiation end up unwilling to try it. The "fuck it all" attitude kinda sucks if we are talking about potentially adding years onto your life. Sugar is extremely addictive, so props for beating that and being strong enough to instate this diet.
 

pharmakos

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keto should throw a big wrench in the pace.

im always surprised by how many people who have completed radiation end up unwilling to try it. The "fuck it all" attitude kinda sucks if we are talking about potentially adding years onto your life. Sugar is extremely addictive, so props for beating that and being strong enough to instate this diet.

Yeah man, within 10 days of starting the diet my serum tumor markers (beta-HCG in this case) went from a 91 to a 5, it was a DRAMATIC shift in my prognosis. Before the diet we were talking about how soon I was going to die, now it's how my current treatment might potentially work...

My doctor was baffled, it took her a couple months before she was willing to admit the diet was working and the test results weren't just a fluke.
 

a_skeleton_05

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Speaking of cancer. Have any of you folks that have gone through cancer treatments found that your ability to focus on things got nuked? It seems that since my chemo treatments that I've lost my ability to focus or be super interested in things, which is putting a crimp in my hobbies (notably gaming) I figured that it was just a side-effect of the meds and other things initially, but it will be 2 years since the end of treatments soon.

I miss things like wanting to Deus Vult! the heathens in CK2 and grinding for some stupid irrelevant shit in an MMO.
 

pharmakos

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Speaking of cancer. Have any of you folks that have gone through cancer treatments found that your ability to focus on things got nuked? It seems that since my chemo treatments that I've lost my ability to focus or be super interested in things, which is putting a crimp in my hobbies (notably gaming) I figured that it was just a side-effect of the meds and other things initially, but it will be 2 years since the end of treatments soon.

I miss things like wanting to Deus Vult! the heathens in CK2 and grinding for some stupid irrelevant shit in an MMO.

Yes, absolutely. And marijuana and morphine paradoxically HELP concentration now rather than hinder it.
 
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a_skeleton_05

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Smoking bud, not sure on THC/CBD ratio, I don't pay much attention to that, just get whatever's cheap.

I've tried weed over the past year and it just knocks me on my ass and makes me useless, even when smoking a tiny amount. I can't bring myself to do anything other than watch TV and eat. I need to try out oils but eh... effort.