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Allergic reaction standard of treatment is pepcid, benadryl, and solumedrol. Pepcid not only helps the gut with GERD, but it is an H2 histamine antagonist receptor blocker. If you were really having an anaphylactic reaction, you would have received likely more than one dose of epinephrine; maybe even have started an epi drip. Especially with a blood pressure in the 70s.

In regards to Srathor Srathor , yeah, you likely got put on a bedside commode. And yikes on that ejection fraction. How old are you?
 
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Phazael

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They did not hit me with the epi because it had some cortazone component I guess? Not sure. They deffinately hooked me up with two bags of pepcid though for the exact reasons you stated. I was making ST TNF Neural Peptide with Mint Frosting jokes that only my wife got when they were hooking it up to my IV. Seemed to do the trick, though. Had some rashiness for a day or two after (popped benadryl for that both times) and now no reaction symptoms. I am talking to the ortho to get an exact list of what they injected into the knee so I can narrow down precisely what caused the reaction, but so far the cortical steriod seems the most likely culprit. It is certainly a shitty thing to have reactions to, from a medical standpoint, but I hardly ever see a doctor for anything so I will get by ok.
 
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Erronius

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I've had migraines for a few years now; spent a lot of time and money trying to figure it out, to no avail.

Some people at work had been urging me to go see an ENT, on the off chance that there was something with my sinuses triggering the migraines. So I made an appointment for this last Monday with a Dr someone had suggested.

So after something like 10-15m of answering screening questions about my history, the Dr grabs some sort of scope/camera and looks into my nose. Asks the nurse if she saw what he was seeing, she said yes, and then he pulled the scope out and sat back. Total time of looking up my schnozz was maybe 15-20 seconds, tops. He tells me that I have a deviated septum on one side (this being the side that I had told him I've never been able to breathe through)

He tells me that he's seen a few people with headaches/migraines before, that had bone spurs in their sinuses. So he wanted me give me a quick scan (CT I think, they had a miniature one in their office) to see if there was something there.

The scan was super quick. Waited maybe 5m, then the Dr comes backs and tells me that sure enough, I have some sort of bone spur behind the eye where my migraines seem to start. And apparently there's also a sinus cavity that sits next to the eye (?) that was inflamed (something medical lingo)

He wouldn't tell me that this would fix the migraine, but he did say that he thought the odds were good that one of the issues, or a combination of them, were probably the root cause of the migraines. So I think I'll be able to get surgery in a month or so, and hopefully the migraine bullshit goes away.
 
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Gavinmad

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Erronius said:
I've had migraines for a few years now; spent a lot of time and money trying to figure it out, to no avail.

Some people at work had been urging me to go see an ENT, on the off chance that there was something with my sinuses triggering the migraines. So I made an appointment for this last Monday with a Dr someone had suggested.

So after something like 10-15m of answering screening questions about my history, the Dr grabs some sort of scope/camera and looks into my nose. Asks the nurse if she saw what he was seeing, she said yes, and then he pulled the scope out and sat back. Total time of looking up my schnozz was maybe 15-20 seconds, tops. He tells me that I have a deviated septum on one side (this being the side that I had told him I've never been able to breathe through)

He tells me that he's seen a few people with headaches/migraines before, that had bone spurs in their sinuses. So he wanted me give me a quick scan (CT I think, they had a miniature one in their office) to see if there was something there.

The scan was super quick. Waited maybe 5m, then the Dr comes backs and tells me that sure enough, I have some sort of bone spur behind the eye where my migraines seem to start. And apparently there's also a sinus cavity that sits next to the eye (?) that was inflamed (something medical lingo)

He wouldn't tell me that this would fix the migraine, but he did say that he thought the odds were good that one of the issues, or a combination of them, were probably the root cause of the migraines. So I think I'll be able to get surgery in a month or so, and hopefully the migraine bullshit goes away.
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best of luck on that resolving the migraines
 
blizzak

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Had my followup to talk about my CT scan. No cancers anywhere else but the nose. Early January I get the nose removed along with my lymph nodes followed by radiation treatment.
The plastic surgeon is going to rebuild my nose at the same time that they remove the tumor. Way better news than I was expecting.
 
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Borzak

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Covid cause a lot of moving around job wise for doctors? It's been difficult to see a Dr. more than once and then they are gone. Multiple specialities and multiple hospital groups in two different states. Like the great reshuffle. Get a new diagnosis and a 2nd opinion is out of question, it's go somewhere else when the doctor is gone and start all over.
 
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Kithani

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Borzak said:
Covid cause a lot of moving around job wise for doctors? It's been difficult to see a Dr. more than once and then they are gone. Multiple specialities and multiple hospital groups in two different states. Like the great reshuffle. Get a new diagnosis and a 2nd opinion is out of question, it's go somewhere else when the doctor is gone and start all over.
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No not really tbh, but aren’t you in rural Texas or Louisiana? It might be hard to recruit a doc to stay in such a location for an extended time idk.
 
Borzak

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Kithani said:
No not really tbh, but aren’t you in rural Texas or Louisiana? It might be hard to recruit a doc to stay in such a location for an extended time idk.
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The places I've been going aren't that rural for the hospitals. Baton Rouge, LA. New Orleans, LA and San Antonio, TX. Small town nearest me the doctor I use grew up here, his dad is a doctor. He played college baseball and then got his MD and moved back. He still makes house calls believe it or not. I've never asked for one but guessing if he knows you and it's very bad.
 
Goatface

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where i live is pretty rural, most doctors here are either, young and signed up for 1-3 years and move on, or a little sketchiness in their past. if you have the same doctor for more than a few years is rare.
 
Kithani

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Goatface said:
where i live is pretty rural, most doctors here are either, young and signed up for 1-3 years and move on, or a little sketchiness in their past. if you have the same doctor for more than a few years is rare.
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A lot of young docs will sign up for rural jobs because it often helps them get loan (typically 200k+ in loans) forgiveness after XYZ years.

Another common reason is that if they’re a non-citizen then after they finish training they have to find a job that sponsors their visa for 3 years before they can apply for a green card and move elsewhere. It’s more often the rural places that are willing to sponsor people because it’s harder to recruit there.

Borzak Borzak yeah those locations I wouldn’t think of as high turnover, no idea about that tbh
 
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blizzak

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Well I made it home in one piece. Everything went better than expecteg and they saved quite a bit of my original nose. The swelling and fluid build up are nuts but the pain isn't too bad. I look gruesome as fuck though and have stitches going about 10 inches across my throat from the lymph nodes being removed. Including the day of suregery I was only in the hospital for 2 and a half days. Just long enough to crush on every young nurse on the floor :)
 
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Borzak

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Wait till they ask your birth year and answer "same as my dad".
 
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Borzak

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I have an official diagnosis that makes sense now. I had a Dr. mention it some time ago. There's really no test for it, just have to observe and then...which has sucked because I've had issues with Dr. after Dr. moving jobs or retiring and having to start over.

Scleroderma. Accounts for the brain lesions, skin issues, intenstinal issues, intense soreness (which is odd muscle relaxers don't help and carely bend my knees, it's tendon related and I guess you relax the muscle it no longer moves the tendon easy) and a few other things.

Have a bowel resection on the "upcoming" list but not scheduled yet. Making too much defective collagen.
 
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Borzak

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I'm going to bleed to death from nose bleeds. Okay that's an exxageration but I've had one now for 3 days. I get up in the night afraid I'm going to drown in my own blood.
 
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blizzak

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Sorry to hear it Borzak. That's rough as hell. I just got the all clear from my surgeon and radiologist, no need for radiation. The tumor had remained a solid mass and they found no cancer in the lymph nodes that they removed. I know it can come back, but it buys me years of good quality living and I am already regaining my strength.
 
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Take care of yourselves, forum bros. I just got that word that my best friend growing up was found dead at 42, suspected heart attack. Man...
 
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Izo

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MusicForFish said:
www.theguardian.com

Microplastics found in human blood for first time

Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Not really '22 news as such, pvc mp's have been studied for some years now, afaik. The adverse effects, cancer, abscess' etc is slowly being illuminated. Random litterature review, scoping:
www.sciencedirect.com

Potential human health risks due to environmental exposure to nano- and microplastics and knowledge gaps: A scoping review

Microplastics are an emerging global environmental contaminant that are affecting multiple spheres. Despite their ubiquity in all spheres of life and …
www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
 
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MusicForFish

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Izo said:
Not really '22 news as such, pvc mp's have been studied for some years now, afaik. The adverse effects, cancer, abscess' etc is slowly being illuminated. Random litterature review, scoping:
www.sciencedirect.com

Potential human health risks due to environmental exposure to nano- and microplastics and knowledge gaps: A scoping review

Microplastics are an emerging global environmental contaminant that are affecting multiple spheres. Despite their ubiquity in all spheres of life and …
www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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Are these micros able to be flushed from the system at all or is research ongoing?
 
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