Health Problems

Don't get chemo then and go fast. Drugged to the gills

Weed bros. Weed is the answer. Stay high out of your mind and you won't care! I'm only half kidding.

I've got another problem. First off, the boil is non-existent. If I had one down there it just started to go away, it's a mystery.

So, I've always gotten really bad cankers. I'm not talking small little ones that you go "oooh ouchies" when you touch, I'm talking fairly large sized ones that last several days or at least a week and are painful as anything you can imagine. I got them a lot, all the time really.

I always just sort of let it happen, then I found out my brother, sister, and mother all got them too. Research taught me that L-Lysene vitamins would help, so I started taking it and the cankers stopped completely. Where a small gut to my mouth or gums would normally form a canker, now it healed properly.

The bad news is that now when I get cankers they only appear on my tongue - this is literally the worst thing ever besides my boil. I get them a few times a year and it's absolutely debilitating. They're fairly large, maybe the diameter of a finger, usually on the side of my tongue, and I basically can't eat or drink anything without wanting to die. They're so painful that one time I brushed a tooth with it and I punched a hole through a door in the house. It sounds dumb, but it's awful. The vitamin doesn't help, and if I stop taking the vitamin I still get them. The pain will radiate from my tongue and actually hurts my throat and face.

I could go to a doctor but I've read they don't really know a lot about them, and will generally prescribe ointments and "wait it out."

Is there anything else I can do? I take pain meds when I get them because it hurts so bad, which I am hopped up on now.

If I got terminal Cancer I'd probably spend some time banging hookers and doing drugs in Thailand, then once things got bad I'd grab a plane to Syria and try and take out as many ISIS goat fuckers that I could before going down Butch Cassidy style.

Not a lot of faith in diagnoses. I was told 20 months ago I would never walk again and that on the outside I had 2 years to live with a super aggresive form of MS that would leave me parlayzed and lose cognitive function quickly. I was also told I had massive brain damage. I guess massive means different things to different people. I mentioned it to my friend who is in charge of nursing and worked in a trauma unit for years and he said when he hears that he thinks being on a ventilator. Not walking out of the office and having a normal conversation about it on the way home.

I went bike riding on my mountain bike last weekend for 4+ miles. So much for never walking again.

Long term MS remains to be seen.

Tred_sl said:

Weed bros. Weed is the answer. Stay high out of your mind and you won't care! I'm only half kidding.

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When I was first "mis" diagnosed a guy at work said "Good, you can get a medical marijuana card - except it's not legal here".

Yeah it was really great news. What a moron. Of course he also "reads" tongues (never heard of it) and a 1,000 other stupid things.

Kuriin_sl said:

Long term diagnoses are based on research -- evidence in which your specific diagnosis has occurred to other people. My mother was diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome after getting the flu vaccine and was told she would never walk again. She taught herself how to walk again.

Also know that diagnosis =! prognosis.

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I think they over use the term prognoisis is good. I was told the prognosis is good by the Dr. that told me I would never walk again.

Noodlemod_sl said:

I could go to a doctor but I've read they don't really know a lot about them, and will generally prescribe ointments and "wait it out."

Is there anything else I can do? I take pain meds when I get them because it hurts so bad, which I am hopped up on now.

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I just got over one on the inside of my cheek that persisted for about a week and a half. Probably the worst one ive ever had... my neck lymph nodes were super swollen and I couldnt move my head from side to side without pain. What really helped me was to put a chamomile tea bag on the spot and just let it sit there for as long as you can. Keeps it dry and is analgesic. repeat as needed. This helped the pain immediately and also after a few applications the whole thing got smaller. I actually fell asleep with it still in my mouth last night... woke up like WTF BLAHG.

Other than that avoiding spicy & sour stuff is good. Lysine is good too. My doc thinks they are caused by some sort of b-vitamin deficiency or some step in the methylation cycle thats fd up.

Sweet so I'm not the only one. Makes me sound like a pussy complaining about a canker when dudes are talking about cancer, but I get them so bad. The ones on my inner mouth are fine but the tongues are the worst.

I assume you use the mouth wash made for them peroxide in them? I had a whole mouth full when I had my ordeal. That stuff reall helped.

Mebbe an HIV test next time you're at the GP?

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:

Thanks, this is all good advice. To clarify I don't really fear death itself, I fear the slow torturous suffering that comes with a Cancer death. The memories of watching my mom (and the others) slowly waste away, crying in pain for weeks, listening to that hoarse rasp like death rattle with each breath they drew.. The senile ranting that comes in the final week as the morphine levels block out all rational thought.. Those visions/memories just stick with you, and I fear being that person one day-- the ranting, rasping, 80lb cancer victim that shits himself and has to be carried to the toilet..

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Some cancer is very fast. One of my Grandfathers died of Alzheimers (pneumonia, but he was long dead before that). The other died of Cancer.

Grandaddy Alzheimers lasted years. Grandaddy Cancer -- 2 weeks between, "It's cancer" and the funeral. I mean he'd had it for a while... but really only a few months. He started having trouble with his hip. But other than having trouble getting up and getting back down, he was still doing all his normal routine. Except for those last 2 weeks.

Borzak_sl said:

When I was first "mis" diagnosed a guy at work said "Good, you can get a medical marijuana card - except it's not legal here".

Yeah it was really great news. What a moron. Of course he also "reads" tongues (never heard of it) and a 1,000 other stupid things.

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Yeah I've got a couple friends that said the same. Oh shit you can smoke legally! It's like you fucking tards yeah I'm so glad I get to smoke legally because I have cancer and need chemotherapy/surgery regularly. Then they feel like assholes. Good.

Uhhh tongue reading? Do I want to even Google that? WTF is that shit?

And mouth sores are no joke man. Don't feel ashamed to sob at that pain. Obviously with chemo you run the risk of getting them and I got them AND I got butthole sores too. Those were so bad I couldn't walk and had to go to the ER on more than a couple occasions. Thankfully I was being seen at MD Anderson in Houston at the time and their ER is for MDA cancer patients only. I never had to wait. I can't imagine if I had to wait while sobbing uncontrollably because the pain is 7+ out of 10 on the scale. Sounds like bullshit but it's literally the worst pain I have ever had. Excruciating doesn't began to touch how bad the pain is from those fucking things.

His wife writes strange shit in "tongues" and he reads it and translates. Wierd shit. His wife lays on hands, which is odd because he is he sickest person and looks like death wamed over.

I feel bad for the guy because we worked together 20+years ago. He worked in the shop and had to get up on the roof one day to help fix a leak and he fell thru a skylight breaking his back. He recovered and began drawing and he's pretty damn good at it. His wife left him so he married another they got the crazies together. He's becoming a preacher and he constantly talks about getting marijuana legalized. I've told him I don't know how many times doens't matter what the state does he can't touch it in his current job and he has a VERY good job now running an engineering department.

Have you tried eating a shit load of garlic?

Tred_sl said:

Yeah I've got a couple friends that said the same. Oh shit you can smoke legally! It's like you fucking tards yeah I'm so glad I get to smoke legally because I have cancer and need chemotherapy/surgery regularly. Then they feel like assholes. Good.

Uhhh tongue reading? Do I want to even Google that? WTF is that shit?

And mouth sores are no joke man. Don't feel ashamed to sob at that pain. Obviously with chemo you run the risk of getting them and I got them AND I got butthole sores too. Those were so bad I couldn't walk and had to go to the ER on more than a couple occasions. Thankfully I was being seen at MD Anderson in Houston at the time and their ER is for MDA cancer patients only. I never had to wait. I can't imagine if I had to wait while sobbing uncontrollably because the pain is 7+ out of 10 on the scale. Sounds like bullshit but it's literally the worst pain I have ever had. Excruciating doesn't began to touch how bad the pain is from those fucking things.

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I like that logo.

Vanderhoof_sl said:

Have you tried eating a shit load of garlic?

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Also need special shower filters.

Screw you guys. I'm going to live forever.

So the perineum abscess/boil I had drained a couple weeks ago I don't feel has healed fully/properly. There's still fluid building up that drains from where they made the incision and earlier today when I put a little pressure on it it definitely drained out my butthole. It wasn't puss, it was clear/pinkish. Which I know is at least a good sign that it's not infected but the fact that it drained that way has me fucking terrified. I made an appointment with a surgeon for Thursday to get it checked out. I hope it's not too serious. Fuck. :\