Health Problems

Damn Brutul. You rattled your noggin pretty good. You can get concussions without them hurting. Your brain rests in a layer of fluid and connective tissues, it's not meat on bone. Your body oils itself. You don't have to get a crack in your skull. Just violent motion can slosh it around. You can even bruise your brain if it's violent enough. It's a concussive injury -- a concussion.

You probably would have stayed out in that field for hours, lookin for the cows. Or if you'd managed to pen them you probably woulda just sat down.

And Borzak, I wish I had some practical advice. You shouldn't be going through what they're putting you through. And damn, it DOES sound like scurvy.

I've always been regular with glorious and enviable poops.
Lately I haven't had anything big in weeks, it's like they're all cut in half like filleted hotdogs or solitary plippits.
Worse is that I fart often and its tough to stop them. It was funny at first because they usually have character, but I like being in control.
Worse is that I now frequently have the sensation to go.

You sound constipated. Try some metamucil or stool softener or both. When I'm constipated I fart like crazy and then I run out of gas and I'm stuck with shit I can't shit. It suuuuucks.

The last two mornings I've been woken up with a heart rate of 135. I went to a cardiologist last year when I first started with ADEM and they thought it might be a stroke. He ran all kinds of test and said I was fine. Did the sonogram thing on my neck and the blockage was 6% which he said was excellent for someone my age. Shit is getting old. Every day a new thing falls apart.

No. I just woke up and checked it. It's come down now to 80.

It's pretty low while sitting/laying down. Just checked it sitting down it was 115/60 and the few times I've checked it standing up it's not much higher. I checked it this morning standing up while talking to someone and it was like 125/75 or something close to it. My blood pressure has normally been on the low side sometimes down aroudn 105 over whatever.

Cad is just chill as fuck with money bags under each arm

I knew a woman that had absurdly low BP. I mean absurdly low, and it was just normal for her. She was a friend of a friend. They'd bring her into CNA courses sometimes as a ringer to try to stump the students and make sure they ACTUALLY knew how to take BP's.

There is a lot of variance person to person.

41 is yeah.. either you're medicated as fuck, you're about to die, or you hit the gym daily. It's weird how that one metric can indicate either very good health or very poor health if that's all you look at. Well, not weird I guess. That's why you rely on more than a single metric.

Mine used to be really low. Like 95/50. I eventually outgrew it. In my teens I had to be careful standing up sometimes. Cardiologist said I would grow out of it and it improved. My heart rate has always been on the higher end but the cardiologist said it wasn't high enough for medication. I'm pretty active, not really a couch potato type normally.

BrutulTM_sl said:

Had a CAT scan and ruled out a tumor/stroke/brain bleed (so I was told, have no memory of that either). Later my brother went out where I was chasing cows and found a rock with 4-wheeler tracks leading up to it that was flipped out of the ground and there were various items that had been on my 4-wheeler scattered around it so apparently I hit a rock, flew off the ATV and landed on my head, and then got back on and rode it home despite the fact that I had no idea WTF was going on. I was lucky those guys were there because who knows where I would have gone if I was out there by myself.

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Dude wear a helmet is all I have to say.

Speaking of vehicular accidents, I had a low side crash while on my brothers dirtbike. Panicked in a turn and hit the breaks, thing slid under me and down I went with the bike landing on top of my left leg. Ended up in urgent care but idiot doctor with 3rd world degree didn't see anything. Initially he didn't want to do the xrays until i insisted. I go home with just a codeine rx. Get a call the next day from the urgent care department telling me that the radiologist and generalist took a second look at my xrays and saw a possible fracture. Pretty sure the first doctor is doing his internship, as he didn't seem at all confident or knowledgeable, and the other doctors are checking his work. Now i got to wait a week and a half to see the ortho. Went out and got some crutches.

A good friend of mine works in upper management at the hospital that lost all my stuff. We talked about it and he had a Dr. call me yesterday and we talked for quite a while. Free "house" call on a Saturday.

He had an entirely different theory which would sort of explain the multitude of symptoms that change almost daily, here today - gone tomorrow and vice versa.

I've been tested for several vitamin deficiencies and except for vitamin D it always comes up low.

He seemed to think it may be not absorbing the vitamins in the first place and it also explains the stomach issues and several other things. He had me drink a full glass of water with 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in it and time how long it took me to burp. I still hadn't burped when he said start timing. He said most people should burp (quite a bit) in the first 2-3 minutes and on the outside 5 minutes. I didn't burp in the first 15 minuts when I stopped looking at the clock.

He seemed to think it could be low stomach acid which oddly enough can cause bloating and acid refux (seems backward but whatever) and a deficiency in zinc, B12, iron, calcium and magnesium. I had aleady been tested and on extra B12 and magnesium.

All the other doctors wanted to see the stomach issue as related to possible MS (they call it the MS hug) and never really looked at the stomach itself. Many of my issues heavily lean toward B12 deficiency. He said I could have been low for a long time and then having multipe mass corticsteroid infusions (every time I complained they just gave me more infusions, starting at 5 days of 1000mg and then some more 1 time infuesions) made the stomach acid issue worse. Not to mention that much steroids can leach out your vitamins he said on some scale.

Seems like an outside shot but I'll try anything. He told me to pick up some HCL, take water with lemon 30 minutes before a meal and get a test where they put a sensor down your stomach and record the Ph while having you drink certain stuff over time.

We'll see, as I have said for a long time I got pretty much over the ADEM and havne't had any leftovers of that since I had it. Once they started giving me steroids I'm good for a week or so then it just gets worse than before I had the steroids.

Yeah, steroids aren't a sustainable treatment except when there is absolutely no other treatment. And even then they're not great, they're jsut better than the alternative.

This is the second suspicion of pernicious anemia / malabsorption that you've had isn't it? Hopefully they're onto something... because the MS diagnosis doesn't quite seem to fit. And it -would- explain your fuckin' scurvy.

In slightly less weighty news-- I thought I developed my first hemorrhoid the other day and I was completely perplexed, as well as uncomfortable. Turns out that I just had a zit almost right on my butthole. What a strange experience.

Glad you got your hemorrhoids figured out....Not sure if I should ask who looked.

Yeah if you look up magnesium deficiency and B12 deficiency and add them together that's basically what I have. If you look up low stomach acid it kind of fits into that as well.

The symptoms I have also go with MS to some degree but they don't normally come on that quickly, and then lesson or disappear.

Hope this works out. Before I got shingles and the ADEM one thing someone said that spends a lot of time with is "You say you're tired a lot".

Too bad steroids have such bad drawbacks. The week or two after I had 1000mg of it a day for a week I was super man, run a marathon today and another one tomorrow? Sure. Then the crash came lol. I didn't want to move and by not move I mean I didn't even want to roll over in bed.

Zit on your butthole? That sounds like it could be incredibly painful. Yikes.