anyone know about medical stuff?

[raggie33]

its ok freind i thought it was funny

 

[raggie33]

did i tell ya all the guy who started all this i saw at walmart turns out he wasnt a scammer at all my bp was to high. turns out he is anice guy. and im starting to feel a bit better still dizzy but i feel a bit more lucid if i was eevr lucid lol

 

[raggie33]

btw it started i guess over a year ago. i quit all meds dumb idea hhindsite is always 20/30 as they say well i been feeling bad for a while i told a few around here trying to find a local doc well then a bit back they had the hoa meeting where local ems guys was so they said i should get checked . im like nah. but it was free so they check my bp first then the fun starrted they wanted to rush me to the er. im like screw that like a i need a new bill. so we go back and forth they said if i dont go to er maybe next time they see me i wont have a choice im like screw this i just went home but around 3 am sunday i guess a month ago i said hey ill go to er i think i posted a pic here on the forum well bp was still crazy high. .i forget most days but the moral of my story if they ask ya to go to er ya should go unless its a weirdo at arbys then dont listen to her or him

 

[xxo]

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[raggie33]

not well enough yet somedays i cant even leave my room to eat then somedays im a bit better

 

[knucklegary]

Dogs are wonderful keeping folks grounded. However, probably not the best for Raggie, right now. Besides dogs and snakes usually don't mix well together.

 

[raggie33]

id love to at least make freinds with a stray cat i figure i cant make there life worse lol

 

[knucklegary]

This is closest I could get to my stray feral cat. She was pitch black with yellow eyes..

People dump their pet cats off at the beach bluff. This one had a red collar that needed removing, looked too tight. Could never get that close to her to take it off. I feed her kippers and fresh water. She lived in vacant lot next to my house. I liked having her around, she kept rodents out of my wood pile.

According to one of my jerk neighbors her carcass was found still wearing the red collar. A coyote killed her. The a** hole seem to get satisfaction telling me the bad news. The guy is on my ignore list.

Black cats get a bad rap..

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

not well enough yet somedays i cant even leave my room to eat then somedays im a bit better

Try some ginseng. It's an adrenal adaptatogen. No side effects. You can get it in stores over the counter. It will boost your energy and help your adrenal glands deal with your thyroid issues a little better. DHEA would be best in addition (it's a stress hormone that will let your adrenals take it easier), but if you don't know when to stop, it's best to stick with the ginseng. DHEA helps your body process wastes so without testing, it's easiest to determine when to stop when it changes your bowel movements. When you start having diarrhea, it's time to stop taking it. If you take way too much, it can convert to estrogen instead of testosterone. Best to start with the ginseng and see if it helps. I preferred Vitacost Ginseng Extract Complex. It was 900 mg of a combination of four types of ginseng for a two pill per day serving. One pill per day is plenty (450 mg). It's at Vitacost.com. They are $16.99 for 240 pills. Get 2 or buy something else Vitacost brand to get free shipping over $25. Most pills are only 100 mg with panex ginseng. That website is the best place to get all your pills cheap, including the L Glutathione if you find out you do have Hashimotos.

 

[electrolyte]

Next time, do your homework before you criticize someone who has been living with Hashimotos since 2017 a... turn on the autoimmune process in a person with the right genetic predisposition and intestinal permeability.

You've had Hashimoto's since 2017? Sorry about that. Please continue to follow professional advice about how to deal with it.

7 years since you first learned what a thyroid does, what T3 and T4 are…? That makes you a newbie. Although the closest I ever worked to endocrinology was nuclear receptors, much earlier I took an elective endocrinology class ca. 1980. It was fun, mostly because the lecturer was very good. As I wrote, the misinformation that you have in your prose makes everything suspect even though there may be good advice in there somewhere. Again, as an example, "Antibodies turn iodine into more antibodies " is simply not true. It demonstrates that, without a doubt, that you do not understand what you are writing about.

I am sorry that I don't have time to point out every mistake in your writing and every misfire in logic. The fact is, it is much easier to string together misleading statements than to critique them. Here are, however, a few more examples.

This is also not true "…the thyroid doesn't distinguish between iodine, fluorine, chlorine, and bromine very well. It will take these other chemicals in in place of iodine…."

In fact, thyroid very effectively discriminates between iodine and the other halides. According to the best available information, only fluorine has potential for disrupting thyroid function by competing with iodine and then only if the fluoride is ingested in amounts not easily met in a natural diet (meaning not taking supplements) while simultaneously iodine deficient.

Citric Acid is not vitamin C. The former is a tricarboxylic acid (three ionizable hydrogens in one molecule) and might be called linear as compared to ascorbic acid (vitamin C) which has a lactone ring and one ionizable hydrogen.

Celiac disease leads to general malabsorption not the other way around as you indicated: "it can't absorb vitamins and minerals leading to celiac disease".

https://microbenotes.com/krebs-cycle/ - krebs-cycle-song

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

First of all, living seven years with a disease that can kill you if not diagnosed and treated in time does not make me a newbie. I don't just have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Add on celiac disease, Crohn's disease (still in process of getting diagnosed), Hashimotos Encephalopathy (also still in process of getting diagnosed), damage to spine in three locations, GERD caused by diaphragmatic hernia, a stress linked movement disorder, vitamin B2 deficiency, tinnitus in ears, and floaters in eye. Also had H. Pylori infection while developing celiac disease.

Try driving with a movement disorder that makes your arm smack you in the crotch or steer you into other cars, seeing with things that look like black spots and worms floating around your eye, and tinnitus making any noise give you a headache, while neuropathy pain causes random shooting or stabbing pain in the arms and legs, and having severe intestinal pain. It's a miracle I'm still alive, and it's not because of competent doctors.

Doctors are idiots. They focus on only one aspect of the body and kick the can to the next doctor. I had to put the pieces together myself. I had to discover my diagnosis myself and treat over the counter after an emergency room visit. I had to figure out that high ALT meant too much glutamate was getting to the glutamate nerve receptors causing my movement disorder and treating with GABA shut of the movement disorder like a light switch. But Hashimotos Encephalopathy is steroid responsive, it responds to cortisol (stress hormone). The adrenals prioritize cortisol over other hormone production during times of duress. Corticosteroids aren't over the counter. DHEA is. Took that. After two months after emergency room visit where I could not pass food through intestines at the start, my gut was mostly healed as shown on colonoscopy. Crohn's is also treated with corticosteroids. DHEA naturally increased cortisol production to fight both diseases.

My first endocrinologist told me I was just fat. The second quit after she couldn't figure out why I had high blood and urinary cortisol, but a dexamethazone suppression test was normal. Hashimotos Encephalopathy responds to dexamethazone (a corticosteroid). M.R.I.s showed no tumors. Paraneoplastic syndrome labs were clean except showing other antibodies not tested being present. Had damage to spine behind the windpipe from slipped disks pressing into spinal column. Wasn't hit in the throat. Fired last gastroenterologist after two years of dumping prescriptions on primary, only letting me see a nurse practitioner, and cancelling the last scan needed for diagnosis (just ordered by doctor at last visit). Also spent four years trying to get the right image M.R.I. of abdomen and pelvis. If you have a gastroenterologist ordering a M.R.I. of just the abdomen, they are an idiot or think you are one. That scan only does organs up higher, none of the intestines. Before first M.R.I., I was in a lot of pain. Tested borderline for Crohn's. Lab results said to retest in 4-6 weeks in that case. They never did. They did an M.R.I., then an ultrasound of the abdomen only. After telling me "they don't scan that area in men" for where the pain was, I tested for Klinefelter syndrome. At that time, they tried to wiesel out of doing a C.T. of abdomen and pelvis. I told them if my test came back positive, I'd file suit for denial of service. They caved. Test wasn't detailed enough w/o contrast. I'm allergic to iodine dye. Had to finally get a M.R.I. of abdomen and pelvis. Gastroenterologist would only do abdomen, after lying and saying they'd do right scan. Took it to primary to get right scan. After approval, lab tech illegally changed doctor order to make it abdomen only. Ratted them out to the insurance company, then told them they had already broken the law and it was on record. Then they got the order changed back.
I am not just a patient. I have had to be my own doctor when mine are still scratching their heads, I have had to advocate for my treatments and scans so I don't get taken advantage of, and I have had to be my own lawyer through the disability process.

 

[raggie33]

i cant ready long post i try i really do. but my mind just wanders

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Sorry, I rant a bit when someone calls me a newbie for dealing with and having to study up on medical issues just in order to stay alive almost as long as it takes a doctor to get a PHD. I'm dealing with a rare disease, Hashimotos Encephalopathy. It's likely rare because almost all of the patients die before the doctors figure out what it is. I've had to treat myself over the counter and figure out the diagnosis while waiting for doctors to figure out what to do.

 

[raggie33]

its all me i have zero attn span lol my mind wander and wanders

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Just think of me trying to drive with one arm that has a mind of it's own, laugh, and pray you aren't on the same road when that arm has the wheel and wants to "recalculate" the route or pick a fight with me.

Or the cast iron stove twerking incident:
My brother had me help him tip a cast iron stove up on two legs so he could run water through a hose with it to clean it out. Well, as soon as he let go of the stove to have me balance it on my own, the movement disorder started in my right arm. It spread to my shoulder and then Chorea began in my midsection causing a horizontal figure 8 movement. Bent over holding the stove, the movement transferred to my butt and I basically started twerking perfectly and strong uncontrollably for about 30 seconds with my nephew laughing his a$$ off the entire time. I had to hang on to the stove and keep it balanced for dear life because it was the only thing holding me up and if I let go and fell, the stove might have fallen on top of me. I don't help clean out cast iron stoves anymore. It's too embarrassing.

 

[electrolyte]

Doctors are idiots.

Um, I'd say that some doctors are idiots. I might even say that most of them are useless. The practice of medicine has changed a lot in a couple of decades and I think it has been at the expense of rewarding hard-working people that care about the patients. The entire medical industry needs to be scrapped and replaced by something that is purpose-planned instead of continuing with our behemoth that evolved pretty willy nilly and benefits mostly neither the patients nor physicians.

I recommend that you, and anyone else that has health problems or is helping others deal with health problems (and that is basically everyone) get this book and read it. I'll spoil it a little by giving you some of the take-home messages. First, don't forget that doctors are human with all the human weaknesses. One manifestation of this is that they like to work on things that they can fix. If they can't fix you, you may get dropped in favor of problems that they can fix and feel good about. Nobody enjoys failing day after day after..... Second, the most important question a patient needs to as them is often "what else can it be?

How Doctors Think
Groopman, Jerome

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Second, the most important question a patient needs to as them is often "what else can it be?

I think I'm past that point. Everything else under the sun has been ruled out. I can feel my adrenals at night pumping out cortisol and pouring it on my spine. I can feel the disease trying to spread out from the spine but the Gabapentin (now a prescription as I got one doctor on board with the diagnosis) is bottling it up and keeping it from spreading. Disease damages nerve receptors killing nerves to muscle causing muscle atrophy, movement disorder as glutamate receptor nerves are dying, as well as motility issues in gut, and legs giving out from damage to GABA nerve receptors. Seems to feed (in a way, it responds to, cortisol) on cortisol, causing pain to increase for disease to get stronger with peripheral neuropathy pain (feels like being stabbed or shot), stress from movement disorder, tension headaches, and gut pain from Crohn's. The more stress I'm under, the worse the pain gets. Makes working impossible. Still trying to convince disability judge of that fact. High cortisol has rounded my face, made me sterile while still producing normal testosterone levels (low FSH, normal LH), made me grow breasts, and feminize my body from high conversion rate of cortisol to estrogen. It's like having Cushing's disease without the need for a tumor. Hard for doctors to diagnose Cushing's with no tumor, and the only type of encephalopathy that after it causes damage to the spine or brain from the swelled tissue, cortisol floods the area and brings down the swelling before it can be seen on an M.R.I. making a diagnosis difficult. The disease hides it's tracks, but the high ALT/SGPT, positive response to GABA and DHEA, damage to cervical spine behind windpipe with all other causes ruled out (not tumor, not Kennedy's disease, couldn't be trauma), and a movement disorder that gets worse with stress and at night (when cortisol gets used up or is low) point to only one possibility. Hashimotos Encephalopathy/ Steroid Responsive Encephalopathy associated with autoimmune Thyroiditis (SREAT).

 

[knucklegary]

I think I'm past that point. Everything else under the sun has been ruled out. I can feel my adrenals at night pumping out cortisol and pouring it on my spine. I can feel the disease trying to spread out from the spine but the Gabapentin (now a prescription as I got one doctor on board with the diagnosis) is bottling it up and keeping it from spreading. Disease damages nerve receptors killing nerves to muscle causing muscle atrophy, movement disorder as glutamate receptor nerves are dying, as well as motility issues in gut, and legs giving out from damage to GABA nerve receptors. Seems to feed (in a way, it responds to, cortisol) on cortisol, causing pain to increase for disease to get stronger with peripheral neuropathy pain (feels like being stabbed or shot), stress from movement disorder, tension headaches, and gut pain from Crohn's. The more stress I'm under, the worse the pain gets. Makes working impossible. Still trying to convince disability judge of that fact. High cortisol has rounded my face, made me sterile while still producing normal testosterone levels (low FSH, normal LH), made me grow breasts, and feminize my body from high conversion rate of cortisol to estrogen. It's like having Cushing's disease without the need for a tumor. Hard for doctors to diagnose Cushing's with no tumor, and the only type of encephalopathy that after it causes damage to the spine or brain from the swelled tissue, cortisol floods the area and brings down the swelling before it can be seen on an M.R.I. making a diagnosis difficult. The disease hides it's tracks, but the high ALT/SGPT, positive response to GABA and DHEA, damage to cervical spine behind windpipe with all other causes ruled out (not tumor, not Kennedy's disease, couldn't be trauma), and a movement disorder that gets worse with stress and at night (when cortisol gets used up or is low) point to only one possibility. Hashimotos Encephalopathy/ Steroid Responsive Encephalopathy associated with autoimmune Thyroiditis (SREAT).

Look on the bright side, now you can compete in woman's division of mixed martial arts

 

[bykfixer]

ok just checked bp i havent started new meds yet im waiting to the morning it was 148 over 88

148/88 isn't that bad.
Are your feet flat on the floor when you take a reading.
Is your arm about level with your heart and resting on something like the arm of a chair?
Did you sit still for a minute or two before checking your bp?

The answer should be yes to all three for best results.

 

[raggie33]

yes btw is it ok if i try to medicate to lower it while testing or will that be a fake result. when i was in er the machine kept checking it like every 15 minutes i was there so long i started to kind of think it as a game trying to get lower and lower so i could go home lol. so i try that now