Posts by vividsailor7

Austin Jackson55 said:MPV 6.23 (6.8 - 10.4)
Calcium, total 2.60 (2.14 - 2.53)
Bilirubin, total 22.9 (3 - 20)
Alkaline phosphatase 43 (60 - 142)
Creatinine clearance 89.1 (90 - 138)

24-hour urine volume is 3600 mL

Parathyroid hormone results:
PTH INTACT 7.3 (1.0 - 6.0)

Since I moved far away for work about ten days ago, I haven't had a chance to just drop by and see my doctor. It’s actually been a huge struggle to get these tests done because of how much work I have on my plate and my schedule. Do these results require more immediate attention?

Thanks, and wishing everyone great health in the New Year!

This isn't an "emergency room right now" situation, but you absolutely cannot afford to ignore it. You need to follow up.

Beyond seeing a nephrologist, you need to get an ultrasound of your thyroid and parotid glands. Based on those results, you might need an endocrinology consult. You also need to repeat these labs, along with checking Calcium and Phosphorus in a 24-hour urine sample, Calcium +++, and so on.

Terry Fisher2 said:I've got a ragweed allergy, but lately, I’ve been dealing with this classic stuffed-up nose situation. It’s weird—when I sleep on one side, the opposite nostril stays clear, but as soon as I roll over, that one clogs up and the other opens. Honestly, I don't have much else going on, like itchy eyes or sneezing, though I do have to blow my nose constantly. Feels like a minor cold, but definitely nothing as intense as it gets at the end of summer.

Usually, during the winter, I get something similar for a couple of days, but never quite like this. I checked my pollen forecast and there's absolutely nothing scheduled for late December or early January, so... wtf?

It's probably just a dust mite allergy.

Laura Gray50 said:Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and wanted to pick your brains on a few things.
I’ve been dealing with this esophageal issue for a couple of years now. I have significant trouble swallowing—whether it’s solid food or something softer—and I can’t even manage to drink water normally. Once I hit a certain number of bites, everything seems to "pile up," triggering an intense spasm. I get this sharp pain in my chest, and my immediate fix is to chug three or four glasses of water as fast as possible just to force everything down. Once that happens, the discomfort finally subsides. I was wondering if there is anything specific you all would recommend trying, or if I should just go straight to a specialist. Thanks in advance.

Are you experiencing any other symptoms?
Listen, you need to contact your primary care doctor immediately. Get your blood work done and based on those clinical indicators, schedule a GI specialist for an evaluation.

Linda Smith69 said:He was born at 38 weeks (about 7.7 lbs / 20.8 inches) and just had a brief bout of physiological jaundice. Other than that, he’s been a healthy little guy. His appetite is great and his weight gain is right on track. The only thing is, he snores at night like a grown man! I brought it up with the pediatrician, but she just brushed it off, saying it's totally normal for infants 🤷.
One more thing... whenever he gets really excited and starts laughing, he breaks out into hiccups. Again, the pediatrician didn't see any connection there, but maybe it actually matters 🤷.

Full blood work results...

The labs suggest it might just be a minor viral infection. Otherwise, everything looks clean. See an ENT.

Matthew Harris22 said:I’ve been perfecting my own herbal remedy for hemorrhoid relief for decades now. After jumping through all the necessary regulatory hoops for over a year, I finally managed to get the product officially registered for sale within the European Union. So, either bring some actual facts to the table, or stop posting those mindless comments claiming alternative medicine lacks legal standing or effectiveness compared to mainstream medicine.

This is the Health subforum; please move these kinds of discussions over to Alternative Medicine.
Take a look at Rule #8 for the Health subforum.

Chloe Hughes2 said:I’ve mostly just been doing casual finger-stick tests, like checking my blood sugar on a whim. I'm going to dig through my medical records, but what specific markers should I be looking for?
As far as I know, there isn't much of a history of lung disease in my family, and I'm not entirely sure which conditions fall under hematology—if I understood correctly, things like anemia and such—but there hasn't been anything like that either. I do deal with varicose veins myself (on one leg, for about 20 years), and it runs in my family too, if that even counts as a hematological issue.

It definitely isn't dehydration; I make sure to drink plenty of fluids, mostly just water and tea.

You really ought to get a standard CBC, fibrinogen, and a lipid panel done.
Though, if you ask me, I bet they won't find much of anything.
Check for erythrocyte or platelet disorders.

Donna Johnson39 said:Hi everyone,

Look, once someone posts on this board, you already know things aren't going great...
I’m looking for some insight regarding liver tumors. My father-in-law was just diagnosed with a liver tumor and massive metastases (two are 12cm, one is 6cm). He was at the Mayo Clinic yesterday for surgery. They opened him up, realized they couldn't do anything, and closed him back up... It's inoperable. Now they're sending him home to start radiation. Apparently, he’ll do four sessions and then they’ll reassess. They didn't see any metastases in other organs yet, but according to their experience, a tumor that size has almost certainly spread elsewhere by now.
Does anyone have experience knowing how much time is left before things reach the terminal stage? Should we go through with the radiation or not? I’m fully aware that chemotherapy just wrecks everything—the good and the bad—inside a person.
On top of all this, he has venous thrombosis, so personally, I feel like treatment might just make an already terrible situation even worse. Of course, the final call is his. I just need to know if anyone knows what we should be expecting, because it looks like recovery isn't even on the table here...

Please list his age, any other diagnoses, the pathology report results if you have them, and all the medications he's currently taking.

Chloe Hughes2 said:What actually causes increased blood viscosity? For as long as I can remember, my blood has always felt thick; whenever I’ve had to do a finger prick for testing, medical staff have always made a point of commenting on how dense it seems.

The only real symptom I’ve noticed is that building up cardiovascular endurance feels like an uphill battle, and I tend to lose whatever progress I make quite rapidly (even though I stay active with regular recreational sports).

Any thoughts or ideas?

And there you have it—the blood work results.
Any history of lung or blood diseases in the family?

Chloe Garcia10 said:I caught a nasty bug last Friday. My nose is completely stuffed up—I can barely breathe through it. Then I woke up yesterday with my mouth feeling bone-dry.
Anyway, I got hit with this brutal dizzy spell while I was at work yesterday.
Has anyone else dealt with this when you're coming down with a cold or some kind of virus?
I’m guessing it’s because my nose is clogged, sometimes my ears feel blocked too, and I’ve already got some issues with my cervical spine.
It’s such a disgusting feeling!
Then last night, my heart started pounding so loud in my chest. It wasn't even racing super fast, just heavy, but I was so freaked out I couldn't sleep.

Today feels like a bit of a chill in the air.

Are all these things actually possible symptoms of a common cold or a virus?

Yes.

Dana Cook36 said:Hey everyone.

I hope it’s alright that I started this thread; I couldn't find a general discussion area or anything similar to post this in.

So, here’s the deal. It all kicked off on Christmas Day. Everything seemed fine during the day, but by the evening, I became "hypersensitive." Honestly, it’s hard to describe—it feels like I can feel every single individual cell on my skin. It’s incredibly intense and just plain weird. This has happened to me before, but usually, it clears up by the next morning. This time, though, things are different. Tomorrow, I’ll have had a swollen lymph node under my jaw (only on the left side) for a day, I’ve developed these itchy, stinging sores on my tongue, and I’m running a fever of 101°F.

I’ve got a headache and I’ve been feeling pretty wiped out for three days now. That’s basically the whole list of symptoms. At first, I figured my immune system was just dipping and it would pass, but there's no sign of improvement. I'm starting to worry—could this be mono or mumps!?

Look, I hate going to the doctor, so I'm throwing this question out here just to hopefully ease my mind a bit.

Thanks.

Whatever it is, there's some kind of inflammation going on in your body.
Go see your doctor immediately.

Karen Garcia6 said:I am officially done with aerosol deodorants. Ever since I switched, I've been dealing with constant redness and itching. Has anyone else dealt with this nightmare? How did you fix it?
I've tried a few different remedies, but honestly, nothing seems to be working yet.

Your best bet is to go with heavy, fragrance-free moisturizing creams.

Maria Gomez77 said:thanks so much

Don't mention it. Happy to help anytime.

Jerry Williams5 said:So, he’s telling me this... he’s just taking Atorix for his cholesterol (20mg) and some Claritin (5 mg)
All of it, just once a day...

And you tell me how that looks...

She might want to try Claritin 2,5/12,5 mg.
And honestly, we really need to figure out what's actually causing those edemas—whether it's something cardiac, renal, circulatory...

Maria Gomez77 said:thanks for the reply.
What do you all think regarding his test results? If he actually refuses surgery and insists on just radiation therapy, how fast could this disease progress?

He’s generally quite active, but he completely ignores everything his cardiologist tells him about diet—he just keeps eating heavy, greasy food. On top of that, he is absolutely terrified of hospitals.
(The moment he saw "Inpatient Treatment" written on his biopsy referral, he snapped and said he was done with everything and wasn't going.)
It was a massive struggle just to convince him that he'd be able to head home the very same day.
Honestly, I'm starting to feel like the diagnosis itself is secondary; the real battle is going to be trying to get some discipline out of him. But, like Angela Wright said, we have to give him the space to make his own calls. At the end of the day, it’s his life and his health.

1. How fast? That's a tough call, but if he walks away from surgery, the prognosis isn't looking great.
2. All those medications—especially his blood pressure meds and statins—are basically useless if he won't stick to a proper diet.
But look, he has the right to decide what happens to his own body. You can't force someone into treatment if they aren't willing.

Maria Gomez77 said:you're absolutely right, he has to be the one to decide what's ultimately best for him
When we told him last night that he shouldn't rule out surgery as an option until he actually sits down and talks to his doctors, he snapped at us! He acted like we were just trying to get rid of him or something. Honestly, I was so fed up that I just gave up on the whole discussion right then and there.
I think it’s all still just too raw for him. Maybe in a few days, he'll approach this with a clearer head—at least, that's what I'm praying for.

vividsailor7, cheers.

He's dealing with angina pectoris and his current meds include ISMN Jadran 20 (taken several times a day), Aspirin, Carvetrend, Lipex, and Lacipil.

Pending a prior consultation with a cardiologist—and since I don't have a full picture of his medical history or the ability to perform an exam—I can say that this shouldn't impact the decision regarding a potential surgical procedure, though there might be slightly elevated risks.

Maria Gomez77 said:Unfortunately, here I am, joining this thread too.
It’s about a family member (my father-in-law) who just got his results back today. He is absolutely spiraling. He is flat-out refusing any thought of surgery because he’s a heart patient, and he’s convinced he’ll just drop dead on the operating table. (Look, he’s a notoriously difficult man to deal with, but that’s a whole other conversation for another day.)
He mentioned that the doctor brought up surgery and radiation, but before anything happens, he needs to get clearance from his cardiologist.

So, I was hoping someone could help me make sense of these results and explain just how serious this situation is.
(Sorry if I’m in the wrong place!)

D: Prostate adenocarcinoma
Six fragmented tissue cores ranging from 0.5 to 1.2 cm in length.
Histologically, this is prostate tissue where four of the cores show infiltration by a tumor composed of small, irregular glandular formations lined with atypical cuboidal epithelial cells featuring prominent nucleoli.
The tumorous glands are confluent.
In one of the cores, there is also evidence of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia.
In the remaining two cores, sparse prostatic glands lined by epithelium without atypia are found within the fibromuscular stroma, with the basal cell layer remaining intact.

Six fragmented tissue cores ranging from 0.6 to 1.2 cm in length.
Histologically, this is prostate tissue where sparse to moderately numerous prostatic glands, lined by epithelium without atypia and with an intact basal cell layer, are found within the fibromuscular stroma.

The findings in the material under D correspond to a Gleason score 7 (3+4) prostate adenocarcinoma.
The tumor tissue occupies between 10% and 80% of the positive cores.

What are his other diagnoses, and what medications is he currently taking?

Jerry Williams5 said:1. Seventh Bank, or whatever the hell it’s called—honestly, I can’t even remember the name right now (which is pretty pathetic, I know!!)—but she’s taking quite a bit of it...
She told me she’s genuinely worried about her fat levels spiking in her blood or some other nonsense related to that...
The doctor wrote her a prescription for... 😁

I followed her instructions and went ahead and peed, just like she told me to... :/

Look, I can't give you a straight answer without knowing the rest of her diagnoses or at least what other meds are in that mix.
From what I can tell, her metabolic health isn't exactly where it should be.

Jerry Williams5 said:I’ve got this lady in my life who’s been struggling quite a bit with fluid retention...
And since you can find just about anything on the internet these days, she’s gone down a rabbit hole trying to figure things out...

Basically, she was previously taking some kind of diuretic, though she was only ever taking half a pill at a time. But now that the specific brand she used isn't available anymore, her doctor switched her over to Huggins.
The whole issue is that Huggins seems to come with a massive list of contraindications, and honestly, she’s getting pretty spooked by all the warnings and is avoiding taking it altogether.
She's wondering if there's anything else out there that works similarly but doesn't carry such a heavy baggage of side effects or precautions?

Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone!! 🙂

1. Okay, what about her other diagnoses? What other medications is she on???
What "contraindications" are we even talking about? If it were truly dangerous, nobody would be prescribing it in the first place.
Who exactly is claiming it has these issues?
And who is the doctor that actually put her on this regimen?
If she’s struggling with edema, half a pill of Tertensif isn't going to do much anyway, and besides, that isn't even the only drug containing indapamide.
There are a lot of holes in this story.

Kimberly White63 said:Does anyone know what I’m supposed to enter in the insured person's ID field on the travel voucher?

Look, the ID number for the insured person is right there on their health insurance card.

hollowcanyon56 said:That was me, and I honestly thought they might handle payments there...

Holy Spirit is a bit too far out of my way in this city.

I’m guessing they don't offer that kind of service over at Mirogoj 8? Like at the Mayo Clinic''Dr. Fran Mihaljević''
That would be incredibly convenient for me.

What about the facility on Petrov? Or the one over at Šalat? 😁

I think you can do it at Zarazan.