Posts by Aaron Sanchez12

Hey everyone,
I was hoping someone could help me make sense of these lab results I got a few days ago...

Non-HDL cholesterol (calculated) (s) 4.0 H
Alpha-fetoprotein (s) 7.3 H
HOMA-IR (s) 2.7 H
eGFR CKD-EPI 78 L
ALP (s) 57 L
GGT (s) 96 H
Cholesterol (s) 5.8 H

I'm 55 years old, 5'11", about 176 lbs, dealing with arrhythmias despite having had a couple of ablations already, and currently taking Ryhtmonorm and Concor...

Should I be sweating these markers at all?

thanks in advance...

velvetmoose9 said:The situation described needs an urgent doctor's consult right now... 🧐

First things first, you gotta rule out meningitis, and if that's actually what it is, they need to start aggressive treatment immediately.
They also need to check the wound locally, maybe run some imaging, and there might even be a need for revision if there's any pathological substrate involved.

Pneumonia and UTIs are pretty standard complications after procedures like this in people that age, so that could definitely be causing what's going on.

It's virus season, so who knows, maybe they just picked up some nasty bug... 🤷

Then again, it doesn't even have to be infectious—if the guy's been drinking regularly, this whole thing could just be delirium.

Sometimes anesthesia itself just throws everything into total chaos... 🤷

A patient this sick absolutely needs immediate, careful attention.
There's just too much ☕

Thanks a lot, but he's never been a drinker, just the occasional drink here and there...

velvetmoose9 said:What you’re describing is actually super common.
The whole anesthesia process isn't exactly harmless, but honestly, modern medicine would pretty much fall apart without it.

It’s a good sign that he’s mostly oriented during the day 👍, which usually means things will probably settle down once he’s back home on "familiar ground" and gets his bearings...

Nighttime is the real killer, though—that disorientation (especially in a hospital setting when you’re hooked up to all sorts of tubes and bandages 😵 ) hits way harder, particularly with older folks...

In cases like this, Haloperidol is basically the gold standard 🙏

EDIT: Just noticed he’s a smoker, which definitely doesn't help the situation at all...

I'm desperate for some advice or help here... my father-in-law is 83, had spinal surgery 10 days ago, and even though he was discharged after 6 days, he’s been in a constant state of delirium ever since. It's day and night—he’s wandering, shouting, talking nonsense, calling out for people, and won't even recognize us... he even gets aggressive sometimes. He was totally sharp and fine before the procedure, no mental issues whatsoever. We’ve talked to the surgeon and his primary doctor, and everyone says this can last 7 to 8 days, especially in older patients, but it’s been 10 days now and nothing has changed. On top of that, he ran a fever, so his doctor put him on antibiotics. What could have happened to a healthy, clear-headed man's brain, what can we actually do, will this pass, are there any medications, and what kind of long-term effects are we looking at...

I remember some old fisherman telling me once that if you get stung by that beast out in the middle of nowhere, your best bet for first aid—mostly when you're all alone on the open coast—is to just pee on the wound to take the edge off... apparently, it's got something to do with how the spider venom reacts to temperature...

Jack's clinic is finally taking referrals for MRIs in New York City...

Does anyone actually have a leg to stand on when it comes to getting sick leave after an arrhythmia diagnosis—you know, those crazy irregular heartbeats...

Rachel Brown said:honestly, you should probably just grill the actual doctor who gave you the diagnosis to get the real story... since those terms could mean anything from a total disaster to just a tiny little tweak in your knee or joint that doesn't really matter...

Man, I’d love to ask him, but the orthopedic specialists over in Santa Barbara have me booked out until summer—they sure move slow... I’m heading up to Newport next week instead, though. All I’ve got is an X-ray, and even getting the referral for that was a nightmare...

So I just got my scans back and they’re basically telling me my bones are thinning out near the medial condyle, there's some subchondral sclerosis on the joint surface, and the intercondylar eminence is starting to flatten... basically just all the classic signs of knee osteoarthritis.

Can anyone actually make sense of this medical jargon for me??

Thanks, but those reference ranges don't seem to account for kids or even a young woman, so I have no clue what counts as a normal deviation, if such a thing even exists...

Can someone please make sense of these labs for my daughter? She’s 15 and I can't get a doctor to actually sit down and explain anything to me... she looks deathly pale, too.

MCHC 365
ESR 4

thanks