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Nobody ever gave me this advice until I had that episode June 12, and I'm almost 62. I still haven't received medical care from the ENT guy yet. Wish I could afford a lawyer.
It was news to me that suppressing a sneeze was bad. I'm so sorry you're being jerked around, Boom Boom. Health services for people living in remote and rural communities really need to be improved.
Boom: read this (2 pages):
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/12008/think_a_sneeze_isnt_dange...
The nightmare continues. Last week the doc prescribed penicillin to fight the bacteria unleased in the sneeze, and the penicillin has made me even more sick - I think I actually had pneumonia while I was on those antibiotics. I won't get to see the ENT guy until August - making it two months since the incident. I got the social worker involved as well, because I think I should be in a hospital.
Oh boom boom sorry to hear this...get well.
I just can not for the life of me figure out why I haven't been sent to the hospital yet. They've sent me out for more minor things before.
That is very strange. Are there some kind of cutbacks in play here? It seems criminal that you have had to wait so long for medical attention.
I've actually been treated by a GP here twice. But it's a stopgap measure until the ENT specialist can make a proper diagnosis. And, the antibiotics made me even more sick so I stopped taking them - I told the social worker I would only take them in the hospital under nursing care.
Boom Boom I hope you get well soon.
Hospitals IMO are to be avoided as much as possible. They have far nastier germs than anything in most peoples homes. WHen I was in the surgery recovery ward their was a man in the bed beside me screaming half the night at random piercing intervals and a woman on the other side moaning in unison. Then the guy in the room next door would wake up and start yelling for Mike. I wanted out of there as soon as they would let me. THe surgery recovery nurses spent 80% of their time caring for the needs of geriatric patients that had nothing to do with the breaks that they had originally been admitted for. The screamer had been in that 'recovery" bed for almost month.
I suggest you work on getting good in home nursing care and not insist on something that could be far worse.
How are the knees NS?
Its been two weeks now. The last couple of days I am doing much better. It took a long time for the swelling to go down and until that happened the pain was pretty intense. I get the staples out in a couple of days and then I will start some Out Patient physio to get the full range of motion back.
So far so good. The second one will likely be easier because I will know what to ask for and in recovery I will have a new knee to put extra weight on not a bad on like this time.
I hope they get your health concerns straightened out soon. It sounds like you are going through a hellish period.
I've been at the hospital for the past week, just getting caught up on everything now. No news on whether my hearing loss is temporary or permanent, nor on the degree of the losss - this will all happen in August.
Oh Boom Boom, I'm sorry to hear about the uncertainty, but I'm glad your back home at least. I'm also sorry you had to come back to such terrible news, here and abroad. We'll all be sending good vibes to the north shore this month.
I actually had a private room at the hospital with TV - with closed captioning - so I watched some news. Terrible all the stuff that's going on, for sure.
..wishing you a speedy recovery boom boom.
Thanks. I'm taking it easy for a few days.
Wow, Boom Boom, I haven't been around as much lately, and I was kinda wondering where you are (and others for that matter). I totally missed this thread. Please accept my wishes for speedier and more effective treatment and a full recovery.
One thing I've learned - here on the coast we do not have emergency access to ENT specialists.
Boom Boom, I'm so sorry you have to wait so long for news that will have such a significant effect on your life. I very much hope you get good news in August, but if it so happens you do not, know that we're all behind you 100%. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.
Thanks for the good wishes and support. I think what's needed in some places - besides more ENT specialists - are sensitivity courses for those who work with deaf and hard-of-hearing folks. I was treated like a leper in the hospital - because deafness is the 'invisible' handicap.
The Canadian Hearing Society used to offer such training back in the 1970s.
Almost a full week of appointments at the hospital next week to try to correct the damage I did to my hearing in June with a blocked sneeze.
ETA: tip cancelled due to weather (fog). New appointments made for September.
Swimming in salt water is my remedy for skin problems. NOthing, I mean nothing, can match salt water.
Thursday night I had low-intensity X-rays of both hands at the hospital and they definitely showed I have arthritis in both hands. After the X-rays I then had cortisone injections while viewing live action X-rays - this was the doctor's guide/road map to see where to inject and if the cortisone was indeed flowing to the inflamed areas. Fascinating to watch. However, he could only do one hand because according to him, doing both hands at once would subject me to intolerable pain. Well, the pain is already pretty bad, and I wish he had gone ahead and done both. It'll be two weeks before the clinic here gets the report from the hospital, and I don't know how long after that I hae to wait to see my physician for him to explain the results and hopefully put me on a treatment plan.
ETA: I wish 'health issues' was a separate forum by itself, and maybe an Aging forum ought to be considered as well?
Today is the worse day I've ever had for arthritis pain in my hands - can't peel potatoes, carrots or turnips - and can barely open the door to go outside, and using the skidoo controls is really painful. Have to wait two weeks for the next round of injections. And my driveway is all ice! Wish spring would come
This is interesting: Arthritis and Medical Marijuana
excerpt:
The use of cannabis as a treatment for musclo-skeletal pain in western medicine dates to the 1700s.12-13 Evidence from recent research suggests that cannabis-based therapies are effective in the treatment of arthritis and the other rheumatic and degenerative hip, joint and connective tissue disorders. Since these are frequently extremely painful conditions, the well-documented analgesic properties of cannabis make it useful in treating the pain associated with arthritis, both on its own and as an adjunct therapy that enhances the efficacy of opioid painkillers.
But cannabis has also been shown to have powerful immune-modulation and anti-inflammatory properties,14-17 suggesting that it could play a role in treating arthritis, and not just in symptom management. In fact, one of the earliest records of medical use of cannabis, a Chinese text dating from ca. 2000 BC, notes that cannabis "undoes rheumatism," suggesting its anti-inflammatory effects were known even then.18
Modern research on cannabidiol (CBD), one of the non-psychoactive components of cannabis, has found that it suppresses the immune response in mice and rats that is responsible for a disease resembling arthritis, protecting them from severe damage to their joints and markedly improving their condition.19-20
Human studies have shown cannabis to be an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, one of the many recognized conditions for which many states allow legal medical use. Cannabis has a demonstrated ability to improve mobility and reduce morning stiffness and inflammation. Research has also shown that patients are able to reduce their usage of potentially harmful Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) when using
My parents used bathing salts in their baths. I wonder if this is why?
oh BB, I hope it gets better!
I had a random conversation with a woman at the bus stop. I was telling her about my carpal tunnel troubles (because thar's what you do with strangers at a bus stop, isn't it?). She had been a nurse in Vietnam before coming to Canada. She recommended a hot bath with Epsom salts a couple of times a week to draw the uric acid away from the bones. I haven't done too much to validate this advice.