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Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES)
If you get extreme pain with most tests coming clean, I recommend pain management that cares about options outside opioids (Never worked on me anyways!). He gave me lidocaine with steroids in my pinpoint abdomen location and my pain is almost 0!!!! My primary care got me in to see him on the next floor down, same day in an hour!
It's not guaranteed perfect as more injections, ablation, or a surgery (neurectomy) may be required for longer term relief if all else fails.
Or it might not! I had food today that would have ruined me for hours and I'm still okay. I'm nervous the pain will return but I'm keeping faith. Doctors just kept guessing until now. Below explains just about everything I've gone through.
"Patients frequently experience 'pseudovisceral' phenomena or symptoms of altered autonomic nervous system function including nausea, bloating, abdominal swelling, loss of appetite with consecutively lowered body weight and/or an altered defecation process."
Thank all of you for being so supportive! After the hospital kicked me out yesterday with 80/60 BP and 180 BPM heart rate then called security with my husband with me, I truly thought it was over. I was going to perish. Turns out I may have gotten my Christmas miracle.
I hope all of you get a wonderful holiday season.
If you get extreme pain with most tests coming clean, I recommend pain management that cares about options outside opioids (Never worked on me anyways!). He gave me lidocaine with steroids in my pinpoint abdomen location and my pain is almost 0!!!! My primary care got me in to see him on the next floor down, same day in an hour!
It's not guaranteed perfect as more injections, ablation, or a surgery (neurectomy) may be required for longer term relief if all else fails.
Or it might not! I had food today that would have ruined me for hours and I'm still okay. I'm nervous the pain will return but I'm keeping faith. Doctors just kept guessing until now. Below explains just about everything I've gone through.
"Patients frequently experience 'pseudovisceral' phenomena or symptoms of altered autonomic nervous system function including nausea, bloating, abdominal swelling, loss of appetite with consecutively lowered body weight and/or an altered defecation process."
Thank all of you for being so supportive! After the hospital kicked me out yesterday with 80/60 BP and 180 BPM heart rate then called security with my husband with me, I truly thought it was over. I was going to perish. Turns out I may have gotten my Christmas miracle.
I hope all of you get a wonderful holiday season.
I can't tell you how happy I am for you! I hope you and your hubby have a wonderful Christmas holiday!Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES)
If you get extreme pain with most tests coming clean, I recommend pain management that cares about options outside opioids (Never worked on me anyways!). He gave me lidocaine with steroids in my pinpoint abdomen location and my pain is almost 0!!!! My primary care got me in to see him on the next floor down, same day in an hour!
It's not guaranteed perfect as more injections, ablation, or a surgery (neurectomy) may be required for longer term relief if all else fails.
Or it might not! I had food today that would have ruined me for hours and I'm still okay. I'm nervous the pain will return but I'm keeping faith. Doctors just kept guessing until now. Below explains just about everything I've gone through.
"Patients frequently experience 'pseudovisceral' phenomena or symptoms of altered autonomic nervous system function including nausea, bloating, abdominal swelling, loss of appetite with consecutively lowered body weight and/or an altered defecation process."
Thank all of you for being so supportive! After the hospital kicked me out yesterday with 80/60 BP and 180 BPM heart rate then called security with my husband with me, I truly thought it was over. I was going to perish. Turns out I may have gotten my Christmas miracle.
I hope all of you get a wonderful holiday season.
I have myself had a huge flare-up of eczema and hives all over, almost certainly stress related and found an excellent dermotogist who has given me a treatment that so far is working very well.
What on earth is the point of medical insurance in America?
Am from London, and we simply pay National Insurance. When we need to go to the Doctor, Dentist or the Hospital, we just go, and that is the end of that.
Been living in America for a few years now. My daughter has been to the hospital a few times last year and this year. Now, am just afraid to even check the post. The invoices keep coming, and they are not exactly a few dollars either.
So, what's on my mind? What's the point of medical insurance in America? Rhetorical of course...
Am from London, and we simply pay National Insurance. When we need to go to the Doctor, Dentist or the Hospital, we just go, and that is the end of that.
Been living in America for a few years now. My daughter has been to the hospital a few times last year and this year. Now, am just afraid to even check the post. The invoices keep coming, and they are not exactly a few dollars either.
So, what's on my mind? What's the point of medical insurance in America? Rhetorical of course...
I'm glad you found a good dermatologist! I have very minor eczema on the tops of my hands, elbows, and knees. I only need Aveeno lotion for it and it goes away. My first cousin has it bad all over and it looks insanely painful.
You as well. This year has been crazy for many, hope that all of us get a wonderful Christmas!
As for the post about medical insurance in the USA? That probably is a question with an answer that would take a long time to break down. It's messy. Not in a good way either.
The only point is to make money. Sad fact, but in America your illness is seen as a profit center. Probably one of the most expensive and unequal health schemes in the world.
I am oversensitive to probably a lot of pharmaceutical. Not sure of all the extent.
I was sick a lot when I was a sensitive kid, yet profoundly athletic.
So when I grew up I nurtured a strong desire to understand my body and the connections between this and that. What made an athlete, a sensitive one, to be able to use my body as I fully wanted to.
I studied alternative medicine early on, in addition to all expanded knowledge that is flourishing within sport environments.
So I usually don't get sick as in needing any traditional medicine. And yes, pharmaceuticals are not a very ethical business. I surely can agree on that. Many thrives on keeping people sick, yuck.
Once I did have need for it, when I was traveling, because I was given some sulfa for intense diarrhea.
Ah, well, that gave me a liver virus. Side effects, not so pleasant always.
The best thing with it was that doctors agreed with my course of taking care of my health myself, and I do it extremely well.
I practice yoga, run or do strength training 90% of the days. I started meditate in late 80’s, not daily at that point, but have grown into that the recent decade.
I might add another factor that cause health or sickness too. The quality of communications between people. Parasitic people exists and don’t provide with an aware ethics nor qualitative communication.
Today I even consider great communication and ethics between people one of the main thing to keep a good health.
Not everyone do, so just as you don’t want to eat non-quality food, you don’t want to have those people around. They are usually not very intelligent, so I doubt that problem exist much among Mac and Apple users. But watch out, iPhone users may not always be on the bright side 😉
I really would've liked to hear what the soul of Steve Jobs insights have been from his death of cancer.
He was pretty health aware, though no expert, but more intelligent than most.
I have heard my own mother's insights from dying in the same decease though 😇
I was sick a lot when I was a sensitive kid, yet profoundly athletic.
So when I grew up I nurtured a strong desire to understand my body and the connections between this and that. What made an athlete, a sensitive one, to be able to use my body as I fully wanted to.
I studied alternative medicine early on, in addition to all expanded knowledge that is flourishing within sport environments.
So I usually don't get sick as in needing any traditional medicine. And yes, pharmaceuticals are not a very ethical business. I surely can agree on that. Many thrives on keeping people sick, yuck.
Once I did have need for it, when I was traveling, because I was given some sulfa for intense diarrhea.
Ah, well, that gave me a liver virus. Side effects, not so pleasant always.
The best thing with it was that doctors agreed with my course of taking care of my health myself, and I do it extremely well.
I practice yoga, run or do strength training 90% of the days. I started meditate in late 80’s, not daily at that point, but have grown into that the recent decade.
I might add another factor that cause health or sickness too. The quality of communications between people. Parasitic people exists and don’t provide with an aware ethics nor qualitative communication.
Today I even consider great communication and ethics between people one of the main thing to keep a good health.
Not everyone do, so just as you don’t want to eat non-quality food, you don’t want to have those people around. They are usually not very intelligent, so I doubt that problem exist much among Mac and Apple users. But watch out, iPhone users may not always be on the bright side 😉
I really would've liked to hear what the soul of Steve Jobs insights have been from his death of cancer.
He was pretty health aware, though no expert, but more intelligent than most.
I have heard my own mother's insights from dying in the same decease though 😇
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I have everything coming for you. Living with Mrs AFB I know how terrible it can be living with constant pain and not being able to eat a lot of the time.Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES)
If you get extreme pain with most tests coming clean, I recommend pain management that cares about options outside opioids (Never worked on me anyways!). He gave me lidocaine with steroids in my pinpoint abdomen location and my pain is almost 0!!!! My primary care got me in to see him on the next floor down, same day in an hour!
It's not guaranteed perfect as more injections, ablation, or a surgery (neurectomy) may be required for longer term relief if all else fails.
Or it might not! I had food today that would have ruined me for hours and I'm still okay. I'm nervous the pain will return but I'm keeping faith. Doctors just kept guessing until now. Below explains just about everything I've gone through.
"Patients frequently experience 'pseudovisceral' phenomena or symptoms of altered autonomic nervous system function including nausea, bloating, abdominal swelling, loss of appetite with consecutively lowered body weight and/or an altered defecation process."
Thank all of you for being so supportive! After the hospital kicked me out yesterday with 80/60 BP and 180 BPM heart rate then called security with my husband with me, I truly thought it was over. I was going to perish. Turns out I may have gotten my Christmas miracle.
I hope all of you get a wonderful holiday season.
I've pretty much always had eczema and over the decades I've tried all sorts of creams - from prescription Benovate (sp?) etc through to lots of E45 type emollient creams. Nothing has ever really seemed to work but it was never bad enough to warrant steroids etc. Recently after a bit of another flare up I've discovered a cream called Epaderm made by Mölncycke - it's been absolutely great. £12 for a pint or so in a pump bottle. I've looked at the ingredients but can't see anything particularly different from other creams so I don't understand why it works better on me than the others but even so it might be worth try for anyone on here who has eczema but as they say YMMV. (I also assume it's an international product).
The same as pretty much everything in the world nowadays: profit and greed above all else.
My cousin who died not quite a fortnight ago.
Feeling sad that due to this seemingly everlasting pandemic with its ongoing variants and twists and turns with the COVID virus, that I made the reluctant decision to not attend an out-of-town concert tomorrow evening. Even though masks are required and I think the theatre also needs to see proof of one's vaccination history, I still feel really reluctant to be sitting in an enclosed theatre with a bunch of strangers.....
Tomorrow (well, today, now) my cousin's funeral service shall take place.
In an alternative universe, my brothers and I would have been present, - my cousin was my brother's godfather, after all - but in this world's here and now, prudence dictates that we shall attend online.
It is difficult to describe our feelings; as Decent Brother remarked to me last night, there are cousins we aren't - or, weren't - all that close to - and while they are people whose deaths we would (of course) regret, it would not leave this awful feeling of emptiness.
This particular cousin was the god of our childhood, and I deeply regret that we cannot be physically present to say a final farewell, a heartfelt goodbye.
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Very sorry to read what you wrote @Scepticalscribe and also @Clix Pix , without going into detail I wonder what the non-direct Covid cost of this pandemic is going to be finally.
Also sorry to hear about the death of your cousin @Scepticalscribe
I would't take any risks during this pandemic, regardless, so not worth it.
Sure, there's a lot of social stuff that we have to say no to, or that have disappeared during this time.
But I rather survive this stuff and letting old social patterns, shallow, meaningless things that doesn’t serve any purpose anymore die with the virus.
Life itself, and the ethics that it are built upon, are what’s worth something is what matters.
What's real between us people, what truly connect us, can't really die. It always stays with us.
A pandemic of this size are here out of a profound reason. To teach people and make us all ponder what really connects us, what we really need from each other. Cutting the crap, all strange collective patterns we surely don't need.
I am really grateful for the deep dive this pandemic has been and still is. The raw feelings that has emerged, personally and with people in various types of connections.
The opportunity to deepen my meditation and love myself, others and the soul of existence thar lives in all of us, more profoundly, has been such a gift.
But no, we are not through yet.
I would't take any risks during this pandemic, regardless, so not worth it.
Sure, there's a lot of social stuff that we have to say no to, or that have disappeared during this time.
But I rather survive this stuff and letting old social patterns, shallow, meaningless things that doesn’t serve any purpose anymore die with the virus.
Life itself, and the ethics that it are built upon, are what’s worth something is what matters.
What's real between us people, what truly connect us, can't really die. It always stays with us.
A pandemic of this size are here out of a profound reason. To teach people and make us all ponder what really connects us, what we really need from each other. Cutting the crap, all strange collective patterns we surely don't need.
I am really grateful for the deep dive this pandemic has been and still is. The raw feelings that has emerged, personally and with people in various types of connections.
The opportunity to deepen my meditation and love myself, others and the soul of existence thar lives in all of us, more profoundly, has been such a gift.
But no, we are not through yet.
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My cousin - as it happened - didn't die from Covid, but from (a return of) the prostate cancer he had suffered from (and recovered from) two years ago.
What Covid has done - along with stratospheric and soaring transmission rates, and, again, along with the fact that it is winter time, and indoor gatherings are not really to be recommended - is to ensure that we cannot attend the funeral service in person.
In more ideal circumstances, we - my brothers and I - would have been present to pay our respects in person, for this was a cousin we had idolised as children.
What Covid has done - along with stratospheric and soaring transmission rates, and, again, along with the fact that it is winter time, and indoor gatherings are not really to be recommended - is to ensure that we cannot attend the funeral service in person.
In more ideal circumstances, we - my brothers and I - would have been present to pay our respects in person, for this was a cousin we had idolised as children.
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I still regret I wasn’t able to attend the funeral of my good friend and work colleague this year. Sad to think she will have been gone a year in February. People really shouldn’t die in their 40’s. Her husband will no doubt be having a miserable Christmas.
I can understand your sadness. But I think I would have made the same decision in your shoes.
That is exactly what I mean, and I completely understand your feelings.
1st December was my Dad's one year death anniversary, and 21st December is the funeral anniversary.
I flew to London, from Atlanta, and was in London for exactly 2 days, before having to leave because Boris was closing the borders. Shortest trip home ever!
PS: At this rate, London might be under lockdown again, soon. A year on, and things seem 'the same', almost...
I flew to London, from Atlanta, and was in London for exactly 2 days, before having to leave because Boris was closing the borders. Shortest trip home ever!
PS: At this rate, London might be under lockdown again, soon. A year on, and things seem 'the same', almost...
As @Apple fanboy has already remarked, (and I agree with him), although it is a decision taken with regret, in the circumstances, - and at this time of year - it is the correct one.
My sympathies.
The first anniversary is especially tough.
As I know from personal experience, while it is never easy to lose a loved one, in winter - in deepest, darkest winter - it is even more difficult to deal with.
Anyway, today, my cousin, his life, his loves and his funeral service - which I attended remotely - and which was warm and lovely - are very much on my mind.
Is it being streamed? My friends funeral was but it was just weird watching it.
Yes, it was streamed.
And yes, it did feel weird watching it, a mug of coffee nearby, within easy reach, instead of being present, composed, controlled and somewhat formal.
The first time that I ever heard of that happening was at my own mother's funeral; I hadn't even known about it, or that such technology existed and was used in such a way, but one of my brother's colleagues - a very close colleague, possibly the colleague he was closest to, whom I liked a lot, who happened to have been on holiday, and thus couldn't attend in person, - it was the Christmas period after all - watched it with her husband, both of them stretched out on their hotel bed, computer on, and they phoned us later, to chat with us.
Actually, I have to say that this is an excellent use of such technology.
And the service was actually very warm, a little rueful, but quite lovely, which was entirely fitting, as my cousin had been a very warm person.
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