What are you talking about?
Do you no understand the difference between street meth and meth as a Dr prescribed controlled substance?
Why do you think someones teeth fall out?
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Do you no understand the difference between street meth and meth as a Dr prescribed controlled substance?
Why do you think someones teeth fall out?
Honestly, it seems like your doctor or your wife’s is very closed mind and you should be the one looking for a new doctor.
Any Doctor Who doesn’t want to listen to his patients thoughts and ideas is very dangerous as far as I’m concerned.
So your statement kinda contradicts what you’re saying because in the same paragraph you’re saying your doctor will look into it and get back to you.
Bottom line is your diagnosis is based on what the input the doctor can get from you and from what medical science offers as far as equipment to diagnose a problem. He’s then based on his education, puts together a plan for you. Any Doctor Who thinks he knows everything is a recipe for disaster.
In 2022 I greatly sped up a heart specialist diagnosis with use of my Apple Watch recording ECG’s my heart going crazy in the middle of the night on and off for a year
2 heart specialists looked over the 30 or so pages of ECG that I printed out from my watch and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, they went over everything I printed out in incredible detail and they then proceeded to hook up their own equipment to confirm which can only be done by wearing a monitoring device for 48 hours overnight because my heart checked out perfect on in office ECG‘s
They also offered what your wife has, that some doctors do not like their patients supplying information like I have. That right then and they told me I have two of the greatest, most educated heart specialists who by the way corrected my heart and timing with the cardiac ablation, checked me into the hospital at 7 AM and I was out of the hospital by 5 PM, and continuing the next day, my move into a temporary apartment while our house was getting built
They further followed up with echograms and other tests, because of this quick resolution, I have absolutely zero heart damage and functionally perfectly with an EF score of 60
Nope, no interest in changing. He is the doctor (D.O.), not us, with decades of training and experience. I don't tell him how to do his job.
He absolutely listens and gives his diagnosis or opinion and if it's something he's unsure of, he researches it in order to determine the best actions to take.
Where did I say we can't speak freely ? We tell him what's wrong and he listens.
Do you tell your car mechanic "I think my car needs new plugs, coils, and fuel injectors 'cause someone on a forum said. Change them please" or do you describe what it's doing and let him/her diagnose it ? Some will change all those parts when all it had was a loose connection while others will respond "why don't you let me properly diagnose it and we'll go from there?". Which do you prefer ?
The OP is retired, which I'm guessing makes it even harder to not eat. When you have a job and absolutely have to get out of the house and stuff it's way easier to skip breakfast and lunch if you want to.
I have worked in a OA/OC Chemical Lab for 40 years. Its incredible what I have been exposed to over almost half a century, LOL.
Honestly your post gave me and others the wrong impression. You painted a picture of a closed minded doctor who doesn’t want thoughts and ideas from his patients with how you used your words.
If the words you chose are true I wouldn’t go near that doctor.
“Our family doctor - who my wife and I have been going to for 25 years and now our kids and significant others go to - doesn't take kindly to being told (no matter how you phrase it) what is wrong or what they need. If you told him "I googled my symptoms and I'm pretty sure I have...." he'll advise you to leave the diagnoses to him. If you do it a 2nd time, he'll kick you out of his office and tell you to find a new doctor.”
It's clear who in here has never dealt with food addiction. Food addiction is the hardest addiction to overcome because you can't just simply not eat. A drug addict can stop doing the drugs with enough intervention and treatment. A food addict still has to eat. For many, just like with drugs, the addiction is tied to a greater underlying condition such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, various hormonal syndromes, illnesses, etc...
I'll just say the addiction is generally going to be sugar.
I was pretty close to a food addict for many years, I didn't get super heavy but I think I would be dead in a short time if I got my BMI into the mid 30's for too many years. My body just doesn't do well in that situation.
I can see how people fall down the hole though. Inactivity makes them feel bad(mentally and physically), more food feels good, but their body feels worse, so exercise seems even tougher, so they feel bad, eat more again.... I felt pretty bad, sore back, sore knees, I would get shin splints if I ran... Finally I just started running on grass where my shins didn't hurt as much and did a short distance every day until I could run longer and faster with less pain. Some regular core exercises fixed my back, and some leg exercises fixed my knees.
Finally doing some strenuous regular exercise helps me anyways, walking isn't enough for me, but if its all a person can do, then they should start there.
Push ups(in the most difficult form they can do), sit ups, stairs, walking up big hills, etc. Whatever it takes to feel winded and a bit of discomfort. Do 1 minute of it a couple times a day, then 5, 10 minutes, eventually switching over to a single, 20, 30, 60 minute session.
For me anyways, doing 3-4-5 times a week of real heavy sweating, heavy breathing exercise for 30-60 minutes makes me feel way better and not want to pound back 6 drinks and a big bag of potato chips after supper every night, or eat half a cheesecake.
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I absolutely tell my car mechanic exactly what I want done. It could be evaluate brake squeak or it could be replace fuel pump.
If I said to my doctor, "I'm taking my bp meds but my at home bp meter shows that my bp is not under control and I need a change in meds and my dr said "why don't you let me properly diagnose it and we'll go from there?" he wouldn't be my doctor any longer. I'm not going to tip toe around my dr about how I communicate my medical issues for fear of upsetting him.
Thank you, Yes, 100% completely normal after feeling abnormal things in my chest for gosh at least close to a decade.
However it wasnt only until 2021 or 2022 that it was getting worse. My wife got me the watch in 2021 and that helped greatly in recording the events when they happened at night. Until then all I did was tell my doctor about it and he would run an EKG nothing would show up and he said I was fine.
I know you saw these but I have it saved on my desktop and the last one I just did minutes ago, almost two year later now. Sometimes after an ablation it can often come back again, so far so good and to this day still perfect rhythm. It's been a great learning experience, I find the heart fascinating. I would love to be a specialist in another life if ever such a thing.
(DAY BEFORE ABLATION - disaster)
Day after ablation, perfect rhythm below, same day procedure, walked out of the hospital less than 10 hours later
AS of 5 minutes ago, getting close to two year later, still perfect
A distinction without a difference with regards to the potential for abuse.
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You may find this interesing. Wife and I got covid just this month, in all these years we never had it. It wasnt too bad, wife was better in 5 days, I was a little longer but both of us fever ended quickly.
Anyway, my new Apple Watch 9 actually captured my body temperature change and also showed an elevated heart rate of 10 BPM which is nothing as I run low 50s when I sleep. The watch itself records your wrist temperature as you sleep.
You can actually see when things got a little wacky which coincided with my wife getting sick a day or two earlier.
Cool part about the watch is my health plan will pay for up to one new one a year. I am trying to find out for next year if that $700 Apple Watch is worth it or not because they will pay for it, so far anyway, will have to see the new contract in a couple months.
You can see the peak on August 10th. That day (or night) my temp peaked at 101. You can then see it decline rather rapidly back to my baseline on 8/23 which is now stays... I love instrumentation and the watch is the ultimate "toy" for me as its my body instead of a boat, car or motorcycle*LOL*
Very cool stuff for those into it.
You may find this interesing. Wife and I got covid just this month, in all these years we never had it. It wasnt too bad, wife was better in 5 days, I was a little longer but both of us fever ended quickly.
Anyway, my new Apple Watch 9 actually captured my body temperature change and also showed an elevated heart rate of 10 BPM which is nothing as I run low 50s when I sleep. The watch itself records your wrist temperature as you sleep.
You can actually see when things got a little wacky which coincided with my wife getting sick a day or two earlier.
Cool part about the watch is my health plan will pay for up to one new one a year. I am trying to find out for next year if that $700 Apple Watch is worth it or not because they will pay for it, so far anyway, will have to see the new contract in a couple months.
You can see the peak on August 10th. That day (or night) my temp peaked at 101. You can then see it decline rather rapidly back to my baseline on 8/23 which is now stays... I love instrumentation and the watch is the ultimate "toy" for me as its my body instead of a boat, car or motorcycle*LOL*
Very cool stuff for those into it.
You really think people don't abuse ozempic and drugs like that?
What’s the connection between semaglutide and retinal detachment? The only literature I’ve seen shows semaglutide is protective against “new” diabetic retinopathy but may worsen existing DR. This worsening of existing DR is also seen in bariatric surgery and even when previously poorly controlled diabetics start say using a pump and their blood glucose control gets better. In other words, this paradoxical reaction is not specific to semaglutide - it is a side-effect of better insulin and glucose control.
Did she already have diabetes and retinopathy? I feel for your MIL but that may have very well happened just from lifestyle changes that increased her blood glucose control. My mother had detached retinas, unrelated to weight loss and diabetes, and she needed 3 surgeries over 18 months, much of that time laying face down, and unable to live her life. It was pretty terrible and if the 3rd surgery did not work (the previous 2 did not) she was going to be left legally blind. That was 4 or 5 years ago and she’s been fine since.
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So you agree. You describe symptoms and let them tell you what's wrong.
What if your meter is inaccurate or needs recalibrated ? I'd absolutely hope your doctor would double-check to make sure your readings are accurate ! I tell the nurses every time that their weight scale is wrong 'cause ours at home says my weight is lower.
Fact is, their scale shows a reduction over time just as ours at home does.
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