Illness, Injury and Medical Advice from the Internet

New nightmare unlocked. Hope it's less horrific than my current imaginings. Good luck.

Cheers. To be honest, it hurts so much that I’d be up for cutting them open myself if it’s going to make it better

Wowie. That exceeded my pain threshold. Surprised I didn’t pass out, and nearly did after. They left me to get some sleep after, although still only managing around ten minutes at a time. This is fucky.

Did you not request morphine or something stronger ?

Fucking hell. Sending internet goodvibes, but this is not something I'm going to be able to easily forget.

Did a image file search and wish i hadn't.?
Anyway i think he has passed out !

After 23 hours in a&e, I've left, my daughter (18) is still there and just been promoted to a trolley, she might make it out of a&e and in to the main hospital in the next 12 hours.

She is vomiting really loudly and constantly retching, fair play to the majority of people who despite being in pain, tired and fed up were supportive and kind to her and were telling her to not be embarrassed and crack on with vomiting even at 3 am when people are just trying to sleep on the worlds most unforgiving chairs and being woken up by her

Fucking hell. That’s the worst. Both kids had this a few weeks ago. Relentless vomiting. Then diarrhoea (I had that bit, along with a constant sense of nausea and extreme lethargy).

That is a crazy, ridiculous amount of time. You must both be deliriously sleep deprived. Really hope it’s not much more waiting for her.

Cheers @pacef8 and @owl - I held it together, and am on the ward now. It was annoying that I was basically silent screaming and tapping out hard during the first lancing (formally ‘needle aspiration’), and then he said he had to go in again for round two! That took some serious internal psyching.

Anyway, had a few drips now and I’d say that half the time swallowing is completely fine - especially when drinking, and the rest of the time is much less painful. The associated toothache/earache/headache/neck/jaw pain has gone. Now I think about it, I did have an abscess before in one of my teeth - and this has been a lot like it in terms of the type of pressure derived, throbbing pain.

A night in the ward with an eye mask and noise cancelling headphones and then another set of drips tomorrow and I can go (I think).

What a mad and unexpected ailment to develop. Never heard of it before and literally only discovered it while idly googling in A&E at 3am. The original phone consultant is calling me back on Friday - be interesting how surprised he is about what happened since. Pretty sure if their questionnaire had just asked if it was worse on one side, then quinsy would have come up, and NHS advice is that it’s a hospital job.

Anyway, glad it was me really that went through this, and that no one else in the house had to endure it.

Sounds horrible, glad it got resolved for you

Fucking hell, that sounds awful! I'd heard the word quinsy but had no idea what it actually involves. The name is far too whimsical sounding.

How you all doing this morning ?

Doing good over here, thanks for checking in. Not like nothing happened, but heading that way. The antibiotics and steroids work very fast, it seems. While I slept relatively well, I feel like recovering properly will need plenty more rest. Could doze all day.

So much this, sounds like a made-up victorian ailment that was just an excuse to tuck into the laudanum.

Apparently it’s a candidate for what killed George Washington! Agree on how innocuous it sounds. When I first read ‘quinsy’ I thought ‘oh thank god, that sounds like it can’t be that bad’. I guess stuff like pleurisy and consumption are similar in this regard. Probably why more serious technical terms are preferred these days. ‘Peritonsillar abscess’ for quinsy sounds a bit more apt.

Sounds like it’s in danger of being repurposed as a hippy kid’s name

Any advice on using a turbo with a boot for an ankle avulsion fracture? Assume flat pedals..?

I assume your non weight bearing? So I wouldn't.

Yes, only happened today so thinking ahead a bit. Gonna try to talk to a physio but wondered if anyone had been through the same.

Sorry that sucks.

Honestly untill you can weight bare I don't think you should, even if you can. And putting it up on something will bare weight. Personally, broken bones can suck a lot of energy to heal, you'll see. I'd just chill out and recover.

You could get a rowing machine and use it one legged though.

Thanks! By non weight bearing I mean more that it’s obviously too painful as it’s just happened. I was told “no running for at least six weeks” so I’m optimistic that it may be brighter than awful. The treatment appears to be the same as a bad sprain. Here’s hoping anyway

Oh. Well flat pedal and cushioned shoe on turbo trainer then.

Handstands with high blood pressure. All the yoga sites say don't do it. Are there any actual medical studies to say why not, or is it an old wife's tale based on the fact that your head feels like it's about to explode when you start practicing?

To clarify -I started doing inversions against a wall a few years ago, got used to the feeling, then stopped, because lazy. Then diagnosed with high BP. Want to start doing them and other yoga stuff again, but can't find anything which states why inversions are bad. I don't really trust yoga/wellness sites for medical stuff.

I've been strongly advised that lifting heavy weights is out of the question - there's something which causes a spike in BP, I forget the name.

I think what your doing is creating the valsalve manoeuvre .

I understand about the valsalve manoeuvre when lifting weights, but I don't think it happens when doing yoga inversions, surely?