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#476
bray2milton said:
I just look stuff up and diagnose myself. Which will scare the hell out of you after a while. I’m not a real doctor by any means.
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You really shouldn't do this. I used to do this and all I did was scare the hell out of myself. Everything I typed in always lead to cancer or ALS or something equally horrible. "I've got a headache", then some random combination of Google and WebMD tells me it's a brain tumor.
 
#477
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Coug said:
You really shouldn't do this. I used to do this and all I did was scare the hell out of myself. Everything I typed in always lead to cancer or ALS or something equally horrible. "I've got a headache", then some random combination of Google and WebMD tells me it's a brain tumor.
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The one time the Web MD diagnosis came true:

I had a 10 year old come in for a headache a few months ago. It was a brain tumor. Had a germinoma on his pineal gland, pituitary stalk, and frontal lobe.

On a brighter note, they are very responsive to radiation therapy and I ran into his family who said that it had completely taken care of it.
 
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xJesusx56 said:
The one time the Web MD diagnosis came true:

I had a 10 year old come in for a headache a few months ago. It was a brain tumor. Had a germinoma on his pineal gland, pituitary stalk, and frontal lobe.

On a brighter note, they are very responsive to radiation therapy and I ran into his family who said that it had completely taken care of it.
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Yeah, I have a laundry list of those from my experience. Probably the craziest was a little girl whose parents brought her in for a suspected foot injury, which turned out to be foot drop, and her MRI that evening revealed a brain tumor. She was treated effectively and remains cancer free, now 11 years later.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Yeah, I have a laundry list of those from my experience. Probably the craziest was a little girl whose parents brought her in for a suspected foot injury, which turned out to be foot drop, and her MRI that evening revealed a brain tumor. She was treated effectively and remains cancer free, now 11 years later.
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I posted that, and that same day at work I had two out of nowhere “biggies”:

“I haven’t been sleeping good and it feels like I have indigestion”.. Troponin is 15

“My right foot is numb, but I’m a diabetic and have neuropathy”.. Has two subdural hematomas.
 
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#480
xJesusx56 said:
I posted that, and that same day at work I had two out of nowhere “biggies”:

“I haven’t been sleeping good and it feels like I have indigestion”.. Troponin is 15

“My right foot is numb, but I’m a diabetic and have neuropathy”.. Has two subdural hematomas.
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Dang.
 
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#482
Coug said:
You really shouldn't do this. I used to do this and all I did was scare the hell out of myself. Everything I typed in always lead to cancer or ALS or something equally horrible. "I've got a headache", then some random combination of Google and WebMD tells me it's a brain tumor.
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When I broke my leg I was googling about the surgery, and long terms effects of the injury. I found out I had chicken pox, and was pregnant.
 
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#485
Question for the experts. Any of you guys know anything about a bladder augmentation? Long story short, my wife has lupus, and tons of issues with it. Her bladder hasn't worked in a long time. She cathed herself for a few years, then last year they put an electronic implant that gave her the urge to go. However, Dr is saying the bladder is collapsing, and causing urine to back up, which is bad. Is it a good surgery, or cause more issues? I'm no Dr, but you rob Peter to pay Paul, then Peter is gonna have problems. I just forsee it causing more problems, but I haven't ever even heard of this.
 
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joevol33 said:
Question for the experts. Any of you guys know anything about a bladder augmentation? Long story short, my wife has lupus, and tons of issues with it. Her bladder hasn't worked in a long time. She cathed herself for a few years, then last year they put an electronic implant that gave her the urge to go. However, Dr is saying the bladder is collapsing, and causing urine to back up, which is bad. Is it a good surgery, or cause more issues? I'm no Dr, but you rob Peter to pay Paul, then Peter is gonna have problems. I just forsee it causing more problems, but I haven't ever even heard of this.
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I’m only a first year medical student so I can’t give much advice, but I would just listen to the urologist (I’m assuming) and his explanation of the pros and cons. Any other answer on here is probably anecdotal (not always reliable) or googled.
 
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#487
Taking Basic Hazmat Life Support for ****s and giggles, wish they’d have told me I should have took a chemistry refresher first.
 
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#488
@xJesusx56 question about a spider ? bite -- noticed it yesterday and today its dark red and warm to touch -- though no pain and little swelling and only itched slightly -- the 2 fang marks are a bit large - not likely a brown recluse or black widow -- at what point should I be concerned about it, since its on front of my calf ? I am type 2 diabetic and its pretty much controlled, but I still am cautious about infections @kiddiedoc too -- used peroxide and neosporin so far
 
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508mikey said:
@xJesusx56 question about a spider ? bite -- noticed it yesterday and today its dark red and warm to touch -- though no pain and little swelling and only itched slightly -- the 2 fang marks are a bit large - not likely a brown recluse or black widow -- at what point should I be concerned about it, since its on front of my calf ? I am type 2 diabetic and its pretty much controlled, but I still am cautious about infections @kiddiedoc too -- used peroxide and neosporin so far
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If it is tender, warm, streaks, enlarging, or has a pus-looking center, you want that checked for infection. Staph infections can present like that and need antibiotics and likely drainage.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
If it is tender, warm, streaks, enlarging, or has a pus-looking center, you want that checked for infection. Staph infections can present like that and need antibiotics and likely drainage.
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just a little tender and warm - no streaks, enlarging or center -- I have a regular Dr appt on Wed would that be to long to wait ?
 
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#491
508mikey said:
@xJesusx56 question about a spider ? bite -- noticed it yesterday and today its dark red and warm to touch -- though no pain and little swelling and only itched slightly -- the 2 fang marks are a bit large - not likely a brown recluse or black widow -- at what point should I be concerned about it, since its on front of my calf ? I am type 2 diabetic and its pretty much controlled, but I still am cautious about infections @kiddiedoc too -- used peroxide and neosporin so far
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Kind of unrelated but most “spider bites” aren’t actually spider bites. I read something about a study saying only 3-4% of “reported” spider bites are actually from spiders.
 
#493
#493
508mikey said:
then what ? giant mosquito maybe ?
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Wouldn’t know for sure, there are a lot of insects out there in the world. Spiders just get all of the blame. Ironically enough they are the ones who usually eat the insects that have a higher likelihood of biting you.
 
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#494
508mikey said:
@xJesusx56 question about a spider ? bite -- noticed it yesterday and today its dark red and warm to touch -- though no pain and little swelling and only itched slightly -- the 2 fang marks are a bit large - not likely a brown recluse or black widow -- at what point should I be concerned about it, since its on front of my calf ? I am type 2 diabetic and its pretty much controlled, but I still am cautious about infections @kiddiedoc too -- used peroxide and neosporin so far
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From an ER standpoint, I’d expect a quick visit that ends in a prescription for antibiotics. The diabetic part is a huge variable tho, you don’t want it to turn into cellulitis or an abscess with diabetes due to diabetic wounds being slow to heal.

I can’t even start a foot/leg IV in a diabetic patient to give you an idea of how seriously we take diabetic wounds/injures.
 
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#495
Persian Vol said:
Kind of unrelated but most “spider bites” aren’t actually spider bites. I read something about a study saying only 3-4% of “reported” spider bites are actually from spiders.
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This is true. Most of what I've seen called "spider bites" are (usually MRSA) skin abscesses or cellulitis.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
This is true. Most of what I've seen called "spider bites" are (usually MRSA) skin abscesses or cellulitis.
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Im not seeing symptoms of staph and now im doubting the spider bite -- its just red, not as warm as it was yesterday and not really a bump (no sign of a pus center either) and no pain at all -- as I asked above would Wed. be to late to see the Dr about it ?
 
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