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Don't want to incur your wrath but you've got to find someone (professional) whom you trust to guide you with diagnostic tests etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
You are living in the country with the number one medical system, as i've been told, so pay up, find someone who will agree with you and go from there. This ain't rocket science.
It's gas but not rocket fuel
I am under the guidance of a professional for this test.Quote:
Originally Posted by limitlesDon't want to incur your wrath but you've got to find someone (professional) whom you trust to guide you with diagnostic tests etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
You are living in the country with the number one medical system, as i've been told, so pay up, find someone who will agree with you and go from there. This ain't rocket science.
It's gas but not rocket fuel
I would have to be in order to get a CT Scan. I can't just go order one myself.
Druff you aren’t getting cancer from a ct scan.
If you’re worried about cancer from that I hope you don’t use a laptop or cell phone
Are you Charles McGill?
CT Scans do have a lot of radiation and some of the concern is justified.Quote:
Originally Posted by simpdog
However, getting them sparingly, especially being male, isn't a very high risk.
I'm confused. Where does the best help money can buy come into play? This is something you and others have touted for the American health system. Sounds to me like you're getting the run around from different doctors and delay after delay doing so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Kinda sad when you're paying top dollar
I am happy, I hope it gets you closer to answers. My brother had gi issues for over a year, he would not listen to our advice about seeking medical help. 5 years ago he was lifeflighted to an area hospital and had emergency surgery to remove a giant tumor wrapped around his aorta causing a dissecting aneurysm. Miracle he survived and he has fought many other tumors since. I always wish there was something we could have done earlier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Okay dude. Have you ever had an endoscopy? No? I have. It's not invasive. I went to work thirty minutes after I woke up. Test took 15 minutes. Guy put a camera down my throat, told me I had hietal hernia and nothing else. Personally I was disappointed since I was having swallowing problems at the time and was hoping for something else. Turned out it was anxiety. Anxiety has come up a lot in these posts. As of now you had a doctor who said you had LPR because there was some irritation in your throat two months ago and a doctor who told you to fuck off and get off the internet because it's making you nuts. I'm with the second guy.
Now it turns out you're in an online discussion group for LPR sufferers and we're not even convinced you have the damn thing.
"Hi, I'm Todd and I have LPR. I think" Man you must be a hit at dinner parties.
Barium swallow test, gimme a break. And of course you feel the need to bitch about the prep.
No offense but I'm not sure how many radio listeners are logging on to read about the trials and tribulations of Druff's maybe throat problems or certain anxiety disorder. I listened to your last show and you sounded exactly the same as every other show I listened to.
Winter's coming. Get that anxiety figured out.
Not trolling in this post but I want you to know you have LPR 100%. That is all. You had a doctor tell you it was in your head, that's a red flag to me. Regardless of how you personally felt I'm assuming the guy at least examined your throat. I'd be shocked if he hadn't. You lost a crap load of weight in a short period of time. That's alarming. That's either anxiety or something else much terrible then anxiety and you need to figure out which one. I'm still going with anxiety is your number one issue and BCR agrees and that guy knows his shit. Gimmick agrees and he knows his shit. Kilgore agrees and she knows her shit.
That's all I'm saying. If you want to get pissed off at me then get pissed off I don't give a fuck. Just figure out what you have and get help to fix it. As of now you maybe have LPR and def have anxiety.
Honestly this thread is stoooooopid!
100% bullshit .
Druff . Google IS NOT a DOCTOR.
You have breakthrough anxiety with a severe case of Paranoia.
Case closed
Quit giving details about non emergency procedures. It truly enhances my hypochondriac theory.
Sick of this thread . It's turned into the Druff sympathy thread. I'm still not sold this isn't some sort of deflection thread to make the Cmoney death and resurrection go away.
2nd doctor was in the first ENT group as the first doctor, but in a different office.
They squeezed me in at 4:40pm on a Friday.
Dude wanted to go home.
Then he looked at his schedule and asked, "Who is this patient?" Receptionist explained they sent me there because the other office couldn't see me that day. "He was just seen last week. Why's he here?", the guy asked. "I don't know," replied the receptionist.
I knew I was going to have a shitty visit as soon as I overheard that.
The guy didn't even examine me beyond a quick look into my mouth (with no equipment other than a light), which tells you nothing as far as LPR is concerned.
Pretty much tuned out everything I said and kept repeating, "It's just anxiety" and, "The other doctor didn't see anything."
I then told him the other doctor told me he saw LPR, so he frustratedly went back to the computer, looked at my notes, and sheepishly conceded, "Well yeah, I guess he saw some redness in there."
Then he just told me to keep taking the Nexium. When I told him the Nexium was giving me bad side effects, he said, "Okay, then get off of it. Up to you."
When I asked about Gaviscon, he said he hadn't heard of it before and couldn't comment. LOL
Totally useless visit, and typical of bad doctors nowadays who are either lazy, overbooked, or overly dismissive.
The first doctor wasn't as bad, but was nearly 70 years old and was far too by-the-numbers and stuck in the past for my taste. He did use the laryngoscope (see post #1 in the thread) and put it down my throat, and he was the one who said I had LPR.
But he also just told me to take Nexium for two weeks, to cut down on acidic food, and that the LPR would be better within 2-4 weeks.
Turned out he was treating LPR in a way which has since been proven ineffective in studies.
Unfortunately, because LPR is poorly understood, a lot of ENTs (especially older ones) will just default to treating it the same way they do GERD, which doesn't work, and in fact can cause other problems.
I don't know how many doctors you've been to lifetime, but you need to advocate for your own health. You need to run a sanity check on everything you're told, and do your own research.
I agree that you can't be your own doctor by using the internet, and that attempting to do so will just spin you up into a panic, because basically every symptom you have is always a symptom of something else much more serious.
At the same time, doctors aren't all-knowing and infallible. There are tons of crap doctors out there, and there are other doctors who aren't necessarily crap, but flub it big time when you deviate from their narrow area of expertise. And then there are conditions like LPR which are so poorly studied that there's no consensus as to what is right and wrong, so you really have to be careful.
As I said, if the endoscopy would be very useful in solving the LPR, I'd get it. But it's usually not.
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Originally Posted by Gookieheimowitz
If you don't like the details provided in this thread, then close it. Nobody is forcing you to read it.
You are full of shit and don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Maybe you're just trolling me, in which case, good job. But otherwise you have no fucking clue.
LPR is real, and even though it's poorly understood, almost doctors agree that it's an actual condition, and not just a symptom of anxiety.
I may have told this story before, but I'll tell it again, because it does involve a case of "google doctoring" (though there was no google back then).
The year was 1998.
I was 26 years old.
I was in bed and touched my right testicle. I wasn't jerking off, I think I was adjusting my underwear or something. Then I felt it. There was a big protrusion from under the skin, coming out of the testicle.
I thought, "WTF is this?!", and kept feeling it, almost in denial that this was really there.
But yes, there was a real mass coming out of my right testicle, enough to easily feel it through the skin.
My first reaction: "This has to be something bad. I can't imagine where this isn't a big deal."
I had a steady girlfriend the prior 2 years, so I figured it wasn't an STD.
I went onto my computer and searched for information on this condition. I think I used Infoseek.
Anyway, I was led to websites about testicular cancer. Everything matched up. Even the age matched up. I had thought testicular cancer happened to old people, but in reality, mid-20s was the most common age to get it.
Then I looked at what that meant.
"The prognosis for survival of testicular cancer is fairly good", it read. "The disease only kills about 10% diagnosed with it."
10%?! 10%?!
I was 26 years old. 10% chance of dying soon sounded horrible.
I went into the bathroom and threw up.
The next day I made a doctor's appointment with a gruff-but-well-regarded older urologist in the area.
The waiting room was full of old men who were there to get Viagra prescriptions.
I went in, explained my concern, and he examined me.
"It's not cancer," he said.
"But I read that..."
He cut me off.
"It's not cancer. I know testicular cancer, and that's not it. It's a cyst. It's harmless. I'm going to give you some anti-inflammatory medication, which should probably make it shrink back down. Something must have irritated it, making it swell like this."
He then had the tech in the office do an ultrasound.
He looked at he results, and said, "Just like I said, it's a cyst. Here's a prescription. Nothing further to do."
I asked what I should do if it didn't go down.
"Nothing. Surgery would possibly ruin your fertility. If it flares up, just come back and I'll get you more anti-inflammatory. That's it."
It never flared up again. After it went down, I couldn't even find it again. Somewhere on my right ball, there's still a cyst, but it's harmless and you can't tell it's there.
It was at that moment that I learned never to panic too much from anything I read on the internet. It looked like I had testicular cancer. Turned out not only didn't I have it, but it took the doctor a few seconds to see that I didn't.
I trusted that doctor because everything made sense. He knew what testicular cancer looked and felt like. He used an ultrasound to verify his assumption anyway, and it backed him up. There was nothing further to worry about. He was right, and the internet was wrong.
This is different. This is something difficult to understand, diagnose, and treat. LPR requires a lot of self vigilance and self advocacy if you ever want to see it get better. And even then, you may never solve it.
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff:noQuote:
Originally Posted by Gookieheimowitz
If you don't like the details provided in this thread, then close it. Nobody is forcing you to read it.
You are full of shit and don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Maybe you're just trolling me, in which case, good job. But otherwise you have no fucking clue.
LPR is real, and even though it's poorly understood, almost doctors agree that it's an actual condition, and not just a symptom of anxiety.
I'm not trolling you . I have stayed consistent through 23 pages of symptoms and you completely ignore solid advice from Doctors and people in this thread.
That being said what have you brought to this thread besides a complete shit show of look at me I've got a throat infection or my tummy hurts or I can't swallow. Seriously is LPR going to kill you? Cause that's the way you come off like it or not .
You come off like a six year old boy looking for his mommy to make it all go away. So while I can see your frustrations with me and others . You will get zero sympathy from people who have had to endure much worse and never complain about it or give details of simple procedures step by step on a POKER forum.
So I suggest you take that tone elsewhere and not be handing out Fuck You's to people.
....thank god you can still get it up in these turbulent times, Druff. 🙏
real talk todge if you were a heartburn pill you would be sexium
I feel a lot better knowing you weren’t jerking off when you found your lumpy testicle.
Let it be said.
You realize that fondling your balls that day could have made you the Lance Armstrong of the poker world had you played your cards differently, right?
I ask you. Does that look like a man in severe pain or crippling anxiety?
Nuff Said
#keepdrinkingthekoolaid
Looks like a goofy dude with glasses way too small for his large head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gookieheimowitz
I ask you. Does that look like a man in severe pain or crippling anxiety?
Nuff Said
#keepdrinkingthekoolaid
I'm just wondering who is more tilted right now Druff because of the Dodgers shitting the bed to a hot Brewers team or Dodgers Stadium because Todd is on a diet?
Exactly, must be like 5 yrs since China's Fat sick and nearly dead thread changed my life for good.
But Druff sounded like Trump a few pages back........."Nobody knew, exercise is good for weight loss"
I'd suggest a fitbit, not for the days you go hiking, those days will always be good.
For the lazy days. to make sure you hit the minimum.
IMO, Weight loss is a like gambling, in that one bad day/session can offset an unlimited amount of good ones.
If you hit 10k a day, (even if it means pacing the floor at 11 pm) you'll won't have as many bad days.
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Originally Posted by Gookieheimowitz
I've lost 30 pounds since 8 weeks ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyG_415
Weight loss is no longer a goal of mine. It happened without me trying at all (something I never thought I'd say again).
The focus now is upon getting better. I'm actually not happy when I look at the scale and see more weight has fallen off, because eventually I'll be facing the situation where I need to avoid losing weight to stay away from being underweight.
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Originally Posted by Dan DruffI've lost 30 pounds since 8 weeks ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyG_415
Weight loss is no longer a goal of mine. It happened without me trying at all (something I never thought I'd say again).
The focus now is upon getting better. I'm actually not happy when I look at the scale and see more weight has fallen off, because eventually I'll be facing the situation where I need to avoid losing weight to stay away from being underweight.
Anxiety has been low since Friday. Not gone, but low. This is the longest streak I've had of reduced anxiety since all this started (today being the 5th day).
If I go to the Dodgers tonight, I'm guessing that will help even further, as that also seemed to be strangely therapeutic last week (probably because I enjoy being there so much, especially when they win.)
I do wonder if the Xanax helped, as I took that on Wednesday, felt a bit weird on Thursday (though not that tired), and then good on Friday.
The other time I took Xanax, my anxiety also seemed to reduce in subsequent days.
I do wonder if the "break" Xanax gives my brain from the anxiety might actually help somewhat.
LPR-wise, I am still using the Gaviscon, and I am again experimenting with the Mucinex (gauifenesin). I've noticed that taking it for a few consecutive days lowers the lump sensation and the choking, but makes my throat scratchy and my ears hurt a little. So I'm taking the day off from it. I might halve the dose to 200mg from my current 400mg, and see if that's a happy medium. The Mucinex is definitely not a cure, and in fact could possibly slow healing (because mucus will be thinner), but it definitely seems to manage the lump/choking symptoms to some degree. Some people on internet forums are also indicating that they've had benefit from Mucinex.
If I feel okay on Friday, I might do a short radio show in the evening or nighttime.
Gotta drink 450ml (15.2 oz) of this lovely stuff right now:
https://imgcdn.mckesson.com/CumulusW...Res/971005.jpg
Then another 225ml in the morning.
These reviews say I might get "explosive diarrhea" and cramps: https://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs...ulfate/reviews
I can't wait.
Well, down the hatch!
what is this? blogspot? we don't need daily updates broQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
If you don't need daily updates, then don't read. I'll post whatever the fuck I want on my own site. It's all contained in one thread, so it's easy to avoid if you don't like it.
Anyway, I'm drinking the stuff right now.
Not a horrible taste, but not good, either. Having to drink 15 ounces of it is what sucks.
i'm just messing with you, is it like a milk consistency?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Yeah, kind of like a milk consistency.Quote:
Originally Posted by dwaii'm just messing with you, is it like a milk consistency?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
It tastes like a watered down, not-very-good vanilla milkshake.
People on the internet suggested I refrigerate it first, which indeed helped. The lab didn't bother suggesting that, but when I asked them if refrigerating it is okay, they said, "Oh yeah, and it makes it taste better!"
Yeah, thanks for telling me that, guys.
Can't hate on the lab too much, though, because they agreed to make some small accommodations to make my life easier, such as propping 3 pillows behind my head, and inserting the IV for the contrast while I'm on a chair, rather than lying down. I explained the LPR situation to them and they were understanding about it.
So far no explosive diarrhea, and I took the stuff about 90 min ago. But the night is still young.
Gonna pop the Xanax at about 10:10am, so I can get the maximum benefit when the thing gets going a little bit after 11.
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Can't wait for the report ;)
Never had the explosive diarrhea. Sorry to disappoint.
Went to the CT scan today at 11.
Took Xanax at 10:15.
Brought nasal spray and Biotene dry mouth rinse to the appointment, and used both right before I was called in. (These were to lessen the sensations of the LPR.) Also chewed gum on the way there, which is also said to help with LPR.
Definitely felt a sedation effect from the Xanax, even though I only took 0.25mg. I didn't have a "good" or "high" feeling, but I felt kind of mellow.
They propped me up on the table with pillows, as promised. They inserted the IV while I was sitting up, which turned out wasn't all that much help because it was really fast. But I guess every little bit counts.
The time in the machine, maybe 10 minutes, passed quickly because it kept sliding me back and forth, telling me to breathe in and out, so it was enough of a distraction to where I wasn't just sitting there wondering when it was going to end.
Never felt even the slightest bit anxious, nor did I feel choking at all.
Whole thing went very well.
Supposedly my results might be available as early as this afternoon, at which point I'll have to drive down there again if I want to pick them up. It's like 20 minutes away, but I'm impatient to know what was found, so 100% I will do the 40 minute round trip to get the results if they're ready today.
If this comes back normal or mostly normal, then I can put this "potential third problem" issue out of my mind, and will probably just get another blood test in 3 months or so.
I am still wondering if the once-per-week 0.25mg Xanax has a beneficial effect on my overall anxiety level, as the past week as the least anxious one I have had since this started. From what I can see, once-per-week 0.25mg Xanax is not harmful (either short or long term), so if that seems to be helping, I will keep up that routine, even after all the tests and dental work is done.
Next week will be the toughest test -- the video stroboscopy where they stick a flexible tube through my nose and down my throat for several minutes. Totally not looking forward to that one, but I'm hoping it will give some answers about the LPR.
I've read most of this, but not sure I have understood what exactly is causing you to be anxious -- apart from the potential devaluation of 7 star benefits?
What most likely occurred was that the LPR symptoms causing the choking when trying to sleep caused some kind of trauma after 5 days in a row, and it triggered some kind of anxiety problem I never had before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellafriend
Reversing it unfortunately isn't nearly as simple as how it started.
Hot dog on a stick, stretched stomach, wsop whale backer fake death handled horribly with a side of OCD/autism thrown in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellafriend
For the record I’m not a Dr
This post is why we need a 3rd rep option, like yellow. He's a fucking dbag for writing that but i lol'd.Quote:
Originally Posted by jsearles22Hot dog on a stick, stretched stomach, wsop whale backer fake death handled horribly with a side of OCD/autism thrown in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellafriend
For the record I’m not a Dr
Druff, out of comraderie with respect to your situation, my body decided today to precipitate a medical emergency that called for going to the ER and have some tests down related to difficult of breathing, include a CT scan. Here’s the SFW digitial image proof:
And the good news is that the tests were negative. And I pulling for your results to also be good.
Hope whatever happened goes away, Mumbles.
I actually hate the ER and am kinda reluctant to go there. My last ER visit was in January 2014 when I had symptoms very similar to a ruptured spleen, a week after I broke 3 ribs. Ignoring that could mean death within 24 hours, so obviously I had to go.
I know you're older than me, so showing caution isn't all that bad. Hope your insurance is good. ER is expensive.
Or you could take the Master Scalir route and just stiff them.
Druff I was thinking about your anxiety and thought you might try a bit of nicotine gum or oral spray, a lot of the reason people smoke it is relaxing, some how nicotine has some calming affect.
I am not sure of how addictive it is but seriously what’s the worst that could happen.