Thread where actuaries diagnosis medical issues

Sorry, that’s a bummer. I hope you heal quickly.

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I THREW UP LAST NIGHT AND I DON’T KNOW WHY!

i think i’m dying.

That’s weird … maybe I caught it from you over the interweb, but I did too. After dinner I had a sudden bout of nausea for no discernible reason.

:astonished:

I hope you both feel better!

I went to my PCP with a long list of complaints (mostly about my coughing). I have another antibiotic, instructions to increase my inhaler usage, a referral to a pulmonologist (who already called to set up the appointment), and instructions to call back for an ENT referral if this medicine doesn’t clear up the congestion.

So I guess I don’t need a diagnosis from the actuaries today.

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What?!?! You trust actual doctors over random internet actuaries? That’s just crazy talk. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

actual doctors haven’t been all that helpful for my recent ailments, so actuaries it is!

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My research said see a specialist. Just had to communicate with my dr in a way that made her understand this symptom I’ve been dealing with forever is actually impacting my life.

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so you did a 10 day (or more) of some decent antibiotics, right? and maybe a steroid too (I hope)?

do you take allergy meds? do you use an inhaler?

I had a z pack but that was 3 weeks ago. So she did give me another antibiotic. Not sure how many days. Have to pick up later. Did prednisone also 3 weeks ago but not now.

Have an every day inhaler (supposed to use twice a day instead of once) and emergency.

I’m gonna laugh (or maybe cry) if the pulmonologist says it’s not asthma. It’s probably allergies but the allergy meds aren’t strong enough. I should try Benadryl this weekend when a Benadryl hangiver won’t matter.

Zpack is more or less a placebo for my respiratory stuff. Prednisone is great when it is boosting a decent med (non a zpac IMO). the persistence of the issue shows the zpac was out of it’s useful range.

For allergies, flonase and an OTC like (claritin/zyrtec/allegra) are usually good. You can do 2 a day on those in peak season. Also, if allergies, a netipot type thing might work (hasn’t for me).

i had to get the stronger med w prednisone to get past the irritation I had that i couldn’t shake before it all settled in nicely. good luck!

The Earth wobbled just a tiny bit. Most don’t feel it. Special people do.

Aw, are you saying that ao_fan and I are special?

Very much so.

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I already take flonase and allegra. I know allegra does its thing bc it’s worse if I don’t take it, but the drainage never really goes away. The jury is still out for flonase. I’ve never felt like it does much but right now I’m throwing as much at the problem as I can.

I think Sudafed helps a ton but I have high blood pressure. Fake sudafed that they put in formulas not behind the pharmacy counter does nothing. I don’t even know why that stuff is on the market.

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I have discovered that for something like 85% of my colds, pseudoephedrine works light years better than phenylephrine.

But for something like 15% of colds that don’t respond well to pseudoephedrine, they WILL respond to phenylephrine.

For that reason I like to stock both.

(I go with the drug name rather than the brand name because despite being treated as somewhat synonymous with pseudoephedrine, Sudafed brand most definitely sells both.)

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Partly I was being lazy and partly I couldn’t remember the proper name of the new one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it by itself, not combined with something else.

Sudafed PE is straight phenylephrine.

But yeah with pseudoephedrine now behind the pharmacy counter (and in Oregon you actually need a doctor’s Rx) most combo meds like NyQuil/DayQuil and Dimetapp and Robitussin have switched to phenylephrine so they don’t have to be behind the counter.

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You don’t need Rx in CA, but it is behind the counter and have you have to give more info than you do to buy a gun.

Same here, and I couldn’t even buy it in a neighboring state when I was visiting my mom. When they first put it behind the counter I could, but now they require ID from their own state. But again, I don’t use it often bc of high blood pressure. Usually when I buy it, it’s for my daughter.