Health scare :(

...So pleased to see you're back home and 'OK' Geezer Take it easy and look after yourself..That's an order

 

Sorry to hear you've had a scare. Try plant sterol capsules - cheaper than buying them incorporated into foodstuffs and you don't have to worry whether you've eaten enough. Your doc should have tested you for 'good' and 'bad' cholesterol - can't do any harm to bring it down.

 

glad you ok

 

Thanks @Sheal . My road always seems to be full of pot holes though
It amazes me how A&E have a certain attitude, until you say you were told to go there by 'one of their own'. Then its 'you did the right thing' !

I will do , definitely now that you have told me to

It's funny you should mention good and bad, because I did ask the other day. I was told that they didn't have that kind of breakdown on their results. It would have been interesting. I think my cholesterol has gone up, so I need to look back and check. I had been lowering it by diet alone, but have probably slipped a bit of late. If so, I will definitely consider the plant sterol capsules. . Thank you .

 

Cheers @Spruce :chrissy grin:
They won't keep Geezer down for long :dancing:

 

Here's hoping hearts and wings are much better soon NG and Woo.

 

My arm has come out a little, but a drop in the ocean to elsewhere

 

How do you keep active and rest? Do they mean keep active in the sense of keeping the muscles working but rest the injured area? Did they give you any practical advice on this point?

I know its not the same thing, but when I spring a minor injury, I tend to adjust my exercise regime to take all the load off the injury while working other areas. For example, when I ripped a muscle in my thigh once, I stopped doing anything that worked the legs and focused on upper body and arms instead, just so I could keep working on getting my fitness back but without further injuring my leg. I don't know the specifics of your situation in a medical sense (beyond what you've told us) so this might not help, but I just thought I'd put the idea out there.

With diabetes and your latest blood swelling situation, I'd urge you to talk to a medical professional about any plans to adjust your blood chemistry. The general advice is just that, 'general'. Again, this is an entirely different situation, but I know people who have to be careful not to thin their blood too much because they have other medical conditions that would make it dangerous for them. Of course that scenario applies to a minority of people, and even those (that I know) don't get a free ticket to fill their arteries with whatever they fancy, they have to strike a balance between not clogging themselves up and not risking an internal bleed. I don't understand the ins and outs well enough to advise, other than to suggest you talk to someone who is qualified, who has seen your medical records, and who knows what's best in your specific case.

But friendly advice aside, here's me wishing you a speedy recovery, and a bit of better luck soon.

 

Thanks CL .
I think she (AE doc), was trying to say don't sit on your butt all day, and get a clot, keep your body moving and don't sit down all day. However, don't over do it, and when you do rest, raise it and recline to aid drainage back. I guess its a case of getting a balance and being sensible. My GP said that its too late for keeping the leg up now, because its too far gone.
I won't be worrying about any other health concern, until this has healed CL, so no worries there . Thanks for your help, and concern though. Appreciated.

 

Would one of those compression bandages help? I was advised to wear one on each leg when working out, because I have some freaky thing whereby my blood pressure drops when I stop, and all my blood drains down to my legs and makes me nearly faint (at least that's the current theory from the cardio doctors, pending the outcome of my forthcoming exercise stress test to make sure its nothing else). The idea being that the compression bandages reduce the available volume in my legs, so less blood can fit in them, so more stays up in my torso and brain where its needed. Other advice I've read, although I've not been able to verify that the author knows what they're on about, is to keep the legs moving in slow but rhythmic moves for a few minutes after exercise, such as the 'boxers shuffle', so that the repeated contractions of the leg muscles help to push blood back up and out of the legs. It kind of makes sense in a way. When I was a kid, our PE teacher always said that "if you don't warm down properly after exercise, you'll die". I think he was being a bit dramatic, but if we take it to mean that its advisable to warm down, then coupled with this idea that steady rhythmic exercise keeps the blood from welling up in your legs, then it all sort of adds up, I think.

 

Yeah I think thats like the pilots wear. If the blood gets forced too low, they tighten on the legs I think, to keep the blood higher. I never keep my legs still anyway. I am always moving them around, even when on my back.
After my hematoma had filled my flesh, and I had been sorted out, I got up and went to the toilet, returned to my bedside (still standing), and then came over dizzy and sick. I thought I was going to pass out. They said it was very common to get that after you have been up a while, and not as soon as you get up. I suppose I had lost a fair bit of blood though.
I think blood pressure is lower when standing??? That could be complete BS though

 

It shouldn't be, because your body is quite clever at regulating it. It should stay more or less constant (within a certain range that's normal for you) no matter what you do, because all sorts of nerves and things sense what's happening and increase or decrease the heart rate to keep it regulated. But there's a thing called the vasovagal nerve that sometimes does freaky things, like falsely reporting that your blood pressure is dangerously high so that your heart pumps less blood to lower it and then you feel faint and puky because suddenly your brain goes short of electrolytes. Apparently lots of naturally produced chemicals and signals can over stimulate this nerve. I only learned all this recently while at the cardio outpatients place, and its a bit over my head in terms of detail, but common things to upset it are certain allergens, lactic acid (a by product of exercise) or even just being too warm.

 

The human bod is certainly a complex thing ! Especially when they all have their own characteristics .
An interesting topic. Doctors don't have an easy job.
My body is telling me its bedtime

 

That's why they get paid so much. Some people get up in arms when they see doctors salaries being published, but when you consider how much training they have to do, on an ongoing basis too, and what's at stake, I think its fair enough. They must suffer a lot of stress too. They have to make a judgement based on no more than experience, a bit of (educated) guesswork, and a few measurements and instrument readings, and if they get that judgement wrong, people die. I'd love their salary, but I don't envy them what they have to put in to earn in.