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On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:51:07 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote: wrote in message news The ovarian cyst is still there. It is a dermoid cyst (gross!). When I was in hospital, the woman in the opposite bed to me had a dermoid cyst removed. The surgeon told her that they are always benign. I know why you say it's gross, but why is it? It's a medical condition like any other. I hope yours stays small enough to avoid surgery and your health improves very soon. Tweed Thanks, Tweed. I'm just one of those people that's grossed out by almost anything medical. Just the way I am :-) Didn't help that my separated DH stopped by and when I told him, started making mutant baby jokes. Sigh. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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On 01 Oct 2006 14:30:13 GMT, Randy wrote:
wrote: Well, I've been through how many tests and I don't know what all lately, but here's the updates. Guy Warning: Some icky female stuff is mentioned. The MRI showed that I have apparently (like Randy) had at least 20 TIAs (mini-strokes). This is a bit scary, and makes it more likely I will have The Big One in the future. That is scary! I think, if you haven't already, I would see a neurologist. While I was in the hospital prior to the surgery they put me on blood thinners to help prevent stroke. I am now on a low dose aspirin regiment (81mg once per day). Purrs for a sucessfull recovery. Randy http://www.crmartin.zoomshare.com Thanks, Randy. I've seen a neurologist, and need to go back again shortly. We'll see what she says then, but the aspirin deal may not work because of my GERD. If it's not one thing, it's another. . . . Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:51:07 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: wrote in message news The ovarian cyst is still there. It is a dermoid cyst (gross!). When I was in hospital, the woman in the opposite bed to me had a dermoid cyst removed. The surgeon told her that they are always benign. I know why you say it's gross, but why is it? It's a medical condition like any other. I hope yours stays small enough to avoid surgery and your health improves very soon. Tweed Thanks, Tweed. I'm just one of those people that's grossed out by almost anything medical. Just the way I am :-) Didn't help that my separated DH stopped by and when I told him, started making mutant baby jokes. Sigh. Sensitive and supportive type of chap, then, obviously :-( There was a theory that dermoid cysts were because you would have been a twin, and the twin was reabsorbed somehow and became incorporated into the surviving twin's body. They can have all sorts of things inside like hair and teeth. The latest intelligence on this seems to be that they are merely a tumour that is capable of reproducing DNA. I did a bit of reading about ovarian tumours last year - as you can imagine - but I am not any sort of medical expert. Maybe tension could tell us more? I have kept in touch with Jayne, who had the dermoid cyst, in fact I visited her last night. We were both admitted as emergencies with severe abdominal pain, went through all the awful tests together and compared notes, were admitted again at the same time for our operations two weeks later and had them on the same day. It was kind of the hospital to deliberately put us near each other again as we'd got on so well before. There is something kind of special about sharing such an experience which has forged quite a close bond between us. She drinks like a fish, gets into fights, has the foulest mouth I have ever heard on a woman (uses the f and c word in every sentence) but I tell you what, she has a heart as big as the universe and I love her to bits. We are spending the day together here at my house next weekend. Last time I took her on a walk for an hour or more to see the birds at the local gravel pits. I thought she would love it, and she did, but she NEVER walks for longer than a few minutes apparently and her feet were blistered when we got back, so then I felt bad. Her only criteria for coming next week is "you aren't going to walk me far, are you?" LOL! I said well, maybe just 20 minutes or so.. Tweed P.S. I must just say this about Jayne. She lives in an inner city area, full of crime and she does not drive. I took her for a drive into the countryside last time she visited and she suddenly said "Wait a minute, I can smell something!" I said "what, manure?" She said "No. Fresh air!" That made me feel sad. |
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Christina Websell wrote:
wrote in message news The ovarian cyst is still there. It is a dermoid cyst (gross!). I did a bit of reading about ovarian tumours last year - as you can imagine - but I am not any sort of medical expert. Maybe tension could tell us more? There's not actually much more to tell...dermoid cysts can happen anywhere in the body, so they are not unique to the ovarian area... technically, it isn't really an ovarian tumour at all. The only effect it could theoretically have is by mass effect if it grows, impinging on the ovary or the tubes...it could potentially affect fertility that way, though likely not if the other ovary is intact. The other possible complication of dermoid cysts is if one becomes infected, in which case it can be the same risk as a hidden abscess somewhere. It is quite rare for that to happen though, and usually only if there is some other serious infection that lets loose bacteria in the bloodstream to seed in the dermoid cyst. But they certainly are not malignant tumours...that is a different kettle of fish altogether wrt the types of cells involved, and their behaviour. GingerLyn, did I spell that right?, the main concern is those repetitious TIAs (transient ischemic attacks). There are people who have them and never have a stroke, but still it is intuitively obvious that there is a risk there that needs to be addressed. Aspirin once a day, in the 81mg dose should not affect GERD which is generally aggravated by the more therapeutic dose which is usually 650 mg. However, that being said, if you are supersensitive, ask your MD about enteric-coated aspirin, which does not open or dissolve in the stomach at all, but passes through into the intestine where it does its thing... this might be just the ticket if you are worried about aggravating GERD. There are other, much stronger anti-coagulants, but they are not typically used in TIA's, since stroke-like events can be clotting-type, or hemmorhagic-type, in which case you would not want un-coagulable blood in a situation like that. If your neurologist is recommending aspirin, consider asking for the enteric-coated type and you will likely have no complications from that at all, and could reduce the frequency and risk of TIA's. Also, it might make saving your life a bit easier if you do, God forbid, have a stroke, if there is already aspirin on board. Double check it all with your neurologist and see what she has to say....there are always new treatments coming out in this area; it is an area of intense research these days. --tension |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:51:07 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: wrote in message news The ovarian cyst is still there. It is a dermoid cyst (gross!). When I was in hospital, the woman in the opposite bed to me had a dermoid cyst removed. The surgeon told her that they are always benign. I know why you say it's gross, but why is it? It's a medical condition like any other. I hope yours stays small enough to avoid surgery and your health improves very soon. Tweed Thanks, Tweed. I'm just one of those people that's grossed out by almost anything medical. Just the way I am :-) Didn't help that my separated DH stopped by and when I told him, started making mutant baby jokes. Sigh. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) Heh, they are gross. My son has one above his eyebrow. Completely innocent but it still needs to come out because if it bursts then the inner-cyst-goo can cause inflammation. We're waiting until he's a year old but I'll agree, when he was explaining it to me it sounded like a huge internal pimp. Our doctor didn't say anything about the twin theory but did explain Ian's in particular as a piece of skin that developed normally on the inside rather than outside, rightfully. Purrs everything smooths out. Separated DH sounds like a charmer. :/ Grace |
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On 4 Oct 2006 15:36:37 -0700, "tension_on_the_wire"
wrote: There's not actually much more to tell...dermoid cysts can happen anywhere in the body, so they are not unique to the ovarian area... technically, it isn't really an ovarian tumour at all. The only effect it could theoretically have is by mass effect if it grows, impinging on the ovary or the tubes...it could potentially affect fertility that way, though likely not if the other ovary is intact. The other possible complication of dermoid cysts is if one becomes infected, in which case it can be the same risk as a hidden abscess somewhere. It is quite rare for that to happen though, and usually only if there is some other serious infection that lets loose bacteria in the bloodstream to seed in the dermoid cyst. But they certainly are not malignant tumours...that is a different kettle of fish altogether wrt the types of cells involved, and their behaviour. GingerLyn, did I spell that right?, the main concern is those repetitious TIAs (transient ischemic attacks). There are people who have them and never have a stroke, but still it is intuitively obvious that there is a risk there that needs to be addressed. It's actually Ginger-lyn, but close :-) And yes, my neurologist is concerned about those. Just saw her today, and she isn't willing to say for sure that's what it is, although she thinks so. She is going to do an MRI of my neck, because apparently arthritis there can impinge on the spinal column and cause problems. She's also concerned it could be MS. Aspirin once a day, in the 81mg dose should not affect GERD which is generally aggravated by the more therapeutic dose which is usually 650 mg. However, that being said, if you are supersensitive, ask your MD about enteric-coated aspirin, which does not open or dissolve in the stomach at all, but passes through into the intestine where it does its thing... this might be just the ticket if you are worried about aggravating GERD. Can't take anything enteric coated, because I have difficulty swallowing and swallowing anxiety, so everything I take has to be liquid, crushable, or dissolvable. There are other, much stronger anti-coagulants, but they are not typically used in TIA's, since stroke-like events can be clotting-type, or hemmorhagic-type, in which case you would not want un-coagulable blood in a situation like that. If your neurologist is recommending aspirin, consider asking for the enteric-coated type and you will likely have no complications from that at all, and could reduce the frequency and risk of TIA's. Also, it might make saving your life a bit easier if you do, God forbid, have a stroke, if there is already aspirin on board. Double check it all with your neurologist and see what she has to say....there are always new treatments coming out in this area; it is an area of intense research these days. --tension thanks, tension. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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