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sudonim posted:Holy poo poo! Honestly my recovery went better than it did for my second kid which I had the standard way. Modern medicine is wild. And yeah those moms can go gently caress themselves, how you get the kid out is like the least important part of anything as long as it works. We haven't played Kirby, we should give it a try. Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker and Mario Odyssey are big hits over here. Oh! Not me but my dad had non-Hodgkins lymphoma so they took out some stem cells and then chemotherapied him so hard it nuked his bone marrow and then put the stem cells back in so he could continue making blood. This was more than a decade ago and he has been cancer free and relatively healthy since.
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Solenna posted:Honestly my recovery went better than it did for my second kid which I had the standard way. Modern medicine is wild. And yeah those moms can go gently caress themselves, how you get the kid out is like the least important part of anything as long as it works. We haven't played Kirby, we should give it a try. Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker and Mario Odyssey are big hits over here. Mario did what?
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Piss Creep posted:I dont think drugs generally have your past times in their best interests i went off my meds years ago and ended up in the grippy sock hospital and since then i've never skipped a dose. but sometimes you just miss dropping hundreds on a violin you'll never learn to play too
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R.L. Stine posted:i went off my meds years ago and ended up in the grippy sock hospital and since then i've never skipped a dose. but sometimes you just miss dropping hundreds on a violin you'll never learn to play too thank you for this.
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Jan 30, 2023 17:44
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Bad Purchase posted:appendix surgery Had a spare one put in?
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Jan 30, 2023 18:34
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i don’t know, i wasn’t awake
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immodium ad is one of the only pills in the world to do what it says it will do
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kntfkr posted:immodium ad is one of the only pills in the world to do what it says it will do you want LESS diarrhea?????
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I always thought Imodium was that powder you mix into a cup of water or some isotonic drink, but its a pill and it stops you making GBS threads to death
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Dystopia Barbarian posted:Penicillin is pretty clutch. I would have sawed off my own foot if it weren't for Zyloprim and Colchicine. Pretty sure uric acid causes some form of kidney stone as well so need to be careful there too.
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Jan 30, 2023 19:38
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I guess dentistry and root fillings saved me from dieing or going insane from the pains OR possibly brain damage. Still hate the dentist though see you in hell you weirdo!
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Toxic Mental posted:you want LESS diarrhea????? if i'm about to dance for a competition or i got kumite, then yeah. don't want the trots bro
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kntfkr posted:if i'm about to dance for a competition or i got kumite, then yeah. don't want the trots bro Thanks, Ghost of Bruce Lee With the Runs.
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I was shot in the head in Iraq and died while they were dragging my rear end into the hospital yet here I am to tell the tale. Any other point in history I would have stayed dead.
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Toradol injections saved my life when i dealt with back spasms, because i would have had to jump off a ledge otherwise to stop the pain
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Had a huge chunk of my foot flesh ripped off when I was a kid due to a babysitter loving around and was fine shortly after, no limp, infection, etc. Also I had a tooth crack while mountain climbing and get infected before I got home and could get in for a removal appt. If I had to deal with that pain for more than a week with no hopes of modern painkillers or removal, I'd be the world's biggest rear end in a top hat all the time if not dead.
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I would have lived my entire life with a congenital birth defect (trigger finger) where it not for the good graces of modern medicine. I also would have a lovely permeant abscess in my rear end cheek (pilondal cyst). I actually saved somebody else's goony rear end by having the same haplotype as them (bone marrow donation). There's about a half dozen infections that I've had that probably would've cost me a body part or my life were it not for modern antibiotics. I'm currently down with food poisoning and were it not for oral rehydration fluid, probably would be in a far worse way.
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Modern Vaccines have made it such that the scariest infectious disease I've ever had was the seasonal flu. Pre-Covid, it is kinda nutty to think that the scariest disease I had to think about was the common cold, with the flu being kinda on the sidelines. I think the goofy XKCD comic about this rings pretty true: "The heroes of [The Medical Field] have slain one of the four horseman of the apocalypse".
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Almost 25 years ago, I got flu which turned into pneumonia (I got the shots for both btw). Spent a week in the hospital and another week on supplemental oxygen. I thought at the time, just 60 years prior and I would have died because there were no antibiotics.
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Nuebot posted:And I had the skeletal structure of an 80 year old before I was 30. Haven't had any seizures since getting on this stuff though! Yikes! The last thing I need is boneitis. gg on staying seizure free though. A bunch of crazy medical miracles before and during my birth, but I don’t remember any of that stuff. I’ve spent a total of 3 weeks in epilepsy monitoring units, had a couple PET scans, countless MRIs and EEGs, some kind of micro-array EEG as part of the monitoring unit stay over the course of 4-5 years All of this culminated into a brain surgery where they stapled my head into a rig so it wouldn’t move and drilled a hole in the back to operate in the front. Specialist surgeons and techs came from across the US to make this happen (just after COVID hit so I was lucky to get any OR time). The docs ran a small fiber optic line through the base of my brain/occipital lobe, snaked it through the side, and blasted out the scar tissue in the temporal lobe that seemed to be the problem. Three years later, I’m off depakote and clonopin and feel better than I have in years. Seizure free, and at my next neuro appointment I’ll submit my paperwork to be able to drive again  I never think of my seizure situation as bad. I live a mostly normal life and never feared random grand mal seizures. But my neuro scared me straight by reminded me of the chronic & degenerative nature of them. The seizures undermine the brain’s function, and it turns out I need my brain - it’s where all my stuff is.
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I had that weird swine flu way back when I lived in San Diego, walked into the hospital with a 103 fever and they ended up quarantining me in a room, the doctor started yelling for staff when he left the room and it was pretty freaky. I was so dehydrated they gave me two bags of IV and managed to get my symptoms in time to give me the theraflu or whatever the antiviral was for it I was legit hallucinating, would not recommend. Wish I had an IV drip at home for causal use tho, that poo poo ruled
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I hosed myself up pretty good while climbing on rocks in a local park last summer. I fell all of 8 feet onto my hands/face and passed out. I woke up with a bone sticking out of my arm. Without cell phones and modern surgical practices I would probably be dead or at least down a hand.
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all the numerous vaccinations I had as a child and adult antibiotics the anti-anxiety medication that I take which allows me to almost function as a normal human allergy medication replacement hormones
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I, too, am a member of the vaccinated epileptic brotherhood.
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Knot My President! posted:I had that weird swine flu way back when I lived in San Diego, walked into the hospital with a 103 fever and they ended up quarantining me in a room, the doctor started yelling for staff when he left the room and it was pretty freaky. I was so dehydrated they gave me two bags of IV and managed to get my symptoms in time to give me the theraflu or whatever the antiviral was for it hey fellow swine flu haver. mine developed into pneumonia. also had a brain tumor removed, id probably be either dead or at least massively disabled if it hadnt been taken out.
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I have rheumatoid arthritis, started at 25, and let me tell you that poo poo still sucks even when properly medicated and also the meds are slightly unpleasant. But I probably wouldn't be able to work and possibly would be using a cane by now otherwise. gently caress my genetics.
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They removed a softball sized cancerous tumor from my chest, and smaller one from my thyroid. Even 20 years ago, the open heart surgery one would have been touch and go.
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I got Valley Fever a few years back, and were it not for antifungal meds I'd probably still be coughing up blood and also dead.
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in 8th grade, the side of my face became very swollen right where the hinge of my jaw is, making it impossible to bite into most foods or do anything except sip beverages. I looked bizarrely asymmetrical and my friends pointed and laughed when they noticed it at lunch time. Turns out I had an infected lymph node and after being prescribed Tegopen by my doctor (who was also caught off guard by how swollen my face was), it cleared up within a week and never came back. My wrist fracture that healed wrong would have slowly turned my hand into a barely usable claw were it not for modern orthopedic surgery.
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R.L. Stine posted:i went off my meds years ago and ended up in the grippy sock hospital and since then i've never skipped a dose. but sometimes you just miss dropping hundreds on a violin you'll never learn to play too I have def been in that place a few times. Few different states. I too have to say that even though the side effect profiles of most of these antipsychotics and snri's and whatnot are kinda bad, I think my quality of life, but more importantly, the quality of life of those around me is really worth a lot more than how the side effects are. I think something that hasn't been mentioned is modern anesthesology. I have had a number of operations and I couldn't imagine just taking a pull on a bottle of glen livet....eh who am I kidding evan williams and then biting down on a wooden spoon while some dude in a bloody trenchcoat roots around in my guts. I was a heroin addict for many years. Something that is kind of a mixed bag and I have thought quite a bit about is maintenence. The problem for me is that the reason I used was the fact I didn't have health insurance and I had untreated mental illness that was making my life a freaking nightmare. I was on suboxone, and subutex for a long time. Years even. The problem is it doesn't really solve the other issues in your life and if you are in the United States and you haven't been receiving care of any sort because thats how we do it here for poor people that hit a certain level then those issues will remain unresolved due to lack of ability get insurance. Working a fulltime job and still being homeless some of the month was the only way I could afford my prescription for suboxone, and then I finally found a doctor that would prescribe me the much cheaper subutex. I was still miserable though. Modern medicine still hasn't solved greed. E: I forgot about something else. Hopefully you never end up at the ER for phenylephrine. its embarrassing. I too have seizures...gotta love the sweet sweet seizure meds. still cant go six months without a grand mal so I get cleared to drive and less than a month later I have one and I have to tell my doctor and he is like set the clock back to 0. ManBoyChef fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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who has two thumbs and can also thank the c-section for her life and health? this goon, over here. per my mother, I was a breech birth and I'd managed to wrap my umbilicus around my neck, so trying to get me out the old-fashioned way might well have strangled me to death. particular thanks to the astute nurse who noticed something off in my mother's labor and spoke up with the doctor about it
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SatansOnion posted:who has two thumbs and can also thank the c-section for her life and health? this goon, over here. per my mother, I was a breech birth and I'd managed to wrap my umbilicus around my neck, so trying to get me out the old-fashioned way might well have strangled me to death. particular thanks to the astute nurse who noticed something off in my mother's labor and spoke up with the doctor about it Oh yeah, my older sister was breeched, so she was a c-section, and then I was a repeat c-section.
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Solenna posted:When I was pregnant with my daughter I had a condition known as complete placental previa, which meant the placenta completely covered the cervix. In other words the sac of blood vessels that is supposed to come out in one piece after baby is born was 100% in the way of baby getting born and would tear itself apart if I want into labour. I looked up mortality rates and if left untreated it's something like 50% maternal mortality and 95% fetal mortality. I had no idea that red bag horse births can happen in people but it makes total sense. Glad y'all were okay! Rad-daddio posted:I got Valley Fever a few years back, and were it not for antifungal meds I'd probably still be coughing up blood and also dead. High 5, it almost killed me. El Paso would not check for it, but Tacoma did and flipped out and shoved me full of antifungals for a while until I was kind of a person again. Still on inhalers and poo poo because my lungs are still kinda screwed. I'm another c-section kid. Plus constant ear infections and a couple of not-breathing episodes as a child, the asthma the valley fever caused, anemia, hypoglycemia for years (and now hyperglycemia/beetus!), pcos, vaccines, antibiotics, and that most recent thing where I almost died because of necrotizing fasciitis + mrsa going loving nuts in my neck. I can't even begin to tell you how many cars I've been hit by and the amount of imaging I've had done to make sure I didn't get it worse than it appears I did. And just so much else. Without modern medicine, I'd have never made it out of Mom and the world would be a much less bitchy place because of that.
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