Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

[mlooney 3,417]

4 hours ago, PSadlon said:

This is not my happy face; this is my tell me why I should not raze your corporate main office to ground level and craft your CEO's skull into a drinking vessel face.

 

It has been all most 16 years, but I have used that face before.  There are two people in this world that if I see will trigger a Sydney Scoville  level cursing spree, most likely followed by assault with what ever the most damaging thing I can find as a weapon.

[PSadlon 88]

They need more Math in that series.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

I was told there would be no math.

Still taking Augmentin. Not getting much better.

[Don Edwards 548]

On 8/18/2016 at 10:15 AM, PSadlon said:

This is not my happy face; this is my tell me why I should not raze your corporate main office to ground level and craft your CEO's skull into a drinking vessel face.

It would leak.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

Today was a four-dose Tramadol day. Shortly after I woke up, the outside of my formerly broken left ankle started hurting like hell. It was even sore to the touch and slightly swollen. I saw the doctor about it earlier in the week—he gave me an increase in my Tramadol 30-day pill count from 120 to 180. If it keeps doing this, I'm going to ask him about getting a scan of some sort (I'm not sure I can have an MRI, since I still have metal implanted in my formerly broken right ankle and in my vena cava (a Greenfield filter)).

Yes, I know about the IVC/Greenfield filter lawsuits. Mine hasn't done anything to warrant one. In fact, it helped save my life and my ankles, since the doctors couldn't give me morphine for the broken ankle(s) pain or operate on them for fear of causing blood clots due to my shockingly low blood pressure (bad enough to put me in ICU). Once they got the filter in place, they were able to give me morphine and operate to repair my ankles. I've lived with it for nine years now, and it's shown no sign of coming loose.

[CritterKeeper 1,102]

13 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

I'm not sure I can have an MRI, since I still have metal implanted in my formerly broken right ankle and in my vena cava (a Greenfield filter).

There's a link on that page which leads to a list of MRI compatbilities:

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13. GreenfieldTM Stainless Steel Vena Cava Filter

MRI Compatibility:

MRI Conditional: In vitro studies have demonstrated that magnetic force and torque at 0.35 T and 1.5 T cause no migration of Greenfield Stainless Steel Vena Cava Filters. Greenfield Stainless Steel Vena Cava Filters generate moderate artifact when MR imaged. 

There's probably similar information out there for the hardware in your ankle; my guess would be that that sort of implanted equipment has to be pretty sturdy and the small influence of an MRI wouldn't do much, but that's just a guess, albeit an educated one.  :-)

[Don Edwards 548]

3 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

the small influence of an MRI

The small influence that drags a metal chair halfway across the room and four feet in the air, then disassembles it - or turns an oxygen mask on the other side of the room into a deadly projectile?

THAT small influence?

[CritterKeeper 1,102]

I guess it would depend on what the plate/pins/screws are made of, a ferromagnetic metal like pure steel, a paramagnetic metal like titanium, or an alloy.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

4 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

I guess it would depend on what the plate/pins/screws are made of, a ferromagnetic metal like pure steel, a paramagnetic metal like titanium, or an alloy.

I asked the surgeon who put them in, and he couldn't even remember.

Sorta speaks for the kind of care I got after breaking my ankles.

[CritterKeeper 1,102]

3 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

I asked the surgeon who put them in, and he couldn't even remember.

Sorta speaks for the kind of care I got after breaking my ankles.

It wasn't in your medical record, at the touch of his fingertips?  You mean all those CSI episodes where they identify a dead body by tracing the serial number of a metal plate to the very person it was implanted into lied???  Oh, no, my world view, it is irreparably shattered!

[ijuin 572]

I would expect that it was written down somewhere, but the doc doesn't remember off the top of his head (after all, he's probably performed similar surgery for dozens of patients, so some of the details would run together in his memory after a while). Not all records are in one handy-dandy medical database file, however, so he might have to do some paper-file-cabinet diving.

[mlooney 3,417]

Friday, as I think I mentioned, I attempted to change phase the hard way.   Total fail and I lost a day in doing so.  Drugs that mess with your sleep cycle should not be used to fix your sleep cycle.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

1 hour ago, ijuin said:

I would expect that it was written down somewhere, but the doc doesn't remember off the top of his head (after all, he's probably performed similar surgery for dozens of patients, so some of the details would run together in his memory after a while). Not all records are in one handy-dandy medical database file, however, so he might have to do some paper-file-cabinet diving.

Actually, for the hardware that went into my left ankle, I could try testing it myself if I had a strong enough magnet (which I don't). I got my screws and plates back from the doctor after he removed them.

(I would have had the right ankle hardware removed as well later, but it took ages for the left side to heal. A wound care specialist had to operate on my left ankle again and apply some sort of biologic that had stem cells in it to get it to heal.)

[mlooney 3,417]

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

Friday, as I think I mentioned, I attempted to change phase the hard way.   Total fail and I lost a day in doing so.  Drugs that mess with your sleep cycle should not be used to fix your sleep cycle.

And for the love of all things lawfull good, don't take one of each of three kinds of sleeping pills you have on hand at the same time in an attempt to get to sleep.  Bad things will happen.  Thank all the Gods, Goddesses, Demigods and Heros it wasn't a bad of a thing as it could have been.

[The Old Hack 2,448]

11 hours ago, mlooney said:

And for the love of all things lawfull good, don't take one of each of three kinds of sleeping pills you have on hand at the same time in an attempt to get to sleep.  Bad things will happen.  Thank all the Gods, Goddesses, Demigods and Heros it wasn't a bad of a thing as it could have been.

Believe me, I am grateful for that, too.

[PSadlon 88]

On 8/19/2016 at 4:58 PM, Don Edwards said:

It would leak.

It just got more tempting. The insurance company dropped my shrink.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

17 hours ago, PSadlon said:

It just got more tempting. The insurance company dropped my shrink.

Damn. That seriously sucks. Here, borrow my Acme Disintegrating Gun.

[ijuin 572]

When it disintegrates, it disintegrates.

[PSadlon 88]

Ok they gave me three options for a new shrink. Since I just saw the old one Monday I am good there. I asked them to find me an opthamologist on my plan because the optometrist they sent me to can't work with me because double vision in only covered under under the medical aspect of my insurance and they only accept the vision aspect of my insurance, The first opthamologist they sent me to does deal with glases doesn't deal with double vision. The second one, which they had to have researched, ONLY works with retinas. Now they have it being researched again and should have an answer in 10 business days.

Anyone know how to seal a skull to prevent leakage?

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

8 hours ago, PSadlon said:

Anyone know how to seal a skull to prevent leakage?

I ... no. I'm not going there, no matter how tempting the joke is.

[mlooney 3,417]

23 hours ago, PSadlon said:

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Anyone know how to seal a skull to prevent leakage?

The old school way is to line it with silver or gold. 

[PSadlon 88]

Silver is probably best. That way if I go to drink and see it have been tarnished I'll know my drink is poisoned.

[The Old Hack 2,448]

1 hour ago, PSadlon said:

Silver is probably best. That way if I go to drink and see it have been tarnished I'll know my drink is poisoned.

If you used gold and it got tarnished, I would be really, really worried about what they had poisoned the drink with.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

4 hours ago, PSadlon said:

Silver is probably best. That way if I go to drink and see it have been tarnished I'll know my drink is poisoned.

 

3 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

If you used gold and it got tarnished, I would be really, really worried about what they had poisoned the drink with.

Doesn't this belong in the "Extremely Old School Politics" thread?

[The Old Hack 2,448]

1 minute ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Doesn't this belong in the "Extremely Old School Politics" thread?

You would know. Weren't you the Dean?