How Are You Feeling Right Now?

[LumberJack]

I’m worried. I’m posting here compulsively. When I try to do something else (this late at night would be overdue for nighttime routine tasks), I get that signature flavor of anxiety that I know is kept at bay by avoidance. Hopefully writing this out will make it easier for me to redirect my actions.

 

[MAC0]

Feeling bad its been a real bad week I lost my job recently and I had a phone appointment with the job Centre this week was already not doing well as it was the 5th UK heatwave anyway I have to job search for 20 hours every 2 weeks but my advisor who rang said the 11 jobs I applied for was not enough in 70 hours I should do not sure where 70 came from

also broke my glasses woke up to find the arm broke and cannot be fixed so now I wearing an old pair which I have issues seeing with but cannot afford new ones just yet

also my old issue is kicking in again any little twinge of anything form my teeth and I go down hill fast

this is my life its just bad on bad

 

[JanisSPK]

Good luck with the brain scan @JanisSPK. I feel you, as I just electively went through the same thing last month, if only for peace of mind. I'm hoping you will find the same to lighten the load of everything going on in your life right now. Sending your way.

Thank you so much and I hope you got answers and relief and peace yourself

 

[JanisSPK]

Honestly I know very little about seizures, except that certain anti-seizure meds also have a mood stabilizing effect. I'm on Lamotrigine, for example. I had another one earlier, V- something, but that did utterly nothing. Is it quite unusual for a seizure problem to have a "breakout" of symptoms, as in your case? What I'm wondering (since you mentioned your nursing background) is that maybe the body just changes over time requiring periodic medication evaluations.

That’s probably the case the neurologist was a bit baffled since the seizures are so low grade to begin with from the small spot that just appeared on my brain about 4 years ago and the small change in med dosage stopped things quickly. It was my curiosity that provoked me asking for a scan to be done which is not my normal direction but it is the brain so I am prone to explore the situation further just for clarity. Thanks so much!

 

[AvidFan]

Feeling bad its been a real bad week I lost my job recently and I had a phone appointment with the job Centre this week was already not doing well as it was the 5th UK heatwave anyway I have to job search for 20 hours every 2 weeks but my advisor who rang said the 11 jobs I applied for was not enough in 70 hours I should do not sure where 70 came from

also broke my glasses woke up to find the arm broke and cannot be fixed so now I wearing an old pair which I have issues seeing with but cannot afford new ones just yet

also my old issue is kicking in again any little twinge of anything form my teeth and I go down hill fast

this is my life its just bad on bad

I'm sorry. I hope it can improve just a little bit, it's horrible when all these things happen at once.

 

[AvidFan]

That’s bizarre. Why the gender discrimination in prescriptions for antibiotics? I’m aware of the science around the idea of only using antibiotics when an infection is known for certain. Some people want antibiotics for every common cold or respiratory infection, which are viral about 99.9% of the time. And this is how we end up with antibiotic resistant bacteria.

You have a test strip, that I assume is proof positive of a UTI, so it’s appropriate to prescribe antibiotics barring any other complications. I’m wondering how the equipment between your legs factors into this decision. IIRC, women are more prone to UTIs by way of the geometric differences between male and female parts.

Still, once an infection is identified, what else could it be? I am just thinking in electronic words; please don’t feel pressured to answer this speculation, lol.

That's exactly it - in men they automatically treat it as complicated UTI because the plumbing should technically protect from these infections happening - longer urethra etc. But it's not infallible. Also they need to do sensitivity testing on samples, etc.

As it happens, I finally managed to speak to someone who listened and was given another 7 days to try to clear it up. The bug on last sample was the same as on the first one, almost proving beyond doubt that this is an under treated infection and not a new one. Unfortunately they are also trying to nudge me down a cancer testing pathway which I think is far too early and causing me anxiety. Have also been referred to a urologist. If it's like 2019, the infection will clear and then I'll be left with a load of tests and appointments for something that has gone. I do hope it clears it this time but will leave the referrals in place and assess later.