medical update

[cornerofmadness]

Since some of you worry:
A. head cat scan - normal
B. Back x-ray - arthritis. But there was no herniated discs...which makes the numbness more mysterious. Wonder if an arthritic spur is stabbing a nerve

You know it's the last few days of class, there's students buzzing in and out of my office asking 'what do i have to do to pass?' Um you could have paid attention the first 14 weeks of class.

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[sita-137.livejournal.com]

Students don't like that answer.

...Maybe you should tell them, "take it over again next term. And try paying attention."

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i've said words to that effect

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Good for the good news.

And *snort* at your students.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

a pox upon some of them

[druinsanity.livejournal.com]

yay that the cat scan was normal. *hugs*

Silly students. Their college logic does not resemble our earth logic.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh their logic does not resemble anything in reality

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's so true

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the cat scan is normal.

Face it, your body defys medical science.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'd say i'm the next step in human evolution but no one wants to evolve into this! Maybe I'm part cro-magnon...

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I didnt know you were going for a CAT scan, but I am nonetheless pleased to hear it was normal. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah a couple weeks ago for the chronic headaches (which this only means we don't know WHY i'm having them)

thanks

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Could it just be stress?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sinuses most likely. I've had trouble all my life but they've gotten worse. migraines are in there too but these are different. They disrupt my sleep

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Between the arthritis and your sinuses, you might be suffering from what I call 'strapping headaches'. When something causes the strap-like muscles under your scalp that run from forehead to neck to contract and squeeze, it can feel a lot like a migraine and a lot like a sinus headache - but is something all together different, needing different care. I've found that an Ibuprofen and half a Flexoril will do the trick for me. My doc prescribed the relaxant years ago when I first started getting the headaches, and it is the only thing that has helped.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh i get those too but for me they are in the back of my head when the sternoclaidomastoid muscle (strap muscle) and the occipitofrontalis spasm up. These are still different.

And sadly I can't tolerate NSAIDS of any kind and flexoril does squat for me. I've had it when the back problem has gotten bad and it's like relaxer...hello? Where are you?

[dknightshade.livejournal.com]

Glad the CAT scan was normal.

You know, one of my general chemistry professors freshman year was on a mission to cull the pre-med flock. He told us the first class that he always put his notes in the library. He warned that you were unlikely to pass the class if you never showed up and just got the notes out of the library. The not so serious, entitlement pre-med crowd got their collective butts kicked. The curve in that class was awesome! I could have skipped the final entirely and still passed (not with a good grade, mind, but I could have passed). But he said in class that he knew he was going to hear from people at the end what they could do to pass and it was always the people who hadn't come to class.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

your chemistry tale surprises me not.apparently humans aren't tremendously bright or prehaps we're just that lazy

[dknightshade.livejournal.com]

Lazy, I think. Very lazy.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no argument

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: I'm very glad the cat scan was normal.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

Our Ruffles Have Ridges

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I also have arthritis on my spine. So far mine doesn't bother me much. I've had it for about 10 years, and it was discovered by a chiropractor of all people. He ordered x-rays of my back on my first visit and found that I have mild (undiagnosed) scoliosis and arthritis. (Don't I sound attractive... *sigh*). At any rate, other than my neck bothering me at times, it doesn't seem to be bad enough to make me gripe (and you know how I love to gripe...).

Re: Our Ruffles Have Ridges

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

to be honest i'm not convinced the arthritis is the problem unless there is a spur pressing on a nerve and luckily it's such a classical L3 dermatome problem that I know exactly where the problem is if i can ever find a doctor here in nowhere'sville