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Went to the Saw Bones............................OH Boy Update #3
Sam06
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I went to the DR a few weeks ago because I have been having some health issues; Lack of appetite along with a large weight loss(25lb in 4 months), nerve pain and just feeling like crap most of the time. Until this year I had not been sick in 42 years except for food poison, dengeue fever and stuff like that.
He checked me out and took 4 things of blood and 2 stool samples . He knows I was in Africa a lot and took Malaria pills(mefaquine) for darn near 12 years straight. The crap messed up my liver but it has come around.
So all the testing and all the other crap they did to me and it turns out I am health as a horse: A1C is 2.5, prostate of a 30 y/o, heart in great shape, lungs are fine, liver is working good to get the booze out of my system you name it I am in great shape..............
Except one minor thing
I have Rocky Mountain Spotted fever
He said that is where the nerve pain is coming from and the feeling like crap.
So now I am one doxycycline for a month and then more blood tests.
I spent all my life in tick infested woods and never have a problem. I got this tick playing golf in April.
Oh yea I also tested positive for COVID 19 antibody so I had it.
I am so ready to get over 2020 what a sucky year.
RLTW
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It could be a Whole lot worse Sam.
You posted that you thought you had already had Covid, so this is just confirmation. That could be good news, if there is any anti-bodies or immunity.
That Golf, is a dangerous sport, be careful out there.
Hope ya get to feelin' better real quick, Sam, and glad you found out it is something relatively easy to cure.
Your doctor is a genius to catch a rather obscure ailment such as you have. Give me his name I will nominate him for the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Thank God you got such a good doctor and got on the antibiotics in time.
When I knew I was sick -that something horribly wrong was occurring and was finally forced to go to the GP doc and complain...
They did extensive blood draws and tests - lab work along with skin and hair samples - stool and urine - fasting and non fasting including the stool sample swipe and mail off initial test...
Believe it or not the first cancer test came back negative - but my iron level score was below 3 and in a normal functional person should be 10-13...
I was essentially suffocating - the lack of iron killing production of bone marrow and red blood cells - dramatically cutting back internal oxygen transfer through the blood stream and circulatory system. Also sever potassium and magnesium deficiances leading to muscles cramping and lock up - horrible pain and disability - akin to having a reoccurring heart attack with anoxia...
Chest pains and vertigo and nausea and dizzy spells and periods of inability to function on a basic level.
Took a little while as they treated these issues and tried to abate the damage and restore normal baseline parameters before they turned to MRI's and CT scans and X-ray's and ultrasounds followed by a GI DOC colonoscopy to nail down the stage 4 / end stage cancer with lymph node involvement...
That from chest abdomen and pelvis scans which showed the massive tumor...
Only later when I blacked out and cracked my head open was a head CT performed and the brain tumor found...
Lucky you that they new some of your history and kept up with testing until they figured things out - at a stage were they can treat you and abate the damage and cure you? Or handle the disease with regular meds?
Thank god they found it and here's hoping they can fix it.
Mike
Well, could be a lot worse. Could have been Lyme Disease! "
Haven't had RMSF but had LYME. Having to go by the hospital after work for the daily IV therapy wasn't any fun at all. The IV line was left in my forearm for the duration of the treatment schedule so everyone who saw me had to ask what was wrong with me.
Please leave me out of your Bromance.
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