I've been on TRT for a little over a year and a half, and I've been struggling to keep My red blood cell count down, I feel great on TRT however I feel crappy with the higher red blood cell count. I donate every two months. I also exercise, don't smoke and I'm currently dosed at 180mg of test cyp split into 3x weekly. I'm assuming lowering my dosage would help, however I don't know if there's a diminishing effective amount. Anyway thanks to any who read and reply with their experience.
Reading about how the Navy intends to extend the range of its aircraft further and further for sorties, and remembering some anecdotes about long sorties over Afghanistan for CAS. How do pilots in small aircraft handle these long missions? I know personally I need to eat something at least every 5-6 hours or so or my blood sugar will crash and decision makings becomes...impacted. So do they have the luxury of bringing along a cliff bar in a pocket? As for hydration is there a camel bak type system somewhere in the cockpit like drivers have in NASCAR / LeMans that feeds into the helmet?
Aaaaaaannd here we are. Shit ton of open interest on call options, Shit ton of SI, high as hell borrow fee, institutions buying the fuck out of BBIG, other squeezes happening, news, pr, what else more do we need to get our reversal?
Well remember one thing. This is their (HFs and corrupt as greedy financial firms) house. You don’t just get to walk in and take their money. No, you have to be patient. Remember, we only get the scraps from the table, they eat the meal.
In other words, you don’t get to call the ocean your home, it’s the sharks home, and they do whatever the fuck they want in their house, good or bad. Just accept it.
Now, if you are patient, when they have had their meal and there is no longer any value for them to fuck around. You will be given your pay. But until then, you signed up for a volatile mother fucking stock that you found on Reddit, so act like you are in one. These mother fuckers don’t owe you anything. Know what the hell you’re getting into.
In other words, manage your own risk and don’t blame anybody, it was your choice to go into their house in the first place.
I’ve got an interview for a dialysis unit tomorrow and I anticipate that this is a question they’ll ask, and I’m finding info online about managing it (midodrine, etc) but not the nursing considerations. So in this situation, what does a dialysis nurse do? Stop the patients treatment and call the nephrologist? Call the nephrologist before doing anything? Do they give them fluid blouses?
My mom has had type 2 diabetes for several decades and has managed well up until this point. She is on 40 mg of Prednisone as of Sunday (20 in am, 20 in pm) and her fasting blood sugar this morning was 217. Until she can taper, does anyone have any tips for management? She's been on Prednisone before, but not this high a dose. She is checking with her doctor, of course, but any tips would be much appreciated. She takes metformin, a long-acting, and short-acting insulin and has access to a stationary bike.
I've been Googling but finding mostly medical journals, so wondering if anyone can speak in laymans terms. Mom is on her 3rd hospitalization for a single case of acute pancreatitis resulting from gallstones. Gallstones are gone, cysts have developed, one was bleeding but has stopped. Getting this info second hand through dad and trying not to burden the medical staff by asking them to relay news to me separately. Also trying not to cause alarm for mom by asking her or the staff tending to her. I am out of state and trying to keep up to speed without overreacting.
For anyone working with a MFM - do you ever feel like your team makes suggestions that are just flat out wrong in regards to bolus and basal settings? I had an infuriating email from the team I'm working with (my regular endo wanted MFM to handle my sugars in pregnancy instead - that's a whole other can of worms) but it seems like the changes they're suggesting are just "textbook" changes and don't factor in reality or what I know of my body and how diabetes affects me personally. They didn't like my settings so told me to change them, but my average according to my dexocom is 96 with a standard deviation of 18. I feel like because my basal settings aren't textbook they just want me to change it because they don't like it, not because it's affecting my management. They also didn't provide any justification or explanation for the suggested changes. I've only been working with them for a few weeks, but I already don't trust them.
You are my hero. I have a draining hematoma and this has been the best way to deal with blood without changing gauze every hour and no tape is involved so my skin is way happier! Thank you!!
Hi, y'all; a little bit of context:
Stage 3a CKD, BP that spikes high and then plummets to the low range, pre-syncope and full-on syncope. I drink water like a champ all day every day and avoid dehydrating fluids outside of a small cup of coffee in the morning. The CKD is recently diagnosed, but the BP and syncope symptoms have been my whole life. My electrophysiologist is stumped on them wrt cardiac causation but suggested there may be a correlation with my kidney function and to follow up with a neph. Currently, I'm on midodrine and receiving IV fluids 2x weekly.
My question(s) is: 1. DAE deal with these symptoms on a moderate-to-severe scale, and if so, 2. How do y'all manage? I tried searching the sub but couldn't find much under "syncope" or "passing out", so I'm not sure if I'm barking up the right tree, but at this point I'm willing to shoot my shot anywhere.
Thanks!--I appreciate any input.
If only he would just keep his mouth shut and wrestle while I bring his name into something that has nothing to do with him!
