Health check?

Really? God, most of my pals are "don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you."

yay.

it's for the best tho.
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ounce of prevention worth £11,000 of cure - an annual checkup isn't self-indulgent in the least

I had a checkup about 3 months ago (and here they check everything). I'm also 31, and pretty healthy. Though I found out my cholesterol was high...it was a bit concerning, but it's better to know, early.

Yay! Me too! I'm learning to love plain oatmeal and unjuiced blackberries and sugar-free passionfruit Slurpees!

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made it!

i'm not there yet. i've started changing things and cutting back knowing if i don't go slowly, i'll fall of the wagon. it's not easy because of the family though. we're set in our ways at times and i think my wife just about flipped a gourd when i suggested that i wanted to become vegetarian again. she thought she had comfortably won that battle. and not that i'm so settled even.. .

i'm still taking it all in. i need to draw up a battle plan.
m.

[drink, COUGH, etc]

bit worried today...tho prob unnecessarily so. dr found a small lump at edge of my "back passage" (apparently that's the safe word for it in surgeries.) it had blistered and was bleeding a bit. she said prob no need for concern and gave me antibiotics, saying to come back in a week for a checkup, but really has got me concerned. my grandad died of bowel cancer and the fact i've had crappy general health for 4/5 years scares me too. plus have always got upset stomach and diarrhoea easily. maybe one for i love tmi but just easier to talk about something like this here.

i hope things work out ok. wouldn't waste time fussing over it, i think

Probably something like this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002487/

I have a uh, friend, who had such a thing. The only real complication is that it can develop into a fistula, but even that is fixed by a quick outpatient surgery. Most of the time, antibiotics fix it and the body heals up.

ah yeah you're prob both right...if it was anywhere else on my body i wouldn't even give a second thought. just a bit worried cos of my other health probs or whatev.

ugh. I prob shoul take advantage of work paying for one of these every year huh

i went nhs...it was free and while in the waiting room i watched an art house film about how to wash your hands. at least i think it was a film.

not sure the imf will stamp the form if i try to go through whatever public option we have nominally available tbh

xp However, it does have the best name ever: fistula-in-ano.

yeah, it's really friggin entertaining until you get it

Not that I'm trying to downgrade the seriousness of the matter, not at all.

god...the fucking nhs. went back today as was bleeding a bit in the night, older doctor says "it's a pile", gives me ointment, take this. should be grand. needless worry cos of crappy uncertain first point of contact. waste of time for the british tax payer </daily mail> but actually kinda is. anyone else find with the nhs you end up going twice to get a proper diagnosis after they just dole you out a bag of antibiotics the first time around, and don't listen to you?

the above has happened me every time, prolonging illness by about 10 days in one instance.

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Much better than prolonging your illness by 10 days because you're saving up for the doctor's visit and the medications.
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sorry...good point!

three months after my torn labrum surgery i appear to have torn the REAR part of the labrum; doc says it's because of the seating of the joint which sucks.

What sucks equally bad is that when they didd the MRI to check, the imaging came back with some discolored spots within the thoracic spine, which the lab tech marked as "potentially indicative of myeloma"... so the orthopedist's office calls me four weeks ago and says I need to come in right away because "they found a tumor" (seriously, fuck that secretary; that's a crazy thing to tell anyone over the phone).

Four weeks later, I finally got in to see an oncologist who has me wait for an hour then says he thinks that the MRI tech was seeing something small and he felt they were over exaggerating the issue, that my bloodwork seemed normal and that i was asymptomatic so I was highly unlikely to be actively dying.

They took myeloma specific bloodwork, sent the last MRI to their in-house techs for their opinion and scheduled a follow-up in three months to do a fresh MRI to see if anything major changed but the take-away was “I’m not saying you don’t have cancer, just that I'd be surprised if this was indicative of spinal cancer.”

I am chalking this up as “not a thing” and letting it go but that was a month of stress I'd rather not have to deal with and wouldn't wish on anyone. even the good news is fucking stressful. And my arm still fucking hurts!

awww sorry forks, that is the worst to leave you hanging like that, the worst feeling

the person from the office who is not a doctor bringing up tumor on the phone is way beyond fucked

yeah, no idea what that was about. i think she just was told he needs to come in early because there's evidence of cancer and she was acting the fool.

anyways. i go out of my way to MOSTLY not talk about my personal life on here but this was my first cancer brush of any kind and it was unpleasant as hell. I'll pass in the future.