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Medical « Zen5.me Zen5.meWell-nighZen5.me   RSS   Archive for the ‘Medical’ Category Oral Conscious sedation dentistry … what is it really like? 08 Oct I am not red-faced to shoehorn that I have a phobia involving my mouth, teeth, and throat area.  Because of this, I stave unrepealable things.  Vomiting scares the crap out of me and I run from vomiting children, yes, plane my own…., I panicked through a neck ultrasound that was done, and I stave the dentist. So, without escaping two years, I started feeling a pain I couldn’t ignore so I went in.  One of my front teeth need a root waterway and crown.  Another nearby needed two fillings.  On top of that two theeth were slanted poorly, causing supplies to collect often that would soon lead to future problems.  So, I decided to be proactive this time in hopes of saving me increasingly work later, I would just get four crowns on my four front teeth.and the bad one would moreover need a root canal.  The insurance will pick up a piece but I will be stuck with a lot considering they don’t do preventative measures in these cases. The thought of going through 4 crowns with 1 root waterway seems horrible to me, so I am doing conscious sedation.  I hope it works!  The plan is no supplies or drink without midnight tomorrow.  Tuesday morning, I wake at 7am and take 2mg of Lorazapam.  Hubby drives me in and doctor assess if I need increasingly meds.  Then we start…I will blog well-nigh how it goes and feels afterwards… plane if I am still upper on drugs and then make a,more,coherent version after… wish me luck… TO BE CONTINUED…     No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Nora Snoring Device an self-sustaining review 25 Feb Snoring was really rhadamanthine a problem for my husband and I.  I was not sleeping but we did not want to go to separate beds.  We tried a sleep study and he was unsure for a Cpap and that seemed expensive and like a lot f work.  We tried the nose strips, the xhim straps, and he saw several ENTs.   Some nose sprays helped but would requite him underdone noses without a week. When I would get frustrated while sleeping, I would try moving his s pillow and that would “adjust” him and sometimes stop the snoring for a bit which is why Nora unromantic to me. It was doing what I was intuitively trying too do.  It was expensive though, still it had a mney when guarantee and I had to try.  I looked for reviews but they were all reviews from unjust sources trying to sell the product so I couldn’t trust them. I have no affiliation, just a customer. Ths smday 2, so the jury s still out too.  But, so far, i will report what we have seen.  It took a long time to get here, was when ordered.  It was easy to set up.  The pad under the pillow surprised me with how much it inflates.  As f now, hubby will start to snore and just get into a light snore and then it triggers and he stops.  Before, his light snore would get louder and louder until we were both awake. He says he has been woken up from it but didn’t elaborate but seems to fall right when to sleep and the unconfined news is that I am not waking up all night long. So, on day 2, I am pleased, I will let you know if anything changes.   No Comments Posted in Medical   What to know surpassing you consider a tummy tuck / Adominoplasty 22 Feb  This is a very difficult surgery. Don’t compare it and how well you did in other surgeries. Don’t listen to your friend , Sally, who was at work in one week and running in 5 weeks. Everyone is different. Know the variegated ways the surgery can be done, drainless, drains, or quilted with small drains. Know the doctor really well, make sure you are well-appointed with his practices if the worst happens. Ask him, if I have complications, how often will you see during those times.  how will I know what complications to squint for? How often can I undeniability or text or see you if I am having problems? Ask well-nigh scar revisions and how those work. Read all paperwork and make sure you know the risks, what they mean, what to squint for, what will happen, how they fix them, etc.Withoutyour surgery, your surgeon can have very variegated ideas of superintendency than other doctors.  It is wise to trust your gut and get second options if needed.  RealSelf is a unconfined resource. Understand what is stuff done.  How long is the surgery.  What other procedures will be done, for example, lipo and where? Know what to expect without surgery.  Will the lipo areas hurt and be bruised.nnhow how long does that last?  Should it swell?  How long?  What happens if I fell a lumpy zone or squishy zone or a really nonflexible area?  What if I have unrepealable types of pain that are variegated from the regular pains. If I need wound care, how often are you going to see me?  Can I text whenever something worries me?Surpassingre getting a TT know that this is a BIG surgery.  Expect 2-4 weeks lanugo and then slowly towers recovery from there.  Everyone is different, some heal faster, some plane slower.  You moreover don’t know who will have wound issues.  You need good home superintendency and support. Things to buy are:  A walker, it will save your when lip unruffle books or music or movies but stuff to do while hanging out bored eventaully need scar cream, I like Mederma wide scar gel. you moreover should have a shower chair you moreover might like coconut oil to massage stomach with and can use on the scar. throat lozenges (you don’t want to cough) protein for healing zinc, vit c, and bromelein for supplements   Know now things like that you are most likely getting a vag lift … This means, your pubic hair line goes up to your scar now and you have a lot increasingly hair than before.  It moreover repositions the vaginal opening so sex feels different.  The angles are off, it takes some getting used to. Know that your mons pubis zone can get quite swollen and squint distirbing. Know that many people have vitals sawed-off problems.  Swelling can last for a long time.  It gets the worst between weeks 3 and 8 and then starts to get largest but you still get swelling at the end of the day or without exercise, Read my post on wound care, squint at the photos, this happens to people, could you deal with it if it was you?  I liked drainless but drains may have saved me from all my wound problems, so I don’t know. Ideally, I would want a quilted tideway with 1 small drains at the flap. There is tightness, numbness, healing, etc issues to think about.  It really take at least one year to recover, that is a long time.  At 2 months now, I still have some swelling, lots of swelling at my unshut wound, I have one wound still unshut and flipside closed, I have a vitals sawed-off trying to heal, and I have a ton of tightness in my lower stomach.  I moreover have nonflexible scar tissue forming in large areas near the scars that are painful.  It is less flexible and will throbb. It it is a big surgery.Increasinglythan just, yeah, let’s go get my stomach unappetizing today.  Good luck with your choice.  Most women don’t regret it but do wish they were largest informed well-nigh what to expect.         No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Caring for and packing an unshut wound 22 Feb Wound Healing Tips:  Photos / Images of wound healing over time   You can get an unshut wound from many variegated reasons, in the end however, we are all dealing with the issue of how to get it to heal quickly.  Many wounds come from surgery when an incision does not stay tropical or there is tissue death, necrosis, that must be managed. It can moreover come from an infection.  My wound came from a seroma of fluid putting pressure on my incision and therefore, causing it to open. I will requite translating in unstipulated and in story mode based on what happened to me.  Your wound could be any size.  It will have a length, width, and depth.   It moreover might tunnel through sealed layers of the skin and have a width with in the tunnel.  What matters most is knowing the dimensions so you can measure progress.  My wound was well-nigh 2 inches long, 1 inch wide, and 6 inches deep in a tunnel that had a diameter of well-nigh an inch.  It was pretty big.   Suggestion: Measure and record your wound size. Initially, my wound looked terrible, it had woebegone stuff in it (pic 1) and it was unhealthy looking.  It unquestionably needed something tabbed debridement.  This gets rid of unhealthy tissue so new tissue can grow.  The doctor felt virtually with a long Qtip and packed with wet gauze and saline.  Later, I had to replace the gauze and do this twice per day.  This whoopee does help slowly debride the wound but largest and faster methods can be used such as lightly scraping with a scalpel or using Medihoney, which I sooner used and this helped debride the wound very well. Wound needs debridement – pic 1 Wet to dry dressings pic 2   I have a video link on YouTube that shows me doing the wet to dry packing of the wound.  Remember that this is a deep hole, so it is like a magic trick of disappearing scarves. The link is at http://youtu.be/Q354L0Vvd5c When doing these wet to dry dressings, I would have to imbricate the wound up with something (the dry part of wet to dry dressings) to reservation all the fluid.  It was a mix of exudate and serous fluid.  In the beginning, there was a lot of it.  I would imbricate it with a maxi pad or plane two at night and stick them to the side of my underwear to hold them in place. First two weeks not doing much, pic 3 For the first two weeks, the wound only got bigger.  It was looking healthier but it did not get smaller at all.  You see in pic 3 that it didn’t do much but by pic 4, the skin is pinker and healthier but the size looks a little bigger. Once we saw the healthy smooth, red granulation tissue, we knew that healing could start taking place.  I would intermittently use regular saline gauze and the gauze with the Medihoney on it as you saw me do in the video.  I moreover purchased Medihoney  rope so I could completely pack it with Medhoney.  It was well-nigh $60 for the rope,and well-nigh $16 for each tube of the paste.  I bought on Amazon.  They sell all kinds of Medihoney products.  The gel and paste are similar but the gel is thicker, I found the paste worked weightier for putting on a gauze surpassing packing.  The rope is long sheets of honey on a gauze-like alginate that you pack directly with and the honey melts into the wound and then you pull out the gel piece without a day or two.  Read all the benefits of Medihoney and you will be impressed.  It speeds healing, decreases pains, gets rid of infection, and helps alimony you from getting an infection.  After 2 weeks of wet dry packing and Medihoney, I started feeling the wound tighten on the inside. Read the rest of this entry »   No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Can a tummy tuck help my when pain? 20 Feb Photos from surpassing and without at end of post. There are a few studies that show an Abdominoplasty or tummy tuck has helped modernize when pack in some patients but most vestige is subjective.  If you ask a plastic surgeon, they will tell you it might happen but not to count on it.  I felt strongly that a tummy tuck, specifically the muscle repair was going to provide me relief.  The reason was based on my specific when pain issues. As I began searching for the causes of my when pain, I kept coming when to a couple of things.  My pain was a lot of musculoskeletal pain from stuff out of alignment. I would joke that I was a car that just needed a front end alignment, you know what, I was right and didn’t plane realized it for a long time.  My legs were off so I walked with a wobble, this set everything else off and my hips were off, my knees hurt, my legs hurt, and most of all my when hurt.  Doctors would tell me that I had to use my cadre increasingly to hold up my back.  One PT had me tighten my core, to be honest, I couldn’t find my core.  There was nothing to tighten considering the muscles were so separated that they didn’t work.  I don’t know why any of these doctors or specialists couldn’t see the big picture and say, hey, your rectal muscle separation is causing you a huge problem or at least, if your muscles were repaired, your cadre would be worldly-wise to support your when so much better. I really had scrutinizingly no cadre support and on top of that I was forward heavy.  You know how women with very large breasts get breast reductions to help with when pain, well, all my insides were substantially herniating between my separated rectal muscles and pushing out giving me this giant vitals that caused all this forward weight on me and ruined my posture, hurting my back.  I may have looked like I had a fat stomach but my weight told a variegated story.  I wasn’t that overweight.  And without I had the surgery, if it had been fat, my stomach would have remained rounded and it didn’t. It just needed everything pulled when overdue the rectal wall.Withoutlooking at my situation: Posture is terrible, leads to pain Posture can be stock-still with less weight pushing forward from vitals Weight is reasonable so rugosity is most likely from ab muscles not holding organs back Cant get any wrinkle of cadre muscles now Doctors stress tight cadre will really help my pain It seemed to me that I could medically goody from a tummy tuck / admomhinoplasty with muscle repair.  Could I get insurance to imbricate it?  Maybe but doubtful.  It would take so much work and effort and plane if they found it medically necessary for me they don’t want to,set a precedent so they would probably deny for that reason alone.  I cared increasingly well-nigh my health than fighting an insurance visitor so we just paid out of pocket. Results?  It has only been two months so the jury is still out.  I have noticed a significant difference in my posture. I have cadre strength that I did not have before.   My soul is adjusting to the new posture and I finger changes.  My right knee used to hurt, now my left knee hurts, but hopefully that ways I am putting increasingly plane pressure on my joints.  My hip pain and when pain is currently lanugo 40%.  That might transpiration as I am dealing with complications from the surgery and have unshut wounds and scar pain right that hurt increasingly than the back, so I haven’t been worldly-wise to fully cut when on meds to see if I can go lower considering I need them for the wound pain right now.  In flipside 6 months (or a year at most) I hope to have this wound and scar stuff stock-still and can largest evaluate the original pain.  However, so far I am very encouraged.  I moreover squint much nicer now that my abs hold when my other organs. stomach protrudes   abs now hold in all organs, only a little fat, lost 10 pounds without surgery   No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Abdominoplasty / Tummy tuck for cadre strength to help when pain patients 30 Dec Living with severe chronic when pain is very difficult but there are many of us out there. The problems I have found comes from a small checklist of known items that can be seen on a scan the hat rationalization pain and if you see a doctor and your scan does not show one of those known items such as a slipped disc or stenosis, then you are out of luck. No one has the worthiness to go vastitude that list, without that you get shots and physical therapy, and in many people those are moreover ineffective. Personally, I find it frustrating as I have begun to piece together my problems but there is no doctor who treats my issues…. I am structurally out of structuring and each out of structuring piece causes wear and tear and then pain on other pieces. A chiropractic is the closest person who figured me out, only they can only pop me into place for a day and then I pop when out… I need a permanent fix. I tried physical therapists but they are so by the manual, no one can squint at my pain and issues individually rather than squint at a “back pain” ways this treatment. That doesn’t work when my when pain is stemming from overall skeletal misalignment. So, I protract to be my own weightier doctor and research to try and put the puzzle pieces together for myself. I have a misaligned pelvis and this gives me one leg shorter than another. I have problems with my hip stability and si joints and my psoas muscle. I have no cadre stability and overwork my surrounding muscles to try and offset my weak core. Yet efforts to modernize cadre strength have not gone well and are hindered by my overall misalignment and pain. If only I could rebuild myself somehow, I thought. Well, then I started reading well-nigh the diasastis recti, the rectal muscles that get pulled apart, often by childbirth. My internal organs poke through terribly and unmistakably set my when off wastefulness just from my posture vacated with my large chest and my big tummy. I tightened my muscles (the weightier I could) and sucked it in and realized it didn’t take much for a big change. So, I took my proposition to the internet. Do people with when pain get relief without muscle retightening in a tummy tuck procedure? The wordplay was, anecdotally,”yes.” No doctor would make that promise considering in part it depends on what is causing your when pain but in my case, it seemed logical that starting that structuring process with something we can fix, align, and rebuild, it would bring me things that my when were lacking and could provide some relief. I was not expecting to be cured but a reduction of 10-40% would be a success in my opinion. I moreover knew that worst specimen and I don’t get relief, at least, I will get a largest looking soul so there was no downside. If I felt I had a endangerment to fight the insurance for payment for the medical necessity considering of my back, I would have but without losing flipside fight that was well-spoken cut that we should have won, I learned it isn’t well-nigh showing you can prove this or that, they will just say no and don’t have to have a good reason. So I just paid for my procedure with money we had saved for medical expenses. The typical tummy tuck patient (news to me) is a thin woman who has an zone on her tummy that is no longer perfectly unappetizing without having children. In my eyes, these ladies all still had unconfined bodies, expressly compared to what I saw when I looked in the mirror but everyone has the right to have their persons exactly as they want them and so they want to get when that perfect unappetizing tummy and a tummy tuck will do that for them. Most plastic surgeons want you at your platonic weight surpassing surgery and want to know you can hold that weight. I didn’t know much well-nigh the procedure but I did learn it is not a weight loss procedure. The doctor may cut off 1-5 pounds of skin but 5 is unquestionably on the upper side. You can request uneaten lipo if you want, some doctors don’t think it is unscratched to do much lipo during a tummy tuck. So, I met with a PS and told him I wanted a TT with muscle repair, in hopes of helping my back. He scheduled me for a drainless tummy tuck with a shot of Experal. The Experal was supposed to make the first few days easier. They still hurt like hell so I don’t know, I guess it would have been worse. I needed a walker to walk for the first week. I had to wear a pinch garment for two weeks. I didn’t have much swelling the first week but by week two, the swelling doubled and lasted for 10 weeks. I normally take oxycontin for when pain and I was taking a higher dose for the first week but without that I was worldly-wise to waif to my old dose with ibuprofen in the middle. My when pain is currently lanugo well-nigh 40% but I am still numb, dealing with other pain, not on my regular movement and exercise schedule so I am waiting to see how things transpiration as time goes on. Physically, I was very shocked to see how much my soul was impacted by that 3 cm gap in my muscles. It is a shame that insurance doesn’t superintendency that this muscle repair is a huge medical issue for some women, not just cosmetic.Planemy exenterate habits seem better. You moreover finger full sooner and now my weight matches how I look. There are going to be many increasingly benefits that I am going to discover from this venture that I didn’t plane realize. I have a whole new respect for this surgery and women who want to do it for whatever the reason. Update:  I widow two new posts to this series, flipside where I talk well-nigh when pain.  Another one is well-nigh the wound issues that I had without the surgery.  Not everyone has complications but I did (as did a few others who were having surgery the same time as I did).  It took over 2 months to get through most of the wound issues and I am still not “done” with it but hopefully, I am on the road to stuff better.  I would still do it, however, as the impact on my when pain was worth it. My weight now falls in the normal BMI range, I lost 14 pounds since surpassing I went into surgery (5 was skin) and I like how I squint (minus the scars) and once the wound pain ends, I am yellow-eyed to fully assess my when pain but right now, my guess is well-nigh 40% better. Here are some photos: stomach protrudes abs now hold in all organs, only a little fat, lost 10 pounds without surgery   2 Comments Posted in Medical   How to lose weight without exercise and still eating your favorite foods 09 Aug Do you want to lose weight but hate exercise?  Do love sugar or carbs and have low will power?  Maybe you have tried all sorts of diets surpassing and failed.  Well, I am going to share with you what I think works best.  There are some reasons why I finger this works – first, it doesn’t require unprepossessed turkey weight-watching and your progress reinforces good behavior. Things you need: 1.  A digital scale 2.  A note pad / pen 3.  A water infusion snifter or pitcher (not required but helpful) 4.  People virtually you who are supportive   First, step on the scale.  Your starting weight may indicate that you are overweight by a little or a lot, although most people that struggle with sugar and carb issues are overweight by increasingly than a little.  Write lanugo the time and your weight.  I suggest you weigh yourself without clothes, first thing in the morning every day so your weight is consistent.  If that is not possible, try to find a time of day that is resulting and it at least be in your undergarments.  You may weigh yourself increasingly than once a day if you like but you need only write lanugo the time that matches the time you segregate for consistency. Second, spend you first few days eating normally, protract to weigh yourself and write it lanugo each day but be mindful of what you eat, every time you eat.  If you are really dedicated, write it lanugo but that might be too nonflexible for rented people so at least be mindful.  For me, I had realized I was having desserts like 4 times a day in the whence considering of my sweet tooth on top of my regular food, some days plane increasingly if it was a really bad day!Withoutyou have made note of some of your bad habits, think well-nigh ONE habit you can reduce and transpiration for the better, just one thing.  Can you eat a smaller portion at a meal, can you cut lanugo to just 4 desserts a day and NEVER go over that mark if you find you do 4 but sometimes go over that?  Can you cut lanugo to 3 desserts a day on weekends and have your 4 desserts on weekdays – replace the uneaten dessert with a yummy healthy snack you like instead – like fruit or if the dessert has a lot of calories find a dessert to replace it with that has much less calories like a sugar self-ruling chocolate pudding.  But, make ONE change.  Do this for a week.  Keep writing lanugo your weight, it may or may not change.  You may have been eating so that you were in a weight gaining pattern, so we may first be having to stop that surpassing we can move to weight loss. So, now you have survived a week with your ONE change, make flipside transpiration – again, do what you can handle, some people can make worthier changes, others can only handle small changes at a time.  However, if you do too much too soon, you will get too hungry, cravings will get too strong and you will requite up, so go as slow as you need to so that you don’t unravel your new rules. Here are some changes you make: Instead regular soda, have nutrition Eat less specie Gradually subtract meal size, your stomach will retread and you will finger full Suck on lollipops or chew gum when you need sugar – Double “sweet tart” type Lollipops are unconfined for those who really like a sugar fix, they last a long time, are very sweet and you can buy 200 for $12 on Amazon Have dinner on the early side Drink lots of water, use the infusion snifter to make water increasingly well-flavored and tasty, you will drink increasingly of it Drink water surpassing a meal, it will help fill you up Find replacement treats with less calories and eat those in place of the treats with increasingly caloriesUnchanginglyworry well-nigh calories, not fat grams You should protract to gradually retread your eating habits until you reach a point with the pursuit goals: Breakfast:  You can eat whatever you like – it can tasty and good but it has to be only 200 calories!  You can have a trencher of kiddie cereal for that, a tasty chocolate tweedle cookie dough protein bar, a couple waffles (no syrup), etc.  There are lots of unconfined foods that you can eat but alimony it 200 calories for women, men get to have a little more, maybe 280. Between breakfast and lunch – if you need to snack, have something like berries, they are unconfined for you, you can plane put some whip surf on top.  You can have some peanuts or if you really need a dessert, have a sugar self-ruling pudding, that is only 60 increasingly calories.  You can moreover eat some cheese or a couple slices of bacon. Lunch – Your lunch should be well-nigh 400 calories for women, then men can have a little more, maybe 500.  You should think well-nigh things you like that are protein based and add calories virtually the protein, a deli sandwhich where most of the calories come from the bread, a salad of undertow unchangingly works, a philly cheesesteak is plane fine, just don’t eat too much and no fries or sugar drinks with it. Afternoon snack – rather than eat anything sweet without lunch, if you are a sweet tooth, save it for your mid afternoon snack.  Have your sweet  snack here but only 160 calories.  Something like an ice surf sandwich, flipside pudding is fine, a bag of fries is fine (individual size), one small brownie, plane a donut is okay.  A giant slice of confection is not. Dinner – Now squint when on what you ate today, was your intake on the lighter side or heavier side today?  If it was lighter, you get to have increasingly for dinner, if heavier, you might want to plan your dinner with less calories.  Dinner should be focused on lots of protein and vegetables in general.  Eating pasta and specie should only be on the menu if you planned for it by stuff good older in the day.  Avoid the starches, it is meat and potatoes, it is meat and vegetables!  If specie and potatoes are served and you want some, you have two choices, take a small taste if you think you can do that without going in for increasingly or if tasting them will just fuel your cravings, then leave it all alone!Withoutdinner- This is the most difficult time for many, this is where I swoop into my lollipops!!!  They are 30 calories and alimony my sweet tooth satisfied and my mouth busy!!  I might plane have 2!!!  However, they alimony me from eating so many other things.  Your goal as a woman if you are losing weight is to eat tropical to 1200 calories if you are getting tropical to your goal weight, if you are still very far from your goal weight, you should use one of those calculators to see how many calories you can still eat and lose weight.  For men, I believe the number is 1500.  Remember, we were eating 600 calories by lunch and leaving 600 calories for the second half of the day but most our dinner was supposed to be meat and veggies which doesn’t have too many calories.  You moreover don’t need to “count” all your calories but squint at the packages of the supplies you eat so you are enlightened of how many calories are in the supplies you are eating, you might be surprised.  I was shocked to see a side of mac and cheese at outback had 835 calories!   I chose not to eat my left overs!  Also remember to include drinks too. If you protract to write lanugo your weight every day (don’t listen to these people who say only trammels once a week!), you will see the numbers go up and down.  Don’t let an up day discourage you.  The reason people tell you to only trammels once a week is considering they think people cannot handle the fluctuations – and there is probably some validity to that, however, that is something you have to be enlightened of.  Even on a GOOD eating day, you may see your weight go UP, that does not midpoint you get discouraged, it just ways that you may need to poop! 🙂  Or your weight is redistributing and it went lanugo too much the day surpassing and is readjusting to an average.  It will move up and lanugo but the overall pattern with this plan is that you will see an overall lanugo pattern.  Here is an example: Day 1:  176.6 Day 2:  176.4 Day 3:  175.8 Day 4:  176.0 Day 5:  175.6 Day 6:  175.2 Day 7:  175.6 Day 8:   174.8 Day 9: 175.4 Day 10: 175.0 You can see here, I started at 176. 6 as my high, my low hit 174.8, I have not yet gone when into the 174’s, I expect that tomorrow (I hope) but the overall trend shows that I have lost well-nigh 1.5 pounds in 10 days.  Generally, they say that you should lose well-nigh 1 pound per week if you are relatively tropical to your normal weight and increasingly if you are very over weight.  I am only 15-20 pounds overweight.  I was 55 pounds overweight surpassing but I lost 40 pounds and then put a little bit when on so I want to get when lanugo 10 pounds so 1 pound per week is a good pace for me but when I was much increasingly overweight, my weight loss was much faster and I used a similar tideway to this although I was pretty defended so I set upper expectations to my rule changes as I went but I didn’t deprive myself at any point.  Tomorrow, will be a bad eating day since it is a special occasion, and that will happen and you see yourself lose a lot of ground on any days you make bad choices or decide that the special day overrides the diet, however, new weight put on comes when off very quickly, so just get when on track.  I lost my 40 pounds surpassing in just 6 months and then my weight adjusted to the new me.  Granted I made some changes to my eating but it was easy and I still indulged and managed to retain 30 pounds of weight loss for the last 3 years. One increasingly thing that women should know that I was not enlightened of – if you have a poochy stomach, expressly if you have had children, it is possible that a lot of your “fat” squint isn’t plane from fat but from muscles that are shredded from delivering a victual / giving birth.  It is tabbed diastasis recti.  All this time I thought my fat stomach was all fat but it turns out a part of it are from loose muscles.  You can do exercises to help but the weightier way to fix it is with surgery.  Unfortunately, insurance doesn’t consider the surgery medically necessary so it is cosmetic and is usually washed-up with a tummy tuck.  For me, it worth considering since the lack of muscles has lead to when pain issues as well. I hope this tideway is helpful, good luck!!   No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   My Daily Flu Log – what does it finger like to have the Flu (Influenza B) – getting the flu without you have had the shot 15 Apr As I sit here, a little in misdoubt that I have the flu, I thought I would document the wits for readers.  Many times, you get ill and wonder what do I have?  Bronchitis?  Pneumonia?  Cold?  Strep Throat?  Flu?  All have so many overlapping symptoms.  I thought I was pretty good at detecting the difference between unprepossessed and flu, but when I got sick a few days ago in mid-April, the flu was not on my radar as a diagnosis.  First, it is too late the flu (I know it isn’t but there much less flu circulating so the probability that a single person with symptoms has the flu is much lower since there is less virus going around.)  Second, I had my flu shot!  I know there is a lot of controversy well-nigh the shot and I am a pro-flu shot person considering I know flu can skiver and I don’t want myself saying, could I have washed-up increasingly if my child were to die of the flu.  However, to each his own and this is not an vendible to debate whether to get the flu shot or not.  So, plane if you HAD the shot or if not and you are questioning symptoms, I hope my wits might help you wordplay questions about, “could it be the flu?” Exposure:  I have no memory of stuff exposed to anyone with symptoms.  I do remember stuff virtually people in public who were coughing a lot in public a few days ago, so maybe that was it.  With allergy season abound, there are LOTS of people coughing right now. Symptoms:  What I noticed well-nigh getting sick this time was how suddenly I got ill.  With colds, it is usually gradual and I can take zinc and other things to help uplift my immune system, permitting me to escape getting sick.  In fact, I haven’t had a respiratory virus take hold in 2 years now! Now I will post day by day my symptoms and unique things that stood out to me. Sunday:  I went horseback riding all morning and had a unconfined time, felt perfect!  I went to a friends house without and started to finger a little bit of a sore throat and runny nose.  Within a couple hours, my unprepossessed symptoms came on really strong and I had a very bad sore throat and lots of mucus in my chest and was coughing. Monday:  I didn’t finger unconfined and considered myself, “sick” but my son had a doctors visit so I had to take him to that.  When I got home I really felt the unprepossessed symptoms kicking in like I was at the worst day of my unprepossessed rather than the usual “ramping” up I experience.  I had a ton of congestion, headache, sore throat, runny nose, etc.  I rested and thought I could go to work, it was only for 2 hours and I have pushed through working with unprepossessed symptoms before.  I got 10 minutes into my first vendee and cancelled my second.  I was feeling plane worse!  That night, I had really watery vision – then making me think allergies but it turns out that watery vision are a symptom of the flu.  I was totally exhausted.  I took lots of variegated medicines as my cough was terrible and hurt like hell in my chest when I coughed.  It was a dry hacking cough.  I worked nonflexible at trying not to cough as much as I could.  I went to bed very early. Monday night:  I fell unconsciousness hands since I was so tired but virtually 4 am, I woke up literally shivering with prattling teeth and everything.  I took my temperature and it was 101.  I took increasingly medicine and a suffuse to try and lower the fever and considering I had a terrible headache.  I moreover became very short of vapor and felt like I wasn’t getting unbearable oxygen.  I knew then that I was going to see a doctor in the morning. Tuesday:  I went to the doctor with my symptoms – I was like a walking zombie which the nurse and doctor noted.  BTW, I wasn’t plane well unbearable to momentum myself and had my husband take me.  I said things had come on rather suddenly, I had a sore throat, headache, runny nose, dizzy, shortness of breath, fever, congestion, dry hacking cough that caused a lot of pain in my chest.  She immediately thought I was describing the flu perfectly.  I didn’t want to stipulate since I didn’t have full soul aches like I usually do with the flu.  She said with how fast it came on, the upper fever, and the type of cough, she wanted to test for the flu.  I was somewhat resistant considering I had a doctor telescopic my nose surpassing and it was a really bad wits but finally gave in to the flu test.  Thankfully she did it quickly and the worst part wasn’t the moment she did it but how sore it felt succeeding and it still feels sore when there.  The test came when positive with Influenza B!  Wow! Medications:  She prescribed tamiflu for me since I was still in the 48 hour window and moreover gave it to my husband and 18 year old son as a preventative.  I take 2 pills a day, they take only 1 unless they start getting a fever.  She could have given me some cough meds with narcotics in it but since I once take narcotic pain pills daily for when pain, she said to just use those to help with my cough. My fever remains at 101 plane with medication but I unchangingly believed that one should not rush to bring lanugo a fever if they are worldly-wise to handle it considering the fever stops the reproduction of the virus or at least slows it down.  So, I will let my fever help wrestle the virus, take my tamiflu, and remain quarantined from my family, hoping they don’t come lanugo with this.  Maybe their flu shot is still in their system increasingly than mine was! Wednesday:  My fever tapped which is nice but my congestion, coughing, and sinus pain is still a big issue for me.  I was quite stressed and slept a lot increasingly today and moreover felt a bit increasingly achy.  I certainly did not finger good but compared to yesterday and Monday night, I finger a lot better.  I know I am still contagious so I am still quarantined.  It is a pet peeve of mine when people go out in public when they are sick and pass it on to others!  It isn’t your fever that determines when you are still contagious plane though a few random sites will state that.  In fact, most people shed the virus for a week and kids for 2 weeks without they get sick.  I protract to take Tamiflu and finger like it does seem to be helping.  This flu is definitely not as bad as the first time I had the flu well-nigh 16 years ago when I had 104 fever and 2 young kids who had the flu with me!  If this damn sinus pressure and headaches would ease up, I would be in much largest shape.  Also tempted to use Afrin but I know how that has rebound effects so I don’t know if it is worth it! Thursday:  I can’t say there was too much transpiration today.  My sinus pain is a little less which is nice but I am still very congested, very weak and tired, coughing, and my throne is still “in the clouds.”  I didn’t sleep well last night at all.  I did finally requite in and use Afrin since my nasal congestion was so bad that the neti pot wouldn’t plane well-to-do fluid though my sinuses.  Boredom is really setting in and I wish I could concentrate unbearable to read or do work.  I know it will still be days surpassing I have unbearable energy to do much, ugh!  Later Thursday evening, my ears popped and I could hear, yay!  I moreover felt like I had a little bit of energy.  I unquestionably felt like I was healing some. Thursday night:  I still had trouble sleeping.  My nasal passages protract to be dry and I protract to have sinus pain.  I well-to-do with a neti pot often.  It helps relieve the pain a lot.  Each time I take my Tamiflu, I finger better.  I awoke at 5:30, however, feeling sick to my stomach.  Too much phlegm and am taking an anti-nausea pill for it.  I am moreover feeling very dehydrated and drinking water.  I am ready to finger a lot largest tomorrow… I hope so!   Bottom line – if your systems come on fast, you have watery eyes, and the other systems I mentioned, plane if it is April and you have had your flu shot, you might find out that you have the flu!   No Comments Posted in Medical   Developmentally Disabled / Handicapped Services at 18 in North Carolina 07 Mar My developmentally disabled son turned 18 in January 2014!  What a wonderful milestone.  He joined the “system” of services in North Carolina at the age of 4 months when he started with an IFSP plan.  He went to “early” preschool considering of his powerlessness and then had an IEP.  He received speech, OT, and PT services in school as well as pull out and accommodations for his specific learning needs from K-12.  However as he got ready to turn 18, we were at a loss to what were the next steps! We were disappointed that our school provided little to no information well-nigh what we were to do “after” school and did not requite us any resources.  I tried researching things on the internet but there was no one place where it was all spelled out for me.  Everything I found was for the elderly not for an 18 year old with DD.  So, as I walk lanugo this path alone, trying to icon out what is available, I am blogging our wits in hopes that I can save some other parents the troubles that we went through to find out what is available.  I hope that perhaps other schools do a largest job with helping families with these connections but we were only unfluctuating with Vocational Rehabilitation and they were not worldly-wise to connect us with anyone else! To begin… I would start this process at 17.5 at the latest so that things are in place for when your child turns 18.  Here is the to do list and my wits so far with each: 1.  Guardianship  – we chose to wield for guardianship since we felt that our son was not capable of making the right health decisions nor did we want to risk him inward into any contracts that he did not understand.  I wrote a separate blog on the steps to file for guardianship, so please read that for details.  http://www.zen5.me/a/489/how-to-get-guardianship-in-north-carolina-wake-county/ 2.  Jobs – for jobs, there are several ways to get unfluctuating with jobs possibilities and job coaches to help your child on the job.  Vocational Rehabilitation is one resource.  Overall, we have not been impressed with them.  They had told us to make sure the job mentor was the “right fit” but when we mentioned that she didn’t seem to be the right fit, we were discouraged from discussing it any further.  They only want to place him in a long term permanent job so they can tropical his specimen and informed me that it might take months or years (or if overly was plane mentioned) to find that job.  They told me that they would work on scarification out a job with employers that fit his needs and yet the job mentor appears to just have my son send unprepossessed emails to companies.  My son’s job mentor is not versed in the areas that my son has talent and strengths making it much increasingly difficult for her to find him a good fit.  When asked well-nigh other resources, we were told they were “lousy” and not scarecrow attending.  We were moreover not given any of the many other options that I found on my own.  We are not optimistic well-nigh the possibilities of work through North Carolina VR.  Job coaches, I believe, can moreover be provided through some other services such as personal superintendency assistance. 3.  SSI – We unromantic for SSI powerlessness at age 18.  We were told incorrect information so unromantic right at his birthday although you are supposed to wait until the start of the next month without the child turns 18 (if you don’t want to count parental resources).  We never received SSI for him as a child since we made too much money but now that he is an adult, he is worldly-wise to wield on his own.  The process required an interview at the SSI office.  You must bring lots of ID!!!  We had to send off lots of paperwork and requite the names of all doctors/therapists, etc. he worked with to document his disability.  We asked for quick consideration under two quick consideration classifications (cerebral palsy and schizencephaly).  I do not know if we got tried quickly considering of that or if he was just tried quickly in general.  Yet, he was tried within 1 month and received his first trammels right on time.  We were told by VR to expect to go to magistrate and delays of a year or increasingly yet it was a quick process as he unmistakably qualified.  He moreover got Medicaid automatically without stuff tried for SSI. 4.  Alliance Behavioral Health – we were calling day programs to get information and they suggested we undeniability Alliance.  I tabbed them and they towards to be THE provider for all other services.  I had to wield and get my son tried in the same way we had to get tried for VR and SSI.  It required faxing a lot of paperwork showing his medical issues and disabilities.  He was tried in a couple of weeks and then we were referred for other services.  In order to get these other services, you must go through this process first.  ABH moreover put him on the NC innovations waiver list.  This list has a 10 year wait (or more) but provides a upper level of service (up to $135,000 per year per client) for all types of service including day services. 5.  PersonalSuperintendencyServices – Universal – ABH referred us to Universal for PersonalSuperintendencyServices.  Here he can get 5-12 hours per week with someone working on self-sustaining living skills in our home or in the community.  I was impressed with their contact person and so far, it looks like a unconfined service that will be very valuable for him. 6.  Community Guide –PolityPartnerships – ABH referred us toPolityPartnerships for the polity guide program.  This is a 3 month program where the person gets to know the individual and then connects you with ALL the related services in the polity that are towardly for you.  We have a meeting coming up so I cannot scuttlebutt yet but our phone conversation was good.  She is going to tell me well-nigh other waivers other than NC Innovations that my son might qualify for, social possibilities, day programs, higher programs geared for developmentally disabled, etc. 7.  Respite – We have been referred if we need respite.  Right now, my son can stay vacated for short periods so respite isn’t a huge need but I am trying to find out if any overnight respite is offered.  It might be that I can pay for overnight respite car using his SSI to rent a private personal superintendency teammate if we need to be gone overnight but I am still looking into those options. 8.  Day programs – I looked at one day program where adults did various “camp” classes such as art, yoga, science, music, etc.  We are not sure if it is a good fit for my son but hope to get increasingly information from the polity guide well-nigh programs that weightier fit his physical and intellectual strengths and challenges.  These programs are only “free’ if you have the waiver so it would be plush to do it on our own but we may need something for him to do without graduation at least part time. I protract to learn increasingly well-nigh what is offered and misogynist in North Carolina.  One thing that would have been helpful would have been to get on the NC Innovations waitlist years ago but no one told us well-nigh it!  I hope this information provides others with some ideas of the resources misogynist in NC.  If you have found others, please share in comments section.   No Comments Posted in Medical, Parenting   Flu without a fever 15 Jan Flu without a fever? Do you finger like you have flu symptoms but don’t have a fever and wonder if it could still be the flu?  Well, they have found that people can get the flu without a fever although it is MUCH increasingly worldwide to have a fever with the flu.  In fact, one of the most worldwide symptoms that differentiate a unprepossessed from a flu is that the flu tends to have a fever of 101+.  Here are the traditional flu symptoms: Fever of 101+ Some type of respiratory symptoms Cough is very worldwide Runny nose, sore throat are moreover worldwide HeadacheSoulachesLattermostfatigue Sometimes (not that worldwide though) – Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (or other gastrointestinal ailments) – these do then to be increasingly worldwide with the  H1N1 type flu However, what if you have all of the whilom without the fever – could it be the flu? They have found that people have tested positive for the flu without a fever, so the wordplay is YES, it is possible but remember that there are other virus that could have similar symptoms to the flu and the “stomach flu” with the main symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea unquestionably don’t usually have fever associated with it.  “Stomach flu” is moreover not influenza despite the fact we often refer to it as a stomach flu, it has nothing to do with the true flu. What if you got the flu shot?  Here is flipside specimen where it seems plausible and I believe they have proof of this via testing as well, that one can get a increasingly “mild” version of the flu considering you had the shot, have some immunity but not unbearable to alimony you completely well.  So, you might find that you have soul aches, headache, lattermost fatigue, and respiratory symptoms but no fever and you have a summery version of the flu – you would have been much sicker had you not gotten your flu shot. Without going in for a test (swab in your nose), it is untellable to know for sure but since others in the past HAVE tested positive for the flu without fever and without getting the flu shot, it is possible that you have the flu!   No Comments Posted in Medical   « Older Entries Categories Border Collies Confessions from worldwide cadre math teachers Education Financial Medical Parenting Personal Uncategorized Recent Posts How to get wonted to NCSUHigherEngineering What if… we did math right? Oral Conscious sedation dentistry … what is it really like? 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