Teedubya Update 1500 · Page 25

Amber I’m overthinking thingS but maybe I should stay. I just sent an email to the surgeon with more questions. I’d hate for a short term convenience to override long term results. I came here for a reason.

izonfire
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6 years ago

#486

teedubbya wrote:

I’ll agree to be Amber for a few days if you promise to do what’s best for your recovery...
Deal?

teedubbya
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6 years ago

#487

Yea. Weird autocorrect

I’m just questioning the wisdom of leaving if things are unresolved.

danmdevries
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6 years ago

#488

Imma prolly spellunt it wrong but they are pee pills.

Wanted pizza tonight. Got the too much salt talk.

teedubbya wrote:

Lasix (furosemide)

Slim chance of absorbing a significant pericardial effusion quickly with diuretics (though we always try). Talking weeks to months, as long as it isn't growing. I've never seen rapid resolution with diuretics alone. Problem is it can become an emergency relatively quickly depending on some things.

Ask your surgeon what they want you to do, if they have contacts with interventional cardiologist back home in KC, and are comfortable sending you back there for further treatment.

Don't eat the pizza. It's too soon.

Edited by user 6 years ago | Reason: Not specified

Sunoverbeach
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6 years ago

#489

Do what danm says. He's gud wif health stuff

frankj1
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6 years ago

#490

why does danm get to eat all the pizza and drink all the beer?
no fairsies.

USNGunner
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6 years ago

#491

Do what danm says. He's gud wif health stuff

Sunoverbeach wrote:

Ditto.

teedubbya
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6 years ago

#492

They prescribed colchicine too and stopped all blood thinners. The plan is to fly home and get an echo there on Monday. If things don’t get better I can get it drained there. No good option. The other option is to stay here, get it drained Friday n

frankj1
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6 years ago

#493

isn't that for gout?

teedubbya
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6 years ago

#494

Dunno swabby

DrafterX
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6 years ago

#495

You have the gout too..?? 😕

rfenst
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6 years ago

#496

teedubbya wrote:

To me, it's a no-brainer. I would stay and get it drained Friday

danmdevries
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6 years ago

#497

isn't that for gout?

frankj1 wrote:

It's an anti inflammatory medication that's fairly recently been added to the cardiovascular arsenal. There's an ongoing study with it right now.

Pericardial effusion is fluid build up within the sac around the heart. If there's too much incompressible fluid within the fibrous pericardium, it restricts motion of the heart.

Post-cardiotomy there's major local and systemic inflammatory response. Just as you get swelling when you bump your knee and stuff, same happens internally. Steroids are avoided in open heart because they also suppress rebuilding tissue at surgical sites while suppressing immune response. So recently we've been looking at other options for these situations and initial data on colchicine is positive.

danmdevries
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6 years ago

#498

To me, it's a no-brainer. I would stay and get it drained Friday

rfenst wrote:

That can be managed at any full service hospital, not something that needs or has any major benefit from being done at a specialty center.

Whistlebritches
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6 years ago

#499

isn't that for gout?

frankj1 wrote:

Wow back in the day when I was first diagnosed with gout this is and Alopurinal was all they prescribed...…..just made gout worse so I stopped taking both.Ate and drank as much tart cherry as I could stand for a few years then Uloric(febuxostat is the generic name)came along.Not one gout flare since.

I just hope they have found a use for Colchicine and it works for you Tim.....still praying Brother

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teedubbya
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6 years ago

#500

I’m going home. Surgeon said if I stayed he’d drain it Friday simply because then I could travel Monday or Tuesday. But he’d prefer to not drain at all if possible. As long as I don’t have black outs or light headed ness he’d rather wait until Monday in hopes it slows or reduces a bit. That’s what I will do in KCMO.

Sigh. Wife is stressed. I fell asleep and she spent the morning trying to set things up. I owe her. I’ve bee subtly showing her side boob but she seems disinterested.

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