Gurm's Absence and Illness

[Dr Mordrid]

Gurm;

Lamisil has had an emergency FDA warning issued to the effect that it can cause liver damage;

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/sporanox-lamisil/qa.htm

Better get some liver function tests done.

Dr. Mordrid

[mutz]

...right Doc, liver or pancreas was another hit I had.

...don't get too uptight or worried 'bout all this stuff, it's all going to work out. I had a bout with cancer 6-7 years ago, and you can imagine what a scar that was. But I'm grateful for that scare because it was another opportunity to take a good look at what I'm doing with me and my life and not to take anything for granted. Everything is good for something...

You might also see if you can find an anthroposophic doctor, which means medical doctor plus anthroposophic medicine. People often only turn to antroposophic medicine as a last resort. I, and a lot of friends of mine, would suggest that you start there.

...take care Gurm...

[mutz]

...another thought. You say you spend eons in front of the cube and now you can barely tolerate short sessions, longer only after a break. That's a pretty strong indication that not all is peachy where you sit at the cube.

Computers, monitors and all the related electronics emit a myriad of things, acoustic and other, plus harmonics and disharmonics between them. Some people tolerate them better than others, but long term, in long and too high doses, it'll affect anybody.

The room where you spend so much time plays quite a role too. Is it spacious or small, cluttered or somewhat orderly, light and airy or dark and dusty, aesthetically pleasing or a collection of stuff jumbled together over the years? What is your feeling when you go there, joy and anticipation or dread and resignation, or something in between?

I love walking in my computer space. I'm getting it bit by bit just how I like it. Between Noiseblocker, moving things around to minimize disharmonics, both aesthetic and emmisive, decorating and putting things in the room I can gaze at away from the cube to think or space out. Considering moving to watercooling next week, not just for cooling, but primarily for noise, both acoustic and electronic. Water absorbs and dampens in an emmision sense. Me just want computer when come home, not fish tank...

Most noise, acoustic and electronic are way beyond our conscious senses, but not beyond those of our cells. Take a look at that, and maybe at what you are doing or the way you are doing it. Something obviously doesn't suit you.

I don't think you're gonna go blind. I do know that when things aren't right there's this small voice that starts telling you so. The longer you don't listen too it the louder it gets. If you really don't listen, then you might go blind, or your body writes you off as a dodo and quits...

[Indiana]

Nuno is absolutely correct. I think it's absolutely essential that you undergo an MR scan. Likely this will show nothing but normal anatomy, still that's a great relief to know that there's not any mass in there compressing the optical nerves.
The symptoms you describe can also be found with inflammations of the optical nerves, and this can be detected quite early in MRI as well.

I take it for granted that your eye pressure is normal?

[Gurm]

Well, here I am 24 hours after taking the last pill, and I still feel like a turd that was stomped on and smooshed around.

Well ok, I have to say that empirically I might be a little better than yesterday. A bit run down, but maybe (MAYBE) less disoriented, and I was able to nap a bit this morning whilst logan watched Elmo... which is something new, normally I just feel like puking and try to find a comfortable position that doesn't spin around a lot.

I'm currently being a "helpful patient", and since no doctor can see me today (Sunday and all) I am making up a comprehensive (probably TOO comprehensive) list of my symptomology and whatnot so that when I _do_ see them tomorrow I can just hand it to them.

Also, I've made a conscious decision to remove EVERYTHING foreign from my body. I've finished the medicine they gave me, and have knocked out my prescription allergy drugs (for several days now), and even my multivitamins (since last night). I'm going to go as much without caffeine as I can stand (cold turkey would just make me even MORE miserable, but I'll try to keep it to a cup a day, subsistence level for us long-term coffee-addicts).

Some personal replies:

Ayoub:

Thanks for suggesting that (Thyroid), I'll ask the doctor when I see them. My mom had SEVERE thyroid dysfunction when she was younger, it might explain a lot.

Doc, et al:

Liver is fine. That's the first thing they check when they put you on Lamisil, and they re-ran the tests two days ago. No problems there.

Indiana:

My eye pressure WAS normal a couple months ago, when I first started noticing minor visual "issues" (pulsing monitors, etc.) but now? Who knows. My right eye, in particular, has for the last week or so felt... not quite swollen but... hmm, hard to tell. "Irritated" isn't quite right either. Not quite right (apart from the floaters and light sensitivity) at any rate. I'll definitely pull for an MRI, simply for peace of mind if nothing else, and I'm sure the Neuro-Opthalmologist will have no problem with it - always good to rule out optic nerve issues. If there IS an inflamation or infection of the optic nerve that would CERTAINLY explain the increase in floaters and light sensitivity, as well as continually tired eyes... and thankfully is not too terrible to treat.

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Anyhow, I'm off to try to write some of this down in a coherent format, to make the doctor's life easier. I'll probably end up seeing a DIFFERENT member of the practice tomorrow, so no point in making him listen to my rambling if I can just show him a timeline.

- Gurm

P.S. THANK YOU ONE AND ALL for your concern.

[cjolley]

Another possibility: prolactinoma
Hard to spot in a male until it starts affecting vision.

Regarding the Lamisil.
Maybe you could go with the topical.
Best thing sence sliced bread.

Get well SOON™
chuck

[Gurm]

CJolley,

Yeah once I get the current string of issues under control, THEN I'll shoot for dealing with the nail fungus.

As for Prolactinoma, I'll ask - but wouldn't I have had err... sexual dysfunction? I mean, this past week whilst nauseous I've been a little off my game, but up until this hit I was just fine in that area.

- Gurm

[Greebe]

BTW the nail fungus can be taken care of by using "FungiNail", Kramer Labs, Inc.

Active ingredient: Undecylenic Acid 25%

No prescription needed.

[Gurm]

Well THERE we go.

CVS, here I come.

- Gurm

[Indiana]

Prolactinoma is a tumor of the hypophysis and thus has near contact with the optical nerves. There are many other masses (e.g. Neurinomas,...) that might compress those sensible nerves which is why I suggested the MRI simply to rule out such a mass.

P.S.: Neuritis/inflammation of the optical nerves (some strange problems with the vision and general feeling of illness are sometimes the only early symptoms of this) is nothing to make jokes about so I would not wait too long before ruling this out, too.
Similar goes for glaukoma (raised eye pressure) which can cause vision problems and nausea as you describe and can lead to acute emergency situations.

P.P.S.: when you undergo an MRI scan be sure that they do administer contrast media, otherwise you might not see slighter inflammatory lesions or smaller masses. Unfortunately in this time with all those cost-talks (at least here in germany) there are MRIs of the brain/head done without administration of Gadolinium, so I have to mention this.

[KvHagedorn]

Prolactinoma.. Ho boy.. sounds scary there, Indiana.. we have a customer with this or a similar condition. He's going to lose one eye at least and they will have to perform some pretty radical surgery to get to the tumor.. Well, pretty radical might be an understatement. They are going to remove his face. Yeah. They have to peel back his entire face from his skull for some reason in order to get to the tumor.. blech.. hope you dont have this, Jason... PRAY you dont have this.

[mutz]

...jeezuz! You're scaring the shit out of me, what about Gurm?

C'mon! Conventional medicine's primary solutions are often to cut, cut 'til there's nothing left! They make a helluva a lot of money that way, not to mention bloating their egos and authority!

About 6-7 years ago I had a tiny carcinoma on my tongue. They wanted to cut out my tongue, down my neck and under my arm "in case"! You think I just lay down and said "Here, take it all?"

I said NO WAY! I said you cut out the tiny piece with a safe margin and that's it! I then went to an anthroposophic clinic, which was like from hell to heaven, where they treated me back to health. Do you know that the convential docs and surgeons actually tried to do everything in their power to prevent me from going out of their control?

After two years, I was supposedly out of danger, though I never take anything for granted. The main thing is how I regard and treat myself.

The knife is a very, very last resort, and only in combination with wholistic considerations and treatment. So let's stop the scare shit, it only begets deeper shit.

"Hey, Gurm! You're finished man! Gonna mutilate you, gonna cut your dork off before we're finished!" How does that sound, when even he doesn't have much to go on?

This isn't a game, it's somebody's life...
jeezuz!

[mutz]

...and BTW Gurm, what kind of dental work do you have? I've heard of similar symptoms as an allergic and/or poisonous reaction to amalgam (mercury) fillings...

[az]

Slightly OT: My mother had liver cancer, the tumor was as big as an orange. They tried to cut it out once, cut her entire stomach open and said "there's no way we can get this thing out" (it had too many metastases). They said to my dad "Prepare to have christmas alone with the kids". My mother then wanted to have one other surgeon look at her tumor, but they all refused. There was one (kind of famous) professor in germany who said he'd try it. He cut her entire stomach from the other side and said "no way". Everyone told her she had three months, at best.

She didn't give up, though. She started eating macrobiotic (which, I think, did not really help her, but had more of a placebo effect, which is VERY important, and which is also why hospitals make me sick - it's a placebo effect the other way 'round there), and doing all other kinds of weird stuff (I was too young then, so don't really remember). Her tumor vanished completely (how long it took I can't remember), and now, 15 years later, there's still no sign of it coming back. Sure she is weaker than she was back then, but she lives without heavy medication, without a 7-10cm diameter tumor in her liver, and she doesn't intend to leave this world anytime soon.

So: NEVER GIVE YOURSELF UP! And HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF, and don't think traditional medicine is the best treatment you can get. Far from it.

AZ

[mutz]

...there you go.. good shot, AZ, my love to your mother for her courage...