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So went to urgent care this morning after a stabbing and crushing pain in my ribs, only on the left side and very classically Costo so said the doctor! Clear chest x-ray and heart so just inflammation!
Except I didn’t do anything, no new exercise, no injury, no heavy lifting….nothing. Just woke up with it .

However I do have a pretty significant spine cure in my upper back. It’s not quite a hunch back but it’s not great, I also then from that have a sway back. It’s never caused much of an issue but has anyone had costo pain from poor back posture. It is worth going to PT or will it make it all worse?

I contracted covid in the fall of 2024. Immediately after getting initially better I was struck down with fevers…all the time. Mostly low grade, sometimes not but all the flu like symptoms and all the joint pain. My symptoms continued to spiral, doctor after doctor. Until a test finally showed I had significant inflammation in my lungs, I had asthma. This was able to prove a long Covid diagnosis

But the pulmonologist taking care of the asthma says the fevers and other symptoms are out of her wheel house. Except they are what is ruining my life. The fatigue and joint pain and just random fevers that suddenly take me out. Those are what I need to solve. I hit all the symptoms for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (what a horrible name btw!) but 0 doctors will bring that up or are willing to diagnosis it.

Where should I go? What should I do? At this point just a diagnosis to feel validated and maybe find a specialist is really all I’m aiming for. Or even a diagnosis so I have an explanation. I am 23F and barely surviving workdays, it’s just not how I want to live out the rest of my 20s and my life.
I have seen a rhuem who dismissed my positive ANA and blood work as related to my Type 1 Diabetes but I’m willing to go back to another to get another opinion. I definitely have a lot of inflammation in my body and I want to try and to treat it

Thank you!

Hello everyone! I do not have cerebral palsy but rather my dad does. I would say his is moderate, he has a very clear turn out of his right foot and cannot use his right hand at all. He can move the arm but it’s “useless”. Otherwise he’s very capable, drives, works, etc. He does have seizures but the are well controlled with medication. His is pretty much all physical.

But then…he got older and naturally his body is aging much, much faster than his brain. He is currently in so much pain, he has slipped disks in his back and hip issues on the side with his turned foot, because of the foot and some botched limb lengthening surgeries he has a very uneven gait and now he’s in so much pain weight bearing on that leg. He’s on max amount of pain meds his primary can give him, he was sent to a pain specialist who gave him epidural injections in his back promising him that he’d be able to reduce the opioids. It didn’t work unfortunately and after just a month he’s in pain again.

It’s overall becoming a huge burden on our family, he helps run a pet sitting business out of our home, my mom works outside of the home as do I. He needs to
Keep working but no doctor wants to help address the issues on his back and hip.

So here I am…what EXACT type of doctor helped you or your family member. We are in Colorado but just need to know which specialist will really listen. They are all so uninformed about Cerebral Palsy in someone who is not wheel chair bound. My dad turns 58 this year and we are trying so hard to keep him from being bed ridden.

Things he has tried:
-Muscle Relaxers (work temporarily)
-Opioids (they work but temporarily and are affecting his memory)
-Botox, he got this in his arm which works great for it but he’s not candidate for his leg and hip
-Physical Therapy, he’s tried many place and everytime it worsens his pain ten fold he’s totally bed ridden
-Pain injections (non epidural) temporary relief but still needs meds
-Epidural injections, worked for about a month but then needed meds again
-MRI, x-ray and ct scan, show the slipping and bulging disks and arthritis all through his back and hips. They wanted to jump to a spinal fusion and hip replacement. Obviously we want to make sure this is absolutely what has to be done. His primary doctor isn’t confident that type of surgery wouldn’t result in him being wheelchair bound

If you got this far, we are kind of desperate for any type of leads. What worked for you, what helped, who helped!
He had a good few years once he was able to loose weight but once his back disk slipped he can’t workout and so obviously weight is a factor here but he’s kind of helpless with getting it off. He diets and tries to walk as much as he can. He is using a cane currently for long distance and around the house for when pain is really bad but it’s hard for him to use it all the time as he only has the one hand. So things like grocery shopping have become impossible for him, or walking the dogs.

Again, thank you!
Signed a really desperate daughter who wants her happy not in pain dad back ❤️

3 month old American short hair kitten, male, neutered. We are his foster family so we have had him since he was 4weeks. Ever since adopting him he has started peeing on everything and anything resembling a blanket. So obviously this mainly includes the bed, but he’ll also pee on blankets around the house, stuffed animals, sweatshirts. It’s not only gross but incredibly annoying. There is no pattern to this peeing, sometimes he’ll go a whole week without doing it and then suddenly 4 days in a row I’m changing and washing bedding. It’s never a ton of pee…just enough to stink and he manages to hit multiple areas.

-Ive tried spraying the bed with citrus fabric freshener to deter him, it worked for a time but I didn’t spray it on stuffed animals so he started peeing on those.
-If I catch him about to pee, I take him to the litter box, he’ll go and then I praise him. He never poops anywhere but the litter box and he’ll pee in there too. It’s a litter robot so it is absolutely clean all the time!
-I could lock him from the bedroom he pees in most of the time but it’s where the food for all the cats is located and we have an older cat who does not leave that room, if I shut the door she’d loose access to the litter box. Plus he’ll also pee on blankets around the house, even peed on some paper packaging that slightly resembled a blanket.
-I highly doubt he has a medical issue but we do plan on clearing him with a vet.

We’ve never owned a male cat, all of our female cats have just…used the litter box. I don’t even know where to start with him. He is incredibly sweet and loving in all other ways. He has great examples of using the litter box, no one else pees on the bed. But we have to break him of this habit now before he’s older! Please help!

Is there a way to prevent the powder from a powder inhaler from getting on your tongue…every single time it makes me gag 😅 I think I’m definitely breathing in too slowly but I struggled with the technique of the fast breaths for my PFT so it’s hard…hopefully that’s the answer?
I have no idea if anything is getting in my lungs but it definitely gets all over my tongue. I’m taking Trelegy is that’s helpful to know.
Thankfully no major side effects so far like I had with Symbicort, no sore throat or heart racing but I’ve only ever taken aerosols so I feel like I’m on a major learning curve not having the spacer!

Hello everyone!
I was diagnosed with asthma just a few weeks ago after having a persistent cough. I am being evaluated for long covid and kind of only went to this doctor to get that referral…but when I got there she was like no you need a PFT test. So I went and the results were not great. I didn’t have asthma as a kid and have never had a traditional asthma attack, but now I know the chest tightening and bad cough is a symptom.

Anyhow, with the inflammation in my lungs she of course wanted to put me on a maintenance inhaler with steroid. I was so excited to see how it might make me feel since I guess I’m used to not breathing well but instead…a god awful burning sore throat.

The sore throat came on with only my 2nd dose, I feel completely the same lung wise and my throat is so scratchy, burning, swollen. I rinse my mouth out after dosing, even brush my teeth. I did the same with the albuterol even though I know with the main ingredient of Symbicort it’s extra important to do so.

Is there anything I can do? I messaged my doctor but I wanted to ask the people who really love this life if there’s a hack. Does it go away? I teach preschool and it was a really rough day of trying to talk. If you look at my throat it’s super irritated but no thrush. Just need some hope 😞

I’ve been a loyal T:slim user since I first got a pump 8 years ago. 0 complaints except its size I loved it. I was hesitant to try the Mobi but all I heard was raving reviews so in January I switched. And all I’ve had is trouble.

1.) The connectivity is awful with Dexcom, constant alerts that my control IQ is turned off and it can’t connect to dexcom. Despite my dexcom being perfectly connected to the app. What’s the point of control IQ if it’s never doing anything? Connecting directly to the pump, I never had that issue with T:slim
2.)The vibrate is LOUD, I teach preschool and no matter how fast I try to mute it, it’s very obvious something is buzzing while the kids are trying to sleep. And of course since it’s always disconnected to control IQ it’s always buzzing.
3.)The charger is awful unless you are fully disconnected and setting it on there, sometimes I have to charge while I sleep and it’s not good for that
4.) Most importantly my blood sugars have never been so out of control, I felt like I could give a lot of trust to my t:slim to help me keep in range. And I’m constantly babysitting the mobi. I know it says it’s the exact same technology but I’m constantly over-riding the mobi. It’ll let me get well above 250 before doing anything due to “IOB”….my settings are the same, I checked. I tried different sites and nothing, my blood sugar has never been this bad. Sometimes I wonder if it’s accurately giving the insulin at all? I mean it is …because I eventually come down but it’s not fast, smooth or without frustration.
6.) It really is not as easy to keep your phone on you 24/7….you think it would be…constantly having to find it to bolus for dinner 🙃

So, I’m switching back. All I still hear are such raving reviews. I hope some of you have had the same experience and for those of you loving the mobi…I’m jealous cause the size really is amazing! I hope one day as the technology updates I’ll be able to use it again but for now I’m back and hoping my tslim has another 4 years in it