Tea? (Part 2)

[Arch]

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<Splutter>
Erghhhhhhowch!
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<ditto>

We make a right pair at the moment!

 

[Arch]

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We make a right pair at the moment!

But not quite a pair of lungs between us!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I think I am but I have had a cough since sometime last October, hence going for a chest X-ray yesterday.

When do you get the results?

 

[Night Train]

When do you get the results?

I will call my GP end of next week to see if he has the results back.
I have been told I don't have asthma, my X-ray looked ok at first glance, and I am hoping it is something silly like a self sustaining cough caused by irritation of the throat due to coughing.

 

[Arch]

It can't have been helped by a fair amount of plaster dust recently either...



The room is looking great by the way, he even got half the skirting boards fitted before dinner!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I will call my GP end of next week to see if he has the results back.
I have been told I don't have asthma, my X-ray looked ok at first glance, and I am hoping it is something silly like a self sustaining cough caused by irritation of the throat due to coughing.

I hope it does turn out to be something simple, or at least easily treatable.

I suspect that what Arch says about plaster dust is probably right.

 

[ColinJ]

I think I am but I have had a cough since sometime last October, hence going for a chest X-ray yesterday.

I hope that you are okay NT, but I get worried now every time I hear about someone with an unexplained lingering cough. I had mine a month before I found out that it was caused by a pulmonary embolism. The doc told me that x-rays don't really pick up clots, which is why CT scans are used to confirm them, so even if the x-ray result is clear that doesn't mean that everything is okay in there.

Take a look at this page on the NHS website.

When did you hurt your leg? (Just a bit worried that your leg being out of action for a while might have caused a DVT to form, and a clot to break off that and lodge in your lungs, as in my case!)

A D-dimer blood test detects about 95% of clotting problems, so if you don't find out soon what the problem is, it would be worth asking your doctor about having one.

 

[Night Train]

I hope that you are okay NT, but I get worried now every time I hear about someone with an unexplained lingering cough. I had mine a month before I found out that it was caused by a pulmonary embolism. The doc told me that x-rays don't really pick up clots, which is why CT scans are used to confirm them, so even if the x-ray result is clear that doesn't mean that everything is okay in there.

Take a look at this page on the NHS website.

When did you hurt your leg? (Just a bit worried that your leg being out of action for a while might have caused a DVT to form, and a clot to break off that and lodge in your lungs, as in my case!)

A D-dimer blood test detects about 95% of clotting problems, so if you don't find out soon what the problem is, it would be worth asking your doctor about having one.

I did my leg back in June and was having injections to prevent DVT. It was optional but I remembered your experiences so opted for it.

The same cough has been bugging me most winters for years. Apart from a couple of years I have had a cough from about September-October through to Feb-March time for about the last 6 years or so.
Each time it has been looked at as a simple cough.
Now it is annoying and worrying me.

 

[Speicher]

I would like to say a very rude word, followed by a strong please. I have just found out that someone I had contact with last year, is now wanted by the Police. He seemed a genuine sort of person, you can never tell can you.

 

[coffeejo]

I would like to say a very rude word, followed by a strong please. I have just found out that someone I had contact with last year, is now wanted by the Police. He seemed a genuine sort of person, you can never tell can you.

 

[Speicher]

Thank you

I only found this out by chance.

 

[coffeejo]

Permission to say as many rude words as you like, as loudly as you like.

 

[potsy]

Are you talking about Rocky?

 

[ColinJ]

I did my leg back in June and was having injections to prevent DVT. It was optional but I remembered your experiences so opted for it.

I didn't find out about mine until August, so I'm a bit confused about the timing, but it sounds like sensible precaution!

The same cough has been bugging me most winters for years. Apart from a couple of years I have had a cough from about September-October through to Feb-March time for about the last 6 years or so.

Each time it has been looked at as a simple cough.

Now it is annoying and worrying me.

I'm not surprised that you are annoyed - there must be something causing it to happen that often, and I'd have thought that the doctor would see that there is a pattern to it!

Anyway - good luck getting it sorted out this time.

 

[TVC]

Morning, up early, moved the old washing machine and Lou is evicting several spiders that had taken up residence behind it. Now to wait all day for the new one I think. Frankly, I'm not surprised Wol has criminal connections