Can't be that bad, Dani. We all know you took both those pictures yourself and if you can hold your phone you are categorically not as bad as you're claiming. I call shenanigans, the bruising will mostly be from the blood thinners and she's not averse to self-harm so high chance she's deliberately fucking with it. Come back when you've got legit compartment syndrome and have had it surgically flayed, bish.
FTFY
Is this why, after some surgeries, they put those weird inflating compression things on your legs? Well, that and, I am guessing, to help prevent blood clots?
I don't imagine it'd do much for compartment syndrome. Itd probably make it worse. Like you said it's mainly for blood clots. The heart pumps blood to things but the process of getting it back is a passive process. There's one way valves in veins and your muscles contracting moves deoxygenated blood slowly back to the heart. Blood tends to pool in the big deep veins in your legs and can clot if left there for too long. Walking and using your leg muscles keeps it moving so if you cant walk or use your leg muscles you need a little help. It's also why it's recommended you get up and walk around the plane every so often on very long flights so your blood doesn't stagnate in your legs and start clotting. There's even been people who have developed blood clots from playing video games all day without moving their legs but you have to be the addicted to videogames and peeing in bottles kind of gamer for that to happen because unless you're really old even getting up to pee or grab a snack is usually enough to keep it moving
This one is BY FAR the most obsessed-with-her-own-lame-lore Munchie cow I've ever seen in this thread. She has a PhD in having her head up her own twat. It's impressive, in a way. Like she is PASSIONATE about being fake-sick.
I double extra like that her high GFR is obviously within the normal range, which is clearly listed as >=60. Which makes me think that she does not know what the > and < signs mean.
What the actual fuck am I watching. I'm a total noob here, but I was unaware of this gal. She's absolutely repulsive. Does she understand that if her sats are actually in the low 80s or below, she'd be visibly cyanotic? No? I guess not. I don't know why I'm shocked at finding another person who's munched her way into a trach - she's not the only one - but damn. And severe "stiff person syndrome" - not likely. Does she even know what spasticity looks like? I'm guessing not, because none of her movements or resting postures are indicative of spasticity - much less severe spasticity. Here's what respiratory failure actually looks like in SPS, and it's so vanishingly rare that this patient's doctors wrote it up as a case report for a medical journal: https://karger.com/crn/article/15/1/187/861749/Recurrent-Acute-on-Chronic-Respiratory-Failure-in Hint: it's not "feelin cute, might hook up my vent, idk."
Yeah she's a special one, Rose the Fairy Grandmother. No one can figure out how she got the trach that she clearly does not need and she loves to post videos of her choking and gagging while she changes it out. She also has somehow gotten fitted for weird cloven hoof orthotics meant for toe-walking children, but she rarely wears them.
I'm on the edge of my seat waiting.
Sorry, don’t wanna derail the thread but that article got my psychfagbrain confused so Proper Medfag question: I don’t understand the rationale for upping the diazepam to alleviate breathing? I would have thought the logical thing would have been to not depress that breathing center? Halp.
I know that, but I still wouldn’t prescribe them for someone who had problems breathing? But fair point, that explains it.
It's the sort of thing you do when you're shit out of options. When your respiratory difficulties are due to spasticity or involuntary muscle spasms, baclofen is going to be first line (which she was already on), and benzodiazepines can be added on if needed, because there isn't a whole hell of a lot you can do about spasticity of your chest wall or diaphragm.
True. The long t1/2 and active metabolites make diazepam a pain in the ass when you’re trying to assess risk for benzo deliriums, though. I’ve seen someone develop a full DT a couple of weeks after last binge. Scary stuff.
because she gave herself a foot drop from being in the wheelchair she doesn't need.