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Jim Janney
Mar 19, 2013, 7:26:28 PM3/19/13
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I stopped posting here early in 2012 following an acute attack of nausea
and abdominal pain, the second in less than a year. It passed after
about six hours but left me feeling odd and wrong for days afterwards.
When you're in your 50s and have lost a friend to colon cancer, stuff
like this gets your attention, but six months and two procedures later,
the doctors found nothing really wrong other than a mild case of
gastritis. While that was going on I tried various things for my hip
pain, finally settling on Plan E, which amounts to just staying off the
damn thing as much as possible and telling myself that it's improving.
There was enough random variation in the symptoms that I was able to
keep this up for some time.
By October it was obvious even to me that it wasn't getting better. I'd
reached the point where I wouldn't even walk to the corner if I could
drive instead, and I wouldn't go see a movie because I didn't want to
sit still that long. So I found a new doctor, a specialist in sports
medicine. He examined me carefully, studied the records, asked some
smart questions, and allowed that he didn't know what was going on
either. So we did a second MRI, this time injecting a dye marker. This
one showed a tear and a cyst in the labral cartilage, and considerable
damage to the cartilage inside the socket. Normally a labral tear can
be treated with arthroscopic surgery, so I went to another doctor who
specializes in that. His comment, based on my age and the amount of
other damage, was "if you're going to have surgery this isn't the one
you should do." He recommended a complete hip replacement.
Which is what I did exactly two weeks ago. So far it's going very well.
I'm walking (carefully) without crutches, although I still carry one
when I go outside. Pain is minor. I still take Tylenol occasionally,
but mostly I don't need it.
Oh, and the abdominal pain. I had another attack, just like the others,
the first week of this year. This one was bad enough that I went to the
emergency room. They did a CT scan and found that I'd passed a kidney
stone. So that's accounted for.
--
Jim Janney
and abdominal pain, the second in less than a year. It passed after
about six hours but left me feeling odd and wrong for days afterwards.
When you're in your 50s and have lost a friend to colon cancer, stuff
like this gets your attention, but six months and two procedures later,
the doctors found nothing really wrong other than a mild case of
gastritis. While that was going on I tried various things for my hip
pain, finally settling on Plan E, which amounts to just staying off the
damn thing as much as possible and telling myself that it's improving.
There was enough random variation in the symptoms that I was able to
keep this up for some time.
By October it was obvious even to me that it wasn't getting better. I'd
reached the point where I wouldn't even walk to the corner if I could
drive instead, and I wouldn't go see a movie because I didn't want to
sit still that long. So I found a new doctor, a specialist in sports
medicine. He examined me carefully, studied the records, asked some
smart questions, and allowed that he didn't know what was going on
either. So we did a second MRI, this time injecting a dye marker. This
one showed a tear and a cyst in the labral cartilage, and considerable
damage to the cartilage inside the socket. Normally a labral tear can
be treated with arthroscopic surgery, so I went to another doctor who
specializes in that. His comment, based on my age and the amount of
other damage, was "if you're going to have surgery this isn't the one
you should do." He recommended a complete hip replacement.
Which is what I did exactly two weeks ago. So far it's going very well.
I'm walking (carefully) without crutches, although I still carry one
when I go outside. Pain is minor. I still take Tylenol occasionally,
but mostly I don't need it.
Oh, and the abdominal pain. I had another attack, just like the others,
the first week of this year. This one was bad enough that I went to the
emergency room. They did a CT scan and found that I'd passed a kidney
stone. So that's accounted for.
--
Jim Janney
Steve Freides
Mar 20, 2013, 1:12:39 PM3/20/13
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behind you, Jim. I've heard only good things from a few folks with new
hips. Rickey Dale Crain had both replaced and squats 600 lbs - if
that's not testimony to how well they work, I don't know what is. RDC,
btw, has a great newsletter that I subscribed to a long time ago and
still enjoy reading.
Welcome back.
-S-
http://www.kbnj.com
Jim Janney
Mar 20, 2013, 5:05:32 PM3/20/13
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I'm getting reacquainted with walking for fun. You don't appreciate
some things properly until you can't do them any more.
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Jim Janney
Existential Angst
Mar 21, 2013, 1:36:43 AM3/21/13
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"Jim Janney" <jja...@shell.xmission.com> wrote in message
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Was wondering where you was at.... Tough about the hips, but at least you
had some recourse.
Did they speculate on what the cause was? Dance, mebbe? Running? I read
recently sumpn about significant stats on injuries in *yoger*, fer pete's
sake....
My apparatus is tailor made for rehab for things like this. An adjustable
bar that fits in a doorway, with amazing versatility. I'm making a new
batch of a new design (as soon as my new milling machine gets set up), I'll
make one for you, gratis. Well, almost gratis.... you'll have to sing my
praises on a regular basis on mfw....
email me iffin yer innerested, or want links to demo vids. I'll proly make
new demo vids, since the old ones are sort of dorky.
Oh, take plenty of vites, E, A, C, D.
And magnesium for kidney stones, 250 mg/day. I had *chronic* kidney stones,
some which landed me in the hospital, carted off from work in an
ambulance.... holy shit....
Nary a twinge, for years, after the magnesium. Inneresting biochemical
mechanism. Mg is a 2+ ion, competes with calcium, also a 2+ ion, for
oxalates, effectively preventing the formation of calcium oxalate.
Ossum....
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EA
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> Jim Janney
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news:ydnli9j...@shell.xmission.com...
had some recourse.
Did they speculate on what the cause was? Dance, mebbe? Running? I read
recently sumpn about significant stats on injuries in *yoger*, fer pete's
sake....
My apparatus is tailor made for rehab for things like this. An adjustable
bar that fits in a doorway, with amazing versatility. I'm making a new
batch of a new design (as soon as my new milling machine gets set up), I'll
make one for you, gratis. Well, almost gratis.... you'll have to sing my
praises on a regular basis on mfw....
email me iffin yer innerested, or want links to demo vids. I'll proly make
new demo vids, since the old ones are sort of dorky.
Oh, take plenty of vites, E, A, C, D.
And magnesium for kidney stones, 250 mg/day. I had *chronic* kidney stones,
some which landed me in the hospital, carted off from work in an
ambulance.... holy shit....
Nary a twinge, for years, after the magnesium. Inneresting biochemical
mechanism. Mg is a 2+ ion, competes with calcium, also a 2+ ion, for
oxalates, effectively preventing the formation of calcium oxalate.
Ossum....
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EA
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> --
> Jim Janney
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Existential Angst
Mar 22, 2013, 6:14:14 PM3/22/13
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"Existential Angst" <fit...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Dayum.... killfiled AND cain't even GIVE my shit away.... LOL
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EA
news:514a9c8b$0$19548$607e...@cv.net...
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EA
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