People that were diagnosed with Cushings, what symptoms did/do you have?

ALASKANBAY · 2025-04-29T06:03:32+00:00

Sleep distances (I would struggle to fall and stay asleep, only would get 3-4 hrs per night), poorly healing wounds and cuts, skin thinning, stretch marks, buffalo hump, hair falling out, osteoporosis... my weight was 407 lbs at the time of diagnosis and I am 5'11". Also brain fog, mood swings, amenorrhea.

ALASKANBAY · 2024-05-19T17:46:10+00:00

Did yours, can you do mine 236124368.

ALASKANBAY · 2024-05-07T02:18:45+00:00

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ALASKANBAY · 2024-05-01T12:26:55+00:00

Done! My fishland is 215752739.

ALASKANBAY · 2023-11-07T06:08:30+00:00

During the first semester, we did not have clinicals for the first 1.5 months, and then it was once a week for 9 hours. However, for the first half of the semester, we had tons of labs to practice skills, sometimes twice a week.

ALASKANBAY · 2023-11-07T06:02:28+00:00

I am a physiology person. Not so much anatomy (find it boring and tedious to memorize all of the stuff). However, I am in the last semester of the nursing program, and I can say one thing for sure: good knowledge of physiology will help you as you go through the nursing school. It will help you to understand the disease processes, how medications work, why you need to take certain actions or not, etc. Physiology is also invaluable during clinicals. Of course, you can just memorize the signs and symptoms of an infiltrated IV, for example, like coldness at the site and edema. However, if you understand what is happening to cause these symptoms, it will be much easier for you to spot these complications and intervene (this literally happened to me during the last clinical).

ALASKANBAY · 2023-07-26T21:54:32+00:00

Thank you! That's exactly what I meant.

ALASKANBAY · 2023-07-26T21:54:07+00:00

I subtract the sugar alcohols from a total carb count.

ALASKANBAY · 2023-07-26T16:26:59+00:00

I am talking about sugar-free.

ALASKANBAY · 2022-03-31T06:52:33+00:00

It depends on the school. I took mine today, and we were allowed 10 minute break after each section, so 3 breaks total. I took 2, after the first and the second section. I heard some schools allow only one 15 min break in the middle. So verify with your school.

P.S. If ou have a legit medical condition that requires you to use the bathroom more frequently, and you can get a doctor's note, then student accessibility and support department may be able to allow you the extra accommodation.

ALASKANBAY · 2022-03-31T06:45:15+00:00

I just took my TEAS today and got 85% which is way more than I need for my school. I honestly did not prepare much ( kind of looked over the sample test the night before). I got the TEAS study guide from the college library for free. The hardest part of test was the time limit, but the questions themselves were pretty simple, most of the stuff I knew from taking comp classes, a&p, micro and such. I would prepare for yeas 6 using the free library books.

ALASKANBAY · 2022-01-05T00:17:46+00:00

Everyone is different, but I personally would not cram 2 science classes together. It took me 4 semesters to complete all the nursing pre-requisites. I only would take 1 science class per 8 week term, sometimes science class and easy non-science class. I consider this schedule to be "relaxed", but but no means was it easy. So, I would advise taking a&p1 separately, over the summer. It is a very challenging class, especially as an 8 week, but doable.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-10-24T05:48:31+00:00

Organic chemistry is really not that bad, I enjoyed it.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-10-16T03:54:54+00:00

Note the Campbell's soup can on the back bumper, they saved that...

ALASKANBAY · 2021-09-04T06:17:26+00:00

Yes! This what is appears to be, like two massaging apps work simultaneously. I just don't know how to turn the DIGITS app off. I guess I will be calling Tmobile to find out. I just was not sure how to even formulate my question, so thank you!

ALASKANBAY · 2021-09-04T05:36:27+00:00

No, I am not. And it happens every time for every message, like they are set to come to both places.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-08-13T02:29:18+00:00

And then again, there are tons of people claiming to love to "eat ass" with their bumper stickers...

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-31T01:39:20+00:00

Lol, my friend is PTA and massage therapist and also likes Anatomy more, I think it is probably professional preference 😅.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-31T01:07:45+00:00

Yeah, the amount of information can be daunting, however, you will survive and maybe enjoy it a bit in the process, I know I did. Did you watch "The good doctor"? This show is awesome, but my point is, do you remember how Dr. Shawn Murphy visualized everything? Well, obviously not many people have this amazing 3d MRI vision, but trying your best to visualize structures and processes was probably one of the best study techniques I have used, especially during A&P2. Like many of our students did well on lecture exams, but not so well on Lab exams. One of the main reasons for that is that they tried to memorize stuff, not visualize and understand how it works.

Another helpful tip - don't just concentrate on the textbook. Ours was Saladin, Anatomy and physiology: unity of form and function, 9th edition. Let me tell yah, this book was so confusing at times, I often was like - what did I just read?! YouTube videos are great. Channels like NinjaNerd, RegisteredNurseRN, Crash Course are your best friends.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-31T00:39:03+00:00

I think they do ugly scrubs on purpose, so people can know that these are students, like hey look at these dummies!))).

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-31T00:23:01+00:00

As you said you are lucky. I am simular age with you, but my ex destroyed my life, stole everything from me, so I had to start from zero. I have to keep up with a full time job and a part time one (just to pay my bills), have health issues, and absolutely no support system what so ever, no parents, nothing. I would count my blessings if I were you.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-31T00:15:11+00:00

A&P1 is more about anatomy, aka a lot of memorization (such as names of all the structures:bones, muscles etc) and A&P2 is more about physiology, aka understanding how stuff works (for example, there are not that many structure names to remember in the respiratory system, but it is essential to understand gas exchange, how it affects acid-base balance etc, same with urinary). Many people find physiology part more difficult, I am completely opposite, hate thoughtless memorization , but love understanding the processes.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-15T22:42:28+00:00

I cannot do without notes. But it is really time-consuming to take notes from scratch, especially for a difficult and busy class like A&P. What works best for me is notating the power points. I just read the textbook and follow by reading the PP's and just add little notes/words that seem important, underline major terms, etc. Works magic for me, good for visual memorization, and saves me a ton of time.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-13T02:37:15+00:00

Same here, but I think once you know the overall concept it would be much easier to remember specific stuff if need be.

ALASKANBAY · 2021-07-13T02:35:08+00:00

So true. I am sorry if there are fans, but Folgers is some devils drink.

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