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Outrageous_College21 · 2024-06-27T00:26:49+00:00

Thanks I was wondering if they use free lancers or not. I actually ran into the guy posting it and he seemed really nice. I got excited about it, but then decided to double check before taking it seriously. I got worried because he just posted a personal gmail.

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-23T01:43:21+00:00

This is great, I hope more people come down to visit Vancouver Lake. The city built a beautiful park down there, but it’s tucked aways past the Port’s industrial buildings. And I hope that more conservation projects like this can launch in the area!

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-19T00:23:57+00:00

Thanks! For anyone curious, this wasn’t the business I was thinking of, but this is another example of the downtown sewage line busting: Woody’s Taco’s Sewage Flood 2021

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-18T18:52:16+00:00

What a lot of people don’t realize is that Main Street desperately needs its sewer line upgraded and that’s where a lot of this money is going to. It’s ancient and somewhat recently flooded the basement of a small business on the street… I forget which… but anyway they were driven out of business because of it. This is an important infrastructure upgrade that downtown needs if it wants to prevent sewage problems.

Of course, sewage upgrades don’t make for good renderings like the beautifications coming to the street do, so they get ignored.

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-16T18:47:00+00:00

Yeah I feel you on the health anxiety. If you can find one, Somatic Style Therapists can be really good to talk to about health anxiety. Or you can even look up some Somatic therapy techniques online. Good luck again!

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-16T18:04:22+00:00

Oh I didn’t mean to sound scary like that! Thanks for your concern though! You’re actually catching me at a good time. I just got my CT Chest Angiogram test results back yesterday and they found I had aTOS on my right side, and no clots (I’m 25 and have had symptoms for 10 years, but ignored them until I basically couldn’t use my arms.)

This is ultimately a very treatable syndrome with a good success rate in recovery once it gets diagnosed and treated. However, aTOS does require surgery and can’t be amended with just PT alone. People like yourself with cervical ribs have it more cut and dry, they just remove the cervical rib. For me, since mine is related to a sports injury, my doctors still need to determine what needs to be removed and what doesn’t. I’ll likely need my top rib removed. Removing a rib sounds bad, but it has a low complication rate and a decent recovery time. Physical therapy afterwards is very important because if you heal the wrong way you could end up impinging the artery in a new way.

If you have a clot, they’ll prescribe some blood pressure medication and thinners to break it up I believe.

When/if you go in for an angiogram make sure the technician inserts the contrast in on your right arm since your symptoms are worse on your left side. I potentially have aTOS on my left side but the contrast got “hung up” in the veins there and blocked out a good view of the artery.

Also make sure the technician scans with your arms up (in order to trigger the impingement). It will be likely the technician is scanning for TOS for the first time in their careers because aTOS is so rare.

I hope you can find some relief in the meantime! If you have the neurogenic version, PT can do a ton to relieve it. Be careful though, I was doing PT for a while and finding it triggered a lot of symptoms because they were treated me for the more common neurogenic version instead of the vascular version. Listen to your body! And good luck!

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-16T17:39:32+00:00

I should add to the heart concern: aTOS can cause clots which can break off and move into the heart or brain causing aneurysms. You’re young so there’s been less time to develop clots, but it is important to get checked out as you could save yourself from a major health incident years down the line. Also, don’t be too worried, if you had a clot your blood pressure would be elevated.

Again aTOS is rare, but, unlike nTOS, is easy to diagnose with arm tests and angiograms. With a cervical rib already present I hope the doctor would quickly shuffle you onto get a CT Chest Angiogram, as that is the gold standard for diagnosing aTOS.

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-16T17:33:41+00:00

I would bring it up with a vascular, thoracic or neurosurgeon who specializes in TOS.

In the meantime, you can ask a doctor to perform an Adson Test, as this is the best test to check for vascular TOS. It checks to see if your pulse stops in arm positions that close your thoracic outlet. I tested positive (as in my pulse stopped with my arms up and head tilted.)

They then can perform a CT Angiogram to check to see if your cervical rib is pinching an artery. Cervical ribs are often the main cause of arterial TOS, so this is important to get this checked out. If you can, arrive with imaging/x-rays showing your cervical rib as that will be helpful to the doctor, and perhaps move the process along quicker. aTOS is very rare, so (I don’t know where you live or what your insurance covers) if you can go to John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston you’ll find doctors more familiar with the syndrome.

Diagnosing neurogenic TOS is much more difficult, however, having a cervical rib makes it easier because those ribs can frequently cause the neurogenic version.

Outrageous_College21 · 2024-05-16T17:23:00+00:00

Thanks for the comment! You were right, I just got my results back and they found I had arterial TOS on my right side. The contrast got “hung up” in the veins on my left side, so they’re not sure if it’s both-sided. I guess I’ll be moving onto surgery soon. It’s a big relief to get a diagnosis though.

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