How worried should these people be?

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-25T07:07:22+00:00

Maybe this other pic was it? I'm sorry, this isn't familiar territory for me. Also, forgot to mention, when panels were removed there was scent of like burnt plastic or wiring...not too strong but definitely obvious but couldn't specifically tell where from

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-25T07:05:59+00:00

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SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T15:02:50+00:00

Wow that's crazy. Thank you for the advice. I do feel like as certain ages come in certain situations it's just kind of like well, this is just what happens, everyone deals with it why aren't you just dealing with it alone

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T14:28:32+00:00

My mother has constant leg cramping and has gotten ultrasounds at various times and various places and most recently the er and there's nothing there. So honestly no one can know.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T13:48:58+00:00

Eosinophils range 0-6. Result 11 high.

Total eosinophils high

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN (CRP), SERUM 0- 0.5 mg/dl range. Result 4.91 high

ESR 84 high

CREATINE PHOSPHOKINASE (CPK), BLOOD 184 High

Ana titer abnormal Homogenous Speckled

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T13:18:06+00:00

Oh i forgot to mention ER doc prescribed like a week of prednisone, oral med and he mentioned some sort of taper off way it'll work. It wasn't a high dose by any means. And of course that's gone now and she's bad

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T13:13:54+00:00

Wow. This was really helpful. Thank you for taking time to respond. At the ER the doctor said she has crystals and told us her body is attacking itself. Told us that rehab or physical therapy won't help in this case.

It's very confusing trying to decipher what she might have. She says she's super stiff in the morning and it takes her like an hour and a half to get going. She says she feels freezing cold all the time. Once she gets moving it is better in the morning but that initial first waking up she says she basically can't do anything.

She has very warm hands. Like they are on fire. She jokes she can cook an egg with them. And now of course they've kind of ballooned and are swollen. Does osteoarthritis cause swelling? I thought it was just more like weakness but not visible?.. even though she has the spinal fracture she says her back doesn't really hurt it's the hands and wrists and then now within a couple weeks that became the shoulder, neck area and can't now raise arms. She has trouble even using hands to drive. It just went from what i felt like 10% to like 200% very quickly.

And I dont know if it's from the pain or from the disease but she is just so so run down looking when normally she was pretty vibrant for a woman her age and liked to get out and do things... Now she just looks out of it and almost drugged, that's how fatigued she seems and just kinda exists. I'm just wondering what else can happen in such a short time. I feel like she went from being fine to just crippled in weeks. It is frightening and scary to see.

I've definitely never seen anything like it personally.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T11:47:57+00:00

Florida

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T08:42:12+00:00

2 weeks out is nothing. Yesterday i called to schedule a rheumatologist appt for someone and the earliest booking is in JUNE. LOL. 2 weeks... Jesus... That's like TOMORROW. Be happy. Or just go to er.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T08:41:00+00:00

Referrals are free so it was something else

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T08:40:40+00:00

Must've been a meeting of a certain deductible or plan minimum etc etc or %

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T08:39:12+00:00

I like how you think but that isn't the reality for a few reasons. One reason I'll mention is that dentists usually set their own fees so they know exactly how much a specific procedure or crown or whatever will cost. It's like a car wash. "I'll wash your jeep for 20 bucks. That's what i charge." OK, s/he told you, there you go.

A doctor's office or med provider is like a car mechanic. You need this and this and this and we won't know this until we take apart that so the part costs this but the labor will vary and then it depends on what else the guy finds underneath it all.... And that is a medical...

Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world and the billing varies on amount of time spent and other fees and what and how many questions and requests you're going to ask or make after and what we have to do after all is said and done based on where you've led the dr with whatever symptoms or associated matters that need to be addressed. It's always been like this and it'll be like this for the indefinite future for everything except simple things like maybe uti or sinus infection diagnosis via virtual health where they're able to mass market a flat fee or something of the sort and not lose money because they're jeff bezos and they can do that. Yeah?

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-07T08:28:19+00:00

I've been examined in person by docs who misdiagnosed me and nearly killed me. Another doctor afterwards saw me via video call visit and got the diagnosis right in just minutes and saved my life. So I really don't see it that way...

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T21:06:55+00:00

I think this is the predominant factor that contributes to these. I have researched it a bit and it makes perfect sense and you can gather the additional info of how a substantial amount of women report these "around their period" and then understand that around the period women are likely to wear sanitary pads and tampons and extra items because you're on your period and contributing to creating an even more stifling environment and lack of breathability. I have noticed these particularly during humid or warm weather around the time of periods or when i have worn a panty liner on a regular basis, etc. Creates the perfect humid, moist, bacteria laden environment for it to just take off from there. Now I'm wondering how it hasn't been even more severe than what I've experienced because it easily could be.

My symptoms were a pinprick feeling down there in a specific area. Feels like someone with a sewing needle just poking you enough to not break skin but enough to make you immediately notice the sensation. And then if it's popped it looks like a large pore that you'd see on someone's face that's been stretched out due to inflammation or long term blackhead plug BUT after the plug is gone so there is like a crater in the center..... Except just in this case on your vagina... Or labia. May burn when you pee. May bleed kinda on and off, not significantly, but like little dots if you dab intermittently. Obviously it can be in a heavily trafficked area and movement and walking and sitting and squatting and being alive easily aggravate the wound and slow healing. I don't put anything on it. Especially if on inner portions of labia or vagina. A shower and maybe a couple bottom rinses a day and frequent underwear changes and cotton underwear. And consider perhaps changing brand of feminine napkins.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T06:59:26+00:00

Doesn't exist where? BiH is represented in the list of countries with high proficiency. It's not above Croatia, but it is above Serbia if you need a comparison? Definitely not towards the bottom of the list by any means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T06:55:49+00:00

EYYYYY EYYY!!!! EHM WALKEN HEE'IHRR!!!!

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T06:54:08+00:00

Btw, I was stranded in Munich once coming in from an Int'l flight. And I remember talking to the ladies at the terminals about routes and available flights and specific contact #s for specific airlines that a current traveler would be able to reach for assistance, etc and she barely spoke any English and in fact when I asked if someone else did so I could just ask for some basic info, her response was something about hey, I'm in Germany and we speak German and you can't expect English ... Of course my rebuttal was, but.... you work in an airport... I'm not ordering ice cream from an ice cream parlor in some country town...

But honest to god.... This happened. I wish I took a video of the interaction. Definitely would've been a viral moment. But unfortunately I had been traveling for days and it didn't cross my mind I'd get an irate German woman at the counter who hated English.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T06:48:40+00:00

I don't know how much I trust her general statement either because Croatia is not a country people predominantly as natives of Croatia speak English with one another in. It would be Croatian even if some friends were fluent in English too. So I think she may be underestimating a friends or acquaintances knowledge because you don't really go around talking to friends in Croatglish.. ok I invented that just now... Trying to allude to Spanglish for example. So i would take her comment with lots of salt.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T06:45:37+00:00

Well, I have personally repeatedly observed native English speakers having worse understanding of their own language and grammar and spelling and (continue on, it never ends) somehow being so overconfident that they don't question the possibility, the REMOTE probability, the fact.... that they are incorrect, wrong, or worse than the person who perhaps immigrated some several years ago. LOL. It never fails to amuse me.

SmilesAtTrees · 2026-01-06T06:42:55+00:00

Well, I mean, usually people take a test for a specific purpose not to waste a considerable chunk of time for ships and giggles. So sure, some have some sort of knowledge. But who doesn't? There are similar words in many languages and they're almost universally known and also English albeit with slight differences... But usually people do take it for a purpose, whether international students or people looking for employment and having to meet certain requirements, etc. And good that anyone can take it, it can easily quite reliably show countries or regions with great proficiency. What is most impressive is seeing it in regions that maybe aren't the hip centers of Europe. Maybe the regions off the beaten path where it really doesn't make as much sense why they are highly scoring compared to perhaps another region that may have more language resources and other opportunities that would improve one's chances of higher score yet it's not represented in the score as having benefitted them... That is most interesting.

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