Ailments, Aches & Pains. (Let's hear them here)


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Yes I too carry a GTN spray but very rarely need it. Can't say it has any beneficial side effects!

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4 hours ago, jonab said:

GTN is glyceryl trinitrate - nitroglycerine (as in Dynamite!)

So you don't shake it before use then!!!

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The GTN in little aerosol spray cans is pretty inocuous.  But the stuff in a red pump spray bottle is mixed with glycerine and makes a very effective flamethrower... 

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Finally, 3 weeks after appointment at QMC got letter about medication for my naughty thyroid, doctors appointment on monday to finally get it. It is exactly the same as my doctor was going to start me on a while before Christmas which means I could have been taking it for over 2 months now. Whilst I can understand why doctor sent me to hospital it means I have been suffering symptoms, which whilst not severe are a bit worrying when you wake up in middle of night and feel like your heart is banging against your ribs, which could have, hopefully, been alleviated. At least it is sorted now, got appointment for ultrasound on thyroid as well now in February as well as first telephone appointment to see how I am going on medication. So it will be all systems go from monday and I can get back to normal (whatever that is).

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Well the joyousness is that after 'curing' an 'Abscessed' tooth with a course of Metronidazole and the accompanying enforced abstinence, I enjoyed two days of normality and a further visit to my dentist who has referred me to a specialist to have the whole tooth re-done. Renewal of older root canal treatment followed by crowning, at considerable expense. Still waiting for that. Two days later an adjacant tooth collapsed and was filled on a temporary bais awaiting outcome of the specialist root canal treatment. Then.... on Saturady last.. the abscessed tooth fell apart, sheddiing its current crown and exposing the older root canal work. so, after yet another visit to my dentist,who 'sealed' the offending tooth pending treatment, I have just embarked upon another five day course of Metronidazole , requiring another 7 day abstinence from the booze.

Oh! the joys of ageing..  :(

 

Still..What doesn't kill you.. etc..

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Col, sorry your teggies are still giving you trouble.   But look on the bright side... the money saved from the enforced abstinences will help pay for the treatment and new crown!

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Since 2 January, I've stopped eating between meals and have lost some weight , too (only about 3kg, but every little helps!).  

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Seems January is abstinence month all round. Since Jan1st I've not had a cigarette. I am now getting through two packs of chewing gum, disgusting stuff but it helps with the craving and from thirty a day to zero I need all the help I can get. I don't know if I will succeed but I'm trying.

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Well done, Brew.   You are doing really well... don't give up.   Just remember......you've not had any nicotine for a month and your body hasn't fallen to pieces, so it's only your mind that misses it now!  You're strong and sensible enough to tell yourself you're fine without it.   

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On the subject of teeth, it used to be the norm (possibly still is) to have all teeth removed prior to heart surgery to prevent bacterial endocarditis. So, in 1999 I had all my natural teeth removed - well, what was left of them after the butchery they had received from various Nottingham dentists - particularly Ron Acton, Brian Lawson and the Hucknall school dentist in the 1950s. This, it may be apparent, was to facilitate surgeons poking around inside my chest

 

I don't think I've ever regretted it - especially after reading on these pages, and elsewhere, of the pain and expense of dental treatment as one gets older.

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I didn't know about teeth removal pre heart  surgery, though I had learnt that the state of the teeth  can affect the heart. I have just googled and found this information on the NHS site. 

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/health-risks-of-gum-disease/ Very informative.

 

For some reason I have been slowly losing my teggies over the last few years? I have been going to the same dental practice since 1971ish. Apart from a two year gap in the 80s, through close bereavement, I attended every six months, had them cleaned and polished twice yearly and any treatment my dentist decided I needed.

After the two year break, my dentist would only keep me on as a private patient. I stayed with the practice because I am a chicken and darn't move on. Lots and lots of pounds paid over the years, but still losing them slowly? The dentist retired about four years ago, on recommendation it was arranged for me to go to BDH, Dentist says best because I have problems healing , due to Warfarin? and since then I travel to Birmingham Dental hospital at the moment every two weeks. Still after everything I do.... I am losing them. It doesn't seem to matter that I have done my best, they are waving bye bye slowly.

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1 hour ago, jonab said:

So, in 1999 I had all my natural teeth removed - well, what was left of them after the butchery they had received from various Nottingham dentists - particularly Ron Acton, Brian Lawson and the Hucknall school dentist in the 1950s

Ronald Acton was a Union Dentist...one out, all out.  Why that man ever took up dentistry is beyond me!

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Had the rest of my Teeth out (12) along with my major Surgery in August............i was actually on the trolley on the way to Theatre'' when they asked my permission to remove them,,by that time i was past caring what they did,,and told them to crack on.,,get new one's next week hopefully.

                               Regards Smoking Brew stick at it mate,,you don't want what iv'e just been through..............iv'e not had a Cig since my OP,, but could still kill for one,, when walking past people smoking i feel like taking it off em and smoking it mesen...........lol

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10 hours ago, Brew said:

Seems January is abstinence month all round. Since Jan1st I've not had a cigarette. I am now getting through two packs of chewing gum, disgusting stuff but it helps with the craving and from thirty a day to zero I need all the help I can get. I don't know if I will succeed but I'm trying.

5 years this Sunday I quit. Really easy decisionto make while uou have a heart attack.

Stay with it Brew uou will be fine without em.

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Bleddy Teeth have always been a problem................you go thru Teething problems as a Baby,, then the agony of Visits to Torture (Chaucer) street,, when at School,,then in my case,,got two chipped playing Cricket (agony that was) .then having some removed at 2am, with no Anesthetic at Dentist on Mansfield road about 1969,,still wearing his Dressing Gown,, oh yes my cheque bounced as well,,

                                  After all that several shoplifters also removed a few over the years................so to be honest was glad to see the back of em......lol

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I had two sets of wisdom teeth which, I was told, is very unusual. My mother didn't have any, so I must have had hers in addition to my own. They caused problems because my mouth, contrary to popular belief, wasn't large enough to accommodate them all! 

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My dentist, Malcolm Pendlebury, on seeing my wisdom teeth for the first time said 'nasty things, wisdom teeth, better out than in' and proceeded to hook them out with a winkle pin type device. That was when I was about 22 and he was fresh out of dental college. He did my work for many years until he died. My mouth is a tribute to his technology. Caps. bridges, gold inserts. He was a great one for technology. He was also my first flying instructor. My mouth will be very valuable to my executors when I die! He had a splendid funeral in St. Marys Church with a reception at the Council House. He certainly knew how to live!

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Wisdom teeth what a problem. Years ago I was told all my wisdom teeth had to come out as they were distorting my gums.On the day the dentist , a small man , tried to take the first one out. After an hour of struggling he gave up and sent me to the Ropewalk for them to take all of them out. A very nice man said he was going to do it for me and he had 4 students to watch him , no problem I said but please don't touch the back of my throat as even when my tooth brush touched it I retched . He then proceed to take the first one out, no problem, out in a flash but he had to trim the gum up. The piece he cut off touched the back of my throat, big mistake I covered all of them. So I ended up in the QMC for 2 nights for them to extract the rest.

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When I were a lad, me gran took me to a dentist/butcher on st Ann's Well rd, across from the Chase. After he had finished, i ended up at the general hospital having some stitches to stem the bleeding he had caused. No compo in them day's!!

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Received £3000 back in the 90s for Criminal injury's,, had great holiday with it,,.............almost worth the pain.........lol

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6 hours ago, MargieH said:

You're strong and sensible enough to tell yourself you're fine without it.  

Yeh but no but..... worr if I don't believe mesen..

 

'when walking past people smoking i feel like taking it off em and smoking it mesen'

I've been joking Ben that I'll knock someone down and sit on their face till they gimme a fag...…   I'm sure I'm only joking....

 

Oh and I still have two wisdom teeth

 

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17 minutes ago, Brew said:

 

I've been joking Ben that I'll knock someone down and sit on their face till they gimme a fag...…   I'm sure I'm only joking....

 

Oh and I still have two wisdom teeth

 

 

Go for it Brew.......good way of getting a Fag and losing your Wisdom teeth..........lol

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