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Posey said:
I can lose about 20# if I cut out anything tasty and starve myself. Can't get to a "healthy" weight. Now I'm on the multiple miscarriages = human pincushion train.
I'm convinced there's some hypothyroidism to blame, but can't get a diagnosis.


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This is then part that scares me the most. I lost that 60# by going low carb and walking a lot (combined with meds), I didn't starve myself or exercise heavily. It was extremely easy to gain it back if I stopped the low carb, though. I gained 30# back and I'm ready to lose again. I'm definitely not meant to be a thin girl but I'd like to be back down to a size 10/12.

If you don't mind talking about it, I would love to hear more about what you're going through right now (PM might be more fitting, of course). My boyfriend and I definitely want children down the line and I'd like to hear from someone other than a doctor about what it's like.
rockatiel said:
Interestingly enough, I have PCOS and I've never struggled with my weight. It makes me wonder if I've been misdiagnosed, because that's one of the conditions with it.
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My little sister got diagnosed with PCOS too and she doesn't have a weight problem, even though she has a really awful diet and sits in bed on her computer literally all day (if I did that, I'd be 100lbs heavier than I am now, no doubt). PCOS is very much diagnosed by excluding other endocrine disorders, so it could be what fit your symptoms best I guess.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
Most of the HW positive dogs we see are in/from rescues from the south or south east. I think we had 1or 2 (3-4 if I count both jobs) Colorado native dogs test positive in the past year, but they all lived with or had major exposure to a Louisiana or Texas or southern born companion. We really do see HW relatively rarely, but the numbers have climbed dramatically since Katrina and since a few new rescues formed alliances with some NM, TX, LA, and GA shelters.
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:whistle: A lot of those TX dogs are probably from our shelter...
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
If you don't mind talking about it, I would love to hear more about what you're going through right now (PM might be more fitting, of course). My boyfriend and I definitely want children down the line and I'd like to hear from someone other than a doctor about what it's like
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I'm happy to share my experience if it can help someone else. Feel free to pm any questions you have.



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vetmedhead said:
:whistle: A lot of those TX dogs are probably from our shelter...
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Did you recently have a long bodied brindle mama sent to CO with 4 pups? I adopted one of those pups, but when we spayed mom, she had 10 implantation sites so I'm curious about the other pups. The rescue said they got mom and 4 pups at 6 weeks with no other info. (They aren't the greatest rescue in the world, so I kinda question them and their policies.) One of the brindle female pups had bilateral inguinal hernias that we repaired... if that actually narrowed things down.

Mostly I'm curious because the dogs all looked pretty healthy, which isn't always common, but if they were exposed to Parvo or something early on...

Anywho, just curious!
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
This is then part that scares me the most. I lost that 60# by going low carb and walking a lot (combined with meds), I didn't starve myself or exercise heavily. It was extremely easy to gain it back if I stopped the low carb, though. I gained 30# back and I'm ready to lose again. I'm definitely not meant to be a thin girl but I'd like to be back down to a size 10/12.

If you don't mind talking about it, I would love to hear more about what you're going through right now (PM might be more fitting, of course). My boyfriend and I definitely want children down the line and I'd like to hear from someone other than a doctor about what it's like.

My little sister got diagnosed with PCOS too and she doesn't have a weight problem, even though she has a really awful diet and sits in bed on her computer literally all day (if I did that, I'd be 100lbs heavier than I am now, no doubt). PCOS is very much diagnosed by excluding other endocrine disorders, so it could be what fit your symptoms best I guess.
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I don't know if I can help. I don't have PCOS, but I and my classmates and others like us would be the ones handling your gametes and making babies. I might be able to wrestle up some of the more recent research on PCOS and pregnancy. One of the girls in our program also had PCOS and we had long conversations about what the data suggested for her future and that of any potential offspring.

The biggest worry for her was that even if she could get pregnant, her daughter had a very high chance of also having PCOS due to uterine conditions alone. While there are attempts in the works to mitigate those risks, they come with more risks of their own.

Basically I'm saying I could talk you through the risks and challenges and what is known and not, if you wanted to jump on the technical side of IVF.
 
I'm really sick of severe weather. Sick of tornadoes, sick of lightning, sick of flooding, and really sick of hail in my rental car. We have another batch of storms heading our way. El Niño needs to get a girlfriend or something. He's really frustrated.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
Most of the HW positive dogs we see are in/from rescues from the south or south east. I think we had 1or 2 (3-4 if I count both jobs) Colorado native dogs test positive in the past year, but they all lived with or had major exposure to a Louisiana or Texas or southern born companion. We really do see HW relatively rarely, but the numbers have climbed dramatically since Katrina and since a few new rescues formed alliances with some NM, TX, LA, and GA shelters.
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My shelter alone (Central Louisiana) has 13 HW+ dogs. A lot of rescues here ship the dogs up to Canada!
 
rockatiel said:
Interestingly enough, I have PCOS and I've never struggled with my weight. It makes me wonder if I've been misdiagnosed, because that's one of the conditions with it.
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While excess weight and difficulty losing weight are common to PCOS, you can be thin and still have the condition.

There is a group I like on Facebook called PCOS Nutrition Center. I think the moderator is a nutritionist. Anyway, they post new studies and good information.


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Posey said:
While excess weight and difficulty losing weight are common to PCOS, you can be thin and still have the condition.

There is a group I like on Facebook called PCOS Nutrition Center. I think the moderator is a nutritionist. Anyway, they post new studies and good information.


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That sounds awesome! Def gonna check it out.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
I don't know if I can help. I don't have PCOS, but I and my classmates and others like us would be the ones handling your gametes and making babies. I might be able to wrestle up some of the more recent research on PCOS and pregnancy. One of the girls in our program also had PCOS and we had long conversations about what the data suggested for her future and that of any potential offspring.

The biggest worry for her was that even if she could get pregnant, her daughter had a very high chance of also having PCOS due to uterine conditions alone. While there are attempts in the works to mitigate those risks, they come with more risks of their own.

Basically I'm saying I could talk you through the risks and challenges and what is known and not, if you wanted to jump on the technical side of IVF.
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Thanks, that's awesome. I don't want to get ahead of myself since children would be at least 4 years away, but I'm under the impression that it's better for me to try as soon as possible than wait until I'm older.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Thanks, that's awesome. I don't want to get ahead of myself since children would be at least 4 years away, but I'm under the impression that it's better for me to try as soon as possible than wait until I'm older.
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I brought this up to my repro doctor (who manages my PCOS) and she said that I didn't need to worry about that until 37 or so. It was a surprise to me, since I was under the same impression you were.
 
flameshock said:
I brought this up to my repro doctor (who manages my PCOS) and she said that I didn't need to worry about that until 37 or so. It was a surprise to me, since I was under the same impression you were.
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There's actually a recent study that suggests women with PCOS are more likely to have children as they age. Something along the lines of having the same number of kids as "typical" women, just getting a later start.


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pinkpuppy9 said:
Lol this is a monthly event for a lot of women 😛
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Usually I just have physical side effects (holy cramping, batman!) and only very mild emotional ones. Sometimes I really miss my little magic birth control pills.
pinkpuppy9 said:
Time for my paranoia to kick in.
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I thought I was having an extended migraine, as did my GP, when it turned out I was having headaches due to pressure caused by a clot. So...I'm paranoid about any headaches that don't go away with sleep now.
 
WildZoo said:
Usually I just have physical side effects (holy cramping, batman!) and only very mild emotional ones. Sometimes I really miss my little magic birth control pills.

I thought I was having an extended migraine, as did my GP, when it turned out I was having headaches due to pressure caused by a clot. So...I'm paranoid about any headaches that don't go away with sleep now.
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Oh geez, I'm really glad you found that. I talked to my doc today and she is going to switch up my BC pills and she upped my spiro again. Other than that, my hormones are within normal levels for the first time in 6 years!
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Oh geez, I'm really glad you found that. I talked to my doc today and she is going to switch up my BC pills and she upped my spiro again. Other than that, my hormones are within normal levels for the first time in 6 years!
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I'm glad you talked to your doctor! Hopefully things get better for you.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Thanks, that's awesome. I don't want to get ahead of myself since children would be at least 4 years away, but I'm under the impression that it's better for me to try as soon as possible than wait until I'm older.
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Sorry, got busy and tomorrow is supposed to be crazy. I promise to PM y'all soon.
 
I had an 8AM appointment with my orthopedic doc today. Got there, with both parents in tow (I can't drive after the injections and we were supposed to discuss surgery), and they tell us he had an emergency open fracture repair this morning so my appointment was cancelled. That's fine, I get it. We asked if we could be squeezed in this afternoon so I could at least get the numbing injection for my trip, and the receptionist responded with "😵😵 Um, we close at 11:30 today ma'am, we're not going to do that for you."

Just another aspect of human medicine that is completely different from my experience in vet med. I'm also sad that I don't get to be numb for at least a day or two now.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
I had an 8AM appointment with my orthopedic doc today. Got there, with both parents in tow (I can't drive after the injections and we were supposed to discuss surgery), and they tell us he had an emergency open fracture repair this morning so my appointment was cancelled. That's fine, I get it. We asked if we could be squeezed in this afternoon so I could at least get the numbing injection for my trip, and the receptionist responded with "😵😵 Um, we close at 11:30 today ma'am, we're not going to do that for you."

Just another aspect of human medicine that is completely different from my experience in vet med. I'm also sad that I don't get to be numb for at least a day or two now.
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Specialists seem to do this a lot. My mom's former rheumatologist will not work weekends, which would coincidentally be the times where she's on a lot of pain. He would tell her to just go to the ER. My mother does not have time to wait at the ER for hours on end for pain medication. She thankfully has a new doctor now who has really helped her manage her inflammation, though. But we definitely had this experience. If she was in pain before a scheduled appointment he would give her a shot and kick her out the door. Kind of acted like she was a burden as a patient. It was sad.
 
rockatiel said:
Specialists seem to do this a lot. My mom's former rheumatologist will not work weekends, which would coincidentally be the times where she's on a lot of pain. He would tell her to just go to the ER. My mother does not have time to wait at the ER for hours on end for pain medication. She thankfully has a new doctor now who has really helped her manage her inflammation, though. But we definitely had this experience. If she was in pain before a scheduled appointment he would give her a shot and kick her out the door. Kind of acted like she was a burden as a patient. It was sad.
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I wouldn't expect him to come in on a weekend, but I was hoping he'd be willing to at least give me the injection whenever he was finished with his surgery. It takes 5 minutes, honestly.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
I had an 8AM appointment with my orthopedic doc today. Got there, with both parents in tow (I can't drive after the injections and we were supposed to discuss surgery), and they tell us he had an emergency open fracture repair this morning so my appointment was cancelled. That's fine, I get it. We asked if we could be squeezed in this afternoon so I could at least get the numbing injection for my trip, and the receptionist responded with "😵😵 Um, we close at 11:30 today ma'am, we're not going to do that for you."

Just another aspect of human medicine that is completely different from my experience in vet med. I'm also sad that I don't get to be numb for at least a day or two now.
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My dermatologist didn't call/mail/email/nothing when one of my mole biopsies came back atypical. I didn't know until I was back in his office a month later for an unrelated reason that he wanted to surgically remove it. I was so mad. Why is poor client communication in human med acceptable?
 
Old lady dog had been having kidney problems, but today she seems to have raging, furious pancreatitis (or maybe a pancreatic adenocarcinoma, though her recent rads were clear...) and we are thinking she will need a fentanyl patch tp get some relief because she seems absolutely miserable.

Now if it is pancreatitis, it could be due to the Hill's SD that she has been eating to try and dissolve her renal and urinary stones (which haven't changed much within the 3-4 weeks she has been on it, based on subjective US). So... blah.
 
EngrSC said:
My dermatologist didn't call/mail/email/nothing when one of my mole biopsies came back atypical. I didn't know until I was back in his office a month later for an unrelated reason that he wanted to surgically remove it. I was so mad. Why is poor client communication in human med acceptable?
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Yeah I didn't find out about my abnormal bloodwork until a couple months after my blood clot issue. And I didn't get my follow up MRI results letting me know I was in the clear until several weeks after that was done as well.
 
WildZoo said:
Yeah I didn't find out about my abnormal bloodwork until a couple months after my blood clot issue. And I didn't get my follow up MRI results letting me know I was in the clear until several weeks after that was done as well.
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Seriously right? And we have clients all the time who will call on a doctor's day off (after being told they'll call with the results on x day) to demand that another doctor go over the results. On like wellness or preanesthetic bloodwork. Arrrgh. Our clients have it so good.


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EngrSC said:
My dermatologist didn't call/mail/email/nothing when one of my mole biopsies came back atypical. I didn't know until I was back in his office a month later for an unrelated reason that he wanted to surgically remove it. I was so mad. Why is poor client communication in human med acceptable?
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It's so frustrating. What if you hadn't gone back for a while? How can they just let something like that fall through the cracks?

I had an abnormal pap followed by a colposcopy where they did a curettage and sent a sample off to pathology. Never heard back, and it was my hell semester, so I didn't realize they hadn't followed up until a few months later. At which point I figured they'd have called me if there was something concerning. Because I'm apparently that naive and trusting. I ended up getting busy again, moving to another state. Got everything back on track with another annual...which resulted in another colposcopy. This doctor actually followed up with me, and it turns out I have high grade changes, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia-2 (CIN-2). Which is something that can progress to cancer if left untreated, so I have to have the problematic tissue in my cervix removed as soon as possible. And here I'm wondering whether we could've done this way back when if they had actually followed up with me, but I haven't been able to get the records yet so I don't even know if it was CIN-2 when they took the first sample or if it was a lower grade that just got worse because it was left untreated because they never followed up with me. I'm mad at myself for not taking charge, but they didn't hold up their end of the deal, either.

Meanwhile, here we are calling our clients with every little piece of information and having doctors follow up for other doctors if clients want to know ASAP. If we can do it, why can't they? They certainly have 10 times the staff we do. grumblegrumble.
 
Minnerbelle said:
Seriously right? And we have clients all the time who will call on a doctor's day off (after being told they'll call with the results on x day) to demand that another doctor go over the results. On like wellness or preanesthetic bloodwork. Arrrgh. Our clients have it so good.


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Don't even get me started on my daughter's diagnosis. According to one nurse, it was in my chart from her ultrasound at 23 weeks, but nobody told me. It would also mean that they sent home a first time mom on hallucinogenics (a sleep aid) and a high likelihood of giving birth to a baby that would need assistance immediately after birth to survive. (Trisomy 21)

Part of me hopes that nurse read the chart wrong.
 
I have 13 internmates, and not a single person is willing to watch my dog for 48 hours while I attend my grandfather's funeral. Including the person whose dog I had at my house for a week while she went home for vacation so that she didn't have to board her dog. Gee thanks guys.
 
jmo1012 said:
I have 13 internmates, and not a single person is willing to watch my dog for 48 hours while I attend my grandfather's funeral. Including the person whose dog I had at my house for a week while she went home for vacation so that she didn't have to board her dog. Gee thanks guys.
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Any nearby veterinary students that you might be able to get to watch your dog?


Sorry your internmates are being asshats.
 
Louisiana. Last week flooding, this week severe thunderstorms/literal funnel cloud in my yard, and tonight, a freeze warning.
 
DVMDream said:
Any nearby veterinary students that you might be able to get to watch your dog?


Sorry your internmates are being asshats.
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unfortunately no local students. ugh i seriously have no clue what to do. i'm leaving in 36 hours. i'm shocked that literally no one is willing to help out. thanks a lot guys. the girl whose dog i watch previously said oh sorry no i cant, and then a minute later was like oh how are you? what a dumb thing to ask. lets see, right now im pretty stressed out because no one will watch my dog.
 
jmo1012 said:
unfortunately no local students. ugh i seriously have no clue what to do. i'm leaving in 36 hours. i'm shocked that literally no one is willing to help out. thanks a lot guys. the girl whose dog i watch previously said oh sorry no i cant, and then a minute later was like oh how are you? what a dumb thing to ask. lets see, right now im pretty stressed out because no one will watch my dog.
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🙁 I'm sorry.
 
jmo1012 said:
I have 13 internmates, and not a single person is willing to watch my dog for 48 hours while I attend my grandfather's funeral. Including the person whose dog I had at my house for a week while she went home for vacation so that she didn't have to board her dog. Gee thanks guys.
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Where are you interning? State, maybe general region... just wondering if one of us can help.
 
jmo1012 said:
unfortunately no local students. ugh i seriously have no clue what to do. i'm leaving in 36 hours. i'm shocked that literally no one is willing to help out. thanks a lot guys. the girl whose dog i watch previously said oh sorry no i cant, and then a minute later was like oh how are you? what a dumb thing to ask. lets see, right now im pretty stressed out because no one will watch my dog.
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Where are you at? Happy to help, or see if I know anyone in the area.
 
jmo1012 said:
unfortunately no local students. ugh i seriously have no clue what to do. i'm leaving in 36 hours. i'm shocked that literally no one is willing to help out. thanks a lot guys. the girl whose dog i watch previously said oh sorry no i cant, and then a minute later was like oh how are you? what a dumb thing to ask. lets see, right now im pretty stressed out because no one will watch my dog.
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I'm sorry. That totally blows. If I was in the area I would gladly help you out.


And I just saw a mouse in my room. I almost don't care too much if they're in the house, but my personal bedroom, I mind.
 
alohacat319 said:
Three showers a day?!?! Not even talking about the sex part-- but what girl is willing to get their hair wet that many times in a day? Nope nope nope.
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I'm really glad you're here to ask the hard hitting questions that I'm thinking. 😛
 
Three times a day is just accounting for the shower sex. I have also had the pleasure of hearing a few terrestrial sex encounters today.
 
Stb1473 said:
But still...
3 rolls in the hay? okay. 3 showers in one day? That's pushing it. Combined? :uhno:
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Once upon a time, totally doable. I've spent nearly 3 days in and out of bed just breaking for food and cat naps... but I was much younger and hadn't had kids yet.

Now that would be pretty near impossible. And sounds kinda painful.
 
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