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Innerspeaker said:
Recently, if I fall asleep on my back, I will randomly wake up choking/coughing really hard and my throat will be raw and sore the next couple of days. This has happened three times in the past couple of weeks and now my voice is really hoarse. I have a bit of a stuffy nose, so at first I thought it was allergies (which is weird, because I've NEVER had summer allergies), but everything on good ol' Google says it's likely GERD or sleep apnea. Ugh . . . why me???
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sounds more like post-nasal drip or some sort of reflux to me
 
Coquette22 said:
But coconut oil the Cure All Du Jour. Don't you know anything? (I had a cocker with bad ears, I asked if they'd used any other treatments... "Just coconut oil".)
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I've always wanted to ask these people if they stick that in their own ears, and what their doctors say about it
 
jmo1012 said:
sounds more like post-nasal drip or some sort of reflux to me
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Today, I have a really stuffy nose so I think in my unprofessional opinion, I might just have a weird cold. . .
 
I should know better, considering Dr. Google's #1 diagnosis for pretty much any combination of symptoms I have is "pregnancy."
 
Innerspeaker said:
I should know better, considering Dr. Google's #1 diagnosis for pretty much any combination of symptoms I have is "pregnancy."
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I went to an all women's college. Anytime anyone went to the infirmary for any issue, pregnancy was suspected. Lol, the pregnancy test was like the Snap FIV/FeLV and parvo tests of our college. Very few were actually pregnant...
 
Minnerbelle said:
I went to an all women's college. Anytime anyone went to the infirmary for any issue, pregnancy was suspected. Lol, the pregnancy test was like the Snap FIV/FeLV and parvo tests of our college. Very few were actually pregnant...
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not just an all women's college phenomenon, i think its the standard diagnosis at every university health clinic irregarless of gender (i had male friends in college who were asked if they were pregnant during the initial screening...)
 
Sigh. I put a lot of effort (and heart) into a pancreatitis patient this weekend.... was seen overnight Fri-Sat by a colleague and treated outpatient typical gastroenteritis type of stuff. Re-presented to me Sat morning not improving. I hospitalized on a pancreatitis dx and went to town on the supportive care for this dog. And then watched it circle the drain all Saturday and all Sunday, develop aspiration pneumonia and finally (I think) get septic, and then arrest 30 minutes before my shift ended.

Overall, I like my job. But today kinda made me not want to be in ECC.
 
had surgery so have a relief vet in. She's been really busy. And apparently that means her notes are either crappy or absent. ffs she's a doctor. Shes not even writing down results of diagnostics or treatment dosages. And my techs are trained to start notes but she told them not to bother.
 
Talked to a friend last night who is practicing and she told me that she spayed a clients dog and the client flipped out because there was an incision line. Apparently some clients think you can magically make ovaries vanish in thin air...
 
I've been dealing with nausea/dizziness for the past 4 weeks. Usually can control it with meclizine and zofran. Was feeling crappy yesterday, didn't want to leave bed. Woke up feeling my worst yet with a giant headache. Went back to the doctor today who only gave me more zofran and a referral to an ENT. Wouldn't give me anything for the dizziness because apparently there is no drug to treat that (bs). I hate MD's/PA's/NP's. I'm so effing over it. I can never get the help I need. It's beyond frustrating.
 
bovinelvr84 said:
Talked to a friend last night who is practicing and she told me that she spayed a clients dog and the client flipped out because there was an incision line. Apparently some clients think you can magically make ovaries vanish in thin air...
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Psychic surgery.

Sadly that is actually a thing... though maybe not for animals, just dumb people.
 
A pathetic rant, but looking at the "Rate of Tuition Increase" on VIN's Cost of Education map makes me incredibly sad. Why couldn't I have graduated from A&M 10 years ago? Hell, even just starting in 2010, I'd have come out with a good bit less, as it looks like the tuition jumped around $7,000/yr starting in 2012. Blegh. I guess I should be grateful that the CVM is pretty generous with scholarships, but ugh, looking at these numbers hurt my heart. 😢
 
psilovethomas said:
I've been dealing with nausea/dizziness for the past 4 weeks. Usually can control it with meclizine and zofran. Was feeling crappy yesterday, didn't want to leave bed. Woke up feeling my worst yet with a giant headache. Went back to the doctor today who only gave me more zofran and a referral to an ENT. Wouldn't give me anything for the dizziness because apparently there is no drug to treat that (bs). I hate MD's/PA's/NP's. I'm so effing over it. I can never get the help I need. It's beyond frustrating.
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I used to (knock on wood) have severe episodes of vertigo so I know how much that sucks 🙁 It's like no one can figure it out. Hope you start to feel better soon.
 
DVMDream said:
How did you get rid of them?
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I have no idea, haha. They were never able to accurately diagnose me (they thought Meniere's disease but I was a young adult and it's usually old people that get it). The vertigo episodes stopped around the second half of undergrad; I still have some low grade hearing loss/tinnitus in one ear but I'm able to work with it most of the time.
 
Woke up with a severe sore throat the past two mornings, coupled with the inability to stand for too long and have found some suspicious red speckles on my headphones.
Not how I wanted this week to go.
 
bovinelvr84 said:
Talked to a friend last night who is practicing and she told me that she spayed a clients dog and the client flipped out because there was an incision line. Apparently some clients think you can magically make ovaries vanish in thin air...
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What? I thought you just give dogs the Pill and then they have birth control for life!!!
 
bovinelvr84 said:
Talked to a friend last night who is practicing and she told me that she spayed a clients dog and the client flipped out because there was an incision line. Apparently some clients think you can magically make ovaries vanish in thin air...
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Maybe they were expecting a vaginal hysterectomy or something, like MDs can do in women? (That said, I don't know how that's done... maybe there are still exterior incisions for things like insufflation ports and whatnot....)
 
I can see them thinking it would have been laparoscopic or something. I guess the lady was pretty hysterical though- my friend barely knew what to say to her.... smh
 
Our dentist is leaving and they just cancelled almost all our dentistry blocks going forward. Cool. Glad I wasted a rotation pick on that, and now have a three week block with pretty much nothing available to take...

Oh and it's during NAVLE testing time so that complicates traveling for an externship. Neat-o. 👎
 
Trilt said:
Our dentist is leaving and they just cancelled almost all our dentistry blocks going forward. Cool. Glad I wasted a rotation pick on that, and now have a three week block with pretty much nothing available to take...

Oh and it's during NAVLE testing time so that complicates traveling for an externship. Neat-o. 👎
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I had to switch a rotation with my vacation. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that would help you too much...
 
Trilt said:
Our dentist is leaving and they just cancelled almost all our dentistry blocks going forward. Cool. Glad I wasted a rotation pick on that, and now have a three week block with pretty much nothing available to take...

Oh and it's during NAVLE testing time so that complicates traveling for an externship. Neat-o. 👎
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you guys only have to do 10 working days though during that 3 weeks, so you could definitely manuver something around that time. just be glad thats not where you had internal medicine hell 😉

bummer he's leaving though. thats quite a hit to the program :-/ not really all that surprised, he took off on holiday for extended periods of time last year and cancelled rotations
 
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Trilt said:
Our dentist is leaving and they just cancelled almost all our dentistry blocks going forward. Cool. Glad I wasted a rotation pick on that, and now have a three week block with pretty much nothing available to take...

Oh and it's during NAVLE testing time so that complicates traveling for an externship. Neat-o. 👎
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I was so peeved at our school...... we lost both our dentists and the school kept sending us "don't panic, we're going to have the rotation" emails. Then they solidified a contract with a locum to come do the rotation Thu or Fri before the rotation started. Which mean they hadn't been scheduling appts because up until the day or two before the rotation they didn't have a DVM. So between four students we had three appts and no procedures the entire first week. Shoot, we didn't even really meet the locum the entire first day because she was doing her own orientation. The second week we each got one and a half procedures each and a few appts. Whoopie. I never extracted a tooth the entire rotation except on a cadaver. Super great experience. Yes, that's sarcasm.

Did they offer us a refund/discount/whatever on tuition for that rotation? Nope.

Did they offer to let us bring in our own pets to practice on at their expense since they screwed up? Nope.

Did they do ANYTHING to make it up to us, even so much as saying "Hey, we screwed up, and we're sorry."? Nope.

(The locum was awesome - definitely not her fault the rotation was pretty silly. Really enjoyed meeting with her, but it was awkward for everyone involved since we didn't really have much to do.)

Classic university kinda stuff - the school is never, ever wrong no matter what.
 
jmo1012 said:
you guys only have to do 10 working days though during that 3 weeks, so you could definitely manuver something around that time. just be glad thats not where you had internal medicine hell 😉

bummer he's leaving though. thats quite a hit to the program :-/ not really all that surprised, he took off on holiday for extended periods of time last year and cancelled rotations
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I knew his partner was looking for a job, but was trying to hold out hope that it would take longer... so the email wasn't a surprise, and as long as the school will work with me to let me take an externship/vacation slot, I have a couple local places in mind to hopefully replace it and still sneak the NAVLE in. But it's still immensely frustrating, and seriously, to just say "sorry, good luck!" for losing a rotation that is a major part of SA practice? We had a grand total of four dentistry lectures in the curriculum, and a single lab where they talked about gum flaps. Fabulous. Well prepped for the workplace indeed.

LetItSnow said:
I was so peeved at our school...... we lost both our dentists and the school kept sending us "don't panic, we're going to have the rotation" emails. Then they solidified a contract with a locum to come do the rotation Thu or Fri before the rotation started. Which mean they hadn't been scheduling appts because up until the day or two before the rotation they didn't have a DVM. So between four students we had three appts and no procedures the entire first week. Shoot, we didn't even really meet the locum the entire first day because she was doing her own orientation. The second week we each got one and a half procedures each and a few appts. Whoopie. I never extracted a tooth the entire rotation except on a cadaver. Super great experience. Yes, that's sarcasm.

Did they offer us a refund/discount/whatever on tuition for that rotation? Nope.

Did they offer to let us bring in our own pets to practice on at their expense since they screwed up? Nope.

Did they do ANYTHING to make it up to us, even so much as saying "Hey, we screwed up, and we're sorry."? Nope.

(The locum was awesome - definitely not her fault the rotation was pretty silly. Really enjoyed meeting with her, but it was awkward for everyone involved since we didn't really have much to do.)

Classic university kinda stuff - the school is never, ever wrong no matter what.
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That really sucks - sounds like an immense waste of time. 🙁
 
Trilt said:
I knew his partner was looking for a job, but was trying to hold out hope that it would take longer... so the email wasn't a surprise, and as long as the school will work with me to let me take an externship/vacation slot, I have a couple local places in mind to hopefully replace it and still sneak the NAVLE in. But it's still immensely frustrating, and seriously, to just say "sorry, good luck!" for losing a rotation that is a major part of SA practice? We had a grand total of four dentistry lectures in the curriculum, and a single lab where they talked about gum flaps. Fabulous. Well prepped for the workplace indeed.
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yeah thats pretty much all of the dentistry we got in school :-/ this reminds me of the time they emailed the off shores in January to let us know they essentially had nothing available for block one for us so by the way go find an externship. and work extra days on that externship because it starts halfway through the week and you have to do 15 days for proper credit.
 
Oh. My. Thor.

Someone actually, without a hint of irony, said the reason there's a shortage of coverage in large animal medicine is because "not enough men are becoming vets." Um. UM. Sure person, sure. It's that and not finances. Sure. SUUUURE.

I know a few awesome ladies working with food animals and horses that would like to disagree.
 
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BirdsinMyHouse said:
Oh. My. Thor.

Someone actually, without a hint of irony, said the reason there's a shortage of coverage in large animal medicine is because "not enough men are becoming vets." Um. UM. Sure person, sure. It's that and not finances. Sure. SUUUURE.

I know a few awesome ladies working with food animals and horses that would like to disagree.
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I used to look like a man. Do I qualify?
 
BirdsinMyHouse said:
Oh. My. Thor.

Someone actually, without a hint of irony, said the reason there's a shortage of coverage in large animal medicine is because "not enough men are becoming vets." Um. UM. Sure person, sure. It's that and not finances. Sure. SUUUURE.

I know a few awesome ladies working with food animals and horses that would like to disagree.
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It's amazing the things people say. A frustrated client told one of my techs at 3:30am that she (the tech) had no idea how difficult it was to work overnights.

O.K.
 
Gwenevre said:
Woke up with a severe sore throat the past two mornings, coupled with the inability to stand for too long and have found some suspicious red speckles on my headphones.
Not how I wanted this week to go.
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This just in. Strep throat. Haven't had that since elementary school.
 
Gwenevre said:
This just in. Strep throat. Haven't had that since elementary school.
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A year (or two? @dyachei ?) ago or so I not only had strep throat, it progressed to scarlet fever.

I've never to my knowledge had strep throat in my life. 40-some years and I get scarlet fever. Go figure. I didn't even make the connection between the swords stabbing my throat and the sudden widespread rash (yes, I was stupid...) - fortunately Dyachei said "Yo, idiot, you have scarlet fever, go see a doctor."
 
LetItSnow said:
A year (or two? @dyachei ?) ago or so I not only had strep throat, it progressed to scarlet fever.

I've never to my knowledge had strep throat in my life. 40-some years and I get scarlet fever. Go figure. I didn't even make the connection between the swords stabbing my throat and the sudden widespread rash (yes, I was stupid...) - fortunately Dyachei said "Yo, idiot, you have scarlet fever, go see a doctor."
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must have been closer to 2...you were a 3rd year
 
What's the perfect way to close out a sh-tshow of a day with my assigned doctor running 20 minutes behind on 30 minute appointment slots by just the second appointment? And with her appointment slots filled up with mostly giant aggressive dogs, trainwreck super sick patients, and/or very chatty owners? And with the computers constantly locking up, the exact meds I need to fill completely out, and just about every other little thing going wrong? What cherry could you possibly pile on top of that wonderful garbage cake?

Why, having the drug testing people come in to randomly select me as one of 4 lucky employees being pulled aside and immediately made to pee in a damn cup halfway through an appointment even though I haven't even been there a month and did all this for them already the day before I started. No, it's okay, the doctor and client can wait for me to finish peeing in a cup, and I'll get to what they need me to do whenever, I guess. Awesome day, YEAHHH!!! :banana:
 
I cannot believe how difficult it is to change a grade. Transcript says I earned a C when it really is a B. Professor still has grade as B, so obviously a school screw up. Nope, had to go see three different people today and I have to "touch base" with them in a few days. What they don't understand is, if they tell there is no way to fix the problem, I will go as high up as I have to in order to get this changed. I've applied to vet school twice with this C instead of B and by darn I am not applying again without changing it. I wish I had caught this two years ago when the mistake was made.
 
missdarjeeling said:
What's the perfect way to close out a sh-tshow of a day with my assigned doctor running 20 minutes behind on 30 minute appointment slots by just the second appointment? And with her appointment slots filled up with mostly giant aggressive dogs, trainwreck super sick patients, and/or very chatty owners? And with the computers constantly locking up, the exact meds I need to fill completely out, and just about every other little thing going wrong? What cherry could you possibly pile on top of that wonderful garbage cake?

Why, having the drug testing people come in to randomly select me as one of 4 lucky employees being pulled aside and immediately made to pee in a damn cup halfway through an appointment even though I haven't even been there a month and did all this for them already the day before I started. No, it's okay, the doctor and client can wait for me to finish peeing in a cup, and I'll get to what they need me to do whenever, I guess. Awesome day, YEAHHH!!! :banana:
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I sincerely wish they did random drug tests where I work now, though they'd need to hire A LOT of new people all at once.
 
Jilary said:
I sincerely wish they did random drug tests where I work now, though they'd need to hire A LOT of new people all at once.
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Yeah, your previous posts were pretty shocking, and it's amazing those people still have jobs. At my old place, they only ever tested when they had some kind of suspicion or accusation to back it up. That worked out well enough. My one stoner coworker got caught and fired after one of the doctors brought a concern to management, though management also took concerns from assistants, techs, and receptionists just as seriously. And we never had to make clients wait because someone you just pee tested less than a month ago was being randomly made to do it again. Best of both worlds... 😉
 
I'm seriously considering not inviting my dad to my professional welcoming ceremony, when I told him I got into vet school he told me I should have become a pilot, along with a whole bunch of mean things to say. I mentioned the ceremony to him and he didn't even seem to care, I know he'll behave, but I only want to have people there who are genuinely happy for me (though I'm sure he is) and that can show it properly.... I also don't want to not invite him because he's my dad and he should be there.:bang:
 
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