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Post by Cybermortis on Oct 8, 2019 9:42:51 GMT
Baradul is a Twitch and YouTube streamer from Germany who focuses on Mechwarrior Online and Battletech games. Recently he uploaded a short video asking for help for a friend of his, actually the friend who introduced him to MWO in the first place.
I thought I'd post this here for people to pass around;
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Post by rmc on Oct 8, 2019 11:07:29 GMT
I'll give what I can!
I have almost the same trouble too by the way. Since my total thyroidectomy, i started having what we're thought to be nocturnal panic attacks and we very poorly treated that with Lorazepam for about 6 or 7 years until i was very pittifully addicted to the Lorazepam. (Long, horrible story).
Turns out the total thyroidectomy had had complications trying to free the thyroid from a large nerve and the result was that it somehow invited a difficult to treat case of sleep apnea. So that's what those nighttime panic attacks were: bouts of totally unexpected sleep apnea! Using a CPAP generates pressurized air that slips past the neck trouble and instead of going into the lungs, goes into my stomach.
A mandibular device helps sometimes, but I also need to hold open my nasal passages with a souped up version of an adhesive tape nasal dilator. I might benefit from surgery too, but after the thyroidectomy and the painful withdrawals from Lorazepam, I avoid surgery. Plus the VA isn't too quick at recognizing certain surgeries are necessary or even available. Add to all that I also have TSH swings (thyroid levels) from 0.06 to 9.0 or more throughout each year since. My mind is gone.
I've even stooped to "sleeping" with one of these on. It's quiet horrible, but perhaps the fellow could get temporary relief that I did:
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Post by GTCGreg on Oct 8, 2019 18:49:48 GMT
My advice is get a second opinion. And a third and fourth if you don't get the answers you are looking for.
Two decades ago, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. After about 9 months of Chemotherapy, the next "recommended" procedure was intensive radiation treatment of my neck and throat area. As bad as the side effects of the Chemo were, the side effects of the radiation were much more severe and permanent, including loss of the thyroid. When I started questioning the effectiveness of the radiation treatment vs not having any radiation as to long term results, the radiologist I was seeing couldn't give me an answer. I was, for the most part, told to just shut up and start the treatment. Not wanting to accept an "I don't know" as an answer to something that would affect me the rest of my life, I made an appointment at the University of Chicago cancer treatment center to get a second opinion. The doctor there told me that he also didn't have an answer because the type of cancer I had was very rare, but he would look into it and let me know. After he did his research, he called and told me that Chemo was very effective against this type of cancer but radiation actually had little effect on the long term prognosis. He recommended that if I did go with radiation treatment, it be a very targeted type that would cause the least long term side effects. The first radiologist I saw didn't even have the equipment to do the targeted radiation treatment. So I elected not to have any radiation and take my chances. After 20 years, I'm still cancer free. I'm sure glad I took the time to get that second opinion.
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Post by rmc on Oct 8, 2019 19:47:03 GMT
Particularly, in my specific case, I was unable to deny the procedure. As I was exiting the service, an x-ray determined I needed Endocrine to temporarily halt my out processing due to a deviated trachea caused by a swelling thyroid. Only after corrective surgery (of the sort they determined was necessary) would my out processing proceed. So I got hosed a couple of ways, I guess. Basically no second opinions, or arguments from me allowed.
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