Re: We're MX Newbies... Appreciate your experience with Best Private Health Insurance, IMSS and Other?

by ferret Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:41 am

A lung guy is a Pulmonologist.
A Eumologist is a new one for me.

by CanuckBob Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:07 am

I think that is the Spanish way of saying it. I spelt it wrong.

Neumologia

by Jreboll Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:15 am

In English:
Pneumology

by ferret Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:25 am

Thanks! Pneumologist/Pulmonologist same critter.

by CHILLIN Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:33 am

The Hemotology Dra. at Quality Care is excellent. You might look at getting a urocultivo test. I have asymptomatic E. Coli, the old strain lowered my blood platelets to 55,000 the new mutated strain does not, now 120,000. It is also antibiotic resistant though. The doctors finally agreed if no symptoms, why keep pumping antibiotics. The new thinking is that there is a lot more bacteria in your bladder than previously assumed. To wipe everything out, good or bad, could cause more harm than good.

by CanuckBob Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:43 pm

They did about 30 blood tests when I was in SAT. $22,000 pesos worth including chest xray and cat scan.......lol. I will find out the results tomorrow if anything stands out. If not they will start with bone marrow tests, etc. My platelets were at 12,000 and jumped to the 109,000 after the steroid IV. They said that was a positive sign. I will test the blood again tomorrow to see where we stand.

by CHILLIN Sun Sep 27, 2020 2:11 pm

Good luck CB. You are too young and too handsome to be going through this crap!

Has Vumi got your back on this one? Still shopping around, waiting for the U.S. dollar to drop. It must be on helium.

by CanuckBob Sun Sep 27, 2020 2:44 pm

No I have no insurance. VUMI jacked the renewal way up.

by CanuckBob Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:17 pm

Well so far everything is clean. They are now looking at Hep B as one of the blood tests showed a marker. One of my tattoos may be coming back to haunt me......lol.

by CanuckBob Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:08 pm

Well its not Hep B so we are back to not knowing a thing other than my immunization for Hep A and B is still working.

by Jreboll Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:44 pm

What was the mass near your pancreas? Have you been having tarry stools which would indicate GI bleeding and perhaps depleting your platelets?
It’s always fun playing doctor.

by CanuckBob Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:53 pm

There was no mass after the second contrast cscan. Internal bleeding was the first thing they chceked for in the hospital.

by BisbeeGal Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:35 pm

How do you feel now? I have had CT scans and MRI's that have alarmed radiologists, but not doctors....and vice a versa.

I am convinced Medicine is as much an Art as it is a Science.

Maybe all you needed was to get off those old meds?

by CanuckBob Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:31 pm

At the moment I am very fatigued with mild flu like symptoms. Whether it is related or not I don't know. Something caused my platelets to drop to 12,000 (sb 150,000 to 400,000). They are back up to 250,000 after several steroid ivs. Also something is causing my hemoglobin to be too high (thick blood). Thats what they are trying to figure out. Maybe we'll never know. My next appointment is with a rheumatologist.

by Jreboll Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:40 pm

Keeping up with your supplements just in case you have the wrong corona?

by CanuckBob Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:17 pm

No, they told me to stop taking anything including supplements.

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