Cfs/me part 1-2-3 current condition, surgeries and others info at bottom of thread

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I very seldom had any kind of sickness for years.
1-Alpha-gal syndrome, from a tick bite.
2-Muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) Of the throat.
3- I had or still have H. pylori
4- Multiple pulmonary nodules
1-Right hand and arm reconstructed after industrial accident. 30 yrs ago
2- Double hernia repair with mesh 20 yrs ago.
3- Kidney stone removal surgery in the last two months.
4- Multiple stitches from cuts over the years
5-Broke nose 12 yrs ago
6-One cracked rib 6 yrs ago
7- When i was born I was strangled by umbilical cord.
9- Surgey to repair torn tendon
10- Heart, seen was a small calcium build up in my aortic artery.
11-Twice I was DOA at ER arrival
9- Had stomach virus all the time when i was young.
I did not sleep for 1 week, I was just not sleepy.
12- I do have all the markers for diabetes autoimmune disease

Excuse me, but your health-experiences account is quite mingled up, thereby overly confusing (at least me) and even contradictory. How can you say, you had no sickness for years? - While having a medical history starting right at birth? Or do you mean as young adult only?

What do you think were the most co-factoring diseases leading up to your ME/CFS? And which still need addressing?
 
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Excuse me, but your health-experiences account is quite mingled up, thereby overly confusing (at least me) and even contradictory. How can you say, you had no sickness for years? - While having a medical history starting right at birth? Or do you mean as young adult only?

What do you think were the most co-factoring diseases leading up to your ME/CFS? And which still need addressing?
Hi
I understand the confusion, it is not you. It is hard for me to stay focused currently.
I consider injuries or operations as not being sick .
I call it a life learning experience
Childhood
#1 Was born with umbilical cord around me kneck.
#2 I had stomach flu up to age of 13 monthly.

From the age of 13 up to 2021
I have not had any colds , stomach viruses or any kind of flu.
In the above time frame only kidney stone issues

2021 to present. Everything below except for the kidney stone surgery
Was found by test and scans when I came down with CFS

#1 I have all the markers for diabetes autoimmune disease
#2 Alpha-gal syndrome, from a tick bite
#3 Muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) Of the throat.
#4 I had or still have H. pylori, I have not been tested yet to see
#5 Multiple pulmonary nodules
#6 I had Omicron covid and two other variants, and I think 4 covid shots
#7 Kidney stone removal surgery in the last two months.

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What do you think were the most co-factoring diseases leading up to your ME/CFS? And which still need addressing?

2021 to mid 2022
#1 I had the Omicron viruse
#2 Developed CFS
#3 Lost my job because I could not work
#4 Had to sell our home and property
Since we could not pay our mortage.
This was a big mental strain and we only had five years left to pay it off.
#5 We moved in with our daughter and husband, untill we could find a place of our own.
This was a real mental strain on me because I had always been the provider and took care of everyone, no matter what they needed.

#6 I think the mental strain played the largest part.
#7 Covid , other than being sick multiple times with it, I really dont know if it played any part in my CFS.

What do I need to address?
That is the Million dollar Question
#1 Get over the chronic fatigue so I can live a productive life.

I am open to suggestions and any specialty Dr. reccomendations.

I do apologize for giving you a headache trying to understand
What I had typed.
It took me almost one hour to type this response.
I focused very hard on makeing it legible, with decent grammer.
Thank you for asking your Question
Focusing hard to supply an answer has helped me more than I can describe in words!
Thank you
 
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I wrote you a comment then it vanished ...so see link above.

Hi
It may be hard to believe but I am completely New to all forms of social media, where you comment or make a reply
I have the reply problem sometimes too.
I did figure out one of the problems.
If there are a lot of replies it creates a new page and when you go back to your reply you are actually on a new page.
At the bottom of the page thier is a page button I think its forward/ previous/ next.
Your reply may be on a previous page.
I am new to all of this experience .
And I apologize if I said anything wrong or rude to you.
 
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pamojja

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It took me almost one hour to type this response.

Thanks so much for the effort you took. Which helps me to voice some suggestions.

What do I need to address?
That is the Million dollar Question
#1 Get over the chronic fatigue so I can live a productive life.

I asked this question, because in my case most former health issues from being born, actually became co-factors in the final conditions I fought. PEMs were a last pinnacle only. Also with me, it actually started with a much debilitating walking-disability from PAD and COPD, where comprehensive lifestyle changes and Orthomolecular supplementation couldn't bring quick improvements. As diseases, which are usually considered mercilessly progressing, and available standard interventions able to slow somewhat only.

Therefore, to get feedback for improvements or worsening through my interventions, I used as many lab-tests as possible. And there I saw the damage done long in the past since my birth: with difficulties with the heart, lung, liver, kidneys, spleen, androgens, thyroid, glucose metabolism, etc., - where it seemed intuitive to tackle even the slightest dysfunction of any body-system, to reverse the usually considered non-reversible main conditions.

I consider injuries or operations as not being sick .
I call it a life learning experience

Luckily, I miss this life experience, except one broken food joint as a child. But with my PAD at age 40 I was offered a vascular prothesis, instead of my abdominal aorta down to the legs. Recommending MDs couldn't give much advice on possible risk. Therefore, I found elsewhere, on the German Wikipedia:

The most frequent complications after the use of vascular prostheses are blockage (occlusion) due to excessive tissue formation in the neointima region (hyperplasia) or due to detachment of parts of the pseudointima, infections of the implant, problems with the material structure, as well as the development of aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms in the anastomosis region.

Five to ten years after implantation, around 90 percent of prostheses still function in the aorta area and the adjacent vessels, while prostheses with a diameter of less than six to eight millimeters have a success rate of less than 50 percent after five years. In general, the higher the flow resistance in the implant area, the lower the prospects for short-term and long-term function.

And declined this invasive procedure. All my organs were already damaged, I didn't need a further damage done. Especially where I probably would survive a further repair at age 60, but already a decade later probably wouldn't.

No question, in an accident where the aorta was torn apart, there isn't such considerate choice left, and I immediately would agree. But not in my situation, with the ability to weight risks with benefits.

I would in your place consider the possibility, beside all other conditions, that the surgeries - at the right arm, the kidney stone, multiple stitches, broken bones and tendon, but especially the hernia repair with mesh - could as well be maybe small, but significant co-factors to your final breakdown.

Never the big one cause, but small contributions.

#6 I think the mental strain played the largest part.

I can't help but immediately see similarity to the stress of a newborn being strangled. Again, not one big, but certainly one further small contributor. Therefore, I would also take care of improving emotional resilience and stress tolerance.

#7 Covid , other than being sick multiple times with it, I really dont know if it played any part in my CFS.
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#1 Get over the chronic fatigue so I can live a productive life.

I am open to suggestions and any specialty Dr. reccomendations.

Covids, or their not-long term tested vaccines, are of course the final straw which broke the camel's back. And needs to be primarily addressed.

For now, your productive life is in addressing your health difficulties as a whole. Since all your damages are, as in my case, reflected by regular lab-tests of organs functioning: I would monitor them for improvements or worsening together with trialed intervention. Don't rely on the immediately 'felt' only. Repair might take years, as in my case, and with nothing felt during the first years.

This is only a suggestion from my particular experience of this disease and remission of symptoms. Discard, if it disagrees with you in any way. Finding a specialty Dr., who treats you as a whole, would of course be ideal. But I didn't find one accessible to me. Therefore, I helped myself. Of course, with lots of gracious help on health forums.

If you decide to, would you like to share most common lab-tests results? Regular things, like kidney function, liver enzymes, lipid and blood glucose markers, androgens, CBC, etc.? So I could point out what to watch for?
 

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4- Multiple pulmonary nodules

By the way, on the outset I had a cystitis of the bladder, 2 non-circulated nodules in the liver, and 2 tubercles in the lung. As a side effect of my approach, all except 1 tubercle ceased. Also, angina-like chest pains, psoriasis and retinal migraines gone.
 
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By the way, on the outset I had a cystitis of the bladder, 2 non-circulated nodules in the liver, and 2 tubercles in the lung. As a side effect of my approach, all except 1 tubercle ceased. Also, angina-like chest pains, psoriasis and retinal migraines gone.
Hi
You are a very strong person , with exceptional will power!
I can relate to some of your decisions
When my hand and arm was severly damaged the surgeon reccomended amputation at my elbow.
I told the surgeon I would only accept having the body parts I was born with remain a part of me!
I told him the company I work for was paying the bills and if he did not feel confident then get another surgeon ,
Fly one in if it is necessary or stabile it and I will go somewhere else.
The surgeon told me he would do the surgery , but he could not guarentee
The results .
I told him as long as I had my hand and arm I dont care what the results are.
After a lot of surgeries and rehab everthing turned out good in my opion.
My right hand does not have any feeling but that is fine , everything works !
Back note- I was life flighted to Shands in Gainesville Florida.
And during the flight in the helicopter
We almost crashed with a small air plane violating thier air space!
I can say the helicopter pilot done a miraculus job avoiding the crash!
All I could think about was here I am strapped onto a stretcher and if we go down theirs no way I am gonna be able to step out before we hit the ground! Lol
 
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Hi
You are a very strong person , with exceptional will power!
I can relate to some of your decisions
When my hand and arm was severly damaged the surgeon reccomended amputation at my elbow.
I told the surgeon I would only accept having the body parts I was born with remain a part of me!
I told him the company I work for was paying the bills and if he did not feel confident then get another surgeon ,
Fly one in if it is necessary or stabile it and I will go somewhere else.
The surgeon told me he would do the surgery , but he could not guarentee
The results .
I told him as long as I had my hand and arm I dont care what the results are.
After a lot of surgeries and rehab everthing turned out good in my opion.
My right hand does not have any feeling but that is fine , everything works !
Back note- I was life flighted to Shands in Gainesville Florida.
And during the flight in the helicopter
We almost crashed with a small air plane violating thier air space!
I can say the helicopter pilot done a miraculus job avoiding the crash!
All I could think about was here I am strapped onto a stretcher and if we go down theirs no way I am gonna be able to step out before we hit the ground! Lol
Hi
Again
Were you born premature?

I had a Great day yesterday it was our Sons Birthday ! Technically he is our son inlaw but we have verbally adopted him as our own son.
We could not have asked for a better life partner for our Daughter.

We all had a Great time.
I am sore all over today, it was the most I have moved around in over one year.

I do have more the share , present medications and test results .
I have to work on how to post them .
Thank for everything!
 

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Glad you enjoyed.

Were you born premature?

No, but with a pneumonia (preconditioning the COPD already) treated with antibiotic IVs. Causing chalk teeth. That taught my being cautious with pharma and invasive interventions.

And during the flight in the helicopter
We almost crashed with a small air plane violating thier air space!
I can say the helicopter pilot done a miraculus job avoiding the crash!

Now I understand why you call it learning experiences.
 
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Glad you enjoyed.



No, but with a pneumonia (preconditioning the COPD already) treated with antibiotic IVs. Causing chalk teeth. That taught my being cautious with pharma and invasive interventions.



Now I understand why you call it learning experiences.
I have had a time in my life! For Sure.

The reason I asked if you were born premature .
I read an article that said a large amount of people during a certain time frame recieved way too much oxygen at birth and they latter developed a lot of other ailments.
COPD they believe was caused by too much oxygen being given. At birth.
I cant remember what year it was when the medical industry discovered they were giving way too much oxygen at birth and changed the procedure.
Maybe in the 70's or 80's?
 

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On a full moon, Monday morning during many deliveries stress in the hospital, before 70's. My mother allegedly reminded the too busy nurses repeatedly, to clear the amniotic fluid, she heard me blubber further away. No oxygen, or if, with the fluid? I doubt. Pneumonia as result, and which alone already is a strong cause for later COPD.

It's intriguing how such details can already determine later life. Mother actually wanted a home birth, GP declined. How such small details can change the course.
 
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On a full moon, Monday morning during many deliveries stress in the hospital, before 70's. My mother allegedly reminded the too busy nurses repeatedly, to clear the amniotic fluid, she heard me blubber further away. No oxygen, or if, with the fluid? I doubt. Pneumonia as result, and which alone already is a strong cause for later COPD.

It's intriguing how such details can already determine later life. Mother actually wanted a home birth, GP declined. How such small details can change the course.
I am a firm believer the small details that matter.
In my past experience diagnosing equipment problems and failures it always was the small details no one noticed that created the present condition.

That is why I dont accept the word Accident
ac·ci·dent
/ˈaksədnt/
noun
1 an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury:

2 an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause:

That definition is not Accurate.
1 If I am driving and texting and wreck
How can I claim it was an accident?
2 If I wasnt paying attention to what I was doing , looking around , day dreaming and I cut my finger that is not an accident , it was own fault for not paying attention on why I cutting something in the first place.
Everything happens for a reason!
It is a constant Action / Reaction.
That is why I call it a Life experience.
Life teaches everyone a lesson.

If I punch a wall and it hurts for no reason , life is telling me I should not do that again , some people learn that
And others may learn that only after a few times.
 
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