2013-02-25, 21:31 | Link #101 |
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No blood issues that I know of. Darkness is more comfortable but that's probably just because there is less to have to focus on.
Weirdly enough, I went to my university's clinic and had among other things my temperature and blood pressure checked, and everything was "normal". The thing with the headache is that if I just stay put in a warm area, it becomes better after awhile. If I go outside where it's cold, the pain immediately returns. I suspect that my headache today was especially bad because I only slept about five hours last night. I guess I'll be fine in a couple days. Most likely I just didn't recognize I was sick when I should have and decided to push myself too hard due to midterms being around now. |
2013-02-25, 23:21 | Link #103 |
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Insight: Cancer drugs proving worth earlier in testing:
"It typically has taken a decade and $1 billion to bring a new treatment to market. But in the last two years a handful of cancer drugs - including Onyx Pharmaceutical Inc's Kyprolis for multiple myeloma, Roche's Zelboraf for melanoma, and Pfizer's Xalkori - were approved in about half that time because of improved genetic screening, more definitive Phase I trials and the dire need for new, effective treatments." See: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-cancer...--finance.html |
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But anyway I just got done sleeping for about fourteen hours. There are some traces of yesterday's migraine and I still feel weak and out of shape, but my nose is no longer clogged and my appetite seems to have returned. |
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2013-03-07, 23:17 | Link #106 | |
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I'm surprised no one mentioned about it in this thread:
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2013-03-08, 02:23 | Link #107 |
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This is actually really big news in the fight against HIV. If large scale RCTs manage to prove the high efficacy of high dose anti retroviral therapy in neonates infected by HIV maternally, it will give us a a way to put one giant roadblock in preventing the spread of HIV.
That is to say, it will become the major step in preventing HIV vertical spread to succeeding generations which is one one of the biggest methods of the virus spread. This will allow us to focus on the person to person blood and needles spread that is still the major route of infection. Just to clarify, the reason this neonate, and possibly neonates in general, can be cured by the anti retroviral therapy due to lack of reservoir viral carriers is because their immature immune system as fewer B-cells to infect and act as viral reservoirs. This does not hold true for older people with mature immune systems. Thus, it shows that early treatment for HIV before immune system maturity becomes paramount to achieving cure.
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2013-03-08, 15:17 | Link #110 |
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I was exactly thinking about that after all the sad stories about how many children are born every year in Africa with AIDS. Treating older patients may still remain problematic, but helping the much younger generation to live without AIDS would be quite an accomplishment itself.
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2013-03-10, 07:35 | Link #111 |
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Speaking of HIV, so far a research/study shows that a bee's venom can kill the HIV virus while leaving normal cells unharmed.
http://health.yahoo.net/articles/hea...kill-hiv-virus Hopefully this can turn into something big in the near future.
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2013-06-21, 11:43 | Link #118 |
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I've been fighting this bronchitis for about two months now, which I first noticed when I got to the top of the stairs at my home and was very out of breath. That scared me because I thought it might have been another Myasthenia Gravis crisis in the making. However, my strength is still good, so it didn't turn out to be a crisis.
Some days I get better to the point where I almost feel normal with no coughing at all, other days (like today) I feel absolutely terrible with lots of coughing and phlegm (yuk!). I'm almost to the point where I want to call it day and go home even though I've only been at work for a couple of hours. I've been to the doctor a few times already. He's prescribed me Amoxicillin, and doxycycline, neither of which worked, and now he's recommending I see a pulmonologist. I really don't want to do that as I've already spent way over my budget just on the medications. I've taken Mucinex, which seemed to help the most of all, but after a week I've already run out of it. Hot lemon tea with honey seems to help too. I'm pretty sure it's lasted this long thanks to my Myasthenia Gravis condition (lowered immune system). One thing is for sure, I've eaten a lot healthier lately. Anyhow, I'm sticking with my personal motto "Keep going". Endless "Too sick for a nickname" Soul
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2013-06-22, 00:31 | Link #120 |
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Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune condition where antibodies recognize Acetylcholine receptors as antigens and destroys them, causing a net effect of easy muscle fatigability and weakness. Most symptoms start cephalocaudal, meaning head and face first the downwards., which accounts for the classic sign of facial weakness and drooping eyelids.
The rest of the body comes later, but the most feared complication is respiratory weakness in un/poorly treated cases. What are your MG meds? Physiostigmine I suppose? Symptomatically it could be a sign of MG crisis or inadequate MG medication, except cough and phlegm usually don't accompany it.
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