Comments by "Just Another Bucky Lover" (@JustAnotherBuckyLover) on "Institute of Human Anatomy"
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To clarify, The ketosis necessary to manage (usually) severe childhood epilepsy that is refractory to medication is very different from your regular keto diet. It MUST be carried out very strictly under medical monitoring because the risk is high and just one slip, one sandwich, one candy bar, one regular soda instead of a sugar-free one, will result in those uncontrollable seizures returning very suddenly. That's if the diet works at all (though, technically there are two). It's only about a 50:50 chance and there's no way to predict who will or won't respond well. Because they both are virtually carbohydrate-free, however, and may or may not also limit protein, they can also cause problems with cholesterol level, kidney issues, GI upsets, not to mention poor nutrition and growth. It's incredibly limiting, and this is why it's usually reserved for only those with the most uncontrollable seizures.
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Oh but don't you know? They're just for people who are too lazy to hold it in, like "adult diapers"... /s 🙄
There ARE some people with very light flow and who have particularly good pelvic floor muscles, I guess, and who have particular anatomy that allows the blood to pool in their vagina until they "let it out" or it overflows, but eh, they're very much the minority. The tiny minority. Those are the same people insisting the cervix has a sphincter though, oftentimes, and that anyone can do it. Utter rubbish. And in fact, this can be a particularly frustrating aspect for uterus owners who have had surgery to remove their rectum. Because the tissues that support the vaginal canal from behind are no longer there, the back wall can pooch backwards, allowing both normal secretions and menstrual fluid to gather before something happens to cause it to all rush out at once.
To me, this idea goes along with the people who have convinced themselves that periods are a symptom of a "toxic" lifestyle and it's actually not normal to have regular periods - but I feel like that's just a justification for the fact that these people are usually eating wacky diets and are probably suffering amenorrhoea because of their disordered eating habits.
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Abscesses are not fun. I have a condition called hidradenitis suppurativa (HS for short) and I always have at least a handful of them forming along with open wounds that are draining. Unlike regular abscesses though, the lumps from HS don't heal well - they often recur over and over again, they are slow to heal, they commonly cause sinus tracts and can discharge pus from multiple openings at once, cause massive ropes of scar tissue, and the worst part is they form in the most tender places - under the armpits, in the groin and perineal areas, crease of the backside, top of the thighs, chest/under breasts, behind your ears like this guy's was, along the hairline, on the jaw and even the face sometimes, on the stomach...
I right now have I think 5, maybe 6 ongoing - and that is pretty much as good as I get. It's no fun at all, and it's so commonly undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Unfortunately, even if you try to drain them like this, or even excise them completely, they tend to just recur along the edges of the wounds, which may take months to heal up and need full-thickness skin grafts to cover the area, leading to reduced movement from the scarring etc. There's no definitive medical treatment; some antibiotics help for some people - mostly because of secondary effects more than their antibiotic properties - but often the only drugs that make an impact are heavy-duty immune-suppressing/modulating drugs.
I'm sorry your dad was sick enough to be hospitalised, it sounds like the infection was very bad, and I know how hard it can be to see your parent in a hospital bed. I was just a little younger than you when my dad had a stroke (he didn't make it sadly, but this was many years ago) and I couldn't bear to see him like that. I'm glad your dad recovered though, and hopefully, they got the infection controlled, along with his pain, and he was home and healing fast.
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1) anyone can experience that yes. Usually it doesn't cause full-on retention, but it can happen, especially if he had prostate issues prior to that, then this might have pushed him from being in chronic retention to acute complete retention.
2) Why would they assume she's lazy rather than actually take her to the doctor to have tests done? Of course there's a potential for physical issues, an otherwise healthy seven year old usually wouldn't be wetting themselves regularly. Occasionally, sure. Kids get easily distracted sometimes. It's no big deal, but if she's doing it regularly, then that's a whole different issue. Here are a bunch of things that you (and that child's parents) should be asking:
Is she getting distracted and not realising until it's too late and she's already peeing? Could be ADHD.
Does she not feel the urge to go until it's unbearable? Urgency is a thing with many causes;
Does she have an infection that could be causing urgency and frequency that is often uncontrollable even for adults?
Does she have some physical abnormality of the urinary tract that causes leaking regardless of her attempts at bladder control?
Is she even aware that she's leaking/peeing?
Does she have any recognition of having a full bladder? Does she ever show signs of deliberately holding (grabbing herself, squirming, potty dance, etc)?
Does it happen only during the day or at night too?
Has she ever been reliably dry, and if so, when did it change? If not, then why hasn't she been assessed thoroughly?
Does she ever NOT do it? Is it every time her bladder is full or just occasionally? Is she drinking enough? Cutting down fluids is the worst thing you can do because concentrated urine is irritating and will cause more urgency and frequency.
Is she holding because she has some kind of fear or issue with the toilet?
Does she have pain when she goes so she avoids it?
Has she been checked for either a UTI or some other infection (like a yeast infection or irritation from some kind of washing/laundry product)?
Is she also having bowel issues? Chronic constipation often goes without notice in kids, especially slightly older ones, and even by medical doctors, and faecal loading/impaction can cause concurrent problems with bladder continence too.
Does she have other issues like an intellectual disability or autism? While autism doesn't cause mental disability, it can screw around with interoception, anxiety, food issues can lead to severe constipation and faecal loading etc as well as sensory overload making it hard to process the signals from your own body in all of the noise.
These are just for starters. Depending on the answer, it depends on the response. I can pretty much guarantee that she's not just "being lazy" though. That is almost never the case and if it IS by choice, then she needs psychological therapy to find out why because sometimes things like abuse (including CSA) can cause wetting/bedwetting.
3) No, not really. It can slow your movements, and mobility issues can cause continence issues, and if someone has a prostate, that can potentially cause issues that might cause retention, and that can end up potentially leading to issues. I suppose as you age, your risk of bladder cancer also increases, so there's that too, but no, your bladder doesn't weaken as you get older making it more likely to burst.
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@mental_hazard if you can afford to deliberately ignore transphobia around you, as a trans person, then you are privileged, even in comparison to other trans people. When was the last time your family threatened to disown you? When was the last time you were threatened with physical harm or death? If the answer is "never" then MARVELLOUS I am super glad for you. But the fact remains that still gives you privilege, and if you can't appreciate that, it makes everything else moot.
Saying you have privilege isn't an attack. It's about appreciating that other people don't always have the same experiences as you, and may experience things far harder.
Telling anyone who is a victim of bigotry to "live with it" is not the answer. Ignoring it doesn't help, in fact, it gives them implicit licence to continue. If you personally need to avoid it for your own mental health, you do you, but don't tell other people they have to basically suck it up. And I stand by my point, that if you are only telling other trans people what to do, and not the legit transphobes just a few comments down, then that's a problem for me and it won't fix everything. Working to make the world better IS. You don't want to or can't? Scroll on by. Attacking other trans people and/or their allies for actually being proactive is not helpful.
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So why does a UTI or IC or other forms of bladder inflammation cause the need to pee more often and more urgently, even when the bladder is pretty much empty? It can't be from the stretching - does the inflammation irritate those stretch receptors somehow? It makes sense that the bladder and/or urethra would feel stinging/burning, or that there might be pelvic pain that radiates into the back etc. Because from my experience, the sensation of having to pee from a UTI or IC is very different from the feeling of actually having a full bladder... and ironically, the former is far harder to control than the latter too. The bladder spasms can be so powerful that I've been stuck in the bathroom for hours at a time because even a few drops is enough to cause my bladder to spasm.
If I had to guess, I'd say either the sensation of irritation etc is confusing the brain, or that there's physically some irritation of the detrusor muscle which causes it to contract more easily and/or more forcefully (or both). It'd make sense considering one of the many medications I was given was Detrusitol (which works to counter bladder spasms).
I can see an evolutionary benefit for it, I suppose - if you're peeing more often, hopefully you're getting rid of whatever is causing the irritation more often, making it harder for infecting organisms to hang around in there... but goddammit, IC is miserable.
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@williamscoggin1509 You would have heard it a lot if you were a woman having bad period pain. It's a common retort of doctors that "having a baby will solve your period pain". For some people, it does seem to help. Unfortunately, for many with extreme period pain (i.e. that which doesn't resolve with things like heat and over the counter medication like ibuprofen, and which causes you to routinely miss work, school, faint or throw up, etc) that's not true, especially if they have some underlying disease rather than just extra-strong uterine cramps, such as endometriosis, etc. It's thought that perhaps that the cervix maybe opens easier to allow the menstrual fluid to leave after delivery, or perhaps it's a shift in the hormones post-partum. It's great when that happens for women like Elizabeth. I just wish doctors wouldn't fob off women without even trying to help them for years... on average, the best part of a decade for people with endometriosis, and it's not even rare - it affects 1/10 women and girls.
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@NYCgirl927 That's precisely the point - that they forgot and by the time they remembered, she was in acute retention and her bladder contained around 2 litres of urine.
I mean, EDS Isn't super, super rare. It's very much underdiagnosed though, especially hEDS (it has a prevalence of up to 1/5,000). The trouble is that my friend (like many other Zebras), for example, wasn't diagnosed with hEDS until LONG after delivering three children when one kid also started showing obvious signs, and another had more subtle signs. They're STILL fighting to get an official diagnosis for the kids. The NDIS (the disability welfare organisation in Australia) refuses to recognise her diagnosis because she doesn't have a genetic test proving it, even though there IS no genetic marker for hEDS. So yeah, it's utterly ridiculous how many Zebras struggle to be recognised (particularly those with hEDS which ALSO happens to be the most common form).
You say thousands of caths, so I suspect you've had at least one EDS patient, even if you (and maybe they) didn't know it. Turns out Zebras are more common than people think. For some reason, a lot of people assume that to have EDS you must be tall and spindly, but that's Marfan's syndrome. The various types of EDS don't all cause that same Marfanoid appearance (and yes, I know a family with three Marfan's people in, too - mom and two kids). You tend to find others with those conditions when you all suffer the same kind of dysautonomia.
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