Experiences with

Stapes surgery

Hi Everyone, Getting very fed up with tinnitus in my right ear, so have decided to reach out to like-minded/eared people! I'm early 40s (how did that happen?!) and have a hearing condition (Otosclerosis) - have done since early-mid 30s. Have had stapedectomy - on list for another one (Loooong wait

Good Afternoon Just wondering if anyone has any advice. I have been on prednisolone now for 10 years, (PMR and GCA) and over the past 4 years or so repeatedly tried to reduce down from 5mg. Unsuccessfully. I was down to 2mgs last year, felt awful and my ESA was up from 20 to 36, the Rheumatology

Happy Kidney-versary! Today is the third anniversary of my life changing kidney transplant. I was blessed with a receive an anonymously donated healthy kidney. I was three months away from aging out the program at my transplant center when I got the call. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me.

So here I am two weeks after being told I'd had a heart attack. I'm now home but feel so under prepared for it. Every single twinge is sending my imagination into overdrive 'is it another one's?.. I had no real symptoms.. a bit heart burny, a lot of wrist and elbow bow pain and intense jaw pressure

I have Glaucoma (open angle) in my left eye and have had Preserflo microshunt surgery after 2 years my pressure has gone up to 25 and I am told I may need a revision my question is as I am back on Latanoprost is it possible to lower pressure with drops and avoid further surgery has anyone avoided

I've got an overactive thyroid due to Graves disease and because I reacted badly to the carbiomosel drug I'm down to have surgery to remove my thyroid on the 11th March. I know I will still have graves disease/autoimmune problem so removing the thyroid doesn't change that. I am wondering if there is

So, apologies, as posted before, PMR x 1 year, also thought by Rheum crossover of psoriatic arthritis. Osteoporosis and other chronic conditions which I’ve coped with for years. Got down to 9 mg Pred a few months ago, sx flared up, Gp put Pred up to 12.5mg. Rheum was not happy and stressed s/e profile

Hi there,My partner and I have been trying for 15 months (I'm 37 and he's 43) I had a fertility check up a few years ago when I was single and they found I had an amh of 44 with lots of follices and it all looked fine. Since coming off the pill I've had light, short periods lasting only 2 days with spotting

I'm shortly to have a partial knee replacement by epidural. (Apparently, the hospital doesn't use GA's.) I'm worrying now how this might effect my RLS. Does anyone have experience of surgery via an epidural please?

Good morning.. albeit it doesn’t seem that way from where I am .. but nonetheless see the blessings of waking up ….I have had a TAVI performed on Thursday & am still in hospital feeling really sick & am struggling with pain management as I was refused paracetamol IV pain meds but told to take oral paracetamol

Hi everyone, I posted a few months ago about how I'm struggling to get my hyperthyroidism under control with carbimazole. I am based in New Zealand and have been taking carbimazole for 3.5 years and my levels have only gotten worse over this time. Endocrinology won't see me until my levels are normal

My daughter-in-law's mother was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma 3 years ago. They told her that her symptoms would probably go away in about a year. I do think she did a gamma knife treatment. Since the first onset to now, her tumor has grown. Her symptoms have never gone away and are worsened now because

feeling so rubbish had excision surgery and the m coil put in since last night I’ve had the worst cramping like my period pain coming and going just wondering if anyone else has experienced this pls?

I was diagnosed with PMR in August 2024, initially prescribed Pred 10mg a fairly low dose due to osteoporosis. Tapered to 7.5mg by December then in early January 2025 caught a virus which turned into a chest infection and I had to be given antibiotics. I had a flare after this and surgery put me back

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I have beeen prescribed Irbesartan 75mg daily for high blood pressure. I have also had stents fitted to both Iliac arteries. I have been advised that my high BP is being caused by claudation restricting blood flow to the lower half of my body. When first on my BP meds I could hardly walk, dosage was

Hi, My GP pharmacist contacted me yesterday to say that at 4.9 the surgery believes my cholesterol levels are too high for someone with CKD. I have been advised to start taking Atorvastatin 20mg once a day. I said I would ask the team at Guy's as they have specialist knowledge and monitor and manage

In October my GP surgery updated its IT system. NIghtmare!! It seems that all my previous test results have been reduced to either normal or abnormal. No reference ranges now listed so I now have no way of tracking my results over time. I have asked several times for them to be added again but

Thank you all for replies. The doc called me to the surgery, checked my heart, showed me my rather reassuring Qrisk algorithm and did not push me to statins like the last one did, (with death threats!). Script given for propananol as I can’t seem to bring down this pounding heart (he couldn’t pick it

Hello, It turns out I really do have endometriosis and I had a laparoscopy but it was done by regular surgeons who could only diagnose it and since my symptoms are really really bad I’ll probably have a second surgery in a few months to get it all removed and I’ll start taking hormones in a few weeks