OT: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Part VI (NO RIOT/PROTEST DISCUSSION)

[eco's bones]

Don’t know where to post this, I don’t have Covid but I have something much much worse. I’ve posted before about this whooshing sound in my head, I’ve had it for nearly 4 months. And it’s now been accompanied by the most excruciating headache ever everyday for over a month straight now. They are sudden headaches where I’ll get this sharp pain in a random part of my head, it’ll go away, and a few minutes later it’ll be in another part of my head. This whooshing sound is the sound turbulent bloodflow, it’s in sync with my heartbeat and sounds like a heartbeat through an ultrasound sort of. When laying on a pillow I will hear thumping heartbeat sound in the ear that’s on the pillow. This whooshing sound is in both ears and is usually triggered by loud or high pitched noises where I’ll only hear the pulsing whoosh for a second, or when laying down I will hear a constant whooshing.

It’s a symptom called Pulsatile Tinnitus.

Pulsatile Tinnitus: Don’t Just “Live With It”

So after that fiasco the first time I went to the Hospital, my symptoms got much worse and I went to another Hospital; they did a CT scan which came back normal.

That Hospital then referred me to an ENT, the ENT did a hearing test (perfect hearing) and examined both my ears & nose (both completely normal). So he referred me back to the Hospital for a CT Angiogram. That’s where they inject contrast dye into your vein and then do a CT scan, so they can see any abnormalities in blood vessels of your head. They were supposed to call me back but never did, so I called the hospital today and they said that they will call me in 72 hours with an appointment date. I would prefer an angiogram preformed via MRA rather than CT because I have an extensive family history of some extremely aggressive forms of cancer (My dad died of Heart Cancer when he was only 32, my mom had inflammatory breast cancer & a brain hemorrhage, my great uncle died of a brain tumor last year). CT exposes you to radiation so I would much rather get MRI, but it’s very difficult to get MRI’s in Canada. There are 6 MRI machines per 1 million people in Canada, the city of Pittsburgh alone has more than all of Canada. There are also no specialists who can perform the surgery required for these blood vessel in the brain issues, through Facebook support groups I’ve found 3 people in British Columbia who’ve had this surgery performed on them. All 3 of them were unsuccessful. The best specialist in the world is Dr. Patsalides in NYC, so once I get this Angiogram Scan I will send it to him for a second opinion. And hopefully go get the brain surgery done by him if I need it.

I don’t understand why I have this at my age and fitness level, it’s absolutely bizarre and something that usually occurs in 80 year olds or morbidly obese people. I play in 3 different hockey leagues simultaneously, run 5 miles per day when not playing hockey, and am extremely health concious. Never smoked, done drugs, or been drunk in my life; exercise vigorously everyday. Idk.

I would appreciate prayers

This falls under things that shouldn't be. The advice I would give is not to give up and to keep on pushing for answers and to keep on connecting with people with the expertise who might be able to help you--which you seem to be doing. The one question I have is if high activity seems to bring on these attacks you're having? I think that happens sometimes with epileptics. Anyway wishing you the best and keep on fighting.

 

[NYSPORTS]

Don’t know where to post this, I don’t have Covid but I have something much much worse. I’ve posted before about this whooshing sound in my head, I’ve had it for nearly 4 months. And it’s now been accompanied by the most excruciating headache ever everyday for over a month straight now. They are sudden headaches where I’ll get this sharp pain in a random part of my head, it’ll go away, and a few minutes later it’ll be in another part of my head. This whooshing sound is the sound turbulent bloodflow, it’s in sync with my heartbeat and sounds like a heartbeat through an ultrasound sort of. When laying on a pillow I will hear thumping heartbeat sound in the ear that’s on the pillow. This whooshing sound is in both ears and is usually triggered by loud or high pitched noises where I’ll only hear the pulsing whoosh for a second, or when laying down I will hear a constant whooshing.

It’s a symptom called Pulsatile Tinnitus.

Pulsatile Tinnitus: Don’t Just “Live With It”

So after that fiasco the first time I went to the Hospital, my symptoms got much worse and I went to another Hospital; they did a CT scan which came back normal.

That Hospital then referred me to an ENT, the ENT did a hearing test (perfect hearing) and examined both my ears & nose (both completely normal). So he referred me back to the Hospital for a CT Angiogram. That’s where they inject contrast dye into your vein and then do a CT scan, so they can see any abnormalities in blood vessels of your head. They were supposed to call me back but never did, so I called the hospital today and they said that they will call me in 72 hours with an appointment date. I would prefer an angiogram preformed via MRA rather than CT because I have an extensive family history of some extremely aggressive forms of cancer (My dad died of Heart Cancer when he was only 32, my mom had inflammatory breast cancer & a brain hemorrhage, my great uncle died of a brain tumor last year). CT exposes you to radiation so I would much rather get MRI, but it’s very difficult to get MRI’s in Canada. There are 6 MRI machines per 1 million people in Canada, the city of Pittsburgh alone has more than all of Canada. There are also no specialists who can perform the surgery required for these blood vessel in the brain issues, through Facebook support groups I’ve found 3 people in British Columbia who’ve had this surgery performed on them. All 3 of them were unsuccessful. The best specialist in the world is Dr. Patsalides in NYC, so once I get this Angiogram Scan I will send it to him for a second opinion. And hopefully go get the brain surgery done by him if I need it.

I don’t understand why I have this at my age and fitness level, it’s absolutely bizarre and something that usually occurs in 80 year olds or morbidly obese people. I play in 3 different hockey leagues simultaneously, run 5 miles per day when not playing hockey, and am extremely health concious. Never smoked, done drugs, or been drunk in my life; exercise vigorously everyday. Idk.

I would appreciate prayers

sry you are going through this. I’m not a Doc. Is this an AVM? Arteriovenous malformation? He’s not a vascular surgeon yet (orthro) Patrick A. Meere, MD at NYU usually has the knowhow or connections.

Not sure if that will help but i do wish you well.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Don’t know where to post this, I don’t have Covid but I have something much much worse. I’ve posted before about this whooshing sound in my head, I’ve had it for nearly 4 months. And it’s now been accompanied by the most excruciating headache ever everyday for over a month straight now. They are sudden headaches where I’ll get this sharp pain in a random part of my head, it’ll go away, and a few minutes later it’ll be in another part of my head. This whooshing sound is the sound turbulent bloodflow, it’s in sync with my heartbeat and sounds like a heartbeat through an ultrasound sort of. When laying on a pillow I will hear thumping heartbeat sound in the ear that’s on the pillow. This whooshing sound is in both ears and is usually triggered by loud or high pitched noises where I’ll only hear the pulsing whoosh for a second, or when laying down I will hear a constant whooshing.

It’s a symptom called Pulsatile Tinnitus.

Pulsatile Tinnitus: Don’t Just “Live With It”

So after that fiasco the first time I went to the Hospital, my symptoms got much worse and I went to another Hospital; they did a CT scan which came back normal.

That Hospital then referred me to an ENT, the ENT did a hearing test (perfect hearing) and examined both my ears & nose (both completely normal). So he referred me back to the Hospital for a CT Angiogram. That’s where they inject contrast dye into your vein and then do a CT scan, so they can see any abnormalities in blood vessels of your head. They were supposed to call me back but never did, so I called the hospital today and they said that they will call me in 72 hours with an appointment date. I would prefer an angiogram preformed via MRA rather than CT because I have an extensive family history of some extremely aggressive forms of cancer (My dad died of Heart Cancer when he was only 32, my mom had inflammatory breast cancer & a brain hemorrhage, my great uncle died of a brain tumor last year). CT exposes you to radiation so I would much rather get MRI, but it’s very difficult to get MRI’s in Canada. There are 6 MRI machines per 1 million people in Canada, the city of Pittsburgh alone has more than all of Canada. There are also no specialists who can perform the surgery required for these blood vessel in the brain issues, through Facebook support groups I’ve found 3 people in British Columbia who’ve had this surgery performed on them. All 3 of them were unsuccessful. The best specialist in the world is Dr. Patsalides in NYC, so once I get this Angiogram Scan I will send it to him for a second opinion. And hopefully go get the brain surgery done by him if I need it.

I don’t understand why I have this at my age and fitness level, it’s absolutely bizarre and something that usually occurs in 80 year olds or morbidly obese people. I play in 3 different hockey leagues simultaneously, run 5 miles per day when not playing hockey, and am extremely health concious. Never smoked, done drugs, or been drunk in my life; exercise vigorously everyday. Idk.

I would appreciate prayers

Did I read this correctly? You don't have a diagnosis yet, right? So how do you know it's much much worse?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

BTW, there was a Giants-Eagles game that got me really worked up. I had a pounding headache that was nonstop from different parts of my head and was worried that it was something really serious like an aneurism. I went to the first doctor he didn't do any tests and just gave me migraine medication, it didn't help. Then I went to another doctor and she said it was a tension headache after doing tests and not to worry about it being anything worse. As soon as she gave me the diagnosis, almost immediately the headache went away. The moral of the story is it's not always worst-case scenario.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Did I read this correctly? You don't have a diagnosis yet, right? So how do you know it's much much worse?

Covid has next to zero chance of killing me if I caught it, doctors say it has to be some sort of problem with blood vessels in the brain; all of these conditions that can be causing it are extremely dangerous and require brain surgery. It’s also an extremely rare condition so people tend to get brushed off and not treated for it, especially in Canada where imaging scans are hard to come by and there aren’t any specialists that deal with this.

The only other conditions that could cause these symptoms are IIH & high blood pressure, I certainly don’t have high blood pressure. I could have IIH, the test for that is lumbar puncture. But we’ll see how the CT angiogram goes. It’s very scary and every doctor I’ve seen and what I’ve read online suggest that I’m basically the youngest person to ever have this so it’s very strange.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Hey man, I’m sincerely sorry to hear about your condition and really hope it works out for you! Stay positive - your healthy lifestyle could be the reason for the best possible outcome and if any doctor could treat this pulsatile tinnitus it got to be Dr. Patsalides, purely based on his name!

Thank you and haha yea he is the best expert in the very small field of Pulsatile Tinnitus research. Gets 5 star reviews on every site, led a lot of research and actually created some of the procedures people do on it. There are a few other specialists, one is Dr. Amans in San Francisco. None in Canada though. Dr. Patsalides only charges $300 for a second opinion so I’m going to be sending my scans to him, and if I need to I’ll hopefully get the surgery done by him

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Covid has next to zero chance of killing me if I caught it, doctors say it has to be some sort of problem with blood vessels in the brain; all of these conditions that can be causing it are extremely dangerous and require brain surgery. It’s also an extremely rare condition so people tend to get brushed off and not treated for it, especially in Canada where imaging scans are hard to come by and there aren’t any specialists that deal with this.

The only other conditions that could cause these symptoms are IIH & high blood pressure, I certainly don’t have high blood pressure. I could have IIH, the test for that is lumbar puncture. But we’ll see how the CT angiogram goes. It’s very scary and every doctor I’ve seen and what I’ve read online suggest that I’m basically the youngest person to ever have this so it’s very strange.

Jesus, that sucks, are they sure it's a problem with the blood vessels in your brain? How could they know with no CT Scan?

 

[EdJovanovski]

This falls under things that shouldn't be. The advice I would give is not to give up and to keep on pushing for answers and to keep on connecting with people with the expertise who might be able to help you--which you seem to be doing. The one question I have is if high activity seems to bring on these attacks you're having? I think that happens sometimes with epileptics. Anyway wishing you the best and keep on fighting.

Thank you I don’t think it could’ve been brought on by that, especially as hockey was cancelled back in March so I haven’t been nearly as active. It seems almost as if I got it from not playing hockey anymore It’s very weird though as these vascular issues are caused by plaque buildup & such which is very rarely found in people my age, especially at my weight & lifestyle.

 

[EdJovanovski]

sry you are going through this. I’m not a Doc. Is this an AVM? Arteriovenous malformation? He’s not a vascular surgeon yet (orthro) Patrick A. Meere, MD at NYU usually has the knowhow or connections.

Not sure if that will help but i do wish you well.

Thank you yes AVM can be one of the causes! There are a bunch of different vascular abnormalities in the brain that can cause it, the worse being DAVF. I’ll look him up

 

[EdJovanovski]

Jesus, that sucks, are they sure it's a problem with the blood vessels in your brain? How could they know with no CT Scan?

I had a CT scan which came back normal, now I’m waiting for the CT angiogram where they inject contrast dye into your veins so they can see any abnormalities. Since they examined my ear and it looked perfectly normal, they said the sound has to be turbulent blood flow. So there is some sort of obstruction in some blood vessels in my head, all the doctors, studies, and medical sites I’ve seen say that it’s practically always a vascular issue. Mine being in both ears is a little strange though, like under 10% of people with it have it in both. Studies say it’s harder to diagnose when it’s in both ears, and that the most common finding was DAVF which is the worst case scenario and is the most fatal cause. I’m also a lot younger and healthier than most who have this, so maybe it could be something totally different! But probably not

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I had a CT scan which came back normal, now I’m waiting for the CT angiogram where they inject contrast dye into your veins so they can see any abnormalities. Since they examined my ear and it looked perfectly normal, they said the sound has to be turbulent blood flow. So there is some sort of obstruction in some blood vessels in my head, all the doctors, studies, and medical sites I’ve seen say that it’s practically always a vascular issue. Mine being in both ears is a little strange though, like under 10% of people with it have it in both. Studies say it’s harder to diagnose when it’s in both ears, and that the most common finding was DAVF which is the worst case scenario and is the most fatal cause. I’m also a lot younger and healthier than most who have this, so maybe it could be something totally different! But probably not

I know it's easy for me to say and I know wouldn't take this advice but try not to think about worst case scenario until you get three results.

Edit: I wouldn't take this advice not because it's bad advice, but because I know I'd panic.

 

[Machinehead]

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I thought Columbia was an ivy league school...

 

[Machinehead]

I thought Columbia was an ivy league school...

It is, but they pushed the panic button on this one.

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

Some of these forecasts probably aren’t any more sophisticated than regression analysis in excel.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Some of these forecasts probably aren’t any more sophisticated than regression analysis in excel.

The problem is, as far as I know, most regression is linear. There are some that get a logarithmic transformation and aren't linear, but I don't know can a regression model capture a virus that has a path no one has seen before?

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

The problem is, as far as I know, most regression is linear. There are some that get a logarithmic transformation and aren't linear, but I don't know can a regression model capture a virus that has a path no one has seen before.

I think when something this unprecedented happens everyone is expected to respond to it in some way. And the quicker the better. I work at a market research firm focused on clean energy, electric vehicles, etc and all of our teams have had to update our forecasts for our sectors based around Covid scenarios.

McKinsey is McKinsey. Anything they do is going to draw attention. This forecast for NY came out at the end of March - they couldn’t have spent more than a week or two on it, when we knew next to nothing about the virus.

Forecasting is a great exercise for long-term planning. It’s just a shame that in a scenario like this, these forecasts will be taken as gospel.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I think when something this unprecedented happens everyone is expected to respond to it in some way. And the quicker the better. I work at a market research firm focused on clean energy, electric vehicles, etc and all of our teams have had to update our forecasts for our sectors based around Covid scenarios.

McKinsey is McKinsey. Anything they do is going to draw attention. This forecast for NY came out at the end of March - they couldn’t have spent more than a week or two on it, when we knew next to nothing about the virus.

Forecasting is a great exercise for long-term planning. It’s just a shame that in a scenario like this, these forecasts will be taken as gospel.

How much damage did these forecasts cost people in terms of mental health? The first week of the lockdown I had chest pains and couldn't even work out because of things like this.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I'm confused by the fact that it says the Gates model is as of Apr 1 but the model starts before that and aren't actual numbers but are model numbers that were a lot higher. Did they not know yet how many hospitalizations there were?

 

[OverTheCap]

A lot of the forecasts were projections that didn't take human interventions like the stay-at-home orders into consideration. In some ways, I think overshooting hospitalizations was a good thing because it forced New Yorkers to realize the severity of the situation.

Now you look at some other states who reopened too early and thought the pandemic would not hit them like it did in NY, and their cases and hospitalizations are rising. It's clear these states did not take coronavirus take seriously and should have looked at NY as a learning lesson instead of thinking "oh well, sucks for NY, but that can't happen where I live."

 

[Leonardo87]

It’s amazing how NY went from one of the worst states to one of the best states, and hopefully people will continue to be smart up here. Well the ones that have been. Can’t help the small group of idiots.

So now counties in Florida and California are making face coverings mandatory when in public. I mean better late than never?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

It’s amazing how NY went from one of the worst states to one of the best states, and hopefully people will continue to be smart up here. Well the ones that have been. Can’t help the small group of idiots.

So now counties in Florida and California are making face coverings mandatory when in public. I mean better late than never?

Surprised California hasn't done it already.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I was in Weehawken, NJ yesterday and more than 50% of the people were wearing masks and the masks were pretty sturdy. I think it was even a better showing than in Brooklyn where I live.

 

[Leonardo87]

Surprised California hasn't done it already.

Not sure what’s going on in California, I had just got out of there back in March right when things started to hit. I do have family in Florida, and they told me people have been very relaxed by it and not caring. Hopefully the mandate forces people to stay home more, and use precautions. Store owners should turn people away without a face covering. So glad my folks came back to NY in the beginning of May. Smartest thing they did.

 

[NYSPORTS]

So now counties in Florida and California are making face coverings mandatory when in public. I mean better late than never?

different strain of the virus???? NYC certainly has more or equal the amount of people protesting and close together.