The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

[leswp1]

Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

I’d rather run a marathon than get the flu again.

I came down with the flu about a week or so before I was scheduled to get the shot through my employer's program had a mass-vaccination effort scheduled for employees. That was a tough few weeks.

I put a marathoner in the ICU once with flu. Excellent shape, good nutrition, no comorbidities. Just BAD flu. When I was still working she would call every July looking for the first appointment we had to get the flu shot

[SonofSouthie]

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Been awhile since the last entry. Nice to see everyone is feeling well. Came across this colour(UK)test that only 1% of people can pass. I got 60%.

https://www.lenstore.co.uk/vc/colour...he-beholder/#/

These are the top ten countries with the best color perception, according to the test's results.:
Cyprus: 66.0%
South Africa: 65.0%
United States: 61.7%
Bulgaria: 60.0%
Germany: 58.8%
Australia: 57.5%
Poland: 56.7%
France/Portugal: 56%
Zimbabwe: 53.3%
Spain: 51.5%

[BassAle]

Been awhile since the last entry. Nice to see everyone is feeling well. Came across this colour(UK)test that only 1% of people can pass. I got 60%.

https://www.lenstore.co.uk/vc/colour...he-beholder/#/

These are the top ten countries with the best color perception, according to the test's results.:
Cyprus: 66.0%
South Africa: 65.0%
United States: 61.7%
Bulgaria: 60.0%
Germany: 58.8%
Australia: 57.5%
Poland: 56.7%
France/Portugal: 56%
Zimbabwe: 53.3%
Spain: 51.5%

I just got a 90% and I screwed up the one I got wrong, could have had 100%

[Kepler]

Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

I just got a 90% and I screwed up the one I got wrong, could have had 100%

I only got 7.

[mookie1995]

Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

7

Mookie has trouble with red hues.

[MissThundercat]

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Doing my best to cope with bone spurs in my right ankle and arthritis in the same foot.

I thought "Arthur" was an old person's malady. I was sadly mistaken.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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You can get gout at pretty much any age. IIRC, it's the most common form of arthritis.

[MissThundercat]

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You can get gout at pretty much any age. IIRC, it's the most common form of arthritis.

Yes. I have learned this. And I have this sense that I did it to myself.

So I'm on running hiatus until I get insoles.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Well, gout is usually aggravated by diet choices, particularly over-consumption of alcohol and meat/seafood, and being obese.

Sounds like what you have may have been from all your years of running on hard pavement and in improper footwear. That's why my dad needed hip replacements.

[leswp1]

Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

Well, gout is usually aggravated by diet choices, particularly over-consumption of alcohol and meat/seafood, and being obese.

Sounds like what you have may have been from all your years of running on hard pavement and in improper footwear. That's why my dad needed hip replacements.

Actually it is not obese- it is rapid loss of wt that is more at risk and also being female.

[mookie1995]

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Well, gout is usually aggravated by diet choices, particularly over-consumption of alcohol and meat/seafood,..

a.k.a. rich man's disease

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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a.k.a. rich man's disease

It was rumored that Kim Jong Un had it a few years ago when he disappeared from public for awhile. Too much imported wine and cheese.

[MissThundercat]

Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

Well, gout is usually aggravated by diet choices, particularly over-consumption of alcohol and meat/seafood, and being obese.

Sounds like what you have may have been from all your years of running on hard pavement and in improper footwear. That's why my dad needed hip replacements.

Not even that. It's lack of Vitamin "R." Rest wasn't a part of the equation for so long... and I am paying for it now.

Either way, the orthotics are in.

[MissThundercat]

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And ****, do they make a difference. Started running again on Wednesday, and nothing hurts as much. Still testing out for marathons and stuff, but it feels good to go.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Perhaps Kep is right, and we're really not far off from viable and easily reversible male birth control.