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« on: December 16, 2009, 12:00:59 AM » |
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Such a nice name. So called because the lesion looks a bit like a frog's belly. Looks like I have one (reasonably early stage) and minor surgery seems to be in my future.
Anyone have any experience of this?
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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2009, 12:38:55 AM » |
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Wow, I never have even heard of that before!
I guess if someone named frogfactory was going to get something, that would be the most fitting...
Anyway, I hope that unlike your other issues that you will be able to get this covered mostly under your insurance.
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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2009, 12:54:13 AM » |
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Me neither, and I went to medical school! Sounds like it just needs to be de-roofed (like, a bit more extreme than 'lanced') and dressed and should be fine, since it's small.
I admit, I did try to self treat by puncturing through with a sterile needle, but while it appeared to be cystic, it didn't really change in shape or size, suggesting it's wossname, grown an epidermal layer inside.
Bah. Wanna go home. I have to wait til January to get this seen to, since my interim insurance scares me. I've never given making a doctor's appointment a second thought before moving here, yet now it's so complicated.
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 09:17:09 PM » |
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I had something similar once. It was about 5 stitches, if I recall, to cut that sucker out of there. The hard part is not chewing on the stitches once you start to heal. The mouth heals very quickly, as long as you can stop molesting it.
It hurt like a mother for a couple of days, and I lived on cold liquids and ice cream for a day or so, but then it was just bothersome. No salt and vinegar chips.
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2010, 07:59:37 PM » |
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Five stitches? Holy crap.
I'm insanely bad at not picking at things. If I'd had acne as a teen I'd be a mess of scars now. Maybe I should get myself one of those cone-shaped dog collar things if they do operate.
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 01:12:03 PM » |
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Great. I have an appointment to get this seen by an ENT guy on Tuesday, but the secretary has warned me that my insurance (through the university) is rubbish and might not cover it. Why not? It's just an incision, maybe a couple of stitches and some gauze. Maybe a single lignocaine injection. Heck, I could probably do it myself with a bottle of cheap whiskey and a scalpel from the lab.
And, if it progresses, it will extend into my neck and become a more worrisome lesion, and a more expensive one to treat.
I want to go home. Healthcare in this country flat sucks.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2010, 02:54:59 PM » |
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Great. I have an appointment to get this seen by an ENT guy on Tuesday, but the secretary has warned me that my insurance (through the university) is rubbish and might not cover it. Why not? It's just an incision, maybe a couple of stitches and some gauze. Maybe a single lignocaine injection. Heck, I could probably do it myself with a bottle of cheap whiskey and a scalpel from the lab.
And, if it progresses, it will extend into my neck and become a more worrisome lesion, and a more expensive one to treat.
I want to go home. Healthcare in this country flat sucks.
FrogFactory, fwiw, I'm Canadian and mine wasn't covered in Canada, either. It cost me about $200. |
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 03:03:13 PM » |
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Incidentally, cranefly - how was talking after the op? I have a discussion section a couple of hours after the surgery, and then I'm lecturing two days later for a couple of hours. It suddenly strikes me that this is not ideal.
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2010, 04:08:15 PM » |
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Incidentally, cranefly - how was talking after the op? I have a discussion section a couple of hours after the surgery, and then I'm lecturing two days later for a couple of hours. It suddenly strikes me that this is not ideal.
Er, it was OK, apart from the fact that I kept drooling (they froze a nerve in my jaw). |
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2010, 04:47:28 PM » |
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When I had oral surgery - to remove a blocked gland under my tongue - the drooling was a big problem and I also had some problems with the clarity of my speech until the anaesthetic wore off. Once the anaesthetic wore off (after about 4 hours) I was sore but perfectly capable of functioning, and ran a lab the following day without any difficulty at all. I was lucky that the surgeon had warned me not to try to do anything involving talking for 12 hours - it was a pity that he didn't also tell me not to eat (when I asked he said it would be fine); I bit through one stitch while eating a sandwich.
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« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2010, 04:14:23 PM » |
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Damn thing has split open. Or, at least, the mucous epithelium in the floor of my mouth has split open, and the cyst itself is sticking out. On the positive side, perhaps this makes it more likely that my insurance will cover it.
No, I don't really believe that either.
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« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2010, 05:22:26 PM » |
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Ugh - hope it's not painful, FrogFactory. OTOH, as you say, maybe now the insurance people will be a bit more open-handed.
Let us know how you make out on Tuesday, OK? And how is your arm?
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2010, 01:56:26 PM » |
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Marsupialization (I love that term) today. I didn't get a full referral from the SHS (just a form with the box labelled 'ENT' ticked and a single word description of the problem: cyst), so the ENT guy had to re-examine me and make a further appointment for the actual surgery.
It feels kind of taut and uncomfortable. I am morbidly curious about what's going to come out when it's cut open, and whether it will pop messily.
At least *this* doctor struck me as pleasant and competent, which I can't say about the women's health guy.
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« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2010, 05:27:37 PM » |
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Damn. It turns out, to my and the doctor's surprise, not to be a cyst of any sort. It's some kind of spongy mass. Diff is: haemangioma, virally-infected lymph node, cancerous mass.
I am not happy. Biopsy results in a week, then imaging, then quite likely surgery under GA.
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« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2010, 05:31:30 PM » |
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Damn. It turns out, to my and the doctor's surprise, not to be a cyst of any sort. It's some kind of spongy mass. Diff is: haemangioma, virally-infected lymph node, cancerous mass.
I am not happy. Biopsy results in a week, then imaging, then quite likely surgery under GA.
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully getting it taken care of without costing you much won't mean buying a plane ticket back to the UK... |
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