medical question

Jim Macklin wrote:
eat red meat

Or cook in old-fashioned cast iron.

Margy


"Emily" wrote in message
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| Dave S wrote:
| snip
|
| Whatever the factors involved, flying while anemic is
not a good idea.
| You don't want to find out that you have the wrong
combination of
| factors by passing out at 5000 feet.
|
| Are you going to be asymptomatic then magically pass out
at 5k feet?
| Hardly. And again, anemia is a matter of degrees. Normal
hemoglobin
| levels have a LOW normal value in the ballpark of 13-14
grams/dl. There
| is a lower acceptable low value in women as opposed to
men.
|
| Why do you waste your time? g
| I can say, as a woman with a level that is generally
around 11-12g/dl, I
| don't magically pass out at 5000 feet. I don't even
magically pass out
| around 10,000 feet. I can say that I prefer not to fly
along at night
| without oxygen above around 6000 feet, but like they say,
the first
| thing to go is vision....which comes back very rapidly at
lower
| altitudes. Daytime...I've done 11,000 with symptoms, and
again,
| wouldn't do it alone and without oxygen, but no passing
out.
|
| So.. how about YOU stick to what you know.. flying
sims.. leave the real
| flying to the real pilots.. and leave the medical stuff
to the folks who
| deal with it for a living?
|
| Good luck with that.

wrote:
Sooo,,,,, Is the blood test back yet ???????????????????? It has been
days.

No. My old doctor would call me with results, this guy said I would get
a letter (as if I needed another reason to find a new doctor). And
since I'm avoiding him, I'm not going to call and ask.

Jim Macklin wrote:
eat red meat

Not enough for most women.

Thomas Borchert wrote:
Mxsmanic,

Menstruation does not produce anemia in a person with a normal and
balanced diet and no problems with iron metabolism.


You simulate that, too?


You owe me a new monitor.

"Michelle P" wrote in message
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Emily wrote:
I've been running a 102 degree fever for the past two weeks and have been
so tired I can barely get to work. Finally made a doctor's appointment
(with a new doctor) today, but wasn't planning on getting in the same day
and had taken Tylenol for the fever...so no fever when I showed up.

Long story short, he ordered some blood work, but told me he thinks that
I am depressed, since I have fatigue with no fever. He said that if the
blood work comes back normal, he's writing it up as depression.

Obviously he's an idiot, since 1) fatigue has so many other causes and 2)
I don't have depression, never have. This is just a bogus diagnosis.

My concern is, if he writes this up in my medical records, do I have to
report it to the FAA? I'm really terrified of this.

NO, not unless it is really true. It takes more than blood work to
determine if you have depression. I takes an evaluation by a psychological
professional.

Michelle P

Quite Right.

Also there is a difference between "being depressed", "Having Depression",
and a diagnosis of "Clinical depression" which is what the FAA is looking
for.

Al G

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
("Margy Natalie" wrote)
Won't work Monblack, I can quote what I learned in Driver's Ed and that
was ... well, more than 30 years ago.

Margy (damned, now everyone knows I'm over 30)


It was the casual reference to Drivers Ed, which people over 30 seldom do
anymore.

Like a kid saying they're 6 1/2 years old. Around 40 you stop inserting
half years into conversation. g


I'm 54, but I read at a 57 year old level.

Al G

Mxsmanic wrote:


As long as pilots who dismiss this sort of problem wear a special hat
so that I can recognize them and avoid any aircraft that they'll be
flying. They can kill themselves if they want, but I don't want to go
with them.



Fine with me.. Stay outta my plane..

Make sure you wear your pointy hat so everyone knows who YOU are too..

Skylune writes:

What about house and car slammings? There have been quite a few senior
citizen pilots who have been crashing into homes and cars lately. There
have also been many near hits.

"Quite a few"? How many?

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Mortimer Schnerd, RN writes:

Wouldn't you first have to get into an airplane with them?

If it becomes apparent that they are careless from the way they talk,
I wouldn't risk getting into an airplane with them. The psychology of
risk and recklessness is the same in all environments. Just as you
can often recognize a dangerous driver by his attitude towards
driving, you can often recognize a dangerous pilot by his attitude
towards flying. Indeed, the danger signs have already been discussed
recently in this group, and many of them have been known for a long
time.

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Margy Natalie writes:

I assume now you are a medical doctor?

I take an interest in medicine.

I'm sure everyone here eats a good balanced diet all the time :-)

So based on this statement, if I follow your reasoning, I assume you
are now a nutritionist?

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