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Why not start by repeating the test since you were "accidentally diagnosed" 6years ago??
I hope you didn't use the word "accidentally " wrongly here?

But you guys should have been gradually putting things down in Nigeria while still abroad, as long as you have a trusted family member around.

As a doctor practising in the UAE, I still run a hospital in Nigeria,and have other businesses, which I visit once every 6 months to peep into.

Don't completely turn your back on your country when you travel, as you may be forced to permanently come home one day.

$30,000 won't be enough to settle in Nigeria, if you have not been investing all these while.
Assuming you already have like 3 to 5 plots of lands in addition to that money, you would be better off, as you could sell some of the lands to help develop the others or open some businesses.

Still hustle more, bros, as you're not yet ready to permanently come back.

ModestGal:
This is one of the bad things in our failed health care system in Nigeria. Patients are usually not educated about what they are being treated for, that is so wrong

You guys as patients/citizens should also examine your roles in that "failed health care system", as you're all contributors to it.
What other diagnosis/ disease entity does an average Nigerian know of, apart from malaria and typhoid?
What other disease entities does an average Nigerian understand fully well, and can discuss meaningfully about?
How many care to ask what they're being treated for, or even listen when it's been explained?
The average Nigerian is completely backward and ignorant when it comes to health issues, compared to the Whites and Asians I've met.
See how the OP was told "Pyelonephritis", but he couldn't even comprehend or pronounce it well because it didn't sound like malaria or typhoid; instead he wrongly went for "Bile Load Nephritis", and didn't bother to seek for clarification from his doctor or hit Google for the right spelling!
Asians will immediately Google it in your presence, after asking you to spell it.
I recently met an Indian patient in the UAE who came for reconstruction of his deformed fingers, and he completely schooled me on his medical problem: Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Immediately he sat down, he boldly told me he's a Rheumatoid arthritis patient, and went ahead to detail me on every thing about his condition, including the names of the various medications(Prednisone, Methotrexate, Hydroxychloroquine, Sulfasalazine) he has been taken, their dosages, side effects, and how often he does FBC, LFT, and electrolytes. And I was highly impressed.
A typical Nigerian doesn't even know how Rheumatoid arthritis is different from Osteoarthritis. Them and their Herbalists term both as "Rheumatism".

Nigeria's problems are so many, and are contributed by all of us.

wale377:
Yes they do

They don't, please. Don't assign knew new roles to them.

That's not part of their training, unless you don't really know who a Physiotherapist is.
Any Physiotherapist giving you injection is a fake one.
What dose will he give? How does he give it? How often will he give it? How many doses in total will he give? How many of the complications of the steroid injection on the surrounding muscle tendons does he know? These are completely outside the scope of his training.

Maybe, you're confusing an Orthopedic surgeon with a Physiotherapist.
Only an Orthopedic surgeon can give that steroid injection properly; a Physiotherapist is not trained to do that.

Don't go and damage your knees, and then come back here to complain, bros.

Look for an Orthopedic surgeon. A physiotherapist will continue the muscle strengthening exercises and massages thereafter.

wale377:
pls i'm in need of a physiotherapist here. i have a problem with my knee. I hit my knee below the knee cap on concrete 2016 and since then I have been feeling pain since. i have don x-ray and my bones are intact. i have met doctors and the always tell me to do strengthning exercise....... nothing changed. so recently i went online and i noticed my knee problem was knee fat pad impingement because all the symptoms are exactly the same. and the treatment of the fat pad impingement require cortisone injection. pls advise me guys. and how much does the injection cost.? or is the any alternative?
pls help

Do Physiotherapists now give injections??

Nawaoo!
I wonder who will bury this man when he eventually dies.
All the people around him, who would have been the ones to bury him, are now dead.
Hope he's not thinking 'Nigeria' will bury him when he dies?

godswilld10:
buy tipper of 15 tons,den contact me ....this business is booming seriously

Hi, how much is the 15ton tipper currently?

How much does it cost in total to register a company as a limited liability company in Nigeria?

Titay:
use stc30 and lumps will disappear. Pchat me for more information. You don't need surgery few packs of stc30 will remove whatever lumps you are feeling. It is well

How many have you made to "disappear" with your over-hyped stc30??

I keep telling you thieves that that product is just a supplement that has no healing power, but you and your fraudulent squad will never hear.

Your stc30 contains antioxidants, and antioxidants can't just make swellings disappear.
I hope you know such things like VitC, E, selenium, etc, are also antioxidants, and yet, have not been "curing" all diseases in the world?
Well, most of you are just marketers who just want food on their tables. I understand the Nigerian situation very well.

demo4ril97:
Yes there was a visible decrease around the operated area post surgery, which later formed a fluid (seroma) within a week and was drained out.

Healing process should depend on your body system, I think there begins a noticable change within 6-weeks.

It exactly one year March 28 I got the surgery done and I can now go shirtless and do most activities I have stopped while growing up.

Your scar is quite big, unless your breast mass was a huge one.
We don't usually use big incisions that'll result in big scars.

Gynecomastia:
How the surgery is done

If you're showing foreign pictures, it'll be as if it's such a big surgery that's not done in Nigeria.
Subcutaneous mastectomy for gynaecomastia is a simple procedure any Plastic surgeon can do.
The problem with these guys is poverty, and not necessarily the availability of the facility or the surgical skills.

Oral Mucocele(Mucous Cyst of the lower lip).
You like suckling; now a nipple has been permanently created on your lip, that you may forever suckle. May Allah be praised!
As you don't want surgery, let the Herbalists tell you what to apply, but when you need surgery(which is indicated for this longstanding one), you let us know.

Durentt:
i am a homosexual and i dont want To live like this because it is a sin against my faith and i dont want this lif3style for myself.

I am 21 years old and talked To a pharmacist about castration and he said no doctor in the world would agréé To get it done for a Young man. What are the other possible options if you know any
Thank you

At 21, you're competent enough to give informed consent for the procedure.
Once you've decided on that, you let us know.
A pharmacist can't speak for a doctor.

There are drugs for medical castration, but they have other side effects, a bit expensive, and will have to be given over a period of time.

Durentt:
Please advise

Once we remove those testicles for you, you'd be the one begging to have your libido back.

CalciumB3:
I found this medicine in my sister's bag, she didn't tell anyone anything. am just worried because the drugs are plenty and it shows that she has been using them for a long period of time. please what's the name and what's the uses of it??

I guess there's no Google in your phone, bros?
You Nigerians know everything about and see everything as typhoid, yet you don't care to know the names of the common drugs you've been taking for it.

...what's the name....? Even when the name is clearly written there??

What if we tell you she's taking drugs for HIV, will you believe it?

I don't usually have a liking for lazy youths.

What happened to CPR in Nigeria??
Couldn't they have started doing CPR while looking for help?
The truth is that someone who has spent a significant length of time not breathing before getting to the hospital is unlikely to be successfully resuscitated in the hospital.
The brain doesn't survive long without oxygen and glucose.
The normal thing every other place in the world, even in market places, is for CPR to be commenced while the remaining people look for ambulance or vehicle, and the procedure continues until those in the hospital successfully take over.
This practice is glaringly absent amongst Nigerians.
You do not bundle collapsed people straight to the hospital, or start praying/pouring them water; you immediately start CPR once you confirm absent breathing movements to save the brain.
Let's not keep blaming governments and institutions, because, we as citizens are equally incompetent and have failed humanity.
The knowledge of CPR is something every human should possess because one doesn't know when it'll be needed, even in our bedrooms.

May his soul rest in peace.

Princerobert:
Thank you all for taking out time to reply .. that my neighbour is a Yoruba to start with..

He felt sick and initially went to the hospital and was treated for malaria and typhoid and drip was passed on him which mean he actually took is health serious...

The next day was when he felt critically ill and his wife took him to the general hospital at Surulere.

The first thing they did was to check is temperature with the gun temometer and they gave him a long distance ,is body temperature was 36.5 or so but it was less than 40 which was the minimum for covid patient. Some other covid test was done but you know in these federal and state hospital even when you ask question no one will talk to you.. they will just say wait ..stuff like that ,I don't know if that make anysense but not until we screened then a doctor came out who we think is a consultant said there is nothing she can do .." that there is an order from above not to admit any patient that she is trying to discharge those patients on admission except for the few that she did surgery for."..Doctors are on lockdown one of the nurse's said that to us. What does that mean ?

Most of the private said Lagos state task force go ward to ward to check if there are patient in their ward and any hospital found to be erring will be sanctioned.

By the way there are patient who is my neighbour was initially diagnosed of malaria and typhoid. That was the result from his first visit to the hospital..

The last doctor got is PPE on and did a check of covid before he allow us to bring him down from the vehicle 10 minute after that the doctor couldn't find is vain so that he could atleast pass oxygen .. confirm that we brought him late since 2am and he died same 11:30am.. that if we had brought him say 6am he would have done is best .. yes he died from heart failure ,and some other complications as you have said but he maintained that if that my neighbour had been attended to early enough that is death could have been averted... That is the best I can explain..

The order gate man said that will will not be attended to because we are not carrying covid patient based on the figure of the temperature. ..that there is benefit the government give to the hospital that admit covid patient..what that means I don't know. That was why I ask that some one should share his or her experience to the hospital of late.
Thank for reading and have a blessed week ahead

"...he died from heart failure...." This is more plausible than the initial diagnosis of typhoid you gave us, since he wasn't even having temperature spikes(typhoid causes very high, continuously increasing temperatures we described as a 'step-ladder' pattern).
The first hospital he went to missed the diagnosis by treating him for an almost non-existent typhoid they diagnosed with their usual stupid, out-dated, single Widal test.
If any one should bear blames for his death, it should rightly be that first hospital.
With that ready-made diagnosis at hand, most private hospitals no longer follow the standard procedures for evaluating patients and making diagnoses.

People should be wary and ask questions whenever they're diagnosed with typhoid in Nigeria, as the true incidence in very low. Considering the route of transmission, which is faeco-oral, it's very very difficult for a 21st century adult living a relatively clean life in a relatively clean environment to contract the bacteria that causes typhoid.
Another scam is using a single Widal test to diagnose it, instead of serial tests that demonstrate increasing titres or more appropriately, blood or stool cultures.

This wrong diagnosis of typhoid has led to so many preventable deaths in Nigeria. Last year, I lost a friend who actually had Leukaemia, but was being treated for Typhoid. A relative of mine this year had breast cancer, but was instead diagnosed of and was being treated for typhoid, until I intervened and asked her questions that revealed she had a very big, hard breast lump.

I just hope this ugly trend would stop one day.

SultanOfAbia:
The average person thinks that if you have unprotected sex with an HIV-positive person a single time, you will get HIV for sure. The truth is that it’s not nearly that easy to get HIV

The overestimates of risks on HIV shows that education and awareness on H.I.V is working.
The Fear mongering is used to make people fear unprotected sex. And it is working..
But in reality it's not so easy to catch H.IV

This classic risk compensation model WHICH AIMS at causing fear mongering about H.I.V is done inorder to reduce the rate of unprotected sex. At the end it works very well.. Everyone is scared of H.I.V because they think it is easily transferable.
Which in reality it is not

If H.I.V Was higly transmittable then it would have a pandemic with everyone dieing up and down just like Coronavirus
HIV isn't passed on easily from one person to another. The virus doesn't spread through the air like cold and flu viruses

The Risk of contracting H.i.V from unprotected Vaginal sex is 0.08%
This means that 1 transmission per 1,250 times you have sex with the infected partner.
This explain cases where a husband test positive and wife test negative even after years of exposure to her husband before testing

CONCLUSION
The More Exposures, the Greater the Risk
Although the risk of HIV transmission from a single exposure may seem low to some people, this risk increases over multiple exposures. In other words, a person who is exposed to HIV more often has a greater overall risk of HIV transmission than someone who is exposed less often.

I like the way you supported your points with quality, verifiable research works, unlike those Herbalists who come on here to market their unproven, poisonous herbs.

seborrhic:
So you just saw him and know he died of typhoid?
Please can you enlighten us how a typhoid patient looks again?

That's what most Nigerians, including lots of doctors in private hospitals, know.
To them, if a disease is not malaria, it is typhoid.
And with that, many have died undiagnosed.

Princerobert:
Good morning all..
I want to share my experience while visiting both federal, state and the private hospitals in Lagos particularly the Lagos Main land specifically Surulere and Ebute Metta,
This happened on Friday 22/05/2020 ,as early as 6am my brother got a call that his neighbour is critically ill and that he is been taken to the Rando hospital at Surulere @ 2am and they refuse to attend to him. For no just reason all in the name that their is an order from above not to admit any sick patient and we told this lady in particular what do we do now that both private and government hospital don't want to admit, she said we should take him home ,meaning take him home to die..
We move to all the hospitals you can think about within Surulere, Ebute Meta and the Military hospital at Yaba Tech area no one accepted the patient.,one of the government hospitals said the doctors are on lockdown ,later we spoke to one of the gate men and he said they will not attend to us because we are not carrying covid 19 patient.
All this things looks like a drama but we finally took him to ikorodu but due to the time wasted,the doctor said the chances of him surviving is 30% and not surviving is 70%
Ten minutes later while the doctor was attending to him he gave up the ghost ." Died"
Now I understand while most mortuarys are full..
It a pity and it a shame on this country .
My advise if you are sick try to treat yourself very well at home.
Common typhoid and malaria killed this man, the typhoid outside now requires serious and persistent treatment.. It kills more than the stupid covid 19.
I sorry for my country, I honestly don't know if there is still hope.
Please if you have been to the hospital say from Thursday or Friday 22/05/2020. Please share your experience..
Thank you for reading .

RIP to him.
But how did you know it was Typhoid? How long was he sick?
I have written so much in this forum to make Nigerians do away with this deadly mindset that every disease is malaria or typhoid.
Typhoid is not that common, and it can only be responsible for his death if he actually had typhoid and developed complications like bowel perforation.
In most cases in Nigeria, people self-diagnosis themselves with typhoid and malaria, and start treating themselves at home, when what they have is not actually typhoid/malaria.
Then, they visit the hospitals only when that yet-to-be-diagnosed disease has so much advanced and placed them in critical conditions.
The truth is that private hospitals don't really want such critical patients to die in their hospitals because of the way people would interpret things, as well as the fact that they do not have the facilities and personnel to handle such critical cases.
At least from this pandemic issue, you have leatnt about something called Ventilators and ICU, needed to manage critically ill patients, and that the federal government-owned hospitals do not have them, let alone private hospitals.
People should endeavour to do regular health checks, and to present to the hospital early in the course of their illness for proper diagnosis and care.
No poor resource country like Nigeria, for instance, has what it takes to manage critically ill patients.

mignone:
Hi! Pls did u eventually reach out to d o.p?
U sound like u know much, can I tap frm u?

Whatever he's saying is pure rubbish. I doubt if he knows what liver cancer is, especially one that has already spread
I hope he's not trying to fraudulently sell one fake herbal drug to the guy and his family that must have spent a lot so far.

When a liver cancer has already spread, it has no cure, as the Op was rightly told by the doctors. Liver transplant is not even an option.
It's unfortunate the mama has got to that stage. What she needs now is palliative care.
You guys should run away from Hepatitis B, C, and chronic alcoholism, and not listen to that audio curerer guy.

Mad people everywhere in the Nigeria!
The country is a warehouse of desperados, scammers and conman
Hope you know salt contains just NaCl(sodium chloride), which has no healing property??
How can NaCl that should normally raise the BP now normalize it??
Do you know people who have high BP are supposed to avoid or reduce their salt intake??

The problem most of you have is that you don't consider the chemical contents of what you're selling before coming out to advertise their superpower capabilities

Bros, find another business before you deceive and kill my people in the village.

Kimzo:
Can we talk via WhatsApp

Send a mail, please

Veiniously:
i have

Ok.
The appendix is like a small tube with a tiny lumen, and is blind-ending. Anything that can block that tiny lumen can result in inflammation(appendicitis).
The following can cause it:
- A piece of faeces/faecal matter(faecolith)>>>commonest cause
- A swollen lymph node(the appendix contains some lymph nodes, which can swell up in response to an infection elsewhere, and block the tiny lumen).
- Foreign bodies eg, swallowed beads, unchewed/undigested seeds, etc, that missed their way into the appendix
- Worms(that are able to manoeuvre into the tiny lumen, and block it)
- Cancers of the Caecum or appendix itself
- Adhesions from previous surgeries causing kinking of the appendix
These are some of the most common causes.

Kimzo:
presently in Anambra

Ok. I know some plastic surgery colleagues around that area.
If you need any further consultation with any, you let me know.

Gynaecomastia and its treatment fall within the scope of plastic surgery.

I don't see any reason why it should make you think of committing suicide when you can easily decide to have it removed as a day case surgery.

LeOstrich:
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Hear your messiah admit that his poison will severely injure or kill 700k people

idiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgB_Hdasns&feature=youtu.be

You intentionally misinterpreted him because of the way your mind is already wired.
He was just telling you the possible side effects of a vaccine, which has not even been produced.
Usually, don't some people react to some of the common vaccines we use in Nigeria?
Is there any medicine that doesn't have a side effect??
This is exactly what you guys do when you come to the hospital: if the doctor tells you that if you take fansidar, you can develop serious complications that may lead to death, you imnediately run your pastor to tell him that the doctor said you would die if you take fansidar.
Bill Gates didn't say anything wrong in that video, bros. Just leave propaganda alone.
I'll certainly and willingly receive the vaccine once it gets to where I live before these Asians give me covid-19.

Veiniously:
i really wanna know what causes appendix a friend of mine said its sand now am very scared of eating nigerian rice and garri

You mean what causes Appendicitis( inflammation of the appendix) or what causes Appendix?

Appendix is a normal structure in the body of every human. It's part of the large intestine.

Re-phrase the question.

Which state in Nigeria are you in?

LeOstrich:
Fool, when it is coming from Bill Gates own mouth, you are calling it propaganda?

Your problem is foolishness and ignorance.
A lot of people and institutions are donating money to pharmaceutical companies to ensure a vaccine is produced, so that life and businesses can return to normal.
Bill Gates is just one of the donors to just only one company that's not even sure of producing a vaccine. And he's not the highest donor.
The US government yesterday donated $1.2billion dollars to AstraZeneca, which is partnering with Oxford university to produce a vaccine.
Reasonable humans all over the world are doing all they can to get a workable vaccine, but here in Nigeria, blockheads like you can only offer propaganda.
The world needs a vaccine, and if you don't understand that, just go and die.
What's your worth that countries, institutions and individuals are donating billions of dollars just to kill you

People and stupid propaganda!
I have shares with almost all the American pharm- and biopharmaceutical companies involved in the race for vaccines production, and I haven't seen anyone so far owned by Bill Gates.
Which of them do Gates own??
You guys should be reasonable with these propaganda games.

Spartancosta:
I already discarded the X-ray result since it's useless,but I'll upload the pics of the inflammation.pics uploaded

There's obviously a swelling above the left ear, causing facial asymmetry.
Without the advantage of a physical examination and an Xray, no one can definitely say whether it's arising from the bone or the soft tissues.
So, the swelling needs to be thoroughly examined by a surgeon, and relevant investigations requested.

But if the first Xray showed no abnormality, it means those who went for Lipoma may actually be right, as the Xray wouldn't have failed to show it, if it's actually arising from the bone.
Bottom line, you need to go back to the hospital to see a surgeon.

Damiriel:
Where are you located ... I will send you a local herbs .. Use it for a 4days and you shall never tell this tale ever again

For something you haven't understood yet?
Yet you're already confident your herbs will cure it? What if it's a bone tumour??
In medicine, you don't just treat symptoms, you treat the disease itself.
And here, the disease is yet to be diagnosed!
So, just keep that your 'Jack-of-all-trade' herbs until he's properly diagnosed.