hi folks...
well, i didn't stab my doctor this morning. and there wasn't any sharp objects nearby to shove down HIS throat, or i may have. i did think about it though. i imagine a couple of you wonder how it went... so i shall tell you. not like i wouldn't anyways. i like to pretend that people give a shit what i have to say whether they do or not sometimes. just so i have something to write about. y'all have seen what happens when i have nothing to say; ya end up with fucked up pictures, quizzes, lists, or even worse... random shit about ME. oh c'mon you know you love it.
so, anyhow... i will start with the fact that i have been feeling rather lousy for a couple months i guess. (for those who are kinda new , and don't know that). getting dizzy, nauseas, fatigued, just bleak i guess. so about a month ago, i had a upper endoscopy, biopsies of my stomach and esophagus, also esophagus dilation, and a change in stomach meds. OKAY well.. today was my followup appt for that stuff. and here is what came from it....
1. in the last fourweeks i have lost 3 pounds. ( i told y'all i was losin weight) and i just don't know how that's possible. i have been eating like a damned pig lately. i'm hungry ALL the time!
2. the labs they did at ER a few days after the scope.. showed that i am anemic.... hmmm.
3... this raised a red flag to the doc... along with the weight loss third time of unintentional weight loss in like three years... (last two times went as far as 20-25 pounds before i sought treatment)...
4.... the "red flag"... now leads to... one of my favorite things... a colonoscopy! yippee fuckin ay!
they wanted to do it next week !... i said oh helll NO. i need to be mentally prepared for such things! so it will be guess when... september 11th. how odd. but they only do them on tuesdays... sooo that's when it will be. hmmmm
5.. he also had the results of the abdominal ultrasound.... which was basically all in all, good. nothing major, no bleeding or anything. but they found.. well.. i already knew they were there.. but they want now to do a cat scan on my liver for two "possible hemangiomas" ... that may or may not be "something else". hmmmm. okay. whatever. suck me dry bastard.
6. the scope results btw, weren't anything major either.. no bleeds, no scary stuff. reflux, hiatal (sp) hernia,ulcer, some other crap i don't remember, that obviously isn't that important.
so... as far as i can think or remember right now.. that was as far as that went. i had plans to run some errands, but all that shit wore me out. so i just came home. i really need to get out and take care of some business stuff, but i am just immobilized with freakin "soulmange" today. i gotta do somethin about this. 2-3 days of this feeling down in the dumps. too damn hot to go fishin. too damn broke to go do anything else. everybody in blogland is workin. perhaps i will just go run my errands.
BLAH
i do hope you all are doing something productive and feeling good today
11 comments:
thanks for catching me up. i would be one to read backwards through everybody's blog but i don't have that much free time at work;)
so basically nobody knows sh*t about what's going on so they subject you to every test they can think of and hope something shows up? i know that is frustrating and kinda scary.
YAY for you not stabbing doctor. i know you wanted to, but he might come in handy in the future. i know, i know, probably not...just that silly hope. got to get rid of it, it's killing me.
have you ever looked into alternative therapy for your symptoms? you know, natural hippie-type stuff? it won't diagnose you but if you get ahold of the right person, you might be surprised at how potent some treatments are. i am really not trying to act like i know anything, it is just a thought that doesn't occur to most.
monday's almost over. hope you get to kick back & enjoy the evening...
wow. i never comment that long...you've rubbed off on me...that's why you're Batman:)
one joy after another! Hang in there!
hiya robin!
yes i have considered ALL sorts of things that MAY help with all of this stuff. but i (a). don't know enough about the herbal remedies / hippie stuff... and (b). also don't know enough about the illegal but worthwhile things i've heard of that supposedly help either. besides my ignorance of the latter... i'm also too chickenshit to try to find it, much less experiment with it.
so anyhow... that's where i'm at on that topic.
ignorant, and ummmm.... ignoranter.
i hope you are doing better.. i am workin on it.
yes mark... what a joy eh.
thanks for comin over.
wow.. but i guess if its not bleeding or ulcers or anything more serious...then you're ok...dont like the weight loss stuff though...however if you are hungry...that's a good thing... better than not being able to eat! be careful my friend.... catch up with you later.... try calcium or energy booster drinks??? hell, what do i know??? cheers.
you know a lot more than you think you so yankee.
what's happenin on day 4 (?) with you.. pool?
i hope you/re all having fun. coffee bean! you crack me up!
i'll look for you in a few..if i don't catch up with you i'll look in the mornin..MY mornin.
byeeeee
Soul, I had this whole long comment written late yesterday at work, and hell...I don't know where it went....I hate when that happens. I can give you the readers digest short version---what the hell is the deal with your liver? Have you heard anything about that in the past? And the colonoscopy---do you really think it's okay to put it off that long? Apparently, they think that you are losing blood somewhere, and have not found a source? There are no ulcers in your upper stomach, right? I guess I am confused, but then, what else is new, right? I know when I have had active ulcers, I feel hungry ALL THE TIME, but if they found no evidence of that....hmmmm....and I am happy that you didn't choke your dr, also, although I am wondering if you told him (discreetly) that he about killed you? Nah, you probably didn't , you are too kind....
And I guess this really WASN'T the short version, was it?
jamie..hi..youstill on? i doubt it.. i slept in..
anyhow...
ulcers... i have.. duodenal (sp) i think they are in the lower part???
but hell if i know.. cuz the pain is in the regular ole food holder part. :))
the liver... last year while going thru a load oaf tests and scans to find "something" that was making me lose weight, among a ton of other things, many like this... they also found what they called "hemangioma tumors" .. slow down.. i don't know why they use the word tumor. they are blood vessels that get enlarged...sometimes they can cause trouble..but are almost always benign and not life threatening.
when i heard the word tumor.. and had already known of course that hubby had a large one removed from his neck several months before we met.. i worried, and i researched it.. and felt it to not be a concern. but this doc... wants to do a ct scan.. to be certain that is is hemangiomas.. and not .. "something else". ( we all know what that means, so i didn't press it)
oh, and the colonoscopy. good lord.
ya, maybe i should get it done sooner... but to be totally honest... it isn't just the mentally prepared thing. it's the "i'm fuckin broke thing", hubby needs to plan time off from work thing", i gotta get the kid settled in school thing", i have like two or three other appts coming up in the next week or two thing, and the list goes on. and all these doctors already are draggin me down into the pits of hell. SOOO that is where the MENTAL preparation comes in.. i need a week or so to recover from all that! and get the cash together to pay his dumb ass. ERG.
its not like i'll keel over in two weeks. i've felt a lot worse than this , trust me. somethin keeps me goin. :)
i think reading, and commenting on your post yesterday jamie...it finally hit me... it isn't my own experience with my illnesses, and MY doctors that have made me so extremely angry with the medical community...basically as a whole. it has been going on since they refused to help my son. and now, i don't get the care that i think i should be getting. sometimes i think i know more than they do. and many times...I DO.
but ya. anyhow.
thanks for comin by. i'll let ya know what happens. i do go to VA soon.. i will run all this by them too, with my records etc..they have the liver stuff in my va records from last year... they may "do" something..or say something.
will keep ya posted.
thanks for caring.
thanks for comin by.
hope you have a good day
hey Soul. Hope you are feeling better! And very glad to hear that you didn't stab any doctors. That is a WHOLE lotta tests! Have they been tracking your blood sugar as well? Did they look at your gall bladder? I think I asked this already many posts ago. I am no doctor, that's for sure, but I do know enough to be a serious pain in the ass to the medical community. Keep cool, girl.
To my soulblah:
hmmm, a colonoscopy? My mom went through that a few months back and she said the hardest (no pun I think) part of the procedure is the preparations..the softner bs, the enema all that drama.
Just a thought: when was if they have already sorry..but when was the last time you had your potassium levels checked? having low levels can make your belly hurt, fatigue, dizziness and dehydration.
Hope you feel better. :(
Always,
crusty
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