I'm getting further blood tests done.

It's not PCOS (yay! No reason to take the make Erin completely batshit birth control pills).

It may be Cushings instead, so I get to take steroids and then have my blood drawn.

Maybe this time I won't get the trainee phlebotomist unlike last week.

Surgery on Friday went fine-ish. I did in fact have a reason for my "monthly friend" to be hellish and hopefully we got that all cut out. I only got two incisions- one in the belly button and one near my left hip. The gas was hell on Friday and made me hurt near screaming level (since it was laparoscopic and they pump you full of gas to bloat you ( Read more... )

So yesterday I went to the doctor to follow up. He was not amused about the endo and said "the heck with her, I know what I need to treat you for PCOS, so I can do it myself." Then he wanted to put me back on the metformin (which crazy lady put me on due to "insulin resistance") but once I told him the horrible side effects, we looked it up and saw ( Read more... )

I hate medical professionals.

To sum up: my fasting glucose is high by <1%. I was given prescription for that ( Read more... )

I have 7 holes in my elbow for only 3 blood draws this morning. My whole arm hurts like heck. And I am not sure if I'll pass the glucose test or not- I had a five hour delay response of needing to puke after the glucola. I wish they had actually been a little more up front about: no liquids for the 2 hours whilst they did the draws and that the ( Read more... )

I have to be a human pincushion again! But I did put it off until Monday morning as I couldn't go another 3 hours without eating ( Read more... )

An after demanding a full thyroid panel, we find indeed that my thyroid is hosed. As are a few other things. Thankfully I have an endocrinologist appt in my future ( Read more... )

I have learned my lesson about health care. I should have gotten pissed off and switched to UCLA a long time ago. Never mind the fact that I have to drive to Westwood. Nevermind the fact that they charge $11 for parking unless you're only there for a half hour at which point it is $8 (I finally learned after my appt how to get into the cheaper " ( Read more... )

- pills shoved at me with no desire to actually look into the problem (that I double over in pain for a week a month when not on the pills. . . .and lately have been doubling over in pain on the damned things ( Read more... )

with a few clicks of the mouse we are going to be out of the country during Thanksgiving this year. My happy little passport will be getting some use and we'll be going to Rome ( Read more... )