My day was actually good today. Go figure.
Tired again today. Probably something to do with the fact that I didn't get much sleep last night. I stayed up a wee bit too late reading, and then I had a doctor's appointment this morning. I didn't watch any TV this evening, just rested for a couple of hours, but thanks to my pal DVR, I have a shiny new Bones (and Daybreak) waiting for me to watch tomorrow. Yay! Plus, George Clooney was on The Daily Show tonight, so I have several things to watch tomorrow when I get bored doing other stuff.
Other than the tiredness, today was pretty darn good. The doctor's appointment was with an Ear, Nose & Throat doctor that my allergist referred me to because I've been having headaches and he thought it might be because of my deviated septum. He wanted me to see this guy to find out if I needed surgery on the septum, which might fix the problem. Well, after waiting ~35 minutes, I got in to see the doctor, he sprayed this minty flavored numbing stuff in my nose that cleared my sinuses, and he poked me with a little stick to see if he could figure out what was going on. First of all, this minty stuff? Totally awesomesauce! Cleared my sinuses right up, no bad aftertaste or sore throat, and it didn't even hurt! But lemme tell you, having your nose numb inside feels really weird. It wasn't super numb or anything, but it still felt very strange.
The stick he examined my nose with vaguely resembled a regular wooden match (thin stick with little ball on one end), but it was long like a fireplace match. Yes, I realize a fireplace match is also wooden but the stick thing was about the thickness (or less) of a regular match, hence that description. Anyway, I didn't feel any shooting pain when he touched the deviation, or when he touched any nerve endings (which he said would be the case if the cause of the headaches definitely was the deviation), so he asked me some questions. From my answers, he determined that I should see a neurologist, since the problem might be migraines. He said if the neurologist couldn't find any neurological problem, then we would proceed from there. So, it could still be the deviation, since the test doesn't rule that possibility out, it only shows whether or not it definitely is the deviation. Odds are that it isn't the deviation, since this has always been there and I've not had problems for that long. Plus, when I went to my allergist, who referred me to this guy, I'm sure my answers to his questions weren't that accurate, since I always have lots of trouble describing pain, and I hadn't had a headache recently enough to make the questions easier to answer.
Frankly, I'm not really upset by this diagnosis. Honestly, I don't really want to get surgery to fix my deviated septum, since it hasn't caused me any problems that I know of, and the surgery sounds like it would suck (stuff packed in your nose for several days? no thanks!). I don't have the headaches everywhere (for example, I had no problems when we were in New Orleans), so it is probably an allergen-related thing. And with a migraine, I can at least take OTC migraine medicine, or even a prescription. It's something that could help, so that's fine by me. Anything but surgery is always preferable.
And while I was there, I told the doctor about the problem I've pretty much always had with my tonsils. I get deposits of gunk in them every so often (called tonsiliths, which always makes me think of Stonehenge), which several doctors have basically said I have to live with. I hate it; they smell, I get sore throats, not fun at all getting them to come out. Generally yucky. I had seen another EN&T doctor for this a couple of years ago and he told me to gargle with a salt water solution, which I hated (it didn't work anyway). He told me he wouldn't take the tonsils out, pretty much no matter what (obviously if there was infection or something, it'd probably be different). Also, both my primary care doctor and my allergist said they didn't think that tonsils were taken out for that. Well, this guy I went to today is like my favorite doctor right now, because he was all "bzuh? we totally take tonsils out for this all the time!". I have to gargle with a solution of 50% water, 50% peroxide and see how that works, but if it doesn't I am thrilled to know that I could actually get my tonsils out if needed. Yay!
So now all I am doing is waiting on a neurologist appointment, which my doctor should get back to me about tomorrow. It will be nice to get this taken care of.
Now, it's off to finish reading my flist, and then to bed. Yay, I made it on time to get this post in as Wednesday! That would suck to lose this thing right at the end.
Other than the tiredness, today was pretty darn good. The doctor's appointment was with an Ear, Nose & Throat doctor that my allergist referred me to because I've been having headaches and he thought it might be because of my deviated septum. He wanted me to see this guy to find out if I needed surgery on the septum, which might fix the problem. Well, after waiting ~35 minutes, I got in to see the doctor, he sprayed this minty flavored numbing stuff in my nose that cleared my sinuses, and he poked me with a little stick to see if he could figure out what was going on. First of all, this minty stuff? Totally awesomesauce! Cleared my sinuses right up, no bad aftertaste or sore throat, and it didn't even hurt! But lemme tell you, having your nose numb inside feels really weird. It wasn't super numb or anything, but it still felt very strange.
The stick he examined my nose with vaguely resembled a regular wooden match (thin stick with little ball on one end), but it was long like a fireplace match. Yes, I realize a fireplace match is also wooden but the stick thing was about the thickness (or less) of a regular match, hence that description. Anyway, I didn't feel any shooting pain when he touched the deviation, or when he touched any nerve endings (which he said would be the case if the cause of the headaches definitely was the deviation), so he asked me some questions. From my answers, he determined that I should see a neurologist, since the problem might be migraines. He said if the neurologist couldn't find any neurological problem, then we would proceed from there. So, it could still be the deviation, since the test doesn't rule that possibility out, it only shows whether or not it definitely is the deviation. Odds are that it isn't the deviation, since this has always been there and I've not had problems for that long. Plus, when I went to my allergist, who referred me to this guy, I'm sure my answers to his questions weren't that accurate, since I always have lots of trouble describing pain, and I hadn't had a headache recently enough to make the questions easier to answer.
Frankly, I'm not really upset by this diagnosis. Honestly, I don't really want to get surgery to fix my deviated septum, since it hasn't caused me any problems that I know of, and the surgery sounds like it would suck (stuff packed in your nose for several days? no thanks!). I don't have the headaches everywhere (for example, I had no problems when we were in New Orleans), so it is probably an allergen-related thing. And with a migraine, I can at least take OTC migraine medicine, or even a prescription. It's something that could help, so that's fine by me. Anything but surgery is always preferable.
And while I was there, I told the doctor about the problem I've pretty much always had with my tonsils. I get deposits of gunk in them every so often (called tonsiliths, which always makes me think of Stonehenge), which several doctors have basically said I have to live with. I hate it; they smell, I get sore throats, not fun at all getting them to come out. Generally yucky. I had seen another EN&T doctor for this a couple of years ago and he told me to gargle with a salt water solution, which I hated (it didn't work anyway). He told me he wouldn't take the tonsils out, pretty much no matter what (obviously if there was infection or something, it'd probably be different). Also, both my primary care doctor and my allergist said they didn't think that tonsils were taken out for that. Well, this guy I went to today is like my favorite doctor right now, because he was all "bzuh? we totally take tonsils out for this all the time!". I have to gargle with a solution of 50% water, 50% peroxide and see how that works, but if it doesn't I am thrilled to know that I could actually get my tonsils out if needed. Yay!
So now all I am doing is waiting on a neurologist appointment, which my doctor should get back to me about tomorrow. It will be nice to get this taken care of.
Now, it's off to finish reading my flist, and then to bed. Yay, I made it on time to get this post in as Wednesday! That would suck to lose this thing right at the end.