the doctor again
I saw a real doctor yesterday. I liked her better than the PA, but am still not sure if I'm going to stay there. She seemed to really look at the data and at one point asked me a short series of questions:
"You started BC in October?"
"You're BP only recently went up?"
"You've been gaining weight recently?"
And I explained about how I had been loosing weight for some time now until this year. And she looked at the computer again and said: "You've been on oral contraception for only 8 months?"
And she emphasized the "oral" and then asked me "Are you using BC for contraception, or for menstrual maintenance?" And I thought "AH-HA! She's on the same page as me!"
So, I'm off the BC and still on the BP medicine, but she seemed confident that my BP would go back to normal in a couple weeks (and told me how I could tell) and I could stop the BP medicine then. Yeah, overall I liked her better... but I'm still irritated with the other people and especially with the scheduling incident. Did I mention that? I called in Monday morning to move my 12:30 Wednesday appointment to Monday at 4:15 because my face was swollen - my right eye was swollen closed. When I showed up at 4:15 I discovered it was moved to WEDNESDAY at 4:15... GGGRRRR
And she had no idea why my face swelled up and didn't suggest pursuing allergy testing, which I'd like to do. I didn't ask her to do it, because I figured I'd be changing dr's soon and would rather them do it.
In other news, I finished my goggles - go see my album on Picasa.
Which lets me talk about the awesome Goggle suite of on-line stuff! GMAIL! Google Documents! Picasa! I think I'm going to just stick with this photo program. Unlike Flickr, there is no maximum monthly upload or only 3 sets (for a free account). I've got 1G of storage and can "only" put 500 photos in each album, of which it seems there are unlimited albums. :D And, while the community part of Deviant Art may be nice, I'm not using it. So, from now on, when I say I've got something done, it'll be in my Picasa photo album - check it out! (I'll try to remember to post a link each time, tho). And while you're at it, you're welcome to look at all my other pictures. :D http://picasaweb.google.com/fairyguts
"You started BC in October?"
"You're BP only recently went up?"
"You've been gaining weight recently?"
And I explained about how I had been loosing weight for some time now until this year. And she looked at the computer again and said: "You've been on oral contraception for only 8 months?"
And she emphasized the "oral" and then asked me "Are you using BC for contraception, or for menstrual maintenance?" And I thought "AH-HA! She's on the same page as me!"
So, I'm off the BC and still on the BP medicine, but she seemed confident that my BP would go back to normal in a couple weeks (and told me how I could tell) and I could stop the BP medicine then. Yeah, overall I liked her better... but I'm still irritated with the other people and especially with the scheduling incident. Did I mention that? I called in Monday morning to move my 12:30 Wednesday appointment to Monday at 4:15 because my face was swollen - my right eye was swollen closed. When I showed up at 4:15 I discovered it was moved to WEDNESDAY at 4:15... GGGRRRR
And she had no idea why my face swelled up and didn't suggest pursuing allergy testing, which I'd like to do. I didn't ask her to do it, because I figured I'd be changing dr's soon and would rather them do it.
In other news, I finished my goggles - go see my album on Picasa.
Which lets me talk about the awesome Goggle suite of on-line stuff! GMAIL! Google Documents! Picasa! I think I'm going to just stick with this photo program. Unlike Flickr, there is no maximum monthly upload or only 3 sets (for a free account). I've got 1G of storage and can "only" put 500 photos in each album, of which it seems there are unlimited albums. :D And, while the community part of Deviant Art may be nice, I'm not using it. So, from now on, when I say I've got something done, it'll be in my Picasa photo album - check it out! (I'll try to remember to post a link each time, tho). And while you're at it, you're welcome to look at all my other pictures. :D http://picasaweb.google.com/fairyguts