Been depressed for about a week and a half. Still don't have a psychiatrist, despite the numerous phone calls I've made. Most are not taking new patients, some don't do medication management, and some simply don't call back at all. One guy said he was willing to squeeze me in if I couldn't find anyone else, so I went to see him after a couple weeks ( Read more... )

I keep thinking I should write a journal entry, but then it always seems like there's too much to write about, and so I get overwhelmed, and so I don't write ( Read more... )

I had my first acupuncture appointment yesterday at AIMC (Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College) and am hesitant to go back ( Read more... )

Saw the dermatologist yesterday, and she found a mole that looked bad, so she did a biopsy. It's probably fine, as this happens every year or two & only once did the tests show results bad enough that she had to do a full excision, but I'll know for sure when they call with the results sometime within the next two weeks. In the meantime, Shannon ( Read more... )

I saw the pain doc yesterday, so I'm going to scribble down my notes here. I'll combine my notes from last time (which I wrote in this journal piecemeal when my brain was working even more poorly than it is right now), in order to try to get everything better organized.

So here's our current thinking:

Neurontin
At my first appointment, Pain Doc ( Read more... )

The Latest in the Saga of Pain
Headache. Today it started getting really bad by 2 pm instead of waiting until its usual 6ish, and eventually-in the 7, 8, 9 pm range-I spent a couple hours in such pain that I would have rated it a 10 on the 1-10 scale ... i.e., the worst pain I've ever experienced. Not fun. Really not fun. Quite a bit of helpless ( Read more... )

Today's Tylenol + Codeine Usage
1 Tylenol #3 tablet at 6:00 pm ( Read more... )

I think I might need to get a different nephrologist when my insurance changes on March 1, because my current doctor and I seem to have significant communication problems. We finally spoke on the phone today, and I ended the conversation feeling frustrated and confused ( Read more... )

Today's food conclusion: Low-fat cheese is surprisingly (and pleasantly) indistinguishable from regular cheese. Non-fat cheese, however, tastes like plastic and melts really strangely and unattractively. I got non-fat cheese when we bought groceries this week (because there wasn't any low-fat on sale), and I am experiencing significant buyer's ( Read more... )

I distributed much affection to cats today, pretty much everywhere that I held still for more than a few seconds. It's a good thing I don't mind wearing clothes covered in cat hair. I *adore* our cats. And they kinda like me, too.

Finished listening to Three Cups of Tea today, and I'm glad. By the end of the book, our hero was majestically looking ( Read more... )