Woke up around 5:30 a.m. with a terrible headache, so I washed my hair-something I often do now if I wake early with a bad headache, because I might as well take care of something I can do in that state, right?-and now I'm still only mostly awake, waiting for my head to feel better, so I thought I'd write about yesterday's appointment with the new ( Read more... )

I got new lab results from my blood draw on 3/13/14. My doctor's office now participates in the Sutter Health Online program, which allows me to look up my lab results online pretty much as soon as the doctor has them, which TOTALLY rocks ( Read more... )

Lab Result Timeline (for phone convo with nephrologist 2/3/14)
8/30/10: creatinine 1.19 (a little high), eGFR 50 (low ( Read more... )

I emailed my nephrologist this morning & she's still been sick, but she's planning to be in the office tomorrow, so she has asked me to phone her to talk about the lab results from 2-3 weeks ago. I'm getting organized, so that I have all the relevant information at hand, in addition to my questions.

Questions for nephrologist (for phone convo 2/3/ ( Read more... )

Bleh. Nausea this evening, ever since 5ish. Nausea sucks. I haven't had any (or, at least, more than a bit here and there) in weeks. I repeat: nausea sucks ( Read more... )

Trying to figure out this sodium/water situation. My sodium level was relatively high (143, which is at the highest end of normal) when I saw my nephrologist last week, and yet she told me to not only drink a lot of water but also eat salty foods and drink Gatorade for a few days until the next blood draw (which was yesterday ( Read more... )

So … the neurologist. He said that he thinks I have arthritis in my neck, which can cause "brisk" or "exaggerated" reflexes, but nothing that requires treatment and nothing that would cause this kind of fatigue. My online research indicates that arthritis in the neck should cause a lot of other symptoms I don't have (most notably neck pain, which ( Read more... )

A neurologist's office phoned me today to make an appointment … and the soonest they offered was October 14, nearly 7 weeks away. My primary care physician had told me that she wanted me seen within 2 weeks, so I've emailed her and asked if she can help somehow ( Read more... )

So I went to see my primary care physician today about the fatigue my nephrologist thought seemed excessive for my kidney numbers. While there, I caught my doc up on all the various health things I've had going on -- far too many of them -- including this one little weirdness that I don't remember if I've ever written about here. A few months ago, ( Read more... )