doc visit
First, my primary care provider is a Certified Nurse Practitioner and not an M.D. I usually don't mention that because I don't feel like defending her. She's kind, which is of vital importance to me, and she is very knowledgeable about conditions I have such as diabetes and high blood pressure. She also used to be the CNP for the blood expert doc, so she knows more about the MTHFR dealie than most regular physicians. And that is all the defending I am willing to do right there. I only mention her actual title because I don't know what to call her when I talk about her. Just calling her Nurse seems goofy, CNP or PCP seem unwieldy, Everyone at her office calls her by her given name, but that would be confusing to everyone who doesn't know who Trecia is. So if I lapse and call her my doc (or any form thereof) I'm not trying to be deceitful, I just need a word I don't have.
Anyway, I went to see Trecia yesterday. It was a fasting visit for bloodwork, and since the appointment was at three in the afternoon, it was a long fast. But I drank lots of water to plump up my veins, and when I got there my back teeth were floating, so I asked could I go pee, and the nurse (Salle, not Trecia) said yes so I did, and then twenty minutes later of course they wanted pee I no longer had.
So the fast went on while I drank more water and waited, but the upside was, Salle was in a story telling mood, and I got to hear about a patient she had once who had been mauled by her own dog in a fight over a dropped pork chop, and also about the blood expert doc. That one almost made me cry. I expect an altered version of it will turn up in a work of fiction at some point during my life.
Eventually I emerged with a new blood pressure prescription. I have been struggling so with the MTHFR (supplement) protocol, but some of my symptoms predate the protocol, and the last thing anyone changed before that was to drop one bp med and double the other in an attempt to address some edema in my legs and feet. It not only didn't work, but my bp has been less stable, and I have felt increasingly like crap including huge reeling dizzy spells.
Changing two things close together is never cool because you can't be sure what caused anything and I have wasted spent most of my summer sorting side effects.
Anyway, I have hope this might at least help.
Anyway, I went to see Trecia yesterday. It was a fasting visit for bloodwork, and since the appointment was at three in the afternoon, it was a long fast. But I drank lots of water to plump up my veins, and when I got there my back teeth were floating, so I asked could I go pee, and the nurse (Salle, not Trecia) said yes so I did, and then twenty minutes later of course they wanted pee I no longer had.
So the fast went on while I drank more water and waited, but the upside was, Salle was in a story telling mood, and I got to hear about a patient she had once who had been mauled by her own dog in a fight over a dropped pork chop, and also about the blood expert doc. That one almost made me cry. I expect an altered version of it will turn up in a work of fiction at some point during my life.
Eventually I emerged with a new blood pressure prescription. I have been struggling so with the MTHFR (supplement) protocol, but some of my symptoms predate the protocol, and the last thing anyone changed before that was to drop one bp med and double the other in an attempt to address some edema in my legs and feet. It not only didn't work, but my bp has been less stable, and I have felt increasingly like crap including huge reeling dizzy spells.
Changing two things close together is never cool because you can't be sure what caused anything and I have wasted spent most of my summer sorting side effects.
Anyway, I have hope this might at least help.