My Health
I have barely been keeping up with reading journals and haven't been doing well with posting lately. I feel like as soon as I start to catch up with what is needed of me these days that I start to slip behind again. Plus, I've had two other hobbies driving my limited free time these days. Moreover, I keep falling asleep at 9:30. It makes me want to whip out a pregnancy test, but I'm not too worried. I should start counting the number of times I go up and down the stairs and then the number of times I go up and down them on my butt holding Finn's hand while sliding down. Then I won’t question why I’m so tired. ;)
Last week I saw a specialist every day. :/ I needed to catch up with my various specialists about my ailments and talk to them further about my current situation. Friday we went to see Finn's pediatrician to talk about some very aggressive biting and pushing going on in the childcare at the gym... um, my son being the instigator that is. Oops.
The sum of all the specialists comments boils down to this: Most all still think I have some form of auto immune disease, but say that a name and global treatment is pending in my lifetime. Most all offered me medications for my many symptoms that would have me taking like 5 medications total and most can't be used during breastfeeding or pregnancy. The urologist and gyn both agreed changing to Effexor was better for peripheral nerve pain, which is my primary problem, so I was glad to have already made that decision with my shrink. All seemed skeptical that my hip was a surgical fix and encouraged me to get a second opinion. I'm getting the second opinion in two weeks at Swedish. I am sad to get the second opinion because I very much fear they will tell me that I don't have a fixable problem and I'm not ready to face that reality. The urologist recommended that I consider a c-section if I have another baby because I risk more peripheral nerve damage if I push out another baby. One specialist agreed with her, another disagreed. Feeling confused yet? So am I.
The long and short is a change of medications, more opinions and more hanging out waiting for new drugs and new research to hit the market. I'm embarrassed to talk about a lot of my problems in too much detail, but I think most everyone knows what they are at this point. I'm not hype on the c-section idea, but I don't think I can deal with my bladder getting any *worse*.
Sigh.
Last week I saw a specialist every day. :/ I needed to catch up with my various specialists about my ailments and talk to them further about my current situation. Friday we went to see Finn's pediatrician to talk about some very aggressive biting and pushing going on in the childcare at the gym... um, my son being the instigator that is. Oops.
The sum of all the specialists comments boils down to this: Most all still think I have some form of auto immune disease, but say that a name and global treatment is pending in my lifetime. Most all offered me medications for my many symptoms that would have me taking like 5 medications total and most can't be used during breastfeeding or pregnancy. The urologist and gyn both agreed changing to Effexor was better for peripheral nerve pain, which is my primary problem, so I was glad to have already made that decision with my shrink. All seemed skeptical that my hip was a surgical fix and encouraged me to get a second opinion. I'm getting the second opinion in two weeks at Swedish. I am sad to get the second opinion because I very much fear they will tell me that I don't have a fixable problem and I'm not ready to face that reality. The urologist recommended that I consider a c-section if I have another baby because I risk more peripheral nerve damage if I push out another baby. One specialist agreed with her, another disagreed. Feeling confused yet? So am I.
The long and short is a change of medications, more opinions and more hanging out waiting for new drugs and new research to hit the market. I'm embarrassed to talk about a lot of my problems in too much detail, but I think most everyone knows what they are at this point. I'm not hype on the c-section idea, but I don't think I can deal with my bladder getting any *worse*.
Sigh.