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Health rambling
Jan. 25th, 2018 04:26 pmStarting to freak out over the idea of seeing a doctor. I should be getting an appointment over the next couple of weeks.
I keep telling myself I don't need to see one and I'm just being an attention whore. But, the last appointment I had didn't go so well and that was in September-ish. I had a follow up appointment in October, but that got cancelled...and I just never got around to setting another one up.
My blood sugar has been hovering in the 200 range for months now, and I can't get it to go back down. The last appointment they upped my meds, but all that did was make me really sick. We left off with the new doctor wanting to put me on a drug that's known to cause cancer. Not may cause cancer, but does cause cancer in rats at a very consistent, alarming rate.
So I'm setting up an appointment with an RN I saw a couple of years ago who seemed to actually listen to me and order tests to eliminate things (like MS). I don't know what to do about my blood sugar since I think a large part of it is stress and the prozac. Which everyone told me shouldn't interfere with blood sugar. Until I started to do my own research and talked to a vet of all people and, yes, it can mess with the pancreas.
I just think it's weird I went from being non-diabetic, to diabetic, during the most active, healthy part of my whole life. The only difference was adding the prozac. And every time the dose got adjusted, so did the blood sugar levels.
Anyway. I'm trying to figure out how to bring up the possibility of EDS. I mentioned it briefly with my PCP a couple of years ago, but he dismissed it. But the more research I do, the more everything seems to fit. Unfortunately, the list of symptoms also fits a bunch of other things, thus the elimination game that I gave up on last year.
It's all really frustrating. And I realized today I'm depressed. Which I knew I was a couple of months ago, but apparently just forgot. I've been working so, so hard to get up my spirits and to motivate myself and surround myself with positivity, but...it's just not working.
At least I'm still having steady distance from the biofam. That seems to help my stress levels a lot.
I keep telling myself I don't need to see one and I'm just being an attention whore. But, the last appointment I had didn't go so well and that was in September-ish. I had a follow up appointment in October, but that got cancelled...and I just never got around to setting another one up.
My blood sugar has been hovering in the 200 range for months now, and I can't get it to go back down. The last appointment they upped my meds, but all that did was make me really sick. We left off with the new doctor wanting to put me on a drug that's known to cause cancer. Not may cause cancer, but does cause cancer in rats at a very consistent, alarming rate.
So I'm setting up an appointment with an RN I saw a couple of years ago who seemed to actually listen to me and order tests to eliminate things (like MS). I don't know what to do about my blood sugar since I think a large part of it is stress and the prozac. Which everyone told me shouldn't interfere with blood sugar. Until I started to do my own research and talked to a vet of all people and, yes, it can mess with the pancreas.
I just think it's weird I went from being non-diabetic, to diabetic, during the most active, healthy part of my whole life. The only difference was adding the prozac. And every time the dose got adjusted, so did the blood sugar levels.
Anyway. I'm trying to figure out how to bring up the possibility of EDS. I mentioned it briefly with my PCP a couple of years ago, but he dismissed it. But the more research I do, the more everything seems to fit. Unfortunately, the list of symptoms also fits a bunch of other things, thus the elimination game that I gave up on last year.
It's all really frustrating. And I realized today I'm depressed. Which I knew I was a couple of months ago, but apparently just forgot. I've been working so, so hard to get up my spirits and to motivate myself and surround myself with positivity, but...it's just not working.
At least I'm still having steady distance from the biofam. That seems to help my stress levels a lot.
