Dr TL was running very late on Saturday. I don’t mind waiting for him because it is a sign that he gives his best to each patient, and sometimes it is necessary to investigate further. The usual receptionist was on holiday, and they had two young receptionists who were behaving like teenagers. Two couches in the waiting room had been removed, and it seems like the Medical Centre will not replace them with another couches. After a while, I was getting little uncertain if I could keep sitting up or not. To prevent myself from getting dizzy and sick, I curled myself holding my knees to stop blood pooling on my legs, and leaning to back of the chair on my side to get as comfortable as I could be. I wasn’t sleeping, but I was preserving my energy. Dr TL called me with very loud voice and it made me jump up.
Our communication wasn’t great… I partly blame my bad cognitive function and partly blame the heavy rain. And since I see him so often now, I guess it is expected that we would have one of these days.
He checked if I was still coping with push away. And I told him that I don’t think push away is making me feel worse, but generally I’m sicker. I managed to complete the set which is 8 push away at the moment. However, before I do the set, my arms are already fatigued. He told me that “sick” doesn’t explain anything, and made me tell symptoms. I felt he was daring. I started with head area, then slowly moving down in my body. I managed to tell most of the symptoms. When I got to leg, he stopped typing it into computer. He got the picture. And we looked at each other with same expression in our face; these are just too many. (I didn’t know which one could be important, and which one wouldn’t.)
There was computer glitch and my blood test result wasn’t on his computer. So he phoned the Pathology and checked the result for me.
Calcium level dropped again. It explains the tremor, twitching and jerking I’ve been having these days.
Blood glucose level and cholesterol level were high. When I had the blood test, I had toast and coffee breakfast. But it has been more than two hours by the time blood was drawn.
Anyway, I’m having fasting blood test on Monday morning.
Dr TL is hoping that it is not Diabetes. (So am I!) Important management for Diabetes is exercise as in normal exercise, not like movement I am undertaking. With the combination of ME/CFS, it would be very challenging to manage Diabetes. I really shouldn’t have Diabetes. I’m not overweight. I eat very simple food. I hardly have luxury food, such as chocolate, biscuits, potato chips, and not even water cracker. I don’t drink soda. I don’t take sugar, except for the ones already inside of food. I like meat, but it’s been quite some time since I had meat last time. Since I lost appetite, I haven’t been eating much less for at least two weeks… So, I don’t see any reason why my glucose and cholesterol levels are high.
It is just not fair! I’m already dealing with tough condition. Can it be just enough for one person to handle?
I am half sceptical and rather hoping that this is one of funny ways ME/CFS behaves. After all these tests and worries, it could be nothing.
Another thing is that I am bleeding again. After the discussion, we agreed that I will stay on the pill for another few weeks and see what happens. If I’m still bleeding, I might go off from the pill and see how PMS is.
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Dr TL was running very late on Saturday. I don’t mind waiting for him because it is a sign that he gives his best to each patient, and sometimes it is necessary to investigate further. The usual receptionist was on holiday, and they had two young receptionists who were behaving like teenagers. Two couches in the waiting room had been removed, and it seems like the Medical Centre will not replace them with another couches. After a while, I was getting little uncertain if I could keep sitting up or not. To prevent myself from getting dizzy and sick, I curled myself holding my knees to stop blood pooling on my legs, and leaning to back of the chair on my side to get as comfortable as I could be. I wasn’t sleeping, but I was preserving my energy. Dr TL called me with very loud voice and it made me jump up.
Our communication wasn’t great… I partly blame my bad cognitive function and partly blame the heavy rain. And since I see him so often now, I guess it is expected that we would have one of these days.
He checked if I was still coping with push away. And I told him that I don’t think push away is making me feel worse, but generally I’m sicker. I managed to complete the set which is 8 push away at the moment. However, before I do the set, my arms are already fatigued. He told me that “sick” doesn’t explain anything, and made me tell symptoms. I felt he was daring. I started with head area, then slowly moving down in my body. I managed to tell most of the symptoms. When I got to leg, he stopped typing it into computer. He got the picture. And we looked at each other with same expression in our face; these are just too many. (I didn’t know which one could be important, and which one wouldn’t.)
There was computer glitch and my blood test result wasn’t on his computer. So he phoned the Pathology and checked the result for me.
Calcium level dropped again. It explains the tremor, twitching and jerking I’ve been having these days.
Blood glucose level and cholesterol level were high. When I had the blood test, I had toast and coffee breakfast. But it has been more than two hours by the time blood was drawn.
Anyway, I’m having fasting blood test on Monday morning.
Dr TL is hoping that it is not Diabetes. (So am I!) Important management for Diabetes is exercise as in normal exercise, not like movement I am undertaking. With the combination of ME/CFS, it would be very challenging to manage Diabetes. I really shouldn’t have Diabetes. I’m not overweight. I eat very simple food. I hardly have luxury food, such as chocolate, biscuits, potato chips, and not even water cracker. I don’t drink soda. I don’t take sugar, except for the ones already inside of food. I like meat, but it’s been quite some time since I had meat last time. Since I lost appetite, I haven’t been eating much less for at least two weeks… So, I don’t see any reason why my glucose and cholesterol levels are high.
It is just not fair! I’m already dealing with tough condition. Can it be just enough for one person to handle?
I am half sceptical and rather hoping that this is one of funny ways ME/CFS behaves. After all these tests and worries, it could be nothing.
Another thing is that I am bleeding again. After the discussion, we agreed that I will stay on the pill for another few weeks and see what happens. If I’m still bleeding, I might go off from the pill and see how PMS is.
Posted in Doctors, ME/CFS