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Originally Posted by NurseNancy
holy cascades of batman and robin! (i made that up btw)
what a litany of stories you've gotten.
how can you see so many drs and no one can give you a straight answer?
i don't like the sound of a liver lesion either. and why didn't your dr tell you this? more
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Hey, That was really good, Judy! Uh oh, though. You're starting to sound like me.
Dunno about the drs. I was ok from 2005 until 2007 when the neuro who dx'd me was consistent. It was only after he left and I went to this new place where the other neuro decided on TM. That upset the entire applecart--again. And you remember the saga with Dr. Flip Flop, I'm sure. Sheesh....
Liver lesion? I didn't press it with the neuro. Not his area, IMO, and he probably would have told me to see my fam doc, which is ok. I delayed with picking up the CT report (usually get radiology reports within days of the scan) so didn't see it quickly. The fam doc is ok. He does listen even if he doesn't have too much of a warm and fuzzy feel about him. So I'll call and ask today. The office is good. They'll ask him and he or someone will get back to me pretty quickly. Keep ya posted on the LLL (little liver lesion).
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Originally Posted by Av8rgirl
But you do! And I will watch you eat all the food at IHOP...I will nibble on what's left over! (((Starve--then *I* get the tickets free and clear!)))
You're good for the entertainment value while you wait for those lesions to grow up and decide what they want to be! LMOA! (((  )))
Yeah yeah I know...go away. Remember, I have the tickets! |
As if I COULD forget that fact. Drat it all.....
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Originally Posted by weegot5kiz
at this rate you could go to school get your doctrine and DX yourself, I hope this new doc is as good as the one you saw yesterday, sorry he is moving any chance of moving to texas too?  good luck with the neuro situation |
I've actually suggested doing that before, but I am really not ready for
more school than that which I have been through. (At least not right now.)
Thanks. I hope the new guy is too. But they have FIRE ANTS in Texas, even if a couple of friends live there (one in McAllen, and two in Houston)!
I stood on a fire ant mound in the dark accidentally once. Nope. Not fun. OUCH!!
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Originally Posted by sunnyday
...it sends you crazy i know.
After all it is them who are making me and you feel worse in many ways, so dont allow them to get to you.
Calmly go about a little research so you know whats what and surround yourself with people that lift you up and not pull you down, that makes all the difference!
You are right to go with your gut instinct on to what you feel is wrong, as you are the one it is happening to, only you know how you feel,at some point the doctors/neurologists will get this too.
You seem like you have a good attitude and humour helps
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SD, yeah it can make you crazy. I let it do that to me in 2003 when I couldn't get answers from anyone. Now it's just a supreme annoyance.
Oh you have
no idea how much research I did in the beginning: neurology text books, internet, medical books, etc. I drove people crazy on a different message board with all my questions--hard ones. Went to my family doc in 2003 and went in with a sheaf of papers and said, "Here, I have these sx and these things will help. I've been doing this for 6 months without relief, I need some. HELP!" He said, "Gee, I hate unprepared patients."
He's a good guy, just wish I lived by him still. He helped--greatly. Then I went back to my Dr. Flip Flop and said, "In your face. Now you gonna do something to make me feel better?"
Believe me, I got VERY down in October-December of 2003 when I'd been going through an "event" since the beginning of February and was still not feeling better. I realized that you just can't let it seriously get to you.
It does, like this disease, but..... well, I am NEVER going to let it drag me down the way it did in 2003. EVER AGAIN.
Persistence is a wonderful thang. I now have a psych doc who says it's NOT all in my head and a doc who says it's partly in my head (lesion) but I'm not nuts, so half the battle's won. Don't need a firm dx, just with people would stick with one thing or another. It makes filling out paperwork and talking to people easier.
Lemme see...... if it's February, it must be TM
Um.... if it's March, it must be..... oh well, I guess I really don't have anything wrong with me and shouldn't take meds
Wow, it's September...... I have MS!
Nope, it's December....... I have TM
<shuffling paper>
Wait. I gotta find when I last had TM. Or was that MS. No, wait.... it was nothing wrong with me......
Maybe I'll just fill in that I have bronchitis and let them figure it out. Everyone gets a brain MRI w/ and w/o contrast for bronchitis, right?
Hang in there, SD. I'm glad you're in a better place too with your head. Gotta keep a good attitude and even better medical records. That became my motto in 2003.