Since moving to California, other than enjoying the beach, ocean, sun and the host of things to keep yourself busy, I feel like I've done nothing else but work and spend my time running to get blood work for an upcoming doctors visit. Multiply that times 4 and it gets exhausting.
I have my internal medicine, specialist, nephrologist and a cardiologist. Add sonograms and echo cardiograms to my monthly routines. Needless to say, I'm done with doctors. Being new to the area and with my doctor, he wanted to clear everything up, get opinions from others and make sure we had a plan before moving forward. Hopefully, we've cleared most everything up and my life can get back to a sense of normalcy.
Overall, I'm healthy. My counts are all great. My cholesterol is the lowest it's been, although we've doubled my medication to get it even lower. My triglycerides aren't great, but still, way lower than my average. I'm taking steps to help lower this as well and hope to see the results in a month or so.
Blood sugar looks perfect. He says I'm keeping the diabetes under control. I still miss my cupcakes.
My kidney functions are off, but holding steady. I'm stage 4 chronic kidney disease which sounds awful, but nothing critical. My nephrologist doesn't need to see me often anymore and checks on me every 6 months. I take that as a good sign.
I still have a fatty liver, but hopefully making changes to correct this. Time will tell. Doctors don't seem to concerned as initially thought.
I had an echo cardio gram last week to see how my heart is functioning since heart surgery. The results came back amazingly well. I don't understand all the fancy terms he was reading off to me, but he said that my heart if functioning perfect with amazing results. This made me happiest most of all and gave me the most anxiety until I heard the results. I don't want to have to go through any sort of heart surgery again if I can help it.
He was taken back a bit when I told him I quit Xanax cold turkey. He then remembered that he didn't explain to me how or when to start. He gives me a gold star for going through that though. He admits he should have discussed in detail with me on what to do. I'm still feeling some of the results of quitting. Mostly, I can't sleep and have this underlying mild anxiety that hasn't gone away. I'm increasing another med to help with this and also going to take a mild sleeping pill to help my brain shut down so I can sleep longer then 5-6 hours a night. I feel like I'm constantly tired.
To top things off, I've lost 10 pounds. I'm not crazy about it, but the doctor said it was helpful but I could gain it back if I like as long as I'm eating healthy in doing so.
I miss my loaded cheese fries from Snuffers.
To sum things up, my body is a mess, but I'm dealing with each thing as they come. I can't sit around and stress about it. I can only make changes to make things better.
I miss being 21 years old.
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