I am sorry about neglecting all of you, I have just been so busy!
I will be doing a few updates within the next few days, letting all of you know how all of my appointments have gone and how everything has progressed.
February 12th I had my appointment with my cardiologist. I got there a little late, but they were so nice and saw me anyway.
The nurse came in and did the EKG- which are odd tests I think. They put all these stuckums on you and it monitors your heart. I am not sure what they are looking for when they do this, but everything looked normal, even with my high blood pressure. (Even with my medication, my blood pressure is usually high at the doctors office- my primary says I have white coat syndrome–haha get it?)
When the doctor came in, he went over my family history. (Which is the 400th time I’ve had to do that. Why can doctors just have all this information on the same network so we don’t have to repeatedly tell them what diseases our family has and what we’re allergic to? I just want to type out my entire family history/my history and just give them that. It’s annoying!!) (/rant)
So then he asked me about pain- where I feel pain, what kind of pain, how long, during what kind of activity- stuff like that. I told him how when I do Zumba I get a pain in my back on the upper right side. It feels like my back has to crack, but it doesn’t. I have always believed this to be some sort of pinched nerve, but apparently my doctor didn’t think so. It sent him into some sort of tizzy, because he spends the next 20 minutes talking to me about this, but never tells me why. Obviously he thought something was wrong because I get this pain, from what I assumed was just from a pinched nerve!! So after 20 minutes of him going back and forth on what tests he should run, he decided to have me go down the hall and get an echocardiogram.
The echo reminded me a lot of the abdomen ultrasound I had, but she didn’t push as hard, and it was all around my heart. It was very cool! Sometimes she took video with sound, and I could hear my heart beating. It’s like what pregnant woman hear when they get an ultrasound.
I haven’t heard from them yet, so hopefully everything went well!
Next post-Lots of pictures! All about my Endoscopy
And after that- I’ll tell you all about my “nutritionist” meeting and how he is the most arrogant, fat-hating, loves to listen to himself talk, thinks he is GOD, pedantic asshole i’ve ever met!
I will be doing a few updates within the next few days, letting all of you know how all of my appointments have gone and how everything has progressed.
February 12th I had my appointment with my cardiologist. I got there a little late, but they were so nice and saw me anyway.
The nurse came in and did the EKG- which are odd tests I think. They put all these stuckums on you and it monitors your heart. I am not sure what they are looking for when they do this, but everything looked normal, even with my high blood pressure. (Even with my medication, my blood pressure is usually high at the doctors office- my primary says I have white coat syndrome–haha get it?)
When the doctor came in, he went over my family history. (Which is the 400th time I’ve had to do that. Why can doctors just have all this information on the same network so we don’t have to repeatedly tell them what diseases our family has and what we’re allergic to? I just want to type out my entire family history/my history and just give them that. It’s annoying!!) (/rant)
So then he asked me about pain- where I feel pain, what kind of pain, how long, during what kind of activity- stuff like that. I told him how when I do Zumba I get a pain in my back on the upper right side. It feels like my back has to crack, but it doesn’t. I have always believed this to be some sort of pinched nerve, but apparently my doctor didn’t think so. It sent him into some sort of tizzy, because he spends the next 20 minutes talking to me about this, but never tells me why. Obviously he thought something was wrong because I get this pain, from what I assumed was just from a pinched nerve!! So after 20 minutes of him going back and forth on what tests he should run, he decided to have me go down the hall and get an echocardiogram.
The echo reminded me a lot of the abdomen ultrasound I had, but she didn’t push as hard, and it was all around my heart. It was very cool! Sometimes she took video with sound, and I could hear my heart beating. It’s like what pregnant woman hear when they get an ultrasound.
I haven’t heard from them yet, so hopefully everything went well!
Next post-Lots of pictures! All about my Endoscopy
And after that- I’ll tell you all about my “nutritionist” meeting and how he is the most arrogant, fat-hating, loves to listen to himself talk, thinks he is GOD, pedantic asshole i’ve ever met!
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