I love my new doctor. Long story short, i had this doctor when i first moved to houston and i LOVED HER. And her nurses. We always laughed and it was like hanging out and talking with your friends. Then she left. I have been "doctor hopping" for a while and had really bad luck. I know I have blogged about a couple of them!
So when I was in the hospital my doctor told me to go back to my PCP, and when I told him I didn't have one - that didn't go over very well. He tried to "recommend" some, but I had seen most of the ones he mentioned and I just couldn't see them again. Not when i was going to have to see these people weekly for a while!
So I spun the wheel again and tried someone that his nurse recommended. I met him today and LOVE him. He is funny, listens well, and is quick to respond - all in a very calm manner. So we talked about everything...well almost everything (and becuase we were having such a good time I forgot to ask some questions...but oh well. i will see him again in a week!) He calmed my fears about my medicines - he looked them up and we talked about how i just can't change my dosage of my thyroid without my coumadin becuase it could be bad (i.e. my coumadin is set to react with it now - so if I stopped my thyroid, my coumadin wouldn't have anything to react with and my blood would be REALLY thin!) He looked at all of my hereditary tests that they did and they only found one that came back not negative. It is something about my anti-coagulant in my blood and it was low (actually, right around the borderline) . So he is now sending me to a hemotologists to have him look at it - just to be sure. What does this mean? Well, if it is a hereditary issue and my blood doesn't have this anti-coagulant then i have to basically stay on coumadin for a very long time....like the rest of my life. So, at least it is treatable with medicine and not something really bad.
Then my blood work came back....and it wasn't where it should be. The INR (I think that is right? I've heard it so many times but its a few letters and i can never remember it!) should be around 2-3 and mine was only 1.2....so this means more shots, which means an unhappy karen. I mean, i can do it, but that doesn't mean i have to like doing it! So now I have shots for the rest of the week and he doubled my coumadin to try to get my body to react. We think it is the thyroid medicine that is causing it not to move fast....so that is why he is upping the meds. Then back for more blood tests on Friday.
So that is the story right now. I can still go to work - but with two other appointments this week, I'm still missing a lot of work! I just still need to be careful. We were laughing as we walked out of the room so he could give me my prescriptions and we were talking about what I can and cannot do, and I then ran into the wall. Smack into it. He said, maybe try not doing that again. I laughed...sadly, that is like the third door I walked into since i've been out. i see it and still run into it.
*sigh*
walking disaster. that's me.
1 comment:
OMG...that story was so interesting...I'm following along reading about your medicines and doctor and then BAM, you run into a wall???..I laughed so loudly that my neighbor here at work says "what's so funny"...I just said "you wouldn't understand, unless you know her".
So I was telling my planning group at lunch on Tuesday about your problems and my co-worker says "Karen Lippe???"...I said yes, "do you know her?"..and she said, yes, we went to A&M together. Small world. Her name is Hillarie Bloxom...you remember her?
I hope you get to feeling better missy....keep me up to date with your stories.
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