Pawprints From Space

The results of the latest ultrasound are in and the answer is.... there is no answer! Are we any of us surprised? Probably not. What to do? What to do? I asked and the answer was annoying at best: track the symptoms in a calendar/log until the next regularly scheduled appointment... IN JANUARY!!! Asked if the last problem is to reoccur should I call? No, just track it. Apparently I am only to call if the symptoms worsen, there is pain, etc. I feel as though I am getting that classic response of "silly woman, it is all in your head". It's a wonder that they didn't try to give me a Valium or something to calm me down. Nothing has been solved here. Little has been ruled out. We are not amused. The leg swelling issue remains as well. If I stop taking the water pill for two days POOF! it comes back. I can skip one day but not two. I have one more refill left on the 'script and then I am going to have to (again) talk to a doctor who has no clue. As I had to ...

And here we go again. There will be yet another ultrasound on Tuesday to find out what is going on "in there". At this point I'm not sure I'd be all that upset if they started talking about a hysterectomy. Just so long as it fixed the problems. Oh who am I kidding of COURSE I'd be upset but considering what the blood work had to say about hormone levels and the functionality of that particular organ all it appears to be doing at the moment is taking up space and it isn't doing that all that well. Damn it. That'll be another $200+ bucks thank you. The bill isn't in yet for the massive blood work done in early May. I'm pretty sure that'll be an ugly one even with the preferred lab "discount". Soooo, at present I am less than $500 away from the first $3,000 of the deductible. You see, we cough up the first $3,000 via the HSA, the last $2,000 comes from an employer funded HRA. So really I am not out of pocket the full $5,000 but I hav...

So we are treating symptoms but not finding solutions or the reasons for these issues in the first place. There's a water pill for the leg swelling which I can skip one day on but not two (experiment today proved that one, damn it) but there is only one more refill one those (only got two) and then God only knows what. No one has a clue about that one. Extensive blood testing showed very low Vitamin D so now I am taking 2000 IUs of Vitamin D3 a day. I was kind of hoping that was tied into the swelling since there are many things that impacts. No dice there. Also indicated was low iron saturation which my GP is blowing off because all the other iron indicators are good. Web browsing would beg to differ but who knows how accurate general info is on blog comments. Let's put it this way the preferred level for that is oh, one hell of a lot higher than the "7" I currently clock in with... something is wrong and no one is listening. In other areas... while the cycl...