Wednesday, October 30, 2013

A few things are happening for me now...




I did call the doctor this late morning, after ten A.M., but I bet you are wondering which one, since the possibilities were of any of the three involved regularly in my care, the neuro, GP and now the walk-in clinic physicians hmm?



Being slightly baffled on who should get the honors of aiding and abetting my ‘legal’ needs to feel better and sooner rather than later, I had the good sense to ask Hubby to help in that decision.



Fortunately, he had the most logical answer; the one that I saw last, the one who prescribed the medication that didn’t seem to work as well as one might think, due to my own concerns for too strong not always better... and causing glucose going up and thyroid issues, blood work false, too positives, and weight gain and lack of sleep, etc... you get the idea...



And so I called the walk-in clinic associated with the Millennium Group where my GP is, and the doctor is that I saw last Wednesday and prescribed the medication that I had finished Monday, due to them being open daily, 7 days a week, and from 7 A.M. to 7 P.M., thus the 7-7-7, but only 9-4 on holidays.



Kellie answered the line, the very well informed, kind, nurse who said just to call if I needed anything; it was rather nice to know that she meant what she said.

I told her how I felt and asked if perhaps that I was being too impatient since I had not been on this strength of steroids before with an exacerbation. And she that she would talk to the doctor, but felt that my GP should be informed about this too and told me to call her as well and see who got back to me first!

I like that kid.

I called and left a message on my GP’s voice mail and her assistant, Cindy, did call back very shortly, but at first wanted me to come in at 2 P.M. today and this was just before noon she seemed to think that I might need an anti-biotic, and I said no, that it was the MS and I rather not have an anti-biotic for this and so she said that she would talk to the doctor and call me back.

Kellie called back around one ten or so and said that the doctor sent in another prescription to my pharmacy for Medrol this time, the non-generic of the steroid that I was on that I had just finished.

Hubby went to pick it up and while he was getting it Cindy called back and said that my usual GP doc thought if I wanted to wait till Friday to see if the steroids were taking their time to work I could see her this Friday?

I told Cindy that the other doctor prescribed more steroids and that Kellie had called back a while ago and that is where my husband was… and he was back by 2 P.M. when all was said and done and now I have to wait until tomorrow morning, due to how the system is set up, to start the next six day step down course of meds before breakfast, after lunch and dinner and before bedtime, but this time it had one refill too!


Moving on...

Monday, I did receive the application from the Affordable Care Act subsidies and so it was filled out and mailed back immediately Tuesday, due my visit with our Number One son Monday!

And so today while waiting on all the other stuff I started shopping for a new health insurance policy to replace mine that will be defunct on December 31st 2013, and now with a little over six weeks left to accomplish this by December 15th , for January 1st 2014!



Some times distractions when dealing with pain works, but not always… nerves got the best of me and foolishly I ate too much.

And stupidly ate those little packets of candy corn, four in all, little individuals, pure corn syrup and bad for someone like me fat with type 2 diabetes, we have them for the trick or treaters for tomorrow.



“eating too much sugar or carbohydrate can trigger hypoglycemia. This may sound paradoxical but your blood glucose level may actually go down below normal because your pancreas, sensing a high level, can over-react and produce too much insulin, which can bring your blood glucose down to below the normal level. This is particularly true for type 2 diabetics who are being treated with insulin injections and who still have some pancreatic function.”


Article Source:

http://EzineArticles.com/3581430”




And feeling guilty, weird, dizzy and so I took my glucose and sure enough it did go down… but I am not being treated regularly with insulin injections only when it goes way high, but that is what happened anyway, that’ll teach me!


Why do I need more problems; for shame on me! I tell you it's nerves folks, plain old simple upset with needing myself to feel better faster, just dumb old NERVES, i.e. impatience!Which we all know is counter-productive.

On that note again of TMI, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!



And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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