Some medical and med-adjacent stuff
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greenstormPutting uninteresting medical stuff all in one post so I can refer back to it.
It's thanksgiving weekend. I had a doctor's appointment at the end of last week. There was no paperwork to do, so I decided to focus on a symptom cluster, since last time I talked to her she said she thought it made sense for us to focus on managing symptoms rather than figuring out what was going on.
I've been writing "GI symptoms" on things for awhile, but that has been escalating in the last few months to the point that eating has become pretty torturous, so we talked about that. She's prescribed some things to try, and is going to send me to have my gallbladder ultrasounded. She also recommended some diet stuff, which is of course challenging to implement but at this point I'm spending some time immobilized by stabbing pain and also having trouble lying down or leaning over reliably in the three hours after eating so it's worth spending some of my limited spoons on it.
(I do not really enjoy the term "spoons" because I feel like it leads me into imprecision about what exactly limited resources I'm thinking about, but today I'd rather use the limited resources on solving the problem rather than analyzing what I mean by "spoons". Ha)
I'm also taking a one-week break from the birth control pill I've been taking basically continuously for a couple years, barring the occasional user-error day. As soon as I went off the pill some of my other GI symptoms diminished, lower-abdominal stuff and toilet related stuff, possibly including some of my bladder ssues (?). Luckily I have an appointment with the gyne coming up within the next six months, so I can discuss that with her. Interestingly, no really bad PMDD symptoms yet, three days in.
I would neither be surprised if the hormone stuff needed tweaking, or if I mysteriously became allergic to one of the supposedly-inert ingredients in the birth control pill.
Between hormone shifts and throwing some things at the studio for a fundraiser (mixed/agateware, folks love that) I have some kind of brutal icepick headache on the right side that occasionally subsides for an hour or two when my neck thunks loudly. It's starting to subside a bit after a couple days, thank goodness.
It's important to me to do something thanksgivingy, but I'm in rough shape so I'm not sure what exactly. I woke up this morning wanting to make bread, but that's beyond me right now,
It's thanksgiving weekend. I had a doctor's appointment at the end of last week. There was no paperwork to do, so I decided to focus on a symptom cluster, since last time I talked to her she said she thought it made sense for us to focus on managing symptoms rather than figuring out what was going on.
I've been writing "GI symptoms" on things for awhile, but that has been escalating in the last few months to the point that eating has become pretty torturous, so we talked about that. She's prescribed some things to try, and is going to send me to have my gallbladder ultrasounded. She also recommended some diet stuff, which is of course challenging to implement but at this point I'm spending some time immobilized by stabbing pain and also having trouble lying down or leaning over reliably in the three hours after eating so it's worth spending some of my limited spoons on it.
(I do not really enjoy the term "spoons" because I feel like it leads me into imprecision about what exactly limited resources I'm thinking about, but today I'd rather use the limited resources on solving the problem rather than analyzing what I mean by "spoons". Ha)
I'm also taking a one-week break from the birth control pill I've been taking basically continuously for a couple years, barring the occasional user-error day. As soon as I went off the pill some of my other GI symptoms diminished, lower-abdominal stuff and toilet related stuff, possibly including some of my bladder ssues (?). Luckily I have an appointment with the gyne coming up within the next six months, so I can discuss that with her. Interestingly, no really bad PMDD symptoms yet, three days in.
I would neither be surprised if the hormone stuff needed tweaking, or if I mysteriously became allergic to one of the supposedly-inert ingredients in the birth control pill.
Between hormone shifts and throwing some things at the studio for a fundraiser (mixed/agateware, folks love that) I have some kind of brutal icepick headache on the right side that occasionally subsides for an hour or two when my neck thunks loudly. It's starting to subside a bit after a couple days, thank goodness.
It's important to me to do something thanksgivingy, but I'm in rough shape so I'm not sure what exactly. I woke up this morning wanting to make bread, but that's beyond me right now,
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Date: 2025-10-14 02:06 am (UTC)