I see her every 2-3 weeks at the moment. I only mentioned the symptoms* that I know can be related to the disease I’m seeing her for. They apparently shouldn’t be near as bad, according to the results of my blood test (she usually calls me a few hours to a day after the appointment to tell me the results). So now I have yet another health issue to figure out, yay!
Anyone willing to bet whether I’ll be diagnosed as ‘stressed’ or ‘skinny young woman’ this time? Those were my diagnoses plenty of times when I described those symptoms. I’m not even a woman, so it comes with a little side dish of dysphoria.
*Light headedness and fainting to the point I don’t feel safe standing too long (though walking is fine), extreme night sweats, very high heart rate and very low blood pressure
In my case it was medication related. Took ages to figure out. Scared the hell out of my cardiologist one time when they couldn’t detect my blood pressure.
“I assure you, I do have blood pressure because I’m sitting here talking to you.”
“Yeah, we don’t know how you’re doing that! It’s 58/47… we’re taking you to the ER now!”
The medication caused a dehydration issue and that dropped the blood pressure. How are you on that front? Staying hydrated?