Woohoo, I managed to add a page on without my mother's help - All by myself. *Pats back*
So, I had my rheumatologist appointment Tuesday (4th October 2011) and in my opinion, I feel it was a waste of time! =( Due to the fact my lovely doctor's decided not to provide my rheaumy with my medical notes.... DUH !!!! Only found this out when she tells me she wants to send me off to have all my blood drained (Ok, slight exxageration, it was only 6 tubes) to find out why I am having these 'symptoms'. I then asked didn't she know I had already been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and the reason why I was there was to find out if i too had M.E? She looked at me rather blankly and said no, I have no notes from your doctor's besides a refferal - and a refferal for what? We don't know! *Sighs*
So, Tuesday I had to wait over an hour to see her as they were running 45mins late! Whilst in the waiting room, looking at all the notice boards - it was covered with arthiritus information, not one leaflet about Fibromyalgia!!! I then had to endure the doctor's bluntness towards me, because they were running late she wanted to 'speed' things up abit which wasn't good on my behalf! However, the appointment picked up a little bit, unfortunately when i was laying on the bed with just my underwear on =S hmmms. So she checked my body over, to see how things were, she commented that I had lovely arched feet and that my bottom half is rather flexiable.... Always comes in handy =P After much prodding and poking I felt like I had been beaten up and my joints cracked left, right and center which I suppose is a good thing considering it happend all in front of her. She then said I had to have a tear test - she said it was like putting contact lenses in. So it couldn't be that bad, could it? People do that all the time -WRONG !!! It was AWFUL, never going to have one of them done ever again! It's like strips of paper like material with a slight curve on the end of it that goes onto your eye, obviously when something touches your eye, they water so this was the idea to measure my tears! They streeeeamed, took forever to put them in as I kept blinking and then I panicked and had to calm myself down. So they had to be left in for 5mins, when that was over, I ran out of there... and never looked back! Haha.
So into Pathology I go to have bloods taken. I hand over the little form I had and asked the receptionist just how much they were going to take from me, she looked and said maybe around 4/5 tubes - She obviously saw the blood drain from my face and asked if I was ok and did I have a phobia of needles. Not exactly I say it's just the last time I had that much taken I almost threw up and fainted. She looked at me sympathetically and said take a seat, so I did. Few seconds later she comes up to me and whispers that she'll try and get me in next. She comes out when the nurse in tow who calls my name, I relax a little when I see him, tall guy with lovely dark curls named Sam. =) Bless him, he was lovely. Carried out a conversation with me and layed me down in a chair... Waaayhey I was thinking, unfortunately he then started tapping my arms to get a vein up. Oh well wishful thinking I suppose. So 6 tubes later (The lady at reception lied to me!! Im filling for a complaint!) and a cup of water later I walked out of there and into the hospitals cafe for a nice mango and passionfruit cooler from costa and because I wasn't given a lollipop, not even a sticker for being such a brave girl I decided to get a caramel shortbread as a treat!
I have to say I am so glad I had my dad with me, we sat and continously talked about anything and everything.Which kept me so relaxed about everything. I am such a drama queen at the best of times and tend to work myself with over thinking!! So we looked through the magazines they had there and fantasied about all the houses we looked at it, partically the ones with a lake!! It was a little outing for the both of us together! LOL.
So now I have to wait for my results to come back, the joys of waiting. So until then, I shall wrap this blog up with a joke !! =D
Would you like to hear a joke about a cow?.... No?.... Ok maybe some udder time! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA xxx
So, I had my rheumatologist appointment Tuesday (4th October 2011) and in my opinion, I feel it was a waste of time! =( Due to the fact my lovely doctor's decided not to provide my rheaumy with my medical notes.... DUH !!!! Only found this out when she tells me she wants to send me off to have all my blood drained (Ok, slight exxageration, it was only 6 tubes) to find out why I am having these 'symptoms'. I then asked didn't she know I had already been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and the reason why I was there was to find out if i too had M.E? She looked at me rather blankly and said no, I have no notes from your doctor's besides a refferal - and a refferal for what? We don't know! *Sighs*
So, Tuesday I had to wait over an hour to see her as they were running 45mins late! Whilst in the waiting room, looking at all the notice boards - it was covered with arthiritus information, not one leaflet about Fibromyalgia!!! I then had to endure the doctor's bluntness towards me, because they were running late she wanted to 'speed' things up abit which wasn't good on my behalf! However, the appointment picked up a little bit, unfortunately when i was laying on the bed with just my underwear on =S hmmms. So she checked my body over, to see how things were, she commented that I had lovely arched feet and that my bottom half is rather flexiable.... Always comes in handy =P After much prodding and poking I felt like I had been beaten up and my joints cracked left, right and center which I suppose is a good thing considering it happend all in front of her. She then said I had to have a tear test - she said it was like putting contact lenses in. So it couldn't be that bad, could it? People do that all the time -WRONG !!! It was AWFUL, never going to have one of them done ever again! It's like strips of paper like material with a slight curve on the end of it that goes onto your eye, obviously when something touches your eye, they water so this was the idea to measure my tears! They streeeeamed, took forever to put them in as I kept blinking and then I panicked and had to calm myself down. So they had to be left in for 5mins, when that was over, I ran out of there... and never looked back! Haha.
So into Pathology I go to have bloods taken. I hand over the little form I had and asked the receptionist just how much they were going to take from me, she looked and said maybe around 4/5 tubes - She obviously saw the blood drain from my face and asked if I was ok and did I have a phobia of needles. Not exactly I say it's just the last time I had that much taken I almost threw up and fainted. She looked at me sympathetically and said take a seat, so I did. Few seconds later she comes up to me and whispers that she'll try and get me in next. She comes out when the nurse in tow who calls my name, I relax a little when I see him, tall guy with lovely dark curls named Sam. =) Bless him, he was lovely. Carried out a conversation with me and layed me down in a chair... Waaayhey I was thinking, unfortunately he then started tapping my arms to get a vein up. Oh well wishful thinking I suppose. So 6 tubes later (The lady at reception lied to me!! Im filling for a complaint!) and a cup of water later I walked out of there and into the hospitals cafe for a nice mango and passionfruit cooler from costa and because I wasn't given a lollipop, not even a sticker for being such a brave girl I decided to get a caramel shortbread as a treat!
I have to say I am so glad I had my dad with me, we sat and continously talked about anything and everything.Which kept me so relaxed about everything. I am such a drama queen at the best of times and tend to work myself with over thinking!! So we looked through the magazines they had there and fantasied about all the houses we looked at it, partically the ones with a lake!! It was a little outing for the both of us together! LOL.
So now I have to wait for my results to come back, the joys of waiting. So until then, I shall wrap this blog up with a joke !! =D
Would you like to hear a joke about a cow?.... No?.... Ok maybe some udder time! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA xxx