It’s Monday and today was the day for the long-awaited appointment. Ya know, the one that I asked for back in July when my results showed I had a normal thyroid and yet I wasn’t losing weight well despite eating good, watching carb intake and walking 4 miles a day plus a work out at home.
So, I was already not looking forward to this appointment because at first I thought I was going to have to bring all four kids with me to the appointment. I personally would rather stab my eye with a sharp object. However, with this county plan you have to wait forever (seriously!) for appointments so when you get one, you go no matter what!
Luckily, the ex texted me last night and said he could take the older kiddo’s. Score! That leaves just M. But I don’t get too excited because the appointment was at noon which is her nap time. I don’t know if you know this or not but you don’t want to mess with a tired toddler and there is NO reasoning with them!
So yeah, I wasn’t too excited. But, happy to maybe get something, anything at this point…. So I dropped D off at work, the bigger kids to their dads, went home worked a bit, and then off I went to the appointment to see the lovely Dr. Quackity quack quack!
So, apparently I have gained 6 pounds since Saturday lol, wha-hooo not… BP was 123/80 pulse at 72. Wait an hour, mind you M was AWESOME! The last few times I had to take her to the docs office I seriously wanted to shoot myself.
She would have several meltdowns, nothing made her happy and is in this screaming phase when she gets ticked. So no, it’s not fun. But today she was all smiles (as you see in the pic above!) ah, my cutie!
Anyways, so doc says echo was good as we both suspected (she goes I am not surprised, neither was I heck um, if you remember I didn’t want to do the darn test because I knew my heart was fine!). But I digress…
So she goes well, your thyroid is good, heart is good I don’t see a reason for your gaining weight. 
She asks about my diet, I tell her and she is fine with it. First time ever she wanted to SEE my log ins for myfitnesspal and of course this time I don’t have it (I did the first time but she could care less since my thyroid levels were not normal then so she blamed that!).
She goes well there isn’t anything medically wrong since your thyroid is fine (totally didn’t know that your thyroid is the ONLY thing that can cause weight gain to this doctor). She tells me that I could see a dietician (which I agree too because I am not giving this people any excuses to “blame” me) OR I could look into surgery (uh, no!).
I explain that even if I wanted to (which I don’t) I was told by the hematologist that I shouldn’t risk surgery because of my blood disorder AND the PE’s. She then was like well, in most cases the people gain the weight back anyways…. How it’s just mental.
I explain well, I have gained like 30lbs as of today in the past couple of months and you are basically telling me there is nothing that could be causing it. She said just to watch my diet as I have, exercise and how this may just be how it is for me. wow lady totally helpful!
I ask can she at least tell me why I am retaining fluid. So she checks my legs and says she wants me on a diuretic (yes! Finally) Saying that I do have edema and that should help? So we shall see…. I waited 7 months for that! ugh.
So I will get the pills supposedly by next week through some mail order thing they have now that saves you money. Figured what’s another week? Just watch the carbies, Start working out again and see where it takes me.
I have my INR appointment on the 18th. And ENT on the 31st to see why I am losing more of my hearing so it’s a fun month 
So that’s my Monday. How’s yours going?
Gotta love doctors don’t you? At least they only charge like 400 dollars an hour to tell you this stuff… I went through 5 doctors before someone finally believed me that my eye was swelling because of exercise and guess what, I was right! Shouldn’t we get refunds for all the worthless visits? LOL
P.S. Your daughter is ridiculously cute!
Oh I have been right a few times. I was right when I had Pulmonary edema after the birth of my daughter. The doctors kept saying it was something else. 3 different hospitals and they all missed it. I actually thought I was going to die, the last hospital said had we waited over night I would. Luckily, that night I got an ER doc who took 2 seconds to listen to me! I wish there were more doctors like him.
IN the same token I am sure it’s a hard job, people lie all the time so it can be hard to know things but that’s the problem never assume.
Very true. My wife had a similar thing with her pregnancy. She was crazy swollen like way more than anything I’d ever seen from a pregnant woman before (though I’d never seen you!) They just kept telling her it was normal. She ended up going into labor a month early (which probably saved her life) and we stayed in the hospital for a few days. Her blood pressure was through the roof and it’s usually fine. Literally when she would move it would dart up to dangerous levels. They actually sent her home anyway. The next day I brought her back in because she could hardly function and she spent the next week being treated for congestive heart failure while her newborn soon was at home and visits from us had to be minimal. The doctor actually told her he wasn’t sure if she was going to make it for a while.
Pretty much like us
M was born at 37 weeks I am so thankful for her because I think her birth saved my life in the end. The day after we were discharged we were back in the hospital and sent home told I had pneumonia, then we went to different hospitals, same thing. 4 days later my c-section busted open from all the fluid it was a grusome scene. Rushed to the ER by ambulance. They got me fixed up and were going to release me when one doctor said, is there anything else I can help you with? I said yeah, I can’t breathe. So they did a cat scan and in less than an hour we had a team of doctors in my room and I am being told I am having congestive heart failure.
I had my soon to be husband next to me, my 4 day old baby and it was crazy. D would come to the hospital everday and I would be with the baby, nurse her, and at night he would go home with her and I would pump for her (she wouldn’t take formula) the hosptial were so sweet about her. Even one night when he called at 3am because she was crying and just wouldn’t stop. The nurses let him in and the second I held her she nursed and fell alseep in minutes.
I was in the hospital for a week. They took as you read 70lbs of fluid off of me. AFter that my heart was fine. They said I had fluid over flowing my lungs causing my heart to enlarge and it was going into my intestines. Did they say what caused your wife? At first they thought I had some prenantle congestive heart thing but they ruled that out once my heart wen to normal after the fluid was being taken off. It was pretty scary though and borning. Not to mention I had to spend my birthday in a hospital.
That’s just insane! You do sound lucky to be alive.
They pretty much just said her body had a really hard time dealing with the pregnancy and if we were ever to try to have another child (Son is 4) it would be considered high risk and they’d have to monitor her closely. Still seems like there should have been something else….
ah, yeah so basically, we have no clue. We don’t know the cause of my swelling or the PE’s for that matter. It’s all a question. Well glad she survived it all
Me too! LOL You as well!
Good look with the diuretics , that will most def help.
I sure hope so. Everytime I have taken them they have helped, the only problem has been once I stopped I gained