An Alexander Day

[judecorp]

This past week has been a blur. Punk hasn't been sleeping well and we're not sure of the cause. It's one of those things where you have to wait until it's over to tell - is she going to pop a tooth (she has several just waiting to burst)? is she going to get sick (I bring home germs all the time)? is it some hot development action (she's really starting to think about walking)? I guess we'll know when A, B, or C happens. Either way, she went from going down easily at 7 and not making a peep until 4am at a minimum to going down easily at 7 and crying somewhere around 10pm and absolutely refusing to sleep alone, being totally restless in the bed (lots of flipping and flopping and kicking and waking up), and waking up hellishly early. Going to work has been HARD.

And then yesterday I had the day from hell which involved waiting for the Ver.izon people to install the phone and DSL and the Direc.TV people to install the TV (switched bundles from the cable to the phone company to save money), finding out the TV people would be late which means I missed my appointment for blood work, finding out when the TV People finally came that we can't get dish TV because our trees are too high, making a million calls to figure out how to still save money since the phone/internet got switched but the TV didn't, going to the most useless doctor appointment ever, getting a call from my boss with really annoying news, getting a call from the lawyer about the adoption that now, after all of this time, they realized that they need a copy of my divorce decree from 2002, and on and on and on. It was just a major comedy of errors, but without the comedy.

As for the doctor appointment, I went in to the doc three weeks ago for a physical and they were running so far behind that after waiting for over an hour, I stayed with the doc for five minutes and told her I had to go to work. So she said I could come back in really soon to finish up, only "really soon" meant three weeks (and I had to fight for that, originally they gave me an appointment 5 weeks out). We were supposed to talk about getting back on metformin and I told her I wanted to talk about depression stuff, and that was why she said I would get an appointment right away. Well I showed up yesterday and not only did I not get a prescription for metformin (because she wants me to do a freaking fasting GTT first - WTF?), she forgot that I came in for depression. I even asked her, "So, is there anything else to talk about?" because frankly I didn't have the energy to bring it up again after the bad day and HELLO - something to document, you know? And she said, "No, I don't think so, that's all I had except for you to get a pelvic ultrasound which you declined." (She seems hellbent on my "proving" my PCOS diagnosis.) So I left with nothing but a lab slip that I could have picked up without waiting three weeks for an appointment. I'm trying to decide if I want to send the practice a letter saying, "Hey, I came into my physical wanting to talk about depression and PPD and stuff and I was left to wait in an exam room for so long that I had to leave for work, and nothing was documented even though I filled out one of those "current health" survey things and even mentioned it at the appointment, and I was told I could get in right away so we could talk about the depression but in actuality I had to wait 3 weeks to get back in and by the time I got there, she had forgotten about my depression and just wanted me to get a fasting GTT which I will need to find child care for." Or maybe I just won't even bother. I mean, that's the nature of depression, right?

Argh.

Comments

[rexlezard.livejournal.com]

Argh! I hate that shit, man. Time to find a new doctor, perhaps?

What's up with the proving the PCOS? What does it matter?

Hey, I think we should go to the park sometime soon with your kidlet - I'm leaving tomorrow to go camping, but I'm back on Thursdayish.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

This IS my new doctor. I didn't like my last doctor because she was a total flake, and I waited 7 months to get into this new place. Although there is another doc in the practice, maybe I can switch for my next physical.

As for proving the PCOS, I'm with you. I have no freaking idea. She wanted my prior records to find out "when and how I was diagnosed and how I got to my current dose." I was like, "So I need to go back 3 doctors and also get the records from my old fertility clinic? Heck no." What a PITA. It's not like metformin is some crazy junkie drug that I'm seeking. I just want to lose weight and ditch the dark facial hair and acne, for reals!

Park! Yes! I am off on Fridays and the Punker is roaring to go. I am so down for that action.

[skatured.livejournal.com]

I'd write the letter...or at the very least -- email.

[colleenod.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the doctor visit and the sleep dep. I don't understand why it's so hard to get doctors to actually help their patients, sometimes, or to understand that their patients don't have all day to wait for their scheduled appointments.

Poor sleepless Punk. J. has been restless at night, too. He wakes at 10-ish, 11-ish, and 12-ish and then between 3:30 and 5 A.M., he tosses and turns and has a really hard time falling back to sleep and wakes up again shortly after I think he's finally down. Not his usual. Maybe there's something in the air. (In J's case, I'd like to believe one of his phantom teeth might pop. But no, they remain phantom teeth.)

Hugs. Sorry it was such an awful day.

[estrange.livejournal.com]

That really sucks, I'm sorry. Maybe you should find another doctor clinic. I heard on the radio to always make doctor appointments as early as you can first thing in the morning so then you get in right away and don't get stuck waiting because they are behind from the other 342343 patients they had in the same day.

I was going to ask you about the metformin, I thought you were still on it? When did you go off? I was thinking of going on it again myself but I'm really unsure about it. Did it help you a lot?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I probably SHOULD find another doctor. It's just that this IS my new doctor because my last doctor was a total space case and it took me a 7 month wait to get in to this doctor as a new patient. But I'll probably hunt down another doctor when I drum up the motivation.

I /was/ taking metformin, first the leftovers from when I got pregnant, and then I got my old doctor, Doctor Space Cadet, to prescribe it for a while but I switched from her because I hated her and had to wait to get in to this doctor. The other doctor just gave me the met no questions asked. Ugh, maybe I should have stayed.

Metformin helped me a lot when I took it before I got pregnant. I was able to lose a lot of weight, felt better, and had regular cycles. Textbook regular, actually. And then when I did it again after I had Punk, it didn't really do those things but I wasn't eating well or exercising or anything so that could have had an effect. I don't know.

[estrange.livejournal.com]

Ohhh and as for depression, use cation taking a prescription anti-depressant. Make sure to do a lot of research on the internet about it first. I've been recently looking a lot into herbal remedies for anxiety and there are quite a few options available to try (but you should research those before trying them as well too). There are a lot of natural remedies for depression too and many are the same as those for anxiety.

Try drinking some green tea - it may help you feel a bit calmer & more relaxed. It has l-theanine in it which helps with anxiety. I just bought some l-theanine from the internet to try in capsule form which I can link you to if interested. Also extra magnesium might help you feel a bit better.

[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

Huh.. My doctor told me there really wasn't any way to 'prove' PCOS since it doesn't always show on an ultrasound. It's more of adding 2 and 2 and 2 and 2 and 2 together. Sadly, though, she insisted on treating me with things like Sinthroid and birth control instead of the Metmorfin everyone seems to love. Boo.

[mollysummer72.livejournal.com]

yes, that is the nature of depression. PPD can rob a mama of critical bonding time and memories. Please let me know if you ever want to talk-this has been a lifelong battle of mine. Or just let me know if you're open to a pushy phone call, because also in the nature of depression is the lack of energy to tell someone what you need. If you knew, you'd fix it, you know?

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

That would be enough for me to want to switch doctors. Seems like she's pretty out of touch. *hugs* Can you go to your GP to talk about depression?

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

What a bad day. I hope today is better.