I intensely dislike going to the doctor. Not that there is anything wrong with me - my recent doctor visit and lab tests prove that. But it is my yearly check-up and I'm always glad to hear good results. He WAS quite pleased to see I have lost weight - 10 pounds! - since my last visit with him. Actually I have now lost 17 pounds, but he didn't know I had gone up so much. But, I'm working on it, tracking what I eat and trying to be "good".
Yes, my test results were excellent and I'm pleased with that. I just go in and tell him I'm healthy. We argue all the time about cholesterol - I refuse to take the statins. Well, I may take them a few weeks - then I quit. I have read too much about what they do to your body - and I don't want to - as I age - have to take pills to offset the side effects of what the statins have done. My total cholesterol this time was only 202 - which is "high" according to the limit - however, both my LDL and my HDL were in the right range. So now what does he want? He wants my bad cholesterol down about 20 notches. He says my cholesterol is 'heredity' - like, just because the majority of my family has it I do? Grumble.
My BP DID go down - he contributed it to the weight loss. Ok, I'll take it. It was 128/80 and now it's 118/70. Guess I will keep drinking my green tea and watch the food I eat. At least by keeping my weight and the other tests good I can avoid my confrontations with him. Which I understand he is only trying to keep me healthy - "preventive testing" he calls it. I take my thyroid pill because I have no control over that. I will fight on everything else.
Heaven help me if I should ever get really sick. Now I do take antibotics as needed so it isn't that. I just don't want the statins.
And now since I put him off the last two years and grumbled so much.... he is pushing me to go see the gastrointestinal doctor to get the colonoscopy done. I keep telling him I did it 7 years ago - so why do I have to go back!! I truly truly truly hate that test. Actually, it's the preparation. I dread it. But, like a good patient, I did make the appointment - and nearly have to start over with an office visit because it has been 7 years. I am expecting good results - again. I think that is the last test this year. Already got the mammogram. Dexa test (bone-scan) I talked him out of until next year. See, I'm really not a good patient. I just don't like all the personal invasion of my body.
Dentist visit is at the end of this month. That is another one I do not like. I stall on these appointments for as long as I can. AND I don't like it that my insurance doesn't pay for everything like they used to years ago. NOW my "new" insurance (which is actually much better than the previous insurance) - if I go to a contracted doctor, I have a smaller co-pay. Unfortunately, it is still $ out of the pocket. $160 to my family doctor for the physical that wasn't paid, $105 to my eye specialist because I had some vision issues in one eye (he wants me to get an U/S of my carotid but admits he has no clue what the vision problem was - so will check it out later) And that's just this month. Oh well - at least I know I only have to go a few times a year to the doctor - have to have that prescription rewritten periodically.
I keep wanting to start doing walks - but just haven't gotten into a regular routine yet. A friend here at work and I started walking a couple weeks ago - but she came down with the flu - so we have put it off until she is better. Of course I COULD get up and go by myself. I have done that before - but just haven't...
And now I'm rambling. Think I will go fix a cup of green tea and get back to work. Hope your day is a ....
Blessing!
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