#doctors t

[birdthany]

me: yeah id like to make an appointment with a cardiologist to get my heart checked out and be screened for marfans, i have mitral valve prolapse and terrible circulation? and so does a bunch of my family

cardiology dept lady: okay, when did you last go to the cardiologist? :)

me: uh, never

lady: ... oh. well, when were you diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse?

me: when i was born

lady: ...and you haven’t seen a cardiologist since?

[birdthany]

saw a different arm specialist today for my follow up

competent doctor (paraphrased): yeah this deffo looks like cubital tunnel

me: so it isn't. all in my head or a medical mystery like the other doctor said?

competent doctor: (makes eye contact with tech and shrugs) yeah we don't really know what he was on about. we looked at your xrays ourselves and did a new exam. your nerve is definitely real upset. and you're young for this to happen, it's probably genetic combined with your tendency to sleep curled up in a little ball that caused this. mostly genetic bc of the hyperextending elbows

my mom: yay its my fault

competent doctor: since you're so young you probably will need to have surgery at some point in the next few years. but we can try and delay that needing to happen. do the stuff i said and then come back in 4-6 weeks and if it doesn't feel loads better we'll electrocute your arm and maybe cut it open

me: okay cool

[adashofstarshine]

Wasn’t nervous about the minor surgical procedure I was going to have at the doctors today until the doctor put a plastic sheet under my arm in case “she made a bit of a mess”.

[twowivestwoknives]

ever try wellbutrin with zoloft? its been used to counter ssri sexual side-effects

So far my doctor has wanted to find one thing that sorta works bc we’re both pretty sure I’m gonna be a cocktail case w how many disorders i have. But she wants to build it up. Im seeing another psychiatrist in a few weeks to see if we can find an ssri/mood stabalizer combo that might work

[programmingmigraineur-blog]

I have really got to stop looking at what COULD be wrong with my knee and just go to the damn doctor’s tomorrow and let them figure it out.

[snaps-wexley]

[twowivestwoknives]

so I’ve been having a Bad time for a while and I went to see my therapist today and she made me check off those 0-3 how bad do you feel things and almost everything got 3. 

and when she asked me how i was i was like ‘im fine?’

and shes like ‘this isnt fine’

and i was like ‘yeah but its normal’

and thats the punchline. thats it. thats the joke. im the joke.

[twowivestwoknives]

So VGH tried to do a psych eval over the phone 3 times and that wasnt working so now I have to schedual an appointment and idk how im gonna get my mom to not know about all this shit also i hate hospitals