What is going on with me!?
Health issues. Basically the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with me, just that something isn't right. Yay me! I hate it. So I've spent all day sleeping or serching my symptoms on-line to see if I can't figure things out. So far Arthritis, Fibromyalgia or Multiple Sclerosis seem to be possibilities. Lots of excessive sleeping, muscle weakness, cramps, spasims, etc. No fun.
I meet with a Rhumotologist next week, and I've also been refered to an endocrinologist to make sure it isn't more to do with my PCOS (though nothing I've ever read would point to this from that.) Yay me and more doctor visits, have I mentioned that now that I live in the country it takes forever to drive anywhere? At least yesterday I got more allergy meds and my cough has seemed to get better (or I should say is less/ near nothing anymore.) Apparently what triggered all this is that my blood protein levels were high, several points higher then the normal range. Which had him asking me how my muscle feel and such. I've always had muscle issues and was always told I didn't do enough, needed to exercize more and that it was just part of female issues. But I lift weights, and some days those weights seem much heavier then otherdays even if it was just normal days before.
It's frustrating because, up until now pretty much any symptom I've ever dealt with has easily fallen into two catagories, allergies or PCOS. Which meant I am basically healthy, just have a couple issues I need to keep track of. Now, who knows what all this is about. I'm sure eventually it'll be figured out, but in the mean time I'm kind of bugging out. I hate having low energy, especially when it's sunny and nice out, and there is so much unpacking to do here (I haven't really done much.) I'll just be really glad to know what this is. I'm kinda rooting for arthritis as strange as that seems because all the women in my mom's side of the family have/had it so it's just a matter of time for me, if this is that, then maybe I won't have as much pain as some of the other women in my family by catching it sooner. But I have symptoms that seem to be other things too, so there is no real way of knowing yet. I hate that.
So again I and my latest doctor are again completely in the dark as to what is going on with me. I've always been one to need lots of extra sleep when I get sick and I have days were I just randomly am weaker then I was the day before. I love lifting weights and just doing all the physical stuff around the house. But lately my muscles in my rib cage have been hurting more and more. And I've always got leg and arm cramps when I'd have my period, and while that's still true it's becoming more often and now at anytime. I tend to get the rib cramps with activity and the leg cramps with no activity, like I've been sleeping for several hours and wake up crying from a charlie horse!
My doctor has been pretty on top of getting blood work done on me and keeping an eye on it all. I was surprised when his office called me and said the doctor wanted to go over my labs because my cholesterol had gone up. They made a mistake. When I came in he made the correction that it wasn't the cholesterol he's concerned about, but my blood protein levels where are higher then they were before and also higher then normal averages. I've not thought too much about my muscle pains because in the past doctors have just told me to take Tylenol, try to exercise more and that I just needed to give it time because it's my hormones. But this time he asked me, well do you have muscle pain and I described the cramping I get and he seems to think there's a connection. He asked about family history of arthritis and I mentioned that my mom's side of the family has it in all the women. Yay me, I'm next. The most likely thing is that the family history is whats telling and that I'm developing something along those lines. So her I am having my 27th birthday tommorow and next week I'm meeting with a Rhumotologist!
I had to try and see if there is any correlation between PCOS and the high blood protein count and for most women with PCOS it seems like it's typically that it's a low count, so I have this going in the opposite direction. I don't know that it discounts it as being a part of the PCOS or not, but both I and my doctor haven't seen any correlations and he couldn't see any of my meds as being what caused it either. He was tempted to have me go off the Metphormine for a while, just in case, but instead made me a referall to an endocrinologist and is leaving the choice in their hands. I see the Endocrinologist next week as well.
While I was in the office I didn't think of it, and I'm an idiot for having this great doctor for 8 months now and not getting my CA records transfered. But I remember my regular M.D. in CA saying my blood protein was on the high end, and that she contributed that to why it takes me longer to get over colds and why it's harder for me to fight infections, I get sinus infections two or three times a year! So here it seems like another set of symptoms are all coming together to tell me and my doctor that I have another something, but for now we're not sure what... Will I start having arthritist or fibromyalgia? Who knows, all I know is that for once it seems like I'm dealing with something other then just PCOS. It was kind of comforting to know that all my symptoms lumped together for the most part and could all be treated under that umbrella. Now I have to think about yet another thing and I'm really confussed as to what it all means now.
Last night I slept 10 hours. That's been my norm lately, where typically I can get by with the normal 7-8. I woke up feeling like I had to force myself out of bed because I knew I was sleeping much longer then normal. I'd wake up enough to look at the clock, but the second I'd blink I was back to dreaming sleep. Not just dozing for a few more minutes. Now that I'm up I feel a lot of pain in my ribs and back and my legs feel like a baby deer. And yet I had moderate activity yesterday, nothing strenuous, but not couch potatoe either, and I had more then enough hours of sleep. But I guess what it comes down to is the sleep wasn't restful because of pain in my sleep. If the pain doesn't get better by bedtime I think I might take some Tylenol PM to see if I don't have a better morning tomorrow. As it is now, I had hoped to do gardening since it's a cooler day, but I think all I'll be able to handle is sitting at the computer or TV. And I don't like that.
I don't mean to complain. And mostly I just wanted to update this with all my curiosities. I know it's not really PCOS related, but I'm not sure where else to put it. I've always dumped my health stuff here, and it's always been PCOS.
I meet with a Rhumotologist next week, and I've also been refered to an endocrinologist to make sure it isn't more to do with my PCOS (though nothing I've ever read would point to this from that.) Yay me and more doctor visits, have I mentioned that now that I live in the country it takes forever to drive anywhere? At least yesterday I got more allergy meds and my cough has seemed to get better (or I should say is less/ near nothing anymore.) Apparently what triggered all this is that my blood protein levels were high, several points higher then the normal range. Which had him asking me how my muscle feel and such. I've always had muscle issues and was always told I didn't do enough, needed to exercize more and that it was just part of female issues. But I lift weights, and some days those weights seem much heavier then otherdays even if it was just normal days before.
It's frustrating because, up until now pretty much any symptom I've ever dealt with has easily fallen into two catagories, allergies or PCOS. Which meant I am basically healthy, just have a couple issues I need to keep track of. Now, who knows what all this is about. I'm sure eventually it'll be figured out, but in the mean time I'm kind of bugging out. I hate having low energy, especially when it's sunny and nice out, and there is so much unpacking to do here (I haven't really done much.) I'll just be really glad to know what this is. I'm kinda rooting for arthritis as strange as that seems because all the women in my mom's side of the family have/had it so it's just a matter of time for me, if this is that, then maybe I won't have as much pain as some of the other women in my family by catching it sooner. But I have symptoms that seem to be other things too, so there is no real way of knowing yet. I hate that.
So again I and my latest doctor are again completely in the dark as to what is going on with me. I've always been one to need lots of extra sleep when I get sick and I have days were I just randomly am weaker then I was the day before. I love lifting weights and just doing all the physical stuff around the house. But lately my muscles in my rib cage have been hurting more and more. And I've always got leg and arm cramps when I'd have my period, and while that's still true it's becoming more often and now at anytime. I tend to get the rib cramps with activity and the leg cramps with no activity, like I've been sleeping for several hours and wake up crying from a charlie horse!
My doctor has been pretty on top of getting blood work done on me and keeping an eye on it all. I was surprised when his office called me and said the doctor wanted to go over my labs because my cholesterol had gone up. They made a mistake. When I came in he made the correction that it wasn't the cholesterol he's concerned about, but my blood protein levels where are higher then they were before and also higher then normal averages. I've not thought too much about my muscle pains because in the past doctors have just told me to take Tylenol, try to exercise more and that I just needed to give it time because it's my hormones. But this time he asked me, well do you have muscle pain and I described the cramping I get and he seems to think there's a connection. He asked about family history of arthritis and I mentioned that my mom's side of the family has it in all the women. Yay me, I'm next. The most likely thing is that the family history is whats telling and that I'm developing something along those lines. So her I am having my 27th birthday tommorow and next week I'm meeting with a Rhumotologist!
I had to try and see if there is any correlation between PCOS and the high blood protein count and for most women with PCOS it seems like it's typically that it's a low count, so I have this going in the opposite direction. I don't know that it discounts it as being a part of the PCOS or not, but both I and my doctor haven't seen any correlations and he couldn't see any of my meds as being what caused it either. He was tempted to have me go off the Metphormine for a while, just in case, but instead made me a referall to an endocrinologist and is leaving the choice in their hands. I see the Endocrinologist next week as well.
While I was in the office I didn't think of it, and I'm an idiot for having this great doctor for 8 months now and not getting my CA records transfered. But I remember my regular M.D. in CA saying my blood protein was on the high end, and that she contributed that to why it takes me longer to get over colds and why it's harder for me to fight infections, I get sinus infections two or three times a year! So here it seems like another set of symptoms are all coming together to tell me and my doctor that I have another something, but for now we're not sure what... Will I start having arthritist or fibromyalgia? Who knows, all I know is that for once it seems like I'm dealing with something other then just PCOS. It was kind of comforting to know that all my symptoms lumped together for the most part and could all be treated under that umbrella. Now I have to think about yet another thing and I'm really confussed as to what it all means now.
Last night I slept 10 hours. That's been my norm lately, where typically I can get by with the normal 7-8. I woke up feeling like I had to force myself out of bed because I knew I was sleeping much longer then normal. I'd wake up enough to look at the clock, but the second I'd blink I was back to dreaming sleep. Not just dozing for a few more minutes. Now that I'm up I feel a lot of pain in my ribs and back and my legs feel like a baby deer. And yet I had moderate activity yesterday, nothing strenuous, but not couch potatoe either, and I had more then enough hours of sleep. But I guess what it comes down to is the sleep wasn't restful because of pain in my sleep. If the pain doesn't get better by bedtime I think I might take some Tylenol PM to see if I don't have a better morning tomorrow. As it is now, I had hoped to do gardening since it's a cooler day, but I think all I'll be able to handle is sitting at the computer or TV. And I don't like that.
I don't mean to complain. And mostly I just wanted to update this with all my curiosities. I know it's not really PCOS related, but I'm not sure where else to put it. I've always dumped my health stuff here, and it's always been PCOS.
Labels: Blood protein, blood sugar, frustrations, pain, sed rate
posted by Celestial Freak @ 8/22/2006 03:07:00 PM
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