Time to See My Doctor

I had an appointment this morning to see my primary care physicians. I had bloodwork started on Friday so today was my "results day".

They didn't test my cholesterol because they had done it two months ago. At that point my "good" cholesterol was low and my "bad" cholesterol was high. Don't ask me which is which, I always have to Google it.

Blood pressure was on the high side of normal, but not flagged. My liver function was still over 100; lower than it had been, but it's supposed to be near 60, I believe they had said. They think it's fatty liver side effects. I had an ultrasound before to check the high numbers and nothing abnormal other than fat deposits had shown up. It's a wait-and-see.

Overall I have one item--liver function--flagged this time around. Better than usual.

Unfortunately it means I'm staying on my medications for now. I was hoping to trim one or two out of my routine. Thirty-something years old and I'm on nine pills in the morning, two at night, and two blood pricks a day to test blood sugar. Oh, yeah, blood sugar levels have done well since I took myself off my diabetes medications too. The docs said that was fine.

I go back in 6 months now for another checkup and in 3 months I go in for labwork, and at some point they're going to put me in the sleep lab for observation to see if I really don't need my CPAP anymore (I stopped using it shortly after the surgery because I had stopped snoring and didn't have the same side effects I was having before...the pseudo-narcolepsy thing...felt like I was sleeping okay. At the time I stopped because I was having trouble with my mask and just got fed up and stopped using it a couple nights in a row and still felt fine.) (I know, it's not a good patient thing to do, to just decide I don't need it and stopping without getting it checked first. I don't need that lecture. I simply had enough hassle with it for awhile and...hey, if you followed the blog, you know some of the troubles I was having. I decided to reduce my problems by one.)