Bloodwork followup
Feb. 23rd, 2012 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakThe tests for anemia and thyroid problems came up negative. Next step is a referral to a cardiologist, probably based at the AF Academy Med group; I should get a call from Tricare within a week confirming that and telling me how to make the appt. The card. will set me up with a heart monitor vest to wear at home and see what happens when I have my dizzy spells, chest pains, etc., as EKGs done in the clinic while lying down turn up nothing.
In the meantime, my doctor gave me an inhaler for when I have shortness of breath. Depending on how well the inhaler works, it may be an indication my problems are pulmonary rather than cardiac.
Dr. D. also decided to increase my prozac dose from 20 mg to 30, and wants me to find another therapist, since I stopped going to Dr. Phillips last fall due to difficulty of getting to his office and back within the narrow time window of the boys' preschool sessions. The Behavioral Health coordinator at the clinic printed up a list of Tricare-approved providers closer to home, and highlighted the ones she thinks will be most helpful.
Dr. D. says the stomach issues I've been plagued with are probably just a recurring stomach virus, but to try and get seen at the clinic again, rather than Urgent Care, if at all possible should it come back.
They do not have a baseline lipid blood test on file for cholesterol, so she would like me to come in sometime within the next 30 days to do that. It's a 12 hour fasting test; I was therefore going to have it on a Friday morning while the boys are in special ed preschool, so Tom wouldn't miss much work. Instead, since he decided to take Monday off for other reasons, I'll just not eat breakfast Monday morning; we'll put the boys on the bus as usual; and he'll come along as moral support, then take me to a massive lunch afterward.
Followup's in three weeks. Hopefully by then I'll have been to the cardiologist and we can discuss those results as well as the effects of the extra Prozac dose.
In the meantime, my doctor gave me an inhaler for when I have shortness of breath. Depending on how well the inhaler works, it may be an indication my problems are pulmonary rather than cardiac.
Dr. D. also decided to increase my prozac dose from 20 mg to 30, and wants me to find another therapist, since I stopped going to Dr. Phillips last fall due to difficulty of getting to his office and back within the narrow time window of the boys' preschool sessions. The Behavioral Health coordinator at the clinic printed up a list of Tricare-approved providers closer to home, and highlighted the ones she thinks will be most helpful.
Dr. D. says the stomach issues I've been plagued with are probably just a recurring stomach virus, but to try and get seen at the clinic again, rather than Urgent Care, if at all possible should it come back.
They do not have a baseline lipid blood test on file for cholesterol, so she would like me to come in sometime within the next 30 days to do that. It's a 12 hour fasting test; I was therefore going to have it on a Friday morning while the boys are in special ed preschool, so Tom wouldn't miss much work. Instead, since he decided to take Monday off for other reasons, I'll just not eat breakfast Monday morning; we'll put the boys on the bus as usual; and he'll come along as moral support, then take me to a massive lunch afterward.
Followup's in three weeks. Hopefully by then I'll have been to the cardiologist and we can discuss those results as well as the effects of the extra Prozac dose.
