health update

[jinian]

The good news: My blood panel and urinalysis results were all totally normal!

The bad news: Totally normal results do little to explain six weeks of lightheaded spells and exhaustion. I'm coping a little better now that I realize I need to compensate for my brainlessness and get work done, rather than just wait to feel well again, but I would still like to actually be healthy now please. (Acupuncture is helping, at least.)

Next step: See the neurologist about my migraine preventive possibly becoming bad for me. Maybe more so in hot weather, hazards the GP? but it seems like perhaps the tropical island of HAWAII would have felt worse than it did, then.

Well, immediate next step is: whine, apparently.

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oh, just what I needed

[jinian.livejournal.com]

PI says, Hmm, maybe psychological? and acts all doubtful when I say no.

YES IT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL AND THE RECOMMENDED THERAPY IS SLAPPING PEOPLE IN THE HEAD

YOU WANT TO HELP RIGHT

[jeliza]

I'm betting you've already ruled this out, but just in case, is it possible that it is dehydration? (I was on one med that basically meant I had to consume twice as much liquid as before to prevent it, because it was doing something with salt balance, and lightheaded and exhausted definitely described the effect...)

Hope things get better soon?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Extremely thoroughly ruled out, yes. Thanks, though. I definitely get dry mouth from the nortriptyline, so it was high on the "possible, and easy to fix" list.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

"Psychological" is such a maddening comment.

Nortriptyline would be an 'easy' fix if it didn't bring more headaches with it! Sometimes getting more acupuncture can make drug effects WORSE in some ways, but it seems like that couldn't be true for you b.c you had this stuff before you went in?

I'm sorry this is so irritating and awful.