I went to see an endocrinologist yesterday. I was there for almost 2 hours. In short, she is concerned about 3 things. Thyroid function, possible diabetes and the possibility of Cushings Disease. Cushings Disease was the one she was most concerned about. She asked me a whole lot of medical questions and then gave me a fairly extensive physical examination. She has ordered a fair amount of pathology work to be done which involves me taking urine samples to the hospital for the next 2 days and then on Thursday evening I can't eat after 10pm, then at 8am on Friday I have to be at Pathcare, where they will be performing 4 seperate blood tests on me over the span of 2 hours, in between which I will have to drink glucose syrup on an empty stomach. I have a friend who has had this test before and said she felt really sick for the rest of the day.
This entire journey I have been really desperate for an answer, but I'm scared of this diagnosis. It would involve surgery, medication and potentially radiation. 15 in 1 million people have it. How crazy would it be if all this time I had such a rare disease. However, I have had so many doctors tell me that ''you have this'' or ''you have that'' that I'm trying not to think about it too much.
Of course last night I had repetitive nightmares about blood tests so I feel like I've already had them.
This entire journey I have been really desperate for an answer, but I'm scared of this diagnosis. It would involve surgery, medication and potentially radiation. 15 in 1 million people have it. How crazy would it be if all this time I had such a rare disease. However, I have had so many doctors tell me that ''you have this'' or ''you have that'' that I'm trying not to think about it too much.
Of course last night I had repetitive nightmares about blood tests so I feel like I've already had them.
Oh Mel, my thoughts are with you friend
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