For those of you wondering where “Step One” is it’s right here.
So, yesterday was the second step. Yesterday I spent approximately 2 1/2 hours at the doctors office.
This is what I learned.
1. People stare at you, then look away, when you knit and are not over the age of sixty.
2. People stare at you more, then look away, when you spend the two hours in the waiting room browsing eBay with your husband and knitting at the same time.
3. People really stare at you, and don’t look away, when you start discussing different calibers of ammunition in the waiting room. When you hit six, they look at you with an, “OMG how many gun’s do these people own???” look on their face.
4. I weigh more now than I ever have including when I was pregnant.
5. 164 pounds if you must know.
6. Watching the Super Bowl commercials is a good way to distract yourself once you’re in the examination room waiting for the doctor.
7. Watching the Super Bowl commercials and knitting at the same time not advised unless you like to tink. (Knit backwards.)
8. When you tell your doctor that the only time your cycle has been what others consider “regular” was when you were 12/13 or on birth control pills.
9. When you tell her your “regular” is 14-17 days. Her eyes kinda bulge.
10. When you tell her it’s been that way since junior high she, “hmmms.”
11. When she asks how you keep from getting pregnant when you cycle so often and you answer, “I had my tubes tied when my youngest was one, I was 23 almost 24;” she stops writing and turns around to look at you.
12. After that she isn’t phased when you say two kids, six pregnancies, and I was high risk and on bed-rest for the last two pregnancies.
13. At this point I get the standard, let’s run some tests, see what we can see. Blood work, urinalysis, and ultrasounds. Lucky me, I get to have two different kinds of ultrasounds to take pictures form the inside and outside.
14. The questions you’re asked to determine if you require medication are kinda odd and mundane. (I am also offered a prescription for 800 Mg. Ibuprofen, or something stronger, but I don’t remember what for the pain that accompanies my cycle. I decline. Four OTC ibuprofen is fine.)
15. You can’t downplay how things have been at home when your husband is sitting next to you. Which is why he is there.
16. Hearing, “how do you feel about anti-depressants?” and wanting to say no-way-no-how means you weren’t prepared for the doctor to put you on meds, even though you knew it was likely.
17. Walking out with appointments to see the vampires, an ultrasound tech, directions to be back in her office in two weeks, and eight weeks worth of Lexapro samples still blows your mind over 24 hours later.
bethany actually says:
Dude your “regular” cycle is two weeks long? I had that happen to me when I was in high school for about six months, and it SUCKED. If I wasn’t having my period I was PMS-ing. I am so glad you’ve seen a doctor who seems to be taking you quite seriously and doing everything she can to help! Whatever the outcome.
Praying for you, my dear!
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Mrs. Wilson says:
I’m so glad that you went to the doctor – wow – that’s kind of a rough cycle!!
I’ve never even thought of bringing my husband to the doctor with me before. What a great idea. Seriously.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
SAJ says:
yeah… praying for you.
February 4th, 2009 at 6:25 am
anna says:
Praying for you too. My gosh!
February 4th, 2009 at 8:30 am
bethany says:
and i thought 23 days sucked … ouch!! hugs, glad Shawn went with you, and glad you’ve got people listening. hugs, prayers, and more hugs. something needs to change.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Jennie says:
And YOU are blowing our minds with your 14-17 days! Bless your heart! Hope the meds straighten everything out. You deserve some normalcy after all these years!!!
February 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Dejoni says:
Been there with the whole ammo topic…it’s the main topic of our household and we aren’t even some skin head extemists…just rednecks.
I took Lexapro after my last baby…helped alot. Went off of it and think I need it again…and the upside is it makes you lose weight!
Saying a prayer for you and your sanity! LOL!
February 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Helena says:
I am on antidepressants and without them I would be a mess. Good luck!
February 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Julia says:
I’m on anti-anxiety meds and will be until the day I die. I’m a crazy mess without them – I’ve been taking them since my oldest was 13 (10 years now) but I needed them before that.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
citystreams says:
Love the whole run down. Died laughing over the ammo conversation. Real life can be so interesting, huh? Lexapro was my antidepressant of choice.
February 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
BeachMama says:
I am so happy to read you have gone to the Dr. And not that I am one, but dude 15 days for a cycle, would put me straight onto the meds. I am praying that you find out fast what is up and get the right answers.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:57 am