And the verdict is...

[kickaha]

"Meh, we dunno."

Endocrinologist is 'disinclined' to think it is adrenal, but glucose instead. (His reason? I'm not hyperpigmented. I'm a *redhead* you dolt, we *don't* pigment... and besides, I *have* had a large increase in freckles in the last five months, without sun exposure.)

Despite me sitting there and telling him that every &*%$@$%# doc I've ever seen has said that at first, then come back with "Huh, I guess not. I dunno."

Despite me sitting there telling him that my BP drops below 110/70 unless I drink 1/2 gallon of salt water a day.

Despite me sitting there telling him that I *have* a glucosometer, and that it reads like clockwork, and *does not* correlate with my feeling craptacular.

I swear to god, I may as well not have been in the room. I could have saved two hours, and just had him look at my previous blood workup, since that's all he did.

I think I am 'disinclined' to want to go back to him.

I have a battery of tests on scrip, and I have a call in to find out if the ACTH test listed is an ACTH *response* test, or just yet another goddamned ACTH snapshot, like I've already had two of. If it's the latter, that's useless, and I'll argue until I get the correct one.

Oh, and the followup appt?

Six weeks. Six more weeks of this shit, until he goes "Meh, I dunno" again.

Edit: Okay, so mental fog and irrationality is something else I'm dealing with when stressed or frustrated. Thanks to ginkgo looking up some of the tests he ordered, it's much more oriented towards adrenal than our spoken conversation indicated. In fact, it's pretty damned comprehensive. Thanks hon, that makes me feel tons better.

Comments

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Hey, come on, you know what happens when you trust user reports. :p

It really sounds to me like he's on the 'starting from the beginning' track too. He wants to see for himself that you really are a non-pigmenting glucose-happy salt-drinking freaky-deaky-dude. Or maybe he just wants to keep you coming around so he can look at your butt. It's a tossup, really.

I bet you could convince him you're a salt freak if you came in with a salt lick, though.

Always remember: it could always be worse. You could be on fire.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

*laugh* True.

No, with ginkgo's research, it's obvious he's not *solely* focussing in on the glucose, which all that really annoyed me. That's the one thing that I feel has been pretty well ruled out, if not absolutely conclusively, then 99.9% conclusively. Our conversation centered around that, however, and he didn't really mention the purpose of the other tests.

Soooo....

But now I feel like he's doing, if not a carpet-bombing from-scratch testing approach, he's doing a more precise focus on a few tests to eliminate certain possibilities. I can't really argue with that.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Well you could, but you'd be a jerk. ;)