Oh the irony....

Fday

At least you have someone interested. Perhaps there is a holter monitor in your future. I just don't understand what diagnoses your doctor is currently considering if an ultrasound is not high on his list of "next things to do". But I am not your doc. As I said before, at least you have someone interested, and they know it is not all in your head. Keep us informed.

swampy1970

What was most enlightening about last nights events was that at the minor injury clinic, one of the MD's that works there on rotation, spent a good 25 minutes just asking question after question, even taking lots of time to look through the various tests from the past few weeks. Needless to say, I now have lots more question for my Doc like, why is a guy who eats lots of red meat and other iron rich foods and takes a multivitamin with iron acutally low in iron/ferritin? On a dietry front, I actually found out that despite eating almost as many bananas as a dozen monkeys I'm actually borderline dangerously low in potassium. I was told last week that I was 'just a little low'. Maybe I have stomach/digestive issues too....

Needless to say, I'll be looking on a daily basis to see if this MD is accepting patients as she also works as a Primary Care Physician when not in the M.I.C.

I still can't believe that for the first time in weeks my resting heart rate got below 60 - and on the night I was hooked upto a monitor with a very annoying alarm. LOL. Go figure. Apparently at one point 39bpm was noted... That set off an even louder and more shrill alarm. After being told that part of the cause of my issues 'may' be stress and having the MD tell me that I could do with more sleep, I'm kept awake all night.

But at least several MD's have said they're going to be asking my Doc to look into certain things...

john979

You are jsut looking for an excuse to get your hands on some EPO.

swampy1970

LOL

I know where to buy that if I wanted too.... but yeah, it'd be cheaper to get it from Kaiser.

swampy1970

Finally got an appointment for an echo' - it's in a few weeks but I'll call and tell them I can take a cancellation spot, just like I did with the lung function test.

I also discovered by chance that if I'm laying down and I do stuff with my arms (like lifting my 50lb kid bench press style) or even situps, it doesn't bother me. If I try and walk around lots at a normal speed I'm toast.... Weird huh.

I think I may take a camera to the Doc's for my appt on Thursday just for that "Kodak moment" of an expression on his face.

Fday

Well, it sounds like your problem is either positional or coming from your lower extremities. Let your doc's know what you are discovering, will help them better decide the next test, if you continue to elude diagnosis. Can you ride your bike without problem? Good luck.

swampy1970

Riding the bike is out of the question, other than a 4mph cruise whilst wifey goes for one of her walks down the bike path.

Fday

Something is fishy, that is for sure. I look into my crystal ball and ...


I see a lot of tests in your future.

Hope you are able to come up to death ride and hang out if you can't ride. Like to meet you.

jsirabella

I have weird stuff like that happen to me alot and when I tell my doc they can never figure it out. The best for me is that I can lift quite a bit of weight but at times if I bend down a certain way too fast, right below my rib cage I get this striking pain. I thought it may be a heart attack once but it is like I have a broken rib and if I bend over just the right way to touch my toes I can get a series of pain that can only be stopped by extreme stretching. One day happened to me on the plane and just beared through it.

Well anyway told my doc, got tons of xrays and nothing...no everything is fine...you are just overtrained and sore. Part of the problem and it is probably for you also is that you look really healthy. The doc always looks at me and kind of smirks. They see a fairly fit guy and figure he is fine. Now if I looked like crap than they would do more tests...

Basically docs can figure out what is wrong with you after it is too late to prevent it...the day I get put into an ambulance and laying out on a hospital bed will be the day they will figure it out...

-js

swampy1970

If I feel more engergetic I'll be up there. They won't be having the parking on the open ground at Turtle Rock park like in previous years, due to construction, which bites as I can't really walk all that far either.

So... last night I started getting swelling in my right foot and ankle and a throbbing pain midway up my calf right next to the shinbone. Thankfully I have a Doctor's apt today (in an hour actually). It feels like there's a lump in there and as far as I can recall I haven't banged my leg there recently and I certainly haven't done any physical activity. I used that as an excuse to sit on the couch with my feet up The swelling has gone down, but if I apply even very gentle pressure to this 'lump' - the pain slowly radiates down to my foot and my foot 'throbs' in sympathy....

.... maybe this ties in with the fact that I can do stuff with my arms (lifting weights while laying on the bench) but can't do jack with my legs.

At least one good thing has come from this so far - I managed, at the minor injury clinic, to be seen by the same MD that I've been treated by in the past. She asks so many questions and takes her time - very detail orientated. I do believe I'll have to put her web page as my home page and check out the "accepting new patients" field ever day until I see it change from No to Yes. She's a runner and a cyclist too.

swampy1970

Well, the echo has been moved forward a week and the Doc is requesting to see if they can 'do some searching' and see if they can find anything in the aorta without resorting to an aortagram(?) - as this problem seems limited to my lower extremities...

I remember Frank saying that it's never good to deemed 'interesting' by your Doc - well, he said that this was turning out to be 'interesting' and most puzzling.

Great.

LOL

Steve_B

If you are good, you'll get written up as a case study in some medical journal. With lots of pictures of your "innerds".

Fday

He could even become famous if a new syndrome gets named after him. It is not how I would choose to become famous but it is a lot more than 15 minutes. :-)

swampy1970

Swampy's sceptic serum syndrome....

Great.

LOL