Un-satisfying

[geminigirl]

Honeydew melon, while tasty does not satisfy the craving I am having for chocolate covered raisins.


Went to endocrinologist yesterday. She prescribed a low dose of synthroid and wants to see me again in eight weeks. No surprises. Talked about Byetta for PCOS with me, but it's FDA category C, so no...not for preganacy, though if I want to put off trying for six months I can take it. I had asked about it when I saw Dr P in January, but he didn't seem inclined to prescribe it then. I'd have said "okay" in January.

She freaked when she took my blood pressure. Which is normal for doctors to do. My blood pressure usually goes crazy in the doctor's office. Outside of a doctor's office, it tends to be fine. On occasion, it's fine in the doctor's office, which is why I'm not particularly concerned. But, because I know it goes up, I've found the act of getting my blood pressure taken at the doctor's office so stressful that I have near panic attacks because of it. I feel really silly about it, and I wish there was something that I could do about it, but most of all, I wish there was a way to communicate this to doctors so that they know that on a day to day basis, I'm fine, but put me in a doctor's office, and you never know what you're going to get.


I'm listening to CNN, and someone is talking about how there are people advocating a change in the law to allow Arnold Schwarzenneger to run for presdent. I just don't think I could cope with that without laughing. I suppose, though, it's a similar reaction to what some people felt when Ronald Reagan entered politics.

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[xrew.livejournal.com]

Personally... on that Arnold thing.

A) OMG these people need to shuddup!!!!
B) No WAY they should ever change that law. Doing so would be the dumbest thing ever.
C) Arnold was Mr. Sex, Drugs and Muscles... um, Hello... we've all seen the footage of him smoking up in his little documentary.
D) With Americans that stupid, we're all doomed... DOOMED!

[lovingboth]

In order for it to be passed, a lot of people who'd a) like to be President and b) think that he'd beat them would have to vote for it.

I'd be amazed if there were enough turkeys voting for Christmas Thanksgiving to enable it to happen.

[wait.livejournal.com]

Re: blood pressure -- I have a large upper arm. If they use a regular cuff, I always get an abnormally high reading. But if you ask, they have a larger sized cuff. And with that, I get an accurate reading. (My blood pressure is great, unless I'm in the middle of a headache.)

[geminigirl]

Doesn't matter whether they use a large cuff or not. It's completely in my head. I'm not kidding, I have near panic attacks over this. And most doctors just look at me like I'm insane. If my blood pressure was really as high as it sometimes reads in the doctors office, I'd be dead.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Re blood pressure, maybe pick up a bp monitor from CVS and record your blood pressure regularly between now and the next appointment?

[vix.livejournal.com]

Interesting on the blood pressure; I've been watching mine more closely for about a year now and it's fun to mess with the machine in the Target or Walgreens by taking different readings while thinking about different things... thinking about debt one minute, thinking about my favourite pier in Clearwater the next... and seeing how it affects the reading.