#tw doctor

[connor-sent-by-cyberlife]

The doctor will see you now

Happy Halloween 2023 once more

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[largesunglasses]

I went to my blood pressure follow up yesterday. I did end up going out for lunch before. We went to this breakfast place but they serve lunch after 11. I knew Soph was going to get a buffalo chicken wrap with no tomato and ranch instead of blue cheese and I wanted a wrap but I wanted it how it came. I decided to just order the same way as her just so they didn't mess hers up(hers is always getting messed up) and I figured it would be harder to mess both up. They also have fun ice coffee and I usually get a milky way one. I got a 32oz one and brought most of it home with me. I got to my appointment and they are running late which was fine. The nurse brings me into the room and takes my blood pressure and says 162/90. I'm in a panic as she puts the little thing on my finger and says the doctor will be a few minutes. I jump down and grab my phone thinking I heard her wrong and it's 126. At the same time I'm questioning why they didn't bring in the portable machine with the bigger cuff that we know and is in my chart. The doctor comes in and says she's going to retake it as she's putting the cuff on my arm I question where the portable machine is. And she realizes the cuff is in fact too small. I should have said something the first time but I was in a panic. So they bring in this machine that counts down 5 minutes and then it takes your blood pressure twice. They had tried a similar machine the last time I was in but it took your blood pressure three times and it didn't save the results. So when they brought the machine and I realized it was new and upgraded and was like cool. So the new machine goes off and it never really deflated after the first read. And at this point my arm is killing me and the nurse walks in and it didn't save any of the information. The nurse asked if I was ok to use the machine again but she'd do it so it would just take the b.p without the count down and all of that. She takes it three times and at this point my hand is bright red and I am in pain. I look at the nurse and say if you need another read I need a break. So she switches arms to do the last one on the other side. Anyways, long story long the average of those reads was like 109. So then the doctor comes back and then she says well. I guess from now on we have to use that machine. And I said we've already been doing that for the past year and a half maybe even 2 years. But they only have one of these machines. So if somebody else needs it and it's in the room with them, you're out of luck. Which I'm personally fine waiting but obviously it messes up with the schedule. But I'm also willing to sit in the room for an extra 15 minutes early if it means I can use the machine I need. They have more than enough rooms so it's not like I would be taking up a room that somebody else would need. It's funny at the rheumatologist they bring the bigger cuff in with me. I have it in their hand when they call me from the waiting room. I don't have to go back now until my physical in April and she's going to attempt my pap. I wasn't thrilled with the NP I saw at the obgyn office she still had me laying back feet up as she was talking to me after the failed pap and when I brought up my primary talking about doing it while under anesthesia she told me they don't do that even though my primary has patients they do it for. But really the still have me laying while she was still sitting talking to me was just not something I loved and I felt very uncomfortable. My primary did say she was surprised they gave me the NP when she sent over my referral asking for a certain doctor. So fingers crossed this works or I honestly don't know what to do.

[lil-kozy-kollector]

Soo...I have a surgery on my finger tomorrow and I'm LEGIT a patient staying overnight in a hospital...I never knew I'd ACTUALLY have this happen to me...

Hope it all goes well (it probably will for sure!) But ofc I'm still gonna be worried but I have faith in our hospital and their techniques!! So glad I have Efanin with me...she helps it be so cozy and I can control the lighting and hear the tv through the cool remote and it feels like a medical hotel..😅

But I'll prolly sleep soon when the nurse brings me a pill to help my nervousness for tomorrow. Itll help me sleep and I'll be back home tomorrow!

Gnight to everyone, from a real hospital sleeper Ember!😷❤

[sickmindbigheart]

Nurgle love moodboard

[buckys-little-belle]

it’s the - ‘all you can do for the pain is advil’

and then the - ‘how many advil do you take??? that’s unacceptable’

like … it’s not making sense but okay

[sleepybabybunny]

i hav to go doctor on friday :(( my toe was hurtin bad last night. hopefully it stops hurtin so bad til i can get to the doc!! 😭

[mental-illness-bingo]

I have so little hope for this new med :( I have severe brain fog on Lamictal and, after sticking it out for as long as I could, it just isn't something I'm willing to tolerate anymore despite how well it does work for me.

The medication I am trying next is generic topamax and I am *not* hopeful with how everyone talks about it. I don't know how likely I am to be the exception.

I know that everyone processes meds differently, and I know that horror stories about negative side effects are inevitably going to be easy to find and bury positive stories because people are biased towards talking about negative experiences, but have no draw to talking about positive ones bc they just go about their life happy that it works.

I know all these things. Yet it is still scary to take a med nicknamed Dopamax. I have seen another med with a nickname like this - Side Effexor - cause everything ppl talk about and more in someone close to me.

I want a medication that helps enough that I feel more stable without sacrificing anything else. I wish that was easier to find. I am terrified at this point that maybe that isn't possible.

Edit: Oops the POTS was causing the brain fog I think praise Lamictal

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

Thinking about my Dr. Fluffster character so, have another snippet I wrote for him;

“He seems so…afraid of me. How can I help him relax around me,” Dr. Fluffster wondered. He looked around, noticing his jar of fake vampire teeth placed on his desk for Halloween, smiling.

“Hello?” his patient asked as they came in. Only for him to turn around, pink vampire teeth in his mouth and give them a playful rawr.

There were tears in their eyes as they couldn’t help but laugh.

“What are you doing?”

[one-time-i-dreamt]

It became a trend to tell someone that you wanted to eat their organs as a way of saying that you thought they were cool or attractive, and there was a news article claiming that David Tennant (the former Doctor Who star) signed a legal document saying that he was legally allowed to sue people if they told him they wanted to eat his organs because it made him extremely uncomfortable, but also that he would NEVER eat anyone else’s organs or this form would be used against him in court.

[chappellsroans]

Doctor who - The Star Beast (2023) + text posts

[thebibliosphere]

I had a severe mast cell reaction to something last night for the first time in the longest time* and I can honestly say, hand on heart, I have no idea how I lived like that 24/7 for years.

I have no idea how I dealt with that nightly as a child, only to be yelled at and told to stop attention seeking, while last night my partner held me while I shook and prepared to stick me with an epi pen.

Thankfully he didn’t have to. Thankfully my airways cleared after my body purged itself of everything I’d eaten yesterday** and my heart rate began to climb down. But Jesus Christ, I am wrecked this morning.

* no idea why, only thing I can think of is hormones + sugar which can sometimes raise histamine levels

** everyone thinks anaphylactic reactions start with visible swelling and airway constriction, but for me it’s always been the much slower reaction of severe gastric symptoms which progresses to rapid elevated heartbeat, followed by agonizing acid reflux that burns through my whole chest and then if it doesn’t stop, my airways start to close while I simultaneously start to “fall asleep” (that’s the shock.)

Very rarely do I get visible swelling or hives unless whatever triggered the reaction was from skin contact or injected into my veins. So, just so you know, anaphylaxis doesn’t always look the way it does in the movies. I tell you this only in case it saves a life one day.

[ngatwa]

[johnnyspells]

"So all cholesterol is good. Change is absolutely necessary. And whatever you said about hot lady summer, it sounded like you kind of had it figured out."

[mysharona1987]

Dear God. This is one of the most horrifying things I think I’ve ever read.

[riversongsource]

[fishymom-art]

I promised to draw securityangel violently making out. Here you go, they’re violent and they’re making out (or trying to)