Bluh

[snarp]

I need to set up an appointment with a new GP - my psychiatrist recommended me two of them - and also one with a gynecologist, and also get orders written for an MRI of my head to make sure nothing's inside it.

The reason I need to do all this is that I'm tired all the fucking time. Given that I find personal interaction and driving particularly tiring, it's tricky.

Psychiatrist wants me to get very thorough physical workup because (inexact quote): "I know you spend too much time looking upsetting things up online - it must have occurred to you that you might have CFS."

Me: "Yeah, um. But given that that's the "we can't fix this or even explain what it is" diagnosis, I mean, I'm hoping more for something like a benign tumor on a gland. They cut me open and make the problem mostly go away again? ...I'm putting "benign tumor on a gland" on my birthday list."

Her: *sigh*

Comments

[vass]

Good luck with the medical stuff. I hope they find something straightforward and easy to fix.

[alias_sqbr]

There are some advantages to being diagnosed with cfs/seid/me if that's what you have, there's no treatments but it can be really helpful to compare notes and get advice from other people with it. And it's a quick way to give a rough idea of your relevant symptoms to doctors, who aren't always useless at dealing with it in conjunction with other health problems.

But here's to something fixable. Or it just going away for no apparent reason! That happens sometimes.

For what it's worth here's my general advice for people with chronic fatigue. Good luck.

[limitingwhimsy]

I remember hoping for benign tumors on glands, too, haha. "They cut it away and then :))))))"
Good luck with all that organisation and going to tiring things stuff!