Many people with Fibro feel that they ALREADY see too many doctors, or sometimes in simply dealing with the day in and day out "challenges" of our illness, they don't "think" about the rest of their body, because, after all, it isn't causing them as much inconvenience and, well, downright misery as the Fibro alone can do.
Please, please, please women and men, PLEASE do not forget that you still need to see a "regular" General Practitioner, an internist, OB/Gyn, eye doctor, etc. There is the "rest" of you that needs attention and you don't want it to get your attention the way mine almost did today.
I actually have had "followup" mammogram and ultrasounds done several times in the past 3 years. But the last followup got put off to, instead of what it should have been - 6 months, a year. I got a bit of a lecture and I admit, I deserved it. I had put it off, just being tired of doctors and tests in general over the past 6 months and finally a year.
I went in and the mammogram was uneventful except that the "tech" had to do the right side a second time.
She then proceeded to tell me to wait outside so that the doctor could read the results. I sat calmly reading the magazine, feeling that everything would be OK. I sat for about 45 minutes as other patients came and went and I started to get upset as to why the doctor was taking so long to read my films.
Finally, the "tech" popped her head in the waiting room and said I'd need an "ultrasound". I had had this before but I was assured by the "tech" originally, that unless anything "major" came up on the mammogram, they probably wouldn't repeat the ultrasound. So, now, I start to worry.
I wait another 25 minutes and finally, the new ultrasound "tech" comes to get me. The process took about 20 minutes and then she told me that she would review the ultrasound with the doctor and see what she recommended. I asked her, during the process, what they had seen. She told me that there were 6 or so spots that were of concern. She added that last year, there were 3.
As she left the room she told me to nap and well, I thought I wouldn't be able to do that, knowing that now 6 spots were of concern and "what if"...???
I think I did doze for a bit after praying to my God for health and healing, but finally she came in and said everything was fine, they were simply cysts and that I would come back in the "normal" year time frame.
I thanked her profusely and wanted to hug her. I held back :)
This was scary....and I had planned to try to go grocery shopping after the test, thinking that it would be a quick "in and out" process. It was not. I didn't go grocery shopping but instead we got by with whatever was in the house for the evening meal.
I was exhausted and stressed from the emotional strain/toll this event took on me.
SO, the moral of the story is, you are an entire human being and FIBRO "may be" only part of your "issues"! Please, fellow Fibro fighter, remember that!
Make a dentist appointment, a regular primary care appointment for a full physical and women, see your OB or Gyn. as recommended. DO NOT put yourself into a more stressful situation simply because you "don't feel like going to any more doctors". Let's just do the best we can with the health we DO have.
Blessings....
Mo M.
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