Tuesday, June 21, 2005
I went to my family doctor today hoping she'd have some advice about what the problem is or what to do. She also said all the noise my throat is making is socially unacceptable! She said that I better not be working in customer service this summer! :P So I ask her what to do about the noise. She was stumped. :(
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Ugh! I'm so sick of this! Literally and figuratively. I hate this disease. I can't find a medication that helps the symptoms, and it seems to be affecting my breathing more every week. I can't go back to Charlottesville because I shouldn't be alone; I feel like one of these days I'm going to suffocate from all this. Last night I had half a glass of water and then had trouble breathing for several hours!
I had an endoscopy done, hoping that it might show some kind of infection that I could just take antibiotics to cure my stomach woes. Nope. The endoscopy showed that outside of some minor inflammation/gastritis I'm normal. Yeah, tell that to my throat that gets sore every day from continual pressure felt in my throat and this constant gurgling belching. Today I went in for a gastric emptying test. It was the first time in a while I had gone without a PPI for 24 hours, and my nauseousness just skyrocketed. The test involved eating an egg sandwich with some radioactive material so they could monitor the rate at which my stomach empties. An hour later, the technician says, "You should be at 50% [full stomach] but you're at 75%!" Then a half hour later I have my next scan done and she wondered how I was doing, I said I felt really nauseous and she said, "You look so pale! I hope you're not going to faint! Do I need to break out the smelling salts?" At my final scan, where you have to stand up against a machine for 3 minutes so it can take an image of your stomach, I felt so much like throwing up... worst nausea I've had in a really long time.
Where to go from here, I have no freakin' idea.
I had an endoscopy done, hoping that it might show some kind of infection that I could just take antibiotics to cure my stomach woes. Nope. The endoscopy showed that outside of some minor inflammation/gastritis I'm normal. Yeah, tell that to my throat that gets sore every day from continual pressure felt in my throat and this constant gurgling belching. Today I went in for a gastric emptying test. It was the first time in a while I had gone without a PPI for 24 hours, and my nauseousness just skyrocketed. The test involved eating an egg sandwich with some radioactive material so they could monitor the rate at which my stomach empties. An hour later, the technician says, "You should be at 50% [full stomach] but you're at 75%!" Then a half hour later I have my next scan done and she wondered how I was doing, I said I felt really nauseous and she said, "You look so pale! I hope you're not going to faint! Do I need to break out the smelling salts?" At my final scan, where you have to stand up against a machine for 3 minutes so it can take an image of your stomach, I felt so much like throwing up... worst nausea I've had in a really long time.
Where to go from here, I have no freakin' idea.
