10:17pm March 5, 2013

So I did see the doctor today.

And he actually admitted in his own way, to having been in denial about the gastroparesis himself. After I told him I had been. I didn’t expect that. But I’d been told to avoid putting him on the defensive, and it worked. Which is a miracle given my usual social skills.

So the plan is to keep increasing the pyridostigmine to see if it helps any, as it has helped my mother. And if that doesn’t work, or doesn’t work enough, we see about sending me to a gastroparesis specialist and seeing about the pacemaker and stuff.

For some reason it’s taken all day just to write a brief post about the appointment. I got really exhausted and confused when I first got home and wanted to think of anything but that, even after I had time to sleep.

But I’m glad i won’t have to fight for a referral if I need one. I’m bone tired and I wasn’t ready for a fight. And this was just an ordinary appointment but it completely wiped me out and even muddled my brain a bit.

(Oh and the only reason pyridostigmine might work is because my gastroparesis is likely the result of a hereditary condition I probably got from my mother, and in addition to treating that in her it’s sped up her GI tract a bit. It wouldn’t treat random gastroparesis from other causes.)

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