kadyellebee: dr appointment notes

Tomorrow is my first followup doctors appointment since August. I was supposed to go back 6 months later, but called to schedule an appointment late February (because I was nervous about it anyhow) and they didn’t have one open until tomorrow.

If you don’t wanna hear about my physical troubles, you might wanna go away!

My outline:

Paxil Followup:
- positives: increased creativeness and motivations. health consciousness. anxiety is lessened over everday occurances. able to change work schedule.
- negatives: severe weight gain and major stretch marks [weight post]. no sex drive
- switch meds or go off of them? If I go off them all together, I’m worried about dealing with 2nd question.
- reduced job down, so some work anxiety and stress has waned.
Fatigue and Pain = CFS?
- joint pain, recurring headaches, sore throat, concentration issues
- severe fatigue - hard time getting to sleep, waking up in the middle of the night, needing to nap all afternoon
- show checklist: Berne’s CFS/FM Symptom Checklist
- Impacting daily life severely—only able to do about 50% of normal.

Resources -

substantial impairment in short-term memory or concentration - at times, not always
sore throat - check!
tender lymph node - check!
muscle pain - check!
multi-joint pain without joint swelling or redness - check!
headaches of a new type, pattern or severity - check!
unrefreshing sleep - most definitely - check!
post exertional malaise ["an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness"] lasting more than 24 hours - check!