Update on the health sitch

[kaberett]

As you've probably picked up, I have all the angst about visiting doctors. It's pretty standard stuff: a mixture of "I don't like to take up space" and "doctors don't take me seriously anyway" and "but you're supposed to have a cough for four weeks before you waste NHS time with it". But hey, I needed to follow up on some ultrasound results anyway (I don't have gall stones! ... pity I still don't know what's going on there, though), so in I went.

So there I was sat in the waiting room hacking my lungs up, when the (lovely!) asthma nurse walked through, did a double-take, and asked if I was okay. Followed shortly afterwards by the GP writing me out a prescription for antibiotics and telling me to up my salbutamol intake to "lots".

I'm feeling pretty vindicated.

This won't hang around, of course: the imposter syndrome will be back and I'll need talking into wrangling doctors again next time, but hey, maybe eventually etc.

(Entertainingly, in the several-hour gap between the appointment and the prescription being filled, my symptoms got noticeably worse, in that, er, I am pretty sure my lung is not supposed to sound like that, I am just saying. However! Armed with drugs, I face this with equanimity, and if I continue downhill I will go and hassle doctors harder.)

Comments

[mustela_nivalis]

Best of luck and get well as soon as is reasonable! Also, alas impostor syndrome.

[kaberett]

MOAR DRUGS

[catyak]

On the couple of occasions when I've been to the doctor and come away with a sick note (which I didn't ask for, it was just provided), I've found it much less stressful simply because someone else had decided I wasn't fit enough so I had a clear conscience.

I've gotten out of the habit of carrying my salbutamol, I don't remember the last time I needed it because the steroid inhaler does a good job of keeping symptoms away unless I really push things. A bad cold is usually the thing that catches me out because I know and recognise most of the other triggers.

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[kaberett]

Alas, the steroid inhaler isn't actually adequate for me if I want to do anything strenuous. Like, er, cycle from home to work. By which I mean "half a mile".

Unfortunately I am blocking on actually getting this dealt with because SO MANY OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS :-s

[catyak]

I find the opposite, the salbutamol wasn't effective enough to treat symptoms but the steroid inhaler pretty much suppressed all symptoms except under (mostly) known circumstances where the salbutamol was able to cope with what was left.

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[azuire]

Get well soon ♥ Also keep eye on mailbox.

[kaberett]

Yesyes <3