Seeing my GP on Monday.

[kaberett]

Things I will actually talk about: working out if there's anything else we can do about my depression including pushing for a check on my vitD levels, upping my loratadine dose, working around the mefenamic acid supply problem so I have adequate NSAID, getting my prescriptions written.

Additional things I would like to talk about and never quite get around to:
- pretty much every time I shit for the last 18 months--2 years, I've also passed a small quantity of fresh blood; clearly nothing ~desperately wrong~ (and quite possibly something not fixable) but annoying
- formal PTSD diagnosis
- general abdominal discomfort
- fungal infection of some description
- referral back to a pain clinic???

~etc~

Comments

[highlyeccentric]

... i would bring up the bloody shitting thing. That is generally a bad sign. And if something like coeliac, crohns or whatever is lurking it is probably compounding the endometriosis...

[kaberett]

I brought it up a bit over a year ago with a previous GP and didn't get anywhere terribly far; it's clearly ~near-surface~ tearing of some description, possibly with endometriosis implicated though it's a bit hard to tell (lololol nodules in my rectovaginal septum). It is also genuinely small quantities of blood. Which is why it is perpetually relegated to "a potentially interesting problem but not actually as urgent as, oh, everything else." :-/ (I probably just need to start booking double-length appts by default ugggh)

[highlyeccentric]

Ah, i seem remember a friend with endometrio-weirdnesses having similar (and many worse) symptoms, actually.

Double-lengthy by default sounds wise, esp since you're not paying to see the doc, right?

[jelazakazone]

Take your list in and talk about all the stuff. Good plan!

[pretty_panther]

My endo causes the poop problems too. My Doctor is very not bothered by it all and so was the gyno which is very frustrating.

tangent, and maybe I should look this up elsewhere

[redbird]

Are you using loratidine mainly as an anti-depressant? I've been using it as an anti-histamine, and was going to stop because the relevant allergen was the cat. (Haven't yet because the place hasn't been vacuumed since Julian died.)

Re: tangent, and maybe I should look this up elsewhere

[kaberett]

Nope, I'm taking it as an anti-histamine.

[vass]

Good luck.

[silveradept]

It's list time! And hopefully the GP will really listen.