Doctor, Doctor, Mr. N.P.
Jan. 8th, 2016 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aOff to see the doctor today for my annual physical.
Things look good, which is good. He actually told me that at my age and with my condition he was perfectly happy with a physical every two years if I preferred. Wanting to keep my foot in the Doctor's office (as it were) I said every one year is fine. I figure that gives me a time to actually talk about any problems I might be having.
Speaking of problems, though we talked about the chronic problems I've been having for the last few months, he just issued a referral. Which is fair enough. Unfortunately the place I was referred to stopped answering the phone at 3pm, and I called at about 3.01, after I got home after my appointment. So we'll get something set up on Monday. Hopefully the appointment won't be too far away. (Specialists can be awful sometimes for first-time appointments.)
The happiest thing was that the doc (NP) said he wasn't worried at all about my glucose serum levels, which looked uncomfortably high to me. That's apparently because glucose serum can spike around a bit and they have another test (Hemoglobin A1c) which is a better measure of things over the last three months. And my A1c was in the normal range. So, yay!
I'm taking this as a sign that I have one less thing to stress about. I immediately dropped my no sugary snacks in January resolution, and had some celebratory Ghirardelli chocolate this evening. Anywho, I think going a week without killed much of the craving. I'm still going to do my best to go forward without stocking sugary sweets in the house, except on a special-cases basis, and I think that be a healthier way going forward than to always have easy access to the sugar snacks that I love so.
So, win-win?
Things look good, which is good. He actually told me that at my age and with my condition he was perfectly happy with a physical every two years if I preferred. Wanting to keep my foot in the Doctor's office (as it were) I said every one year is fine. I figure that gives me a time to actually talk about any problems I might be having.
Speaking of problems, though we talked about the chronic problems I've been having for the last few months, he just issued a referral. Which is fair enough. Unfortunately the place I was referred to stopped answering the phone at 3pm, and I called at about 3.01, after I got home after my appointment. So we'll get something set up on Monday. Hopefully the appointment won't be too far away. (Specialists can be awful sometimes for first-time appointments.)
The happiest thing was that the doc (NP) said he wasn't worried at all about my glucose serum levels, which looked uncomfortably high to me. That's apparently because glucose serum can spike around a bit and they have another test (Hemoglobin A1c) which is a better measure of things over the last three months. And my A1c was in the normal range. So, yay!
I'm taking this as a sign that I have one less thing to stress about. I immediately dropped my no sugary snacks in January resolution, and had some celebratory Ghirardelli chocolate this evening. Anywho, I think going a week without killed much of the craving. I'm still going to do my best to go forward without stocking sugary sweets in the house, except on a special-cases basis, and I think that be a healthier way going forward than to always have easy access to the sugar snacks that I love so.
So, win-win?
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Date: 2016-01-09 09:43 am (UTC)I don't have sweet things in the flat. For exactly that reason - my cravings take 2-3 days to go away, and so not tempting myself makes me happier overall.
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Date: 2016-01-11 08:47 am (UTC)