Tuesday, January 17, 2012

On Doctors...

For someone who's active (well, in the spring/summer), eats well (mostly), ect., I dread going to the doctor. No matter how well I take care of myself a trip to the doctor always results in something being found, more tests being needed, something. I'm not kidding. Remember when my cyst wasn't draining and I had to go in for extra ultrasounds? Yeah. It is, luckily, almost always nothing serious, but it's a hassle to always need blood work or other tests. And really not good if you worry about the results.

So I was having some issues and just wanted to get blood work done. Voluntarily! I was fairly certain I was just anemic but before I took iron supplements I wanted to be sure. Well, instead of anemia, the doc found a lump in my throat. This resulted in more blood work and an ultrasound. Good news is it's probably not cancer. Yet all the appts I've had the last 2 weeks I still have to go back in a few months and make sure it's not growing. If it is, or if I get funky blood work back with messed up hormone levels, I may need my thyroid removed. How fun!

So, I've decided to just not go to the doctor anymore.

2 comments:

VV said...

Oh no! I'm sure it's nothing, otherwise they'd do something now rather than keep an eye on it - but please keep us posted!

crazywriter84 said...

Yep, it's a tiny little nodule that probably won't do anything but sit there...I'm not terribly worried after researching it myself.

Mostly it's the barrage of test and appts that's getting me down.