Possible new doctor?
Last week I discovered I was out of the thyroxine I take for my low thyroid so I stopped in to my doctor’s office to make an appointment. My regular gp is away until later this month but the receptionist offered to book me in with another doctor who just happened to have an appointment available about an hour later.
Usually I am underwhelmed or totally uncomfortable with seeing a different doctor but this time I felt quite at ease early on. She actually looked at my notes and checked on a number of things, including the fact I hadn’t gotten around to having my blood tests since I last saw my usual doctor. So she wrote out a new request and then she attended to a query I had about some new foot pain in the past few weeks. She sent me off for an x-ray and I saw her again today for a follow up. The x-ray doesn’t show any issues with the area of the foot in pain so I will be seeing a podiatrist next month to follow up.
It seems my iron stores haven’t actually recovered from the problems I had last year. So I get to go back on iron tablets for a while. I still have some from last year so I might try taking them on alternate days and see if that helps.
It seems my good cholesterol levels are also too low so I also need to find ways of getting that sorted in my diet. She suggested fish oil capsules but I don’t really like them so will look at alternatives, especially getting more of the right stuff in my diet.
This new doctor is close to my age and she seems to be able to identify a lot more with the sorts of issues I am going through in these perimenopausal years. This isn’t to say I don’t like my regular doctor but maybe it’s time to mix it up a bit and try someone new. A bonus would be that I can make appointments online for this one where I can’t for my regular gp. The online system doesn’t seem to have a way to identify patients with doctors who are no longer taking new patients so I still have to phone up for appointments instead of making them in the middle of the night when I am thinking about it. D
Oh and she is also going to have me do an ECG tomorrow just because of family history of heart issues and my cholesterol being less than ideal right now.
