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So... I've got an appointment today with a new psych/ med provider and I am anxious af. I have a 45min appt to present the last 25 years of my life without sounding like a lunatic- I have an extremely bad habit of going off on a tangent when trying to explain all the difficulties I have/ am currently facing. Just hoping I make a positive impression on this doc 😳 and praying this is a positive transition.

My rheumatology appointment is finally here. I'm going for the first time to figure out what the heck is going on with my body. My anxiety is kicking in, though. I got caught up in the rear that they won't fine anything wrong. I ignored all of my contacts skills today to make sure all of my symptoms are good and noticable. But now I'm stressing to work about what they WILL find. I'm also thinking about the length of the process. How long will it take to get a diagnosis, to get a treatment plan, to level it all out? The appointment is in the afternoon too so I'll be pretty useless all morning during class. My mom is going to come with me, but will probably have to just wait in the car. All these restrictions are going to make it all set so much worse, going in by myself and having to wear a mask through all of my anxiety. I guess we'll see how it goes...

#Anxiety #Depression #Rheumatologist #ChronicIllness #Undiagnosed #newdoctor

I’m meeting my new Phyciatrist this afternoon, I’ve been seeing a specialist for my issues for years but the doctor is rude and uncaring and don’t even get me started with the staff, I’m hoping to get my meds changed since I’m having more and more depressive states. I’m so nervous. I’m nervous to have to explain all my problems to a new doctor, that new meds won’t work, that they will work and I won’t recognize myself, I’m just all around nervous af. #Depression #Anxiety #newdoctor

I have a great tendency to get these seemingly random injuries that just linger on...and on...and on. Mainly lower body, occasionally upper. My doctor and I had just started talking about Fibromyalgia when everything locked down, so that talk got a little derailed. Now, after a calf strain that’s somehow getting worse not better, she’s asked if I’d be open to being referred to the Musculoskeletal doctor. What do they do? Did she just advance the conversation on fibromyalgia? #Fibromyaliga

I've had stomach issues for a year. I have always associated it to gluten sensitivity but never tested positive for celiacs disease. Any advice for this appointment #newdoctor #Spoonies #ChronicIllness #hlab27

Hoping this appointment will help... let's add another doctor to my list.

So I’m going to see a neurologist for the first time since... well, probably since I was 16. I’m not 24. Almost eight years. And my last neurologist was really the last competent and/or CMT knowledgeable doctor I’ve seen. My GP is very good for general stuff and dealing with symptoms from the CMT, but other than that...

The state of my disease has progressed quite a bit in the last eight years— I have a lot more pain, I’ve lost a lot of muscle in my legs, and hence can’t walk very far. I fear I’m not that far from having to use a wheelchair full time. Last time a neurologist assessed me— after assessing my dad, who I inherited CMT from— it was declared that I was as far progressed as my dad, who is 40 years older than me.

I’m not nervous for the appointment, exactly, but I don’t have another word for how I feel. Not nervous, not afraid, not quite happy... maybe excited, for what this means. I’ve been without any medical care except my GP since I turned 18 and aged out of paediatric.

Anyways. This is my first post here, I guess. #DoctorVisit #newdoctor

I'm starting to see a new chiropractor and the way this doctor does new patient appointments is actually in two steps. The first step was to go in to get heat signature readings on the muscles and test the nerves along my spine. As well as getting xrays of my entire spine. Then today, I met my new chiropractor for the first time. I like him a lot and I think we will be able to work through my back problems together. But man I was not as prepared to learn how bad my back is as I thought I was. I found out that there is beginning deterioration of my L5, with a slight curve of my mid back. Now those two things I can handle just fine. I wasn't nearly expecting for my C1-C7 (neck) to be so misaligned. Where a healthy neck should have a curve to it, mine is almost completely straight. All of that then explains the severe muscle tightness and slight compression on some nerves along my back. However, now we begin the very painful process of carefully and slowly adjusting things little by little. But my muscles spasm really easily and that causes a lot of extra pain. It all feels like a shock tho. I'm 19, I've never played competitive sports and I've been in chronic pain for 4 years now. I'm surprised my back got so misshapen so quickly. The doctor thinks that helping realign my neck should also decrease my migraine and headache symptoms a lot. I hope that's true because they've been getting really really bad. It's going to be a long, extra painful at first, and hard road ahead to fixing these problems. #newdoctor #newplan #Hope #musclespasm #Migraine #Headache #itgetsworsebeforeitgetsbetter #ChronicPain #ChronicDailyHeadache