I'm Too Young For This

Last December I went to the gynecologist for an annual checkup. She informed me that I had high blood pressure, which I'd secretly been ignoring but had kind of known about for the past year. So she started me on a diuretic (which I thought I was too young for but decided to take anyway since I'm not in the mood to have chronic hypertension and all of the health issues that can arise secondary to it) and told me to see my primary care physician soon. Then my lab results came back and it was discovered that I have ridiculously high cholesterol... So I really needed to see my PCP sooner than later. I called her office a month ago, made an appointment for today, and have just now returned home.

I also went to the dentist today for the first time in two years (I know, I'm awful at keeping up with my oral hygiene) and found out some other stuff that I'd been fearing lately-- that I have a ton of cavities, need a cap or a crown or something for one of my teeth, and need to have one of my wisdom teeth taken out by an oral surgeon. Ugh.

But anyway, back to the doctor. So she took my blood pressure and it was in fact high despite the diuretic I've been taking (though I didn't take it this morning for whatever reason). Then she did an EKG which came out slightly abnormal (I always knew I wasn't really normal) and decided I needed an echocardiogram with doppler to see, just to be sure, if something wasn't the matter with my heart. "And given your family history," she said, "why don't we throw in a renal ultrasound and have you see a nephrologist in, say, a month. And see me again in two weeks to see how a different diuretic handles your blood pressure."

So I have an appointment with the dental hygienist and the dentist for a cleaning and some work on Thursday, then over the next two weeks I have appointments for my cardiovascular and renal diagnostic tests, and I made an appointment with my PCP for a month from now since it was too hard for me to schedule it for two weeks from now. And when I go to work tomorrow I will pick up my prescription for the different diuretic as well as ask one of the nephrologists who works on my floor if she'll take me on as a new patient.

Sheesh. I really am a high maintenance type of girl.