Tuesday, July 18, 2006

nothing_but_coke 12:32 PM

Is it Safe to go to the Doctor?I was reading a post on Laurie's site (one of my favorite sites) yesterday and it made me want to post my recent experience at the doctor's office. I had had a yearly checkup and my blood work came back with the numbers for my thyroid being out of the normal range. So I had to go to an endocrinologist (sp?). He ordered more bloodwork and a radioactive iodine scan of my thyroid. I hoped the second blood test would come back normal so I wouldn't have to do the radioactive scan. I just didn't like the way that sounded. I called the doctor's nurse after the second blood work was done and I still had to go do the scan. So I scheduled the scan not knowing what to expect. After having to wait over an hour at the hospital imaging clinic it was finally time to go get the scan done. I was glad to find out it wasn't an injection, but rather a pill I had to swallow. The doctor/technician opened this metal canister and inside it was a small plastic container that held the radioactive pill. She instructed me not to touch the pill but to just touch the plastic container. I was to put the pill in my mouth then swallow it with a drink of water. Well I have never like swallowing pills. Since I don't like them to touch my tongue I always put water in my mouth first then I take the pill so it floats in the water, then I swallow. Weird, I know. So, following her instructions the pill would be touching my tongue. So how safe is that??? Here is pill I can't touch with my hand, but it's ok for it to sit on my tongue??? And why was she backing up away from me after she took the plastic container with the pill out of the metal canister? And why was she telling me to "hurry up and swallow it!"? Other than being a little freaked out by the radioactive pill floating around inside me it was no big deal. Then all I had to do was come back two separate times for them to scan me.
I just had my results read to me by the doctor. He said it looks like Grave's Disease. I have no idea what that is so I'm about to go search the internet. I lost confidence in my doctor though when he told me what my options were (pills or more radioactive iodine) and then he asked me what option I wanted to choose. He didn't explain to me what the disease was or anything. He told me the side effects of the pills and he told me the radioactive treatment would shrink my thyroid so then I would have to take thyroid medicine for the rest of my life. I told him I felt fine and that he himself had told me that I didn't really have any symptoms when I first went to see him. So then he suggested we just wait and keep an eye on it and that he wanted to see me again in 4 months. Problem. I'm moving to Singapore. So then he went ahead and wrote me a prescription for the pills in case I started feeling any symptoms. And what might those be???

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