Tuesday, March 6, 2012

2 new possibilities

Went back to the doctor this afternoon.  She went over my blood work results, EKG, and spirometry (lung function).  Everything in my blood work looks great, except my vitamin D levels.  There's a small possibility that is related, so she said I should start taking 5000IU of D3 daily.  I picked some up on the way home.  Need to do a quick search to see if it's better to take that at night or in the morning.
The lung function came back as severely obstructed.  The print out says my lungs are like that of a 78 year old!  I've never smoked, but 2 of my brothers have asthma.  I have had problems on and off with breathing while playing soccer and breathing in real cold weather.  So maybe there's something wrong and perhaps I'm not getting enough oxygen.  It would fit, since I yawn a lot and I could see being more tired if I'm unknowingly struggling to breath.  So she gave me samples of an inhaler and I'm to take 2 inhales twice a day for 3 weeks.  I got back 3/27 and we'll see if things have improved at all.  I'm hoping that this will fix it all, but we shall see.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Heading Back

Heading back to the doctor tomorrow.  This latest cluster of bad days is still with me.  So we're on day 12 with no end in site.  Starting to affect my mood and I find myself exhausted pretty early each night.  Got all my bood work back online and everything looks good.  It's really nice to actually see my results and be able to sit and look at them, as well as research a little what the numbers mean.  Vitamin D is low, but that shouldn't cause dizziness.  So I'm going to ask about my back tomorrow.  Taking in all of my previous scans and she's going to have a neuroradiologist look over all of them.

Weaning James is not going well.  We are down to 3x/day, but those are now all long, ~10 minute nursing sessions.  And they are in the morning, at nap time, and right before bed.  I have no idea which one I would even start to cut first.  So hopefully we choose a different path to investigate before going that route.  I had planned for him to be done at 2, I hope he'll be ready by then.

Here's hoping that we can find something tomorrow, because this is getting bad.  Carolyn will be 4 in less than 6 weeks.  That means I have been dealing with being dizzy for about 4.5 years if we count the dizziness I had while pregnant.  There has to be some sort of explanation!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Horrible day...

And it's only 9:15!  When I got out of bed, I almost fell over.  I grabbed the wall to steady myself, used the sink to get to the bathroom and then back to bed.  I felt like I was on a boat while James nursed (Jon gets him from the crib).  Haven't felt right all morning.  I just wanted to be sure and note this in here. 

Hoping driving to Carolyn's soccer goes okay!  Eating breakfast didn't seem to help, I don't know what's up.  I'm hoping this will decrease as the day goes on.  About time to leave now, here goes nothing.