Health Updates, 2025

[DocTee]

Hopefully this is a thread with more good news than bad.

Had a pair of scopes yesterday (upper endoscopy and colonoscopy). This prep (pills) was much better than previous (drink). All seems to be well down below but I have been battling persistent upper GI issues (GERD, hernias, Barrets esophagus) for about twenty years---awaiting biopsies but hopeful. Man, though, was I sick from the anesthesia--yesterday afternoon was pure misery. Much better now.

Here's hoping that you and your loved ones have a healthy 2025.

[kcmets]

I need to find a new doctor. Both my doctor and her nurse practitioner
have moved on to other things. It's hard, have had a good half dozen
offices tell me they're not taking new patients.

Plus, I need to get a lung evaluation so I gotta find a lung doc.

[The Hot Corner]

Your doc should have set up an arrangement with a provider to continue care for their patients. Healthcare providers have an ethical and legal obligation to provide "continuation of care" for their patients.

[kcmets]

Right, Rockin'... and I really haven't been completely hung out to dry
just yet. But it feels that way, and I've been encouraged to move on and
find something new but have hit dead ends with every attempt to do so.

I have prescriptions through 4/30, so I need to plod along soon. Plus, my
friend is married to an illegal alien so I'm probably soon going to be shot
since we text a lot and the orange algorithms are probably hot on my trail.

So, who needs blood pressure meds anyways....

[MFS62]

I had posted (and I can't find that original post) that the eye doctor discovered that I had a retinal edema that required monthly injection into my eye.
I had the first one last month. It gave me floaters that looked like the Starship Enterprise for 24 hours.
I went for the second one today and the tests revealed that the first injection helped ease the problem and I wouldn't need one this month.
But he will keep checking to see if the condition deteriorates.

Later

[metirish]

Oh man , all the best, I can't imagine sitting there waiting for an eye injection

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know. My girlfriend's mother has to get eye injections too. I cringe just thinking about it. I'd be blinking and flinching like crazy.

[Edgy MD]

Your doc should have set up an arrangement with a provider to continue care for their patients. Healthcare providers have an ethical and legal obligation to provide "continuation of care" for their patients.

My coverage people do this by giving me a list of a dozen providers in my area, all of which I have to call in order to find out that they aren't taking new patients, no longer accept that coverage, or have simply closed.

It's a strange time.

[MFS62]

Oh man , all the best, I can't imagine sitting there waiting for an eye injection

I'm not sure which is worse, the waiting or the actual injection.
Thanks.
Later

[Cowtipper]

They numb the eye first, I'm sure.

They have to numb my eyes when they check my IOP. You don't feel a dang thing.