pctcoach... I had a crazy week and did not call, but I plan to Monday and will let you know what they say!! Sorry but as the rest of this post will talk about has been a tough week!
OK.... So for the next installment in my drama...
So, I have had the most horrible sinus/ear infection of my whole life for the last month (seriously!!). I have been on 4 courses of antibiotics, steroid packs, the works and was not getting better at all. At 3 AM on Tuesday (5/3) I was awoken from a dead sleep by the most absolute excruciatingly painful sinus headache of my whole life. (Sat me straight up in bed, the works) This goes on for awhile (like all day) and I end up throwing up from the pain and everything.
I can't get in to my G.P. as she was out of the office, but she calls me back and says take my rear end up to the ER (we don't have an urgent care or anything like that). So, I go and they give me a pain shot and some medicine for the nausea and send me home. The pain goes from a 9 to a 7 and never gets any better. I start throwing up again and back to the ER we go (my poor wife -- seriously deserves to be canonized). Now this time they are rather aggressive... blood tests, IV's, the works. About an hour after the blood is drawn a nurse comes in with insulin. I am worried now and ask the nurse why insulin?? He says because your blood sugar is 524. Imagine my surprise??
To this point I have never been diagnosed with diabetes and here they are telling me that my blood sugar is almost 5 times what it is supposed to be. I was in the ER a long time that night. Finally they get the headache/nausea under control and they send me home. They take my blood sugar again before we were leaving and it was 314. That is still WAY high, but send me home nonetheless and tell me to follow up with my G.P. in the morning.
Wednesday comes and I still have this ridiculous headache and still feel bad. I get in to my G.P. in the afternoon and she had all the records from the night before. Obviously, she is concerned about the blood sugar. She tests me and I was in the high 300's and does the urine test to see if there is any sugar in my urine. She came back in and said well your urine is more like Kool-aid.:DOH: Mind you I have not eaten anything for more than 24 hours either because of the nausea.
So, of course, a rash of tests are ordered right then that can't be done until the morning of the next day. I also have an appointment with an ENT specialist the next morning to get to the bottom of the sinus issues. My G.P. says the test will tell her more, but to prepare myself because I have diabetes and we will be treating aggressively with numbers like the ones I have.
Thursday... fasting blood tests first thing.Which I wont know all the results from until Monday. I see the ENT at ten. This guy is the strangest guy I have met in a long time!! He gives me and my wife the total creeps. He says that I still have the sinus infection (DUH!!) and that antibiotics are not working (AGAIN DUH!!). His plan?? More antibiotics!! The same ones I have taken the course before. (He knows this too, by the way) He is adding steroids (that I have already taken too with no effect) and a nose spray. He wants me to put my cats in the garage and have no further contact with them... not going to happen in this lifetime.
First off this is an infection not an allergy. I even asked him if he thought I had some allergy contributing to getting this infection. He said NO! Oh boy this one is a winner. He says come back in 2 weeks and if its not better he will have to go in and open everything up surgically and flush it all out, but to be grateful because he wouldn't have to break my nose to do it. Needless to say... this guy is not doing surgery on my nose (period end of discussion)!! So, now I have to find another ENT and get an appointment. I have to go in Monday and sit down for the diabetes plan.
Friday (yesterday)... I feel horrible from the second I wake up. Its beginning to become routine to feel crappy when I get up. I test my blood sugar like I am supposed to and it was 458!! First thing! I hadn't eaten anything since 8:30 the night before (had tacos not half a cake, by the way)! Get to feeling worse all day. Blood sugar spikes at 518 around noon and I have done nothing but drink water all morning. I start throwing up. Back to the ER!! More IV fluids, more insulin, more meds for nausea. We were there for several hours. They send us home and now I was actually hungry. My wife is wiped out so we got Chinese take-out.
Well that has been my week. Today my blood sugar is through the roof and I still feel really bad, but what do you do?? I will be glad Monday to go in and get on a regimen that relieves this. It's scary stuff to have to go through.
Sorry this is so long, but it was therapeutic just to get it out!! Thanks for listening. I really do appreciate it!!
Oh yeah, somewhere in there I had the phone consult with the bariatric surgeons office and got a big packet of information to fill out and send in. From there they have a patient advocate that works with insurance to get things going. With the diabetes development the weight loss surgery will be easier to get approved for sure and they say that somewhere in the neighbourhood of 80% of people that have Type II diabetes have it resolved completely by the surgery. That would so rock. I will be sending in the packet Monday after the visit with my G.P. and the resulting plan of attack is drawn up!!
Thanks again for letting me vent. I will keep you updated more closely so that I don't end up writing a book to update you like I have here.
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