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Back from the doctor
Apr. 23rd, 2013 12:12 pmSo, for the problems I had this past weekend, she said my urinalysis was perfectly fine. I might have shaken off a mild kidney infection by myself, or I might have had a bladder spasm, and the feeling awful part was the same virus that gave me the runs on Sunday. The sinuses were obviously draining now (hack, *choke*- scuse me), so keep pushing water to help keep them draining.
OK.
She also wanted to check my navel herniation, which has been getting bigger. She said it was time for me to visit a surgeon, because there was now intestine through the hernia and she couldn't push it back. And non-emergency surgery for that was always better than the emergency kind. ::sigh::
Then we revisited the emergency room scans from last December, when they determined that I did not, in fact, have blood clots in my lungs (or my legs). She said that when they do those lung scans, they cover the entire torso just to be sure they don't miss anything. And they found a mass on one of my adrenal glands. She said it's probably just an adenoma, but I need to have another, more detailed scan to see if it looks like that's all it is- because, of course, it could be cancer. The research I just did is a little more comforting, since adrenal adenomas seem to be relatively common, and are usually only found incidentally, like this one was. The size was 2.5 cm, and they don't generally even do a biopsy unless it's over 3 cm. But, even though its benign, it could be the cause of my very low potassium back in December. Since in hindsight I know that I was massively dehydrated back then, I'm going to wait to see what today's blood tests show before I worry about that.
I figure it can get in line behind my worrying over having to have surgery. I have trust issues, OK?
OK.
She also wanted to check my navel herniation, which has been getting bigger. She said it was time for me to visit a surgeon, because there was now intestine through the hernia and she couldn't push it back. And non-emergency surgery for that was always better than the emergency kind. ::sigh::
Then we revisited the emergency room scans from last December, when they determined that I did not, in fact, have blood clots in my lungs (or my legs). She said that when they do those lung scans, they cover the entire torso just to be sure they don't miss anything. And they found a mass on one of my adrenal glands. She said it's probably just an adenoma, but I need to have another, more detailed scan to see if it looks like that's all it is- because, of course, it could be cancer. The research I just did is a little more comforting, since adrenal adenomas seem to be relatively common, and are usually only found incidentally, like this one was. The size was 2.5 cm, and they don't generally even do a biopsy unless it's over 3 cm. But, even though its benign, it could be the cause of my very low potassium back in December. Since in hindsight I know that I was massively dehydrated back then, I'm going to wait to see what today's blood tests show before I worry about that.
I figure it can get in line behind my worrying over having to have surgery. I have trust issues, OK?
