I don't know what it means, but my blood shoots out of my veins and fills many vials very quickly and giving blood for labs is quite painless these days. I do not have high blood pressure, so it's not that. I mean it, it's super-liquidy I have like zero clot for an anemic girl. (This is the second time it's been simple to fill tubes - the first phlebotomist asked if I was taking medication for my blood.)
However! Meeting with Dr. Stiles felt right. She is very pleasant and knows things. I like that in a doctor. As opposed to sloughing me off completely and ignoring what I have to say, yes I appreciate it. Certainly it has something to do with the fact that she's a bariatric doctor, and not a general practice doctor, I realize this, even so I have had difficulty in getting any response anywhere/anyone. I tried to give her the basic time line of how things went for me - it basically looks like this:
2005 - Got to lowest weight. Pregnant, miscarried. Felt "brain" fog, symptoms started somewhere here. Noted brain issues, noted weird blood sugar lows.
2006 - Pregnant, symptoms worsen, aphasia starts, memory loss, etc. (Gave birth 10/2006, seizure on delivery table, neurologists brush it off.) Went to several doctors, got called crazy, then avoided.
2007 - Symptoms continue.
2008 - Grand mal seizures start, complex partial and simple partial seizures continue.
I will head back to Tufts in a month for follow-up with Dr. Stiles after she receives everything I forward to her from the neurologist, neuro-psychiatrist, hematology history and whatever else I can find, when I find it. If only I can remember the names of the people I SAW.
OH BOY.
