Topic: Shit Days (Read 227690 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #2200 on:** June 14, 2011, 06:52:21 AM »

So, uh... I just got back from the neurologist. He looked over my test results and said they didn't show anything. He then turned to me, shrugged, and said "Well, I guess if anything gets worse you can come back and try again..."
"What?"
He looked to the other doctor. "Do you have anything."
"Nope." He turned back to me.
"Yeah... So... I guess just try to deal with it. If anything gets worse, give me a call."
"That's it?"
He shrugged again.
"Maybe it'll go away on it's own?"
"It's been six months already."
"So maybe it's almost done?"
"Ooooookay..."
"Bye then. Good luck!"

EDIT: AND WHY THE HELL DID THEY WEIGH ME BEFORE DISCUSSING THE TESTING RESULTS?!

R^2 · « **Reply #2201 on:** June 14, 2011, 07:56:02 AM »

"If you have no idea what's wrong now, why should I come back here[\I] if things get worse?"

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2202 on:** June 14, 2011, 02:00:09 PM »

Quote from: Lottel on June 14, 2011, 06:52:21 AM

So, uh... I just got back from the neurologist. He looked over my test results and said they didn't show anything. He then turned to me, shrugged, and said "Well, I guess if anything gets worse you can come back and try again..."
"What?"
He looked to the other doctor. "Do you have anything."
"Nope." He turned back to me.
"Yeah... So... I guess just try to...

François · « **Reply #2203 on:** June 14, 2011, 02:38:13 PM »

I unfortunately also have first-hand experience with that sort of reaction from doctors, so I know how frustrating it can be. They even have a nice little adjective for these types of cases that sounds silly enough to make it difficult to tell the medically unsavvy about it: idiopathic. I don't even tell people I have idiopathic hypersomnia anymore, they just think it sounds made-up.

"So you sleep too much...?"
"And they don't know why."
"Hey, that sounds like a sweet problem. I don't get enough sleep, can you loan me some?"

Yeah, that line wasn't funny the first time I heard it thirteen years ago, chucklenuts.

Classic · « **Reply #2204 on:** June 14, 2011, 04:57:17 PM »

At first glance, hypersomnia seems like a way huger impediment than insomnia.

But I'm so far away from either I don't have much room to talk.

Also please don't die R^2.

François · « **Reply #2205 on:** June 14, 2011, 05:40:32 PM »

The thing is, as far as I've gathered, hypersomnia is usually pretty bad, but I hear most people who have it to some degree can be awoken by external means even though their inner physiological mechanisms won't do the job. In a way, mild hypersomnia is much better to have than mild insomnia, because the cure for the former is basically an alarm clock and some coffee, and while one may need more sleep, one might still manage the timing of it. Which is why you don't typically hear much about the ailment in general.

Of course, non-mild hypersomnia is no joke, especially once you you start talking about narcolepsy (which is its own flavor of nasty) or whatever it is that I have.

That said, if I had insomnia to the degree that I have hypersomnia, I probably would be dead or crazy by now, because there's a point where sleep deprivation kills you. So I count my blessings.

R^2 · « **Reply #2206 on:** June 14, 2011, 06:12:39 PM »

Quote from: Classic on June 14, 2011, 04:57:17 PM

Also please don't die R^2.

I'll do my beHHRRRK

Lottel · « **Reply #2207 on:** June 14, 2011, 06:22:07 PM »

idiopathic is a nifty word and I'll use it but... They don't even know what to call my collection of headache, dizziness, and confusion. Headache singular. It's the same one for a few months now.Wake up with it, go to bed with it, and even with medicine it never goes away, not really. I've taken to calling it "BWOG." Because when I have an "episode" as the doctors call it, I can pretty much hear "BWOG" nonstop.

Not entirely sure which is worse anymore. Random bouts of time when I just can't think and am just kind of losing time, random bouts of time when I can think but it's a struggle to even pick out words, or constant pain.

Thinking about it, maybe it's "Deal with it."

Classic · « **Reply #2208 on:** June 14, 2011, 06:47:54 PM »

Is your brain screwed in too tight?

Lottel · « **Reply #2209 on:** June 14, 2011, 07:03:42 PM »

I doubt it. According to my family, I have a couple screws loose!

Hyuk hyuk hyuk.

Büge · « **Reply #2210 on:** June 14, 2011, 07:22:31 PM »

I dunno, Lottel. Maybe it's time to look into alternate medicine. Get your meridians tested or detox or something.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2211 on:** June 14, 2011, 08:28:57 PM »

Hey Lottel,

Starr wanted me to ask: "Have they done a tilt-table test on you? If so, what happened?"

Lottel · « **Reply #2212 on:** June 14, 2011, 08:30:35 PM »

I assume that's where they tilt the tablet to make you dizzy? No. But they made me dance around and stuff to get me to be dizzy. I was A-Ok. Even the laser dot eye test thingy didn't make me dizzy. I'm awesome.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2213 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:42:00 PM »

Well then. Okay.

the asshole you hate · « **Reply #2214 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:54:05 PM »

"I have no fucking idea."

TA · « **Reply #2215 on:** June 15, 2011, 10:30:11 AM »

Quote from: Büge on June 14, 2011, 07:22:31 PM

I dunno, Lottel. Maybe it's time to look into alternate medicine. Get your meridians tested or detox or something.

Maybe wish on a unicorn's tear that it goes away.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2216 on:** June 15, 2011, 10:44:09 AM »

have you checked your thetan levels lately?

Lottel · « **Reply #2217 on:** June 15, 2011, 11:13:28 AM »

I asked about those after asking about my midichlorians and before yeerks. Doctor #1 stared. Doctor #2 stifled a giggle.

EDIT: That was appointment one stuff. Meet each doctor with a dangerous medical anomaly and a joke, mum always said.

R^2 · « **Reply #2218 on:** June 15, 2011, 11:16:55 AM »

The eligible income for a two-person household to collect food stamps is about $1600 a month. My mother pulls less than that in social security, while I of course remain unemployed.

But we're not eligible, see, because a two-person household only counts if one is a dependent of the other, and as an adult, I don't count towards the total household number.

So I'm going to go apply for myself, since I make about $800 less than the about-$800 income limit on single-person households. She's not my dependent, so she shouldn't count either, right? Right?

[spoiler](Coming next week: the reason I'm not eligible to collect on my own.)[/spoiler]

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #2219 on:** June 15, 2011, 01:43:47 PM »

I don't know how it works in your state, but in California, you have to be employed AND be earning under a certain amount to be eligible for food stamps. For students, the same applies, but you need fewer hours of work per week.

...I wonder if having an unpaid internship counts as being employed? I'll likely be doing that by the end of the year and it would be great to have to spend less of my student loans on food.

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