Hello,
I am 29 and female with a strong aversion to doctors visits unless life limb or eye sight. This is common occurrence amongst my kind (see soldiers) I constantly worry I'm not actually sick or hurt or whatever, like Im just being a giant baby or the something, despite evidence to the contrary. Either way I really, really, really don't want to go back to the doctor unless I have to. I've been there a few times since April. I feel dumber with every visit and am becoming more and more convince I'm just crazy.
(Most likely due to their decision to literally walk me over to behavioral health on two separate occasions before ordering any kind of tests)
That being said, I am here because, guys, I feel like something is seriously wrong. It started in March/April when what I thought was a lump on my left breast turned out to be a swollen lymph node, which no biggie, prolly to be expected. My White Blood Cell Count was high, which made sense because lumphnodes and infections or whatever, but that wasn't the only abnormality. Suddenly my Red Blood Cell Count was low along with my Hematocrit while MCV, MCH, and MCHC were high also some other weird stuff going on they never mentioned. Me being me it meant it wasn't too important, so, hey, guess I'm anemic now, tho I've never been anemic a day in my life. No wonder I'm so tired, ya know? They gave me antibiotics and sent me on my way.
I did not feel any better.
I spent May, June, and July mostly sleeping when I could and constantly nauseous with sporadic fevers. My cousin teaches preschool and tiny humans are germ factories, so also makes sense. I mean we live together and she was randomly sick too with like strep or whatever. Then August came and the whole right side of my neck, which had been bothering me just above my collar bone for about two months swelled. (As did the left and my groin, but no pain, so I'm not sure when that happened really)
I thought I had strep too.
It got bad enough on my birthday that I went to urgent care. The dude looked at me and decided, like right away, mono. We felt so dumb because of course it was freakin mono. Except it wasn't. The test came back negative. (Strep did too) Then I had to start back at square one with the VA. There were abnormalities in the form of still high WBC and stuff but also Calcium, so he said I had to.
The VA couldn't see me for a month so I went to the walk in clinic and then was sent to the VA ER (didn't make sense to me either) where they assured me it was still mono because sometimes it simply doesn't show up. The new developements here were Hepatomegaly and Spleenomegally, which are supposed to hurt, apparently. Case closed and they sent me on my way with nausea meds. 10 Aug someone canceled and I got to see my Primary Care Lady, which earned me a second trip to Behavioral Health (first was the first time I saw her in April- a pattern forming?) because I was crying and she didn't particularly care why (pain, which I have a notably high tolerance for). I kinda got mad tho because you can feel both my Spleen and Liver and my labs indicated a problem which was why ER dude told me I had to follow up. I guess getting mad was a good thing cause then she sort of backpeddaled and did an x-ray and ultrasound (I think this is finally when she looked at the labs) Results for the x-ray were distended bladder (tho empty?) gastric mucosal hypertrophy and a contipated right bowel ( which was confusing because I'd been going to the bathroom just fine) The Ultra Sound= Hepata and Spleenomegaly. Guess which one was addressed, which I took the miralax like she said, but by the 22nd I was deff worse for the wear. Regardless, I still have to be people and adult so I was doing stuff then everything which had been getting worse by the day just kicked it up a notch. I seriously thought I slipped a disk or something. I went to the hospital. The ER checked my Urine and Blood and did a CT scan, and only after they gave me the pain killers did I realize just how much everything truly hurt. I've felt pretty shitty for what feels like eternity, but these labs are kinda why I think maybe I should go back. WBCs still high (like 3 outta 5 of them) I am apparently no longer anemic but my Mean Platelet Volume is low (platelet actuals normal but marked with "U"- what does that even mean?) MCH high Ovulocytes (never had them before tho they are apparently genetic) Polychromasia (which is what worries my mom because her dad died of Miltiple Myeloma, and it is usually indicative of bone marrow issues as well as one of the first flags before he was diagnosed) Then there's my GFR, which what? Tests from the beginning of the month put my eGFR at 197. That's way over both 60 and 90- good, yay kindnys and all that, but my GFR on the 22nd weighed in at a sort of baffling 89. I totally get ones an estimate and ones the real deal so to speak, but 108 seems bit much to be considered a plausible margin of error. I have no idea what it's supposed to be (something said similar?) but even half that would give me pause considering the tests were but two weeks apart. But who knows? My urine test came back abnormal this time too (all within normal limits on the 7th) Cloudy Proteins Low PH RBCS aaaaaaaand Hyaline Casts (Squamous Epitheial Cells are high, 14, which is one reason I'm on the fence- seems the sample was contaminated or whatever but they didn't redo it so...?) Another thing I'm not entirely sure I should be concerned about is at some point (maybe before even the last urine test) is that there is an increasing number of particles and like actual tissue in my urine- I'm weird, I looked- I never noticed it before, but maybe it was there already? I dunno guys, and I'm sorry this is so long, prolly a bit jumbled too, but have any of you ever had any of these issues? Even singularly or different combos or whatever and how, of it all, pan out? Best Regards, Loretta
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