Back from the doctor.

[kiya]

According to the latest rounds of tests, there's absolutely nothing wrong with me or my kidneys.

We will continue to watch this to determine whether or not this remains the case.



While it's interesting being in the sort of mood that causes cats to flee in all directions when one walks through the door, I'd really rather not.

And I don't want to know how the tears wound up on my monitor.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Really glad the kidneys are okay. Really sorry about the mood. Hope it improves soon.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Feh. *hughug* Just... feh, y'know? Feh.

[kiya]

We've been testing my kidneys intermittently for a faint worrisome thing for the past year and a half to two years. The faint worrisome thing has been persistently there, spiking briefly to a really worrisome thing recently (I think because of the heat the day of the test).

Now the worrisome thing has just vanished.

I think this is somewhat perplexing. I mean, I'm glad the worrisome thing went away, but at least when it was consistently not-worrisome-enough-to-really-worry-about it was consistent.

It is a puzzlement.

[kiya]

Yeah. That.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I seriously need to not get going on a rant about uncertainty of medical things. I mean, I'm self-involved and all, but if I told you all the unexplained things that are driving me crazy right now, it would bore even ME. ;-)

Seriously, best wishes on disappearance of all worrisomeness, forever and ever amen.

[kiya]

*grin*

Do you have a consistently inconsistent soma too?

I mean, for the most part I look at things like this and say, "Yup. My body is whacked."

[morningwind.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that your kidneys are doing okay (were they doing poorly according to previous tests?), but I also hope that you feel better mood-wise. Right now I'm not in a bad mood or a good mood, just...sort of drained of any mood, I suppose.

The story about the kidney.

[kiya]

So, about a year and a half ago I went into the doctor. I was a little distressed (to put it mildly); what had happened, though, was that I'd caught like three or four things at once and my distress was based on thinking I'd got one thing that explained all the symptoms.

My doctor gave me pills for some of it, we discussed, and she noticed that one of the count stats for my samples was off. Not very off, but enough to be worrisome. She sent me to a hematologist with a lot of extensive bloodwork that was an adventure all on its own; he said the tests looked like I'd been mildly sick last week, nothing.

Next year I'm in for a physical, and get a, "Hmm. This count stat is still weird. This time I'm sending you to a nephrologist."

See, I was spilling protein, with is Bad Juju. But the amount I was spilling was something only a smidge above normal, which is something like a quarter of what one starts worrying about. So I had an ultrasound, more tests, and the nephrologist says, essentially, "We're going to monitor this and see if it gets worse. Test again in three months, then six, then nine, and I'll see you next year."

So I go in for my three month checkup, and get a phone call a week or two later: The Nephrologist Wants To See You Now.

So. Appointment. Apparently the spilled protein had taken a jump up into dangerous at my three-month. Quickie test at the nephrologist: down in marginal.

So. . . More tests!

Went back today for the More Tests.

Result: Not even marginal. Not even trace. Normal, undetectable.

Quickie test at the doctor confirms this.

Result?

Test again in three months.

See you next year.

Re: The story about the kidney.

[morningwind.livejournal.com]

Geez...as you said earlier, the lack of consistency is rather odd. :\ Hopefully the next test will go well, and maybe the last spike in spilled protein can be attributed to just a temporary abnormality. Or some such thing; I admit that I don't know the first thing about medicine.

Re: The story about the kidney.

[kiya]

Doc tells me that a protein spike can come about from exercise or heat; to get the tests done I did walk to the clinic when it was really hot, so I'm betting it's that. (The clinic's two klicks from my house. This is very exotic; growing up in the milds of suburban Maryland I was never living close enough to a doctor to just walk there if I needed to.)