He’s liable to tell me to get lost. And if he does, I already know what I’m going to do. I’m heading to the employee health office where I work. When I went in to ask if I could go back to work, they were very sympathetic. My BP at that time was 194/114 according to their machine. The doctor that assessed me said “It sounds like pheochromocytoma.” which is what I’ve thought all along and what Dr. B thought too.
Some of the symptoms include:
*Headaches
*Nausea
Vomiting
Weight loss or gain
*Hypertension
Hyperglycemia
Diabetes
Diabetes-like symptoms
*Palpitations
Angina Chest Pain
Clammy skin
*Cold skin
Anxiety
^Nervousness (I guess...I’ve kinda always been this way!)
Panic
*Feeling of impending doom
*Rapid pulse
Rapid breathing
*Breathing difficulty
*Vision disturbance
*Impaired vision
Orthostatic hypotension
Fainting
*Sweating
*Flushing
Abdominal pain
*Flank pain
*Constipation
*Paresthesia (tingling, prickling, numbness or burning sensations)
I have the symptoms with the stars.
Anyway, I’ll get the doc at my employee health department to help me get a new doctor.
That’s the thing about having a patient who is a nurse.
Do what you need to do.
Crap and a half, 2J! I sure hope the Doc at the employee health center can find you someone who’ll take your seriesly! That’s too much stuff to ignore. But if Dr. B suspected the pheochromocytoma, too, why didn’t he test specifically for that, instead of relying on what Dr. A had to say?