I also got the results back from my blood test and they found three things. First off, my cholesterol is high, it should be under 130 and mine is 153 :O guess I don't eat that well? Not sure. He started me on medication for that. The next thing they found was that my thyroid gland does not work... at all. The doctor told me this is very bad and I need to start medication ASAP, so I am now also on medication for that. I am not sure what this means, I do know that when there are issues with your thyroid it makes your hair fall out sometimes and I have been having issues with that, so maybe that will get better now with the medicine. The third thing he found was that I am in fact anemic. Not only am I anemic but I am extremely anemic, he ordered more blood work to see if I had a B-12 deficiency as well as an iron deficiency and in the mean time he started me on iron supplements. This would explain why I am cold all the time and why I get tired so easily. He also gave me a medication that stops stomach cramping and diarrhea, about a weeks worth supply until I can get to a GI specialist. And he ordered me to come back in one month to see how things are doing.
All in all I think it went well, I went to the doctor to get a GI specialist referral and he found 3 other things that were wrong with me that I would have never found if I had not gone to get the referral. Hopefully I can start taking these meds and get better real soon and hopefully my GI specialist is a real good one who knows what he's doing and can figure out what is wrong with my stomach! I am quite optimistic at this point :]
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