No fretting. Stress is the enemy.

[clevermanka]

If this comic book really existed, I would totally order it.

I very much appreciate all the comments and suggestions yesterday. I decided that I'm not going to stress about it--any of it--through the weekend. I'm gonna mull it over, and listen to any more thoughts that people throw my way. No worrying about the money. No hand-wringing over whether this guy is a charlatan. Just pondering. Considering options. Not freaking out.

Oh, and getting my hair cut. My style goal. Right now I just need some more aggressive layers (especially on top) since I'm starting to get flat, hippie-hair again.

I saw 138 and some ounces on the scale yesterday. I can't get excited about it, though, because all I can think about is my quads are being slowly devoured. =/ I know it's 100% mental, but it really did feel like my legs were more tired than usual, trudging up the hill today.

But, not dwelling on that!

On the immediate agenda (in regards to health stuff):

1. Contact a G.I. doctor, referred by poincaraux, an M.D. who deals with a combo of Family Medicine, Medical Acupuncture, and Functional Medicine. I had a short e-mail conversation with him about this time last year, but for some reason didn't follow up on his suggestions. I have no idea why not, so don't ask.

2. Make another appointment with my PCP to ask about alternatives to the Alinia antibiotic which I absolutely refuse to purchase.

3. Enjoy my god damned coffee until my current supply of Z's Divine Sumatra runs out, because fuck a bunch of wasting good beans. Then I'll strategize weaning myself off caffeine. I'm thinking Yorkshire Gold in the morning for week, then move to decaf black tea, and finally trick myself with herbal tea and coconut milk for my morning cuppa. Melissa Joulwan recommends Bengal Spice for a morning hot drink.

I think that's it for now. No stressing.

Comments

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Good strategies!

Add to that plan:
Schedule a hot tub dunk-n-wine w/ R. :)

Another thought: Naturopathy? I think you didn't care for the Khosh bros, but there is a new woman in town, Amber Belt on 9th st.

And for decaf black tea, I recommend the Twinings English Breakfast Decaf. (http://britsshop.com/product_info.php?cPath=74_71&products_id=288&osCsid=6bfa053f45d73463159b6c2042f6171e)It's still got almost full flavor of the regular. If you want to try some first, I've got a couple boxes.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I just love the name "Amber Belt." That's awesome.

Thanks for the offer of a couple bags of the Twinings! I'll take you up on that.

I'll take you up on the hot tub offer, too, but I gotta wait until it warms up. I know, I know, it's great to sit in the warm water while it's cold outside, but I can't quite bring myself to it. Maybe if I didn't have to get dressed and drive home in the cold afterward. =D

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I understand the warm/cold thing. If I hop in this weekend, I'm going to convince Jbird to light that last log we have :)

You're busy April Fools weekend, right? It's good, we may be tiling the laundry room anyway. At least, that's the plan.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm already spoken for nearly every weekend through, er...May. o_O

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Well, if a hole opens up in your schedule all of a sudden, you know that I'm the spontaneous one.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You betcha!

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

I ADORE Bengal Spice. I don't know what your current dairy situation is, but all I take in mine is a splash of milk and it's perfect.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

No dairy. Hence the "herbal tea and coconut milk."

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Brain not working - eaten by moving house. But still, coconut milk would really be lovely with it, too.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Moving = Never a good time.

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

No coffee... *twitch*

OTOH, I like Bengal Spice. APPROVE.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I like Bengal Spice, too. I think I might try it with double tea bags, just to give it a little more oomph. At least at the beginning. Herbal tea just does not have that nice, solid taste like coffee and black tea.

...we need a different seeing-eye-to-eye icon.

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we can make that happen. Because yes.

Are you still drinking wine? I saw that we can *also* bring our own wine to Mirth Cafe downtown, if they have stuff you can eat there...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I was told that I can still have wine once in a while, as long as I have it with a protein. Why this matters when I'm not digesting protein is, perhaps, something I should have asked him explain.

Looking at the menu, though, there's nothing I can have except omelettes (which...yawn), and I'd have to decline the side potatoes and toast/biscuit. So...not really worth it. =(

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

Might as well go to Aladdin's. >:D

(oh, GOD NO, not the BRIAR PATCH!)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha!

Also, mmmmmmmm.....

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

ANYTHING but the BRIAR PATCH!

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

I have a MAP to the BRIAR PATCH.

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

At LEAST there is wine.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

YES.

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

Sending you all the best of health-resolution thoughts. For me the not knowing is the hardest part. Of course, most of life is "not knowing" something, but still. More answers are usually better than fewer.

*hugs*

[grnvixen.livejournal.com]

Ok, I need to try Bengal spice :).

Glad you got some answers, and joining you in wishing the f'n medical community would stop with the 'easy' answers on anything thyroid. There is sooooo much more that little gland does than they realize!!! Good Luck!

From my experience, FWIW

[geekmom.livejournal.com]

I've seen a lot of parents of autistic children take their kids to some sort of specialist with the expectation of paying a lot of money for a list of things to fix. It makes them feel like they're working on a problem, being proactive, etc. But the list of items to fix is somewhat suspect in my mind, and I think they're being given medical "busywork" and a bunch of placebo treatments.

More often than not, there's some reason that they need to keep coming back again and again and again for complicated testing or some sort of treatment. If they fix one "issue," there's another round of testing, and sure enough, there's something else that came back slightly out of statistical range on all the tests.

Do I know that's what happened here? No, not necessarily, but the expense and the laundry list of conditions give me the same sort of feel. If you give someone enough diagnoses, you've always got something else to point to when clearing up one issue doesn't make you feel better.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Good plan. Good luck.

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

Big hooray for the second opinion.

Elimination diets always sound very Zen to me.

Remove everything that makes you unhappy, and you know what will be left.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Remove everything that makes you unhappy, and you know what will be left.

Um. Very little? =D