Doctor Visit Yesterday

I had an appointment with the doctor to get some help with my sleeping problems yesterday.  My usual resident, Dr. Z. wasn’t available so I saw another resident. As I told Fred when I got home, I didn’t like her. She seemed not to care at all about me as a person but just as someone she could throw medication at.  {And my reason for thinking this? I mentioned I was going to be eight and a half hours on a plane to Italy — a good reason to get the restless leg syndrome under control — and there was no comment or follow-up. In contrast, when I mentioned going to Italy to Dr. Z. when I met him the first time, he was full of questions and we had a lovely little chat!}

Anyway, the bottom line is that I have to up my nortriptylene from 20 mg to 50 mgs a night. So, I did that last night and even though I still woke at 2 am, there was not the constant irritation of the restless leg syndrome. I got up because I was wide awake and went back to bed about an hour and a half later. Tonight, if I wake up at 2 am, I will stay in bed and count my breaths to 50 before getting up. {This is something Fred suggested to me and when I can remember to do it, it has often worked.}

And why was I not prescribed sleeping pills? Well, I may have bolloxed myself up by requesting a generic . Or it might be that she really didn’t know was I waking because of the restless legs or just waking? *I* certainly didn’t know when she asked me. Well, I will give it a few days and then, as she suggested, call back and report.

Off to physical therapy when I sign off. I have to get prescriptions for myself to be refilled and I need to pick up some Insulin for Fred after the PT session. This will be easy because the PT place is right above the pharmacy!

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott