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I heard from the cardiology office again today (maybe someday I’ll be able to update and say I have an actual prescription).

They were calling to say sorry it’s taking so long to get an appointment and mentioned that the doctor had been on vacation for 2 weeks, which explains the 2 weeks it took for them to get the note to her. I am concerned that no doctor was covering for her while she was out. Isn’t that how it normally works?

So they said something about how the doctor was planning on increasing my clonidine dose till I got in to see her. I said I wasn’t taking it any longer because it was making my blood pressure go UP not down (this was because it was making my heart rate slightly lower, which always increases my blood pressure). So she said she’d give the doctor another message, labeling it high priority since I’m not currently on any BP meds. We’ll see what happens next, I guess.

I forgot to mention before that the first person I talked to said the 2 medications that I requested she prescribe one of contained sulfa so she wouldn’t prescribe. These are the only category of BP drugs that have helped me, but my old family doctor had prescribed the version that DID have sulfa in it so I can’t take it (my health insurance only covers 2 out of like 8 drugs in this category). According to my health care formulary and drugs.com, there are two types of each drug in this category. One has a diuretic and has sulfa. One doesn’t. Shouldn’t a cardiologist know this?

I heard back from the scheduling people at the cardiologist office today. They said the doctor was coming in for a little while tomorrow afternoon and was seeing people on a waiting list and that they could put me on the waiting list tomorrow. I said I couldn’t because we have reservations for tomorrow afternoon. So they said they’d call if the doctor came in another day and was seeing people on a waiting list.

Oh well. I’ll see her at the beginning of December at least. My blood pressure has been like this for months…what’s another few weeks?

I got a different asthma med to try today while I was at the allergist. I take Singulair and had been taking Advair Diskus but even the 500 strength didn’t bring me to my pre-asthma breathing. I had mentioned it to my allergist and he told me that when I was low on the Advair he’d switch me to something else, which is Symbicort. I need to finish up the Advair first though so it will still be a few weeks till I try it. I see him again in a month then. I guess I didn’t mention it to him sooner because I thought that’s just how it was going to be with asthma. But I realized when I was on the prednisone in September for bronchitis that it doesn’t have to be that way…assuming that there’s something else that will allow me to breath as well as the prednisone did.

I also called my cardiologist today because they never called me back after I called about taking a different blood pressure med around…October 20th? So I talked to a nurse and she said the doctor had just received the note yesterday. I didn’t say anything about it but I was thinking…what the hell???? They’re a CARDIOLOGY office. They should deliver/read notes before TWO WEEKS. The nurse said the doctor wanted to see me before prescribing something because of my allergies and asthma and such. Understandable. Then she said that Dec. 4 appointment that was scheduled was a little far away and I should be seen sooner and that she’ll have the schedulers call me (I hope they actually do). Again, I was thinking…if she thinks I should be seen sooner…shouldn’t I have been seen TWO WEEKS AGO???