Post by kb on Dec 10, 2007 1:29:40 GMT -5
Well i saw my GP again today, and i think i finally got the point across about how serious my fatigue issues are. Heres the thing but, apart from doing a few blood tests im pretty much being told theres not really anything they can do to help, i knew this but its disheartening to hear it nonetheless.
So ill get the tests done, looking for any possible causes of fatigue and in the new year those will be treated.
What concerns me but is he mentioned treating depression when i come back, saying that everyone with chronic fatigue without fail ends up with depression. This makes sense, and im quite willing to have the treatment, but what worries me is the label.
Will that be whats seen first now? Oh she has depression just treat that, and my real fatigue issues will get ignored. To add to that, people i know, i cant help but think will hear that i have depression and think oh well theres nothing really wrong, she's just depressed.
Im happy to be treated for depression, i know i suffer with it because of all ive been through, but i dont feel its the cause of my problems, just a side effect. I think my GP see's that, but i worry what others, including other doctors will believe.
So yet again i feel as if medicine has abandoned me, and im left to battle my illness all alone. When i do finally get better, ill have myself and myself only to thank, which i guess is positive, but isnt really helping me now. I already feel i do everything i can to battle this fatigue. Lol, this probs could have gone in either rant and rave or depression, so if anyone wants to move it feel free.
Ive always attributed my fatigue to the endo pain, that it was just a side effect, now ive been pain free since my surgery and im still debilitated by the fatigue, while im doing alot better, im still not functioning at a much higher level than before the surgery.
Im feeling very frustrated right now, and would greatly appreciate if anyone who has/had chronic fatigue as part of or a seperate issue to the endo has any suggestions of what more i can do.
I already have reduced stressors as much as possible, eat exceptionally well, exercise as often as i can (im not always well enough to cope with this), take lots of supplements and herbs. What more can i do?
So ill get the tests done, looking for any possible causes of fatigue and in the new year those will be treated.
What concerns me but is he mentioned treating depression when i come back, saying that everyone with chronic fatigue without fail ends up with depression. This makes sense, and im quite willing to have the treatment, but what worries me is the label.
Will that be whats seen first now? Oh she has depression just treat that, and my real fatigue issues will get ignored. To add to that, people i know, i cant help but think will hear that i have depression and think oh well theres nothing really wrong, she's just depressed.
Im happy to be treated for depression, i know i suffer with it because of all ive been through, but i dont feel its the cause of my problems, just a side effect. I think my GP see's that, but i worry what others, including other doctors will believe.
So yet again i feel as if medicine has abandoned me, and im left to battle my illness all alone. When i do finally get better, ill have myself and myself only to thank, which i guess is positive, but isnt really helping me now. I already feel i do everything i can to battle this fatigue. Lol, this probs could have gone in either rant and rave or depression, so if anyone wants to move it feel free.
Ive always attributed my fatigue to the endo pain, that it was just a side effect, now ive been pain free since my surgery and im still debilitated by the fatigue, while im doing alot better, im still not functioning at a much higher level than before the surgery.
Im feeling very frustrated right now, and would greatly appreciate if anyone who has/had chronic fatigue as part of or a seperate issue to the endo has any suggestions of what more i can do.
I already have reduced stressors as much as possible, eat exceptionally well, exercise as often as i can (im not always well enough to cope with this), take lots of supplements and herbs. What more can i do?