I had my annual physical yesterday. Well, not quite annual. It’s been about 20 months since my last one - I skipped last year. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I just turned 43 and I can’t be skipping these things. So the good news is that even though I haven’t been feeling good about myself I did suck it up and schedule a physical. And go to it.
I have to say this was one of the smoothest doctor visit’s I’ve ever had. I arrived about 10 minutes early and before I could even finish one side of the little health survey they give you my name was called - 5 minutes early. I had a student nurse who walked me through the collection of the height and weight data. She may have been a student but she did know to have me take off my shoes. Last time the nurse didn’t and I came in at 6’1″. Of course she may have been seasoned enough to know she simply had to subtract an inch to get my real height. In any case, this time I took my shoes off and I came in at an even six feet.
It’s a good thing I took those shoes off too, because the scale was not kind. Of course this is a different scale than I normally use and I was almost fully clothes (sans shoes) but when I first got on it registered an even 300, something I have never seen before. Then it dropped to 299 before settling in at 299.5. THAT SUCKS!
I was ushered into the exam room and went through the normal 20 questions and assessments. The initial reading on my blood pressure came in at 132/80 and when I expressed surprise at it being so high the student nurse took another reading, saying something about how she didn’t like the cuff. This time it came in at 110/72, which is exactly what it was 20 months ago. I’m going to go with that one.
After the nurse left the doctor followed within a minute. We went through all the normal mumbo jumbo. He loved the family history my mom put together for me. He wasn’t concerned about some residual pain I have in my legs. We talked about some of the symptoms I have which lead me to believe I have sleep apnea and he agreed enough to give me a referral at a sleep clinic.
I had to setup another appointment for the blood work so that I could fast, I’m doing that on Monday so I should have the results by the end of next week I would guess.
I hesitated even reporting these results since they are pretty meaningless without the blood work but I didn’t want to hold back. But we’ll see how the blood work looks. I am not expecting it to be good and I’m hoping I can use it as the impetus I need.
Have you been avoiding going to your doctor? Stop it and make the call - you won’t regret it even if the scale doesn’t report what you would like it to.
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