I spent the morning at trawna western hospital getting nerve transmission tests - this involved a) watching a blob in the middle of a TV screen while the rest of the screen had psychedelic patterns dancing; b) listening to white noise in one ear and a ticking noise in the other (and then trading sides); and c) having first arms, then legs, repeatedly stimulated so that the thumb+fingers / toes twitch. (I felt like a pithed frog that gets zapped with a battery and the legs twitch.) all this while electrical wires all over the scalp and down the spine while the passage of the nerve signals is monitored. Quite odd, actually; but I've never celebrated my birthday THAT way before. New ground broken!
it's a followup test - another, friday evening next I get an MRI. all about numbness/tingling on inside of legs from knees down to big toes - prolly diabetic neuropathy (the neurologist decided when I visited her in early October), but the presentation is unusual apparently, hence further tests.
it was interesting enough, though I could have lived without the pithed-frog part. the technician and I both went to scarborough college [part of UofT], and had the same person teach us analytical chemistry, we discovered. a lot better than your recent nurse-from-hades experiences.
Well, diabetic neuropathy is no picnic, but it's a bit better than some of the alternatives, I suppose. The feeling-in-your-feet test is the one I always get, even though I tell them that I HAVE no feeling in my feet.
Every two weeks when I go to participate in the ulcer study at Kings, they have a piece of paper with a scale 0-10 of how painful my ulcer is. No matter how many times I tell them just to fill it out with "0" themselves they insist I do it.
If I get permission to have the gastric bypass, the diabetes is likely to get better but the side-effects that I already have will not get better, just not get worse.
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:47 pm (UTC)I spent the morning at trawna western hospital getting nerve transmission tests - this involved a) watching a blob in the middle of a TV screen while the rest of the screen had psychedelic patterns dancing; b) listening to white noise in one ear and a ticking noise in the other (and then trading sides); and c) having first arms, then legs, repeatedly stimulated so that the thumb+fingers / toes twitch. (I felt like a pithed frog that gets zapped with a battery and the legs twitch.) all this while electrical wires all over the scalp and down the spine while the passage of the nerve signals is monitored. Quite odd, actually; but I've never celebrated my birthday THAT way before. New ground broken!
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Date: 2009-11-02 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 08:56 pm (UTC)it was interesting enough, though I could have lived without the pithed-frog part. the technician and I both went to scarborough college [part of UofT], and had the same person teach us analytical chemistry, we discovered. a lot better than your recent nurse-from-hades experiences.
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Date: 2009-11-02 09:40 pm (UTC)Every two weeks when I go to participate in the ulcer study at Kings, they have a piece of paper with a scale 0-10 of how painful my ulcer is. No matter how many times I tell them just to fill it out with "0" themselves they insist I do it.
If I get permission to have the gastric bypass, the diabetes is likely to get better but the side-effects that I already have will not get better, just not get worse.