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Woke up with only one knee hurting. losing weight.

did make a call to Dexcom. maybe CGMS is an answer

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Woke up with BOTH knees hurting, though I know it will take a while for the Euflexxa injections to really help.  It takes three treatments to be complete.  Still also very stiff overall.  Especially since last night was a dog agility night.

Looking forward to feeling better.

I found my current orthopedist because my endocrinologist had suggested Synvisc. What I like about this doctor is that he doesn't tell you what you want to hear I almost had a knee replacement because that surgeon told me what I wanted to hear. fortunately his office staff was screwed up.

my doctor uses Euflexxa now, which is just as painful as Symvisc. I have it in both joints this time and had two rounds to go.

glad I am not walking the ut Austin campus this week.

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Got my A1C back from yesterdays lab test and man it sucks. Now I am really looking forward to that appointment.

seeing the orthopedist in a few

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I have to go to Austin and be on the UT campus. It looks like a LOT of walking. Right now, my plan is to stay in the dorm (San Jacinto), and we have to park in the San Jacinto Parking Lot. Most of the meetings are in the ACE building. Looking at maps, SCARY. Last week wasn't good, but weight workouts helped, as did walking the water. I am kicking around the idea of buying a cheap bicycle, but not sure I can ride on either.
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The gym thing is hard for me. I almost wish I had gotten a stationary bike.

Part of it is space. Today someone sat a paper towel and a swim cap next to my coffee cup. I would have moved it if had something.

I’m fact, I did as soon as I noticed. I was obviously coming in while she was dressing.

I had it when the gym is crowded so I prefer early morning.

one way I solved the space issue was to get a huge duffle bag on wheels, that way everything I might at the gym is in it. I don’t bring it in sometimes especially if I am doing a cardio only day.

using my phone helps me the most. I am on the bike now and I hop between email, this blog post, Facebook and Twitter.

some times I use Xbox games to distract.

just trying to make things better

good news, have lost some weight! though gained some during a stress fest

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Just got that from my doctor.  Lovely.  It would have been REAL annoying if I hadn’t been home today to receive it.  It claims I have 30 daysto find someone else.  And I would go back there?

Oh, and the other thing that annoyed me, is that he gained weight at a rate more rapid than I did, and still bitched at me for gaining weight.  What a hypocrite!

My 90 day supply of Dexilant is finally on it’s way. 

My approvals ran out back in early March.  The gastro doctor (now fired), got the approvals done but only wrote the script for a 30 day supply as I had not been into see her that year.

Then she wrote a script for 90 days of Protonix.  She also got approvals for that.  Oh, Protonix has never done a thing for me.

Then she wrote a script for 60 days of Dexilant.  By the way, Medco charges the same whether it’s a 60 day or a 90 day supply.  Waste of money.

So I had to cancel each of those scripts, and request another one.  Took about three weeks each time.

I gave up and fired her in May.  Contacted my primary care physician, and he claimed he sent the script in, but wouldn’t do anything else unless I came into the office.  Medco never received script.

We fired each other yesterday.  Did I mention that it is irritating to watch someone gain weight who is bitching at you for your weight?

Got home from the appointment, emailed the endo’s office, and they got the script in and it is being processed now.  FOR the right drug, for the right amount, and the right quantity.

Do you wonder why I am firing some doctors and not others?

Unnecessary testing, especially when you bill me because insurance won't pay for.

We should only have the conversation once. Frankly, I consider myself under palliative care, keep me functioning so I can teach and play with my dogs. When that isn't possible, its hospice care time.

Don't hold prescriptions hostage.

Be efficient – work by the clock, I do, why can't you. Surgeons and ObyGens are excepted, since can't always schedule things in advance.

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I am home and did some research, and since I have a PPO, I don’t need a primary care physician (I suspected that).  Really all I’ve used one for, is to get sent to a specialist, and frankly I haven’t been happy with the ones this doctor has sent me to.  I do much better by asking my endo, or going to doctor’s my friends go to.  Besides, just about everyone he has sent me to is in Oklahoma, or pretty close.

I have three options, a Primacare that is on the way to and from school and is open in the evenings, a Concentra that has 8-5 office hours, that is closer, and a primary care physician a few blocks away that has evening hours.  The Primacare is the most attractive at this point.  Especially since it’s close to the gym.