New PCP and no more High Blood Pressure Meds??

Jun 29, 2011

I have never really felt all that fuzzy with my prior PCPs. I've had two through a large multi-location clinic here in Austin, but it's like a cattle call. They rush you in and rush you out and it's just a pain. My doctor also wasn't supportive of surgery and didn't want to hear about the differences in the sleeve and others that she had all this horrible experience with. I just didn't agree with her often. I felt like she dismissed me too often. I am more than a paitient, ya know? ANYWAY... so I told myself that since she had ultimately agreed to sign whatever paperwork I wanted because I "technically met the criteria" that I would change to a small practice (I seem to like those better and over the past few years, we've changed all of our other providers to smaller practices).

Today, I met with the new lady I found and OMG, she actually listened to me. She knew what surgery I had and knew the differences. She has other paitients that have had great success with it. She's a bit younger than I expected, but I kind of like that, she seems to take time to research things. She took her time. She wasn't buzzing around asking a million questions. She actually let me ask stuff and tell her what I thought and then either agreed or asked if I thought about XYZ. It was an actual conversation instead of being barked at. LOL. I also found out the new one sees HALF the paitients in a day as my old one. No wonder she wasn't rushed!

So... I'm going to have my records transfered to her and we'll draw all new blood labs in six months to see where things stand and how I've changed in that direction. The big shocker was my blood pressure. It was really low right after surgery and has since stablized right around normal. I am just waiting for it to go back up to start back on my pills, but she said at this point, it would be higher again so she's pretty sure that it won't. Apparently, just losing the 25 pounds that I lost might have been enough to get off the meds. I'm still a little skeptical and she said to absolutely start back on them if it goes up more than a day, but she thinks I'll be fine.

Wow. I'm not sure I believe it, but how cool would that be?

I really need to exercise more. It's starting to affect my head. But I can still only walk about 5-10 minutes at a time (well, shuffle really) because my tummy muscles are still so sore. It sucks, but I'm hanging in there.

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