Keep in mind, the more tests he does, the more money he makes from your insurance. A lot of people don't realize that. They will do all sorts of testing, whether or not you need it, just because the doctor says it's time. I'm turning 40 in a month. My doc says it's time to get a mammogram. Nope. Not until I feel I need to. I have a very low chance of getting breast cancer, so why pay the doctor for testing I don't need?
In your case Dawg, the testing is done. Look at the results, change what you need to, then get retested in March to see how the numbers have changed for the better
Thankfully he never really pushes stuff or whatever, he actually like barely does hah I get blood work every year at the physical but I hadn’t had a full panel in a while, I thought I had been. I had to insist on the sugar thing, like to get the labs. So idk. I would have thought he’d want to make more? But I guess he figured since the physical was in March he would test then but I was trying to replace the physical/get seen sooner but it was weird but yeah. He usually only does actually necessary stuff which is why I like him, like when I was due for the heart thing in April, and I’ve had a few pelvic ultrasounds, not really sure why, but I think I have liquid in one and also I was having pain at one point so he ordered another but I would have preferred like a scan of the abdomen or something not another pelvic thing since it wasn’t there but yah idk. Saying all this, I’m realizing that he’s almost kinda the opposite with testing and doing too little so I feel like I need a new doctor. Or at least one that actually tells me stuff. I found out stuff about the tests years ago that I never knew till I joined this chart thing last month. I feel like they should be telling me things
I read the book, The Case Against Sugar. Very eye opening!
We have great water from our 160 foot well…no chemicals.
Doesn't get much better, maybe an Alpine spring if you live in the mountains? I think a lot of people forget that we get a lot of minerals from our water, so a process like reverse osmosis is great at removing bacteria, but it makes the water taste flat and robs you of the good stuff.
And mammograms are not the only option, a sonogram is less painful and has less false alarms. It's old technology now.
Forgive the ignorance, what's the difference? I saw a screening on Grey's anatomy but that's it.
A mammogram presses breast tissue ad flat as possible between two plates, then they take an x-ray. A sonogram can be performed with a wand and some gel, it uses sound waves and a computer creates the image based off how the waves bounce back off tissues. It's more accurate when regarding density, so you can avoid unnecessary exploratory surgery. A mammogram just shows shadows, a sonogram can look at each level of tissue so a fluid filled cyst (which are common and related to hormonal cycles) is easy to differentiate from an abnormal growth.
