New Here And Worried About My Mom, Please Help Posted: 06-09-06 10:04am
Bare with me this is my first forum
posting....My mom is 52, a smoker, and on
crappy state insurance that wont let her
see a decent doctor. That being said
heres whats going on....
Her symptoms are :
headaches
red skin spots (not itching)
insomnia at times
dizziness
ears ringing
extreme tiredness at times
weakness
bladder pain (when full)
spasms in toes and feet
hot flashes
she had some blood tests done and
everything looked normal except her red
blood cell count was 5.58 (high),
hemoglobin was 16.9 (high), and hematocrit
was 49.5 (high)
we've searched the net and don't have a
clue whats going on. The doctor doesn't
know either and doesn't seem concerned at
all, he just says oh thats weird I don't
know
any ideas as to where we should be
searching? Or what it might be?
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divinty
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 26 Location: uk
Posted: 06-22-06 18:41pm
Is she going through the menapouse? I
think you will need another doctor for
some different advise.
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sandyallen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
Posted: 06-22-06 19:09pm
Hi there and welcome! I am sorry to hear
about your .Mom, just ask her dr to do a
referral to a specialist that is more in
that type of field, the state should then
okay it or one similar. I am not a dr but
it seems to me that they should be running
more blood tests on her, has the dr given
her any different meds or is there any of
the meds that she is taking that has these
side effects, could she be starting into
menopause, has she seen a gyno for a pap
smear and talked to them about it.
Sometimes it helps to talk to your .Mom'
social worker and dr and be a little firm
but not nasty or buligerent(sp) it
sometimes gets the message across, she
should have a right to a second opinion
anyway.
Good luck to you and your.Mom and let us
know what you find out.
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rnuge
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Florida
Posted: 08-21-06 19:03pm
I'm new here and i'm sorry to hear about
your mom. I have some of your moms
symptoms and alot of different ones too.
You may want to look up polycythemia vera.
It's a rare blood disorder. Ask her
doctor about it and if he/she doesn't know
anything about it, you may want him/her to
refer your mom to a hematologist.
It wont' hurt. Hematologists specialize
in blood disorders.
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rnuge
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Florida
Posted: 08-21-06 19:06pm
I'm new here and i'm sorry to hear about
your mom. I have some of your moms
symptoms and alot of different ones too.
You may want to look up polycythemia vera.
It's a rare blood disorder. Ask her
doctor about it and if he/she doesn't know
anything about it, you may want him/her to
refer your mom to a hematologist.
It wont' hurt. Hematologists specialize
in blood disorders.
