Let's get this blog started, already

So, 2009 has been a hellava year for me. Not in a good way.

It started with the onset of migraine headaches in February. My doctor sent me for a MRI of my brain, and told me not to worry, it's just to rule out some stuff. She said it would probably come back normal, and then we'd just try some medication.

Well, I have never claimed to be normal, and apparently neither has my brain. They found a tiny spot on the pons of my brain (in the brain stem). So after a weekend of FREAKING OUT, I got a referral to a neurologist. He said it's not a stroke, it's not a tumor, but it did look like an enlarged blood vessel. Had to get another MRI, and a shit load of blood work. Blood work comes back a little wacky, but not to worry, I'm not dying. They suspect I have something called "antiphospholipid antibody syndrome". Treatment= low dose of aspirin a day. Imitrex for migraines. Repeat blood work in September.

Now it's March, and suddenly I am waking up in the middle of the night with this annoying, stabbing kind of pain on my left side towards my groin. I let it go the first time, but when it happened 2 weeks later again at 3 am, I called the doctor. She has me come in for an exam, and thinks I injured myself. Tells me that she can't help me unless I'm presenting with symptoms, but if I DO get symptoms I need to go to the ER. Fast forward to the next week, and I'm in the ER with excruciating pain. Blood tests, sonograms, INTERNAL sonograms, and they have no idea what's wrong. The doctors think I have kidney stones, but there's no evidence of that on the sono or in my blood/urine. The sono does, however show a "mass" in my uterus, so they load me up with pain pills and send me to the OB/GYN.

My GYN decides I must have ovarian cysts, but he wants his own sonogram. So that gets scheduled for 4 weeks out. This was in April, which takes the sono out to May. He says he wants to give it 4 weeks, to let "mother nature" fix it.

4 weeks later, I am in pain again, and having the sonogram, and now they think I'm having an ectopic pregnancy (I wasn't). The mass is more pronounced, and now I'm told that the doc still thinks it is ovarian cysts, but he needs an MRI to be sure.

MRI gets scheduled for June 12.

That's enough for this blog...
I'll post the rest of my adventures in a separate blog, because oh yes, there's more.