[NON-BLOG] Another Health Update
Apr. 7th, 2004 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAfter picking up a variety of products at the Shopper's Drug Mart in downtown Kingston, and before coming back to do my laundry and type this E-mail, I went by the Queen's Health Clinic again, as recommended by the doctor in her voicemail message, to get someone to explain the X-ray results and their implications to me.
The nurse I saw at first couldn't explain it to me, but she did let me look at the X-ray report, which among other things indicate that everything's fine with my heart and that I have some sort of nodular growths appearing on the charts near where my lungs meet up with my windpipe.
The next person I saw, an actual doctor, went into more detail. It's fairly unlikely that I have asthma, simply because asthma doesn't produce these nodular growths. It is quite a manageable disease, caused for some unknown reasons (possibly environmental, possibly infectious, no one knows for sure since auto-immune diseses haven't been investigated in-depth) but marked in most cases by spontaneous remissions.
Corticosteroids are apparently used to treat sarcoidosis, though apparently they have quite a few serious side effects. In the meantime, my CAT scan is scheduled for the end of the month, and a respirologist has just set up an appointment with me for the 19th at 1 o'clock, on her office at 800 Princess Street.
Diagnoses are nice to have.
The nurse I saw at first couldn't explain it to me, but she did let me look at the X-ray report, which among other things indicate that everything's fine with my heart and that I have some sort of nodular growths appearing on the charts near where my lungs meet up with my windpipe.
The next person I saw, an actual doctor, went into more detail. It's fairly unlikely that I have asthma, simply because asthma doesn't produce these nodular growths. It is quite a manageable disease, caused for some unknown reasons (possibly environmental, possibly infectious, no one knows for sure since auto-immune diseses haven't been investigated in-depth) but marked in most cases by spontaneous remissions.
Corticosteroids are apparently used to treat sarcoidosis, though apparently they have quite a few serious side effects. In the meantime, my CAT scan is scheduled for the end of the month, and a respirologist has just set up an appointment with me for the 19th at 1 o'clock, on her office at 800 Princess Street.
Diagnoses are nice to have.
