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Yesterday was my consult with the ears, nose and throat doctor to determine that yes, my primary care physician did really send me off to get a sleep study and someone who is qualified will have to look at the results and that someone is... the ears, nose and throat guy apparently.
Did you follow all that?
Anywho, I pop in to the office and fill out three pages of paperwork about my insurance, family health, medications, etc. Then, I get to go to the back to have EN&T explain what the sleep study entails (not a lot of sleep, apparently) and by the way he wants to check my ears, nose and throat. It's his job, it's in the name of the company, I let him do his thing.
I'm sitting there, tongue depressor grossing me out because it's all gross and wood-like and IN MY MOUTH, and the doctor says "You have exceptional tonsils."
Erm... What the hell does that mean, I wonder?
I ask if that's good or bad.
Good if it means that it's the cause of my fatigue - tonsils can drop down a bit while you sleep and if they're large, as mine apparently are, they can basically make you stop breathing until you roll over and reposition. So if it is the exceptional tonsils of doom, then an operation and no more sleep issues blah blah happy cakes.
Bad if it means that it's the cause of the fatigue because an operation means ten to twelve days of feeling like crap on a tongue depressor.
Assuming, of course, that it is the tonsils that are causing the problem in the first place. Until the sleep study results come in, he won't know what the issue is, or even if a sleep disorder/condition/death tonsils is an issue at all.
Exceptional tonsils, wtf?
Did you follow all that?
Anywho, I pop in to the office and fill out three pages of paperwork about my insurance, family health, medications, etc. Then, I get to go to the back to have EN&T explain what the sleep study entails (not a lot of sleep, apparently) and by the way he wants to check my ears, nose and throat. It's his job, it's in the name of the company, I let him do his thing.
I'm sitting there, tongue depressor grossing me out because it's all gross and wood-like and IN MY MOUTH, and the doctor says "You have exceptional tonsils."
Erm... What the hell does that mean, I wonder?
I ask if that's good or bad.
Good if it means that it's the cause of my fatigue - tonsils can drop down a bit while you sleep and if they're large, as mine apparently are, they can basically make you stop breathing until you roll over and reposition. So if it is the exceptional tonsils of doom, then an operation and no more sleep issues blah blah happy cakes.
Bad if it means that it's the cause of the fatigue because an operation means ten to twelve days of feeling like crap on a tongue depressor.
Assuming, of course, that it is the tonsils that are causing the problem in the first place. Until the sleep study results come in, he won't know what the issue is, or even if a sleep disorder/condition/death tonsils is an issue at all.
Exceptional tonsils, wtf?