please help me compose myself for my Dr. visit today

going to see my Kidney Dr. today and I am really hoping for good news, and I realized that I am on the verge of bawling my eyes out if I don't hear good news.  Luckily my husband is going w/me today and I will prep him to ask the questions in my notebook but I don't want to sit there w/my eyes as red as tomatoes w/snot coming out my nose.  I have carefully thought about what I want to say whichever way my lab results come back as.

Can anyone help me not cry, any suggesstions on how you handle it?  Sometimes I try to dig my nails into my palms but that only holds back the tears for a minute or two.

Should I call the Dr.'s office and explain that if they tell me on my way there then I should be all done crying by the time I see the Dr.........or is that insane?  (plus am on 40mg of pred...my moods have been pretty stable but it is hard to keep them that way).

TIA!

 

I think if they give you bad news, they will certainly understand if you cry.. I know you might feel embarrassed but you can't help it! Just say "I'm sorry, it's the prednisone". I hope they don't give you any reason to cry but don't feel bad if you do. Since your husband is there, maybe just have him listen to the doc and take notes while you just tune out a bit and focus on keeping the tears in.

I really hope everything goes well though and please let us know!!!

you wont be the first to cry in there office im sure, but hopefully it will be really good news. got my figures crossed for you.

I hope everything went ok for you.

-Adrienne

thanks everyone, your responses meant so much to me. I did cry in the waiting room, got myself all worked up but having my husband there was a help and managed to keep it together in the appt.

we think that the Enalapril I was on was not helping me and that the Tekturna that I switched back to is, though it does not show up in my lab results yet. My proteins went up to 7.5 and albumin down to 2.5, not what I was hoping for (last time was proteins 2.6 and albumin 3) but..............I go back in 7 weeks so I hope to see improvement then. If not he wants to put me on Cellcept (next step drug) and take me off Imuran, he does not want me on both at the same time (they both suppress the immune system). Well, that poses a problem taking me off Imuran not sure what they want to put me on for my colitis, they "think" the Cellcept would help (he already talked to my GI) but I am going to get a second opinion b/c I don't want to flare again.

So I am just going to try to be really positive these next 7 weeks and hope this will work but in the meantime I will also seek out a 2nd opinion on what I can be on w/the Cellcept or if that could be enough? At least I can taper down prednisone again = )

I am going to start a new post to see if anyone has taken Cellcept for their colitis w/any success?

Chicubs - glad you made it over here!

Hi Old Hat,

That is my very next step = )

I am going to go to my primary tomorrow and get a referral to the Chrons and Colitis Center in Boston.

I'm excited to get a second and see what other treatments are out there.

I did a quick search and Cellcept has been used for UC though there are reasons why it is not, my quick understanding is that it is not as helpful and is a more dangerous drug.....makes sense to me. But my research for MCD is that Cellcept is my next step. So I just have to work it out somehow.

thanks again Old Hat and everyone else. At least I am not flaring right now, that is helping me be positive!