Are you in the UK? If you are....OMG, the medical care there is SLOW and mediocre.
Not sure about the POTS too, but anything is possible at this point.
I still believe this is DI or something Endo involving the kidney.
Well...keep us posted.
Its ok don't worry.....
So far I have an app for neurophyiology in July
waiting on scan app and eeg
I said to my doc about the urine being sweet .... He did no urine test or asked me for a sample I am gona get a copy of my records as I might be able to find out the actual results of blood, thyroid ect ......
But so far to me anyway it could be a problem with my single kidney with hypertension and something else not sure what.....
One of my friends thinks pots??? With Di
I don't know but what I do know is they need to sort it out.
Thanks for helping you have all been great!
Oh and if I get to the point I will go a&e
Oops- noticed I made a number of mistakes on my last post to you. I meant:
"I'd probably BE going to get emergent care."
"...how THEY could help me get stabilized..."
"...see if I could get my appointments moved UP..."
Looks like I need to proofread before posting, expecially as they don't have an edit feature on this site! I'm sorry about the blunders.
Please keep us posted dear.
I hope you get some answers soon.
You suggested in your opinion this was not anything for a neurologist to investigate, but ideally an endocrinologist instead. You also suggested she should ask for a brain MRI, and wondered about diabetes insipidus and about a possible adrenal issue.
With diabetes insipidus and adrenal issues both having to do with endocrine hormones which the master gland, the pituitary in the brain, has a direct bearing on, I wondered if you were thinking of the pituitary when you suggested the brain MRI. Now I know your answer is no. Hope this clears up your confusion as to what I was talking about with my question?
Getting a copy of your medical records is a great idea! If you can organize them in a folder, they can be pretty easy to lay your hands on when you are planning to visit a doctor... you can have them at your fingertips anywhere you go. You'll want to make sure if they look at them you get your copies back so you don't have to start over in getting more copies, which I imagine might cost some money?
If you don't have one already, please buy a blood pressure monitor from the store. The instructions on them are quite simple and you can learn if you are having high blood pressure readings frequently or not at home that way. Hypertension is definitely something to watch for if you have a lowered glomerular filtration rate (GFR) with your one kidney. Also, if you do, avoiding NSAIDs such as ibuprofen I believe is generally advised too (have a sibling with two kidneys, but one is congenitally defective)- you probably already know that about NSAIDs.
There is a way you can do the "poor man's tilt table" test at home. Use a blood pressure cuff that also takes your pulse. Omron is generally a good brand if you can get one of those.
Take your pulse or have someone do it that knows how- that's in case the monitor gets the pulse wrong (sometimes they seem better for the blood pressure than the pulse reading). Lay down for about ten minutes. Take your blood pressure and pulse with the monitor & then take your pulse in your wrist. Then stand up. Wait a full minute and take your pulse, etc. again. If your pulse is more than 30 beats a minute faster standing than it is when you are lying down, you might even remain standing and take it again after you've been standing five minutes. Record the numbers and show them to your doctor you and ask if you could be referred to an electrophysiologist for a REAL tilt table test. Another test that might be done to confirm P.O.T.S. is a standing plasma norepinephrine test.
If you learn you have any form of dysautonomia, including if you have P.O.T.S., as I do, feel free to join the dysautonomia forum here on medhelp and ask questions! Here's a link:
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Dysautonomia-Autonomic-Dysfunction/show/266