Health Log [8th March 2010]

I know some of you have been waiting for this post.

Thank you for your concern :)
It never fails to warm the heart.

Just to recap,
I went for a most traumatic scope
on the 26th February 2010,
and I came out alive and badly traumatised.

So today, I went for the results of my biospy,
the test on the sample of my stomach
that they scrap out during the endoscope.

Doc says he found nothing wrong with me.

Nothing,
not even a sign of severe acid reflux.

I told him I don't know what to think,
after all that hassle, tests and to-and-fro,
the results are the same:

I am pretty healthy in the eyes of the specialists.

He said that different people have different tolerance of acid.

Some have high volume of acid reflux,
but they dont feel it;
others have just minor reflux,
yet their sensitivity towards this is higher.

Hence I might have a more sensitive upper tract,
leading to discomfort now and then.

He discontinued my medication,
and gave me a 1-year open date,
just in case.

Following that,
I went to the next floor to the voice clinic.

I told my speech therapist what the Gastro specialist said.

She smiled, and said just as she predicted.

She told me she saw many like me,
that have negative results for the gastro endoscope,
yet truly suffering from the symptoms that I experienced.

She then scheduled me for a throat endoscope,
which she said was different from the ENT scope I have done earlier.

This scope, she explained,
will be able to allow the doctor to see clearer
what is going on in the throat.

If there are still signs of inflammation due to acid reflux,
the doctor might prescribe me other types of acid reflux medication,
other than omoprezole.

Really,
this entire episode of scopes and scopes,
tires me out completely.

But I do want to be positive about it.

Perhaps I should just take it that,
I am doing a complete checkup,
on my Heart, Stomach, Nose and Throat.

I feel old already,
having gone through all these.

Hope that the scope will be my last and final one.

I shall take heart, and be strong.