kaberett | Well, my GP expressed a sincere hope there's something obvious wrong with my bloods

We're gonna test me for renal function, liver function, thyroid function, bone profile, ESR, zinc, iron, vitD, vitB12 and serum folate, and hope that something obvious shows up. GP treated me like an expert patient, trusted my self-report of my PHQ-9 result, and asked sensible questions & appeared to understand my answers. He also made the appropriate noises when I went "lol ESR you know that's gonna be suggestive of systemic inflammation rite".

We have also further discussed loratadine (in particular, how much I can play with the dosage; putting it on repeat; writing me a scrip for more) and my NSAIDs (other people are also getting bitten by the manufacturing issue with mef; he's moved me onto naproxen).

So I didn't get to talk about everything but I have another appt a week on Thursday to discuss results (and maybe sort out more prescriptions), so. Job done, until tomorrow morning at 8.50.

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Hah, yes! I can never be bothered to remember what it stands for (well, I can never be bothered to remember "erythrocyte" - in order to do so I'd need to look up the etymology and Not Right Now Sorry), but yeah :-)

Hurrah hurrah hurrah for a GP who'll look a bit perplexed and go "I don't normally say this, but fingers crossed-" and here he crossed both fingers "- there's something obviously wrong with your bloods."

& it's been a while since my last liver function check, so I'm pleased we're running that through again.

No worries, I like looking medical things up on Wikipedia. (I'm serious.)

To save you the etymology: erythros, red; kytos, cell. It's the same as erythema (redness as a medical symptom, like a rash or a sunburn.)

And DEFINITELY hurrah for the GP who gets that sometimes "there's something obviously wrong with your bloods" really is the hoped-for result.

I get the impression it's usually shortened to "sed rate".
Glad they're actually looking for stuff!
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