So, news: not only was I successful at getting insurance in Texas to approve a tubal ligation (namely the removal of my Fallopian tubes), but that will actually be happening soon enough to post about it here!

I am in the process of weaning off of certain medications of mine to stop taking them in preparation for that, because I don’t want to give anesthetists any more of a reason to be clinically frustrated with me than I’m sure they are by virtue of my red hair making it difficult to knock me out when I need to be knocked out. I’ve read my medical files from the radiofrequency ablations that I’ve had for my migraines, and my care team is very aware of the difficulty at which it is to knock me out (“knock me out”? how do you phrase that?), owing to the fact that they are aware of my natural hair color in addition to whatever proclivities I naturally have.

And by that, I mean whatever other proclivities I naturally have. I’m very much aware of the hair color thing.

I am immensely frustrated at my gynecologist even though he’s the one performing the operation because he underestimates the level of anxiety that certain things give me, and coupled with the increasing difficulty at getting an IV started in me that has only gotten so much worse over the years, maybe I need to consider finding a gynecologist who takes my needs seriously. I don’t think I have enough time to ask my psychiatrist for anything although I concede that I very well should have, so I’ll just repeatedly ask the outpatient wing of the hospital where this will be performed to give me Versed before they give me propofol… or maybe even something stronger than that. I’m normally given Versed before propofol for radiofrequency ablations now.

I’m not sure… what it has been about these antibiotics and me aside from the fact that my symptoms, coming on as suddenly as they did, were indicative of sensitization to doxycycline and sensitization to tetracyclines as we know them to be, but I began having symptoms that weren’t quite “why would I develop an allergy to a medication I’ve randomly needed to take since childhood” that were still really concerning in light of my health history, so I finished the rest of the IV treatment for cellulitis at the local hospital, given other medications through IV line as well for nausea, stomach pain, and allergens in case this has just been a really wild ride with doxycycline. It’s actually safer now for me to do antibiotics by IV at the local hospital, much as I despise these people (and may accordingly transfer care over elsewhere, one [smaller] town over) because I can be preloaded with antihistamines and even steroids if needed so that I don’t continue to have these reactions. And I will make all the time in the world I have to if that means that I have less, or no, reactions to these medications when I need them… especially if any untoward side effects can be managed.