My appointment didn't start off on a great note because I confessed to stopping the prednisone and Dr. Thompson got quite upset with me. I explained my reasons with all the side effects and the recent benefits were not noticeable. I just wanted him to justify the need and I would gladly continue the use, he wouldn't do it, he just griped at me. He did not ask me to continue taking prednisone though. I was still very congested and somewhat wheezy. He started me on Zyflo (an asthma med Dr. Olson suggested months ago) and wants to check my liver function in a month.
It seems that the actual purpose of the EGD/stomach biopsy was to look for parasites in search of one last cause for my increased eosinophil counts. The results all came back negative though. Everything was clear. Dr. Thompson said "it looks like everything has been ruled out and this (hyper eosinophilia) must be the diagnosis. We need to do a bone marrow biopsy, but I want to talk to Dr. Olson about all of this first." He completely ignored my questions about this topic. He said he had to check on something.
I left with such minimal information it seemed ridiculous. Had I made him that angry just because I questioned a medicine? What would a bone marrow biopsy prove? What does it mean to say I guess I have hyper eosinophilia? Do I really have it or not? Is he not talking to me about it because he doesn't know much about it? Who can answer these questions?
