I see her every 2-3 weeks at the moment. I only mentioned the symptoms* that I know can be related to the disease I’m seeing her for. They apparently shouldn’t be near as bad, according to the results of my blood test (she usually calls me a few hours to a day after the appointment to tell me the results). So now I have yet another health issue to figure out, yay!
Anyone willing to bet whether I’ll be diagnosed as ‘stressed’ or ‘skinny young woman’ this time? Those were my diagnoses plenty of times when I described those symptoms. I’m not even a woman, so it comes with a little side dish of dysphoria.
*Light headedness and fainting to the point I don’t feel safe standing too long (though walking is fine), extreme night sweats, very high heart rate and very low blood pressure
Yeah, I had to figure mine out on my own. We bought a house and moved and in the process I lost my pill bag(!) Took a week to find it, but while we were moving, I felt GREAT! No dizzyness, no passing out, I could function.
When I found the bag I was like “OK, let’s figure out which one is the problem…” and I decided to start re-taking them one at a time…
First one was Carvedilol for blood pressure and I passed out 15 minutes later, no other meds in my system.
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a697042.html
Reported that back to my doctors, they switched me to Metoprolol and I’ve been (mostly) fine ever since.
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682864.html
Please don’t do what I did and stop taking your meds for a week! Talk to your pharmacist too!
Wow that sounds scary! But im glad it worked out for the best. Im just going to try and look up research and also work with my pharmacist.
It was scary, but at that point I had already had a heart attack and open heart surgery, nothing much scares me anymore. :)