There is A LOT going on with me healthwise. A lot. I have some heart weirdness that will either require surgery or just be a benign watch-and-wait-for-years pain in the butt--I'm currently trying to sort that out.
I had high blood pressure but it has come down either with use of prednisone (for asthma but they were thinking my adrenals were causing hormonal bp issues and I was slotted for some testing) OR some recent weight loss. However, I notice that I feel so much worse now with the prednisone and my readings are even lower.
So now my BP is TOO low. Like 90/50 and I really feel it. I feel like I'm going to pass out constantly, especially when I get up. I'm dizzy. Incredibly weak. I could barely walk at the store. I have chest pain (But no heart attack, spent some time in the hospital this week with asthma and my heart was checked thoroughly).Today I was sweating and shaking and couldn't concentrate.
I was able to mitigate the worst of it with salt (a trick I learned from my endocrinologist for low carb eating). I just doused my dinner in salt. Now I'm eating olives. I feel better but not great. My bp is 90/50 even after the salt (I have no idea what it was when I felt so bad earlier- as I couldn't take it then).
I called my doc yesterday b/c I noticed it was kind of low while in the hospital (but not super low like it is now --116/65, the 65 seemed too low to me) and wondered if I needed to change the bp meds. I haven't heard back from them and probably won't until Monday.
So I gotta get through the weekend and especially tonight since the meds are still in my system. I am going to stop one of the bp meds tomorrow and just try the 1 original one for now and see how that goes (we added a second when my bp stayed high, so I am hoping just stopping one med will help). And keep eating salt.
Anyone have any other ideas/suggestions/advice? Or just hold my hand. I am NOT having a good health week.
V
I had high blood pressure but it has come down either with use of prednisone (for asthma but they were thinking my adrenals were causing hormonal bp issues and I was slotted for some testing) OR some recent weight loss. However, I notice that I feel so much worse now with the prednisone and my readings are even lower.
So now my BP is TOO low. Like 90/50 and I really feel it. I feel like I'm going to pass out constantly, especially when I get up. I'm dizzy. Incredibly weak. I could barely walk at the store. I have chest pain (But no heart attack, spent some time in the hospital this week with asthma and my heart was checked thoroughly).Today I was sweating and shaking and couldn't concentrate.
I was able to mitigate the worst of it with salt (a trick I learned from my endocrinologist for low carb eating). I just doused my dinner in salt. Now I'm eating olives. I feel better but not great. My bp is 90/50 even after the salt (I have no idea what it was when I felt so bad earlier- as I couldn't take it then).
I called my doc yesterday b/c I noticed it was kind of low while in the hospital (but not super low like it is now --116/65, the 65 seemed too low to me) and wondered if I needed to change the bp meds. I haven't heard back from them and probably won't until Monday.
So I gotta get through the weekend and especially tonight since the meds are still in my system. I am going to stop one of the bp meds tomorrow and just try the 1 original one for now and see how that goes (we added a second when my bp stayed high, so I am hoping just stopping one med will help). And keep eating salt.
Anyone have any other ideas/suggestions/advice? Or just hold my hand. I am NOT having a good health week.
V
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