Had a brainwave this morning that I am so impressed with that I just have to share it.
OK, so. my GP said my recent dizziness upon standing might be due to low blood pressure. I’ll find out more when I see him tomorrow afternoon.
Well if my blood pressure is low, the cause might actually be my Jardiance.
See, blood pressure and blood sugar are intimately linked. The higher your blood sugar, the more viscous your blood is. And the more viscous your blood, the more pressure your body has to generate in order to pump it around.
Which is gross to think about.
But if my Jardiance is doing its job, my blood sugar has gone down by a lot over the last week or so, and ergo, so might have my blood pressure!
Which would be fab. Two stroke risk factors taken down at the same time. Whatever makes me less likely to end up a gimptard is fine by me.
Only problem is, I am (was) still on two pretty powerful blood pressure lowering meds, Ramipril (your new co-worker from India) and Atenolol (those ancient headache pills in your grandmother’s medicine cabinet).
Ergo, blood pressure being too low. Possibly dangerously so. Eek.
But I haven’t taken either of them since I got off the phone with Doctor Chao. He said I should probably skip them just in case they really are the problem.
Fine by me.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the problem seems to have slackened somewhat. Or perhaps I am just getting better at dealing with it.
Either way, I can get around the apartment just fine now. Thank goodness. The clock still starts ticking when I stand up, but I can get my meals together and get my bathroom duties done without much issue.
Getting to my appointment tomorrow will be… interesting. I will have to stay standing for as long as it takes to get from the apartment to the cab,
Pretty sure I can do it. It’s not as bad when I am moving purposefully, So only the elevator ride down should be a challenge.
Golly, this life of mine is sure full of fun adventures!
Massy Fecked Saga
So I had already started re-playing the original Mass Effect when I came across a really good deal on Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which is the first three games in the series compiled together and remastered.
Perfect! I thought. It had been long enough since I played the original games that I barely remembered them at all, but I remembered them as being very good.
Ergo, perfectly replay fodder. And a good way to get over having totally burned out on Oblivion after a mere 450 hours of playtime.
So I bought it. And downloaded it/ Which took FOREVER because the mofo is 106 gigs. Plus I had to do a TON of HD space clearing to make room for its fat ass.
But finally it was here! Hello, nostalgia!
It didn’t work.
Turns out my computer’s CPU doesn’t have enough cores.
For a revamped version of a game from 2007.
Life freakin’ stinks.
More after the break.
Well that sucked
Once more, life punches me in the gut. Literally, it feels like.
So at like 7:50 pm or so I was chilling in bed feeling kinda depressed and dispirited when I realized I needed to pee.
In fact, my back teeth were floatin’.
So I got up, went to my bathroom, assumed the male urination stance, and started to pee. But this time, peeing came with a bonus dish of extraordinary pain.
Felt like someone was feeding my bladder through a meat grinder. I could clearly feel that my pee was having to force its way past some kind of blockage or narrowing of my waterworks and that was not a fun process.
Worse, as often seems to be the case with me, this pain was also reflected in my testicles. Felt like someone was trying to crush them in an iron fist. This, in turn, made my head hurt in that center of the forehead spot so popular with my symptoms lately and THAT pain also made me nauseous.
Any man who’s had a tap to the sack knows the sort of nausea I am talking about.
So I was suddenly in a world of fucking pain. And it all started with that blockage or narrowing somewhere around the exit to my bladder.
This was not entirely a surprise because that’s the exact area that was at fault the last time I got a prostate infection – the one that had me peeing blood.
And I have been noticing a sort of slick foam forming on the surface of the water when I peed for a couple of weeks now.
Last time THAT happened was not long before that peeing blood incident.
And whaddaya know, the main side effect of Jardiance besides frequent urination is an increased risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
So I know what I am likely up against, god damn it. And I know I should probably go to the ER right about now, But I don’t want to.
The ER sucks.
So right now, my semi-adult plan is to sit tight and see what develops. I am close to going, so it will only take one more little push to get me out the door.
Like if, say, the NEXT time I have to pee, it hurts as much or more. And of course, if I start peeing blood again, I am out of here.
The other alternative is to wait and bring it up with my GP Doctor Chao tomorrow. That is probably stupid, but that doesn’t mean I ain’t gonna do it.
Right now, the only after-effects of the incident are a lingering soreness in the affected region and an overall hot, feverish feeling.
That fever certainly suggests an infection, doesn’t it?
The hits just keep on coming, don’t they? Ain’t life a peach.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.