Thanks for all the kind comments and emails. I feel much better.
What started off as some weird kind of bug or virus, ended up as a nail biter at my doctor’s office.
I started off Monday feeling generally ‘OK’ but not great. That deteriorated rapid until i was wracked with cold sweats and body aches. A bout the time headaches and dizziness started, I left work.
On the way home on the advice of a friend whom was concerned about some of the secondary symptoms, I stopped and checked my blood pressure.
157 over 104
Not too good. I waited a bit and rechecked it and after four such attempts it slowly went down to 149 over 96.
I called my doctor and made an appointment for Tuesday afternoon. Then I went home, warned the family I needed rest and quiet and proceeded to lay down most of the rest of the day. The headaches faded and I felt OK that evening, but just barely OK.
I went to my doctors on Tuesday and my blood pressure was 140 over 94 and 136 over 90 the two times they checked me. Not scary high, but scary enough. On the borderline of Hypertension.
Sigh. I have been dodging the bullet on this for a few years now, so this is hardly a shock.
In the past, oh 10 years, from 35-45, I have had to deal with possible sleep apnea, acid reflux disease, cautions about hypertension, weight issues, a bad back (the result of too many years as a mechanic), tinnitus (ringing in the ears also a result of being a mechanic), asthma that came and went, allergies that have happily subsided a bit, an ankle injury in 1997 that resulted in major surgery 10 years later, TMJ issues and way too much grey hair. Oh. And cholesterol. There I really hit a home run, letting my cholesterol peak at over 300 before getting it under control and wrestling it down to 199.
