Hmm… kidneys?

If it’s not one problem, it’s another… right folks? So I have the blood pressure business back to normal: today was 122/80.

However… since I woke up on Sunday, I’ve had achiness/dull pain in my back where my kidneys are. I took 2 Tylenol yesterday to see if it went away, but that didn’t seem to do anything.  My system is obviously in shock right now, with tapering off the Topamax, having just had a 9-day course of Prednisone, had a few days trial of the blood pressure med that made me go too low, still on Cymbalta and Provigil daily… I did read last night that some people have had kidney stones while on Topamax, but it would be pretty weird for that to happen to me now that I’m getting RID of the Topamax.

The pharmacist who was taking my blood pressure said that if the pain gets worse, definitely go to the ER. Certainly a good idea. I had such a crappy night of sleep last night and I think it’s because I just couldn’t get comfortable in bed with feeling the dull pain in those areas.  UGH.  I’m seeing my primary care doc on Thursday now, too.

“It’s raining, it’s pouring, Joanna has more stuff wrong with her…”

 

goodbye, blood pressure med, I hardly knew thee. but you suck.

Yup, it’s a big “adios” to that medication.  I had my blood pressure checked again today, and it was still low: 104/60. Eep.  “Let’s stop that bloody drug,” my doc said when he called me just a little bit ago.  I hadn’t even taken it yet today because I was waiting for him to call me back.  A big relief to go off of that junk, because clearly it wasn’t helping out the head at all. Hopefully I will be able to start feeling better and not feel like a limp and heavy doll! My head has been hurting in a slightly different way, but I’m thinking that it’s due to the med changes and whatnot. Oy.

P.S. trying to play around with Twitter… I can see it on the blogroll on the right side, but it’s supposed to have little updates, not just a link. Hmm…

 

little update. and nice spanish men in the living room.

I was asked about my blood pressure: on Tuesday, my pressure was a whopping 92/70. I’m pretty sure that it’s the lowest that I’ve been, at least when it’s been checked. The pharmacist (who, it turned out, graduated from her pharmacy school with one of my good friends, which was a nice connection) was hesitant to let me just leave without rechecking and rechecking again. Luckily, I was only driving home around the corner, literally.

I’m going back tomorrow to have my pressure checked again at noon. Yesterday afternoon was my 1st “cut in half” dose of the blood pressure medicine (my new doc called me back in record time, horray!), and I’m hoping that after I take it again today, things will even out. That means I’m at a 4mg dose!? My doc had wanted me at 16mg on Friday (after a week of 8mg), but we clearly are not doing that. My body is just so sensitive to medication and changes with medication, and my mom always gets so upset when I have problems with that because she blames herself since she also has medication sensitivities. It’s always nice when your mother gets upset about things that she can’t control and then you have to reassure her, when you are the one needing the reassuring. But I <3 her anyways.

I had a bad evening last night, feeling quite low… D and I are having our living room/kitchen done as I mentioned, so we had some last-minute things to move out of the way. Even just putting small things into bags and bringing them into the office or bedroom wiped me out, I couldn’t believe it. My head was bothering me more yesterday as well, but it didn’t feel too much like my typical NDPH pain, so it was probably associated with the low blood pressure. I woke up feeling decent, luckily. I’m just taking it easy and not going anywhere. I just have to go out for a short while tomorrow afternoon – for my blood pressure check with my pals at Walgreens (not a plug per se, but the one I have been going to has been super nice to me), and to go to one of those “buy in bulk” stores for something I need for the bridal shower I’m co-throwing. Once the shower is over, I’ll post a picture of what I made, in case I have eyes of anyone reading this that is involved in the wedding

P.S. 3 nice Spanish guys are reflooring the living room and kitchen. Only one is really speaking English. I haven’t used Spanish since ‘01. Oops. As long as the kitchen isn’t carpeted, I think we’re golden.

the residue in the sink, post-flood. Mmm. after carpet was taken off. dirt? what?