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Mysteries and Conundrums

Writer's picture: Susan PrydeSusan Pryde

Well hello my dear friends.


My weekend was a bit of a head scratcher that I am still working out.

I have had some issues with spells of lower blood pressure beginning this summer. I have dealt with it by making sure I am hydrated and you know I am eating nutritiously despite it all. These past weeks were no exception and no changes but I was basically ok.


Saturday afternoon I had my Booster alongside my flu shot. Sunday morning I got up at four, and as I opened the bathroom door it was as if someone hit a light switch in my brain to turn OFF position and I went down like a … I have but idea ... but I woke on the floor on my back wondering why their were dogs barking in my room (had no idea where I was). I was disoriented and I sat up and saw my daughter coming towards me in the dark (I had managed to switch the light off on my way down as well as clear off the bathroom counter oops). I apparently announced to her that I had a little problem and I’d fallen down. I was disoriented for a brief spell but my daughter and son in law got me up and to the couch and got my BP taken. It was 83/45. Just a tad low. Ya think?


l eventually ended up in the ER where they monitored my heart and checked for deficiency in my bloods and fluids. They found nothing, no heart trouble, no dehydration, no nutritional deficiencies (sodium and phosphates all fine) so they decided I had a seizure and sent me in my way. (For those who don’t know me well I was diagnosed with epilepsy back in 2008 so that is all they could figure. I haven’t had a seizure since I was put on meds back then although have needed minor adjustments at times. I am also on meds for hypothyroidism which we have been gradually lowering as I lose weight.

My neurologist and primary do not agree with this diagnosis so I’m at square one trying to figure out what the hell is going on. and I have developed a sore throat and lots of muscle aches in the last few days to go with the dizziness. There’s a cold (yes a real live cold not actually the big one) running through the house so there’s that too.


My task is to make sure I talk to all my docs before I start anything medically. Can’t hurt the liver, the brain or the endocrine system. It will work out but we have to get to the bottom of it. I’m dizzy enough as a person.


I will leave you with a new before and after photo. My daughter just shared this one from a year ago with our new grand baby vs Christmas morning. I’m floored. (see what I did there?)


Love, Sue









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