STOP Not for the faint of heart. STOP

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OK, Don’t say I didn’t warn you.  Also, I apologize for any spelling or punctuation errors herein, its been a long night.

     What a night, if I’m right this all starts out a few days ago when I noticed sometime between 4-9 pm each day I get these real bad all I can compare them to is hot flashes (HF), but these were more I would literally be laying on an ice back the size of my back sweating bullets.  I know the medical community states that men can get them also.  Years ago I was placed on a medication called Terazosin, this was prescribed to stop the HF ‘s due to with my working out to improve my back I couldn’t be lifting anything with my palms dripping water.  Around

5:15 – 5:30 pm  Last night I noticed my body (Majority of the time it’s just my upper body) start to heat up and perspire so I do the usual strip down to a tank top and jeans.  Finally after about 45 min. or so it stopped.  This is the first time in about 6-7 months since I had one of these, I use to get them almost daily.

8:30 pm Rolls around, I’m upstairs with the dogs and another one hits me, so right away I change into my  mock shorts made out of my night pants (it will be colder later), turn on the overhead fan and after 30 min, 45 min, 1 hour, Nothing.  So I decided to take two of the Terazosin to try and stop it.  Now it does seem to taper at least to a level I can go to sleep, I hope.

10:40 pm Here’s where it starts heating up, me and the story.  I hop into bed, put my feet up to help with the edema and almost right away I can feel my heart begin to run the Boston Marathon at pace breaking speeds, without me.  An of course, I’m heating up.  This goes on for 20 – 30 minutes, then it finally allows me some rest.

12:01 pm Don’t say I didn’t warn you, a second time.  I wake up as usual for around this time and proceed to the facilities “Restroom” and am there for less than, well not long.  I proceed to raise my britches and all I can remember is sliding down the wall, the toes on my left foot jamming into the white porcelain god, what felt like my right leg going under me and me saying “Holy Frack.”  Right then was also Trish yelling to see if I was OK, or maybe she was asking about the wall.  Anyhow before I could get up because of my legs shaking, Trish was at the door and our master baths toilet is in it’s own little room so if someone were to go down (me in this case) it would be hard to open the door from the outside.  It took me a few to get up and be able to move aside to open the door, my head was spinning, almost a hang over feel to it, just not so much buzzing as spinning.  Get out bent over the sink like I was going to round two and after a few minutes I make my way to the bed and collapse.

     I still ended up getting up 4-5 more times during the night, with my hear just pounding and spinning like I was on the old carnival ride the Vector.  The Vector is the one that you spun around in cars and then they would put it into reverse and speed it up backwards.  This went on through the night and now here it is 11:30 am and my head is still pounding and the spinning, well lets say seeing my coffee this morning two times every time I took a drink, WOW.  I did get a message to my doctor through the advice nurse and received a reply already.  He is thinking it has to do with the Lasix and potassium he prescribed.  He’s adjusting the dosages and adding another test he wants done on the Labs I have to do on Thursday.  Side Note: I’d do it tomorrow but I am driving my mom to several appointments she has set up at the Air Base about 75 minutes away so that will keep me busy from about 9-5.  That was my night and I was actually starting to sleep for more than 3-1/2 hrs. and then this hit and I was awake on/off all night.

      Thank you for reading my blog post.  Here’s wishing all of you the very best and remember, “Pain without Humor is just Painful.”

 – kreisler

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