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[CapricornFarm]

my doc visit went good and bad.... not ikky bad...but...

I am down to 299 pounds.....first time in the 200 s in a very long time

They couldnt get a pulse on me.... needless to say a Blood pressure... Tried the machine on each arm upper and lower smaller cuff too. Every time it made error messages.

THen they sent in the expert... Nurse good with manual cuff... She did the same thing... ERror.... She left the cuff for the doc to try...

She came in and checked my pulse in my feet and couldnt detect any though they did turn back to pink after she pressed on the skin. She Sent the gal in with the machine again with instructions to take it on my lower leg. I have Lymph Adema in my leggs...its going down but still present...

She chose the smallest leg but when she started the machine it felt like she was tearing tissue... I tried to grin and bear it but had to stopp it when the pain got to be a 13.... and rising.

Doc came in and manually took my blood pressure we both kind of held our breath... And she says best I can get is 89/60... But your heart beat is so soft. She then counted my heartbeats and they were 63...

She immediatly told me to cut my blood pressure Metoprol....sp? in half she wants to see me in two days. Yay...

Took my BP here at home and it was 84/66 63pulse... Took three tries and a switch of arms....


so... Good news I am coming off meds faster than anticipated.... Loosing weight is part of that.... Finding out the dissiness was frmo low blood pressure.... yay...

Maybe I will be able to walk without my walker soon.

Other bad news Took my car to the mechanic and they say I might have a blown Head gasket.... .... could have told you that one its in for diagnosis.... tomorrow we find out.

Off to live life


deb

Wow, lucky your pressure didn't get much worse!

 

[perchie.girl]

That is amazing about your BP and metoprolol! Wow! You are really making this surgery work for you!

LOL.... thats the plan back wehn I was 220 ish I had none of these diseases... bp was a bit high ... but borderline... I could swing on the back of my horse without a saddle...

I had heard the hype about coming off meds after surgery... But I did my research... and the odds were good that it would work for me. I am sixty four now and KNow I will live at least another thirty years... I wanna LIVE them... as best as I can. Thats why I joined up on the gardening group... just a bit of lurking and a bit of idea sharing ... I wont be doing the big harvests but I do want some fresh stuff...

I kicked my bad coping skills to the curb..... Food and Alcahol.... Still figuring out what to replace them with. Livestock and gardening... art and DIY.... Looks like my go to ... as soon as I can stand without a walker and go up and down three steps .... stairs to the house and laundry room.

deb

 

[NotAFarm]

I am sixty four now and KNow I will live at least another thirty years... I wanna LIVE them...
I kicked my bad coping skills to the curb..... Food and Alcahol.... Still figuring out what to replace them with. Livestock and gardening... art and DIY.... Looks like my go to ... as soon as I can stand without a walker and go up and down three steps .... stairs to the house and laundry room.
deb

AND JEWELRY...don't forget creating beauty...

 

[perchie.girl]

AND JEWELRY...don't forget creating beauty...

Yes... I am putting my Work table in the corner of my bedroom... Yes pleanty of room to spare.... I could split the room into two bedrooms If I wanted.... But I have always wanted a big bedroom...

deb

 

[ronott1]

my doc visit went good and bad.... not ikky bad...but...

I am down to 299 pounds.....first time in the 200 s in a very long time

They couldnt get a pulse on me.... needless to say a Blood pressure... Tried the machine on each arm upper and lower smaller cuff too. Every time it made error messages.

THen they sent in the expert... Nurse good with manual cuff... She did the same thing... ERror.... She left the cuff for the doc to try...

She came in and checked my pulse in my feet and couldnt detect any though they did turn back to pink after she pressed on the skin. She Sent the gal in with the machine again with instructions to take it on my lower leg. I have Lymph Adema in my leggs...its going down but still present...

She chose the smallest leg but when she started the machine it felt like she was tearing tissue... I tried to grin and bear it but had to stopp it when the pain got to be a 13.... and rising.

Doc came in and manually took my blood pressure we both kind of held our breath... And she says best I can get is 89/60... But your heart beat is so soft. She then counted my heartbeats and they were 63...

She immediatly told me to cut my blood pressure Metoprol....sp? in half she wants to see me in two days. Yay...

Took my BP here at home and it was 84/66 63pulse... Took three tries and a switch of arms....


so... Good news I am coming off meds faster than anticipated.... Loosing weight is part of that.... Finding out the dissiness was frmo low blood pressure.... yay...

Maybe I will be able to walk without my walker soon.

Other bad news Took my car to the mechanic and they say I might have a blown Head gasket.... .... could have told you that one its in for diagnosis.... tomorrow we find out.

Off to live life


deb

Nice Deb!

 

[ronott1]

I had an acquaintence in Weight Watchers.... she said the Day her husband died of cancer while they were carting him out one of the older firemen lectured her on how her trees needed to be trimmmed.... W.T.F.

The fire fighter likely has a type of PTSD

 

[Beer can]

No, half the size of a Robin's egg. I am thinking the nest is abandoned. There were spider webs there.

Maybe it's a hummingbird egg, they're tiny

Had gone to taking melatonin was doing pretty good cats got too close to my face little buggers have to wait and see but think I will take benedryl around 6 not at bedtime see how that works out

I heard, well DW did that pistachio nuts are high in melatonin, not sure but they sure do taste good.

Just checking in. I have my own medical complaint, though. I saw the PT last week and it was a different PT. She felt, I think, like she had to fit in the other PT wasn't doing. She taught me 4 new exercises (too many), and had me doing this stretch that gave me wicked Charlie Horse - seriously, crippling pain. Then she had me do it again (I should have said no). That night I bathed in Epsom salts, and put on more magnesium afterward. That was last Friday. My legs still ache from the awful cramps, and my muscles want to knot up, and I haven't done any of the exercises. I'm afraid to!

Back to my same PT tomorrow, hooray! I'm not sure what to say to her. I don't want to exacerbate any weird competition they might have, or whatever was going on with the other one. It really seemed like she felt she only had one shot at me so she was doing all this diagnostic stuff and new exercises.

I never had a Charlie Horse all down the back of my legs before. (Yes, I did the stretch on both sides.) Seriously, still in pain.

Everything else is great!

I used to get just horrible leg cramps, like muscles tearing apart. Keeping hydrated helped but I thought bananas was the best, but there is many foods rich in potassium better than bananas (I like bananas though and they help)

Oh. My. God.

Mansplaining to the new widow, how helpful.

Why did I quote this.....
Ohhh, History channel, pretty interesting, series 'The food that built America' , Coca Cola, the guy that developt it didn't make the $$$ it was a @*€# bag that went to the maker at his funeral and bought the business off the widow and his son for cheap...

 

[CapricornFarm]

Maybe it's a hummingbird egg, they're tiny


I heard, well DW did that pistachio nuts are high in melatonin, not sure but they sure do taste good.


I used to get just horrible leg cramps, like muscles tearing apart. Keeping hydrated helped but I thought bananas was the best, but there is many foods rich in potassium better than bananas (I like bananas though and they help)


Why did I quote this.....
Ohhh, History channel, pretty interesting, series 'The food that built America' , Coca Cola, the guy that developt it didn't make the $$$ it was a @*€# bag that went to the maker at his funeral and bought the business off the widow and his son for cheap...

Hummingbird nests look much different than this one.

 

[Cynthia12]

Deb, you're doing great! Needing to lower your BP meds already! You will feel so much better, when you aren't light headed. Yep.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, you're doing great! Needing to lower your BP meds already! You will feel so much better, when you aren't light headed. Yep.

Just standing up is an adventure.....

Took my half dose and went for a nap... So far so good.. we will see in the AM

Thank you Cynthia

deb