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I could not sleep last night. I could not find a comfortable position. Tired as I was and remain, five hours trying to find a position in which I would not pant was impossible. Sitting up seems okay, back to where I was a week ago. But palpitations and panting and pain is all I find reclining. I need sleep so badly.
I am back on the water pill, I am taking carvedilol, I am taking potassium, I am drinking Gatorade, and it simply is not sustainable. I would like to call today, to my clinic and cardiology but in my condition it might not happen. I need to be able to communicate by voice, I need to be able to think straight, and right now I can't. As well, now, I am having loose stools. I would guess that is from adding in the potassium. None of the other medicines have done that and D.C. suggested calcium might. I will continue taking this stuff until I can talk to someone. Oh, fluid voiding has dropped to a trickle and has become extremely yellow, verging on yellow-red. What a mess.
I can't remember if I mentioned this, but the missionaries visited yesterday. I asked if they might know anyone who might do a bit of house and yard care for a reasonable fee. I don't have a ton of money but I have enough that I can't really consider charity work. Well, we will see. At $100 an hour, charity would have to become a part of it! Mowing even twice a month and dishes once or twice a week might see to me being able to eat a bit better and feel more comfortable as a social being. Feeling to bad to work on the lawn and yet having a sense that I need to tend it just ends in frustration.
Well, enough about that. I am going to try and sleep again. I am hoping to do some grilling today. A couple of packages of brots ought to see me good for a few days at least. Later and hopefully, good night.
Actually it is magnesium that can cause loose stools if taken past the body's tolerance point.
ReplyDeleteCatch 22. The diuretics are needed to get the fluid out of your lungs, but they're dehydrating you...gotta drink anyway...
Catch 22 indeed. If I drink more, as I have been trying to do, the effects of the diuretic are nullified. Further, though I have a low potassium level, taking a diuretic can cause potassium to spike quickly. I think they are trying to give me a heart attack, as high levels of potassium are quickly fatal while low levels are only harmful over the long haul (low levels should be mitigated through the use of diuretics, loop diuretics being the most powerful and what I am prescribed).
ReplyDeleteI simply need to get to one doctor, probably in cardiology, who prescribes all medicines and knows what he is doing. Having prescriptions from a half dozen other specialists and doctors with almost no reasonable follow-up is very risky. I am not sure how often they should be testing my potassium level, but given the interaction it should be as often as weekly or every other week, not once ever few months.