Hmm? Wow, so that was the problem?

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Okay, maybe not the whole of the problem, but...  I'm guessing it was the largest chunk.  Blood pressure is fine now, actually a bit too low.  The general malaise may take a bit to recover from however.  It wasn't the new medicine.  It wasn't this or that.  As I started to fall, generally, I stopped consuming caffeine.  That by itself can be a showstopper.  All of you out there who need your daily daily know what I mean.  However, in my case that response has a multiplier.  Essentially caffeine keeps my heart medicine from being too potent.  It weakens it.  In other words I have been dosed up to compensate for the caffeine.  Aye, it's true.

So, the thing, I think, went something like this.  I had the dose of several of my medicines increased.  Which is fine, it usually takes a bit to... readjust to the extra load, just as if I was carrying a 40 pound pack and they added ten pounds.  Then the weather closed in, slowing the recovery.  Perhaps setting the whole operation back a bit on top of slowing any recovery.  Then, in there somewhere, I simply lost track of far too much, and coffee slipped off the radar, then I ran out of my backup, soda.  The combination was simply beyond anything, ritalin or will power, to overcome.  Just noticed yesterday, ground some coffee for this morning.

I have a pot brewing, the sun is out, I'm feeling a bit better naturally on top of those things.  My blood pressure was a little too low, actually, after a two day climb which had me concerned.  And, yes, a lack of caffeine will raise my bp, at least in the short run.  I knew I remembered that type of joint pain in the head and neck, just couldn't remember from where...  Yep, caffeine deficiency.  It happens every time.  I just don't sleep correctly.  I've quit caffeine before, to no good ends mind you.  So I have been through the whole system.  Caffeine may be slightly bad for people, though I won't swear to it.  But for folks like myself, caffeine is just another medication.  Without it I would sit more than I do now.  If nothing else, on the worst of days, it forces me to get up for refills and restroom breaks.  All considered, that ain't bad.  On the best of days it gets me out and about much more easily.  I'll take it.

At 110/70, my bp is actually a bit spooky low.  Keeping that at 120/80 is the midline I actually like.  More and the doctors rattle the 'more medicine sabor', less and I become zombified.  Weight is staying right at 280.  I'm still amazed to see my weight locked in, with or without swimming, regardless of what I eat or don't eat, 280, plus or minus 2 pounds, for... months now.  I think Since Thanksgiving.

Just in case you were worried.  I think the... cycle is headed toward improvement.  Good day!