Tuesday, June 28, 2016

I think it is just physical.

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I mean, it isn't the heart or other ailment.  Though it may have been compounded by taking too much furosemide.  Dropping too much fluid, too quickly.  Even so, it didn't completely get rid of the swelling.  Annoying.  The reason the illness continues is two part.  The first is that I caused damage through extreme dehydration.  The other is that I opened that dam, and it is still flooding out.  I guess I have to keep filling the fluid reservoirs and taking gobs of aspirin.  I am choosing aspirin, even if some would suggest tylenol, because if it just happens to be the heart, aspirin is more suitable.  And there is a chance, even if it isn't because of the weakness of my heart, that it could be brought in to play.  Extreme dehydration can kill even healthy people.

No, I didn't take all that much water pill.  Well, compared to when I was on it.  I started on half a pill for about a week, but was getting no results.  So I kicked it up to two pills for one day, then a whole pill for several days (a whole pill is 40mg).  I used to be on a pill and an half (60mg).  After I went to one pill, the next day everything went absolutely bonkers.

I do believe I am still going through the shivers, but only while asleep.  At least it isn't the whole time.  However, that is adding to the hurt.  I'm not getting a solid break so as to begin healing, or at least not very quickly.  Every muscle group and many bones, and a general if in the background headache all remain.  The leg that I hurt so badly with the shivers (why one and not both legs?)... while the muscles are feeling slightly better, it is now the skin that hurts.  I think the damage is actually working itself out... almost as bruises do.

Hmm...  I went to bed about 14:30~13:00... Waking at 12:30.  Just a note to self...  so nine and an half to ten hours.  It's not full sleep as I am voiding, often, through the night.  I probably go, say, five to ten times.  Something is just working.  And, no, I dropped all meds when things went haywire.  So, that isn't it.  Been off them for days now.  I will, probably, get back on them when I improve enough.  Though the doses will remain low, only being worked up... if needed... over multiples of weeks or even months.  This little gig learned me.  This morning?  Much worse than the last time I woke, though maybe fading... or the aspirin is kicking in.

Later.

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