Anyone hear about the WW/running room 5 km challenge on getting active? Well, I participated in that then went to Ontario for 2.5 weeks. WW was giving out 5 Km charms and I was worried I wouldn't get one cause i was going to miss the meeting - well as it went - my leader knew I had participated and she saved one for me. yay! So I now have my "lucky" charm
It has now been added to my worn WW key chain (its a before pic) - the star stands for 10% of my weight lost - key stands for lifetime and the hand stands for 16 weeks sluggin' it thru - LOL I have been with them way longer than 16 weeks - I have been Lifetime since 1997
I haven't been making WL a goal this summer - but I have been making good choices being a goal. I did gain weight on my trip but since I have got back I have lost 4.6 lbs. I am very close to being in the 160's AGAIN.
Since this blog is also about my health I will share some struggles that I have been going thru.
Last tuesday, July 19, in the middle of the night I had what is considered stroke like symptoms they lasted at least 2 hours long and when I woke in the morning (after a terrible night sleep) and morning meant 5 am I still felt crappy but got up and got to it anyway. You see I had a tour coming to the dairy and I had to finish getting ready. I had heart flutters throughout the tour but later put it all down to not enough sleep and worrying about my hubby and son who was about to venture out overnight on a hiking trip up a local mountain.
One problem, not all my symptoms went away even after they came back from the hike. My heart kept doing flips and I would get the shakes, feel faint, numb face, aching arm and then my blood pressure would start to rise. Now I am one that always has low BP. it is usually around 90/40 or 100/60. Over the past week it has been 135/93.
I ended up at emergency on monday night ( a week after the original symptoms appeared) - I decided I had better get checked out. From emergency I got referred to a heart/stroke specialist.
Today, thursday, I went to that appt. I saw a resident dr and breifly saw the specialist. Long and short of it all they think that my "episode(s)" are caused from my migraines. (I am hugely doubting this) so I said if its from my migraines then what is causing them... answer: hormones... I said then how do I balance my hormones so that I don't get these symptoms... he couldn't answer that.. oh wait - he did answer that - he said go thru menopause and most women no longer get migraines after that.
After some deliberation between resident dr and specialist... they decided to put my mind at rest and do a list of blood tests, a CT scan of my head to upper chest, and a 24 hour heart monitor. I know 3 of the blood tests they did 1. colesterol 2. blood sugar 3. Lupus but the others listed I have no idea what they stood for. As for the CT scan I tried to get them to order a scan from head to abdomin but they wouldn't - they didn't feel that the pain I was having under my ribs to my back over the last 3 years had any connection to what I came to see them for. I was told to go to my GP and discuss that with him.
Oh and my Blood pressure? After my 1 1/2 hour discussion I hopped up on the "bed" and the dr took my BP... it was 100/60. He joked and said he has a calming affect on patients.
Karl didn't help one bit- his only comment throughout the whole meeting was that I had horrible PMS lasting 1-2 weeks thru a month and that he could easily raise my BP by mentioning it.
Even the dr told him he was walking on dangerous ground :-P
Has anything been resolved? Won't know until my test results come back... then it will be time to regroup and figure out where I go from there.
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