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"Deal with it"
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- Illinois, USA
I have had a bit of a health roller coaster for the last few months.
Background info:
I am currently 50 years old
Dx figromyalgia 2009 (symptoms for many years prior to)
Dx CFS 2012
In August I had to travel to Louisiana because my best friend had a stroke. She wanted me to take care of her cat for her. I was very stressed because of her situation and I had never flown with a cat/animal before and did not know what to expect.
I has in LA for 5 days and suffered SEVERE fatigue while there - my room was the third in the hallway in hotel but walking to the ice machine at the beginning wore me out. Stress.. amirite? I pushed through and made it home (the cat was an absolute ANGEL on the flight lol). After returning home the fatigue did not lessen and I noticed I was very short of breath. My thoughts "well shit.. I caught COVID" so I slapped on my pulse oximeter to measure my blood O2. My O2 was perfectly fine but my resting heart rate was 120 - 130. I said to my mother.. "well that's not normal, right?" She said NO, threw me in her car and took me to emergency clinic.
An EKG showed Atrial Fibrillation with severe irregular heartbeat. BOO!
Emergency clinic immediately sent me to the ER (wanted to send me in ambulance but I said "I am NOT paying $1000 for a three mile trip!!!!!"). ER admitted me after 7 hours on massive amounts of IV Lasix - they took 16 pounds of fluid out of me... (no wonder I was freaking short of breath). I spent 5 days in the hospital trying to get heart rate under control. Lots and lots of new meds. BOO!
An echocardiogram (sp?) also showed that I am in heart failure with an ejection fraction of only 35%. This could be due to how hard the heart was working or I could actually just be in heart failure. Time will tell. I am also in stage 3 kidney failure. BOO!
I had electrical conversion on 11/1 (had my heart 'stopped' on Day of the Dead! Wore my sugar skull pants to hospital lol). Have not had any problems with the atrial fib since then (*knocks frantically on wood*). YEAH!!
Started back to work approximately 2 hours per day and have been building up to more. All of a sudden severe fatigue starts again along with confusion etc. I go for regular doctor appointment and they do some blood work. TSH is more than twice normal. Son of a bitch... Further tests seem to be leaning towards Hashimoto's. Waiting for appointment with endocrinologist. BOO!
Final Score:
BOO! 5
YEAH! 1
Feel like I can't seem to catch a break.
Background info:
I am currently 50 years old
Dx figromyalgia 2009 (symptoms for many years prior to)
Dx CFS 2012
In August I had to travel to Louisiana because my best friend had a stroke. She wanted me to take care of her cat for her. I was very stressed because of her situation and I had never flown with a cat/animal before and did not know what to expect.
I has in LA for 5 days and suffered SEVERE fatigue while there - my room was the third in the hallway in hotel but walking to the ice machine at the beginning wore me out. Stress.. amirite? I pushed through and made it home (the cat was an absolute ANGEL on the flight lol). After returning home the fatigue did not lessen and I noticed I was very short of breath. My thoughts "well shit.. I caught COVID" so I slapped on my pulse oximeter to measure my blood O2. My O2 was perfectly fine but my resting heart rate was 120 - 130. I said to my mother.. "well that's not normal, right?" She said NO, threw me in her car and took me to emergency clinic.
An EKG showed Atrial Fibrillation with severe irregular heartbeat. BOO!
Emergency clinic immediately sent me to the ER (wanted to send me in ambulance but I said "I am NOT paying $1000 for a three mile trip!!!!!"). ER admitted me after 7 hours on massive amounts of IV Lasix - they took 16 pounds of fluid out of me... (no wonder I was freaking short of breath). I spent 5 days in the hospital trying to get heart rate under control. Lots and lots of new meds. BOO!
An echocardiogram (sp?) also showed that I am in heart failure with an ejection fraction of only 35%. This could be due to how hard the heart was working or I could actually just be in heart failure. Time will tell. I am also in stage 3 kidney failure. BOO!
I had electrical conversion on 11/1 (had my heart 'stopped' on Day of the Dead! Wore my sugar skull pants to hospital lol). Have not had any problems with the atrial fib since then (*knocks frantically on wood*). YEAH!!
Started back to work approximately 2 hours per day and have been building up to more. All of a sudden severe fatigue starts again along with confusion etc. I go for regular doctor appointment and they do some blood work. TSH is more than twice normal. Son of a bitch... Further tests seem to be leaning towards Hashimoto's. Waiting for appointment with endocrinologist. BOO!
Final Score:
BOO! 5
YEAH! 1
Feel like I can't seem to catch a break.