Hi all--I'm about 5 weeks out and find my biggest problem now is horrible,crazy moaning sleep that is about to drive my husband insane. I think he just needs to go to another room but he said I'm so weird he thinks I'm trying to get out of bed, will fall etc.
Also for last 2 weeks my blood pressure has been dangerously low, as the visiting nurses put it. I've always been low. They take a lying down, sitting, and then standing. The first 2 are low but the standing one I nearly pass out. It bottoms out and usually they can't even get a reading. When they can the bottom number on that one has been 48 several times. Today was better had a 80 over 60. They sent me to GP a week ago who was ready to put me in for more blood--had about 8 units in hospital--cuz I was gray--but then hemoglobin was much higher than she thought.
I had been on Metropolol for strange erratic heart rhythms a couple years ago. They sent me to cardiologist and he took me off that saying it was safe although I might have some of those weird feelings again, but needed to get this down. Mostly been told to drink more coffee and use more salt. It actually has helped some but seems kind of weird remedy.
My PT is totally stumped by this and is trying to figure it out after doing this for many years. She thinks it could be more neurological with area around heart where my biggest curve was is totally reshaped. She said think of the nerve ending on far side of curve being stretched like crazy for about 50 years and on convex side nerves just sort of "there". Now to go to a totally new configuration it has to play havoc with tons of stuff.
So the sleep is not good--trying to back off a bit on Oxycotin and then the low blood pressure. So I'm totally exhausted from any thing. I know I'm not getting near enough walking in. I suppose this is just another part of recovery but it's a bummer. Janet
Also for last 2 weeks my blood pressure has been dangerously low, as the visiting nurses put it. I've always been low. They take a lying down, sitting, and then standing. The first 2 are low but the standing one I nearly pass out. It bottoms out and usually they can't even get a reading. When they can the bottom number on that one has been 48 several times. Today was better had a 80 over 60. They sent me to GP a week ago who was ready to put me in for more blood--had about 8 units in hospital--cuz I was gray--but then hemoglobin was much higher than she thought.
I had been on Metropolol for strange erratic heart rhythms a couple years ago. They sent me to cardiologist and he took me off that saying it was safe although I might have some of those weird feelings again, but needed to get this down. Mostly been told to drink more coffee and use more salt. It actually has helped some but seems kind of weird remedy.
My PT is totally stumped by this and is trying to figure it out after doing this for many years. She thinks it could be more neurological with area around heart where my biggest curve was is totally reshaped. She said think of the nerve ending on far side of curve being stretched like crazy for about 50 years and on convex side nerves just sort of "there". Now to go to a totally new configuration it has to play havoc with tons of stuff.
So the sleep is not good--trying to back off a bit on Oxycotin and then the low blood pressure. So I'm totally exhausted from any thing. I know I'm not getting near enough walking in. I suppose this is just another part of recovery but it's a bummer. Janet
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