Posted by Vincent_QC on December 10, 2011, at 7:53:57
In reply to Re: 1 year later and feel very bad... » Vincent_QC, posted by Phillipa on December 9, 2011, at 21:44:15
Hi Phillipa,
I know it's a vagal manoeuvre but when I have a bowel movement my heart beat is irregular with a lot of skipping beat, long pause of 3 seconds, fast heart beat...I hate that.I didn't sleep well, even the Xanax don't do anything on me now and since i'm not suppose to take it, I think I will stop using it as a sleep aid and return on the Valium only. I need something like the SONATA to fall asleep faster, but the Sonata is not sold in the Canada, it's a very short acting (1 hour) non benzo meds who help to fall asleep faster. I try the Zopiclone pills of my dad last week and even at 15 mg I didn't fall asleep faster or sleep more... so I guess my addiction to the benzo meds are = for the hypnotic benzo and anxiolitic benzo meds or the ZZZZZ drugs... It take forever before I fall asleep 2-3 hours and when I fall asleep I start dreaming and wake up 1-2 hours later all cover by sweat with a fast pulse rate and it take forever before i'm able to sleep again.
The main problem is that since I return home after the 1 month at the hospital, I don't feel good in any position I take to sleep in my bed. I also have burning feet and a lot pain in my lower legs so I always need to move them. I probably have a low potassium level since I can't take my vitamins... will try to find some food I can eat high in potassium... I can't sleep on my belly like I always do because of the jejunostomy tube, the machine who deliver the enteral feeding liquid always start beeping for nothing, the tube sometimes become twisted when I move in my bed and the machine start going crazy,each time the machine bep, I have to waking up and stop the machine, look at the tube, replace it and start the machine again... sometimes the tube leak and I have to waking up and change all the sheets. So I think that's why i'm overstress when it's time to go in bed at night.
At the hospital it was not like this and my pulse rate was lower also, only high when I was standing. I think it's because at the hospital I felt safe because of all the nurses and Doc who was there 24 hours a day... Also if you count the 3 1/2 weeks I stay at the psychiatric hospital before the intestinal obstructions occur, that's mean around 2 months out of the house, I never return home for all this period of time and when I return home I had and still have to take care of everything by myself (my mom help me but she can't do a lot of things right now), clean myself (can't take my shower or a bath because of the dressing on my scar on the belly and the dressing for the jejunostomy tube... I have to take care of my meds, the time I take them, have to make my food since a mashed diet is not very easy (I eat almost only chicken that I cook and use a chopper to reduce it in a mashed state, I also have to cook some vegetable), make sure I have baby food especially mash fruits, have to be carefull with the long list of food that I cannot eat, no spices, revome all the skin from the vegetables before I cook them, no fiber (mean only corn flakes cereal kinf of OR white bread), no rice, no pasta, no soda, no tea or things like that... Also have one nurse who come home everyday to change my dressings on my scar and the jejunostomy... and I never know when that person will be at home, so I have to be ready before 9 AM, normally the nurse come home around 9 or 10... but sotimes it's in the afternoon.... that's mean I need to be ready before she's home... get up, eat, have a bowel movement (with glycerin suppository), clean myself (shower for the legs and feet and hand wash for the rest of my body, get dress... that's a lot of pressure and stress and I understand why i'm so tired and the not very good sleep don'T help as well...
I forget to talk about my mom, she's not doing very well since last march. She have a herniated disc and can't walk or stand for a long time. She also have osteoporosis in an advanced state who don't help and the Pharmacy do a mistake with her Thyroid meds, they give to her 0.2 mg pills of synthroid insistead of 2 mg pills, that happen in the summer and her thyroid blood test show a level 10 times higher than the normal range, so mainly her Doc his now very scary and think she may had a stroke because a high thyroid level... he his scare also because a high thyroid level like she had is dangerous for the heart, can enlarge the heart and do a lot of damage to arteries, since she's also diabetic type 1, that's a lot more dangerous. She will have a CT-Scan with contrast of her head to see if she had a stroke or not and also she will have a heart test (echocardiogram) in case of a heart problem. She told me often that when she walk she feel like one side of her body is paralysed... We will hope that she didn't had a stroke because of the high thyroid level. The Pharmacist appologized many times to her and the Doc but the dammage are done now. She took the 0.2 mg pills for 3 months before having a regular blood test for her thyroid and discover it was very high!!! She still in the higher range for the thyroid, it will take another month or two to return to the normal range.
I have your e-mail address for sure...
Will keep you update, for now i'm awake since 6 AM and feel like I don't sleep since 2 months and that headache will make me crazy, I was thinking that I had low blood pressure again because of the dizziness when I stand and the pain I feel in the veins above my 2 ears but I take my blood pressure and it's normal 120/70... so I don't understand cause normally I have this kind of pain in my veins when I have low blood pressure... I really don't understand what happen...
We talk later,
Vincent
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