There I was in a very
secluded spot with my camera on a macro tripod taking pictures and
videos of some of the British Wildlife. For my British wild life
blog.
I saw a couple coming
along the secluded path and was annoyed I had to get up. They were
around fifty years or so from me. I stood up and turned around
expecting a familiar feeling to come over me.
The postural
hypotension had been dogging me for the last hour. It is annoying at
the very best of times and this was real edge of the black-out
territory.
My new Nikon Coolpix
P900 camera was on my right side on a quick release strap. My new
camera bag was on my left side and as per usual I had my walking
stick in one of my hands.
I felt the feeling wash
over me, it really is a good description, and I grabbed a fence post
with my right hand. I felt as if I was going to get through it when
suddenly I was getting up off the floor!
Worse still I could
feel convulsions both in my head and in my body, like sudden
extremely strong jerks as if I had been plugged into an electrical
socket.
'What the fuck?! How
did I get on the floor?!' I thought as I was automatically trying to
sit up.
I then realised what
had happened and then remembered there was a couple coming along the
path just prior to this happening. Where were they? Were they still
there? It did seem like seconds but the last time I had one of these
that strong I was actually out for thirty minutes. Except at the time
it felt like I was only gone a few seconds.
I got to my knees an
looked in the direction I saw the couple with their pram. They were
still there! But just standing still and looking worried. I said
“It's OK” out loud so that the message would be heard and waved
them towards me.
As they got close I
asked them what they saw. The mother said that I had disappeared out
of view like I was falling but were worried in case I was …
'hiding'. “No, no, no sorry … I just had a fit of some kind.”
She told me she had
wondered if I was having a fit because she herself was epileptic.
After wee finished
speaking I continued on my way but feeling a real warm and fuzzy
feeling, I still feel it right now in fact. A funny feeling in my
head. I do not know how to describe it.
I then panicked as I
had just bought a new camera only a week or so ago. “Effing
typical!” I said out loud as I spotted three largish marks on my
camera. Turned out to be dirt and I just brushed it off. A few
minutes later a friend rang me and I told him what had just happened.
He came and picked me up.
Oddly enough I had made
an appointment with my GP, or new GP and the brother of the one I had
previously who left for pastures new.
So now that is two
immediate problems to deal with and I need to find out how I can stop
pstural hypotension from doing that?
The trouble is I have
high blood pressure along with the postural hypotension. Hypotension
basically means it goes lower than it should. So my blood pressure
can go from very high to very low very quickly.
So what do you do?
How can you take a drug
to bring your blood pressure up, if there is such a drug, when your
taking other blood pressure pills to keep it down?
Unless there is a drug
that is better at keeping your blood pressure in a more uniform level
but as per usual it is more expensive so you get the crap, like
Ramipril?
Hmm … foundd Postural
Tachycardia Syndrome! Christ, I must be collecting the syndromes?
Lol. I wonder which branch of my family I have to thank for this one?
The human body is a miracle indeed! HOGWASH! LOL!
In that webpage it
mentions a few things I experience and it mentioned Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome which I am sure is just early stages of Fibromyalgia
Syndrome from everything I have researched. So interesting that is
mentioned.
Excess Heat: Yup
established long before starting the blog that I do not like it hot!
Syncope or Fainting:
Yup always get that.
Palpitations
(feeling your heart beat): Yup, had that only yesterday and thought I
was having a heart attack and stopped in the street.
Gut problems:
That is what I booked appointment for as I thought I might have
Diverticulitis.
Brainfog:
Fibrofog lol
Tiredness: Check
Sweating: Check
and long established on here
Poor sleep:
Check … Fibromyalgia includes no restorative sleep
Chest Pain:
Costochondrytis? Had that!
Shakiness: Yup …
hands. Wondered if I had Parkinson's, it is in family, the latter.
Bladder Problems:
Yup, over a decade. Went to Whipps Cross Hospital about it.
Anxiety: Yup,
been hospitals and even psychiatrists over that
Dizziness: Check!
On trains, both types, feeels like train is falling down a hole and I
grab the bars for dear life! God knows why.
Hmm so looks like
something else three dozen overpaid Doctors have missed?! Blimey this
is going to end up very embarrassing for the NHS.
I had a grand mal
seizure once before and a very long time ago. At a friend's place and
he and his mate stated it was due to the cannabis. I never thought it
was down to that and that the cannabis just magnified something
already there. I was often having black-outs and this occurred over
twenty years ago. Yup, OVER twenty years ago. It was reported to my
GP, a Dr Tennekoon, at the time along with the other black-outs and
falling over. Nothing was done and after a while it went a way for a
few years until around 8 years ago.
I had gone to the
communal loo in the bedsit and the next thing I know I am lying on
the floor of a very narrow toilet room in an old Georgian, I think
it was, house and a banging on the door. I have my trousers half way
down my legs and I unbolt the door. My friend appears in the gap of
the door and asks if I am OK. I ask why he has come out and knocked
on the door and ask him how long have I been gone. Now I think I have
been missing from the room for mere moments. Turned out I was missing
for thirty minutes!
That time as I came
around I remember feeling a violent shaking going on and I got back
to his room and laid on the floor. The next thing I knew I could not
feel anything in my body from the neck down!
I stayed on his floor
all night! The next morning I was OK.
Like I said … that
was about 23 years ago.
This thing that is …
happening to me. I can tell you I do not like it, especially as
afterwards it feels like someone has been performing horrible
experiments on my head then played football with it!
I hope there is a way
to prevent this?!
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