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10Jan/110

Not So Highly Strung – sort of Mid level I suppose…

Posted by Lo

I went back to my GP this morning for yet another blood pressure check up. These check ups have been every ten days or so whilst my 'dangerously high' blood pressure stats are monitored. Today I'm met with the fantastic news that the levels have dropped enough for me not to have another check up for about six weeks, although I have to stay on the meds and I'm told that I will probably have to stay on them for the foreseeable future... This makes me feel rather crap but at the same time I haven't had a migraine in nearly a month and a half, which is a major record...

Gosh, you must love these posts... they're so amazingly upbeat and interesting...

1Dec/100

Highly Strung

Posted by Lo

So without much choice (my Handler at the insurance office wrote to me and in no uncertain terms states that unless I provided a certificate of some sort then the last 6 years never happened and I was to be put into job training), I attended an appointment with my rather cool GP (who bares a remarkable resemblance to Charlie Chaplin). I showed him the letter from my Handler and he smirked, chuckled and shook his head in disgust and in his broken English exclaimed, "Woman is a nightmare..." I had to agree.
I explained that I was originally there to see him about the migraines and insomnia and the never ending pain I'm suffering with my back and neck (my tolerance to the painkillers has reached scary levels) and he suggested that there might be an underlying cause.
So he took my blood pressure and his exact words were: "Woah! That's high!"
Of course, I was filled with joy and relief at this and relaxed back in the chair...

So instead of getting anything for my ongoing struggles with debilitating back pain, migraine attacks and insomnia, I have been put on medication to bring down my dangerously high blood pressure, which he actually believes is the cause of my headaches and migraines, ongoing stress levels causing sleepless nights...

You know, if I was listening to someone else talk about this I would tell them how amazingly lucky their life had been since hitting puberty 25 or so years ago... Life rocks...

   

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