Gord’s Comments (group member since Apr 06, 2017)

Gord’s comments from the Vampires, Weres and Fae! group.

I'm just thinking about the things that I am currently watching/reading. On one hand I have Sam and Dean from Supernatural and the other I have Carl and Donut from DCC. I'm sure someone is coming to rescue me but it is going to be one hell of a chaotic rescue.

For some odd reason I don't seem to have much motivation today. Not sure why

Yup, this is my yearly break for the local anime con. While I am excited for the con I'm equally excited for just having a week off in general. It's been a long, hard grind so far this year.

Today is my last day of work before vacation. My first vacation since Christmas

That is the one. I was really surprised that it worked so well.

Alright, holy shit, that feels so empowering. Like I mentioned earlier this week the doc thinks I might have BPPV and he gave me a technique to try out. As you know I was super skeptical of this all but I looked up the technique just to see what it was about. It seemed easy enough so I filed it away for future consideration. This morning I get another minor dizzy spell and, to be honest here, I was a bit bummed out. I've got a lot of things to get done today and I just don't want to deal with this crap right now. I then remembered the technique and I decided to try it out. Now I was a bit skeptical, hesitant, and a bit concerned about doing this. While researching this thing I of course saw all the stories about things going wrong or making it worse. Regardless, got to my bed, moved into the first position, and immediately I could feel the spinning slow and then stop. Within seconds, seconds, I was immediately feeling better. I then finished the other steps because those are required. Here is the other best part. Normally after a dizzy spell I feel like crap. Light headedness, nasuea if the spinning was intense enough, etc. I stood up from going through this and I feel perfectly fine. Like nothing had happened at all. I don't know if I did the technique right or not but it worked.

It feels like I now have a tool to help me deal with this when it happens instead of just closing my eyes and waiting for the feeling to pass and then feeling like crap afterwards. Not sure if it will work all the time or not but I'm just so happy right now.

And I decided to go out tomorrow at lunch for my ear buds and I'll grab a sandwich while I am out. A treat for surviving if we will.

It's finally done. The massive push, and main source of stress for the last couple months, is finally done. Sure I've got paperwork and a couple small things left but that's all minor. The bulk of everything is done

After 5 or 6 years my poor earbuds finally died this morning. After work I'm getting a new set but I'm kind of bummed as I really liked these ones.

I kind of feel like we are flinging things at a wall to see what sticks

This was originally what I went in for back at the beginning of June. That was where my high BP was discovered, there was the mini stroke scare, all the testing. After I started taking my BP meds the dizziness/vertigo/light headedness lessened/went away. I iniitally figured that the high BP was what was causing things. Then about a couple weeks ago it hit me hard again. When I was looking into the side effects of the meds dizziness/light headedness are common side effects. That's where I started going done that route.

I'm working on getting a family doctor so I'm only dealing with the one guy and we can maybe get this all sorted out. I have an initial meeting set up for next week to see if we get along and if we want to work together or not.

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That's what I thought but apparently you don't have to be be breathing that hard or fast to be hyperventilating. Just a few extra breathes over a long enough time can be considered hyperventilation. I don't know, it just sounds weird to me. Like you, I think hyperventilating and I think heavy fast breathing like I just ran a mile or something.

I'm not sure how I feel about that call with the doctor. I'm still on the same meds at the same dosage. My BP is where it is supposed to be. He thinks I might have a couple other things going on though. He thinks I might have BPPV causing the dizziness and I might have hyperventilation causing the lightheadedness.

Yup, drinking tons of water

I am feeling a bit better this morning but still not 100%. I've slept so much in the last 12-13 hours. I got home last night and immediately fell asleep for about an hour. Got up, took my meds, had some dinner and was asleep again by 9:30. I was up about 4 this morning and have been napping pretty heavy this morning already. I'm starting to wonder if maybe I've caught something and that is elevating the side effects from my meds.

I don't bring my BP cuff with me. Having this happen at work is not exactly planned shall we say. I've tested things a couple times when it happened at home and my BP is normal.

I'm really hoping some rest this evening is going to make things better because this day sucked. I've basically been sitting here at my desk doing nothing for the last couple hours because I'm just a hot mess.

Man the meds do not like me today. Simply standing at my bench and leaning forward a bit is enough to trigger a dizzy spell. I feel like such dog shit today

After two dizzy spells today I've made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow. It's just a call in one but that's all I need. Hopefully it doesn't get cancelled