BIKE 1 hour maybe about 15-16 miles
This went by fast, had a lot to think about. What to do next with my diet, because I'm not happy feeling sick like this. I get blood drawn for my new cholesterol numbers Friday, what will it show, and how will I go from there? And more. Chatted with mom on phone via text, stared at a blank TV screen with the DVD logo bouncing around. Used it as a stand/sit interval counter cuz it would move every 15-20 seconds. After the ride I did 10 mins of legs strength and watched the Running On The Sun DVD about the Badwater. Not sure I ever want to run that.
We're having another polar vortex, it's only 1F outside with wicked negative 20-something windchills. Sugar didn't even want to go for a walk, good think cuz I didn't either. But I really can't complain, SO works tonight out in this weather and back home they have it much worse.
I've been having some sort of chest symptoms, I didn't mention them to Dr W yesterday because of a lot of things. Mentioning something like this kinda forces them to run a bunch of tests and I'm fairly certain the tests would come back normal. Reference last October, for example. And because I stopped taking the Amlodipine (calcium channel blocker last week. Why did I do this? I ran out of the prescription while doing my Saturday morning routing of filling my morning and evening pill boxes. I have the new Rx, but forgot to add it in starting on about Thursday. So maybe Weds was the last dose? I think I took some Saturday and Sunday with my new refills. But then definitely Monday through today (Weds) I've been withholding it. I don't want to be taking so many meds. And I wanted to see if stopping this med changed anything. Dr B added it last October to see if it helped with what they thought were artery spasms. I wanted to experiment.
But I've been having this feeling for longer than the last week, but it's either becoming more prominent or I'm paying more attention to it. I think the former. It's like that feeling you get when you get an adrenaline rush -- the cold flood of feeling through your chest, but without the stomach butterflies and racing heart. It's just a feeling, sometimes verging on uncomfortable. But never painful. And never the squeezing tightness that characterized last September. But it's there, kinda regardless of what I'm doing. It doesn't seem activity related. Lab, home, driving, sitting, walking, calm, busy, thinking...
I'd like to think it's stress? I don't feel that acutely stressed but the body does funny things. Especially mine with its strong streak of denial. Could it be the running? Maybe it's not the heart but the lungs and rib muscles readapting?
I'm just being honest here, logging it for future reference. Should I restart the Amlodipine and see what happens? Maybe.
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