The women in my family all have the fall-down-go-boom disease, and no doctor has ever been able to figure out why. A few of us spent years on seizure medication. These days my mother is on vertigo meds, while Jen has a pacemaker and I’m taking nothing.
Over the years I’ve spent 14 years on seizure meds, 2 weeks on a heart monitor, and several hours in various emergency rooms. I thought it was my brain, maybe my heart, maybe my blood pressure, maybe my adrenals, maybe my blood sugar, who knows? The doctors sure didn’t.
Now it seems every other day I’m suffering another “episode,” so it’s time to get serious: I’m getting a battery of blood tests tomorrow to start the diagnostic ball rolling. Will I be able to make it through a fasting urinalysis and blood test without dying of adrenal failure? Hell I don’t know. I hope I will make it through the night without incident, because Bunny is away at summer school and my cats can’t dial 911 . . .
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Kenneth Kraut // July 16, 2009 at 5:01 am |
good luck with the testing; I hope they find out what’s eating you so you get better. I really enjoy your tirades.
aballoflight // July 16, 2009 at 9:34 am |
sorry to hear of your fall down go boom issues. i certainly hope you can make it thru the fasting urinalysis without such a drastic ending. so shhhh – don’t even talk like that…Please. i’ve learned everything i know about color-coordinated martinis from you! Shame House doesn’t practice nearby? oh… wait…
i find it odd that your episodes have hit in the way you describe. Something very, very similar has been happening with me as well this last week or so on an every other day basis. I’ll be talking with someone, or shuffling computer parts or papers, or even just sitting reading or standing quietly and i will experience a near-blackout which continues much longer than iam used to. What iam used to, typically brought on by my lack of food for the preceding 18 hours, is a short (3-10 seconds) uh-oh better put my head down now hold on and ride it out feeling which iam pretty sure would be low-blood sugar hypoxia.
What i have experienced recently is maybe 20 – 60 seconds of the rush accompanied by a highly compressive externally felt lethargy, as tho my body (or maybe just my brain) had just got wrapped in tenuous clingfilm. This feeling will dissipate over the next few minutes, but i feel as tho iam returning from a very long distance and i know i left it (my body) somewhere around here…There have also been color flashes, sonorous bell-sound followed by a headache a few hours later.
are your mother and sister as psychically sensitive and active as are you?
maybe you are one of those suffering with hyperchroniac disease… George can’t be the only one…
i’ll keep a mind’s eye on you tonite… sleep well
moodymommy // July 16, 2009 at 11:45 am |
I’m so sorry you are going through this. One of my friend’s suffered vertigo for over a week as a symptom of her cold (according to her doc). She could hardly do anything out of bed! Have you ever seen an neuropath or a doc of osteopathy to access all of you health issues as a whole?
OKC // July 16, 2009 at 11:54 am |
Hope you get it sorted out. If not, you could always move to the South. That way you can just blame it on “the vapors.” (You’ll need to practice that southern drawl and carry a fan if you really expect that to be successful.)
Feel betta!
wanderer // July 16, 2009 at 6:28 pm |
Vapors? rofl My thoughts go with you and may the gods watch over the “healthcare providers” tending to you. And may the goddess herself hold you through this ordeal.
BTW vapors=gas
osbasso // July 16, 2009 at 8:17 pm |
Ooh, I do hope the tests come out in your favor!
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // July 16, 2009 at 11:24 pm |
Well . . . I survived
artfuldodger64 // July 17, 2009 at 12:17 am |
So, you can afford these tests and procedures because you have good health insurance. What about those who don’t have health insurance? Should we let them die?
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // July 17, 2009 at 12:23 am |
artfuldodger you presume too much. Way too much. I mean, wtf.
artfuldodger64 // July 18, 2009 at 12:07 am |
Forgive me if I offended you. I was just linking your post to the previous post on the Healthcare initiative languishing in Congress and its relationship to the press and the national debt. My apologies.
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // July 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm |
Just because I think the statist approach to “reform” is a pork-filled piece of wrong doesn’t mean I want to “just let people die.” Jeez. False choice .
I think all people in this world – not just the US – deserve happy childhoods, bellies full of healthy food, decent healthcare, trusting friendships, happy spouses and precocious and well behaved children, and pot farms guarded by unicorns. I think some abstract entity should pay for it all with money it pulls out of its ass because . . . magic?
Oh, the world would be such a nicer place if only I were Queen. The utopia in my head works perfectly SO LONG AS IT NEVER LEAVES MY HEAD.
We need reform, but statists are parasitic and ravenous. Their interests are not YOUR interests, nevermind the PR. Be suspicious of anything they propose. This bill would make privately/individually owned insurance illegal BTW.
I wish we could just interview a bunch of small town and inner city doctors and ask them what THEY think, and then design multiple pilot programs based on what they suggest, depending on what individual parts of the country and their populations need, and then objectively assess the results and move from there. There could be government administration and involvement, but power and decisionmaking authority would be dispersed to the working level, not housed in Washington DC. This will never happen because the State cannot use such programs to consolidate power, suck more money out of the system, and rule over us in the guise of service.
The fact that I am out-of-pocket for those lab tests, because I only have catastrophic, is neither here-nor-there.
artfuldodger64 // July 18, 2009 at 2:39 pm |
I agree with everything you say … And I am just as fed up with the balance of power in our political system and the fiscal irresponsibility that continues to fester as a result.
In addition to asking health providers on a local or regional scale and developing pilot programs, we could also learn much by studying the many countries around the globe that have universal coverage and see how they have done it. We could learn from their successes and mistakes.
But, it is politically safer to repackage things and cave into special interests. Our government is no longer by the people or for the people. But was it ever?
Regardless, I think the last thing on someone’s mind when they have a life-threatening condition is the imminent collapse of the dollar and our screwed up political system. They just want to be healthy.
Sorry about the out-of-pocket. I have coverage, but a huge deductible … so it ends up being out-of-pocket anyhow.
aballoflight // July 18, 2009 at 6:30 pm |
as i have a near pathologic incapability of non-response in the face of some types of statements…
sweeping his three-plumed, harlequined farriers hat from his head, and bowing low, he murmurs “it would appear that Utopia inside your head, Your Majesty, is not quite working so perfectly these days if you actively seek allopathic attention for your ailments therein.”
ahhh… now i feel better… as do i hope milady soon will also.
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // July 18, 2009 at 6:39 pm |
a ball of light! I thought I answered you upthread, but I only did it in my mind! I am sorry!
I am just the kind of woman to experience “hyperchronia” as I used to experience it often when I was deep into meditation. (Same with the uncontrolled out of body experiences but that’s a different story). I don’t think it is that, however, since it’s . . . different.
This time, however, I think it’s . . . I don’t know what I think, except the painful ricocheting between dehydration and the pee-pee dance, hunger and absolutely no appetite whatsoever, is really annoying. Then my body “forgets” to breathe. WTF.
Water issues. I’m having water issues in general.
All my blood tests came out normal so who knows. What I do know is I have to be very very very careful about what I eat/drink. Not that it prevents the “episodes,” whatever they are, but that I cope so poorly with them if my stomach is empty or I’m dehydrated.
Maybe the “Big Squeeze” has something to do with it . . . ? It’s supposed to affect all bodies of water . . .
aballoflight // July 20, 2009 at 3:42 am |
-discard if a duplicate post- ty
6 seconds of do-do-doo-do do-do-doo-do do-do-doo-do just frissoned right up my spine … no apologies necessary – mindlevel communication is the new twitter don’t cha know?
one of the thought lineages of which i have partaken describes something similarly as the term “hyperchronia” referring to the subjectivity of altered time passage as “harmonic time”. That would have to do with feeling as though the 15 seconds of clock time you just spent a subjectively felt hour engrossed within waiting on the light to change, or the 2 or 3 hours spent in conscious delight seeming to pass in only 15 minutes or less.
That coupled with hypersensitivity to, as well as heightened interaction with all sorts of em fields, both organic and non, which may be affecting (or affected by) electrolytic and colloidal imbalances which could be subjectively experienced as sluggish or gummy states might get close to what Ure means with hyperchroniac disease. I haven’t started the standing drool yet tho. some mornings however…
here i thought caffeine aggravation and elevated PSA would be an adequate explanation for my having similar pee-pee dancing and massive thirst… apparently not… You left out the leg, foot and right eyelid! cramps that is part of my experience, but you nailed the “hunger and absolutely no appetite whatsoever”! iam typically not much concerned with food intake (usually one meal a day after sunset for 30+ years), but last week i went to the local market after not eating for over 48 hours and knowing i must be hungry, still not a single thing there looked the least bit inviting. go figure
you think your body forgetting to breathe could be spontaneous kumbhaka? you seem like that kind of woman. [grin] your middle name isn’t Lakshmi or Kali is it?
maybe Coleridge is onto something with his thesis chaos antithesis… i feel viscerally that there are an increasing number of us getting ready to tumble to and reorganize at the next, higher, stable energy level (ala Ilya Prigogine) for continued fun, games and dancing.
for your very very careful what you eat/drink consideration…
and what in the world does accordion music
OR lara flynn boyle have to do with anything?!??
ohh never mind.
not to get all metempsychotic (respectfully, of course) on your ass, but have we met?
maybe i’ll meet you at the oobe bustop cafe, for coffee one of these days… soon’s you figure out how to control it better… ya just gotta love them spontaneous projections eh…