Dear Bizi
i totally missed this post yesterday, i only saw it this morning... somehow...
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You are doing every thing correctly following their orders and keeping a diary is a PITA but at least you can document the amount of caffeine you are having. I commend you for keeping up with everything. I am sorry that your feeling this emotional about all of this, soon it will be over right the testings and such.
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yes boy that monitor dealy
was a PITA. the most immediate worst thing about it was the ITCHING of those sticky things! arggghhh!!!!
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soon as i saw time was up i ripped those things off so fast!!!! today, i have to transcribe my activity notes into their diary. right now they are still scattered between my cell phone agenda (from yesterday when i was in the city) and scribbled on post its. the idea of doing that makes me very nervous. i hate turning this kind of stuff in.
so i am sort of detaching from it for now (no pun intended).
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I am sorry this is causing so much anxiety for you. At least you can check these tests off your things to do list. and maybe you might have the go ahead to exercise.I knew the monitor was going to be a PITA, I did that many years ago and had all of the same tests that you had and they found irregular beats that ended up being stress. The irregular beats just went away.
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i will have to lose weight before i can exercise, or i will damage my feet again. but once i do that, yes. and i'm going to work on that too.
i am sorry you had irregular heart beats. did you notice them before that? that's what people report as palpitations often, right? i have never noticed anything of that kind even with anxiety... i can have an increase in pulse if i get extreeeemley anxious or enraged, but that is normal. i told the cardio about the time i went running and pushed hard and my pulse stayed pegged over 100 for like 6 hours and she just smiled like, well what do you expect!.. LOL! anyway, she felt it was most likely because i pushed too hard - the stress test will show if there is more to it. (it will also give me an idea of how hard i can reasonably push, LOL.)
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I hope your chest pains go away.
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thanks, no worries, i haven't had any more pain after the episode of acute precordial pain that radiated to the left neck and arm that set the doctors off in alarm bells finally. before that i had general chest pain - felt like intercostal muscles. seemed very clearly related to peaks and troughs and was when i went up to 50mg on the Zoloft. and last time, again when i was ramping up the Zoloft - i had 4 days of constrictive pain coming and going with breathlessness and weakness, but that was last year. cardio says no way we can tell what happened then.
i *hate* that i am going to have to roll out of bed at 6.30 latest tomorrow. and that is when it is so cold.
later in the day it warms up to the 40's and 50's. this is a temperate zone... it started cooling in october, but last week it took another dive. yeah! brrrrr!
love you too. sorry for missing the post. i wasn't ignoring you on purpose.
~ waves ~