Good Morning, LJ!!

[susandennis]

I woke up at 6 this morning and realized that I didn't have anything that I really had to get up for so I shut my eyes and went back to sleep. That's certainly the up side of not having any hours to bill! When I did get up at 8, I felt GREAT! All the soreness caused by the under the desk episode was gone.

I took both my pills about 2 hours ago and I am feeling some effects, I believe. Not bad just different. I'm trying my best to stay GREAT!

The weather people are promising that we will, once again, have about 10 more days of no rain and constant, unrelenting, scorching, unforgiving fucking sun. I have my shades drawn and the air conditioner on and I am refusing to let it get me down. I am going to stay GREAT!

Oh I have a dental appointment a week from Thursday. BUT, I just found out that it's a cleaning AND x-rays. This means that she won't have the whole hour to torture me with her cleaning tools. She's going to have to give up some of that time for the x-rays! Ha! Plus, exactly 2 weeks from today I will have four months of not having to have another cleaning!! Next time I'm going to schedule the appointment for the first of the month. It's a bitch to have to stare at the Dental Appointment notation on the calendar for a month.

Now, I'm going out in the fucking hot sun to run an errand. I need a sheet of plexiglass or something that will make my new laptop table glide more easily from this desk area to the chaise area.

Back in a bit!

Comments

[keelamonster.livejournal.com]

here's the thing about high blood pressure. There was a fairly interesting study that asked people about their quality of life when being treated for various illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, etc. And what they found was that people actually report a better quality of life (sort of overall feeling better) when their high blood pressure is untreated than when it's first treated. No one understands the phenomenon. Maybe it's that when your bp is too high, you have this sort of keyed up feeling and as it comes down, you feel less so.

Either way, it's not uncommon when you first start on meds to feel a little less than Jake, so to speak. That usually goes away after your body adjusts to the more appropriate blood pressure.

This is not to say that you should stop taking your meds, of course, because while people report that they feel better not on their hypertensive meds, they also tend to do stupid things like have heart attacks and strokes and die when they're not on the meds.

So there you go. :)

[susandennis]

Interesting. Thanks.

I intend to keep feeling GREAT! I think I can feel some effects of the drugs but probably it's my imagination. I thought long and hard about doing the drug thing and when I decided to do it, I decided to do it all the way. In for a dime, so to speak.

If I had to lay some dime on it, I'd the effects I'm feeling are brain caused, as opposed to drug caused. And my doctor did tell me that the first few days might be a little different but that I would adjust and I intend to.

I do so appreciate your chiming in here. You have no idea.