Stormy Monday

Having some serious rage today over having to constantly monitor stuff and having to go through all of these friggin tests. I have to take my blood pressure four times a day, and any time I'm symptomatic. I also have to go for the gastric emptying test.

That is scheduled for Thursday.

Plus, I'm a little concerned about starting Atenolol. I picked up the prescription the other day and the pharmacist warned me to absolutely not take it if you have low blood pressure because it's a beta blocker. I have low blood pressure.

Now, I know that the doctor who prescribed it is aware of how low my blood pressure is, and that she's also a specialist in this condition. But still...I've left her a message just double checking with her that this is the route she wants to take because the warning freaked me out a little bit.

Amount of sleep:
pitiful. The dogs were horribly annoying all night. Went to bed at 12, up at 1:30, up at 3, up at 5, up at 6:15, then up at 9.

Heart rate a.m. :
laying down: 98/55 HR: 76
standing: 86/64 HR:134
symptom attack: 77/55 HR 90, 82/45 HR:98


Diet:
- Breakfast: big bowl of rice krispies with lactaid and brown sugar. extra glass of milk. (about 2.5 cups total)
- Lunch: turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, little dr. pepper.
- Dinner: steak, potatoes and green beans, 2.5 cups water
- Snack 1: pretzels, small glass dr. pepper
- Snack 2: handful hershey eggs...6+ cups of water over the course of the night

Exercise/activities:
- fixed the backyard fence

P.O.T.S. symptoms experienced:
so far: pounding heart, short of breath, extremely low blood pressure, inability to breathe

Heart rate p.m. :
laying down: 88/61 HR:59...also, irregular heartbeat
standing: 87/64 HR: 86

Misc:
- Feeling pretty off today. It's warm and incredibly humid, so it's very hard for me to breathe.
- cyst pain seems better