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claudiac_2

Good on you FW - Be thinking about you, hope it is nothing too serious.

Firewalker

Good day, my friends. Just back from my visit to the GP and the inevitable visit to the chemist. It is a complex of things - some bothersome but not life threatening and others potentially life threatening but may be compounded.

Greenbee, you were really spot on - I was told that the dizziness and feeling sick is because I have labirinthytis. Horrid thing to have and only the sympthoms can be managed; it is a virus and it goes eventually (may take up to two weeks). The medicine I got makes you sleepy - so I reckon I better take some time off and rest this one off, instead of trying to keep going and drag it longer.

The killer is that my blood pressure is high; it may be because I have been really worried that I am dying (melodramatic, I know but still this is exactly how I felt) or because it has gone up. What will hapen next is that I will start running again (when the world stops dancing around me), meditate and generally calm down. Will have my blood pressure taken in couple of weeks and if it is high again will have to start on medication - I would prefer to see this as a temporary condition but if it were not so be it.

This is where things stand. Life is still for living not surviving, though.

Firewalker

Memory_Girl

In a way this is good news FW

You now know what it is - and although it will take time it will go.

And now you have an opportunity to take some time to nurture yourself.

MG

greenbee

With labyrinthitis you tend to find that the dizziness comes on either when you are upright, or flat. So if it's the standing up one, recline as flat as you can when working (sorry, but its back to lying on the sofa). If its the lying down one, sleep with pillows to keep you upright. I had the standing up version. My mother had the other one. I got pills... She got an injection...

You can learn to mediate while resting. Make use of the enforced time off running. You can learn to bring your blood pressure down using your mind (scares the !!!! out of doctors when you do it )

Firewalker

greenbee wrote: »

You can learn to mediate while resting. Make use of the enforced time off running. You can learn to bring your blood pressure down using your mind (scares the !!!! out of doctors when you do it )

This is exactly what I want to learn to do - to control my blood pressure with my mind. Have two weeks to master the skill. Health samurai, anyone?

Tonight I'll go to the meditating session again - and will meditate at home (need to develop a habit).

FW

Happytogetdebtfree

I've started meditating don't know if I'm doing it right but I always feel really relaxed after I'm normally doing it before bed and I sleep great :-) greenbee explain the dropping the blood pressure while meditating ? I like all things like this I got some really nice meditation music off YouTube :-) xx

Triciaxx

It makes sense that blood pressure can go up if you are stressed - there has been a study done which shows that just having the doctor take your blood pressure can cause it to rise. Ever the lovers of 'syndromes' they are calling it 'White Coat Syndrome'.

Apparently many people have much lower blood pressure when they take it themselves at home.

Presumably, relaxing, being the opposite of stressed will reduce it.

Take it easy FW - a couple of weeks of rest is probably what your body needs and will insist on one way or another.

gilligansyle

Glad it was something that 'can be sorted' - the blood pressure will probably sort itself out too.

Marru

Madam - you should be resting but I can see that you are still blogging However then I shouldn't feel too guilty to ask if you are planning on writing anything about the Greece and Euro crisis?

Firewalker

Marru wrote: »

Madam - you should be resting but I can see that you are still blogging However then I shouldn't feel too guilty to ask if you are planning on writing anything about the Greece and Euro crisis?

We probably will. I remember putting a post here over a year ago now (when the whole thing started) but waiting to calm down a bit. Thanks for asking anyway.

FW