Seriously. They keep trying all this different stuff with me, to see what will work, but I know it's just to help me feel better. This is just going to be a rather simple and short update, as I need to head out (which I'm going to explain within here too. Haha!).
So! We just got me new medication, one that I have seen mentioned a lot with POTSies. It's Florinef, which can apparently lower your potassium levels drastically if you aren't careful, so I have to go get a BPM within a week or two to ensure that I'm okay on this medication. I'm hoping it'll help, because due to the hot weather my symptoms are getting worse. Not only that, but my heart's fluttering a lot now and I think I've figured out why that is: SUGAR.
I'm not a big sweets fan, but I do LOVE sugary sodas. Not great for you, I know, but after giving up caffeine due to making my symptoms worse, I needed some kind of fizz in my life. Breaking up is hard to do, y'know? So I've been drinking two of those a day and I realized a few days back, that after I drink them my heart starts getting palpitations. Nothing serious, of course, but they are a bit scary. You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you go down hills, and you feel as though you have no insides? That's how my chest feels, and as much as it's fun to get that feeling in your stomach, it's not a great feeling to have when it's with your heart.
So with further testing, I've found this to be the cause, and ontop of that, I had a slight rebound with my pancreas. It was just irritated from the amount of gluten I'd been eating recently. I'm gluten intolerant, I really shouldn't eat it, but I do anyways because how can you not?! That stuff's super good! But it's making my body sick, and I need to stop now.
Because of this, I HAVE NOW MADE A PLAN!
I can't exercise much yet due to my POTS, so I've decided to do the things I know I can do. I see all these people looking fit and healthy, and I CRAVE to feel like that. I know the only way it's going to happen is if I let it happen, so I'm going to do my absolute best to make sure I can get where I want to be.
So what exactly is this plan?
I will be riding my bike after I wake up, carry on with my daily activities, every other day try and go to the gym to swim a few laps until I can build up more tolerance to it, and then after dinner later at night, I'll go for another bike ride. This is fun to do, because I love swimming but the biking is going to be difficult. I have a severe phobia over bikes due to nearly dying with one (that's a loooong story, I won't get into it, so to sum it up I fell into many rocks and am lucky to be alive, let alone not even break anything).
Tonight is actually my first night riding a bike in 10 YEARS, so wish me luck!
However, these two things aren't tedious and are fun, so they won't feel like exercise even though they are. I'm going to try and get back into the habit of doing yoga too before bed.
I'll also be keeping a food diary, to make sure I'm eating healthily through out the day and I'm planning on posting it onto my tumblr account to keep track of it there as well, almost like my online diary (shorter than this one, of course).
Yesterday we spent out all day, celebrating all of us (my sisters and I) moving out and going to college, and we were able to get me compression leggings! They are actually REALLY nice. Very hot in this almost 90 degree weather, but they're relieving pressure on my head. I don't know if that's how they're supposed to work, but they are helping and I'm not about to complain about this. I just need to figure out how to keep my wonderful fashion sense with these things because they stick out of all the shorts I have.
That's it for now! Pretty short and to the point, and I'll start going through my exercise regimen once I full figure it out, and talk about my biking, yoga, and all of this that I'm going to be trying to do.
Thank you all, and to all a good night!
- Rosie
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