What’s Up, Doc?
I am! No, this isn’t about that special blue pill (no need for that … yet). Today was my first visit to a doctor in several years. I had to go. My heartburn was beginning to singe my nose hairs at times. My blood pressure has started surging to dizzying heights all too often … and I do mean dizzying.
When I left the good doctor’s office, I had a bag full of goodies. No candy just a few weeks worth of the purple pill, Nexium, a couple of boxes of Toprol, and a prescription for Sucralfate. Gotta love the Doctors and their pills. His plan is for me to mediate myself for a couple of weeks and see if my peptic ulcer and high blood pressure go away. “Where do you work?” he asked. “RPC”, I replied. “That explains it.” he said and added a few more boxes to my already full bag of pills. It was almost like Trick-Or-Treat except he wasn’t wearing a mask when he gave me the bill and one of the side-effects of the medicine won’t be a sugar rush. Aside from that …
I hate taking pills especially different ones at the same time. Interactions? “If there are any, they should be few,” my doctor said encouragingly. Great! I guess my only alternatives is to put up with that acidic fire that is burning a large hole in my chest. Maybe I can get use to the ringing in my ears that drowns out everything else. Or, when I can hear, maybe it will be ok to look like I’m blushing every time someone says something. Nah, I’ll take my pills. Perhaps it will give me something interesting to blog about — weird hallucinations, growth of a third leg (no need for the blue pill then), you know the usual…
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Doctors can kill you. Go out to WedMD and look up the drugs he gave you. There you will find interactions and tips for when to take the meds and what not to take together. Some drugs interact with food and need to be taken on an empty stomach.
If you have high blood pressure, take the meds. You do not want to stroke out. Get you BP under control and then you can see about making life style changes and controlling your BP through diet.
Relaxation tapes and white noise, like the sound of waves, can help you relax.
Take care of yourself.
Hi CyberCelt! Thanks for your support. Thanks for the tip on the WebMD site. I have found it very informative! As for relaxing sounds, I have found the sweet, sweet, soothing drone of cool air from my air conditioning at home … which doesn’t do me any good here at work. Here, the white noise is the stress-inducing whine of my bosses. LOL
Please take care of yourself as well!
We (the mouse in my pocket
and I) agree with CyberCelt!
I have an ocean wave CD that should do the trick for nighttime or anytime you want to sit or lay back and relax. I’ll send it via snail mail.
Did the doctor say that you might be able to get things under control and then stop any treatments?
Either way, like CyberCelt said, please take care of yourself!
There are lots of us that want you around for a very long time, and so do your readers!
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