I have been feeling so much better since I came off the Zyprexa. I thought I was alone too in all the bad feelings I had about the medication, but feedback from my readers informs me that I am not alone. It is one evil drug.
I vow to go do my blood work that my doctor requested almost 2 weeks ago. Bad me. I just let time get away from me. It is killing me, however, not knowing if I am having a problem with my pancreas or kidneys or thyroid, thanks to that medication. I guess I will find out some days after if there is a problem.
There has to be a reason for the edema. SOMETHING in my body is working too hard.
Also, did some research and found out Zyprexa and Geodon causes hair loss!!!! That sucks. I�ve had a full head of hair my entire life and the last year or so I can see my scalp in some places. I can cleverly disguise it with hairstyles, but there�s no fooling myself. There is considerably less hair on my head than a couple of years ago.
An interesting event this week. How does one go from Chucky Cheese to the ER in 2 hours? Let me tell you�it was not pretty.
Tuesday, I went to work. It was work. A good day. Nothing outstanding or stressful going on.
Tuesday afternoon, me and Lisa take the kids to Chucky Cheese. I noticed that I was feeling very blah. I didn�t even want to go over and get myself something to drink. I mustered up enough energy to play skeeball with the kids and a few other things.
The pizza, as usual was yummy!
The kids ended up getting 164 tokens by some stroke of good luck and a machine malfunction at the cash register. It was nice.
I think that we all had a good time. While eating, I noticed I was getting another pain in the left side of my chest. I had been having a few off and on since Saturday, and since it was in the left side of my chest and I�d never felt that sensation before, I was for certain it was my heart. I did feel it was something I could live with.
I was wrong.
I get out on Lemay Ferry and start having these very intense sensations of someone squeezing my heart. It scared the bejesus out of me! I did not want to pull over and leave my car in the parking lot anywhere, so I drove the � mile home.
I got home and got out of the car. I thought if I sat and rested for a moment, that the scary sensation would go away.
Instead, it got worse.
I called Lisa, and then I called 911.
In the back of my mind, I was very scared I was having the rare but fatal arrhythmia that was mentioned on a website about my new medication, Geodon.
Jackie started freaking out. I feel bad about that. I tried to comfort her but I was a bit freaked out myself!
The paramedics came and I had to stay outside because of my rabid barking Pomeranian and the fact that I was for sure he�d bite one of them.
During this time, my hand went numb and I got really dizzy.
The paramedic said he thought I was having an anxiety attack. I�ve had anxiety attacks and they�ve never made me feel like that!
Since I�m 30, I can�t possibly have a heart attack in their eyes. It does happen though. And since I�m morbidly obese, I could have congestive heart failure, especially since it runs in my family.
Lisa took Jackie to Hoe�s house, and I went by myself in the ambulance. I continued to experience very surreal sensations.
I was sort of mad that they didn�t even want to take me to the hospital, nor did they do me the honor of turning on their lights to take me. Just another fat girl with an anxiety attack or worse, she�s just crazy and bipolar. I hate that.
I get to the ER and they immediately put me in a room.
Lisa showed up. I love that girl. She tried to make me laugh and took some pictures of me with oxygen tubes up my nose with my camera phone.
They put a nitric patch on my chest, and hooked me up with an IV spot. They put some medicine in the IV spot to open up my heart valves, just in case.
Then we did some chest x-rays. They did all kinds of tests. Blood clots, other stuff. It came back normal, except for one test.
I knew it wasn�t an anxiety attack.
It is pneumonia. In my left lung.
I felt validated, and then relieved that it wasn�t my heart.
I�m glad I wasn�t having that fatal arrhythmia that the website mentioned. God knows, I�m too young to die.
After they were done with their tests, I called my boo to let her know I was okay. Poor thing, I really scared the crap out of her. She sounded very relieved.
Rene� showed up. Man, you really find out who your friends are, when you�re sick. They sat there with me until it was time to go. Lisa went and picked up Jackie and Rene� took me home. I don�t even remember the car ride home.
The doctor gave me two days off work, and I really needed that. I pretty much sat on my butt except a few times where I got up and sprayed the hell out of the fruit flies; I mean the plague of Israel that has emerged from the drains in the house once again. I�m so sick of those. I don�t know about anyone else, but when I see fruit flies, I think of uncleanliness. I would hate for anyone to think of me like that. The only reassuring thing is that a bunch of my neighbors have them too.
As far as the pneumonia, I can trace my health issues back six weeks. I�ve been feeling short of breath for a while, but had learned to live with it, as I felt it was just my weight catching up with me.
3 weeks ago, I was at my Uncle�s farm, and even he made a comment that I was out of breath.
Increasingly, lately, I have just felt tired. And in the past couple weeks; I�ve had episodes where I�d wake up in the middle of the night gasping for breath. It seemed to get worse the week leading up to my ER visit.
I�m glad I went to the ER. Pneumonia can be deadly. I�m glad I was diagnosed before I ended up having to be hospitalized. So, I dodged that bullet.
11:10 am - September 30, 2005
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