Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Very high blood pressure and more medication

Through the roof is what the medical professional said to me about my blood pressure, and yes I had taken my blood pressure medicine over an hour before going to my appointment. She also took it to check to see if it had gone down, since a different nurse, a male one had taken it the first time, and it had slightly gone down, but still, 145 over 94, before it had been 154 over 100, not good.
And so now I am also on an ACE inhibitor added to my regular blood pressure medication as well as my cholesterol medicine.

I want off of this nasty unhealthy ride!
This nurse-practitioner is the one who saw me that decided that I needed the additional meds and that more than likely my frequent headaches, daily they are, could be caused by my ridiculous hypertension.
All the pain in my different locations shoulders and hips she concluded what I too thought my MS as well as the osteoarthritis, and she did say with my GI history, stomach problems of ulcers IBS etc. med wise there were not too many choices, but she did give me the phone number for someone that could recommend a pain management person that might work on a sliding scale for payment, but just from our brief info, income how many people in the family etc., over the phone the best they could do for me would be $200 an office visit, not disallowing my husband’s SSI disability like the health department does, if we didn’t have that we too would be up a creek without a paddle it allows us to pay our bills on time. (PS for you out of country people that is something that while you work they take out of your paycheck all those years for just this purpose it is not charity or government funding it is your money, insurance, you put in all the years you worked! And they take it out of everyone’s paychecks in the US. And they make it awfully hard to get back too they investigate like you are stealing from the government, hah! They should have been so careful with those banks, big business and Wall Street and then maybe things would have been different now.)
So again I am up a creek without a paddle, since that would be a weekly or bi-monthly expense just too far out of reach for us commoners without insurance.

I am screwed. The pain seems to come much more frequently, and I am medicated with all those three prescriptions, which are not for pain by the way, and fortunately are all generic so only $36 dollars a month.

Silly note: Charlotte County Florida: Our Town Center Mall right here in River City better known as Port Charlotte Florida had a streaker Saturday night at our one and only enclosed mall, yippee some excitement! And it even made it to the net; great for tourism just what this little berg needed to create a frenzy, good for you Brandon!
It is only a misdemeanor crime anyway.
And a good laugh in these unflappable not so funny times!

We also had our spring training Tampa Rays play their first game today, wow we got a lot of good stuff going on, and yes they did win.

On that somewhat happy note I bid you good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too.

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