Friday, August 5, 2011

what a night.

I took my new anti inflammatory medication before bed time.  I was so wiped out I was laying on the floor with the kids and that'd where I remained the rest of the night.

It took everything out of me.  I felt weak shirt of breath luckily my heart was beating at a normal pace.  I have to watch my heart rate because I have sinus tachycardia.  Quick lesson :   the sinus node is located at the top of the heart...it produces your hearts electricity.  In a healthy heart it sends electrical current in a complete circle around the heart.  In my case the electricity in my heart. Chooses different paths and sometimes not making a full circle.  This cause my heart to pause mid beat and speed up some times a little to fast.  When I start to have these symptoms I take a daily pill that help me.  I stopped taking them when I was pregnant with justin and surprisingly I haven't had a spell yet.

Any way back onto last night as im laying on the floor I feel like my chest weighs a ton but luckily I can keep myself calm.  Then the fire begins.  My body turned feverishly hot and I was sweating to the point it was pooling under my back.  But I absolutely had no energy to get up.  I started to pant a little but I finally started falling asleep.

I slept on the floor.  When I woke up my body temperature seemed to be back to normal.  But I feel jet lagged from lack of comfortable sleep.  I think ill wean myself into this medication.  Im suppose to take it three times a day but im going to work on getting use to it at bed time first!!

Maybe that's how this medication works...it burns the arthritis right out of you haha. :)

1 comment:

  1. not sure what you are taking but one of the meds they had me on in the hospital did that to me I would be drenched in sweat and had the ac turned up so high i was freezing everyone out and it knocked me on my butt.

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