Tachycardia and exhaustion
Sep. 30th, 2015 06:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronI have been obnoxiously ill lately - even since before I left Canada. What doctors refer to as "Tired All The Time" (TATT), in a lot of pain with my joints, plus a high pulse rate for no particular reason. Yesterday my chest started hurting - not enough to take myself straight down to A&E, but enough that I thought I should go to see the doctor today. So I did, and discovered that my pulse was 111 bpm at rest. Which is worrying. However, since my blood pressure was 126/86 sitting down and 125/85 standing up, not "You might drop dead any minute" level of worrying.
Apparently the combination of TATT and tachycardia with normal blood pressure suggests that I might be anaemic. So I then had to take myself to the hospital for approximately 12 different blood tests, including full blood count and calcium levels, and also TSH just in case I am taking too much thyroxine. Next week I have to have an ECG, although the doctor listened to my heart with a stethoscope today and it didn't seem to be doing anything erratic.
I'm just sick of being sick, if you know what I mean. I kinda hope this turns out to be simple anaemia with no complicating factors. Although it occurs to me that my digestive system hasn't worked properly in years, and the chronic fatigue clinic did tell me that some large percentage of their patients turn out to be coeliac... I guess if the blood tests do show anaemia then I have an appointment with an intestinal camera in my near future.
And then on top of this I have the joys of my Evil Left Hip and Evil Sacro-Illiac Joint and Evil Uterus and every other part of me that doesn't work properly... Nothing I have is very serious by itself, but the combination of having to deal with a whole load of health problems all at once is, well, exhausting. Even without the exhaustion.
Apparently the combination of TATT and tachycardia with normal blood pressure suggests that I might be anaemic. So I then had to take myself to the hospital for approximately 12 different blood tests, including full blood count and calcium levels, and also TSH just in case I am taking too much thyroxine. Next week I have to have an ECG, although the doctor listened to my heart with a stethoscope today and it didn't seem to be doing anything erratic.
I'm just sick of being sick, if you know what I mean. I kinda hope this turns out to be simple anaemia with no complicating factors. Although it occurs to me that my digestive system hasn't worked properly in years, and the chronic fatigue clinic did tell me that some large percentage of their patients turn out to be coeliac... I guess if the blood tests do show anaemia then I have an appointment with an intestinal camera in my near future.
And then on top of this I have the joys of my Evil Left Hip and Evil Sacro-Illiac Joint and Evil Uterus and every other part of me that doesn't work properly... Nothing I have is very serious by itself, but the combination of having to deal with a whole load of health problems all at once is, well, exhausting. Even without the exhaustion.
