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OK. so I've taken, recieved, by various means, all manners of nasty drugs in my times.

But. - its the prescription ones that are the absolute worse.

So, yesterday finally got the script ready at the pharmacy, and got hold of the Cozaar tablets, to lower my 9already low) BP.

I took one yesterday, just after 3 PM. lowest dose they do the tablets in, 12.5 I think it is (MG?)

woke up some time gone 3 AM, (having slept an hour or so). - fairly certain I was dieing.

Eventually managed to get out of bed, and crawl down the wall of the stairs, to get to the front room.

drank a litre of water (to riase BP) and drank cup after cup of tea, to raise my HR, until I didn't think i was dieing.

now 13.43 in the afternoon, and I still feel absolutely terrible.

Went to surgary earlier; no, not to see GP; that would have ment getting an appointment, and getting an appointment is exactly what they work hard at ensuring you can't get.

Saw pharmacist, who said 'I'll get you a GP app this afternoon;.

Walked back (with the entir eworld spinning around me, and feeling dizzy and faint ),

Still feel dizzy and faint, and everything (which I cna't see) is spinning confusingly around me. my brain feels... 'odd' (moreso than normal).

just got a phonecall from the GP who saw me to prescribe the med, who just sounded really ed off with me, and didn't quite understand that actually its unacceptible for me to not be able to sleep, and not be albe to lay down, and not be able to say, walk anywhere in my house due to being overly dizzy.

Basically tried to dismiss me; openly lied and said the side effects I said it had given me, don't exist for that med

- told him I wanted an APP, and now have one in an hour or two, with a differnt Dr at the practise.

practise. not nearly ing enough IMO, they oughta go read some of the patient information leaflets for th emeds they're presribing.

I feel more unwell on that one tablet, that I did exaclty a year ago toaday, on my wedding day, when I was hospitalised and almost slipped into a coma an d died. - I had warned the Dr that as I already have low BP, and as the med won't interact well with my other meds, it was most likely going to make me ill; I did my bit then; abvoe teh call of duty, and tried taking it, despite my better judgement, and then... he trieds to lie to me and brush me off on the phone
I may have to temporily suspend my pasofist belief system . . so .. tempting... but I'm probably too dizzy to even try TBH

palpitations are more now, too than before I took the med, which seems... rather counterintuitive... need more

Oh My BoB indeed...

Well done for not dying after that... I am so amazed but somehow not surprised that your doctors are so determined to treat your blood rather than your person... I can understand why you're palpitating, that I think the cortisol and the angiotensin both affect the muscles in your arteries, so they seem to be all over the place, now...

You don't happen to have double joints or something bendy like that, do you? Vaguely rings a bell with something one of my bendy friends on Facebook mentioned...

Good luck - I feel very helpless watching you go through all this, but thank you for posting when you can

oo; well remembered!- you'll be a Dr yet! - I was actually really very impressed with the Cardio Dr I saw; she did some 'weird' tests (OK not weird to me, as I knew she was testing me for double jointedness); plus some 'weird questions' (same applies); I'll spell it wrong... - Marffin syndrome I think its called; to do with something wong with cartledge (I think vaguely from memory); a really rare genetic condition; gives double jointedness, but also weakens blood vessels; no I odn't actually have it for once!

She was rather througher... - trying to figure out why I've got this annurism/enlarged aorta; when I have low BP, etc, and not any other real risk factors (low weight, low BP, etc., etc., ) - TBH; my twenty years of smoking might be sufficiennt to account though, but she didn't say so (I told her I had smoked but noqw quit of two years). . .

yeh; the med is doing weird things to my adrenals, and the prednisolone is doing opposite effects of the med! yeh... weird... -- Homoeostatus?! pah, I don't believe in homoeostatus err... homoeostasis

The room is still spinning which is a weird effect when your totally blind, and my balance is way off too, as I'm also dizzy in combination with the virtigo thing well, back to see a differnt gP soon, seeif he knows anything about anything... - I'm less fussy if he knows anything relitvent, just hoping he might know something.... I dunno... how to change a lighbulb... perhaps... - its a good job I'm now imortal... - I think that must have been my superhuman superhero power, from radiotherapy! - odd, as now thanks to the gym, etc, I'm probably fitter in most ways than I've been since my 20s! - well asides the cancer, and the heart disease, and the thyroid disease, and the no testosteorne or growh hormone, or wonky adrneal gland, and nerve dammage in my fingers and feet, and legs, and... all the other stuff - keep them laughing as you go