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THE GOOD | THE BAD | THE UGLY
Went to the doctor last week for my 3 month check-up. This is the 3rd doctor I have seen this year due to - issues. I really like this one though. It is my wife's doctor, so she comes highly recommended. This one is also tech savvy. I sent her PDFs of my first two lab reports and got my charts forwarded fro other doctors to her and she already had them in the system like I had them done there. That, was "on the ball"!
THE GOOD
My weight was down 30 lbs since my last recorded weight which put me close to 100 lbs from the first recorded weight on my charts. My A1C was down to 5.2% and my cholesterol was at 188. The doctor was stoked.
THE BAD
I was feeling great and keeping on my path until Tuesday morning. After my workout I was in the shower and the first of what came to be several episodes of severe vertigo accompanied with black-outs of lost time. I would be fine, then all of a sudden I would get extremely dizzy. There would be a ringing in my ears and I would start to see spots. Darkness would them start to creep around the edges of my vision and the world would get, I don't know, kinda of skewed? Then <snap> I would feel better, but be somewhere completely different. If I concentrated I could kinda remember getting from place A to place B, but it was like trying to remember a dream.
THE UGLY
After two days of these episodes, it actually only happened three times, but that was enough, I went to see the doctor this morning. I have been stuck, poked and prodded. Gave enough blood to keep a vampire family happy for days and the doctors still are not sure what the problem is. What they did find was a lot of fluid behind my ears, and that would account for the vertigo, but no so much the missing time. I have an MRI scheduled for Monday to make sure my brain doesn't have any issues, an ultrasound of my for carotid artery to check for blockages there, and several heart tests scheduled for two weeks to make sure I do not have an arrhythmia or anything else. Doctor says I cannot drive until the MRI rules out a brain issues.
There is probably nothing wrong except for severe exhaustion along with a sinus infection. [I worked 18 days in a row without a day off, getting up at 4 AM to hit the gym.] I have slept over 30 of the last 48 hours and feel much better now. Exhaustion will do crazy stuff to you.
Google searches also say I could have been abducted by aliens. That would be kinda cool. If the MRI finds a microchip in my brain I am so going to call the FBI's X files department ... that exists, right?
So that is where I am now. Hope you all have a great weekend, and remember, the truth is out there. [fade to whistling music ]
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