At an eating establishment near Atlanta, Georgia they serve a massive 6lb burger in a bun. There it is above. If you eat the entire plateful you don't have to pay. The woman in the picture - Molly Schuyler- actually managed it even though she is as thin as a rake. I guess that the perspective in that picture is a little deceptive... but just a little.
Six pounds. That is how much weight I have lost in the past ten days. Mostly down to "The Yorkshire Pudding" diet that I explained on Thursday. However, yesterday's dietary diversion may have helped.
On Friday I ate a small bowl of "Ready Brek" for breakfast, a banana for lunch and a vegetable "Cuppa Soup" for tea/dinner/supper with just one slice of buttered toast. You see, I wasn't feeling well.
I am pretty sure that I had a bad reaction to my first doxazosin tablet - an alpha blocker that is designed to increase blood flow somehow and decrease high blood pressure. Well that little white pill knocked me for six.
Just before midnight on Thursday my tummy started to rumble. It was as if diarrhoea was brewing and I needed to release the internal pressure. However, it wasn't that simple.
At one o'clock I looked in the bathroom mirror and I was shocked by my ghostliness. All the colour had drained away from my face. I had become a church candle version of myself.
It must have been around two o'clock that I fainted for the first time in my adult life. Fortunately, I did not injure myself. I woke up lying between the downstairs shower room and the adjacent corridor wondering what the hell I was doing on the floor.
After five minutes, I pulled myself up. Still Ghost Pudding was staring back at me from the mirror. I will not go into detail about the toilet bowl contents but let's just say the colour was alarmimgly bright red.
I got an appointment with a doctor yesterday afternoon. She was keen to eliminate other possibilities but if this wasn't to do with the doxazosin then my name is SpongeBob Squarepants. It's now 48 hours since I took that tablet and my body has still not returned to normal. Oh woe is me!
I am rueing your ailments. Please take care, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your kind concern Bruce.
DeleteWhat an awful and frightening reaction! Clearly you need a different medication. I hope you improve quickly.
ReplyDeleteI was diagnosed with high blood pressure in November last year and the doctor has been trying different medications to bring it right down. I agree about "awful" and "frightening".
DeleteBloody diarrhea is not a side effect of the drug, but the fainting can be. What does Shirley say? When was your last colonoscopy?
ReplyDeleteI have never had a colonoscopy Pixie but I did participate in the bowel screening programme and there was no issue two years ago. It seems too much of a connection that six hours after first taking the drug my body behaves like that.
DeleteThat one doesn't seem to be the right medication. I think your blood pressure probably bottomed out thus the faint. If you could have tested your BP right then we'd know. Dang it all anyway. Hope you feel better real soon.
ReplyDeleteI tested my blood pressure in the morning and it was a bit lower than any of my many previous readings.
DeleteI don't think it was the drug, Mr pudding.
ReplyDeleteEverything under the sun is hitting you right now
I'm with everyone else; get the meds checked because that doesn't sound right.
ReplyDeleteAnd feel better!
OMG it dropped your BP too low! That's why you fainted.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very scary reaction to a medication. I hope they get this sorted out for you. However, keep at it. Lost weight will be very beneficial. I'm surprised that someone like you, who walks so much has circulatory problems.
ReplyDeleteNot good, YP. I hope you and your doctor can reverse this alarming reaction. The paleness and fainting do sound like very low blood pressure. It's horrible when our bodies fail us, no matter what the reason is. I hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely blame the Doxasozin. There's no other reason for your ghostly reflection and the fainting. "They" may be trying to lower your blood pressure too far and too quickly. That's never good. Mine is not as high as it once was, but not quite low enough to fit the given parameters either, yet no one has suggested more or stronger pills. They see that I am well and functioning and that is good enough.
ReplyDeleteYour doctors need to realise that you survived many years with the high blood pressure so any reasoning that they must get it as low as the recommended chart advice as quickly as possible is BS.
If your weigh-in came after your non-eating day a good part of those six pounds will be attributable to that. What was lost will, to an extent, be found. (Biblical reference here.)
ReplyDeleteFor a moment there I had a vision of you as a blushing Narcissus contemplating your reflection in the toilet bowl.
Alarming but hopefully it can be worked through.
That was a kind and lovely comment you left on John of Wales' second post about the memory of his dog, Finlay.
What an alarming thing to happen. Take it carefully until things firm up (no pun) about what was wrong, especially on the stairs.
ReplyDeleteHow scary that must have been! It certainly is not the way you want to lose weight. I hope you feel more like your usual self again by the time you read this.
ReplyDeleteWell I hope it all resolves itself. Don't forget you have changed your diet somewhat drastically in the last week, which probably hasn't helped.
ReplyDeleteThat is very concerning. I hope the doctor told you to stop taking that drug and prescribed something safer?
ReplyDeleteFrom the May Clinic website
ReplyDeleteWhy should older people not take doxazosin?
Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may be especially likely to occur in elderly patients with high blood pressure, because these patients are usually more sensitive than younger adults to the effects of doxazosin.31 Jan 2025 Jan xx
Sorry, that was MAYO Clinic!
DeleteWhat a scary experience. I hope they manage to find some better pill for you! I've never fainted but I've been on BP medication since my 30s, and I do know from experience that changes in medication can be tricky and have undesired side effects until they get it right.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very frightening experience YP. I, like Thelma wonder if your new diet, together with a combination of the new drug, caused the problem, Hopefully you are feeling much better and the doctor has prescribed a safer drug. Sadly so much medication is still trial and error.
ReplyDeleteTake care YP. If you still feel bad go to Casualty.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you have been so poorly. Goodness knows whether it was the reaction to the drug or not related at all, but best you are getting these things checked out at last. The red blood suggests a problem in the bowel, so hope that is getting checked too. Glad to hear you have lost 6 pounds already, but don't starve yourself. Just cutting out pies and puddings should do the trick. I've always found the Rosemary Conley diets fill you up but make you lose weight reasonably quickly. Onwards and upwards, rather than fainting downwards.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I don't live in West London - I don't know where you got that idea from. I live in Greater London in the south and still put Kent as my address.
ReplyDeleteEeeeeeeeeee! Get well soon.
ReplyDeleteI truly hope that the medication is what caused those alarming symptoms. I am sure they will rule out kidney stones?
ReplyDeleteOh no! Sorry to hear all this. Feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear and hope they find the answer quickly so you can feel good again. Don't diet too much - slow and steady. Take care, Neil!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Scary! I hope you're OK! Please keep us posted and take care of yourself.
ReplyDeleteA six-pound hamburger is disgusting, unless you're a group of about 24 people.
Hope it was simply a bad reaction and nothing else. Is it a known side effect? What does your personal health professional say?
ReplyDeleteYoink - good luck with all that it sounds complicated, worrying, and just plain stressful..... chin up.... stiff upper lip (albeit trembling slightly)
ReplyDeleteI don't like hamburgers to start with and find that huge one disgusting. Hope you can find a better medication. I'm on Bisoprolol for blood pressure and haven't had that issue although when I first started it, I felt a little light headed. I was used to my b/p being higher!
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