Seems to me that there are several mails to answer this morning, so
better be patient, this is a long mail.

Koppa Dasao
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Левіѕаніҍ ҩнј зерен неьі ƒłе.
Hypertension is murder on the kidneys.



2011/11/25 Padraic Brown <[log in to unmask]>:
> --- On Thu, 11/24/11, Philip Newton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> > If you ARE feeling dizzy or faint or whatever, or are
>> losing vision or
>> > anything out of the ordinary, for corn sake dial 113
>> (medical services)
>> > and get yourself looked at!
>>
>> I wonder whether that telephone number works in Norway
>> (which is where I thought Dasao lived).
>
> Well, with the possibility that something could be wrong with him, I
> peered into the Font of All Knowledge, and lo! Therein I scryed from afar
> the thaumic incantation that would summon a level 1 healing genie to his
> hyperborean locale.

Not badly scryed, if you ask me.

> It appears that the range 112-113-114 is good throughout much of Europe.
> Some have 112 only, others all three. I knew that 999 works in the UK and
> Ireland; it seems that 112 also works in the UK now. The US has had 911
> for quite a while. 113 does seem to be the emergency medical number for
> Norway.

Actually, Norway got 110 (fire), 112 (police) and 113 (ER).

>> ObConculture: do you have special ... co-ordinates for
>> your
>> conculture? Say, special telephone numbers for emergency
>> services/directory enquiries/..., or special URLs or email
>> addresses,
>> or special (short and/or memorably) postal addresses?
>> (Depending on
>> which methods of communication are common in your
>> conworld.)

That is undeveloped in my conculture.

> Well, that's an interesting question. In the World, as you may or may
> not know, they've just implemented a kind of imp-mediated far-speaking
> network in the Eastlands. The potential is also there to send an e-mail
> analogue; but that one hasn't been implemented yet.
>
> The far-speaking network thus far mostly connects businesses with one
> another, and of course thaum-geeks (kind of like tech-geeks, only with
> magic) that just have to have the latest magical gewgaw. I don't think
> anyone's yet hit on the idea of using the far-speaker for contacting the
> City Guard.
>
> And, if you were hurt or sick, you probably wouldn't want to contact
> medical services anyway. If you came in with a broken leg, the quack'd
> probably slap a couple leeches on you, deprive you of your wallet and tell
> you the walk home will do you a world of good.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Philip
>
> Padraic
>


2011/11/25 Padraic Brown <[log in to unmask]>:
> --- On Thu, 11/24/11, Koppa Dasao <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> > Your case is quite different. As you've mentioned
>> before, you've been
>> > suffering from a severe hypertension. You're always up
>> in the 200s (syst.)
>> > a drop of 140 would / should bring you down to
>> normal!
>> >
>> > If you ARE feeling dizzy or faint or whatever, or are
>> losing vision or
>> > anything out of the ordinary, for corn sake dial 113
>> (medical services)
>> > and get yourself looked at!
>>
>> Oh my! Do you really think so?
>
> Well? I wouldn't suggest that course of action if I didn't think you
> might benefit! I mean, I don't know the details of your history, but
> putting together dangerous hypertension plus history of near renal
> failure plus medications to bring your pressure down plus dizzy spells,
> I think, were I you, I'd like to know if something is going wrong. Maybe
> the medication is too strong or you're reacting to it.

I would agree on that point. If I walk out of the hospital Tuesday
with the same dosage as I've got now, then I guess that they're going
to kill me. And I don't think that's likely to happen, with or without
my concern about the issue.

>> I've been having short dizzy spells even before being
>> dismissed from the hospital,
>
> Have you always suffered dizzy spells or is it a newish symptom since
> being admitted to hospital?
>
> Dizzy spells can be caused by lots of things. If I had a dizzy spell on
> occasion, I wouldn't worry, because I don't have any particularly nasty
> underlying disease to cause much concern. With what little I know about
> your recent history, I'd at least be concerned enough to check it out.

I've had minor dizzy spells throughout my life, but usually in
combination with headaches. This is also why I've never even though
about hypertension at all.

>> and I'm always tired. Well, I'm having a check up next
>> Tuesday. If they doesn't reduce my medication they'll kill
>> me..., as my heart rate has dropped to below 60bpm. I'm not that
>> fit...
>
> What medication do they have you on?

100mg Metoprolol (Selo-Zok), 10mg Amlodipine, 16mg Candesartan
(Atacand) and .025µg, or something like that, Alfacalcidol (Etalpha).
Quite a cocktail.

> Have they been able to give you any
> kind of diagnosis (i.e., not just "hypertension", but some underlying
> cause for it)?

Just hypertension. Everything else is secondary.

> Are you able to monitor your blood pressure and heart rate
> daily? Do you have access to one of those little portable monitors? Very
> handy, and you can keep track a couple times a day.

I know. I bought one while I was still in the kidney ward. The nurses
was quick to get the point. So did the doctors.. I was finally
released from the ward after less than 3 days, and fled the hospital a
few hours later, and went "AWOL" for 4 hours. I would've left the
hospital the next day too, but didn't tolerate Spirix. But on Sunday I
was really gone. Even had my first drive in 11 years. It may have been
14 years since I drove a car regularly, but it felt like yesterday.
1½-eyed chauffeur....

> Padraic
>
>> Koppa Dasao
>> ___
>> Левіѕаніҍ ҩнј зерен неьі ƒłе.
>> Hypertension is murder on the kidneys.
>
>