Bummer Day and Many Questions!

[Guest guest]

Well I am not so well any more at all! And I need some answers. Just really

hard to find a doc here! I went to the ER on Saturday, I fainted at work.

Turns out I have high blood pressure! It was so high that I just passed out. I

was just working and having a great time like I always do and I started feeling

light headed and a bit nausious, then I was on the floor with my head in

someone's lap! She turned out to be a nurse who was just in the store! They

took me to the hospital and now I can't go back to work until I see a doc! Well

My doc seems to be on vacation for the week! I am hoping that I can get into

see the doc covering for her! And in the meanwhile another person is covering

for the only part of my job that I truely live for! I am a cashier trainer and

I had a class today! I am just going up a wall trying to wait for time to go in

to try to see the doc. I just hate to break in a new doc, someone I have never

seen before. I do not trust doctors at all after fighting with VA docs for my

husband for the past 10 years, and then having my own problems just ignored or

passed over! NO I do not like any part of this day at all! I did have to

purchase a home blood pressure unit and all the times I have used it yesterday

and this morning tells me that I am dangerously high. I just had a physical in

January, and I had a colonoscopy 2 weeks ago, no one has told me that I have

high blood pressure at all!!!! Whats up with that????

Any way, thanks for listening to that rant, here is the question: Weight gain

and diffuculty in loosing the weight, and I am not under any sort of medication

other than vitamins. I eat well and I am active. Does any one else have this

issue? Is this a symptom or a result, or is it unrelated? Do I need to be more

active to get the weight off, or is it a loosing battle at this point? I am

about 220 right now and it seems like I can do nothing to get it down.

Next question is the new one, is this high blood pressure a result of the

weight, or is it also a symptom associated with FM? Or could it be from

something else?

Finally, I am wondering what questions I should present to my doctor to get some

of this addressed. I am not even sure I will be able to get back to see me

other doctor. I only go to her for checkups and yearly exams, I usually just

tough it out if I am sick and since I had breeast cancer back in '91 I have to

see a doc yearly. Lately she has not even seen me, I get to see her PA, who

knows nothing about FM or any other raging problems, she just orders the tests

and tells me nothing!

And I just noticed that there is someone else in Alaska! Where are you that it

is still snowing, we had a dusting, but it did not stick!

Thanks for the answers in advance!

Connie in Alaska