vellenturner
Over 2 years now and still a size 14 - but did gain 15 pounds
Oct 12, 2011
I had some health issues this summer. I was having problems with very low blood pressure. I would stand up from a sitting position and feel the 'tunnel' heading my way. I thought sure I would pass out. I would stand still, put my head down and breath deeply. The feeling would then subside. This started happening in March and by June it was all the time. Then one night in late June I got up from the bed and walked to the hallway and that is the last thing I remember until 15 minutes later my husband found me face down on the rug in the hallway in a pool of blood. I had busted my lip pretty badly and also busted my nose. It took awhile for the bleeding to stop. I waited until the next day to go to the doctor's and by then my lip was so swollen and sore and my eyes were black and blue. The doctor checked my blood pressure and did not like the numbers that came up and the fact that I didn't remember going down. They sent me to the hospital for an overnight stay to run a lot of tests which lasted 3 days. It wasn't my heart and it wasn't my head. What they found was my adrenal glands that are sitting on top of my kidneys had completely stopped working. Stress and other things had caused my adrenal's to shut down. They help regulate your blood pressure. I had been craving salt, I MEAN CRAVING salt for months. I didn't tell the doctor that I was craving salt as I didn't know it was a sign of adrenal failure. But I had other symptoms like total exhaustion, sleeplessness and and drinking lots of water. They put me on 5 steroid pills a day to attempt to kick my adrenals into gear. They tested me again in August and cut my steroid usage down to 3 pills a day as the adrenal's were still not up to par. I am down to 1/2 a pill a day and hope the next test I have will show I can get completely off. I still have 'funny' feelings now and then, but they pass very quickly and they aren't as bad as they were before. I have more energy and feel better but I was hungry all the time on 5 pills a day. That has slowed down but it did put 15 pounds on me. Now to get back to the beginning and lose those 15 pounds.I hope everyone is doing well. I tell everyone I meet that I would do the surgery again in a heart beat and I mean it! This has been a blessing, I'm on less medication then before, and I feel good about myself. I hope all of my friends who have the same new 'birthday' are doing as well.
Vera-Ellen Turner
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About Me
New Albany, IN
Location
24.6
BMI
Surgery
08/21/2009
Surgery Date
Feb 26, 2009
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