Started Valsartan yesterday, because the Fosinopril wasn't available anymore.
As I often react unpleasantly to medication I decided to take half the precribed dosage.
Experienced a slight dizziness during the day and after the second time, I nearly fell.
It's one of the wellknown effects.
I also got a horrible pain in my feet and a very bad numbness in my fixed foot. That shouldn't happen more often.
On top of it I couldn't fall asleep, even when the pain eased a bit. It was the 4.30 news I still heard...
Hope this will improve a lot next night!!
And when waking up.. some nausea.. Also a known side effect.
So let's see what a whole pill does...
Went to the new fysio.
A very nice young woman. A former athlete and now coach.
So when we were talking about ballet we were talking about the same changes in ways of dealing with bodily issues.
I still feel uneasy to tell someone about my movement issues. Like I am complaining while I shouldn't do that.
As I have such a rotten feeling in my foot and almost a complete lack of sense for touch, she checked and thought there was more fluid in the foot than it looked from the outside.
So she was quite happy I was wearing good compression socks.
She massaged and checked the movability. It helped quite a lot.
And I got instructions to keep my foot high when I am sitting down.
I did that spontaneously when I was in London. As the chairs in the room were not very comfortable, I sat on the bed.
When we came out we still hadd 3/4 hour before the bus.
As the secretary could not work much because of the worldwide problem of microsoft, we had a good talk together.
And when we finally went outside we were welcomed by a double rainbow.. Wow!!
It has been freezing last night. In the morning the sun made the temperature rather OK, wearing a warm sweater and a wintercoat, but when the sun went....brrrrr.....
The dark skies and the rainshowers didn't help.
The dark skies and the rainshowers didn't help.
I got my new medication in two large strips of 14 tablets and 1 with 2.
So I took the two yesterday, assuming they were 40 mg.
That is the normal start dosage.
Yea...right.
This evening I found out the strips were of 80 mg.
To start with 160 mg a day is far too much, so I skipped the evening dosage.
I will find out next week if there has been a mistake made and by whom.
No wonder I experienced such intense pain last night.
So I took the two yesterday, assuming they were 40 mg.
That is the normal start dosage.
Yea...right.
This evening I found out the strips were of 80 mg.
To start with 160 mg a day is far too much, so I skipped the evening dosage.
I will find out next week if there has been a mistake made and by whom.
No wonder I experienced such intense pain last night.
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