New, waiting for diagnosis
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Hello all,
I just received blood work after having mucsle twitching issues (small twitches everywhere on my body, random times), weakness after exercising, restless sleep, tremors in my hands and a feeling of closing of my throat.
I have had several bladder infections over the years and the blood test says I have an infection now somewhere. It also showed a titer of 1:80. I know that is low but still there.
For some reason my blood pressure is raising. I am normally low, around 110 over 70. At night I get very restless and my blood pressure is high, ex. 155 over 88.
I'm wondering if the high blood pressure is because I have an infection or because I am worrying about this issue.
Any thought would be nice.
Thanks
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Ea213 Mistyway
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I do have some advice from my own experience –
First of all, don't bother yourself about which is causing the other because right now you are caught in a cycle that can last for years, what with your weakened immune system making it easy to elevate your blood pressure which just encourages that infection which again spikes up your blood pressure which then makes you susceptible to infection … on and on -you get the idea
So, once or twice a day – more if you can manage it (I do it morning and bedtime)
Get as comfortable as you can and
try to relax into the tremors and twitches and spend about 3 minutes just allowing your body to feel whatever it feels - do not ascribe any characteristics to the pain and weakness
(By this I mean try not to think that your body is betraying you, or that your muscles are behaving wrongly because your mind is just trying to alert your body that it needs a different type of care than 8 hours of sleep and good hydration )
Then
when you are ready, purposefully reach out to each twitcher, briiefly reminding them what it feels like to be "normal" and function well or at least controlled movement
If you pray, now is the time to do so.
after this try to ease into your daily routine.
I was surprised to find how much relief it gave me to just allow a space and time for my body just feel what it feels without thinking it is bad or trying to punish me or berating myself for exacerbating the pain through something I did,
I know that this is much more difficult to do than to describe or read so don’t beat yourself up if it takes a while before you can think that your body is causing you pain or is out to get you somehow -
Hope this helps - good luck
Mistyway Ea213
Posted
I have been doing exactly as you mentioned, trying to figure all this out. Even though I am telling myself I'm just trying to educate myself, I think it is probably making things worse. :-) I do have to remember to live my life and not allow this to take over my life.
Thanks again!