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@CzebotarJessie My Diagnosis is Dysautonomia. A dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system.
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Yes, I have Hypokalemia (chronic low Potassium). I have to take a Powdered Potassium (can't digest pill form) 20 mEq/day or I go into low potassium cardiac arrythmias = U waves...
@CzebotarJessie ...on very RARE occasions, I have SVT, Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia at 150+ bpm (beats per minute).
"POTS" is a common subtype of Dysautonomia. I don't have that.
I have too low BPs without meds to raise them, and in POTS, the heart rate soars when BP drops.
My body doesn't...
@CzebotarJessie ...compensate for low BP by raising my heart rate. Thus my pacemaker set at 70bpm for the low.
Before diagnosed correctly, my BPs were 90/70, 80/60 and my heart rate was bradycardic in the 40s and 50s. This wasn't conducive to standing up and walking - I became very well...
@CzebotarJessie acquainted with my floors. It took 3 years to get the correct mix of meds AND convince my good friend/cardiologist that I needed a pacemaker. They finally caught the severe cardiac arrythmias on the tele monitor while hospitalized after another bout of syncope. (passed out)...
@CzebotarJessie ... my heart rate usually fell, but I was going into fatal low arrythmias "junctional rhythm" at 30bpm and occ. ventricular rhythm at 25bpm. I got that pacemaker and I was up and walking again! Halleluia! (I was a floor RN prior to becoming critically ill). So, I'm translating...
@CzebotarJessie the medical. Yes, survivors' nervous systems are fried from neuroleptic drugs and electric shock. We usually have cardiac arrythmia issues. We have very strange reactions to medications from all the drug experimentation (I have half a typed page), only 3 are true allergic...
@CzebotarJessie anaphylactic reactions. Every survivor I know has vision and/or hearing problems as well. Brain and/or spinal cord injuries, G.I. and reproductive organ damages and diseases, autoimmune, endocrine, musculo-skeletal injuries and illnesses.
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