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Found the cause!

Filed under: Health — knitter at 1:25 pm on Monday, July 14, 2008

Endast på engelska denna gång, vain englanniksi.

I’ve been very tired and lacking energy since mid-May. In June I caught a flu and had two weeks of slight fever and after that, the fever tried to return a couple of times. I also had a running nose and cough until last week.

On Thursday evening I started to think this can’t be normal. I merely have the energy to walk a mile with the dog, and then I’m ready for bed. No talking about cleaning the house or working or knitting or spinning… I’ve spun in May and I’ve knitted on one evening per week now. I took the product information from my prescription drugs, and found the cause. I got a new blood pressure medicine, an ACE-inhibitor, to take in addition to my original blood pressure medicine. On that information sheet, as the last side effect, it said: if you get odd infection symptoms with fever, immediately contact your doctor. There could be a loss of white blood cells going on!!!

It means that the medicine may induce weakening of the immune system!

I didn’t take the pill on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday I managed to do the long forest walk with my dog (that I had been dreaming about for two months and done in the spring), and after that, to finally plant my cucumber and tomato plants that had been waiting forever. I wasn’t even tired after that!

Today the doctor will be working. I’ll call him and tell I refuse to take any more of those pills.

Looking forward to a normal end of the summer and better health and condition.

Nearby beach in the spring

2 Comments »

Comment by Rica

July 14, 2008 @ 21:01

Ouch, se oli paha tapaus. Onneksi löysit syyn sairastumisellesi ja onneksi syy oli niin helppo poistaa.

Comment by knitter

July 14, 2008 @ 21:38

Juu, kun vielä saisin lääkärin uskomaan. Olen tulostanut netistä löydöksiä jotka vahvistavat tämän erittäin harvinaisen sivuvaikutuksen. Voi olla että löytyy jokin lisäsairaus jos hän antaa tutkia.

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