I'm Pooped

I'm utterly exhausted but not quite ready to drift off to sleep yet. I went to the Dr. on Monday. I had to see my internist first. Okay so here's the scoop. I have congenital kidney disease thanks to the wonderful genes that I inherited. (I still love the gene donors) My heart will go back down once my bp is under control. The Dr. prescribed me a new bp combo med that I started taking. Last night my bp went down to 123/81 and that's after it peaked at 201/128 on Monday morning.

I've learned from my research that the kidneys, heart and bp is all related. It made a lot of sense once I read about how it all works. Apparently my nephrons have lost their filtering abilities thus causing the protein I eat, etc. to be expelled through my urine and not pumped back into my blood. This is causing the protein in my urine.

They are doing a whole battery of tests once my bp is leveled out (which hopefully will be tomorrow) to test for creatinine and other kidney functions. Once they get the bp under control they will put me on an ACE inhibitor which will help open up my blood vessels to allow my heart to work better. That will then somehow help my kidneys from the effects of the high bp.

So now we're up to 4 drugs a day so far. Let's see how many more once they add the ACE inhibitor. Woo hoo!

Folks... I'm sorry to report I'm not dying yet. I'll be back for at least one more laugh.