This last week has been a frightening and painful experience. With everything else going on you don’t expect to get yourself a serious illness just through taking your tablets. After speaking with the doctor (extremely briefly) yesterday it was concluded that i have been suffering from Pneumonia. The pain i have been getting in my sides and back is from the infection and was caused from taking my Verapamil. Although this sounds crazy and there is no record of it EVER causing such a problem i will try and explain how it all happened. I started taking the Verapamil and after a week started to get pains in the right side of my body. When i started getting the pains there was one night where i ended up getting what i can only describe as a fever from hell. The whole night i was sweating like a tap had been turned on and this didn’t alarm me as i normally get it before i have a major head attack but this time there was no attacks. During the night i had to change my clothes several times including the bed clothes as well as the bed ended up soaked as if someone had poured a bucket of water over the bed. Because of this fever i ended up catching what i thought was a cold in the back ad this has turned out to be Pneumonia.
I stopped taking the Verapamil and the pain in the side immediately stopped and the fever when away. i then started to get better as the day continued witch showed me that there was possible an allergic reaction going on as the drug is for blood pressure and heart attack patients and has no records of ever causing a problem with any other organs in the body. I reported this to the doctor yesterday and she has advised me to stay off the Verapamil until we can see what is going on or until my next appointment with the specialist. I am still getting pains in the back and in the lung area and no matter what medication i take and how much i try and rest that pains are still there. yesterday i actually started to feel better when i went over the doctors so i ended up walking to my mothers in Llanrumney and then home again. Now considering i couldn’t even walk down the stairs the day before it was a massive improvement. Unfortunately today i am getting even more pain and its strong again like it was in day one so again its starting to worry and scare me but at least the chest isn't as tight as before and i can still breathe. i think the combination of the long walk and the constant cold wind has made it bad again.
I am praying it will go away soon as tomorrow is the last day on my antibiotics and if it hasn't shifted i will end up having to go back to the doctors and maybe even to the hospital if it continues like it is. i am hoping it doesn't have to go that far and i will end up feeling better in the next 48hrs. Now considering i don’t go anywhere and the only person i visit is my mother it has shocked me it has hit me so hard. If i was one of these people always on the go or walking miles visiting people i could understand. When i saw the doctor yesterday there was nothing further she could do. All she said was continue to take the medication and rest. If it gets very bad again call the hospital and go in as an emergency appointment. Now that all sounds easy but you have to be able to call the hospital in the first place. Sunday when it got so bad in the night i even stopped breathing as i just couldn’t force the air inside me. Luckily due to my condition and the fact i suffer with CH i have an oxygen tank at home and i managed to jump on that for a couple of hours. imagine if i didn’t have the tank? It would have been game over for me! Lets hope things start to improve soon. I just don't know what is worst the head attacks or not being able to breathe whilst getting stabbing pains constantly in the side.
