Well there are some things that are beyond explanation and reason and i think i have just witnessed one of those things. It all started when i was given my new medication to take, Verapamil, a medication that is normally used for blood pressure issues or heart attack victims. I started taking the medication and after a week i saw a huge improvement from the amount of attacks i get in a day and saw them reduced to almost no attacks at all. I was only getting from 2 to 8 attacks in a week and considering i used to get that many in a day it was like a miracle drug to me.
I was due to increase the medication as soon as i want and had an ECG at the hospital but i didn’t go because i came down with an infection that started off as an abscess on one of the last 3 teeth i have in my mouth. I went to get help from a dentist but no dentist would help me as i wasn’t registered so i had to register as i would not go back to the hospital after the hell they put me through taking all the others out. They wouldn’t see me for almost a month as that was the earliest free appointment any of them had so i made the appointment and went away and burst the abscess myself. I then cleaned out all the poison and kept it clean in order to get rid of the infection. I felt slightly ill and was starting to experience pain in my side on the right.
I went to the doctors and she checked my urine for infection of the kidney and listened to my chest and found there was some bubbling sounds on the right lung so it looked like i had an infection coming. She took the precaution and put me on a second lot of antibiotics to try and shift it before it became a problem. I went away still feeling ill and in pain but more sure that it would be taken care of. Whilst this was going on i noticed something about my medication. Each morning i would take my medication roughly a couple of our after i have woken up. this gives me time to wake up properly and get ready for the day. After taking my medication i noticed after around 30 minuets or so i would then start to feel ill again and slowly get worst as the day goes on. I would take my nights medication and then by the end of the evening i would be feeling so bad i thought i was dying on more than one occasion.
It got so bad the other night that i stopped breathing on a few occasions and had to resort to going into my living room and staying on my oxygen until i felt i could breathe normally again. If i hadn’t of had the oxygen tank there i would have ended up in hospital for sure. When this happened something clicked in my mind and said its the Verapamil tablets that is causing it. So the next morning i was very bad still could hardly breathe and i decided i wouldn’t bother taking the medication. This had the desired effect as i slowly got better and better as the day continued and was well enough by lunch time to go over my mothers. I discussed what had happened with my mother and we just couldn’t work out why it would have done what it had done all of a sudden and taking the medication had such a bad effect on me. Well as time as gone on and i have stopped taking the Verapamil i am now feeling a lot better and starting to get my strength back. I still feel a little bloated and a bit of pressure on my back but i feel way better than i did.
It could be that i was having an allergic reaction to the tablet or the tablet just made the infection a lot worst than it should have been normally so by removing the medication i am now left with a normal chest infection of infection of the lungs. Well i am hoping so as this was all an experience i want to forget in a hurry. I may end up having a few more attacks again but i would rather put up with the attacks than end up ;like i was the other evening. That was one scary experience.
