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My BP was originally 120/65 or sometimes 125/60.Then starting thin November overnight jumped 159/99. Why itt happened that fast I don’t know. I guess from 2021 to now it gave my body a chance to adjust to the arrhythmias and boom new problem. They could tell on my echocardiogram in November that my arrhythmias had gotten worse because now my left ventricle in getting enlarged. I have had pericardial effusion since 2004. That did not bother me. We believe I truly got the neuropathy when I got bacterial spinal meningitis. I was in the hospital two weeks first week unconscious, then they sent me home with a PICC (a IV placed permanently in your upper arm it’s a surgery) line for three months and then oral antibiotics for another three months.
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Thank you Art and I am sorry to ask you something that is so distressing. I didn’t realize in how you would need to reply when asking….
If you don’t mind me asking, did you go through periods of low heart rate (for mine it went into the mid to low 50’s (out of know where for a few weeks now it is mid to low 60’s resting and goes higher during activity but then at times it dips when I don't realize it), however I was having periods of shortness of breath a hospital doctor attributed to worsening sleep apnea. (My Normal resting HR would be 90+ with meds) while you were having blood pressure fluctuations?
I had an echo and stress test that were ok about a year ago. If it’s okay to ask, how long between echo’s did it take SFN damage to manifest and then show up on echo?
There are times I become short of breath, have to take off the cpap (nasal one) to take a breath. I do “square breathing” to calm myself, because it is stressful to not catch your breath it takes a little bit to get to rest from that. I don’t now if that is what happened to you before.
I hope i am making sense. My head is going in different directions.
🙏🏻 Thank you.