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doctor diagnosed me with a symptom (orthostatic dizziness) and prescribed midodrine.

then prescribed propranolol when she realized my bp actually rose on standing in-office, but didn't cancel the midodrine so i ended up picking up both

im going to wait til it gets bad again before i start trying any medications but when it does i think ill probably just start with midodrine since the low bp feels worse than the high bp

......huh. i was blaming the whole "i get full after just a few bites" thing on my adhd medication and then maybe my stomach shrinking bc i wasn't eating enough, but there's a post on here from 2021, a year before i started being medicated for adhd, where i mentioned the same thing... fascinating.

unsurprisingly am finding that when i have taken my adhd medication i experience transient orthostatic hypotension which normalizes within 2 minutes and is then followed by sustained orthostatic hypertension

whereas when i have not taken my adhd medication i experience transient orthostatic hypotension which usually returns to my typical low-normal within 2 minutes but sometimes plummets further 10 minutes later

from today also

108/63 lying down, 83/67 seconds after standing

i did not get WOAG during these measurements.. just a little woag when i stood up for a few seconds and then it went away and all i felt was a little tachy

it is interesting to me that my bp will drop right away and then go back to normal (or even higher than normal) before sliding back down

from like a week ago. the WOAG seems to be orthostatic hypotension

104/62 was lying down. 88/70 was seconds after standing up. the rest were taken while still standing

note to future me - your wrist's been bitching at you when you push yourself upright for at least a month

#not every single time and not SEVERELY but it has been #specifically mostly when your hand's aimed backwards?#and it hurts around like. the pad of your thumb #where your thumb connects to your wrist more or less #it also sometimes hurts when you turn the shower on. same area

oof. woke up at about 2am with cramps. couldn't get back to sleep for at least half hour. got up and took some of ye olde prescription naproxen, managed to get back to sleep

#feeling better now

what they tell you the early signs of rheumatoid arthritis are:

mild stiffness in the small joints (fingers and/or toes), symmetrical, lasting more than 30 minutes in the morning

mild pain in the small joints (fingers and/or toes), symmetrical, especially after inactivity

mild to moderate fatigue

loss of appetite

low-grade fever, particularly if persistent & paired with equally persistent joint pain

what my earliest signs of rheumatoid arthritis were:

mild to moderate pain in just one joint at a time, asymmetrical (usually a shoulder)

difficulty moving a joint due to pain, rather than tightness/stiffness

hand stiffness after gripping something for a while, like a mug

mild stiffness in the lower back or hands in the morning, lasting fewer than 10 minutes

mild pain in the fingers after activity

low-grade fever coinciding with short-term joint pain

really should look around and see if i can find any folks w ra to follow

#don't rly see any blogs specific to rheumatoid arthritis info but ime actual ppl blogging abt blorbos #and occasionally mentioning their daily lives #is equally if not more helpful

what the up is FUCK i've just been told i'm very likely to develop RA in the next 5 years and given a prescription for plaquenil

#'askmybodywtf' i said when i made this blog #the answer apparently. is rheumatoid arthritis #buckwild

okay so

esr: normal

crp: normal

ana: 1:80

rf: 53

anti-ccp: >250

#conclusion: ?????????????#do i have an inflammatory arthritis thing or NOT???????#anti-ccp points strongly towards RA but like..... inflammatory markers normal #and i'm very far from a typical presentation

eyyyyyy i got lab resuuuuuults!!! rheumatoid factor was 53 and ana titer was 1:80, and i know neither of those are very high at all but the lab sure did mark them both as technically positive and i'm so goddamned. fucking relieved

#i was pretty sure i was just doing stupid things to my joints or muscles #and at most mild hypermobility might be at play #but hey if labs suggest smth inflammatory or autoimmune might be going on #that's good to know! i'll take it! just so long as i can get ppl to believe me that i got . some problems

so 7/8 i woke up 4am with mild restrictive right shoulder pain, continued til midmorning(?) of 7/9, had left elbow pain 7/10, right index finger pain 7/11

and ive been waking up with low back pain and stiffness for the last... while? it goes away a bit after i start moving round

arms also hurt? shoulder tips when pressure

and foot. what is wrong with my me

hurts when i lift my leg upward. rude as Fuck

ow ow ow ow fuck ow my leg ow. fuck. ow.

#it happened again.#i tried to stretch and got a bad pain in the back of my thigh #worst just below my ass and just above my knee this time #i straightened out my leg and rolled to the side and it's better now but uh #ow

woke up middle of night with index finger bitching at me. not terribly, mind. i could open and close my hand no problem, and it hurts even less now, but still noting it bc wouldnt u know it! it's right on time

also seem to be getting a wart on my middle finger so thats a thing i guess - presumably unrelated lmao

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