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Some personal (good) news.
4 years ago
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I kinda just wanted to touch on a lil of what I've implied in my birthday journal.
I'm relieved to find out that the weird shit in my blood lowered again. Shit with my plasma levels "kappa/lambada ratio" is abnormal, it's high, the kappa in particular I think it was. Over the summer, it had been steadily rising and had a sharp jump in September, which made the doc send me in for x rays because it was an indicator of a kind of cancer called myeloma. My plasma levels are still abnormal, but it had dropped back down to where it was in the early summer and my x ray came back clean, just with some incidental stuff about damage to my spine I'm apparently "too young" to have. But a life of manual labor and lifting caused that. It would explain some of my back pain in recent years.
SO, I'm super glad I'm cleared with that. Some of my blood is just weird, but seemingly stable, so they aren't too worried. Some of the weirdness is from the weird type of anemia I have (which is mild) some shit called beta thalasemia. Basically, a bunch of my red cells are tiny, but my body shits out tons of them to compensate the lower oxygen capacity. That doesn't explain the weird shit like the plasma, and my spleen apparerntly being a bit enlarged even after increasing my folate intake, but otherwise, it's probs just normal for me to have slightly abnormal levels if it's stable. I'm gettin it checked again in the winter for them to check on it again later on.
TL;DR : I might have had cancer, recent shit points to me not having it. Good.
The only thing that remains is my weird heart issue that I'm still waiting on. Whenever I workout doing anything that's heavy on cardio, I get these weird palpitations when my heart rate hits a very specific point. They have no idea why it's happening. They were originally going to dismiss it as anxiety, but the stress test picked it up when I finally got to do that.
My resting heart rate is low, it was 65, even on stimulant ADHD meds. They switched me off to a different thing to see if it has any positive effect and 1 of the 2 cardiologists wanted me off of the stimulants. The funny thing is my resting heart rate is in low 50s now. Hahah. (60-80 is supposed to be the normal range). But active life stuff and riding my bike often could be why my resting rate is low.
It seems to take more effort to trigger this weird shit, but it still happens, even being off the stimulants. MRI found some shit (finally) but I have no fuckin idea what all the info on it means, other than that there is something weird with one of the ventricles and suggested "sarcoidosis" as a possibility, which based on reading I did, can maybe be treated to make it go away.
Ionno. It hasn't killed me yet. And the med change at least lets me work out more without it happening unless I go into lunatic mode with the cardio. The last session the palpitation also felt weaker... so maybe better? I'm just speculating outcomes at this point.
I've actually felt much better mood-wise on the med change too, so maybe it was generally for the better.
Aaaaanyway. I'm try to get back to posting shit this week. Gonna dump some sketches again along with 1 or 2 animations or other full-color art I think I never posted.
Thanks for reading my bullshit. Hahah
I'm relieved to find out that the weird shit in my blood lowered again. Shit with my plasma levels "kappa/lambada ratio" is abnormal, it's high, the kappa in particular I think it was. Over the summer, it had been steadily rising and had a sharp jump in September, which made the doc send me in for x rays because it was an indicator of a kind of cancer called myeloma. My plasma levels are still abnormal, but it had dropped back down to where it was in the early summer and my x ray came back clean, just with some incidental stuff about damage to my spine I'm apparently "too young" to have. But a life of manual labor and lifting caused that. It would explain some of my back pain in recent years.
SO, I'm super glad I'm cleared with that. Some of my blood is just weird, but seemingly stable, so they aren't too worried. Some of the weirdness is from the weird type of anemia I have (which is mild) some shit called beta thalasemia. Basically, a bunch of my red cells are tiny, but my body shits out tons of them to compensate the lower oxygen capacity. That doesn't explain the weird shit like the plasma, and my spleen apparerntly being a bit enlarged even after increasing my folate intake, but otherwise, it's probs just normal for me to have slightly abnormal levels if it's stable. I'm gettin it checked again in the winter for them to check on it again later on.
TL;DR : I might have had cancer, recent shit points to me not having it. Good.
The only thing that remains is my weird heart issue that I'm still waiting on. Whenever I workout doing anything that's heavy on cardio, I get these weird palpitations when my heart rate hits a very specific point. They have no idea why it's happening. They were originally going to dismiss it as anxiety, but the stress test picked it up when I finally got to do that.
My resting heart rate is low, it was 65, even on stimulant ADHD meds. They switched me off to a different thing to see if it has any positive effect and 1 of the 2 cardiologists wanted me off of the stimulants. The funny thing is my resting heart rate is in low 50s now. Hahah. (60-80 is supposed to be the normal range). But active life stuff and riding my bike often could be why my resting rate is low.
It seems to take more effort to trigger this weird shit, but it still happens, even being off the stimulants. MRI found some shit (finally) but I have no fuckin idea what all the info on it means, other than that there is something weird with one of the ventricles and suggested "sarcoidosis" as a possibility, which based on reading I did, can maybe be treated to make it go away.
Ionno. It hasn't killed me yet. And the med change at least lets me work out more without it happening unless I go into lunatic mode with the cardio. The last session the palpitation also felt weaker... so maybe better? I'm just speculating outcomes at this point.
I've actually felt much better mood-wise on the med change too, so maybe it was generally for the better.
Aaaaanyway. I'm try to get back to posting shit this week. Gonna dump some sketches again along with 1 or 2 animations or other full-color art I think I never posted.
Thanks for reading my bullshit. Hahah
Much love
Keep on truckin!
Please take care of yourself. Be safe.
Rootin' for ya to keep in good health and get effective treatments for the other stuff!