Bradycardia

Most of yesterday is a blur; I'm back home now after spending all day Sunday in the emergency room and last night and all of today in a room in the cardiac unit. All of my heart tests came back good, so the doctors said that my alarmingly low heart rate was caused by blood pressure medication I'm taking. I find that a little hard to believe since I was on a very low dosage and have been taking it (Bystolic) for four or five months. Whatever. I'm not going to argue with them, and once I knew my heart was in good shape I was ready to come home. All of this actually started last Thursday night when I began having pain in my upper stomach and my chest. I went to my doctor on Friday morning and he seemed to think it was more of an intestinal thing. He prescribed a medication to help with that; maybe it was the combination of that medicine with the Bystolic that created the problem. For all I know, I don't even need to take blood pressure medication anymore. I had never had any problem before the early part of this year.

This was all very scary, and one thing I know is this: I need to start getting more exercise and eating better. My foot is a lot better -- although spending yesterday and today lying down may have put me back a step or two -- so in a few weeks I can probably go to the gym. I'll have to start slow. I'm pretty sure that my insurance includes access to a nutritionist, and I'd like to meet with one to get a better idea of what to eat to lose weight. It was so much easier when I was younger! Of course, it probably doesn't help that I've lost and gained weight many times throughout my life. For the past three or four years I've been at a higher weight than at any other time in my life, including during my pregnancies. I have wanted to be healthier; I honestly haven't done as much as I could toward that end. Now I need to come up with a plan, and I think I could use some help with that, and make it happen.