Trying to Regain my Normal Lifestyle

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As you can probably tell, I've been gone again. Two things happened. First, once again I bit off more than I could chew by signing up for the October Ultimate Blogging Challenge. I did it to try to revive a blog I was neglecting. I enjoyed it and I met new people, but I did overextend myself by the time I finished all the networking involved in the challenge. Second, my doctors started messing with the dosages on my medications. Evidently a little over a month ago my blood test told my primary care physician I didn't need as much thyroid medication, so she cut the dose. At the same time she cut the dose of my heart medication in half. When I asked why, she said I'd lost twenty pounds over the past two years and so I didn't need such a large does. Still doesn't make sense to me, since I didn't lose one half my body weight. Ever since she changed the dosage I've been having problems that have made me modify my lifestyle. I can be sitting at my computer working and suddenly get dizzy. That had never happened before in my life for no apparent cause. It was happening about once a day, always when I was sitting, and I was afraid to drive anywhere. My heart palpitations, for which I was taking my medicine, came back big time when the dosage was cut. The doctor thought the fainting was due to low blood pressure. My blood pressure was a bit lower, but I thought that was supposed to be a good thing. It was averaging about 120/60 before the dosage was cut. One night my husband was sick and I had to drive around the corner, about half a mile, to Walmart to pick up his prescription. After I'd gone three blocks the palpitations attacked just as I was stopped trying to make a left-hand turn against a lot of oncoming traffic. It was scary because I couldn't park anywhere until I could get into the lot. I prayed hard and waited until traffic cleared and then I got parked and waited until I felt better before going in. During this past month I've had palpitation attacks that sent my pulse as high as 171 without raising my blood pressure. Of course I called the doctors, but couldn't get an insurance referral to see my cardiologist until last week. Of course he said what I thought he would. Go back to the old dosage of heart medication. He couldn't understand why my internist had changed it. But while I was waiting to see him, I almost went to the ER four times and each time I decided against it because of what my cardiologist has said in the past about this problem. He reaffirmed that when I saw him last week. Now I've finished the challenge and my heart is starting to behave more normally again. I still get the dizzy spells, but the cardiologist says they aren't a heart problem. I wonder whose problem, besides mine, they are. Guess I'll have to wait and see. I hope to get back here more often now that the challenge is over, but meanwhile I've been hooked on a new addiction. I'll tell you about that in another post.