After a year. . .

Hello guys! After a year, im weighing 105 kilograms. Last August 2010, i just weighed 94 kilograms.And until now, my blood pressure is still high. ive taken a lot of different medicines just to control my blood pressure. My blood pressure switches from 150/110 to 130/100 which is not normal. Recently, im taking Telmisartan Amlodipine besilate (Twynstar 40mg/10mg) and Terazosin HCl (Conmy 2 mg) and Ketoconazole (ketovid).... Next month im planning to undergo MRI to check if there is a tumor in my pituitary gland.

Hope ill get better the soonest. . . . .. .

PAST AND RECENT PICS with MR. Cushing.....

This pic was taken in 2003 when I just earned my Bachelor of Laws degree.

This other pic was taken in 2008 when I went to Cebu City, Philippines. Here you can see that I am little by little gaining weight...

This is now how i looked like. This picture was taken only last November 2010....

my present condition...

Its been a while since i went to see my endocrinologist. it was in November 2010 that i have seen her. Last  December, i didnt feel anything bad about my health.I guess im a bit well back then. But lately, since last tuesday, i am feeling too bad. My left side (rib cage, i guess) is too painful! I cant sleep well at night. I cant figure what position to lay down. Im having a hard time sleeping combined with my hourly waking up just to urinate. And just an hour ago, while I was cleaning our water dispenser, I think something just gone wrong again with my left side that it hurts much... i cant bend sideways and when my body tried to become a little stiff or when i tried to walk or cough, my left side aches a lot.... I dont know what this is. I dont know if this is still connected with cushing's. Or is this one of the effects of cushing's because im overweight....? im planning to see and ortho tomorrow and have an xray of my rib cage.... hay (sighs........)

TWO DAYS. . .

Two days have passed and i was in high spirits. My family and i went to the mall and tried to check the items on sale. I never got tired and my bones and leg muscles did not ache. I was really wondering why i had so much energy on those past two days. But not until today..... We went to the cemetary to commemorate All Saint's Day (by the way, here in the Philippines, we Filipinos gave our respects to the dearly departed on two days, Nov. 1 and 2.) But before we could visit the tomb of our loved ones, i was already feeling tired, weak and again my muscles are aching and a bit short of breath. Is this how it really feels to have cushing's? Its really a tiresome and unpredictable illness. By the way, a few days back, some blisters grew in my palms. I thought it was chicken pox. But after a week, it was gone. I have no idea what it was and whether it was connected with cushing's or not.

TODAY. . .

I wake up feeling a bit good today. Somehow I had enough sleep after watching the movie Goodbye, Children compared to the past nights. But i didnt have the appetite to eat breakfast but I tried to eat even a little so that my body wont be too weak for today's work in the office. Lately, I have been wondering why I feel that something is in my throat, a kind of lump which usually disappears after a few minutes. Is this also one of the symptoms of Cushing's? Next week I'll be having my test again for serum cortisol, sgpt and fbs. But right now, I'm enjoying my work and i'll be going to the mall later  ( while I can and while my legs doesnt hurt that much today....)

A DAY WITH MR. CUSHING. . .

After my diagnosis with cushing's syndrome, I felt that all the other symptoms are one by one coming over me. There were times that I have a headache the whole day or I suddenly wake up one morning having lower backaches. But most of all, there was never a day that i have a normal blood pressure. My blood pressure would change from 150/110 to 130/110 or 130/100. My doctor advised me to go on diet and to eat less salty foods but sometimes i cant help it. But I tried to check the labels of the food i buy from the grocery store for their sodium content and avoid those with high levels of sodium.

THE DAY I MET MR. CUSHING

After my work in the office, I tried to research on the web about this Mr. Cushing (cushing's syndrome). I found out that I have almost all of the symptoms such as moonfaced, buffalo hump, hypertension, water retention, central obesity ( i weighed 94 kg); purplish straie on the abdomen and legs and unintentional weight gain. The next day, I went to see Doctor No. 3, an endocrinologist. He said that from what he had seen in me, he diagnosed my condition as cushing'syndrome. He advised me again to do some test and to confirm whether my cortisol level is high. Based on the test, indeed my cortisol level is far too high from the normal level. That was it. Confirmed. I've been suffering from cushing's syndrome.