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Thanks very much Muse, I just read it.

Really interesting but I don't find anything I can put the finger on. My only meds are for high blood pressure and I was not taking it because my blood pressure was to low and as I say in the thread before I have no cholesterol problems and had never had. I take vitamins that's all.

Yeah, I kinda thought it might not apply but women so often get put on statins which is ridiculous, there's not a single study showing any benefit to any women of any age period, in fact older women with the highest cholesterol levels have the highest survival rates. Have you investigated the DHA portion of omega 3 fatty acids? I take Jarrow's Max DHA to help my brain along with a packette of Coromega fish oils daily...along with a ton of other supps

yeah?

Hi Rosacer:

Do you believe in time travel?

I do.

So does super-billionaire Warren Buffet.

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Let me clear: for this discussion, I meant time travel as an intellectual tool.

I don't mean actually traveling back in space-time like Michael J. Fox does in the film Back To The Future.

Yes, I'm nutsie, but I'm not . . . nuts.

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But even if I were full blown nuts, I could use boundless imagination time travel (uh, BITT? . Well, why not BITT? . . .OK, "BITT" it is) as a tool to help me heal my mental illness.

BITTs toolset is available to anyone.

BITT has been employed by some of the best thinkers the world has ever known.

Back in 1895, a 16 year-old boy used BITT—without formal schooling—and wrote a short essay titled: "On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a Magnetic Field.".

The 16 year-old boy's name was Albert Einstein.

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I think you can use BITT to give you a medical management direction regarding your possible problems with TGA.

It's a skill, and like any skill, your skills improve with practice.

It's nearly 6 a.m., I've been up all night, and I'd like continue this discussion when I return, tomorrow night.

Till then,

roc


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Thanks Muse, the good intention is what counts, other way how could we discover something if we don't examine all the possibilities?

I indeed take Omega-3 every day, I was also taking Ginkgo for a couple of months before the TGA. What I noticed today that finally made an Excel sheet with all the blood pressure data I had is that the day I had the TGA I had measured the blood pressure 3 times ( 168/80; 148/84 and 158/84) and at the hospital it was high too when I arrived. Then it started going normal again without meds and at the end of the evening it was good.

But the neurologist said blood pressure has noting to do with TGAs at least it makes a stroke which was not the case.

After 1 1/2 years of good APAP treatment and walking since last January, my blood pressure is returning to normal but it is unstable, there is the fact that some times the meds makes it go to low and if I stop the meds it starts going slowly up again. I think it will stabilize it's only a matter of time but still the TGA is a very interesting mystery.

By the way Happy belated Birthday!! All the best!!!!

rosacer wrote:. Really interesting but I don't find anything I can put the finger on.

Rosa, this is just my opinion, but i can't help but wonder: What do these activities share in common with your formerly high blood pressure?

"Moderate to severe physical exertion often precedes an episode; activities such as heavy digging, felling a tree, and laying concrete.

Unusual emotional stresses such as newly reported cancer, a death in the family, news of a severe accident, and violent family arguments can trigger these reactions."

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Between the time I was diagnosed and when I got my machine, I was going downhill fast (getting/feeling worse quickly) and I had two episodes. Once in a store with my wife and son and I walked over to another aisle then I didn't know where I was or how to get back to them. Like I was lost and could not process a rational thought. I didn't panic, but felt rather peaceful. About a week later I came out of a grocery store and was presented a parking lot full of cars and I didn't know why. It took a few moments to realize that I was supposed to go to the car.

Once I got my machine these things stopped.

Thank GOD.

P.S. I have high blood pressure and take Lisinopril (40 mg/day) and HCTZ (6 mg/day) to moderate it... High, like 200's over 130's if I go without medication, sometimes 195/125 even while on it (hypertensive crisis mode).

jamiswolf wrote:it bears a striking resemblance to an alcoholic blackout.

I only just read this thread because I had no idea what TGA was, after reading the first couple of posts I'd have to agree with the comparison, not the cause in this case perhaps.

MaxDarkside wrote:Between the time I was diagnosed and when I got my machine, I was going downhill fast (getting/feeling worse quickly) and I had two episodes. Once in a store with my wife and son and I walked over to another aisle then I didn't know where I was or how to get back to them. Like I was lost and could not process a rational thought. I didn't panic, but felt rather peaceful. About a week later I came out of a grocery store and was presented a parking lot full of cars and I didn't know why. It took a few moments to realize that I was supposed to go to the car.

Once I got my machine these things stopped.

Thank GOD.

P.S. I have high blood pressure and take Lisinopril (40 mg/day) and HCTZ (6 mg/day) to moderate it... High, like 200's over 130's if I go without medication, sometimes 195/125 even while on it (hypertensive crisis mode).

Your BP is out of control! Obviously you're taking the wrong combination of BP meds for you or you're taking other meds that are interfering with them or have some other medical issues. I hope you get your BP normalized and quickly. This is not good!

DoriC wrote:Your BP is out of control! Obviously you're taking the wrong combination of BP meds for you or you're taking other meds that are interfering with them or have some other medical issues. I hope you get your BP normalized and quickly. This is not good!

Well, what I listed were extremes this year, but normally is pretty well controlled (130's/80s to 90's/60's) I am very sensitive to HCTZ and they don't know why. I have sleep apnea and they don't know why. I had a near fatal "Significant Arrhythmic Event" (probably Ventricular Fibrillation) and they don't know why. I use variations in HCTZ to regulate as I track with an OMRON BP monitor at home, taking readings a few times per day. The sleep-neurologist thought my BP would go down on xPAP, maybe being able to get off the HCTZ, but that didn't happen at all. My BP didn't change nor its variability.

Interesting to note that I think I got my high BP by drinking some milk (foolishly, knowing I should not) in Surat, India on one of my trips. I got very ill, temporarily quarantined a 747 full of people in Honolulu (ha!) because I was so sick traveling home and when I got to the Dr. in the USA my BP was highly elevated and has been since. I was in perfect health before that. I think the bacterial toxins damaged my autonomic control of blood pressure.

Thanks.

Hi, I also have sleep apnea with was untreated for years. I used a CPAP for about two years, then lost about 75 pounds, didn't snore any more, so quite using my CPAP, because I wrongly thought I was cured. I, too, had a TGA event last November (while being off the CPAP for about 1 1/2 years) and it was quite frightening to me and my husband, who was the witness. Was treated by a Neurologist, underwent loads of tests and nothing was found to be wrong. In fact, I'm apparently in great health with no problems at all, but she did send me for another two sleep tests and I have to go back on CPAP, although I don't have the equipment yet. Then, last week, I had a second TGA event and scared the heck out of my daughter, who was the witness. I'm reading everything I can about both TGA and sleep apnea, but can find nothing online that indicates a connection. Called my Neurologist and don't have to see her until two months from now, and only to see how the sleep apnea is doing, (so apparently no rush or danger.)

So, my heart goes out to you. TGA is a frightening experience. Now that I've had it twice, I'm going to have to really try to educate my family that there is really nothing wrong with me, other than losing my memory and repeating myself over and over and over. Most of my parents and grandparents have lived well into their 90's, so I'm expecting to do the same. First, though, I'm going to continue to question whether untreated sleep apnea could be a cause of TGA. I've found no connection so far.
Thanks for sharing your experience.