Tension Friday

I was lucky that I already have a drafted article that I made the other night so I was able to publish it last night despite of not feeling well. Yesterday around 1PM, while I was staring at my payables for this month, I suddenly felt lightheaded. So I instantly went to the living room and lay down. I know it was different from my usual headaches so I closed my eyes while I was massaging my head with an ice and rest for a bit. After an hour and a half, my dad was alreadt calling us to have snack and I was still feeling unwell. I had a tuna sandwich and paired it with intense black coffee hoping that it can cure whatever I was feeling. It was still the same so I decided to check my blood pressure. To my surprise it was 105/80. So I was guessing that maybe prior to that my blood pressure was lower. I know that your blood pressure will spike up after you have eaten a meal. I used to hear that when my mom was hospitalized before. So I decided not to hold my phone and just watch a mocie on Netflix with mymom in our living room. Though I was actually bothered with my BP reading that I was searching for a balut (fermented duck embryo) or liver on Grab Food app. LOL. I failed looking for it so after the movie, I tried to close my eyes and rest again. After my mom had her dinner, I was already feelling a lot more pain on my head. The lightheadedness that I felt earlier turned into an immense pain. It was as if my head or my brain cells was about to explode and I was also feeling nauseous. I went to the bathroom twice carefully watching my balance and then I decided to go to my room after to check my blood pressure again. When I checked it, it was already around 155 to as high as 177. My oxygen level was low as 59 that when I compared it to my mom, hers was around 80+. My pulse rate though does not reach 90 and was around 70-80. When my mom found out about it, she immediately phoned in our neighbor in front of us who were a family of doctors. I was advised to take a hypertension medicine last night. Good thing that my parents have hypertension medicines so I took 1 right away. Within a few minutes, I felt the pain slowly subsides on my brain as I felt it on my nerves. I have experienced that kind of feeling before when I took my migraine pills. But with the pain level, last night's pain was like twice as what I usually feel whenever I had migraine attacks because it was my whole head that was in pain. After I took the medicine, I was able to sleep and I woke up after 2½ hours. I checked my blood pressure again and thankfully, it went back to normal. This morning I also checked both my blood pressure and oxygen levels and both were already back to normal. I do not know the reason yet as to why I have experienced something like that. I was thinking about the Chinese foods that we had last Wednesday. E still had some leftovers that I ate it until yesterday. We all know that majority of Chinese foods uses a lot of salt and MSG (monosodium gulatamate). Don't forget about the chicken powder. I must know since I have worked in a Chinese restaurant before although my palate cannot actually distinguish whether a food has MSG or not unlike my mom who can tell about it. Let us not forget the hamburger that I had when my brother's family visited and the French fries. Yummy. LOL. About sleep, I know I said that one of my October goals is to sleep at 11PM but I still haven't done it. I sleep around 12-1AM then wake up by 730AM to hear the daily mass and then sleep a couple of hours after since I have to complete my 8 hours of sleep. Though yesterday I wasn't able to sleep after the mass because we had to call our aunt in New Jersey. If it's 8AM in the Philippines and it's 8PM there. So I am probably guessing that lack of sleep and the Chinese food were the culprit. Also I was staring at my payables before I felt lightheaded. Aside from June and July, I can also add October to my critical health month. Though nothing about surgery related but I do get a fever, tonsillitis around this month before. Maybe because my body knows that my birthday is coming up that's why it wants me to take a closer look on what I eat or do. I was just talking about the Apple Watch a few days ago. It seems like my body, my heart and my mind are telling me to buy one. LOL. Starting tomorrow, I would need to change my daily routine including my screen time and I hope I would be able to follow the timeline that I have set for myself. Honestly, sometimes it is when I draft my article that I sleep late because my brain would be able to think of the words I would want to say after dinner or even as late as 10PM. I do have some topics that is still on mtly list but I know you can relate with me that sometimes we just do not feel like discussing about a particular topic. Yeah, that's me. I will still be monitoring my blood pressure and oxygen level from time to time. Soon I would also have my eyes check. I do not have blurred vision but maybe my headaches or lightheadedness was because of my eyes. If you are reading this, remember to take care of your health. `P.S. lead image is a photo of when I tried to check my pulse rate and oxygen level months ago.`