Since starting Losartan on the 10th I've been fine except that last night I was very lightheaded for a few hours. I do sometimes get this anyway but usually eating makes me feel better yet I was still light-headed. I checked my BP and it wasn’t too low. I can't say for sure if it's connected to the medication but if it is, is this a dangerous side effect? I asked my doctors what they recommended I do and they said give it a little more time. 

I agree because again, I don't know that there was a connection for sure, and for the first time in my life, there might actually be a good side effect! My weight is going down. Tom never lost weight on it but I read around a bit and I did find that some people do lose weight on it. It has something to do with breaking down cholesterol deposits in the bloodstream or something to that effect. 

I didn't sleep as bad as the day before but I didn't sleep great either. I didn't have to get up and pee but I still woke up four or five times. I had another bad dream too even if it wasn't as bad as the current in the pond. 

A gap suddenly appeared in my two front teeth that was wide enough to slip a fingernail in. When I did that I could feel a tooth coming down in back between the teeth. I ran into the first dentist I had in Cali somewhere and she said she'd like me to come in after quickly inspecting my teeth. I already had another appointment scheduled with the second Cali dentist I had but I was in her office anyway a split second later and she was examining the impacted tooth more closely. Scheduled my RL dental cleaning for mid-November.

I just hope that and the pond dream aren't signs that something is about to go wrong. Despite my family history, I just don't see the mammogram or the echo turning up anything bad. Hopefully, it's not that the BP med is going to backfire on me but there are always other things to try if it does. 

I do want to lose weight but am a little scared to because body weight affects both Levothyroxine and BP meds. That's another thing I don't really see happening but as Tom pointed out, I probably won't lose more than a few pounds because bodies get used to medication. When I took Claritin-D in Oregon I first lost 10 lbs because it suppressed my appetite but eventually, it stopped doing that. The first time I tried oolong tea I lost 10 lbs and it too stopped having that effect on me. 

120 lbs would be ideal, 110 lbs would be very ideal, but I would settle for 140 lbs. Right now I'm down from 165 to 162 so it isn't much. Even he's gone down 5 lbs. Makes me wonder if maybe the scale is a bit off all of a sudden with us both losing weight at the same time. I doubt it's my TSH coming down because I would be anxious and have other symptoms as well if it was low enough to affect my weight because that's how it always works for me. My TSH is likely to be above 10 but I should find out soon enough because I'm going to the lab later in the morning. I also have to provide a urine sample because they're gonna test my kidney function to see if it's filtering the Losartan properly.

This rat is so funny. We got her some yogurt treats that had a lot of good reviews on Amazon. You only give them a few a day. Well, she just loves them! She knows that after she's been out for a while she gets a treat when she goes home. There have been a few times when she'll step out of her cage and then turn around and go right back home so she can get a treat, the smart little shit, haha. Now that it's getting a little chilly at night she also loves burrowing in my nice soft robe.

I worked on this entry on and off for several hours and no lightheadedness which is great but I feel nauseous after eating some nuts.