Battleangel | Personal

As I noted previously, I had a little medical complication a while back. In short: Skull splitting nightly headaches that on closer inspection turned out to be caused by high blood pressure.

Now it turns out it wasn’t primary hypertension after all. The analysis of the kidney biopsy I did pegged the actual root of the problem as IgA nephropathy ("Berger’s disease"). I will have to do more tests over time to know where this is going but from what I understand, kidney filtration capacity is way down. Though thankfully proteinuria has improved considerably. And if anything, blood pressure is in fact too low at this point.

Also, one additional complication that I was made aware of was acidosis. Could be what has affected my physical and mental state lately, and not any side effect of the blood pressure medicine as I first suspected. It’s funny because I always wanted to try out bicarbonate to see how it affected lactic acid. But this stuff is like soda in a pill. Bubbly.

Another funny thing is that apparently there is some circumstantial evidence to suggest that omega-3 fatty acids might slow the progression of renal failure. That sounds pretty desperate to me, and goes to show how little has been accomplished in this field. If my last and best hope so to speak is in fact fish oil then I’m in deep shit.