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He was also concerned about the tachycardia.  I could not shake it.  So he put me on low dose Metaprolol, which is another beta blocker.  When he retired, I went to a young doctor.  He spent his time being pissed at me for not taking high does bp meds.  By now I was losing feeling in my toes.  He had me tested for an autoimmune disease.  Nothing.  So he blew off the loss of feeling in my toes because he did not know what was causing.  He did order a sonagram of my heart.  It came back fine.  He was angry with me because I would not lose weight.  I was on an 800 calorie diet and could not lose an ounce.  He just kept telling me I was not telling the truth about the diet.  And I needed to ditch the salt.  I had done that years ago.  Then he moved to another clinic.  So I went with my present doctor.  He upped the beta blocker and my A1C jumped.  Blood pressure kept staying high and I started packing on more weight to over 200 pounds. 

In December 2019, I had a virus.  It caused asthma like symptoms, high fever for about 4 days.  When I made myself get out of bed and start moving around, I had no energy.  None.  And I was off work until around the second week of January.  I went back to work and was doing ok but not feeling well.  The end of January, my blood pressure started spiking to 216/119 with a pulse rate of 126.  I went to the ER.  They did an EKG.  Nothing.  They did a chest x-ray to check for cell damage.  Nothing.  They did blood work.  Nothing.  So I started walking off the Metaprolol.  And within less than three week of getting off it, I dropped 24 pounds.  I was doing ok with the blood pressure dropping as well.  In March, about the first week, my blood pressure started going nuts again.  It popped up to over 179/90 with a pulse rate of 111.  Then it dropped to 145/147 with a pulse rate of 126.  I called an ambulance.  The ER docs found nothing.  When it was under control, they let me go home.  The next day, I called the cardiologist I had made an appointment with.  By now the Covid-19 was in full swing so he didn't want me in the office.  He put me on something called. diltiazem cd, which is an ACE inhibitor.  I have had a few incidents, but not bad since them.