Cooking & Baking

on Tuesday, the day after this post, I had to go into the hospital for out-patient angiogram. The last time I went in 2017, they had to place a stent, and so I had to stay the night rather than just go home afterwards. I was fully expecting that to happen again, but thankfully it didn't. Still the last place I wanted to be was in a possibly COVID filled hospital!

Anyway, my cardiologist told my husband that there was only 15% plaque build-up, so he didn't have to perform any interventions (I have to see him in 3 weeks to get the info straight from the horse's mouth.) This was surprising given the symptoms I was having: about a handful of times the past 6 mos or so, I was hit smack in the sternum with a really strong pain, not sharp - but hard. It traveled from there up into my shoulders, and down to my elbows, one time it dissipated as a strong tingling up my neck into my head. (I know, I know...should have gone to the cardiologist the first time, not the fourth, but see above re: COVID. I'd also just had an echo-cardiogram and an ABI (ultrasound to monitor the circulation in my extremities) and had already been there several times the past month with good results from those tests.

It just dawned on me this morning (I can be a little slow at times), that these occurrences also coincide with when I started using stevia bulked with erythritol. Guess it's time to figure out something else, but there's little I trust anymore.

Was this the cause? I dunno. Possibly?