Cause of Death

Well, yesterday was OK. I started experiencing a slight pain in my left groin. That helped me realize I had never documented something rather critical from the article that ties everything together.

In the end, all the patients were confined to a sitting position. The article discussed how they would talk, cheer, and more. But they would get out of the chairs... At night.

The circadian rhythm of the pituitary was said to invert. This made the heart beat harder at night, yielding better BP, more alertness, etc. But, why not just maintain normal behavior of being up in the daytime? The reason was they would literally get to the point where standing and walking would kill them.

First, though, they reached a point where standing and walking would put stress on the little remaining circulation to the intestines. The article talked about how the final remaining flow was very narrow and waking was enough to cause then to pinch off.

That sounds crazy, I know, but it was explained that as circulatory volume decreases, with veins getting pinched off over time, eventually the left femoral vein could pinch off resulting in death since there was no alternate route for return flow to the heart. In all the other cases of veins being pinched off, the flow just reroutes to other areas. But this one is fatal. The article even mentioned, in the part where it discussed what would happen in the modern world if someone had this condition, the example of someone going on a hike with just a water bottle the day after their stomach "dropped" and how they would just loose volume through polyuria and then die when the femoral vein pinched off.

But, I that was just one possibility. I didn't hike, I rested.

I cannot change my daily habits. I can try to minimize my movements and volume loss, and I have done so. But, in the end, I have to stand up in the daytime. So, my path will be different.

There are three other possibilities listed in the article. It kinda depends on if I decide to go to the hospital or not. I've decided not to, since they can't do anything except palliative care and the tests they would run to justify that would make it worse. The first possibility is an aneurysm nearer to the heart from the candidiasis eating through. The second is a heart valve giving out from the repeated switching from acid to base pH in my system. This was spoken about at length in the article. The first switch makes the heart tougher but subsequent switches cause it to thin and soften. I believe this is the most likely. The valve will be stressed and eventually just disintegrate. The article said the person might just stop living in the middle of a sentence. Going to the ER won't help. They will see tachycardia and treat with beta blockers the exact opposite of what's needed. The article said the ER would miss the diagnosis because they wouldn't take the time to look at blood gas, or even xrays the abdomen, it also said the tests they would run wouldn't include insulin levels.

The third possibility is a stroke from the candidiasis directly attacking the pituitary. That would be my least favorite option. In any event, bowels stopping was noted as the most likely initial clinical finding. So, that comes first and soon.