Falling off my health plan and hopes to get back on!

I keep forgetting to write this post but I wanted to for my own records.

A few months ago now, I fell off my health plan. I had a cold for a long time, followed by an outpatient procedure to replace my Implanon. Then I became uncontrollably dizzy. I thought that maybe it was a reaction from replacing my Implanon and would get better in a couple days, so I waited a while before I went to see my GP. But after a week, I was still dizzy on a regular basis. I made an appointment with my GP, but that was for almost a week later.

I finally got there and she said it couldn't have been from my procedure but it's not uncommon to have dizziness after having a cold, although it had been a while since my cold. It didn't seem to be from a cold so she wanted to check out a few things. She took my pulse and blood pressure, both while sitting and standing. She said that my blood pressure looked normal but my pulse was really high. She wasn't sure what was causing it and had me get blood tests and an ECG and come back to her to get the results in a week. In the meantime, she gave me a prescription for a medication used for patients with vertigo and told me not to exercise or do anything strenuous since my pulse was already really high! I went back and all of the tests came back normal, which really isn't surprising for me. It seems to always be the case that I feel sick and the tests come back normal. (Hence being a medical anomaly!)

I continued taking the vertigo meds and my GP gave me a form to go to an inner ear test if the dizziness continued. She said to give it a week and then get the inner ear test done if it didn't get better. Luckily it did, after a few days! I'm now trying to get back into exercise again. I managed to get to 30 minutes once last week and tried a different time, but had too much back pain and had to stop after 5 minutes. I managed to do 35 minutes last night and my physio exercises.

I've also started a uni course and, hopefully, that helps me set up a routine. Our scale also is pretty dead (it doesn't give consistent readings, sometimes a difference of 5kg in a matter of seconds) because we used to keep it in the bathroom. But now we've ordered a different one online and that should arrive sometime in the next few days. This time we won't make the bathroom mistake! I know I've gained back a lot of the weight I had lost over the last year, but getting a new scale will let me figure out what my weight really is and let me set more accurate goals. I've been experiencing more back pain since falling off my health routine, but hopefully that will get better as I restart my health routine.