<br><br>On Sunday, January 11, 2026, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">BP 96 / 69 hr 64 chest pain difficulty breathing<div>dizzy getting to A&E</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>BP stayed low until getting to A&E, where it went</div><div>"normal" but my eyes went crossed and I was</div><div>unable to get up out of the triage chair.</div><div><br></div><div>(eyes crossed indicates life-threatening hypoxia</div><div> from a stroke)</div><div><br></div><div>BP rose to 163/110 within 10 minutes, "drowning"</div><div>feeling occurred, anaphylaxis occurred and cleared</div><div>in appx 5 minutes after a massive amount of flegm</div><div>coughed up. I frequently had to jam my fingers hard</div><div>around my windpipe but it resulted in more flegm</div><div>building up. I remember sweating profusely just</div><div>like you do on throwing up, and that's when the</div><div>symptoms all went away.</div><div><br></div><div>the same sequence occurred about 15</div><div>minutes later, except this time I couldn't move,</div><div>which was extremely frightening as the A&E staff</div><div>stood back waiting to see what happened rather</div><div>than take any action.</div><div><br></div><div>my mouth filled up with saliva and flegm, as I was</div><div>trapped on my side against the rail of the trolley,</div><div>unable to move.</div><div><br></div><div>I was trying not to choke to death.</div><div><br></div><div>within about 4 minutes of sobbing at being unable</div><div>to move and at such a risk of death I was able</div><div>to move again, the anaphylaxis stopped, and</div><div>BP readings showed "normal" again.</div><div><br></div><div>the hypothesis that fits the events is that tiredness</div><div>when still recovering from another infection</div><div>caused oxidative stress that triggered cholesterol</div><div>and biotoxin release, which lowered my BP (putting</div><div>me into toxic shock)</div><div><br></div><div>the cholesterol built up and caused an arterial</div><div>blockage. the stress of getting to A&E did not</div><div>help, and it was long enough that hypoxia occurred,</div><div>and the BP spiked as the cholesterol built up.</div><div><br></div><div>the anaphylaxis occurred as the toxins also built</div><div>up, as an emergency release valve under</div><div>hypertension. likewise the sweating. however the</div><div>second time was more serious: the blockage was</div><div>also in the area damaged by ischemic stroke,</div><div>possibly also the biotoxins in the blood affected</div><div>the still-repairing neural structures surrounding</div><div>the "hole"</div><div><br></div><div>there was a peer-reviewed journal</div><div>about this phenomenon, where electrical activity</div><div>can be hampered by a vicious cycle of glial cells</div><div>doing their job on detection of reduced electrical</div><div>activity, but getting themselves damaged: one</div><div>of the characteristics of autism is that microglia</div><div>damage have massive detrimental consequences</div><div>weeks after the initial assault.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">---<br>geometry: without it life is pointless<div>the fibonacci series: easy as 1 1 2 3</div></div><br>