Sunday, May 4, 2003

Collagen lips My doctor changed my blood pressure medication last week (doctors can be kind of geeky too, changing stuff just to see what happens), and I woke up yesterday with a fat lip. It kept getting even bigger, so I did a Google search for the name of the new medication, and found this page. It explains that "in instances where swelling has been confined to the face and lips the condition has generally resolved without treatment". The rest of the page is greek to me (well, Latin actually :) eicosanoids and polypeptides, including endogenous bradykinin...blah, blah. I stopped taking it, and everything went back to normal - no more pouty lips! It's kind of creepy that something can have such a dramatic, specifically weird effect on our bodies. Makes you wonder what's happening that you can't see. 4:26:45 PM