The Climb Day Four: Diamox Makes My Face Hot and My Fingers Tingle

Leslie Kleinberg Zacks
6 min readDec 12, 2022

It’s so weird. I thought I was having a stroke when my fingers tips went completely numb and my face felt like it was on fire.

“That is a common side effect of the attitude meds,” said Guide Erik when I confessed this to him midway through our hike this morning. He was so unimpressed with this piece of information I decided it was just part of the…

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

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