Monday "Check In"

Last week I had a few rough days with my legs...didn't get to exercise much.

Plan to exercise at least two days this weeks....if my legs allow it.

Hope everyone is doing well this new week!!

I have had a bad couple of days. My back is flaring up leaving me with pins and needles feeling in both of my legs. As well as a very odd squishy numb feeling in my left knee that comes and goes. Been filling orders for my pain massage oils because they are coming in quick but I can't sit for to long. So I fill two orders get up and move about then do it again.

Had an unhappy weekend really, getting kind of tired of having my CP and other health issues take away from some of the fun things.

My wife ended up going off with my oldest son and the grand kids to a lake house about 40 miles from here. The problem was, the lake house is old, and has zero air conditioning, not even window units. And this past weekend it was in the low 90's and high humidity the entire time. Couldn't have gone swimming in the small lake either, even if I had went, too much chance of infection to my stoma from parasites and who knows what else is in the lake.

So there was no way I could go with them. So I stayed home alone the entire weekend, mostly keeping busy with house work that really didn't need doing and watching a lot of television.

I could have never endured the heat without access to air-conditioning, and knew that once I got over heated, there would be no way for me to cool back down.

Starting to miss out on too many weekend trips, like the last Charleston trip, the Atlanta trip. So needless to say, I was pretty bummed out by the whole thing, but I knew better than going and being miserable for everyone else.

Oh well, what's another weekend, they generally don't mean much to me, just another 2 days of time to pass by.

david

Well my weekend was long, my Achilles tendonitis is really very, very bad. My PT said he's never seen a caes as bad as mine. So I was ordered to stay off my feet as much as I can.

Today I had my cateract removed out of my left eye. I did the whole surgery without any drugs today. My daughter came home yesterday, so she's the one who took me for surgery today. I'm very happy to see her.


Tomorrow I'm havng a special chest CT w/o contrast. My PCN noticed that I have a hazy spot on my right lung. She looked back a few months on chest X-rays and can see that the spot has been on every X-ray.


Wednesday, I see PT therapist at 12:00, then see regular therapist at 1:15. Then I have pulmonary rehab Thursday. and finally end the week with PT again on Friday. Going to be another long week for me. With this stupid flare I am having makes me feeling really tired.

Hope everyone has a good week and low pain days. Take care of yourselves.

1 day at a time said...
I've been exercising like I think I'm 22 & paying for it dearly. Sometimes I think I'm doing more harm than good...gotta scale it back a bit

I tend to do this a bit too much. Except...I'm 24...and think since I'm that age I SHOULD be able to do whatever I want. My pain bites back at me ferociously every time.

Sorry to hear so many are having a rough start to the week :(

Oops I missed check-in! Sorry but not much to report. David the humidity and heats killing us down here! Its leaving us with horrible electrical storms every afternoon and I can't last 15 minutes on the patio with the ceiling fan.

Did manage a couple of school shopping hours Sunday with my oldest daughter and granddaughter but that took my all.

Looking forward to my baby coming home Sunday and even if I missed her she's had a great time.

Still on lexapro, can't see a huge difference, looking for a new primary, who will cooperate with my Neuro,my current one is being difficult. Am down 10mgs of methadone, so far not bad but had to use my cane shopping Sunday, something I've not had to do in couple of years.

Hoping everyone who has tests coming up get good results. Every one in flares gets a break!

Nothing exciting here.

Been busy with the help from hubby and all 4 kids getting the house looking decent. Packing up tomorrow so we can head out to go camping on Thursday. Found a nice campground 1 town over from us. Should be good just in case my body says no way or the dog because a pain in the rear I can be home in 10 minutes. Only staying until Sunday, of course Thursday and Friday is supposed to rain.

Then I need to take the kids out one at a time when we get home and get school shopping done. School starts on the 28th this year. Nice thing is hubby is home for a couple of weeks to help out. He just realized a few weeks ago that he had over 8 weeks of vacation time to use up.

 I know Wed. is a little late for a Monday update. I have been dealing with incredible pain since we came back from Chicago. The Cymbalta seems to be working well for the nerve pain.(My neuro did approve the second daily dose) Its the lumbar pain. I don't remember doing anything to make it flare like this. I am now out of breakthrough meds.(not a problem with my PM, I go in Monday morning) It's just without them I'm getting down.

 I went to the dentist today, so now my moouth hurts too! My apologies for whining, guess I just needed to get it out and move on!

David,

  I am so sorry you missed the weekend. In Chicago my husband and our friends all went on a Segway tour. I sat at the hotel and watched tv b/c I couldn't stand that long! Not as big a deal as a whole weekend, but it can get depressing to feel like your missing the fun.

Hope you all havea good week. May your strength be greater than your burdens.

Lesley

Oops, well I missed check in...

Last weekend was very rough for me. By Sunday I was coming up to day five with almost no sleep and I had a total crash. Fever, shakes, extra aches, one of those days where it's not really worth getting out of bed. Monday wasn't a whole lot better.

Tuesday I had a really good appointment with my GP - he spent a good 30-40 minutes with me talking over various things and we've now got a 'Plan A' through 'Plan D' for trying to address some of my sleep issues...starting with melatonin and moving to some of the more sedative antidepressants if that doesn't help. He/I are just a little wary of that step because I commonly have paradoxical reactions to things that should sedate me, and I have a history of bad responses to antidepressants.

We also looked at my ongoing back/chest pain - which unfortunately he thinks is a trapped or otherwise irritated nerve somewhere deep in/on my chest wall being exacerbated by my CRPS.

Today - I had another Botox injection in my piriformis to try to relieve some of the pressure on my sciatic nerve. Hopefully by the weekend my sciactic pain will be starting to lessen a bit, but I've no real plans.