It's alive!
And that goes for everything. Me, despite the two months of radio silence and being an ass and not replying to lovely comments everyone left. All remaining members of my and Tim's families, thank god. My yuletide story (that was a close one). And as of today, the NHL!
I've been poking at tumblr a little, which is apparently a thing I do now, and chugging along, slowly and, um, dizzily thanks to some weird neuro symptoms that have made anything involving brain power (like writing) kind of a slog.
It's mostly just weird: some random chest pain and shortness of breath, dizziness, what I've been calling fuzziness, which is kind of like vertigo but not really and comes with the feeling of something pushing on the back of my head, and general fogginess and lack of focus, especially verbally: word finding problems, sentence confusion. I'm at home alone during the day except for the cat, so sometimes I don't realize how off I am that day until Tim comes home and I can't string a sentence together that doesn't sound like the Sheriff of Rottingham from Robin Hood: Men in Tights. It's a little nerve-wracking to continuously have symptoms that could fit everything from a heart attack to a brain aneurysm, so it's actually pretty comforting that there are some likely non-fatal suspects.
According to my rockstar EDS doctor who is totally on the case, the most likely explanation, which I fit to a tee and is a frequent EDS companion, is dysautonomia, aka, my autonomic nervous system malfunctioning, and it could be exacerbated by the HBC I'm on now for the Down With Uterine Cancer initiative and the less likely option is Chiari malformation, aka, my brain is trying to fall out of my skull, which on the downside usually results in surgery, but on the upside would be treatable by means other than eating a lot of salt and throwing meds at it and hoping for the best, which seems to be the basic treatment plan for the dysautonomia.
Also posted at http://dexwebster.dreamwidth.org/19071.html. Comment where you like.
I've been poking at tumblr a little, which is apparently a thing I do now, and chugging along, slowly and, um, dizzily thanks to some weird neuro symptoms that have made anything involving brain power (like writing) kind of a slog.
It's mostly just weird: some random chest pain and shortness of breath, dizziness, what I've been calling fuzziness, which is kind of like vertigo but not really and comes with the feeling of something pushing on the back of my head, and general fogginess and lack of focus, especially verbally: word finding problems, sentence confusion. I'm at home alone during the day except for the cat, so sometimes I don't realize how off I am that day until Tim comes home and I can't string a sentence together that doesn't sound like the Sheriff of Rottingham from Robin Hood: Men in Tights. It's a little nerve-wracking to continuously have symptoms that could fit everything from a heart attack to a brain aneurysm, so it's actually pretty comforting that there are some likely non-fatal suspects.
According to my rockstar EDS doctor who is totally on the case, the most likely explanation, which I fit to a tee and is a frequent EDS companion, is dysautonomia, aka, my autonomic nervous system malfunctioning, and it could be exacerbated by the HBC I'm on now for the Down With Uterine Cancer initiative and the less likely option is Chiari malformation, aka, my brain is trying to fall out of my skull, which on the downside usually results in surgery, but on the upside would be treatable by means other than eating a lot of salt and throwing meds at it and hoping for the best, which seems to be the basic treatment plan for the dysautonomia.
Also posted at http://dexwebster.dreamwidth.org/19071.html. Comment where you like.