a memory...
Something occurs to me.
I can remember the first time I got ‘sick’ with no fever.
I was up the Poconos at my grandmothers house by the lake. I would have been 15 or so. I used to like to walk thru the woods and around the road. I love it up there. Although it was a bit lonely.
One day. I had a horrible headache and body aches and chills, yet my grandmother said I had no fever and there was nothing wrong with me. That I was just bored. The worst of that ‘illness’ passed within a few days but soon after I was diagnosed with ‘growing pains’, and had the sporadic pains & problems, which have grown in frequency and strength ever since.
Maybe… Maybe my memory is playing tricks with timeline but I think that’s right.
I was tested for lymes disease already. Maybe multiple times so I doubt that's it. However I just read up on the effects and symptoms and their an identical match. Or at least for some form of Borrelia.
However I've been tested already so I seriously doubt that's what it is. OR at least I believe the docs when they tell me I was tested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
I will need to follow through with the doctor about this. It might be important. Or it might not. Symptoms are only symptoms after all.
Also I should put down that in a serendipitous event I got the bug/cold that Shai had prior weeks ago during the mourning process for Terry. As such I probably drank far too much of an over the counter cough medicine called Dysum 12 hour remedy. Which evidently can cause hallucigenic effects in high doses.
However (now this is the point) it also caused a complete cessation to EVERY AILMENT I HAVE! The medicine head was annoying but the lack of constant aches and pains More than made up for it!
To make sure I wasn't hurting myself or OD'ing I read up on the active ingredients and found a comment saying that the actual active ingredient was being used to treat nueropathic pain such as that of fybromyalgia! I read the article/found this out AFTER noticing the VERY OBVIOUS effects, which raised my curiousity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan
Then there is was right in the article on wikipedia: "Dextromethorphan is also being investigated as a possible treatment for neuropathic pain and pain associated with fibromyalgia.[9]"
I hadn't changed any of my other habits. I still drank diet soda, I still smoked. The only difference was the type and amount of cold and flu medicine I was taking.
I did not feel manic, or excited, or dispersed aches and pains, or depressed. Nothing felt wrong or weird. Yet my foot still hurt and I retained full sense of touch...
fucking fascinating.
I'm not one for self diagnosing because I know I'm not knowledgeable enough o know better. But this has to have some significance. Even if I don't know the cause finding a treatment seems like an incredibly positive event.
I'm going to see if I can make an appointment with my Doc to see what other kinds of docs I can bring this information to.
I can remember the first time I got ‘sick’ with no fever.
I was up the Poconos at my grandmothers house by the lake. I would have been 15 or so. I used to like to walk thru the woods and around the road. I love it up there. Although it was a bit lonely.
One day. I had a horrible headache and body aches and chills, yet my grandmother said I had no fever and there was nothing wrong with me. That I was just bored. The worst of that ‘illness’ passed within a few days but soon after I was diagnosed with ‘growing pains’, and had the sporadic pains & problems, which have grown in frequency and strength ever since.
Maybe… Maybe my memory is playing tricks with timeline but I think that’s right.
I was tested for lymes disease already. Maybe multiple times so I doubt that's it. However I just read up on the effects and symptoms and their an identical match. Or at least for some form of Borrelia.
However I've been tested already so I seriously doubt that's what it is. OR at least I believe the docs when they tell me I was tested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
I will need to follow through with the doctor about this. It might be important. Or it might not. Symptoms are only symptoms after all.
Also I should put down that in a serendipitous event I got the bug/cold that Shai had prior weeks ago during the mourning process for Terry. As such I probably drank far too much of an over the counter cough medicine called Dysum 12 hour remedy. Which evidently can cause hallucigenic effects in high doses.
However (now this is the point) it also caused a complete cessation to EVERY AILMENT I HAVE! The medicine head was annoying but the lack of constant aches and pains More than made up for it!
To make sure I wasn't hurting myself or OD'ing I read up on the active ingredients and found a comment saying that the actual active ingredient was being used to treat nueropathic pain such as that of fybromyalgia! I read the article/found this out AFTER noticing the VERY OBVIOUS effects, which raised my curiousity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan
Then there is was right in the article on wikipedia: "Dextromethorphan is also being investigated as a possible treatment for neuropathic pain and pain associated with fibromyalgia.[9]"
I hadn't changed any of my other habits. I still drank diet soda, I still smoked. The only difference was the type and amount of cold and flu medicine I was taking.
I did not feel manic, or excited, or dispersed aches and pains, or depressed. Nothing felt wrong or weird. Yet my foot still hurt and I retained full sense of touch...
fucking fascinating.
I'm not one for self diagnosing because I know I'm not knowledgeable enough o know better. But this has to have some significance. Even if I don't know the cause finding a treatment seems like an incredibly positive event.
I'm going to see if I can make an appointment with my Doc to see what other kinds of docs I can bring this information to.