I've been out-of-sorts (feeling grumpy and vulnerable, mostly, sort of mixed up together) since my visit to the physical therapy doc, mostly-I think-because not being able to go up and down the stairs whenever I like makes me more dependent on Shannon, makes me have to ask him to do things for me, makes me inconvenience him. I don't like feeling ( Read more... )

Had acupuncture on Tuesday, immediately followed by my first PT appointment of this second go-round. Then an appointment with the pain doc the next day.

Acupuncture
I like the acupuncturist I saw at Berkeley Community Acupuncture on Tuesday & saw her again to day. (Her name is Elena.) The whole clinic is really great, very relaxed and casual. ( Read more... )

Notes to self re: technical terms & locations of online info for some of the stuff Brain Doc says I have, because I like to understand things, especially when they're about me:

• occipital neuralgia (a.k.a. C2 neuralgia): pinched nerve in the neck between the C1 and C2 vertebrae (see greater and lesser occipital nerve definitions below for confusion ( Read more... )

So … the neurologist. He said that he thinks I have arthritis in my neck, which can cause "brisk" or "exaggerated" reflexes, but nothing that requires treatment and nothing that would cause this kind of fatigue. My online research indicates that arthritis in the neck should cause a lot of other symptoms I don't have (most notably neck pain, which ( Read more... )