Starting to wonder if I am dealing with some side effects of the new med. I have noticed the dry mouth becoming more intense, still nothing I'd say is "bad", but I have water with me all the time lately. I've also had body pains come back - joint pain, tenderness - mimics a flare. Not BAD, like the other day, but constant all week. Plus a headache ( Read more... )

I've been very spoiled lately, and as a result I'm now a wimp. I want to give this pain a 10/10, but I know it's not. But it still sucks really bad and I am forcing myself to be here and be useful and get things done, when I really want to just go home and stare at a wall while hiding under a blanket.

Crazy week this week - I'm launching one of my major projects today (a tablet optimized site) and the bigger one next Tuesday (replatform/redesign of one of my major brand websites) - and I have SO MUCH TO DO and check and button up. Got to work early, kicked in, called a meeting with my team at 10am to make sure everyone knows what they have to do ( Read more... )

Muscle pain in my calves and feet is spreading and pretty constant, although not terrible. Joint pain too. Not like Fibro at all, very different pain. It's been 5 weeks since I started the Red Yeast Rice and CoQ10. I'm going to stop taking that as of today, and see if this stuff goes away, just to rule out that it's a side effect ( Read more... )

beat. Today was so intense, with one meeting after another that were either orientation type brain dumps of different departments, or meetings dealing with issues that have been going on and need to be fixed. I ran my first tech meeting, without even knowing the real issue or the architecture behind everything - but everyone looked to me, so I did ( Read more... )

Strangely enough, I've barely talked about my health here in a while - refreshing given all I seemed to do was whine about stuff for SO LONG. Still, yesterday had something interesting happen, just putting it down so I can see if this is something to talk to my NS about. We were out with Kelsey, getting her a few groceries, pushing the carriage ( Read more... )

Pain back down to a 6-7.  2 nights ago, so bad I admit to taking old pain meds left over from Kelsey's surgery (or maybe it was mine, who knows) just so I could lie down and try to sleep without the throbbing of pain that resonates through my body keeping time to my heartbeat.  Literally sitting on my couch unable to NOT cry.  I don't think I ( Read more... )

flare started yesterday - suddenly my arms and legs were so tender to touch even lightly.  kicked up ot a 6 right now.  feels like a bad one.

 Struggling.  Pain & fatigue.  Stress + sucky horrible weather I'm sure.  feeling so done.

Took the Audi to get the oil changed finally, severely overdue, and to see how we can fix it to pass inspection due the end of August.  Other than bad brakes that Eric says he'll fix for me, the car is in really good shape EXCEPT

except that it needs over $ ( Read more... )

It was a pretty cloudy Saturday, yesterday it POURED, and the 7 day forecast shows rain every day through Friday, then thunderstorms Saturday afternoon/evening, and Sunday afternoon/evening. Cold and damn and nasty. It's already impacting moods ( Read more... )