I haven't written in over a month. Well I saw my new Doctor again and he confirmed a second time, after eleven blood tests, that I do have Lupus. So far I have had no major flares, just chest pain by my heart once in a while. I still get bad back pain and headaches but I now take the Naproxen 500 mg when I need to and the pain goes away. Right now I don't have the pain in my hands. I get dry eyes sometimes so I put eye drops that help moisturize them. I just hate my stress at work on sales quotas that frustrates me. Otherwise I could be happy and more relaxed. I hope to lose some weight by exercising again. I've started to use my treadmill for thirty minutes, other days I use a low impact aerobics or resistance band video workout. I feel it helps my joints to stretch out, it helps my stress, and I sleep a lot better at night. I know the difference now, from a flare, and now that I am in remission.
I have been able to hang out now with my friends again and go out. Before I had no strength or energy to go anywhere much less stay up late. I still break out in hives more on my hands and back legs and arms, I get blisters and I hate having to take the Benadryl again because it just puts me to sleep and it's hard for me to come out of the daze in the morning. I wake up having weird dreams than go back to sleep to only wake up from another weird dream. I don't have a loss of appetite or nausea anymore. I'll get random headaches and then sinus pressure on my nose so I take the Naproxen and feel better.
I finally figured out what I thought was a loss in memory when I forget things, what I'm saying or where I'm going, they call it "brain fog" which is what makes more sense to me now. Because I don't really forget, I'll remember a few seconds later but by then I've already driven the wrong direction, or said the wrong word, so yes, having "brain fog" is what it is, a cloudy thought that later becomes clear and your focused again.
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