I completely face-planted on my cement steps going out to my garage. My left leg decided it would not go up the steps, and I bit it hard. I am surprisingly sore everywhere and have a big lump on my left shin.
So far, Gilenya is working – I have not had any relapses since starting it, but the damage that was done from my prior flairs hasn’t gotten much better.
Neuropathic pain is absolutely miserable! I can’t believe I got hit with it so hard today at nearly every point of my body. It still hasn’t completely calmed down yet. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.
It’s like you roll yourself into a little ball to just try and find some comfortable position, which does not exist. I have to call my neuro tomorrow because this is day 3 of on/off neuropathic pain with today being by far the worst. Wonder if Gabapentin is something I may need to take – but the side effects of it suck 🙁 It’s like a no-win situation.
I AM that oxymoron: the chronically fatigued insomniac.
One thing, which I know would probably make me healthier and feel better, would be for me to go to bed at a decent hour. Not to mention I have heard rumors that a solid 8-9 hours of sleep helps prevent you from aging. Being as that I am hitting the half way mark between 30 and 40 in January, and I am beginning to see gravity and life slowly affect my outward appearance. Also, my inner soul is starting to tire.
I have always been a night-owl, but my youth and graduate studies tended to keep me from needing more than 4-6 hours of sleep a night. I did fine with nights of no or little sleep before the age of 25, and then it rolled over to having two boys in a span of 20 months, which precipitated the “lack of sleep” issue. Again, I did ok with that.
And now, I have two darling boys that go to bed without complaints at 8pm, no questions asked. I truly am lucky and blessed that they welcome bedtime as easily as they do. I wonder if when this perfection will end.
I, however, stay up for hours after they’ve gone to bed. Sometimes I am doing useful things, like getting clothes ready for the next day of school, making lunches, loading the dishwasher, and folding a load of laundry. Often though I get sucked into my DVR that I only watch at night because my boys, including my husband, are soundly asleep in bed and they really have no interest in watching Project Runway or Top Chef.
My question is if anyone out there sets a curfew for themselves?
I am usually asleep by 1am. Everyday when I wake up exhausted from lack of sleep, I tell myself that I will go to bed earlier today, and I never do. The few times I have tried, I have failed miserably. I lay in bed wide awake with my mind racing a million miles a minute. I am on a first name basis with Melatonin and Ambien right now.
MS is a funny (as in perplexing) disease. It’s as though I cannot fall asleep at night, then I wake up exhausted in the morning, trudge through the day like a zombie, have to sit down every few minutes because my body fatigues so easily, then cannot fall asleep to take a nap when given the opportunity, and am so fatigued until the cycle repeats itself.