I have a mild flair of old symptoms due to my long illness and now I have trigeminal neuralgia! AHhhhhhh!
The MRI showed no new MS lesions just lots of old scars. The MRI showed a large inflamed cyst in my left maxillary sinus close to my eye and touching the trigeminal facial nerve. Thus my tingling and facial pain. Also the rest of my symptoms are just pseudo-exacerbations of past issues, now brought on due to my current infections in both left and right maxillary sinuses. I’m on hard core antibiotics now (my third one thus far) to help this and also on pain meds for the facial pain.
I am feeling SO much better on the new medications and am finally having much less tingling, weakness, and pain.
About damn time!
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Time to get crackin’
*CRUNCH*
That is the sound my brain has been making these past few months (heck, maybe the last year even!)
I need a clean slate. I need to get myself together. I need to focus on myself. I want to eat better, exercise more, sleep longer, get to bed at a decent hour (hence the “sleep longer” reference), and crush this disease i have (oh yeah, that would be MS). I want to be a better everything (wife, mother, daughter, friend). It’s a lot when I think about it, but I need to get some much needed structure in my chaotic life. But to be a better anything to others, I have to be a better someone to myself.
I need, I need, I need…
My OCD kicks into full gear when I hear those words. My anxiety starts creeping up, and I wonder if I need to take some deep breaths or if I just need to dive into my personal pharmacy and take that lovely at anxiety pill.
*CRUNCH*
There goes my brain again. And so begins my journey. It’s not New Year’s, so no resolutions necessary. I just need to write and get it out in words. Only then, I might be able to pick apart my needs and wants in order to organize my private chaos.
My Red Line
You think you’re out of the woods at least for a day, week, even an hour – and them WHAM the pain hits in your left leg down along the back of it making hard to walk and just plain uncomfortable to move.
I hate spasms! I especially despise the ones that hurt – a lot.
It sucks because I need to get things done but if I do too much, too fast without adequate rest as I go along, I reach my red line and something hits me – either loss of vision, weakness in my left leg and arm, dizziness, loss of balance or painful spasms. Ugh! It’s a guessing game to know how close I am to reaching my red line. It changes daily. Thankfully the issues resolve after a time of rest but that red line comes right back and becomes easier to hit after I’ve already reached it that day.
I need to sleep more. I need to go to bed at a decent hour and get more rest. But it’s hard because it takes so much to simply fall asleep. Insomnia and my mind running around makes me crazy! I need naps, but I don’t take them because I think I should be doing something productive. Plus it later ruins the plan to try to get to bed earlier. Arg! So frustrating!
Just needed to vent! Sorry…