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| Fun and Games IIIe (Insomnia) by me, Mary Stebbins Taitt digitally altered Photographic composit from my own photos click to view larger |
Health report for Thursday,
May 1, 2014: My fibromyalgia seems
to be slowly improving, knock on wood, with ups and downs. Also my itching
seems to be improving, knock on wood, generally, with ups and downs. Yesterday, I walked to Rolandale and back
again with a stop at the store, as you know, which was a long stop. My fibro didn’t bother me much, although I
was eager to sit down when we got home, but I was able to put away the groceries
first. However, after dinner, my let hip
started hurting, and was getting gradually worse, and I was considering
applying Voltaren, but decided to wait. Then
I developed asthma (relatively mild—but enough to disturb my sleep for a while),
and I starting feeling itchy. I had a
restless night and have been up three times.
I am up now, of course. I am all
itchy. At 4:08, I took some Benadryl,
but it hasn’t helped yet, and now (5:20, it’s been well over an hour!). One of the previous times when I got up, my
fibro was pretty bad, but that has subsided some. My neck has really been bothering me, too
(arthritis). A couple days ago,
whichever day it was that I felt dizzy (I think the day before yesterday), I
took some Niacin and again yesterday. I was not too suspicious of the Niacin,
since I’d been taking without a problem (that I was aware of) for so long. I was suspicious of the shallots for the
fibro pain, but here is the thing--I got this whole complex of symptoms which I
certainly can’t place at the feet of the shallots, since most of them I’ve had
without any shallots! I suppose the
Niacin could be a problem. (?) The
shallots also could be a problem, because they are listed as a possible fibro
trigger—there are many. But would the
small amount of shallots I had trigger all those symptoms? That is, asthma, worsening arthritis, itching
etc.? Here’s the thing: I can’t think of anything else I ate that’s
different—I had a veggie omelet for breakfast with the same bran mix I’ve been
having and rotten cabbage, plain dry toast and almonds with bran and cabbage
for lunch and you know what I had for dinner.
(Spaghetti, salad, bran, cabbage.)
There was no grazing at VM. I
know K thinks that whatever is causing the problem may be unrelated to what I
eat or consume (e.g., meds). And it may
well be, but I am suspicious of foods and meds because I know for a fact that
dairy causes asthma and soy causes fibro in me, and I seem to be quite
sensitive to many foods and am allergic to a number of meds.
Also, Dr. Ferarra was saying that my sudden bad rash was
bilaterally symmetrical and thus internally generated and not caused by contact,
but that doesn’t mean the original itching might not be caused or exacerbated
by contact (detergents, etc.). The
original itching was not necessarily bilaterally symmetrical (hard to tell,
since I couldn’t see I, usually) and the sudden bad rash (SBR) did not follow
the same pattern as the original itching.
The SBR is fading and peeling, but it was bothering me in the night
(itching). My eyebrows and head and back
and buttocks were also all itchy in the night.
If the cabbage is actually helping me, it is definitely not a protectorate against flare-ups at
this point.
I do seem to be feeling, on the average, knock on wood, somewhat
better than I had been except for my insomnia, which does not seem to be
improving.
I had been thinking about not bothering to see that
allergist, since I seemed to be gradually improving, but tonight (last night
and this early morning), I do not feel improved. I was hoping to avoid further trouble, annoyance
and expense. Once you start going to an
allergist, it’s a long-term deal, most of the time.
Also, there are the almonds, which I’ve been eating a lot
of. I was worried at one point that nuts
were causing a problem for me, but then I was eating them and my fibro was not
worsening (but my insomnia was not improving, but it wasn’t visibly worsening
either, since it was already bad.) But
they could be causing a problem.
