okay so remarking heavily on symptoms cuz this head thing is a bit weird and also my foot injury I can't really see it cuz it is near my little toe on the bottom. Anyway yesterday I was consistent on meds - I ate a piece of bread n butter for breakfast which I had decided after that to go back to not terribly strict keto in combo w/intermittent fasting. I had energy yesterday and not much of a headache at all UNTIL after I ate a very low carb meal (with vitamins) about 7pm and then head shot to like a 5 on pain scale and I have a good tolerance for pain so that is just below a 6 which for me is freshly broken bone pain (since I went thru some very very serious pain with the lupus I know the pain scale well - 2-3 is a headache bad enough to take pills for imo. 5 is not good). Went to bed like 1030p woke at 230a. When I got into bed last night the room spun for a moment and I got neaseous for about 3 minutes or so. Then when I got up at 230 head didn't hurt but I was neaseous so said screw lo carb and fasting and had some bone broth with pasta and hot sauce and hot tea to calm my tummy which worked. I went to lay back down and room spun again! Grrr but found I couldn't sleep so about 4am took a shower - no dizziness. I can feel where my head is injured like a slight pressure but that's it and I seem more energetic and awake like I did yesterday. Prior to yesterday I had spent about 3 days where I was super low energy napping on and off all day and night. I got frustrated on day 3 of that and had a few shots - probably unwise and maybe that is what is causing me to have the vertigo except that I normally have a high tolerance for alcohol and the amount I took shouldn't do anything except calm me and leave no hangover (which I didn't have one still probably wasn't wise what with having hit my head so hard but that was now what? 13 days ago? ya. That seems a long time to me to be having all these symptoms.)
My back pain gets to 6/7 before I sit down and why I am going to PT and we have determined it's not really my back that's the issue rather my hips. I had been heavily favoring my right hip for many years now and they are both replaced and both hurt often - only 2-4 on left and 4-6 on right and only when walking or lifting my right leg and so I can deal with that kind of pain but when it gets to 7 I start to lose my sense of humor. My neck had hurt for I guess 32 yrs but finally last year PT cured that up pretty well. It had gotten way worse with the lupus but now that that is gone and with the PT my neck only hurts when I am talking to someone looking to the side for an extended period well and on and off but not near as bad. Anyway replaced hips last 10-15 yrs and it has been more than that for the right and about 13? for the left?? I don't remember exactly but it has been well over a decade for both so I may end up having to have them replaced or at least the right one if I can't work it out in PT.
Okay so physical bit is over unless I have more symptoms which I hope very much I don't. But I think PT is out for today since both my head is unsteady and I am unsteady on my feet and when she is done with me when I am my normal pretty ok I can barely drive my legs are shaking so much so just not even going to do that to my head right now if a meal can increase my BP to the point of a bad headache!!
Okay took a xanax and slept like 2 3/4 more hours - then went to my nephews bday party and WHAT relief!! First off the ER RN looked at my foot and said I did a good job bandaging it and it is fine but I need a tetanus shot and that he thinks my head is just fine too and that I can even drink after 13 days. He said ya know I know my own body best but if there were something seriously wrong I would have known at the 3 day mark so what a relief. And being around people? OMGOSH I NEED to see people like every so often otherwise I lose it - I become extremely low on confidence and it had been a week since I saw another human and I just get paranoid and kinda weird when I go that long in these 4 walls all by myself. We had a FANTASTIC time!! First off it was a lovely evening very clear out.. We enjoyed some tacos and nachos and had a few drinks (which the RN guy said will not affect my head at this point). We sang for my Nephew and he opened up some presents and my sis made a great pound cake with icing and blueberry sauce. We had been listening to 70s rock (my fav) and there were about 12-13 of us but we kept up social distancing. Then fireworks and talking and joking around by the fire outdoors with great weather! It was supremely ideal. My sister's family and her friends are real kick back cool folks and just a super pleasant great time! Some MUCH needed socializing and I am sooooo grateful!!
Got home feeling good for the first time in a long time and proceeded to get into a huge argument with one of my best friends and back comes headache and poor mood. I could really kick her arse! LOL Oh well.
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