Here's praying you kick this cycle Pegg, that would be so sweet!  

Hit with a low kip at about 11pm and another at 3 am.  Low, a solid 4.  Cold packs and drinking ice water. 

Saturday is the plan...this time taking it earlier in the day. 

Pressure in the head and around the eye socket. With the flesh feeling sort of "heavy".  I don't get the super noticable droopy eye. 

Anyway, Dyl is home with a temp. of 101.5 to 102 even with Ibuprophin and a lingering headache and sore throat.  I'm taking him to the walk in for a strep swab.  Just in case.  Least he's still under his Dad's insurance.  But his fever not dropping much even with meds has me a bit concerned.

Chat with you guys later.

There is a virus going around right now that starts just this way, and then moves on to a cough and then turns to laryngitis.  They took the quick strap swab, and it was negative, but they will run a 24 hour culture just in case.

As long as he's running the fever, Doc said to stay ut of school.  Only tomorrow left before Spring Break, so at least he'll have next week to recover.

He's sleeping alot, in fact just woke from another nap.  His fever is staying down right now. 

I did buy both for just that reason, as well as for his headache.  One or the other doesn't work alone, but, (as I was instructed after my double root canal)  Taking them at the same time is beneficial for BOTH moderate pain, as well fever. 

It's odd, that my 18 year old who just yesterday was out and about with all his personal errands and "I'll be home when I'm done" was the sick little boy I remember snuggling up and sleeping in my lap.

Boy oh boy those grown up eyes, when ill, turn back into the eyes of a child.

Well I did another dose yeaterday,  and all is well so far.  Scalp is tender, as if my hair had been pulled hard for a few hours, (what little there is, I've cut quite short).

Then there is the sting in the  left sinus if I try to breath in too deep.  Guess the nerve is tender.  Luckily, the only thing it's triggered today is sneezing fits, however those are uncomforatable in their own right, with the spinal arthritis, but that's another animal altogether.

I won't presume to say I have the high cycle licked yet, but things are looking good that I'll not have to break out the big guns.  Yeah, I'm being optimistic, but, better that than hold no faith at all.

More as things develop, or don't.....

Hey Pegg,

You're not alone sister.  My March cycle kicked in over the weekend.



Glad to hear your 'treatment' seems to be having a positive effect.

Good luck... to both of us 

-Dennis-

You'll beat it Pegg, attitude is everything!

Joe

I've got faith that you are there and that's waaaay cool. Don't know what your normal high/low patterns look like but I'd sure do a follow up or two or three, or.......

Oh Marc, as to the high low patterns. 

For 20 some years, I would get 3-4 days of a single hit a night with 4-6 days off, with spring and autumn adding one or two daytime hits daily in a 3-4 week span along with the night time ones.

March 2004 the beast morphed on me, and I started to get hit harder, and built from 3 to up to 8 hits a day, lasting 18 weeks, then back to the 3-4 days on and 4-5 days off.

Fall, not as bad as spring, but still increased activity, usually mid September. 

After I think 2 years of conventional meds (dopymax has blurred some of that time frame, and I'm still waiting for the return of the rest of my IQ points) I desided to begin the quest of the uninsured and had to get my life back by whatever means. 

I would have happy if the clock had simply turned back to the days when I was convinced it was all just severe allergy attacks from everything from dust, to pollin, to mold to the paper mill emissions.  Swallowing sudafed and tylenol by the palm full and "waiting for it to kick in". 

Trying to yank my own teeth out in the still of the night with floss and a needle nose pliars: cursing the dentist who said it was TMJ and braces would stop all the pain, only to brake the brakets off in fits during an attack.  Oh the broken teeth, the caps, the root canals I have to show for all that nonsense from the bands and the pressure of clenching my jaws and cracking them beyond repair and them falling apart with age and time.

Ohhh so much have I learned since those dark years.  And the relief of having something to fight back with and WIN. 

I don't have the time nor energy to fight the petty things in life, but this is a fight I can't afford to lose.  My life, ....my children...my future if there is to be one...depends on me having control over this beast.  And my aim is to do just that by the means I have available to me.

Joe,  additude is all I got.  And I'm not giving in. 

Sorry I guess I had a rant inside me there. Back to your regularly scheduled programing.

Redd wrote on Mar 16^th, 2009 at 11:14pm:



All of it was well said and not just a simple rant. I want to thank for the reminders above.

Marc