This week has been a little worse pain wise. I notice that my sleep affects my pain and when I’m in more pain I don’t sleep as well. This week was one of those weeks. I’m not sure if its the wacky weather we have had here in Chicago or if it’s the 2 children I now have in my life or my husbands crazy work hours but this week my head hurts. And even though acupuncture helped a lot yesterday and alleviated the pain - around 11 PM last night it came back. Monday it hurt so bad on the opposite side of the lesion (so it must have been a migraine) I took one of my last few prescription pain meds.

I’ve written before about how I’ve avoided obtaining a script from the Neurologist because I prefer to keep my liver as healthy as possible but this week I thought about calling and asking for a refill. But then I’d have to explain my non-compliance with my other medication and I just don’t want to be a bad patient. Because really if I were taking the other medications there is a chance my head wouldn’t hurt. (See the cyclic thinking going on here?) And why haven’t I taken the others? Because I’m not yet ready for the side effects. And I dealt with this pain for nearly 2 years what’s another week? Any anyways it might just be my lack of sleep and my neck hurting which has nothing to do with the neurosarcoid. I think. I’m pretty sure. But really I’m too tired to care today.

And since I feel bad that this is kind of a downer of a post I have lost another pound which is 1 per week at least since the kids have been here. :)


Next week I'd like to do a Question roundtable. So send me your questions that you have for me - about whatever....