And, It Continues... Another Lousy Health Day
As I wrote in my previous blog entry, my night last night was less than stellar as a result of some pretty lousy health. It turns out that today has been no better. Actually, today has been worse than all the time spent in the bathroom in the middle of the night last night.
I've had difficulty breathing. I've been very weak. My bones hurt like only a Systemic Mastocytosis patient could understand. I'm overwhelmingly exhausted. I'm nauseated. And, after lunch, my throat was inflamed and a bit swollen. Then I passed out.
When I awoke a few hours later, all the symptoms were still present so I knew it was time for my emergency medications.
I've needed epinephrine today and I also needed to take some other emergency medications to try to stabilize my mast cells. Most of these medications cause drowsiness. Compounding this drowsiness issue is the fact that this huge cellular reaction inside my body causes indescribable fatigue also.
I really hate taking these emergency medications because the resulting drowsiness typically lasts a few days, at a minimum. It is bad enough losing time because of exceptionally poor health but then this situation is compounded by the medications knocking me down as well.
The next few days will be tough but hopefully my body and health will be much more stable. I wish I could do nothing but sleep for the next few days but that is simply not an option. This poor health is rearing its ugly head at the worst time. Our schedule is hectic, at best. We are booked solid with very busy activities over the next two days. I really would just prefer to lie down and sleep though.
We'll see how this all pans out... I think the only way to get through this without constant sleeping is by adding higher doses of my many everyday medications... It's worth a shot, I suppose...
I've had difficulty breathing. I've been very weak. My bones hurt like only a Systemic Mastocytosis patient could understand. I'm overwhelmingly exhausted. I'm nauseated. And, after lunch, my throat was inflamed and a bit swollen. Then I passed out.
When I awoke a few hours later, all the symptoms were still present so I knew it was time for my emergency medications.
I've needed epinephrine today and I also needed to take some other emergency medications to try to stabilize my mast cells. Most of these medications cause drowsiness. Compounding this drowsiness issue is the fact that this huge cellular reaction inside my body causes indescribable fatigue also.
I really hate taking these emergency medications because the resulting drowsiness typically lasts a few days, at a minimum. It is bad enough losing time because of exceptionally poor health but then this situation is compounded by the medications knocking me down as well.
The next few days will be tough but hopefully my body and health will be much more stable. I wish I could do nothing but sleep for the next few days but that is simply not an option. This poor health is rearing its ugly head at the worst time. Our schedule is hectic, at best. We are booked solid with very busy activities over the next two days. I really would just prefer to lie down and sleep though.
We'll see how this all pans out... I think the only way to get through this without constant sleeping is by adding higher doses of my many everyday medications... It's worth a shot, I suppose...
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