A Lousy Couple of Weeks

The weather has been horrendous anyway but my health has really slowed down any sort of chance of being productive over the past week and a half or so.  I think the rainy, damp, wet weather may be playing into the amount of pain I'm in all day long so I suppose it does have some bearing on my health.  

My main issue is pain...  joint pain, bone pain, spinal pain.  My sprained left ankle (since January) has worsened in this damp weather so I'm limping a bit due to that.  My right knee is still a problem even though it is better than it was a month ago.  The pain in these two joints alone is enough to keep me up through the night.  I also have nagging, relentless bone pain.  My extensive spinal injuries are always worse in periods of damp, wet weather too so my spinal pain has been worse lately as well.  

The pain wears me down and causes sleep issues so then there is overwhelming fatigue added into the mix as well.  I just want to sleep.  Well...  I suppose I really want to sleep comfortably.  I feel like I can sleep for a few solid days at this point.  

I've had a few systemic mastocytosis "episodes" through this period of pain too which comes as no surprise.  I suppose my primary complaint would be breathing issues but I always have breathing issues in warmer environments.  I had one episode last week where my O2 level dropped into the low 80s and that is a significant loss of oxygen.  Even at around 95%, you can definitely feel that you're having difficulty breathing...  the low 90s are when I must reach for an inhaler...  upper 80s are brutal...  lower 80s is when people start seeing stars, getting narrowing vision and passing out.  I've had all of this a few times just in the past week and a half.

Intestinal issues are common all the time anyway but this has also been a complaint worth mentioning this time around too.  I've spent some time in the bathroom.  I just don't know what to eat.  Nothing I eat is "hitting the spot" and everything is leaving me feeling rather lousy.  Maybe this is simply due to the elevated pain level I'm experiencing?  I don't know.  

The pain is my primary complaint lately though and it has been significantly debilitating.