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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