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Lazy day?

April 17, 2007 by Tricia

Sorry that I’ve been so quiet over here. Something weird is going on. Yesterday I didn’t feel too bad but I suddenly got tired around 7 pm and ended up crashing on the couch. I couldn’t get up. Finally around 7 a.m.

I made myself sit up and watch some really bad old sitcoms! Never saw Sirens before but I caught one with a young Will Wheaton in it.

I’ve just been in a lazy mood all day. I couldn’t make myself do much of anything. I’ve spent the day lying on the couch, curled up with my favorite blanket and lots of pillows.

The really odd thing is that my stomach/abdomen hasn’t really felt all that bad. Usually when I start sleeping a lot or end up lying on the couch all day it’s because I’m really sick and in pain. I have still had a lot of fevers, but again other than feeling wiped out I don’t feel all that bad.

Strange huh?





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: fevers, lazy, lying on couch, sleeping

I had the worst weekend!

April 11, 2007 by Tricia

I’m starting to feel like a broken record. “I don’t feel good” … I hope I don’t sound like that, really. In person or on this site. It’s just that, I really really don’t feel good! LOL

You know I like posting on my sites right? Well … if you don’t see new posts for day or more it’s probably because I’m not feeling all that well. I mean, I’m a woman … I can talk and post all day if I want to – it comes with the breed. We have lots to say. It’s just that when I’m feeling really bad I can’t make myself sit in front of the computer.

I thought that getting a laptop might help so I got one last August. My thinking at the time was that if I was having a bad day at least I could lie down or slouch on the couch (that rhymes!) and still type away, or at least surf my favorite sites. Stupid me … I’m a lefty and I like sitting or lying on the left hand side of the couch (left when facing) and uh … my left arm is touching the couches back. That makes it kind of hard to type. LOL

So you know what I do now when I’m lying on the couch not feeling well enough to sit up? I lie on my side, and have my laptop on the table next to the couch. I pull the table over so it’s touching the couch and lean in a weird position and type that way. I must say this works much better for surfing than it does for typing.

At least now that I have a laptop … well when my husband isn’t hogging it … I can go outside into my back yard garden with it, or uhm … I can lie in bed with it or even shhhhh take it in the bathroom. Shhhh I didn’t say that!

Having told you all the different ways that I can possibly use our computers, when I’m feeling good or bad, none of that helped me this weekend.

I have my bad days, and my semi better than bad days, but I think from Friday onward I’ve been the worst that I’ve been in a while. I might even be able to go back earlier than Friday, … but I know that whatever is going on got worse and worse from Friday onward.

I’ve been getting fevers in cycles of every two hours or so. It spikes up and I’m freezing and shivering, and then, maybe 20 minutes later I’m peeling off the sweater that I just put on because I’m too hot since the fever is coming down again. I’ll just start to feel better and boom another feverish spike. So on top of all the other medications that I take I’ve been taking Tylenol regularly for the last 6 or so days to try to control the fevers.

If you ever wondered why the domain that this website is on is called Feverishthoughts – well there’s your answer. Fevers are a regular part of my life. So is thinking.

I guess I withstood the fever spikes on Friday pretty well, but by Saturday they were taking their toll on me. My abdomen was aching and I was still feverish on and off. I went through a weird napping phase over the weekend and slept on the couch on and off from Saturday through to Sunday. I think the first time I slept in my own bed in days was Monday night.

Yesterday was the worst. Gut rot supreme. When I got up in the morning just looking at a glass of water almost made me lose whatever was in my stomach at the time. I think I got up around 9 a.m. and I managed to stay awake until about 3 pm, but then I crashed on the couch again until 6 or 7 pm. Spent a bit of time with my husband and then crashed on the couch between 10:30 pm and woke again at 3 a.m for an hour at the most. I thought I was wide awake, but ended up falling asleep on the couch again by 4 a.m and woke at 8 a.m. when my husband came down stairs for breakfast.

Today is going better. It’s going on 6 p.m. and I’m still awake. I’m still feverish and achy in a gut rot kind of way though.

What really killed me yesterday was that it was 1k Tuesday again. This time they were going to put out 5 $100 posts, and one $500 post. Judging by the leaderboard for the day I think they might have put out as many as 7 $100 posts. I missed all of them as I woozily lay on the couch with the lap top in front of me, watching all day (whenever I was awake that is) for big money writing opportunities to show up. The only one that I managed to see was the $500 posting opportunity at about 7:50 pm. I tried for it, but of course didn’t get it.

Oh well, them’s the breaks. I did get that excellent posting opportunity last Tuesday, and there’s two more 1K Tuesdays coming up this month. Maybe I’ll snag something on one of those.

Even though I still feel like crap today I’ve been working hard, trying to make up for not really doing much if any internet work over the weekend. Chris had a short day at work too and he’s been working on making some funds too. We actually broke a personal record today and we are both on the leaderboard at the same time. It might not last for the rest of the day, but as of right now, we’re both listed as being in the top 10 money earners for the day:

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That’s me at the top, yeahhhh, and Chris is second from the bottom in the second column. Cool huh? Together you can see that we’ve made over $200 US. We actually made a bit more than that too because we each did some work for other companies too. Whoohoo! Boooyahhh!

Being sick at home and not knowing when or if I’ll be going back to work sucks, but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the companies that have enabled me to make some money from home, and the advertisers who’ve made that possible too of course. I always try to do a good job when I’m writing – paid or unpaid. I do hope that visitors to this site enjoy all of the posts and excuse my “feverish thoughts” from time to time too.

I think it might be time to go and lie down again. Hopefully I won’t fall asleep again! If you don’t hear from me for a while I’m still here, still reading … I’m just trying to feel better is all, and uh … I’m probably surfing your site in a weird and uncomfortable position while on the couch. LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Finance, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Make Money, Sales and Marketing, Writing Tagged With: blog, Blogging, computer, crohns, fever, fever cycles, feverish, gut rot supreme, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, laptop, laying on couch, medication, Money, pain, posting, posts, sick, sleeping, sleeping on couch, Sore, surf, typing, typing in weird position, Writing

A visit to the pain doctor

April 6, 2007 by Tricia

This past Monday I had yet another appointment with my Pain doctor. She’s really a family practice doctor who happens to specialize in pain. She treats a number of people, even so rather well known people – so she’s gained a good reputation as a pain specialist.

She’s disappointed that the many pain meds that she’s put me on haven’t been helping all that much.

We aren’t going to try the synthetic marijuana again. When I told her that I was out of it for a few days after trying my first one, and that the same thing happened when I tried it again she thought the side effects were too much. It’s surprising though, considering that I’m on some very heavy pain medication you’d think the nabilone wouldn’t have hit me so hard. Oh well.

She also talked about weaning me off some of the pain meds that I’m currently on – again, since they haven’t had spectacular results. When she said she might take me off some of my meds I was terrified. They have helped me. Much more than she realizes.

I’ve been in pain on and off since 1992. I never had any pain medication at all. So that means I had no form of relief until I met this pain doctor in January 2006. With this latest Crohn’s flare that’s being going on since the fall of 2004 I was in terrible terrible pain. It was just getting worse and worse. Before being started on some pain meds in January of 2006 I could barely function. I was just lying on the couch all day. Not being the tiniest bit productive.

When I started taking the pain medication I got up off the couch. I started this blog and within a few months several others. I found a way to make money from home. Now, while I’m still not all that physically active, at least I can tolerate sitting up and moving around my own home. I can think more clearly too. When the pain wasn’t being controlled everything was just a fog and my concentration levels were very low.

So the pain meds didn’t help me get back to work. Unfortunately not. However, they did help me get a bit of my life back, not as much as I hoped, but through my work on the computer and the earnings I’m bringing in I feel like a contributing member of this household again.

I don’t think she’d ever completely take me off my medications. Well, if I really started to improve and get better certainly I wouldn’t need them anymore, but while I’m still sick I’d better stay on some. I can’t imagine going back to being unproductive and in constant severe pain 24/7 again. I’d lose my ability to make some income too.

Yes I still have some days when I’m in severe pain, and most days there’s at least moderate pain. The pain meds have cut my pain levels by at least 50% when they are working. Unfortunately, Crohn’s is a disorder that affects your digestive system and I know for a fact that my body doesn’t always absorb the pain medications that I take. How … well lets just keep it simple and say pain meds float. Ok? So, on the days that the pain meds move too quickly through my system it’s literally like I haven’t taken any pain meds at all.

I think after explaining the “digestive problem” to her, and that the pain meds have helped to some degree she understands. She did take me off the nabilone that I only tried twice. As I said the side effects were really bad and literally put me back on the couch with a spinning head and blurred vision, and she took me off another medication called Tramacet which is a mild morphine derivitate – similar to tylenol with codeine (I’m allergic to codeine so I couldn’t take tylenol #3, and this med was like tyl #3).

Well see how I do without the tramacet. It definitely didn’t do as much as the other and much stronger pain meds that I’m on.

Maybe I should put a disclaimer at the end of my posts? “This post has been brought to you by the benifits of strong pain meds.” It might help explain some of my stranger posts. LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: appointment, Blogging, blogs, clear head, family practice doctor, lack of concentration, medications, meds, pain doctor, pain medications, pain specialist, posts, relief from pain, synthetic marijuana, undigested pain meds, Writing

I should never make plans

March 26, 2007 by Tricia

Nothing seems to have gone as planned this weekend. In many ways that’s a bad thing, but in one aspect it turned out well.

The weather was actually fairly nice this weekend, although not as nice as it will be for most of the week. I’d been hoping to get out into the garden to clean it up a little bit and perhaps plant the bulbs that I purchased last fall and never got around to planting. Most of the bulbs survived but I’ve gotta plant them soon! I’d also hope to go out for a walk or two – maybe down to the beach that I showed you on Saturday.

Unfortunately I’ve continued to feel absolutely rotten all weekend. Not only has my stomach/abdomen continued to act up but on Saturday I woke up with an extremely sore throat, sore neck and sore knees. My shoulder joined the list on Sunday.

It’s my stomach that feel the worst thought. Sometimes I just wish I could reach into my abdomen and pull out the painful parts. Yeah I know that probably wouldn’t help, but it sure seems like a good idea when the pain is really bad.

The one good thing that happened over the weekend is that I managed to make a fair amount of money on Sunday. As you probably know I make most of my income off the internet … well all of it actually. Now while my ads continue to bring in some money each day, I usually don’t make much money from the other services that I use on the weekends. I did work for three different services that I work with on various sites that I own and made the most money in one day that I think I’ve ever made.

At least if I continue to feel ill this week, or end up feeling even worse, I know I made some money that I hadn’t been expecting to make over the weekend so if I need to take a day or two off I guess I can.

I just want to feel better though. The weather is starting to get so much nicer and I’d like to get outside. Even if I don’t manage to do much outside it would still be nice to maybe sit on my porch or wander through my garden for a short while.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Make Money, Recreation Tagged With: abdomen, beach, bulbs, can t eat, feeling sick, garden, go for walk, Internet, made money, pain, plant, plants, sore stomach, stomach, sunday, weather

I am still sick

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

Well, I guess I’m always sick, but I’m worse than normal this week.

Yesterday I woke up with a very sore throat. As the day progressed I noticed that my neck, shoulder and knees were all sore too.

My abdomen of course has also been giving me a lot of trouble this week with it’s appendicitis like pain. I’m just a mess it seems.

I haven’t been sleeping well, if at all, because of my abdominal pain, and now that these other symptoms such as the sore throat and achy joints have cropped up I’m starting to wonder if I’m fighting some kind of bug.

My pain meds aren’t working because my body is having trouble digesting the pills. TMI? So I might be more miserable than I should be. Well I guess I am.

I’m just sick of being sick.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: aching joints, crohns, crohns disease, digestive problems, fighting a bug, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, inflammatory bowel, Inflammatory bowel disease, miserable, pain, pain meds, pain meds not working, poor health, sick, sore knees, sore neck, sore shoulder

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