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So Tired I Could Sleep All Day

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I’m so wiped out this week. I don’t know why … but I feel like I could sleep and sleep and sleep.

I don’t know if I’m fighting a bug or if it’s my medications that are making me so tired. About a month ago I saw my internist and he upped my dosage of Pentasa (an anti-inflammatory medication) and ever since then I’ve been becoming more and more tired and oddly my hands hurt – a lot!

It’s so bad that I decided to look up hand pain and Pentasa on Google and I discovered that in a very small percentage of people it does cause joint pain … another side effect for a very few people is also tiredness … so yeah – maybe it’s the meds.

My hands are actually a little better this week, but last week they were hurting so bad I felt like I could barely do anything! I seriously started to wonder if I had Arthritis in both hands! I happened to see my pain doc last week and mentioned my hand pain (not the tiredness though) and she thought I might have tiny tears in my tendons … but both hands and all the fingers at the same time … I don’t think so. A reaction to a medication seems more likely to me.

I guess I’m super sensitive to medications. It seems like it this year anyway … remember I had a very bad reaction to a drug that contained Sulfa earlier in the year?

I guess I’ll just try to wait it out and in the mean time get some extra sleep. Being so tired makes it hard to do anything though. I’m just like a Zombie – LOL, well it is Halloween.

Last night Chris and I both took the dog for a walk and we stopped off at a store to pick up some things. The store had just got one of those new POS systems and it was giving the cashier some trouble … and me being so tired .. well, lets just say that the extra long wait in line wiped me out and finished me off the or the evening.

Have you ever had bad reactions to medications that were supposed to be helping you?





Finally started to do a little Autumn gardening

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I haven’t been feeling all that well for the last week or so, but something drew me to the garden this afternoon.

Chris was home today – he had a day off work – and he decided to do some work on a cabinet that’s built into our backstairs. He wanted to make it as snow and moisture proof as possible so that we could store the lawn mower there over winter.

While he was outside working away I decided to come out with my camera so that I could take photos of the Azure Monkshood and Toad Lily blooms (both only bloom in mid-Autumn so I couldn’t miss those pictures!). Of course, as always happens when I go outside into the garden, I started working – tidying up the garden beds and cutting down some plants that had already succumbed to the cooler fall weather.

I think I tidied the garden for about two hours, and then I finished up by watering both the back and front yards. That probably took another hour and a half to two hours. Hey … the dog was out and she jumps into my watering stream for fun so it takes a lot longer to water when she’s out!

If I were looking to burn fat I sure got a workout. My back is aching (along with my stomach as usual). Four to five hours of bending, twisting, stretching in awkward positions … that’s my way of gardening!

Even though I’m paying for my time in the garden I’m glad I got outside and did some work today. I’ve been stuck inside for the last few days because I was just feeling awful .. hence the reason I haven’t been writing any new posts for the last week!

Do you have a garden? If so, have you started doing any Fall garden maintenance yet?

BTW in the next day or two I’ll be posting some of the garden photos I took on my gardening blog and probably my photo blog. Watch for them!

I can’t seem to get better

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I’m still feeling awful. A few days ago I thought I was getting a little better – hey at lest that terrible pain in my right side went away but I guess was wrong.

I hate Crohn’s! I hate it. There I said it!

I won’t bore you or shock you with the details and symptoms of Crohn’s, but lets just say that I’ve spent far too much time over the last week lying down in pain or practically living in the bathroom. Hmmm … maybe I should set up my laptop in there? LOL Yeah, it’s that bad!

So … I’m going to try to keep up with my blogs, but if I go a few days without writing it’s probably just because I’m feeling crappy and need to just rest in order to feel a little better.

One good thing is that I saw my specialist today and he upped my Crohn’s meds … so maybe that will give my inflamed bowels a kick and make them a little better.

I need new body parts!

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So last week I wrote a post about how crappy I was feeling due to a really bad Crohn’s flare. I swear the pain I was feeling was just like appendicitis. Awful!

As the week progressed I started to feel a bit better but then I got a few cankers in my mouth – another side affect for people who have autoimmune diseases.

Anyway … I’m feeling a bit better, but I could be feeling a whole lot better. Still it’s progress! Hmmm I think I need to get some kind of extended service plan for my body! LOL Somehow I don’t think I’d qualify.

I feel like crap!

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I’m completely out of commission today. Last night my lower right side started hurting and it’s continued into today. It seems to be getting worse as the hours go by.

With my Crohn’s I seem to get a lot of lower right sided pain, but this is the worst it’s been in a long while. If it continues to get worse I might end up going to the hospital … yeah, that’s how bad it is! Hmmm maybe I should quickly look into some life insurance quotes? Uh huh …

Oh and if I do have to go to the hospital if I see a doctor that’s unfamiliar with my medical history he or she will probably think it’s appendicitis as that’s what the symptoms are like.

Even I don’t know if this is just my Crohn’s acting up or if it really is appendicitis this time ..

So far I’ve only eaten once today. I wasn’t even hungry but I thought I should eat. After I did eat I felt nauseated … luckily that seems to have passed.

I think I’ll spend the rest of the day just resting on the couch and watching some of the shows we taped on the PVR earlier in the week. Man was there ever a lot of new shows premiering last week! Currently I have Eastwick playing … seems a lot like Desperate Housewives so far.

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