A full week on Savella 50mg and the nausea has subsided! Hooray! I had a few setbacks this week in terms of my mental well-being so I'll talk about those.
I haven't been able to be an "active" member of the household for some time now and earlier this week, I decided to change that. We have some pretty picky neighbors around here and we've had the police called on us once before for having our grass too long. It seems like every time J has a day off, it's raining or something else happens that he can't get to it and of course, working third shift doesn't help. I haven't been able to do any of the mowing myself since we moved here, though I DID make myself do it the first year. Every time I tried, I'd have trouble breathing, totally overheat and I'd end up broke out in hives. After each time, I'd have to take a totally cold shower just to get somewhat back to normal and it would still be hours before I could function. Well, with all of the improvements I've been feeling, I thought it was time to try again. It was probably around 10am so it wasn't HORRIBLY hot outside yet and the dew was dry when I went out to the shed and pulled out the mower. I tried a few times to pull the starter cord and that was totally fail, I ended up coming inside and asking J to come start it for me. I went out to the front yard and mowed the patch between the sidewalk and the road and then the patch between the driveway and the neighbor's yard. By that time I was already sweating and having trouble breathing. I went ahead and did about 6 passes in the main part of the front yard but that was it, I couldn't go any further. I felt defeated by my stupid yard. When I came inside, I was flushed and sweating, gasping for breath and my skin was itching. I grabbed a big glass of iced tea and the ice pack out of the freezer and turned on the air conditioner before I plopped down in my chair. Within 20 minutes, the ice pack was completely thawed and even starting to warm yet my body was still sweating and hot. I just kept drinking my tea and eventually after a couple hours I cooled down to what I would call normal. I was in tears. My yard is NOT that large or difficult to mow, I shouldn't have had an issue doing it but there I was. J ended up finishing it even though he had to work that night. I'm going back to the doctor a week from Monday so I'm going to discuss this with him because I can't imagine this is normal at all. (Anyone that's had a similar problem, feel free to contact me, I'd like to know I'm not alone in this!)
The second fail of the week was actually the same night. I haven't really told many people because I wasn't sure I could do it but...... I'm now SIX days Mountain Dew free! I've been drinking at least 40 ounces a day for at least 20 years and I know it's horrible for you, not to mention the caffeine, so I decided to stop. I'm already an insomniac, do I really need that much caffeine? Since I quit, I've been tired a bit earlier in the evening so I'm pretty sure it's helping at least a little. Anyhow, after such an awful day with the yard and all, I was ready for bed at 10:30pm so I went! As I was laying there drifting off, I started having these horrible sensations in my legs. Now, in the past, I've had feelings of trembling in them or even those sudden impulse jerks but I've never experienced anything like this. It was like the impulse jerks but the jerk never came. I could feel the "energy" going down to my legs but then the big twitch never came. It was happening SO frequently that it began to actually hurt, especially in my knees. I laid there for awhile trying to jedi-mind-trick myself.... I thought if I could persuade my body into actually completing the impulse it would feel so much better. Well, I'm no jedi so that didn't work! I finally got out of bed and walked around a bit and stretched some. By the time I got back to bed it was 4:30am though. I hope I described this well enough in text for everyone to understand. I told my friend P what had happened and she said she's had the exact same thing so that made me feel a lot better, in that, at least I'm not alone!
3 weeks down! Onto the next! Thanks for reading! <3
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