Again the attacks continued right through the day and into the evening and no matter what i tried i just couldn’t stop the onset of pain and agony i had to put up with. Trying to get to sleep was a challenge in itself as each time i kept moving to try and get confortable i would either end up in pain from my back or neck or make myself so uncomfortable i would feel an attack build. this continued up until the early hours as the last time i woke up due to me moving and making myself uncomfortable i looked at the clock and it was just approaching 1am. I did manage to get to be early as i just new i would have difficulties in getting to sleep and i also knew that the beast would be paying me a few visits during the night and i was correct as i had 5 or 6 quite large attacks before i managed to get off to sleep. Thank go i did go to bed early, at least by doing so i ended up getting enough sleep not to feel like the living dead today. I wasn’t woken by the beast this morning, thank god, but i do have some strong shadows and my neck feels just as sore as ever. I crawled out of bed at 6 am this morning witch is really good for me as normally about 3am the beast would be dragging me out of bed by the head.
It must be down to the horrible weather front we have at the moment bringing all the wet weather and wind with it causing stormy conditions for most of the weekend just gone and the week ahead. We do have a couple of days that are forecast to be clear but most of the days next week are forecast to be wet and windy. It looks like i have a week ahead of me that i would rather not have to endure. When the weather gets like this it causes havoc with my condition and i always end up paying for it. The attacks seem to get stronger and the duration of the attacks longer as the weather gets more and more unsettled. I don’t know why the weather has such an effect on my condition but after reading back through my blog and looking through all my notes i seem to come up with the same conclusion every time and that is that the weather is THE main trigger for my attacks and the extremities of each thing such as extreme heat or cold seems to cause me more attacks than anything else i know. It always seems to be a change in the weather or the start of a bad spell that always triggers off my attacks and with the attacks comes bad backs and aches and pains all over.
Last year i remember my attacks suddenly stopping and going away for a while when the warmer weather came and through the spring and summer months i didn’t have hardly any attacks but this year has been completely different with the attacks remaining bad all the way up to summer and then it did improve but no where near as good as last year. I believe it has been my back that has aggravated my condition mostly this summer, if i wasn’t getting so many pains up and down the spine all the time i think i would have had a lot less attacks but can only make assumptions. I know the Pregabilin tablets did make a difference when i started taking them as i could actually see the difference in the amount of attacks i was getting but then after a while it seemed to level out and i wasn’t making any more improvement. I did try the Verapamil treatment but due to me being allergic to something in the tablet or actually to the drug itself it made me really bad and made everything worst and has now given me IBS to deal with on top of everything else. I am praying that with the help of the specialist we will find some other combination of drugs that i can take that will eventually put this beast to sleep once and for all.
