I am so grateful for the last few days being pain free and not having to deal with the beast in the early hours. it seems like my head has returned to normal and as the warmer weather is now approaching the attacks are disappearing and becoming less and less as the weather gets warmer. This is actually normal for my condition and is the same thing that normally happens each year. The last 2 years have been the exception to the rule as the attacks seemed to continue through the year with only a slight drop in the amount of attacks i have. This summer, for some unknown reason, they seem to have gone back to the same routine i am used to and they are becoming less and less. I would like to say it is because of the medication that they have improved but that isn’t the case. I am hoping that the steroids that the specialist gave me when i was admitted to hospital has helped in some way to return my head back to the normal routine instead of having attacks constantly every day.
I could be wrong and i am just going through a break in the attacks but normally i would still get the strong shadows if in a break period but i don’t have any shadows and i don't have any pain in the neck causing it to aggravate the head. I am still having some back trouble and pains in the spine but nothing as bad as i had been a few months ago. Even my stomach has started to improve and i am no longer bloated up as much as i was although i seem to have put on an awful lot of weight. This is very strange as i don’t really eat that much and for the last couple of weeks i have been trying to eat healthily. Even though i have cut down on the rubbish i eat and improved my diet i am still having problems with the bowels and constipation.
When i came out of hospital i have been battling with my bowels every day and end up in agony by the evening but this hasn’t been the case for the last week. Slowly but surely they seem to be improving and i am starting to feel a lot better but i still have problems. I stopped taking laxative drinks as at the start of last week i suddenly opened the bowels and the world came out but more like a waterfall rather than a solid mass. Due to this i have stopped the drinks now and only take lactulose solution in the morning and evening just to keep the stool soft. Even though i am still taking medication my bowels have gone back to how they were at the start and again i am having trouble going to the toilet.
Well enough about my bowels at least i am slowly getting better and that's the main point. It has taken a long time for what ever was causing the problem to start rectifying itself. I have tried everything to see if it was something i am allergic to and that is why i was getting all the strange symptoms but nothing seems to stand out as the cause. It is possible that it was the medication that started all these problems and it has taken all this time for the body to heal itself as it is run down but i still seem to think that there is definitely something i have taken that has caused all this and its not an infection or illness but is actually the after effects of a problem or medication reacting badly with my body. I am just grateful i am feeling so much better.
It looks like we have a heat wave coming at the weekend so it looks like it could be a weekend by the lake fishing out in the lovely sunshine. I have missed my fishing so i really want to get out and see if i can get back into the swing of things and actually start this years fishing adventures. I am so late starting this year its crazy but it is because i have been feeling so ill and haven’t had the strength or the get up and go to be able to get out fishing and especially having attacks all day long wouldn’t help. Now the attacks have calmed down and the bowels are on the mend i am hoping my health will now start to improve for a while giving myself and the specialist a chance to get this beast under control once and for all and to be able to go back to my fishing. It’s actually nice to feel well for a change, but for how long.. i just don’t know!
