A bit of wishful thinking hoping that i would go at least a week pain free and with out the beast showing its face. Unfortunately yesterday evening the Beast decided to pay another visit just to remind me how painful the attacks i get was and that it was still there. Then again at 4 am this morning i was woken by the beast with yet another massive attack and sharp pains up and down the spine making it painful just to walk a few steps and move about. The head has started to behave and become a lot less frequent due to the warmer weather. This is the normal cycle of my condition and it will continue to improve as the summer comes and goes and then will get bad again when autumn and winter comes with the icy cold conditions.
I am hoping that this year the summer will give me a good break from all the attacks and give the specialist and my body the chance to try different medications and hopefully stop the attacks from returning. I was actually hoping that the pain free period would last until the weekend was over giving me a chance to get out and do some fishing but yet again i have been beaten by the beast and am having attacks during the day period as well as early morning. I don’t mind the attacks so much as i can deal with them at the lake side using my injections, what i can’t stand is the pain i keep getting in my back both upper and lower back is causing me problems at the moment and the pain is very sharp. Every movement i take results in pain and agony so i am at the moment trying to keep as still as is possible and rest.
Hopefully a days rest will help settle the back and i may be ok on Sunday and will get to go out. I think the back is playing up due to me doing my shopping on Friday and carrying a couple of heavy bags back from the supermarket instead of getting a bus i decided to walk as it was such a nice day and i wanted to get out in the sun. Now i am paying for it and am in absolute agony with my back. Next time i think i will take the bus and not carry so much shopping. Until they find out what is causing all this i think i should be that little bit more careful as i don;t wan to end up like this all the time. I feel like an old man that can move about and has to shuffle from room to room with my back the way it’s. It’s never been this bad before so i think i may have pulled something carrying the shopping. What a foolish thing to do but who was to know it would cause all this pain.
At least my mother and step father Brian managed to get out and doo a bit of fishing up at Peterstone lakes, one of our local fisheries, and managed to have a very successful day out catching quite a few fish. My mother did really well and managed to catch a few tidy ones so she ended up enjoying the day in the sun. I am really happy she managed to go as she was worrying about having to give it up due to her health but has now managed to find a way and a compromise so she can go every now and again. All we need to do now is find a way of me getting out with out upsetting my back or at least make sure i don’t pull another muscle or something and end up like this again.
