So much for getting past 3 or 4 days pain free. Yesterday i was bent down cleaning one of my fishing rods just checking everything was ok when someone walked into the flat blocks and called my name as i stood up “crack” i hit my head on the corner of the railings. Now considering they are made of iron and quite pointed on the end i wasn't surprised to find a small cut on the right side of my head where i hit it. (not the side of my attacks) The blood was amazing! the amount that came from a small pin prick size hole was unbelievable. Also when i hit my head there was a huge gong like sound that came from the railings so it was quite funny as it “rang my bell” so to speak.
The only trouble was that later in the evening i ended up having a massive attack. I am not sure if hitting my head is what started them off but it couldn’t have done it any good that's for sure. The attacks didn’t stop there. Again at 1am and then again at 6.30 this morning. The beast wouldn’t stop coming back. It’s crazy as i have been pain free with no signs of it returning for the last 3 days and then its started again with out any warning signs. I would have at least expected the shadow to build before hand but this time it didn’t. I know the attacks early this morning were definitely set off by the cold as i had to run in the front room and sit with my head in front of the electric fire to warm it up and stop the attacks.
Now that i have warmed up a bit this morning i don’t seem to have any sign of the attacks returning. I know that that doesn’t mean i won’t have any attacks so i still have to be careful. Now the attacks are appearing with out warning which isn’t a good sign. At least before i was getting a warning sign it was coming so i could rush home or rush to get my medication before it started. We’ll as long as i keep wearing my woolly hat out in the cold it should keep it from causing any further attacks, i hope!
The only thing that really worries me at the moment is pain that i have been getting from the attacks that is in the back. It seems to shoot from the neck to the bottom of my spine. This pain causes me to walk like a “really old” person who’s limbs are about to give up. The pain i get in the front of my legs when i walk, after receiving the shooting pain in the back, is very sore and strange as you would expect any pain to be in the muscle, in the calf of the leg, but this is on the shin and upwards. Its like a pulling pain, very sharp like treading on needles. i only seem to get this after big attacks during the night before or the morning. Then when i walk up the chemist the pain kicks in and its almost impossible to walk, if you saw me you would probably laugh or think i was putting it on the way it makes me look is ridiculous.
Well the weather is forecast to be dry but cloudy today and the temperature is supposed to warm up slightly so i am hoping last nigh and this morning will be isolated attacks and i continue shadow and pain free. i still think the medication IS working as even though i have had a couple of bad attacks the smaller ones seem to have vanished and i am now getting a lot less during an attack period so fingers crossed it continues to improve.
