Another pain free day to chalk up thank god. I managed to stay pain free all day yesterday which was a nice break from the last couple of weeks of non stop attacks and pain. I have to admit though i was extremely lazy yesterday. I turned on the TV in my bedroom and lay on the bed most of the day watching films and programs only getting up to make myself a drink or go to the toilet. It was a nice change from always having to battle with my head and take things easy because i would end up setting off attacks. Yesterday was different, although i was still taking things easy it wasn’t to keep away the attacks it was just to rest and re-charge my batteries, so to speak.
Normally when i get pain free days i end up running around like a chicken with its head chopped off. Trying to get all the things done that i put off due to being in pain all the time. Catching up on house work and doing the jobs that would normally irritate my condition and end up bringing on some big attacks. For once i decided not to catch up on the things i have put off but instead to try and have a bit of “ME” time and try and get back the energy i have lost over the last few weeks with all the attacks. It has worked as i feel fit and totally rested. I must have slept for wales yesterday as i remember nodding off just after lunch time only to be woken by someone knocking my door early evening. After dealing with the bogus caller, they called at the wrong block of flats, i decided to make myself a nice hot cuppa and go back to being lazy and watch a bit more TV until i fell asleep again. I didn’t have to wait long as i didn't even finish my cuppa and fell back to sleep. I woke up this morning, again early hours as my internal clock is all messed up, to find my cuppa half drunk and freezing cold by the bed side.
At least i wasn’t woken by a big attack as i usually am. I managed to drop off back to sleep for another hour but eventually had to get up as i was completely rested and couldn't sleep another wink if i tried. I am now up to 200mgs with my Pregabilin tablets so i now only have another 100mgs to go before i hit the maximum dose. I am hoping that by the time we reach the 300 mark my attacks will start to go into remission and i wont get as many painful attacks as i have been getting. I am still convinced the medication is working as even though i get the really big attacks and very painful ones i don't get anywhere near as many attacks as i did last year. I used to get anything up to 8 or 9 attacks in a day where at least 6 of them would be big attacks and the rest smaller ones. Now i am on the medication i get up to 6 in a day and 3 or 4 of them being massive ones and the rest smaller ones which i can usually ride out without medication or pain relief.
I have also noticed a reduction in the smaller attacks as i don't seem to get as many as i used to. In one respect that is great but in another respect it is bad as i know if i do get an attack now the likelihood of it being a small attack is very slim as i don’t seem to get them anymore and will usually end up getting a massive attack when it comes. Most of my big attacks can be dealt with by way of the injection. If i catch the attack early enough the injection will abort it completely but if i use it a little late or the attack has already begun then all it does is stop it from becoming so painful you pass out. Is till get the other effects of the attack such as swollen eye, sore neck, painful back, sore legs (when walking), swelling on the top of head along scar and of course the side of the face droops like you are having a stroke.
I am just happy at the moment because i managed to get through Christmas with out it being too painful and i didn’t have any where near as many attacks as i thought i would get. Christmas day went by with out any massive attacks appearing, especially at lunch time when the dinner was served. I surprised myself as with all the medication i am taking i don’t seem to have an appetite at the moment but when dinner came on Christmas day i ate all of it and almost cleared the plate even though there was a mountain of food served up. I am now looking forwards to New Years Day and the dinner my mother always cooks.
I don’t celebrate New Years Eve as i used to because i can’t drink alcohol anymore. I gave up drinking alcohol years ago as i seem to have an allergy to alcohol and it used to effect me 10 times worst than anyone else. So after many a hangover and feeling ill i decided it was time to give up. This was back before the turn of the millennium and a long time before i had such an issue with my head. I don’t mind going without alcohol as i have been told by many other people who suffer with my condition that alcohol sets off attacks and when it does it is usually the worst attacks you can imagine so i don’t think i will miss it any time soon.
Well its only one may day to go and its a start of a new year. Its amazing how quick the year has gone and as you get older the years seem to fly by faster than before. Its not until you sit down and look back over the year you realise there is so much you haven’t done but wanted to do but due to either ill health or laziness you just haven’t got round to doing it. Well with the new year on the horizon its a good chance to try and change this and promise yourself that you will try and sort things out in the new year. Let’s hope the start of the new year will bring a bit more luck than the last few years and maybe even get my condition under control. One big change to my diary is going to be a lot more fishing in the new year as it is the start of my journey around the lakes, ponds and rivers of Wales.
This is something that i have been planning and looking forwards to for the last few months and preparing for. I now have all my equipment and with the help of my mother and step-father i can now target any lake, river or fishery knowing i have the right tackle to take on any situation. I am also stating my specimen fishing so hopefully will catch some nice big fish and you never know i could even hook a record size fish over the next couple of years so fingers crossed. As well as this blog i also have my “Fishing Adventures Wales” Web site and blog in which i will be keeping records of every trip, every lake, every river and every fish i catch. So this should keep me busy in my spare time and the evenings. By mixing activities that i enjoy i will be able to come up with something that others will be able to enjoy just as much and even join in with.
Anyway, enough of my rambling on its time to start the day. Again its forecast to be wet and very windy so another day keeping out of the weather should keep me pain free i hope. I will be visiting my mother later today and stopping for Sunday dinner so i am hoping for another pain free day and praying that they continue into the new year. So i would just like to add…. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Make 2013 count, make it a good one!
