Well I managed another pain free day yesterday with only a few shadows trying to play up but they soon eased off. I was again woken by a small attack this morning but managed to go straight back to sleep. I then woke up at 5am but with no sign of an attack so I just ended up staying awake as I couldn’t sleep anymore. If it continues like this I will be happy. Only having to deal with one attack in a day is way better than what I have been having to put up with so far. I even went out in the cold yesterday to take some computer stuff up to my brother and didn’t even get an attack from the cold wind constantly blowing on the face. My neck was still sore and every now and again I still get the shooting pains up the back as I walk but I am starting to think this is a different problem and has nothing to do with my head attacks.
Every time I walk somewhere I seem to get these pains and a feeling like my legs have turned to lead. It may be where the nerve is damaged it is causing other nerves to play up but it isn’t all the time. It could also be arthritis as I thought before but I am not getting the pains in the other joints like I normally get when the weather is cold. The back seems to be an isolated problem and plays up when it feels like it. Also I seem to have got my appetite back and have been eating myself out of house and home. I cant remember the last time I ate so much in a day but yesterday, for some unknown reason, I kept feeling hungry and couldn’t stop eating. this is good as it is making me feel a lot more healthier and I seem to have more strength than before.
The weather is forecast to be very cold this weekend and the temperature will continue to drop over the next week with the threat of sleet and snow. This is the time I have been dreading! When the snow ice and sleet comes I know I get some massive attacks as the cold always seems to get to the face and neck and no matter how hard I try it always sets of some massive attacks. This was what it was like last year so I am praying to god that this year will be different and with the help of the medication and oxygen I will be able to stop the attacks from building. I have to make sure I wrap up warm and even use a scarf to wrap around the lower half of the face so it stops the cold getting to the cheeks and the back of my neck. I could be wrong and the weather forecast may be a little out as we are normally the last to get snow, in Cardiff, as it is a coastal city and it never seems to settle as bad as other places in the country.
For now all I can do is hope that these pain free days continue and the colder weather passes over us. I also have to start to get out a bit more instead of shutting myself away every day. Sat in the flat staring at screens, on the computer and television, is starting to make my eyes go all weird. I do love my computers but there is a limit to how much time you should spend on them. My eyes are starting to go blurry every day instead of just once in a while. I first thought it was because of my attacks and the head pain I always get that was making my eyes go funny but even when I don’t get attacks I am still getting blurry eyes. It just seems to come when it feels like it, I could be watching TV or reading something on the computer and all of a sudden I cant see the writing or details of what I am trying to look at and I have to put on a pair of glasses with 1 x(times) magnification and that seems to do the trick.
I have had my eyes tested last year and was told there was nothing wrong with them, maybe I should get them tested somewhere different and see what they say as it isn’t normal. I have gone my whole life not needing glasses and now suddenly I have to use them. I would say it was due to old age but I am not that old that my eyes are starting to fail me. I don’t mind if I have to start using glasses all the time as I think I look good in a pair of wire frames (ha ha). I sometimes wonder if straining the eyes can set of an attack. I know people suffer from head aches if they don’t use their glasses or if the strain their eyes all the time. So It could be possible that my eyes are also something else that can trigger an attack. I will have to ask the specialist when I see him.
My appointment with my doctor is tomorrow afternoon and I am looking forwards to it as I have a few questions for her. I also need to find out where or who I have to see to get a portable version of my oxygen treatment so that I can get out a bit more and if I have an attack outside I will be able to treat it and hopefully get it under control quickly instead of having to run home all the time and hide away. Slowly I am getting my life back, I lost my quality of life when these attacks started to become more frequent and over the years I seemed to drop even further. Now I am under treatment and medication I am slowly improving my situation and finding my quality of life is returning. fingers crossed this improvement continues.
