I've been MIA on here for a while for numerous reasons. One of them is severe swelling and pain in my poor little fingers. Another reason is, well, I don't have a good reason:)
Everyone says they are worse off when the weather changes. Changes from hot to cold, from cold to hot, with rain, with barometric pressure changes, full moon, etc...
I've tried for the past couple months to pay attention to this but some days it's impossible to track. Not sure if it's because my symptoms are all over the place or what. I've noticed the day before it rains I have more pain. Also when the changes from warm to cold. We had a couple days where it was warm and then dropped back down and it was pure hell. Something that is new to me this year is going from winter to summer. Looking back, my symptoms were so much less than they are now. *Sigh*
This past week it has been gorgeous out- 75 and sunny! Woot Woot! Unfortunately I've had more swelling and stiffness in my fingers and feet than I have ever had. It was so severe that not moving them made them more stiff but if I moved them they were painful, even with pain pills. It was a lose-lose situation.
It is better today or good enough to write on here. At first I thought it was because I planted a couple flowers but then the pain and stiffness continued so I knew that was not the cause. Thankfully:) I've already had to cut back on gardening majorly and if I had to give it up completely... I don't know what I'd do.
Something I am super happy about is it's summer (Or close to it) and the birds are out singing along with the other animals I love to watch- chipmunks, pheasants, geese, geese babies (they are so fluffy and cute I wanna pick them up and snuggle with them), ducks, etc. I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am. I've had a visitor called hyles lineata, or sphinx moth, lately and it's been interesting. He/She's been hitting up our hanging baskets and will let you get right next to it and take pics. Pics are below.
"In summer, the song sings itself."-William Carlos Williams
This post describes me exactly as responding to moon, barometric pressure, weather changes, etc. I was sort of diagnosed with Behcet's disease on Monday February 1st 2016. The differential diagnosis is viral meningitis. I have been having recurrent outbreaks of whatever it is Intermittently for 2 years now since my adrenal crisis December 18th It is recurring every 8 days over the last month. In addition to mouth
ReplyDeleteblisters I have headache, stiff neck, trouble walking, shaking, brain fog, probably due to
vasculitis in my head. Now I have also a rash on my left leg. I am very respondent to
weather changes and I am completely heat intolerant. Summers in Florida are
exscruciating over the last couple of years.I would like to know what helps you with
yours. I appreciate your blogging because it has helped me understand what is
happening to me. I am a 70 year old lady and I think I am old to develop this , but I may
have had it a long time and not known what it was.
I look forward to reading your other posts I wish you well with your journey Thank you