Friday, August 14, 2015

Day 5 off the Solu Medrol IV and...

Aside from a slight dull headache...I'm GOOD! (Not great but better than what I was.)
The thing is that my eyesight is still not back, but as I do know this could take awhile, and to be honest my sight seems to be playing hide and seek with me, because I keep checking by winking, not very scientific but telling; now its clear now its not. But I still also am experiencing eye socket pain like before and my herniated disc has been causing the burning torquing of my right thigh again.Sadly the IV steroids were supposed to be helping all of that too.(...and I am not calling my orthopedic doc; who wants to open up that can of worms, really? I swear I have Pandora's box hidden not too well somewhere around me.)

In the interim I have spoken with a nurse at Shared Solutions, the support company for Copaxone, and also with the pharmacist at Ampyra asking about drug interaction, since the latter is my only new medication from my last IV in April of 2013.
Both have no significant warning drug interactions of mine, although, Ampyra does have side-effects that are not dissimilar to what I had been experiencing, including that it can exacerbate MS. (Again the cure is as nasty as the problem.)
Good to know that; not really.
Now I am just biding my time with this weather due to our UV being an 11 on a scale that goes only to 12!
Sure sunshine is healthful and in moderation gives us all the vitamins that we need, like D, but I suppose I am gun-shy with my recent skin cancer, even though fully removed and not too severe it is true, but some medications just make you more susceptible to burning and ya know I have enough going on so why look for more problems, true? ( I do take calcium with D in vitamin form as per neuro 3x a day. Low D levels are common with MS and you do need to be upped; mine registered 45 with two vitamin pills when 60 is preferable thus the additional one.)
Avoidance is not too difficult, while slathering on sunscreen every forty minutes or so is quite bothersome, really.
So I will be a pseudo vampira, not drinking blood of course, that would be yucky and just plain silly, but in the fact of avoiding sunlight, alrighty now...
So I have become a bum in too many ways again, indoors and lame in the respect of napping for nearly an hour a day, tired from doing not-a-thing, except cooking and laundry and cleaning, I really should do some crafts. I do enjoy looking at Houzz and House Beautiful rooms/decor or any others online and my Coastal Living, Southern Living and This Old House and Better Homes and Gardens Magazines, spider solitaire game, my one and only soap opera: General Hospital, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy nightly as well as so many other game and serial TV shows.
To so many of you this might seem very boring, but to me it helps keep me alert and also lets me know I am not completely blind, and my mind does work, sort of... so there! ( I am sticking my adult tongue out at all my naysayers! The rest of you I appreciate your good sense in understanding.)

On that ridiculous ending note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

    

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