a lengthy update!
Thanks for your great ideas on nausea. Things are improved — I met a woman recently with hypoglycemia. She has to eat a small meal every two hours. The more we talked, the more animated she got, saying that this could really help me! I thought it was worth a try. So I eat my normal meals, but eat a snack every two hours. Doesn’t help the headaches, but it does improve the nausea most of the time. Hooray!
I was talking to my sister the other day and she said it had been a while since I wrote/put up pictures on my blog. It’s true. I feel sometimes as if telling you the events of my life is a little depressing. The last five years reads a lot like this ‘We tried _____, it didn’t work. Now we’re going to try _____.’
But nonetheless, there is so much good to tell and I need to continue to update my family on my health (one of the main reasons for starting this blog), but I will also try to write about other stuff going on. Thanks for sticking with me.
What is happening now in the world of doctor’s appointments…I went in Tuesday and we were going to do more trigger point injections (in the back), but talked about it and since they hadn’t been working we didn’t do anymore. So that was good, and we just made it into a followup appointment about the Botox. The Botox worked for two days and then…nothing. I caught him up on that and we made a game plan for both the head and the back. We wanted to attack the back first, and so this morning we did injections into my sacroiliac joints. I don’t know if you know what the sacroiliac (SI) joint is, but it’s where the sacrum (the very bottom of the spine) meets the pelvis…the bottom of the pelvis are the ilium. Anyways, it’s the biggest joint in the body (interesting, right?), and takes all your weight when you walk and sit. Which is why those things hurt me so much. So he did some tests and found that my SI joints were inflamed and dysfunctional in some way.
The injections went well – these have to be done under Xray, and while I was under there he could see arthritis in both joints (more in the left) and the left was over-rotated. And so, I am hopeful that we have finally hit on something that will help. This should help with the pain and physical therapy should help get my back into better shape. Time will tell!
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So I have two really good friends – we get together for lunch every couple of weeks. Last weekend (Wednesday to Sunday) we went to St. George, Utah. Those of you out of state are probably not familiar with St. George. The most important thing to know is that it is 4 hours SOUTH of Salt Lake City. So… warmer.
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Beautiful photos. Lovely desert. Hoping your Botox injections help! My BIL takes them for intractable pain from a stroke, and they help him a great deal.
This is The Sassy Lime Emily.
I just realized I hadn’t previously updated about the Botox. I added in the information, but it was obviously left out!
Glad to hear you found a strategy to help with the nausea!
I hope your back gets better and better with the injection and PT.
I hope that they find something to help you get rid of some of that pain! You’ve gotta be one of the strongest people that I know to put up with that chronic pain! Good luck, and I’m glad you had fun in St. George!
arthritis? are you kidding me? why did your parents give you such a lousy inheritance of DNA???
Muum, I think it’s much more a result of the injury than your DNA.
No need for any guilt here, the doctor said that’s almost certainly the cause.
Thanks for taking the time to do your blog! I do appreciate keeping up with everything. Here’s hoping the strategy for the back will be successful!