Me and My body
Apr. 16th, 2004 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbsegalMy body and I haven't been getting along recently.
We'll leave my brain out of this, for now and cover the more easily describable failures.
A) I've had something like 2-3 small gout attacks in the past couple of months. These have been annoying and to try to head off more, I got a new scrip for allopurinol - one of the standard drugs to prevent gout attacks. Unfortunately, it's reasonably normal to HAVE a gout attack when starting on it, as it precipitates out the uric acid in your body... so I'm laid up today, with my toe and foot worse than they've been in quite a while. I'm hoping this ends soon.
B) I've had a number of really annoying snot-fest colds recently. The last one started on Sunday and is almost gone now...it had me almost totally laid-up on Monday and I've not really been enjoying most of the rest of the week.
C) It seems almost done, but I've had something thought to be viral bronchitis for about the past 3 weeks.
D) I've mentioned my face recently, right? The AMAZINGLY EXPENSIVE goo seems to work pretty well, including at keeping a nascent attack these past couple of days pretty much at bay - leaving me just slightly blotchy and slightly itchy.
This isn't fun.
Historically, my body and I have gotten along much better than this...I've had the occasionally week knee, when my weight gets too high my back acts up, stuff like that, but I never had skin problems until 4 months ago, the gout had gone away for the last 3? years WITHOUT drugs and was controllable before then, and I rarely cought colds or other shit like that...in the past year, however, it's gotten much worse.
I suspect that my extended unemployment, associated depression and inaction have contributed to all of this, but there's got to be more to it than that...but all the tests they've thought of have shown nothing interesting...
{sigh}
We'll leave my brain out of this, for now and cover the more easily describable failures.
A) I've had something like 2-3 small gout attacks in the past couple of months. These have been annoying and to try to head off more, I got a new scrip for allopurinol - one of the standard drugs to prevent gout attacks. Unfortunately, it's reasonably normal to HAVE a gout attack when starting on it, as it precipitates out the uric acid in your body... so I'm laid up today, with my toe and foot worse than they've been in quite a while. I'm hoping this ends soon.
B) I've had a number of really annoying snot-fest colds recently. The last one started on Sunday and is almost gone now...it had me almost totally laid-up on Monday and I've not really been enjoying most of the rest of the week.
C) It seems almost done, but I've had something thought to be viral bronchitis for about the past 3 weeks.
D) I've mentioned my face recently, right? The AMAZINGLY EXPENSIVE goo seems to work pretty well, including at keeping a nascent attack these past couple of days pretty much at bay - leaving me just slightly blotchy and slightly itchy.
This isn't fun.
Historically, my body and I have gotten along much better than this...I've had the occasionally week knee, when my weight gets too high my back acts up, stuff like that, but I never had skin problems until 4 months ago, the gout had gone away for the last 3? years WITHOUT drugs and was controllable before then, and I rarely cought colds or other shit like that...in the past year, however, it's gotten much worse.
I suspect that my extended unemployment, associated depression and inaction have contributed to all of this, but there's got to be more to it than that...but all the tests they've thought of have shown nothing interesting...
{sigh}