As you know Ive been taking 30 to 60mg codeine and paracetamol (1000mg) and naproxen as an antinflamatory. As my accupuncture has been inproving the pain levels in particularly my left hand ribs - the really nastilly painful ones Ive been dropping back the 'killers' - a natural reaction one would suppose. Well, yes and no. I started, not fully realising at first why, to get really nasty constant headaches - like a really bad hangover, except Im not drinking! Then the migraines have been kicking in on top, every other day........and then there was the fuzz headedness and nausea. I felt low again and sooooooo tired. Like I had ME. I just couldnt get out of bed a few days in the past couple of weeks. Im often thirsty still and seem to be drinking gallons, and still taking all my potions and vitamin pills, plus my spirullina as an extra booster for health and immune system. But I was feeling worse and worse. My mum was an A&E and day case theatre nurse, so when I asked her, she suggested I was going into withdrawal from coming off my painkiller too fast. So basically Im now on lower doses of codeine - 15mg, same paracetamol(1000mg) and the naproxen 1 or 2 a day. Im being weaned!
In addition to all that my hormones have gone bonkers too, and Im getting strange sleeping patterns and quite broken, as well as the night sweats being back. they arent as bad as a month ago, and I believe its all a good sign as my doctor believes that its my hormones just working themselves out, it does mean though that as many of my migraines are hormone triggered that in fact Im now getting double the number of those. Im having accupuncture to try and manage that too, but its going to be a while yet! so, basically good news but more to have to manage! my basket of pills is somehwat disconcerting though as there still seems to be a lot of different coloured pills to take on a daily basis!
No comments:
Post a Comment