Health Update: The long-awaited one 😅 (Patreon)

Some things got better, some got worse. But we hanging on (literally - I finally managed to get back to Lyra! 🥳)

Somehow I always end up stressed/exhausted/unwell before I'm meant to post one of these 🤦‍♀️ Sincerest apologies for the delay!

As far as the mystery abdominal pain: yet unsolved. It did get better, though, eventually! I sometimes feel it stab me at random, but never as bad and never lasting since it got better. So we'll take the win 😅👍 BUT I did get a referral to see a specialist to hopefully figure out what's going on in there and hopefully we can prevent that from happening again. 🤞

Aside from that, things had been mostly good and stable - only the usual amount of pain 😂 But my bones were mostly reasonably staying in place despite me falling off with physical therapy, the migraines were reasonably under control, and my general body pain was the normal amount! The only mild concern was that, since I hadn't been doing my physio, my shoulder had started to cause me more pain again...because it is apparently quite sure it doesn't belong attached to my body and is trying to revolt 😅

But since the abdominal pain, I've been incredibly exhausted. And I thought taking some time away would help, and it did in the sense that I was able to get a bit more sleep...but for the past week it hasn't seemed to matter how much sleep I get. I'm still tired. And like...I know to expect that when I've done too much or have been dealing with worse than average pain/discomfort.

But holy. I feel like I have been exhausted for weeks! And it doesn't feel justified...if that makes sense? I have slept in, or at least attempted to, almost every day. But she still a sleepy bean 🤷‍♀️

That being said, my migraines have also been getting worse again lately 🫠 I've had some pretty rough and debilitating migraines all week. And when I take pain meds and drink caffeine, I sometimes get up to an hour of relief...but that's it. And I can't take more pain meds...and I just lay down in the dark and be frustrated about it and embroider my leaves and flowers 😂🙈

The thing is: the air pressure seems to be pretty stable and nowhere near my usual seizure range. It's somewhat close to where I do typically have my worst migraines, but not close enough to reasonably explain the amount of pain I've been in 🫠 So. Do I have another new trigger? Or are my migraines simply returning to the previous "awful and daily" schedule that they were on before I'd started the Botox all those months ago?

Because I've been on the same new medication for the past 2 months and I had stopped having seizures again and my migraines had returned to a similar infrequency as with the Botox...but maybe it was a placebo effect? And that effect is wearing off? Because it does not seem to be helping me at all now...

For now, the best course of action is to keep taking my meds consistently and hopefully that this is just a fluke and won't continue much longer 🤷‍♀️

Thankfully, my migraine let up enough on Wednesday for me to sign up last minute for a Lyra class 🙌 And it was dizzying...but it was a lot of fun and so worth it! It felt so good to be back in the hoop! My muscles hurt a lot now (including muscles that shouldn't hurt, but just had to work extra hard to keep my bones in place 🤦‍♀️), and my migraines had returned before I made it back home...but I'll definitely be back as soon as I can 🙈 I just love it.

So...it's a mixed bag 😅 But hopefully the recent migraines aren't anything to be concerned about and the meds start working again(?). And then we can just be happy that I'm feeling good and back doing something I love! 🥳