It just gets old

Like many towns during the fall we have an art fair. I went to mine today, it's small just 2 blocks long & only 4 blocks from my house. My hip wobbled a bunch & my knee when all the way out & then kindly went right back in again. I am tired of this, I just want to be able to walk somewhere & not have things pop out of place, to not have to increase my pain meds. I want to be able to buy my giant caramel-pecan-chocolate covered apple & a nice ceramic mug for tea & a glass bead home with out my shoulder being in agony.



I guess I'm still getting thru my stages of adjustment. Blah, at least my mug is pretty.

My Spine

Something, or rather as I suspect a few somethings, are out of place in my neck. I've got 1 do go back in place, but I have to admit reducing dislocations in my spine kinda creeps me out. It's my spine! You should be moving bits of bone around when they are next to your spinal column, what if you broke something in there? Eek, it just seems wrong, but on the plus side it feel better.

Tomorrow I got for my first PT appt, hopefully I get someone who is willing to learn about EDS. I'm the sort of person who always assumes the worst case & that way if it's crappy I'm not disappointed & if it goes well I get to be pleasantly surprised.

I wonder if you can get arthritis of the scapula. Almost any movement of my right shoulder causes some wicked discomfort & tons of clicking there. Since it's not a joint I'm wagering you can't, but I'd love to know what that clicking is. I hope it's not & that can get fixed up somehow. It's my left arm (aka the good arm).

I have decided once I run out I am no longer going to take my potassium supplement. It gags be so bad. Plus I will be switching my multi-vit to something a little stronger. I currently take a children's chewable because it doesn't have iron, iron kills my tummy & binds me up so seriously it's obscene. My mom suggested checking a few brands that might not have the iron in, plus I am going to pick up some more D. I think I'm going to do 400 3x per day.

I also have to decide what I'm going to do about the Neurontin. I was at 900-600-900 for dosing. I dropped to 600-600-600 & my neuropathy is back & it's bad, but I don't feel so brain fuzzed. I've been putting up with the neuropathy to get a break from the fuzzy, but I think I'm going to have to up the dose again. I hate the fuzz, but I can't function with the neuropathy going on, so it's just as debilitating as the fuzz.

Two

That would be the number of fairly bad subluxations I am sitting here with right now. See it all started with a simple idea. Toad & I needed to swap bedrooms. Turns out I can't move a twin bed by myself. I can't get it to reduce right, neither will go where it needs to. My hand is major pins-n-needles now & my joints just ache, that deep, deep ache nasty pain. If I work hard I can push the pain back enough that I don't have to cry, but this is bad. I'm gonna take one of my muscle relaxers before bed & hope somehow the reduction-fairy comes in the night.

OUCH!