I didn’t close my blog, I promise

On By WendyIn Chronic Illness

It’s been so long since I posted I’m sure you all thought I was gone for good. Unfortunately this has to be a very short post.

Presently I’m in a lot of pain all the time. I still have that intractable migraine I’ve had since late April, luckily it varies in intensity, often having much lower pain days. However, there are days it is absolutely excruciating. That isn’t the worst thing I’m having to deal with right now, I’m also having very severe nerve pain across my shoulder, down my arms and the worst is my hands. It’s better when I’m lying flat with my arms at my sides, but I can’t do that all the time. I’m getting a CT scan soon to see if the nerves are impinged in my neck, if so the pain doctor will give me an epidural to help. It hurts so much I have to stop posting this every few seconds just so I can tolerate it a little.

On top of it all I’ve had a severe rash for over a month. The doctors aren’t sure what it is. It is incredibly itchy, it is torture. My allergist thinks it’s the rash you get when you are Celiac and got gluten, dermatitis herpaformis. I had a biopsy last Thursday to hopefully get an answers.

This is in various places all over my body, my back and this arm are the worse. There are many, many bumps you can’t see in this photo.

I think I’m a pretty strong person. After all I’ve been dealing with Meniere’s for MANY years, and I broke my neck in 1992. I’m not a stranger to healty adversities. But I have to admit, this is really getting to me. It’s just so much on top of another. It hasn’t just been a straw that broke this camel’s back, I was hit bye an anvil! I’m so grateful my antidepressant (esketamine) has been working, or I’d be worse than I am now, and right now I feel like blowing my head off.

Now I have to close, I simply can’t type any longer, but I have so much more to say. Hopefully I can post again soon.

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  5. Dear Wendy,
    I was thinking that I hadn’t seen a post from you in a while.
    I’m sorry you have to deal with all this pain and I’m sending you some strength from Madrid.
    Hoping your days will soon start to brighten,
    Carly x

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