Week 4 Days 1-7

Week 4 

Days 1-7

This week has been a bit of a nightmare. I'm writing this at the end of the week as typing has been a bit of an impossibility of late. I can't type on a computer, anyway, and can only use a touch screen. This is because, along with the disc slip in my lumbar spine, I have a disc problem in my cervical spine- aka the neck. This means I can't use a computer, lift heavy objects, raise my arms above my head for lengths of time- so no blow drying my hair or doing the YMCA for me. I've had a steroid injection in my lumbar spine which gave me relief for a few weeks but, unfortunately, the positive effect of it appears to have worn off. The ideal course is a set of 3 spaced over a few weeks but the mismanagement of the whole situation by the hospital means that hasn't, and doesn't look like it's going to happen. The whole thing has been a shoddy mess from start to finish. Well, can I even say finish when the end- more injections in the lumbar and the first ones in the neck- is nowhere near in sight? Anyway, these problems have flared up this week and the pain is even more acute than usual. I have read and been told that gluten can perpetuate joint problems and it certainly has with me. I'd say that joint pain was the big winner this week in terms of glutenalicious symptoms. That and fatigue. Oh god. It's still only at about 20% of what I felt when I was severely b12 deficient but it's there and it's horrible and I never want to go back to that feeling of my whole body sinking through the floor ever again. All in all, a pretty low week for me :-(  

Fun times.