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Health Updates: What's Crackalackin! (it's me)
🕑 Added 2025-12-05 19:06:22 +0000 UTCAs you may have garnered from the title...my bones are um...all cracked up π But more importantly for now: The Botox is working again!! π₯³
I know this happens every time with the Botox, but I somehow keep forgetting...and this time I think it's more pronounced than before (possibly, though, I am biased because the previous dose wasn't as effective as previous doses). And that is that while the Botox does work and helps with my migraines a lot, it seems to mostly just block the pain. Or it's at least better at blocking the pain than anything else. So I still have a whole host of other symptoms. ...Actually, now that I'm typing this out, I am wondering if it's more pronounced this time just because the air pressure is outrageous lately π so the Botox is really working overtime!
Yesterday, I woke feeling a bit dizzy and my tinnitus was worse than usual, both of which are migraine auras for me. But a few hours later, my teeth started to hurt β a lot. Which tells me that I actually had a pretty severe migraine, but I was only getting pain for scattered brief moments of under a minute. When I felt that pain, it hurt like hell π π¬ BUT it was so fleeting and I knew to expect it, so it wasn't that jarring, if that makes sense? And it was relatively easy to manage and navigate my day.
I did wake up with some migraine pain today, but a single extra strength Advil has pretty much solved that and I'm back to just tinnitus and dizziness! π Feels like a weird thing to be celebrating, but last week waiting for the Botox to start working, and having gone through a whole set of injections that didn't work particularly well (it helped, but just...not nearly what I've grown accustomed to) for the 2.5 months prior, this feels like a HUGE win.
Hopefully it continues to get better over the next week or so as it continues to settle into my receptors in my little noggin, but even if it doesn't get better, holy is it ever saving me π π
The main struggles now are of course my pop 'em lock 'em bones, and I think also my blood pressure? Maybe?? My bones suck, as we know, but the cold weather has my joints swelling up a lot more it seems, and my bones popping and cracking more than usual. I've been doing my physio, but I have to say, it is really rough to maintain π I have to constantly remind myself that when my body hurts, light exercise β and NOT stretching β might actually help, which feels incredibly counterintuitive to me π What do you mean I'm not supposed to stretch? π But alas, that sometimes makes it worse even if it helps in the moment π€·ββοΈ
My blood pressure is something that I think has been a problem...probably all my life, and even my mom was saying it's been an issue at least since high school. π π«£ So...with the way my body has been feeling, I am considering maybe pursuing getting that looked into...I'll keep you posted π
I've also started having some trouble with swallowing over the past several months, but...idk mostly it's just if I'm walking or if I've taken my pills while I'm still in bed, so I'm mostly lying down, so...maybe it's not a real concern π«£
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GoldenayeN64
Hopefully you are able to keep finding some treatments that are helpful. And may rest help, if you are actually resting...π That's unfortunate, yet interesting you that have swallowing problems as well. I've long had problems with that as I've mentioned, but in the last 6 months it has become much worse. After breathing tests where they introduced an irritant to test my asthma, I struggled to swallow into the next day. Even a single chewed up gummy bear was difficult to swallow. I keep having similar extended periods of time where not only can food get stuck really easily down my throat mid-swallowing, but its challenging to get the swallowing process started. It feels like my chronic inflammation happens in my throat too. None of the doctors I have seen can tell me anything other than, "That's weird." I guess that means I have been medical diagnosed as weird. *hairflip* π I saw Ear Nose & Throat; but a camera in my nose to look down my throat, and drinking a barium smoothie with x-ray, didn't reveal anything. I keep being told my blood pressure is fine, despite my circulation issues, and having been in the hospital with chest pain this year. I have an echocardiogram scheduled for February. Maybe that will at least rule out it being a heart problem if I'm lucky. My circulation feels tied to inflammation flare ups. That's when I can barely stand with leg weakness, or I drop things like the salt shaker I shattered all over the kitchen floor. π
waltermellin
Glad the botox is finally kicking in β€οΈ hopinβ your bones stay put and blood pressure being ok! π€π½ Thanks for the update KT!
