Beautiful Day & Shingles

The weather turned out glorious here in my little corner of Scotland, so I arranged to meet my friend "Enthusiastic Mum (EM)" at the park. Now, 1 week ago I would not have even entertained the thought of doing this, so this is a BIG step.

I drove to the park and we actually arrived before EM, that's unusual for me, I'm aways late! There was another person I knew at the park so we chatted for a bit, I had no major pangs of anx. Then EM arrived with her 2 girls and we had such a lovely chat sitting in the warm sun while our girls played together.

I only felt mildly anxious when I became aware of my arm pains, let me tell you about them...

I have recurring bouts of shingles on the palm of my right hand, it only happens once every few years and the episodes are becoming less and less.

One of the early signs I am about to have an attack is arm pains and highly sensitive skin on my inner wrist. When I get an attack of this, it's not just the blisters that are the issue (they are really horrible and painful), but also it usually poisons my lymphatic system and I can see the red lines of the poison track up my arm, my whole arm becomes painful to move and the lymph nodes in my underarm swell, then I have to go on high dose antibiotics. It makes me feel really poorly.

So of course, I am now anxious about this, we are due to go on holiday on Saturday, I really do not want to feel ill. I tried to phone the docs today but I couldn't get an appointment so I'll have to ring tomorrow to see if one becomes available.

The problem is I have to take the anti-viral meds as soon as I feel the tingle to minimise the attack, but I couldn't do that so now I'm worried I will have a bad one.

Sometimes I do get the pre-symptoms and nothing happens, so fingers crossed nothing will come of this.

Interestingly, I checked on the web to see if I can take Acyclovir and Fluoxetine together (I can) and found an article that Fluoxetine has been linked with reactivating the herpes (shingles) virus. Bugger!!

Owwww!

Another moany morning post from me. Lack of sleep Ahoy!

I woke at about 3am and my jaw had locked out of place, have you ever had this? It's HORRIBLE! Honestly, it was truly stuck, after a minute of panic I managed to relax it and get it back into place again, but it took me ages to get back to sleep and now my jaw really hurts.

On a good note, it's brightened up outside at last, it seemed like Winter was coming over the past couple of days, and, *drum roll*....I've lost 11lbs!!!! This is a good side effect of the fluoxetine.

I was never overweight, but I had a bit of a muffin top and tummy and this has now disappeared..YAY!

Last time I was on this medication I lost too much weight and it made me look unhealthy, so I'm hoping that the weight loss will stop here, I just want to stay as I am now.

Did you know that the fluoxetine is an ingredient in a Brazillian slimming pill?

I'm a lazy fecker

Day 10 on Fluoxetine

Hey, guess what? I think my sense of humour is coming back.

I have absolutely no idea where my day went today, and I have a confession to make...I haven't been out at all, but not because I was scared, it was cos I simply couldn't be arsed.

My girls were at a sports day camp all day today, so most of the morning I spent surfing the net, washed ma hair, tidied up a bit. Then my dad came over and I cut his hair and sat about drinking tea with him. J and the girls came home at about 5pm and I made food and then we all cuddled up and watched tv about celebs going crazy (yay, I'm not the only one) Lovely!

On a symptoms note, my ears are ringing and my head feels dizzy when I sit still for some reason, as long as I kept moving I didn't notice it. Slight anxiety or meds side effects...who knows!

I've just had 3 small glasses of rose wine, will I pay the price for it? Watch this space!