early morning muse
Nov 30 2008
I’ve been goofing around for the last four days and realize now that if I don’t get back to business, I may find it hard to focus on anything but goofing off for the next month. Since Christmas will be arriving a week early for us this year, I need all the time I [...]
Nov 17 2008
Having received two similar questions via email last week, it seems useful to make further note about Lyrica and Cymbalta. Both are currently the only two medications FDA-approved for the treatment of Fibromyalgia. But said approval doesn’t make either of them the end-all be-all cure for us. Just as my current NP [...]
Nov 12 2008
Today I transition from trying Provigil for two weeks to taking it every morning indefinitely. It passed the test. Not with flying colors, but certainly well enough to facilitate a seven-hour trip to Roanoke on Monday, leave me with energy when I got home, and not feeling completely annihilated the following day. [...]
Nov 01 2008
This morning I logged in at 195 lbs. Last week wasn’t so hot; the Cymbalta mucked with my system in several unpleasant ways: the zombie-headedness I mentioned previously, but also water retention, irregularity, and an increase in appetite. I jumped back to 200 lbs. inside of a week, but thankfully, it took less than three [...]
Oct 28 2008
Wow … I’m still standing.
What’s even better? Last night, for the first time in I-can’t-remember-how-long, I didn’t go to bed in abject misery or wake up feeling like the victim of a felony hit-and-run. The visit with my mother-in-law on Friday and Saturday should have left me crippled and planted on the couch [...]
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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