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Category Archives: POTS/EDS and time of the month
Urgh and Blah
Yep, urgh and blah is exactly how I’ve been feeling the past few days. Dear Aunt Flo, that annoying, useless, unwelcome relative that comes to intrude and disrupts everything once a month. My POTS has gone bananas this time. Heart … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday living, Exercise/Pacing, Losing weight with chronic illness, Medicines, POTS, POTS/EDS and time of the month
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Health, hypermobility syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, Weight loss
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An update on my pet alien and other nasty stuff
Again, if you’re squeamish, don’t read Well folks, last Monday I phoned my doctor and gave her all the gory details of my alien invasion and just as I’d thought, she put me on clarithromycin 500mg 2x a day as … Continue reading
I think it’s working!
Ssssh, don’t want to tempt fate but my pc came back from repair a few days ago and so far, I think it’s fixed! Hallelujah! It took me all day Thurs putting all my software back on and changing settings … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday living, Exercise/Pacing, Heat Intolerance, POTS/EDS and time of the month, Psychology Courses, Uncategorized
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, psychology courses
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Success!
Well my son went with his mentor today to go and play a game of Pool and get to know each other. They also looked round the college building after before coming back home. He came back happy and full … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic illness and Parenting, Everyday living, Exercise/Pacing, Pain, POTS, POTS/EDS and time of the month
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, Menstrual cycle, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
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Can I hibernate please?
I didn’t get much sleep the night before last due to my son having a teenage tantrum. He never had the ‘terrible twos’, he’s more than making up for it right now! I also did not get much sleep last … Continue reading
The lurgies got me again.
Just when everything was going so well and I had been bug free for 2 months, I came down with yet another horrid virus on Sat. It was also the day it was very likely I would meet Mr V … Continue reading
Posted in Catching viruses, Ehlers-Danlos, Everyday living, Pain, POTS, POTS/EDS and time of the month, Psychology Courses, Relationships
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, chronic illnesses, Conditions and Diseases, disability dating, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, psychology courses, virtual dating, viruses
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Just call me superwoman!
I’m on a roll today and yesterday as well in fact. Yesterday I was feeling all sluggish and tired and could barely drag myself off the bed to do anything. Then it came to me… I had been resting for … Continue reading
Posted in Achievements despite being ill, Ehlers-Danlos, Everyday living, Exercise/Pacing, POTS/EDS and time of the month, Psychology Courses
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, psychology courses
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Bringing out the big guns!
Well I have been yanked and cracked all over by my Chiro, plenty of times over the past few days I wished I hadn’t had it done because of feeling so stiff and achy afterwards.Par for the course with me … Continue reading
Posted in Chiropractic, Ehlers-Danlos, Everyday living, Pain, POTS, POTS/EDS and time of the month, Psychology Courses
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, psychology courses
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What else will break down?
Everything seems to be happening to me at once. I ate something with gluten in on Thurs and have had a bad stomach and exhaustion since. Ok, I did accidentally eat it on purpose, oooh you got me, ok then … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday living, Pain, POTS/EDS and time of the month, Relationships
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, Coeliac disease, Conditions and Diseases, disability dating, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Gluten, Gluten-Free, Gluten-free diet, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, Pain, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, Single, single life, Stress, virtual dates, virtual dating, wow
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Feeling like a steaming pile of cow dung!
Yesterday was a really rough day for me. I’m not sure whether I reacted badly by going down half a tablet of Florinef for 2 days to lower my high spikes in bp, that the time of the month is … Continue reading
Posted in Ehlers-Danlos, Everyday living, Pain, POTS, POTS/EDS and time of the month
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, back pain, backache, bed, Blood pressure, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Florinef, Fludrocortisone, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, Kinect, Pain, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, psychology courses, Second Life
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