When is effective medication a bad thing?
Yesterday was day 4 of the dose-pack. It's been quite a struggle lately, but l came home yesterday evening feeling pretty good for the first time in quite a while. Zoey (granddaughter turning 2 later this month) was in her usual great mood and I was feeling good enough to chase her around and have a blast. After a short while it was clear that I was making a mistake. After a couple of hours... it really hit. All the gains from the dose-pack gone, and then some. Things have continued to advance today... symptoms rising to new levels. The most disconcerting issue is the numbness on L face is going past mild numbness and has been painful. Chest/arm pain have been crushing at times.
There may be an interesting discussion here. We hope that medications will relieve our symptoms so we may be more functional. In my current situation, I believe that I have a relatively new issue that comes with a substantial inflammatory process. Does medicating and regaining function allow me to further aggravate the problem, actually making things worse? Obviously, it's the activities, not the meds, but in this case, the activities are so benign, I'm not sure how I might have known what was too much? Hopefully, by the time I figure this all out, things will have settled down.
Thoracic MRI will be done Monday morning. That will tell a huge story. I'll keep you posted.
Mark
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