Short post

today. Awake early again this morning..5:00am. I was having friggen leg pain again..I could not get comfortable at all..I even resorted to flipping over on my stomach for awhile..just to try and change positions with my legs. It helped somewhat but even now at noon my legs are still bothering me a bit. I don't what's up now.
Again with waking up early I am feeling so exhausted. I did manage to take a shower but was sweating by the time I was done.
Arrrrgggghhhh.

The Weekend

went well as far as sleep goes. The new meds seem to be working so far. Yesterday was rather odd though, I woke up at 5:00am to go to the bathroom and when I came back to bed I didn't go back to sleep. So, since I was still awake I got in the shower about 7:00am after watching some of the morning news. I had PT yesterday and since I was feeling rather good I really worked myself. I also did some new exercises which I like and my therapist told me that I have met the short term goals that they had set up for me, so I was glad of that. By the end of my PT session I was so tired that when my wife got me home I did go back to sleep and the rest of the day I was exhausted.

The only other thing this weekend was that I had a minor bowel accident on Saturday after dinner. I noticed alot of rumbling in my stomach and the next thing I knew I had some very "wet gas" and I got up and got into the bathroom as quick as I could and had very loose bowels.

Now, today for some reason I am still very tired. I had good sleep last night. I woke up at 8:00am to go to the bathroom and I am just feeling really run down. I don't know if it is maybe just my body still catching up from waking so early yesterday and the exertion of PT. Oh well, that's it for now. I'm gonna try to go back to sleep for awhile..
Until next time..

Okay...here is an update of my meds and other stuff

As I mentioned the doc changed some of my meds.. He took me off of the Amiltriptyline that I was taking for Depression/nerve pain/sleep because I don't feel it was working for sleep or the depression.. I have been sleeping crappy and still feeling in a crappy mood. He now has me on Effexor for the depression..we'll see how that goes. For sleep he prescribed Ambien but I'm only to take that if I have a real problem sleeping..because for pain he also prescribed MS Contin (a type of morphine).
Well, last night at bedtime..I took the Effexor and the MS Contin....and talk about sleep.... whew.. I'm still groggy and it's 11:00am and that is without taking the Ambien. The only weird thing though...I woke up at about 3:00am to go to the bathroom (bowel movement). When I went back to bed...I was right back out and I don't remember having much pain at all during the night.
So, with these new meds we'll see how things are after a week or two. Hopefully we have found a combination of meds that finally work.. I'm starting to accumulate bottles of unfinished meds that the doc took me off of. Oh well..
Let's see how the weekend goes..
Until next time..