take better care of myself

I got very sidetracked the last few days because of a sudden onset of throbbing tooth pain. I have to spend my day off yesterday getting an emergency root canal. Ugh. Today it is STILL throbbing like crazy, so I finally convinced the dentist to give me pain meds. I haven’t been sleeping at all since this started because I hurt too much.

Feeling better now that I’ve got Vicoden on board. Perhaps I’ll try to catch up on some house things. After a nap, that is.

Start taking all my supplements again regularly. Actually, start taking all my medication regularly too. I’ve been really bad about that lately. Fish oil, D3 and B12 really do help. I’m just lazy. Also, I hate taking it first thing in the morning because then I burp fish. Heh.

I also want to try this wacky thing I heard about called oil pulling. Silly? Maybe, but it can’t really hurt.

Spent a little more money than I had planned on new shoes for work and exercise. So glad I did! They are 100 times more comfortable than my last pair and the old ones really needed to be replaced anyways because they were falling apart and rubbing my heels in a very uncomfortable way. It’s so much easier to be on my feet for a 12-hour day with a good pair of shoes. Yay.

I’m trying a supplement combo right now in hopes it will help me beat the fatigue I feel during my long, long work days. A friend of mine swears by this: Fish Oil, Vitamin D3, Vitamin B12. So simple, that it’s worth a try. I’ve read a lot about the health problems people can suffer from being D3 deficient, and I know that I’m D3 deficient from my last blood test. Maybe it will help other things that I’m not even trying to fix.

- Off all the migraine drugs! Yay!

- Weaning myself off of the SSRI I’ve taken for years. Might just stop at a lower dose, haven’t decided quite yet.

- Supplements: High-dose fish oil, L-Tyrosine, 5-HTP, Piracetam, CDP Choline

- Thinking about: Vitamin D supplements

- Off sugar. Pretty much off refine carbs too, though I’ll make a few exceptions when we’re out and about and there isn’t much choice.

- Back to the gym! We’ve got one right downstairs that all the residents can use and it’s open 24 hours. I really have no excuse whatsoever.

- Currently without a car, so I’m walking everywhere.

I really don’t want to be on this drug anymore. It’s working, as far as preventing migraines go, but it makes me cloudy-brained and not as pleasured by food. Also, I’m so so so so tired. Constantly. I’m used to getting about 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night, and using the extra time to read, and I’m finding it’s quite hard to do this right now. I do not like it.

I’m going to try and wean myself to the lowest possible dosage, and maybe start taking some supplements that prevent migraines. Coenzyme Q10 is supposed to be good.

I keep having to remind myself to eat and it’s really bizarre, considering how much I love food.

I’ve recently started a medication called Topamax to help lessen the frequency of these terrible migraines that I keep having. So far, it seems to be working quite well, but it also makes me forget to eat. I’m rarely hungry, and most of the eating I do is because I should, not because I want to. I’m hoping this will get better as my body gets used to the drug, though my boss who is also on it says that it really doesn’t.

Oh well, perhaps I’ll just have to live with being migraine-free AND skinny. There are worse things, right?

Starting taking the following supplements:

Omega-3 Fish Oil
Piracetam
CDP Choline

All of these are supposed to boost brain function. Piracetam combined with Citicoline are so-called “smart drugs” or nootropics. I’ve had a hard time concentrating these past few months so I’ve been researching a remedy for this for some time now. Hopefully these will help me jumpstart my brain once again.

I’ll post my experiences with these on here after I’ve been taking them for awhile. Really just started today.

ALSO:
- Starting back up at the gym tomorrow.
- Started working again this week too, which means an extra 40+ hours of running around. I get a lot of exercise just by being there, seriously.
- Getting back on my healthy-eating kick.
- Not driving anywhere at all, so I’m on foot quite a bit.
- Going to see if my back can handle bike-riding this week.

My diet has taken a drastically healthy turn. I cut out sugar about three weeks ago and boy, do I feel fantastic. I’ll still have a little treat sweetened with agave once in awhile (I’ve been getting these little cacao balls from the raw place by my house) but I’m not eating cake and cookies all the time anymore. My skin is looking great, and I’ve magically lost about 5 pounds or so. I’m eating a lot of greens, raw veggies and fruits, sprouted things, grains. No refined carbs at all, and only small amounts of oil for cooking.

Can’t check this goal off just yet though, because I’m STILL not sleeping. It’s become rather annoying – during my work week I’m a totally insomniac and then on my days off I’ll binge-sleep to try and make up for it, therefore wasting quite a bit of day off. Maybe I need to see about some drugs for this, to get over the hump. I find that I simply CANNOT turn my brain off after a 10 to 12 hour, crazy workday.

I keep some sort of treat on hand in this house at all times, cookies or chocolates usually, and I allow myself to have just a tiny bit of something every day. This has become a serious addiction, and I didn’t realize it until I’d been cooped up at home for a couple of sick days with no treats in the house. I’m trying to appease the craving with some dried fruit, which is half-working.

I can’t believe I let my sugar addiction get to this point. That’s not like me. I think some sort of detox may by in order. Health month, anyone?