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Black Panther has been seen! By me!
Mar. 13th, 2018 08:14 pm( spoilers )
In other news, my knees have started hurting again, and I mean really hurting again. For most of my adult life, I've had chronic knee pain. Sometimes it didn't hurt as much; sometimes it hurt really badly. When we lived in Oxford and it snowed, I'd wake in the middle of the night in excruciating pain. When I was pregnant with Emma, I had to use crutches; Josh carried me up and down the stairs a few times. But mostly, it was just chronic pain that I learned to deal with. I mostly didn't even notice it anymore until it hurt super bad or was gone (and, boy, were those rare absences of pain LOUD). Well, when I started losing weight after going gluten free, the knee pain pretty much disappeared. I'm not talking just background levels of pain; I mean, it well and truly went away. Once or twice in the last two years, I've had knee pain but that's it. IDK if it was the losing weight part or the gf part treating the autoimmune disorders (and could be a combo), but it worked. And not hurting felt so weird for such a long time. I didn't realize how much and how often they had hurt before until they didn't. Well, about the beginning of February when we started having this bizarre weather (lots of rain, 32 degrees yesterday but 80 today), my knees starting hurting again. Badly. Can't go to sleep cause they're hurting, waking up in the night, uncomfortable sitting for long, hurts to sit down and get up, stairs hurt. I want to say this is worse than it was before, but I don't think I can really say that. I got used to not hurting, and I think it's possible this is pretty close to what I used to consider low levels of pain, but IDK. Anyway, it's just so sudden and acute and unremitting, and I'm starting to worry that this is another autoimmune disorder rearing it's head. Once you have one (and I have three diagnoses plus a fourth that my doc and I agreed is likely but is not worth pursuing a diagnosis at this point), your chances of another go waaay up. I think if I keep hurting, I'm going to go see the doc; I'm terrified of rheumatoid arthritis. Bah.
In other news, my knees have started hurting again, and I mean really hurting again. For most of my adult life, I've had chronic knee pain. Sometimes it didn't hurt as much; sometimes it hurt really badly. When we lived in Oxford and it snowed, I'd wake in the middle of the night in excruciating pain. When I was pregnant with Emma, I had to use crutches; Josh carried me up and down the stairs a few times. But mostly, it was just chronic pain that I learned to deal with. I mostly didn't even notice it anymore until it hurt super bad or was gone (and, boy, were those rare absences of pain LOUD). Well, when I started losing weight after going gluten free, the knee pain pretty much disappeared. I'm not talking just background levels of pain; I mean, it well and truly went away. Once or twice in the last two years, I've had knee pain but that's it. IDK if it was the losing weight part or the gf part treating the autoimmune disorders (and could be a combo), but it worked. And not hurting felt so weird for such a long time. I didn't realize how much and how often they had hurt before until they didn't. Well, about the beginning of February when we started having this bizarre weather (lots of rain, 32 degrees yesterday but 80 today), my knees starting hurting again. Badly. Can't go to sleep cause they're hurting, waking up in the night, uncomfortable sitting for long, hurts to sit down and get up, stairs hurt. I want to say this is worse than it was before, but I don't think I can really say that. I got used to not hurting, and I think it's possible this is pretty close to what I used to consider low levels of pain, but IDK. Anyway, it's just so sudden and acute and unremitting, and I'm starting to worry that this is another autoimmune disorder rearing it's head. Once you have one (and I have three diagnoses plus a fourth that my doc and I agreed is likely but is not worth pursuing a diagnosis at this point), your chances of another go waaay up. I think if I keep hurting, I'm going to go see the doc; I'm terrified of rheumatoid arthritis. Bah.
