Eternal422
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I agree it could be the decreasing amount of daylight as I can feel my mental health slipping again as the nights have pulled in. I am wondering wether to get a SAD light box to see if that helps.9.9 when I woke up at 3am feeling rough. I hit it with 2.5 units and went back to sleep and had stressful dreams. 7.9 when I woke up to get up at 7.30am. Hit it with another 4.5 units of Fiasp and 20 units of Levemir. I have had another 2 units since then for 20g carbs and had to run up and down stairs another 20 times to keep in single figures.
Need to admit that I am struggling desperately with anxiety at the moment and despite doing all the right things like exercise and eating well.... no sugar and plenty of fresh veg and no alcohol and decaf coffee and meditating, I am not succeeding in managing it. My BP is up, I have constant tinnitus and my body is soo tense all the time and my stomach is really upset. Exercising helps but I can't do it all the time and when I stop, the symptoms return. I have had to start taking my steroid inhaler because I am shallow breathing too often due to the tension in my rib cage when I am not exercising. Time for an email to the doc I think. Really don't want medication but I need something to break the cycle. The only other thing I can think of is to roll out my old sunbed and see if some light therapy will help..... if it still even works. It has been a lot of years since it was fired up. The reason I am thinking this might help is that my anxiety has started since the summer ended and these miserable days are definitely making it worse. I am taking a Vit D supplement but I have a diabetes review blood test this afternoon, so I expect they will be checking my levels as I was deficient last Feb. BP is going to be through the roof at the appointment, because the appointment itself is stressing me. Not my diabetes or the nurse or anything, but just having to be somewhere at a set time when I am feeling so overwhelmed with anxiety.
Anyway, sorry to offload on you guys, I am just trying to process the facts and make logical assumptions from writing down all the issues and as C is approaching which makes me 10x worse, I need to get help now.
@Robin and @eggyg. I am joining the cold sore team. I use Zovirax and it is good if I catch it early and am dedicated about treating it. This time I wasn't quick or dedicated enough and have had a bloody scabby sore lip for a couple of weeks, but think today may be the first day of it being reasonably healed. All signs I am stressed and run down of course. Thankfully I haven't got cold or anything though. Hope you are better soon Elaine and so pleased for you all that the pregnancy news is much more positive.
I have had allergic rhinitis, for decades and have had my nasal spray and antihistamines change a number of times to control the nasal drip.Morning all - it was really raining hard during the night, but this morning there's lots of blue sky.
5.0 this morning with a nice flat line. It's now 4.7 and I'd better prop it up with a Dextro before I get in the shower. It has a habit of alarming when I get under the hot water and it's infuriating to have to get out of the shower dripping wet to scan. Note to self: Tweak morning basals.
Friends arriving to stay this afternoon and I'm looking forward to it so much! Got most of the prep done yesterday for tonight's dinner - just last minute stuff to do later.
@Gwynn you got up at 3:30? Do you mind me asking what time you go to bed? I would normally only have been in bed 3.5 hours by 3:30 - a time I regard as being in the middle of the night!
@eggyg - good news about your daughter's baby. Sorry to hear you're feeling so rough. I was also going to mention Zovirax (though I have the Boots one). I have a permanently dripping nose and am prescribed Beconase nasal spray, but it's useless to stop the dripping. So I often have a clutch of cold sores beneath my nose due to constant wiping. During the day I'm constantly wiping the cream off, but if I put it on at night it will fend off the cold-sore at the tingly stage.
Congrats to @Grannylorraine on the weight loss.
@ColinUK you are being very brave!
Have a good day chaps.
A friend has what she has been told is a nasal drip for 15 years but nobody seems to know the cause but it causes her to cough violently all the time, she now has a hernia from the coughing and is awaiting surgery. Nothing she takes makes any difference.I have had allergic rhinitis, for decades and have had my nasal spray and antihistamines change a number of times to control the nasal drip.
I know that mine is due to allergic rhinitis, which predispose to nasal polyps, which I have had removed when they block my nose.A friend has what she has been told is a nasal drip for 15 years but nobody seems to know the cause but it causes her to cough violently all the time, she now has a hernia from the coughing and is awaiting surgery. Nothing she takes makes any difference.
I was diagnosed with post nasal drip in my 30s. I think that’s probably the layman’s term for rhinitis, I cough after eating, usually just hot food but occasionally even after a cold sandwich, although not as much as I once did. I have never taken anything as I don’t have it too bad reading these comments. I’m always phelgmy though, especially first thing in a morning and sound like an old man on 40 Woodbines a day! I’ve never, ever smoked BTW.A friend has what she has been told is a nasal drip for 15 years but nobody seems to know the cause but it causes her to cough violently all the time, she now has a hernia from the coughing and is awaiting surgery. Nothing she takes makes any difference.
Obviously more common than I realised.I was diagnosed with post nasal drip in my 30s. I think that’s probably the layman’s term for rhinitis, I cough after eating, usually just hot food but occasionally even after a cold sandwich, although not as much as I once did. I have never taken anything as I don’t have it too bad reading these comments. I’m always phelgmy though, especially first thing in a morning and sound like an old man on 40 Woodbines a day! I’ve never, ever smoked BTW.