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Oct. 13th, 2018 10:08 pmI did not take the primidone last night. When I started being able to pay attention to exactly what my body was doing, I realized that I had an itch in my throat, right around the notch in my collarbone that felt constricted. I had that on Monday with the cold I caught from Cordelia, but I was fine Tuesday-Thursday on that count.
I couldn't discount it being an allergic/asthmatic response, so I emailed the neurologist and had a lot of coffee. The coffee helped which it wouldn't have if it were the cold coming back. My current plan is to hold off on the primidone until I talk to someone at the neurologist's office and am 100% sure I'm over the cold. At that point, trying it once more doesn't seem unreasonable. I just didn't want to take it over the weekend when I don't have great options for asking questions or getting care.
The essential tremors aren't a think that's urgent to start treating right this instant. It would be wonderful to get started and have it work, but I'm not in pain due to the tremors. No part of my body is going to be destroyed if I just ignore the damned things.
Also, waiting a few days will let me make some plans for dealing with morning grogginess. I'm most concerned about that with regard to my medications because I almost took the wrong ones at lunch time. It took me almost fifteen minutes to realize that I'd pulled the wrong medications out of the cupboard, and normally I'd have taken them within a minute or two, but I hadn't (I'd put them in my pocket and forgotten I had them which is also a problem).
I need to see again whether I can find a seven day pill container that has seven boxes per day. It also needs to be one that I can open without help or tools. Scott's parents gave us a week pill sorter with one box a day that I couldn't open no matter what I did (I didn't try my teeth, but I tried pretty much everything else I could think of).
I slept about nine hours last night which was wonderful from the getting rest side but meant a headache on waking and my bladder really screaming at me. The ideal from my bladder's side of things would be me getting up every 3-5 hours, but at this point, I'm no longer able to fall back asleep after. There was always a chance that I wouldn't go back to sleep after, but years ago, it was only maybe 20-25% that I'd be up for the day. By the time Cordelia started high school, it was only 50%.
I couldn't discount it being an allergic/asthmatic response, so I emailed the neurologist and had a lot of coffee. The coffee helped which it wouldn't have if it were the cold coming back. My current plan is to hold off on the primidone until I talk to someone at the neurologist's office and am 100% sure I'm over the cold. At that point, trying it once more doesn't seem unreasonable. I just didn't want to take it over the weekend when I don't have great options for asking questions or getting care.
The essential tremors aren't a think that's urgent to start treating right this instant. It would be wonderful to get started and have it work, but I'm not in pain due to the tremors. No part of my body is going to be destroyed if I just ignore the damned things.
Also, waiting a few days will let me make some plans for dealing with morning grogginess. I'm most concerned about that with regard to my medications because I almost took the wrong ones at lunch time. It took me almost fifteen minutes to realize that I'd pulled the wrong medications out of the cupboard, and normally I'd have taken them within a minute or two, but I hadn't (I'd put them in my pocket and forgotten I had them which is also a problem).
I need to see again whether I can find a seven day pill container that has seven boxes per day. It also needs to be one that I can open without help or tools. Scott's parents gave us a week pill sorter with one box a day that I couldn't open no matter what I did (I didn't try my teeth, but I tried pretty much everything else I could think of).
I slept about nine hours last night which was wonderful from the getting rest side but meant a headache on waking and my bladder really screaming at me. The ideal from my bladder's side of things would be me getting up every 3-5 hours, but at this point, I'm no longer able to fall back asleep after. There was always a chance that I wouldn't go back to sleep after, but years ago, it was only maybe 20-25% that I'd be up for the day. By the time Cordelia started high school, it was only 50%.
