Happy birthday Mal x, aren't our bodies strange things lol x losing when we think it should have been a gain x
Mike and my self have been through a similar process now there are just the 2 of us, we realised that we could go all evening with out talking to each other. He also has a couple of outside activities which take up a lot of his time and i had started to feel like the housekeeper.
We have a monthly date night, almost impossible to do weekly as we both work shifts. I think relationships take more work at this stage, suddenly have to talk to each other
Have a fabulous weekend xx
Hiya hun, I did send Mal your birthday wishes he said to tell you thank you so much he had a fantastic day and was thoroughly spoiled.
I know what you mean hun, until I set up this date night, we actually sat in separate rooms night after night, it was awful, but so far since we chatted all is good................that's exactly what I said to Mal, I felt he was only here so he still had a roof over his head. It is definitely a lot harder work but to be honest it's got to be worth it or these last 40 years have meant nothing have they? xxx
I have just had the worst few days of my life and to be honest I feel sick as a dog....
I had blood tests last week, something I have done regularly because of the diabetes and the tablets I take for my psoriasis (palmo plantar pustulosis), the results of my last blood test have gone off the chart and my meds have been changed and increased immensely for instance I was taking Gliclazide 20mg twice a day for the diabetes and now I am on 320mg a day, for the last 9 years they have worked perfectly my bloods were at a good level, not perfect but good enough not to worry suddenly they have gone from 51 (27-47 being the range they should be in ) to 103 in just a few months, the levels for my underactive thyroid have tripled also in the last 3 months and my cholesterol which has sat at 4.2 for god knows how many years are now at 6.8.
Now the meds that I have been taking for the last 3 years for my Psoriasis at 25mg a day stopped working, so my dermatologist increased them to 75mg a day, 3 months ago, I knew there was a good possibility my cholesterol levels would go up as that's a major side effect with these tablets (Acitretin or Neotigasin, both the same just different names) and hence why I have to have regular blood tests at hospital (every month, although I have missed the last 2 due to illness), these tabs are so dangerous apparently, my GP can't even prescribe them and when I spoke to her yesterday about them she'd never heard of them. I have to get them at the hospital and only the hospital.
But my doctor seems to think they could be the cause of all my levels going sky high, she said she really believes that to be the case and consequently the tablets for my Psoriasis are basically killing me....I agree with what she's saying as it seems very strange that for 9 years I have had no problems at all and then suddenly when these tablets are increased to triple the amount, all my other meds get wiped out and everything goes mental.
I now have to stop the Acitretin and any good that they were doing, I have no other options at the moment either unless I get accepted for Stelara which is an injection for the psoriasis, the only other avenue I can go down tablet wise is Cyclosporine (I believe they use this on heart transplant patients) and my derm flatly refuses to put me on them....so now I must stop taking the tablets that are killing me and am now back to square one with the Psoriasis, there are 7 types of Psoriasis, I now have all 7 types having developed Erythodermic Psoriasis in just the last 6 months or so and in some ways this one is the worst, itching, burning and sore all up and down my legs mostly drives me mad so much so I can't sleep and I'm not a good sleeper anyways ...it's a never ending battle, but in some ways now makes sense about all the symptoms I have been having for the last few months and even gives me some relief in that now I can explain why I have felt like I have ....so hopefully with all these increases in tablets (diabetes tabs x 8 times more, levothyroxine x double and simvastatins changed atorvastatin oh and vitamin D tabs for the next 3 months cos that is also way too low lol....shoot me please, it's cheaper and easier option lol
So now I have gotten that off my chest I am off to get weighed, going to be bad I can feel it...oh well tomorrow is another day lol
Take care all and catch you later xxx:hug99:xxx
