- Daily creative writing
- Daily Yoga, app calls it “Yin Yoga”
- Daily Meditation
- Stayed off the Internet and uniformed.
- Did not diet
So far so good for January. I’m trying to Yoga everyday in January, not sure if I’ll keep it up all year long but so far I’ve been doing floor yoga / long hold poses and that works well for me.
Yesterday I went to the doctor and she said I fit the criteria for Ehlers-Danlos, which didn’t surprise me much as I pop my joints out of socket regularly and have ever since I can remember (ouch) and I own every sort of orthotic and brace under the sun… but I was shocked she knew what it was and agreed with me and understood the diagnostic criteria.
Epilepsy and GI issues go along with one particular type along with the usual connective tissue issues and heart involvement, but there are hurdles to getting the genetic te$ting. I am going in for a sonogram on my heart. I’ve had gastroparesis so my stomach is not emptying and that’s been quite a hurdle and I’m supposed to get a barium swallow for that, but it sounds scary so maybe I will chicken out. I want to eat a lot sometimes but have to remind myself – it won’t go anywhere, then I’ll drink and it will fill my stomach further and it’s very uncomfortable and is destroying my blood sugar + nausea, weakness, dizzy and fatigue.
I wonder now if I always had gastroparesis stomach / GI issues and that was what was driving the fatigue this entire time. The only time I have ever felt well I’ve been fasted and otherwise not eating.
Anytime I eat carbs especially I fall asleep afterwards. Caffeine doesn’t help, nothing helps. The internet is like, “oh that’s a normal carb coma!” Uh’ no, no it’s not. It’s not normal to pass out after eating all the time. I do better low-carb but I can’t eat fat-fiber very well at all right now with my stomach refusing to empty properly. It does best with liquids and starches but carbs are difficult. Idk, someday I’ll figure it out I suppose.
Worst thing is right now in the middle of my back it will hurt really bad when I eat.
Anyway, I’m feeling more optimistic about life. I’ve been enjoying learning Japanese kanji.
