Life with neuritis

Here's a LO I was able to finish - I am pleased with how it turned out - especially considering my dizziness while I was doing it!

I wish I had a more upbeat post to share, but alas, I do not...

The shingles pain is 95% gone, but more problems arose over the weekend. On Saturday night, I woke up feeling strange, out of sorts, kind of dizzy. My eyes would dart around. I felt anxious, but it wasn't an anxiety attack. So I stopped taking all my meds, afraid that it was a drug interaction or side effects. Sunday I did nothing all day, hoping that the feeling would just go away. But it didn't... I went to bed, thinking it would definitely be gone by today. But it wasn't... So I called my doctor. Carl had to drive me to the office and we had both kids in tow. It is so hard to describe my symptoms, and of course I broke down in tears when I was talking to the nurse because I am so scared about all of this...

Dr. Carlson is quite annoyed at pharmacists because he feels that they are overreacting about drug interactions and are giving the patients too much information, which make the patients paranoid. I admit that I did think this was a drug interaction, or serotonin storm, but I have valid reasons for that, which I don't want to get into right now... Then he examined me and we figured out that the eye darting, dizziness, strange feelings, hallucination-like feelings all occur when I look to the right or turn my head to the right... Because of that, he came to the conclusion that it is all related to the shingles. The virus is attacking a nerve and that is causing me to have all these neurological symptoms. How scary is that? So I have to start the Valtrex again and he gave me Antivert to help with the dizziness. Plus he told me that I can do absolutely nothing for the next few days.

That means Carl has to stay home and watch the kids while I'm stuck in bed. I'll try to scrap but we'll see if my funky eye movements will allow me to...

Happy Monday!