Better sleep last night, but I still felt a bit like a zombie today. Better without the guaifenesin. This was supposed to be a day off. I don’t see how I can keep taking that stuff. I kind of believe it could help me if I could stay on it, but I can’t. It makes my fibro so much worse. I haven’t had any kind of good stretches in 2 months that weren’t caused by Lyrica or guaifenesin. Even though the guaifenesin doesn’t have major side effects, I still felt really spaced out from it, and it brought on monster flare ups. It’s really my last hail mary treatment, so I don’t know how to stop it. I’ve had some kind of response from it, but I’m just way too close to the edge to be able to handle any kind of increases in fibro and pain. I’ll take several more days off and re-evaluate. I just can’t right now. I’m beyond fried and burned out. It makes me feel like doing something desperate to get through the days, and I don’t want to do that. How the hell am I supposed to get by then?
Just sitting here thinking about how bad the spine pain has been. I’ve been burning through ice packs again. I was trying to think back to when I started the guaifenesin. It worked pretty well for about 3 weeks. I had some flares in between, but they were manageable. I was wondering what changed, and realized I had the RF ablation right at the same time. The ablation gave me about a month of pain relief. The pain relief helped the fibro, and it gave me some wiggle room to be able to endure those increases in symptoms caused by the protocol. I don’t think I’ll be successful on this protocol until I get some pain relief. I have another round of ablations scheduled for January and February (half and half). That’s the next time I can expect some pain relief. Until then, I think I’m just pissing into the wind. I don’t think there’s any way I can be successful on this protocol. Maybe if I did like 3 days on and 7 days off or something, but there really isn’t a point to that. I need to drop my pain level first. I’ve been at like a 9 for 2 months.