Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Released from the hospital -- and near immediate partial relapse

Here is a tip:  Getting released from the hospital often means coming home to a bunch of overdue stuff.  Bills, overdue work assignments, fights with insurance companies over the hospitalization, friends, co-workers, and family members who subconsciously resent your unplanned and undesired hospital "vacation" -- there are plenty of stress points.

The problem with stress points is that stress is a primary trigger for a CPT2 episode.  Coming out of the hospital, you will likely be exhausted, sleep deprived (unless you can sleep through blood draws), stressed out, and a bit disoriented.  Exhaustion and sleep deprivation are also triggers.

So with that as prologue, I came home yesterday, and by mid-morning, I was feeling moderate muscle pain.  My urine was back to being cloudy.  I took that as a cue to pretend I'm still in the hospital and cut out as many trigger events as I could.  I'm going to try to get my CK checked tomorrow and hopefully today's episode was just a minor blip.  I really don't want to be readmitted.

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