I have spent quite a bit of time this past week or two trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with me. I have all these odd aliments that just aren't adding up.
*I have numbness in my left hand that starts at the tip of my pinkie and works it's way down the side of my hand. Kind of like 1/2 my hand is asleep.
*I am exhausted. I get through the day and get the most important things done. But by the time 8:30 hits all I want to do is curl up in a ball and go to sleep. Literally sometimes I do just that on the couch as Chloe manages to get one cushion and I have to curl up just to get enough room to sleep on the couch.
*I have weird and painful aches in my body. I have had this for many years and I know it's related to the barometer. Just two nights ago I flung myself onto the floor in the strangest of positions stretching like a crazy women just to somehow release the pain. The harder I stretch the better it feels for about 30 seconds when I come out of the stretch. Sometimes it's my whole body that hurts. Sometimes just the legs or arms. This morning it's just my left arm. The one with the numbness. I am excellent at telling you when it's going to rain or snow within the next 24 hrs. My body is my weather channel.
*Headaches. I don't get a ton of them but have noticed that I feel them coming on just a little more often. More than not a dose of Tylenol or Advil takes care of it. Chlorine seems to give me migraines. The longer I keep my head in the pool with out taking a break the better chances by 3 I have a full blown migraine.
*I do get a flipity stomach. Most of the time related to the fact that I'm exhausted.
*I eat constantly. I do mean constantly. I eat way too much junk, like I'm looking for the magic food that makes my body go aaaaaaahhhhhh. My body is craving something and I can't figure out what that is. I'm addicted to sugar for sure so that doesn't help. I can't really stop eating sugar with all the training I do as it is an important factor to my diet. However, maybe eating every starch and every bit of sweet junk in the house is not a good thing. This I know but continue to do it everyday, even though I tell myself I won't. I'm addicted.
So after hearing something I think was on TV the other day I'm trying a couple of things before I head to the doctor. I hate needles so I'll try this on my own first and give it until the end of next week. I heard that women whom handle intense exercise on a regular basis is more likely to be iron deficient. Ah ha.....that could be the problem. Knowing what I eat now, I probably don't get much iron in my diet to start with. I checked the symptoms and I have quite a few of them. Numbness of the extremities, headaches, pale, extreme fatigue, decreased appetite ( I think not), irritability (yup, just ask the family). So with a little more digging, I came up with I could be low on iron, or B12 or Folate. I already take Vit D, B6 and calcium everyday. Now I decided I better start with the multivitamin for women that will give me a 100% daily intake of the ones I'm missing. I read that I should notice a difference in a few days, that is if I'm deficient in iron levels. If nothing changes by the end of the next week I'll be making an appointment with the needle.
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