Symptoms

 

Symptoms.

My catalogue of symptoms seems never ending. Each day something different. Today I have Blocked Eustachian tubes, like you have water in your ears. I am always a little sinuses but it is more than usual along with this I have a mental fog that makes my thinking vague and speech lazy. I am having a conversation and I can’t string a sentence together or remember words. Reading is hard work as my concentration is not there.  All I can cope with is watching tele. Fortunately it is MotoGP and World Superbikes. I feel I should be doing something with my day but I have only a morning’s worth of energy not enough to work through the day. I have bits to do on the car but keep putting it off. I have become a manjana guy. I was never like this. Now I also have sensitive teeth. Hot, cold and bite, I can now feel my filings when I am chewing. This has not been recent. I feel sensitive from top to toe including joints, neck, shoulder and hips.

 

The origins of my ailments begin after my first Covid vaccine. There are irritating symptoms like when you are trying to swallow and it catches your breath and sets off a fit of coughing or your swallow reflex stalls and you take in air making you swallow a painful lump. Gas is caught in your stomach and causes an acid belch and heartburn. My gastric system feels slow and I am not getting the nutrition from what I eat as I should. My poo can now take up to three days before completing  the cycle with uncomfortable gas putting pressure on my prostate generating a painful sore feeling not unlike the effects of a Vindaloo consumed the night before. What have I contracted after catching Covid last year?

I have recently been on a half board resort holiday to Greece where I had the opportunity to eat unlimited food. This included bacon and egg for breakfast each morning and a three course meal each evening. Soup, salad, main course of meat and two veg sometimes a dessert and a beer to wash it down.  My poo then became a regular daily event and predictable. Regressing when I returned home. I don’t think I could afford to continue to eat that much food. The consequences of eating so much was to induce an episode of gout in my right wrist which has been painful and incapacitating. Sunshine and sea has been a good medicine. My sinuses have improved. My binocular vision has stabilised with my vision no longer with both eyes not working together, It is an effect of the eyes not working together but catching up if you move quickly taking time to focus. Not unlike having a hangover but I have not been drinking. This has put me off driving because I could not have a quick look and it did upset my balance. I have had to watch where I put my step especially going down stairs. I did see some improvements away in the sun with my vision stabilising and balance improving with my ability to step over things with confidence.

I feel like my gut is the centre of my problems. My wellbeing improves with the health of my gut. I still feel toxic, lacking energy not only to focus my mind but stimulate my body to do things. I still have problems reading, seeing but not understanding and have to concentrate quite hard to understand the written word.

In August just prior to Registers day I was prescribed Omeprazole for the heartburn and indigestion. It seemed to be not doing allot for my heartburn but may have been why I was so unwell for the British Motor Show the following week.  The dose was increased and within twenty-four hours there was a distinct effect. I had severe gut pain my balance was not good and my energy levels had gone. I could hardly climb the stairs and I had gone quiet. All I could do was watch tele. I stopped taking Omeprazole and the gut pain stopped the other effects have taken more than two weeks to disappear. This is a debilitating drug for me and did nothing to help my digestive problems. I can now read and understand, what was affecting my sinuses has gone although I am not sure if this is related, I can balance with confidence and I have energy and my swallowing and catching breath situation is getting better. Was it the drug the trigger for the beginning of my improvement or my holiday in Greece with plenty of sunshine and good food and some beer to make me feel better?

I'm still not A one, I get easily side tracked. Doing one thing and for no reason other than it came to mind I start doing something else until I remember what I was supposed to be doing so far I have had no disasters but close calls when cooking. A few things have been burnt but not the house yet. This goes along with the brain fog I mentioned earlier. My recent visit to the Nehru Centre for Dementia Day with Gita performing a Sattriya dance and reading a Poem made me very proud of her. It was very thought provoking and an exceptional day.