I decided Sunday evening/Monday morning that just this week I would do everything "right" and take no OTC meds, just my asthma and thyroid stuff, the way they are prescribed, I'd eat totally healthily, no alcohol, less caffeine, exercise, everything would be done, for only a week (so I could stand it :-) the way it "should" be and I'd note the results.

Well, last night was our regularly schedule pizza night :-) I ate pretty well but had beer with it. I'd been really achey and slept poorly Sunday and Monday nights; when I got home last night from dinner, I had my usual back of head/neck ache killing me (that I'd awakened with both Monday and Tuesday morning) and my stomach wasn't all that happy after dinner, despite my legitimate Lactaid tablet to help with any cheese in the salad/pizza. So, I said to heck with it and took a Pepcid Complete and then a Tylenol PM, slept "okay"/better and feel almost good this morning!

One can't win/know what is really causing a problem. Sometimes it's one thing influencing (weather) and sometimes it's another (my husband smokes and I have two cats, the house is thoroughly carpeted in really cheap carpet but I'm not really allegic to those things, my asthma is adult onset (in my mid-50's) and I think from an overuse of antibiotics when my appendix burst and there was infection for 5 months) but it's so hard to know exactly what. That's what so frustrating about it all.

I am hypothyroid and have read that fibro may be related to inability to use the oral thyroid pill the same way our body uses our own hormone. I have extreme blood pressure cuff pain: http://www.fightingfatigue.org/?p=1468 and that's all new since starting on thyroid hormone. I've had to battle my doctor for 2+ years to get him to agree that I didn't have high blood pressure (I can tolerate a wrist monitor and they have really accurate ones out now; I bought a top-of-the-line one and take my blood pressure three times a day for a week before appointments and take him in the readings; the nurse checked and found that my monitor is accurate).

It's just so frustrating not to know about something. NONE of my symptoms/"diseases" are understood as to cause by doctors; neither asthma nor hypothyroid. I haven't even bothered to complain/try to do anything about fibro since that's even less well understood yet and I have a hunch it's all tied up there together.