MCTD Support Group
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) or Sharp's syndrome is a human autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body. MCTD combines features of polymyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic scleroderma and is thus considered an overlap syndrome. MCTD commonly causes joint pain/swelling, Raynaud phenomenon, muscle inflammation, and scarring of...
Good morning. Slept in today. Do feel better when I sleep.
Been having computer trouble lately. Dont know what is wrong. Keeps going off the internet connection. Very frustrating.
Back pain continues. Think it is an old injury acting up. Since I slept, it is easier to isolate. Have a bad disc and that seems to be where most of the pain is coming from. The hip pain is another matter.
Raining really hard here. The drought is losing its grip! Probably have flooding today.
Managed to walk a mile in 16 min last night. In a gym. Got the heart rate up to 140. Probably a little high but I am pretty deconditioned. Dont think I could have done more. Would have been worse on a hill. Even ground is a lot better on my feet and the gym has one of those foam floors.
Hope all of you have a great day.
Mary Ann
Been having computer trouble lately. Dont know what is wrong. Keeps going off the internet connection. Very frustrating.
Back pain continues. Think it is an old injury acting up. Since I slept, it is easier to isolate. Have a bad disc and that seems to be where most of the pain is coming from. The hip pain is another matter.
Raining really hard here. The drought is losing its grip! Probably have flooding today.
Managed to walk a mile in 16 min last night. In a gym. Got the heart rate up to 140. Probably a little high but I am pretty deconditioned. Dont think I could have done more. Would have been worse on a hill. Even ground is a lot better on my feet and the gym has one of those foam floors.
Hope all of you have a great day.
Mary Ann
MT, sorry you are having a rough time, my hip bothers me, too 140 is probably fine for heart rate, but you have more experience in this than me. Thank God my foot is a bit better, I could barely do the gazelle, and if I can't do that, it's hard to get any exercise at all.
Jacq, sorry you feel nauseous. Careful with that wine... I'm one to talk! if I have three beers, I really feel it the next day, even if I spread them out and have them with food. Two is right for my age, and that's what I should stick to. My friend's felony trial started yesterday, so Sunday night I actually got pretty hammered... but I got off pretty easy, just happened to be between flares, so I was lucky. I finished recording a track at my friend's house and I realized... whoa, I am not driving anywhere! Lay down on the couch and dozed till 1:00 AM. Got up and thought... nope, not yet! Slept hard until 4:30 AM, and I was fine-- drove home, drank tons of water and ate a lot of food, in bed by 5:30 and up at 9:30.
I got away with it, but I won't be trying that for another four or five years, which is how long it's been since that happened before!
I am really worrying about money and finances, and having trouble keeping up with studies, though I seem to be doing okay on tests. I have to manage the worry and stress better, got to find a way to do this.
Thanks, catch y'all later...
--Cat
Hugs,
Sheri