MKal

   Woke up at 4 this am in a pool of sweat -hadn't done that in a while. Spent the morning in bed (again) with everything aching (again) and stomach rolling (again, although admittedly not as badly...

   Got over the cold (finally), although as I told someone else here, I'd MUCH rather have a week of a bad cold than a day of Menopausal Hell.  Speaking of which....though I've had a series of...

   Last night, my back was killing me. I was very, very tired and my stomach was going on and off at level 3 on the Acting Up scale (0 being fine, 5 being Hell).    Today, neither the stomach nor...

Just a quick update:   Had a wonderfully NORMAL day yesterday. I left the house for the first time in 3 days and got a lot of things done. Even made dinner without feeling like I was on Iron Chef....

   Well, after 14 blissful days of being my old self, it hits again.   I woke up Sunday with the pains, the GID, all of it. I warned my family not to count on me, and basically spent the day...

    The worst menopausal symptom I've been having is Gastrointestinal Distress (GID). While it usually comes along with a myriad of other symptoms such as hot flashes, depression, chest and leg...

   I'd finally found a chart that tells me WHAT vitamins I need to take and how much, as well as what is too much, which foods will give me which vitamins, and what will deplete which vitamins.(For...

   So...I've had 7 days of feeling Normal, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.Have been actually energetic since I've adjusted my vitamin regime (have to remember to update the info in the...

   If anyone read the last entry, here's the update:   I woke up this morning and I felt....normal. Not sad, not in pain, no cramps, no stones in my gut,  no backache. In fact, I felt...

  I spent 45 minutes earlier today venting a journal update called "I Just Want My Life Back". When I tried to update it, the site said that I wasn't logged in (??) and I lost the entry, so now that...

   Regarding the comic strip:   I'm trying hard to work in the time to do it. I have a lot of old material from when my first strip was published in the CC News years ago, but it all has to be...

  So here's what happened:   Last Monday and Tuesday, I felt like s--t. J was talking about going camping,but he didn't know when he could get the time off IF he could get the time off (more on...

   Had a hard time sleeping last night; wasn't uncomfortable, just couldn't sleep.When I woke up, I was clammy, anxious, and my stomach was rolling a bit. The worst part was that my 9-year-old was...