Experimental Phase Complete

So I went ONE WHOLE WEEK with ZERO caffeine. Which could explain my lack of computer time this past week. I have BARELY logged onto Facebook/Hotmail/Blog! I had such a headache all week with the withdrawal I didn't CARE! LOL! I even iced my head one night it was so bad! OI!

The end result is, I'm not sure it was THE culprit of my numbing BUT it helped SOME. I still got numbing on day 7 of all days but I was sitting in the doctors office talking with the doctor when it started up. So his thought is it could be stress/anxiety induced. Lovely! So there is no medicine for numbing...just tingling and for pain. Since I have neither of those, he is going to do an EMG on my nerves to make sure I don't have a pinched one since I have chronic low back pain. They may even give me a steroid shot in my back to help alleviate said pain. Which would be SO nice seeing as how I haven't had a solid all night sleep in years. I toss and turn ALL night b/c of the pain. I've just learned to "deal with it" I suppose. So there may be light at the end of the tunnel for me afterall. I will keep you all posted.

P.S. I drank a cup of coffee this morning and seem fine. I am going to finish off my stash of coffee grounds at home and only have one cup a day. Once it is gone I will probably switch to decaf. Afterall, it's the flavor I love so much! I didn't realize how much of a caffeine addict I was until I stopped drinking it. Oh well. Such is life.

I am going to be running in another 5K this Saturday then it is off to Aunt Ruthie's for the 4th of July festivities! :-) Looking forward to some fireworks with the kiddos! :-)

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Experiment

So since I have been having this random numbing throughout my body I thought I would try my own experiment to see if I could eliminate the numbing myself.

I decided that for one week (starting this past Monday), I would give up caffeine. I decided to do this after one afternoon of drinking 3 cups of coffee after 2pm. I noticed I was real jittery, anxious, and my numbing was hightened. Not sure if the numbing was coincidence or not, I thought I would give a wurl anyway.

So I am on day 4 of no caffeine at all. After the first 3 days of mind blowing headaches on top of T.O.M. (grrrrr), I am starting to notice I haven't had any numbing for a couple of days. I still had numbing on day one and day two but not day three and so far not today. So we'll see. I do still have an appointment with a neurologist on Monday...so it will be a full 7 days of no caffeine to see if my theory is true.

Anyway, I miss coffee SOOOOO much. I truly just LOVE the taste! But I want to feel better too, so if it means giving up the good stuff, so be it!

Oh, on a fun note...I'm planning on doing another 5K next Saturday on the 3rd of July. Wish me luck...I haven't been "training" as much as I should be.

Slacker, party of one!

Ok, so I haven't been so good on the upkeep of my blog lately...

I don't think anything TOO exciting has happened since I blogged last. Maybe why I haven't blogged. But I will start my blog out with the cutest picture EVER of my kids! LOVE THEM!

The biggest NEWS is we have a new nephew! On May 24th my sister-in-law, Tabitha, gave birth to Logan Ryan. 8lbs, 11.9oz; 21 inches long! He's real cute, real squishy and real sweet!

The "biggest" thing I think we've done is we took the boys and our niece to the Kansas City Zoo. It was a good day to go and everyone did great! No meltdowns, no major whining, etc...it was quite a mild day!

The biggest "bummer" news is I have been having random unexplained numbness throughout my body. So I went to the doctor and he ordered and MRI of my brain and neck area. They both came back "normal"...thank goodness! Now I am just waiting on the next step which is likely a visit to a neurologist. Hopefully I can get some answers soon. Luckily I am experiencing no pain and no muscle weakness...just the numbing. I'll keep you all posted as to what I find out.

Other than that, not much else exciting has been going on. Trying to stay dry in all this rain which has put a damper on our summer fun! Limiting our pool visits to only twice so far this season! We have been in our little pool in our backyard more but haven't lately as it is a swamp in our back yard! *sigh* Hopefully it will dry out soon!

Anyway, that's all for now! I'll try to post more regularly! :-)