Health Updates: What's Crackalackin! (it's me)

As you may have garnered from the title...my bones are um...all cracked up 😅 But more importantly for now: The Botox is working again!! 🥳

I know this happens every time with the Botox, but I somehow keep forgetting...and this time I think it's more pronounced than before (possibly, though, I am biased because the previous dose wasn't as effective as previous doses). And that is that while the Botox does work and helps with my migraines a lot, it seems to mostly just block the pain. Or it's at least better at blocking the pain than anything else. So I still have a whole host of other symptoms. ...Actually, now that I'm typing this out, I am wondering if it's more pronounced this time just because the air pressure is outrageous lately 😅 so the Botox is really working overtime!

Yesterday, I woke feeling a bit dizzy and my tinnitus was worse than usual, both of which are migraine auras for me. But a few hours later, my teeth started to hurt – a lot. Which tells me that I actually had a pretty severe migraine, but I was only getting pain for scattered brief moments of under a minute. When I felt that pain, it hurt like hell 😅😬 BUT it was so fleeting and I knew to expect it, so it wasn't that jarring, if that makes sense? And it was relatively easy to manage and navigate my day.

I did wake up with some migraine pain today, but a single extra strength Advil has pretty much solved that and I'm back to just tinnitus and dizziness! 🙌 Feels like a weird thing to be celebrating, but last week waiting for the Botox to start working, and having gone through a whole set of injections that didn't work particularly well (it helped, but just...not nearly what I've grown accustomed to) for the 2.5 months prior, this feels like a HUGE win.

Hopefully it continues to get better over the next week or so as it continues to settle into my receptors in my little noggin, but even if it doesn't get better, holy is it ever saving me 😅🙈

The main struggles now are of course my pop 'em lock 'em bones, and I think also my blood pressure? Maybe?? My bones suck, as we know, but the cold weather has my joints swelling up a lot more it seems, and my bones popping and cracking more than usual. I've been doing my physio, but I have to say, it is really rough to maintain 😅 I have to constantly remind myself that when my body hurts, light exercise – and NOT stretching – might actually help, which feels incredibly counterintuitive to me 😂 What do you mean I'm not supposed to stretch? 😭 But alas, that sometimes makes it worse even if it helps in the moment 🤷‍♀️

My blood pressure is something that I think has been a problem...probably all my life, and even my mom was saying it's been an issue at least since high school. 😅🫣 So...with the way my body has been feeling, I am considering maybe pursuing getting that looked into...I'll keep you posted 😅

I've also started having some trouble with swallowing over the past several months, but...idk mostly it's just if I'm walking or if I've taken my pills while I'm still in bed, so I'm mostly lying down, so...maybe it's not a real concern 🫣