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Posted: Thu Jun 18th, 2009 10:21 |
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Ran across this portion of an article on the MSN Homepage. There were many great ideas for healthy habits based on our body clocks. Only one disagrees with our need to stay out of the sun and this was "basking in the sun".
Here's a portion of the article that I found helpful for sleeping at night and what the proper bedtime conditions were for optimal sleep. Below that is the link to the entire article.
Invite the night. Preparation for bedtime should start well before you brush your teeth. Wind down any exercise three hours before bed to give your body temperature a chance to cool and signal the brain that it's sleep time. Also close the kitchen (and the bar) two to four hours in advance, since it takes that long for your stomach to empty of solid foods; doing so will help you avoid indigestion and acid reflux. Aim for an undivided seven to eight hours of sleep every night. And because environmental factors, from bright moonlight to fluorescent street lamps, can disrupt cues to your internal clock, it's best to keep the room dark—no night-lights, no neon alarm clocks, and certainly no flashing cell phones. Your brain's pineal gland needs darkness to make melatonin, a hormone that tells your body to drift off. The pineal gland gets confused if it senses light, compromising your sleep quality. Melatonin also has been linked to improved immunity and lower risk of cancer.
http://health.msn.com/womens-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100239654>1=31036
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Posted: Thu Jun 18th, 2009 16:38 |
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Reading Barney's post, I thought she said that she liked to make a nice sex.  And that made me pause to think about it. Not a bad idea if one's able, eh?
I really appreciate being able to come here to talk with people who understand what we're doing, why we're doing it, and what it's like to be this sick. You all help a great deal. I used to belong to a disability/long term illness support site. But they just don't understand why we'd do this instead of swallowing huge amounts of regularly prescribed meds. And on a hump..... that pressure to give up on the MP is NOT helpful!
Sarah (middle and sickest daughter) and I will read and re-read MP material and watch and re-watch the videos so our scientific understanding can deepen. The more you know, the more you commit to walking this path with determination, eh? I intend on stomping my way 'home' like a determined biker chick and not wafting my way to health while I worry if I'm doing the right thing. Knowledge is power.
Some days I play on-line mah jong for hours while listening to whatever music calls to me that day.
Some days I'll go to my knitter/crocheter's website and chat with other addicts. (http://www.ravelry.com for you other yarn fanatics)
Some days I'll just talk to friends through email.
I'm "lucky" in that I have an at home partner, Sarah. She's just as sick as me, so we vent, cry and process with each other when one of us is in a bad patch. I do that also with Claire, my sister of another mother. And another father, just to be clear. 
I brought in some lilacs the other day so we could have some aromatherapy and ended up throwing them into the compost. With our extreme MCS, scents terrify us and I ended up giving three of us panic attacks whenever we'd smell the lilacs. The flowers weren't an MCS problem, SMELLING them was though and it just seemed unkind to continue. Ahhahahahahaha!!!! Jeeze......
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Posted: Thu Jun 18th, 2009 17:53 |
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I too, brought in a beautiful bouquet of lilacs last week, a 'comfort' measure you know, a little of the outdoors I miss so much...and found out I could NOT tolerate the fragrance that permeated the whole house. I couldn't believe what I have so enjoyed in the past as a wonderful sign of spring became this irritant to the point of anxiety, they too got thrown out. Frustrating...............
and today I feel the need to vent to anyone who will listen, this isolation is getting to me....a beautiful, bright June day outside and I cant settle to anything inside, its the shack/wacky syndrome of being inside too long after a long winter and still I cant get outside......
I just have to hang on till tonight , and get out . Tomorrow night I am looking forward to going to a birthday party in a friends basement family room, no outdoor light, a wonderful consideration, just so I can attend to help celebrate a friend who is turning 50...
Patience.... what a concept
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Posted: Thu Jun 18th, 2009 18:32 |
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Heather, what synchronicity that you had the same lilac experience we had! (I'm the Sarah that Mum refers to above.  ) I, too, had thought, "How nice to have some fresh flowers- we haven't done this in forever," and was shocked to find that all I did was freak out every time I smelled them. One little bunch was strong enough to fill the whole upstairs of our house, so I was relieved when Mum decided to ditch them, lol. But it did make me a bit sad that something so small as fresh flowers (not even chemical coated flower-shop flowers) was a burden and not a joy.
My heart goes to you for not being able to enjoy your beautiful June weather. It's raining here today, so I feel no need to go outside, but I do miss warm days with gentle breezes and softly rustling green leaves. I've always been light sensitive (for as long as I can remember), so bright and sunny isn't something I miss, but I do love a good patch of cool shade.
Comfort measures that I take on bad days are usually small things, like giving myself permission to not answer emails that I feel obliged to respond to as soon as they hit my inbox. Finding my furry white cat and giving him a cuddle (sometimes against his will  ), or just curling up on the sofa and watching TV without caring if it rots my brain. 
There are certain comfort foods that I like to eat when I'm feeling down, however near-constant nausea puts a lot of that to the back burner. So I've taken to chewing a piece of mint gum as a treat because it helps soothe the nausea a bit and also quells the bad taste in my mouth that sometimes won't leave with constant water sipping.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18th, 2009 19:32 |
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I've never been able to enjoy lilacs. I had a bush shaped as a small tree outside about 15 feet 4 apartment windows in an apt I once lived in--an apartment where I did not have air conditioning--and at times I'd have to close the windows because of the scent. I sure hope that goes away on the MP, as lilac smells wonderful. (And by the way, am I the only human on the planet who does not like the smell of lavender?)
Heather, I love the phrase shack whacky. Describes what happens to us far better than stir crazy.
I also watch bad movies on Netflix "Watch It Now." (Well, there are good movies to be found on that as well, particularly the old classics.)
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Posted: Thu Jun 18th, 2009 23:22 |
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I am OK with lavender , actually use a little oil in baths occasionally, but just a little.. its a comfort thing I do....but .any chemical fragrances, like dryer sheets , I cant handle, especially if the sheets of our bed were dried with a scented dryer sheet. I also use fragrance free laundry detergents.
My comfort thing tonight is a large print book ,(photosensitivity is still ....well grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......) my hubby just brought home from our library. I find books online and order them by phone. The library have me set up as a 'shut-in" patron , and they keep my card at the desk, so anyone I ask can go in and pick up my ordered books when they come in. I have a couple of faithful friends that can get in during library hours for me.
I remember when I first started the MP, that I read that Trevor said that loud music helped, and it does!!! Seems to help me release tension , other times I enjoy my quiet solitude/flute type music.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19th, 2009 12:00 |
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How interesting! I've always found the smell of lilacs too much - also hyacynths - all my life. When I moved here I had lilac bushes cleared out of the garden. never thought it might be linked to Th1.
All other flowers are ok, lavender and roses and freesias are great favourites. But come to think of it I don't think I would like to have any scented flowers indoors right now.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19th, 2009 18:23 |
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I've never really liked the smell of lavender, personally. For Mum, it actually makes her ill, even in the pure essential oil form. But I guess that since we're sensitive to so many things, it makes sense.
I do love the smell of wild prairie roses, though. It's such a nice, delicate scent, and luckily in Alberta they're the provincial flower and grow everywhere.
I thought of another comfort measure- I massage my feet. Kind of from a reflexology point of view, so it's as enthusiastic a massage as I can manage (given my level of fatigue at the time), leaving my feet nice and tingly afterwards.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19th, 2009 19:28 |
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Hi again Sarah Jane,
I just answered another post from you. Once again I guess I'm lucky---I have never thought of myself as having fragrance sensitivities, but one flower that I do find pretty obnoxious is the paperwhite Narcissus---which falls into the same category as the woman who pours on, instead of dabs on, her perfume. I was gifted with some paperwhites once and had to put them on the front porch. Out there the scent seemed cut quite a bit and just enough for someone who might come to the door. Most other flowers I do enjoy the scent of, including lavender---and I love rosemary.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20th, 2009 17:37 |
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My favourite scents are more in the family of baked goods. Like chocolate cake in the oven, or apple crisp. I also love anything minty.
I'm sure we had some Narcissus once (also a gift from someone) and when it flowered we found it too overpowering to have in the house. I think we kept the clay pot, though- it was a nice pot.
I discovered a comfort measure last night that's been very effective for my pain (easiest to apply to the pain around the bottom of my ribs and across my diaphragm, but it works for my back too if I lay on it). I read earlier in the thread about a rice sock, and warmth has been helpful to my pain (I've been using the hair dryer, but it's a very momentary solution, lol), however I've had terrible luck with rice socks. I either burn the rice or the sock, or am so afraid to do either that I under-heat it to the point where it only lasts a minute.
In the middle of the night last night, I recalled that the ice packs we keep in the freezer are hot/cold packs. So I took one out and tried it as an ice pack (I think it was Claire who said that the sudden feeling of cold distracts the brain from pain), but it didn't help and wasn't distracting, I just got cold, lol. So I put it in a bowl and covered it with steaming hot water from the tap, massaging it periodically so that all the internal gel would warm up. I then dried it and took it back to bed with me, and it's been very helpful- lasting about three hours.
So I have it with me now, and it really does make quite a difference. Good thing we have air conditioning in the house this summer (the first time in my life we've had air conditioning) or I'd be giving myself heat stroke left and right. 
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Posted: Sat Jun 20th, 2009 17:55 |
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I am glad the heat packs are working for you. Yeah!!!
We are all different. Even different parts of our bodies are different. My back cannot stand cold, but my neck cannot tolerate heat (produces migraines) and so I must use ice there if I use anything. I found the ice to be the most helpful under my feet. Of course, I had to put my feet under the covers and keep the tops warm, but that is what worked best for me. I thought that it also might have something to do with it being the soles of my feet (referring to foot massage).
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Posted: Sat Jun 20th, 2009 20:07 |
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I've had some interesting experiences with mine, which I call a bean bag, even though it is stuffed with dried corn. I've used it so much that the hot corn kernels have burned a couple small holes in the fabric. When this first began to happen I kept finding dried corn kernels around the house and couldn't figure out where they were coming from. One day the dawn came.
I'd really like to make another bag but haven't found a source for the dried corn. Actually, it's probably because I don't get out much. A local feed store might be a source. Someone, trying to be funny (and it is), suggested popcorn. I did try to use dried beans in one, but it weighed too much. The beans gave off a nice moist heat though. The use of this one ended though when I tried to heat it in my daughter's microwave, which was hotter than mine, and the beans began to burn. The stink from burning beans lasted for days. Needless to say she wasn't very pleased with me.
Anyway, I couldn't live without this comforting heat. I stick mine in the microwave (at home) for 3 minutes and it's good to go. I use it most when at the computer. I keep moving it up and down my back. Heaven. I also use it on my hands and feet. I've been trying to figure out a way to make a pair of booties, filled with the corn, for my feet but can't figure out how to do it so it would be comfortable to walk on.
Claire, I have a spray that I have used on my feet that cools them, and to me it felt delicious. It came in a footcare kit, however it may be contraindicated on the MP. There are a lot of herbal ingredients in it. It is also quite minty which might not agree with you.
I have also used another aid for cooling the back of my neck in the summer when I was working in people's gardens. It will take a bit to describe it. The overall piece is a cotton tube, about the diameter of a toilet paper roll, and 44" long, with the ends stitched neatly closed. The center 16" of this tube is the working part of it, and is filled with a granular, water absorbent soil additive (available at nurseries). The 14" on each end are used to tie it around one's neck.
To use: Soak in water until the granules have absorbed water, which will make the center of the tube fill out. Freeze. Tie around neck. At first it may be too cold and you would have to wear something under it, but it lasts a long time. When not using just hang it up and it will eventually dry out and become flat again, or just keep it in the freezer.
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Sarah Jane, it's good to hear the packs work for you! I had pretty serious rib and sternum pain until a few months ago. Besides parts of the ribs, the rib tips would be SO sensitive and sore - is that what you're talking about? I just get one or two rib tips now, instead of most of them!
I used an old heating pad that stayed on until I turned it off. (The newer ones go off after 15 min or something like that). I'd set it on low, wrap a towel around it (so it never burned) and sleep with it on my ribs (front and/or back). I found the heat incredibly calming. Granted, it wasn't very portable if I had to walk around, but I grew to love it like a kid clutching a teddy bear to her chest.
Works nicely for cramps too!
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Posted: Sun Jun 21st, 2009 17:59 |
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Hi, Alayne!
My rib pain wraps from my upper-middle back all the way around to my front, with most of the pain currently in the ribs under the bust. It seems to be either the entirety of the ribs, or perhaps the cartilage in between them, or maybe nerves or something. I haven't experienced it directly in the 'tips' of my ribs (by which I think you mean the ribs that end at the front rather than connecting to the sternum?). Oh, that reminds me- I do also get pain directly in the sternum.
I believe that Dad couldn't find a heating pad (or maybe not one like I needed), so I've still been using just the hot/cold gel pack heated in hot, hot water. I do wish that I could think of some way to fashion a carrier for it so that it would rest against my skin while I was up and wandering around. As it is, I've been doing as many things one-handedly as possibly to keep the other hand pressing the pack to the most affected portion of my ribs. It does get to feeling like a comfort teddy.
Mom read somewhere (and just try and find it now, why don't I! lol) that it's possible that pain persists in nerves, cartilage, and the like for so long and with so little relief because of a distinct lack of blood flow (unlike organs and muscles) and therefore they don't get the benefit of the Benicar as easily, nor the 'flushing' action of constant blood flow to clear out dead bacteria and their toxins. I wonder if providing heat helps to bring blood to those areas and maybe that's why it provides such relief? An interesting theory, anyway.
Claire, I find it very interesting that you need cold on some parts of your body and heat on others. The only time I've ever found cold helpful anywhere is if I'm overheating in the summer. I seem to have no inner-thermostat, so if my environment is cold, so am I; and if it's hot, I'm hot too. Last summer I basically lived with an ice pack strapped to me at all times just to keep my body temperature at a livable level. But any other time, heat anywhere on my body always feels better.
Jan, your burned corn and beans is exactly why I'm afraid of heating any packs in the microwave! All of us have done that with rice socks to the point where the stench filled the house (I certainly understand why your daughter wasn't thrilled with the burning beans ).
We used to be able to get dried corn via a "gumball machine" at a petting zoo we went to when I was a kid. It was so we could feed the animals and thus get them close enough to pet. So I'm sure that a feed store would have some. Or perhaps you could look at ordering more online?
You could also make it someone else's problem by requesting a new, custom made dried-corn-filled heating pack on Etsy (which is an online marketplace for all things handcrafted). They have a program called Alchemy where you describe your request and sellers place bids, detailing what they would make for you - you can set your ideal price, and they can bid with that in mind. This would also work for those corn filled slippers- I'm sure someone out there is capable of sewing such a thing (there are thousands and thousands of sellers on Etsy), though I think you're right about how uncomfortable they would be to walk on!
Here's a link to the Alchemy section of Etsy- http://www.etsy.com/alchemy/ You'd need to start by creating an account with the site. If you decide to give it a try and need any help, feel free to contact me. I'm an Etsy pro.
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Hi Alayna:
I'm new to this portion of the study sight but found and could relate to everyone posting on it and am going to also share some of my coping techniques.
I am a great user of heat on those days of untolerable herxing. When all my joint pain is present and spine pain at its peak the only thing that helps me is to sit in a hot tub bath and rest. I will usually take a bath and then if pain just doesn't let up I will lie down for a couple of hours with hot water bottle to my feet, heat pad to my spine moving it from my back to around my legs as at these times the bones in the lower part of my legs become so sore.
I also deal with spasms (very much like a charlie horse sensation) around my chest, in my legs, toes, and various parts of my body and the only thing that seems to help is to take any compression against those areas of my body being effected away. What I mean by releiving compression for example if I'm sitting in a chair and it begins over my shoulder blades I will lean my back away from the chair and it helps it to subside along with streching or my husband will masage the affected areas. This last week has been a terrible week but think I got to much sunlight. Lord help us all to deal with all these symptoms, huh?
I deal with a lot of eye problems also, it is so hard for me to study the sight as I have a hard time being on the computer even with wearing the Noir's glasses and avoiding indoor and outdoor light. Does anyone have any other suggestions that have worked for any of you. Thanks Jerri
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Posted: Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 14:19 |
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Jerri
I too have been very photosensitive to computer. The only way I can tolerate it still is with black background screen and turn down brightness of screen too.
Go to the Accessibility Options in the Control Panel, click on the Display Tab, then click in the box beside 'Use High contrast' and then click on the Settings button and in the High Contrast Performance Scheme chose "High Contrast Black". Click Ok and in the next box click on Apply and it will change it for you right away.
I find this so much easier on the eyes.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 14:20 |
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Hi Jerri,
My light sensitivity is up and down most of the time, so I've learned to limit my time on the computer or else I seem to have IP that is related to my usage. It's a bummer but for me it really helps. Too long in front of the monitor causes me increased neuro in the way of fatigue and loss of ambition!
Heather's suggestion is a good one to try and works for some. I've never been able to tolerate the high contrast black--the best I manage is reducing the brightness of the computer screen. I'm about mid-way on the adjustment bar and this works for me!
Welcome to the Lifestyle Forum! Glad you're here!
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Posted: Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 17:42 |
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Hi, Jerri!
The photo sensitivity eventually gets easier. I used to have to wear NoIRs in the house and now only wear them outsides. Darkest NoIRs with a pair of sunglasses too. I'll be glad when I won't need the extra sunglasses. And I've gotten so used to the computer screen being turned to low brightness, when someone hands me their computer on high... I jump.
Do you have your tv brightness turned down also? That helps.
And now when my most well daughter comes home to visit, she feels she's sitting in a dark room with a near black tv and we all think she's nuts. Add that we also can't take loud talking......
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Posted: Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 18:12 |
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Another thing that helps with looking at a television screen or a computer screen is to have another light on (at a reasonable lux) to the side. If the room is large and that doesn't throw enough light, then a second light further away might be needed as well.
Don't ask why this works, as I don't know myself.
However, it can be handy when visiting someone else, as the television can be more tolerable by virtue of another light being on at 30 watt lets say. I can watch my housemate's and neighbor's TV without having to turn down the brightness now...as long as I use this trick. I throw a white shirt over my housemate's lamp to dampen the lux because he does not use a 3-way bulb (just a 60 watt). This way everyone else can enjoy normal brightness and I don't have to put on my NoIRs.
Of course, initially, this strategy may not work and may be a future tool. Still, it would be worth storing it in your tool box.
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Claire, I can really relate to this, although I've never used your great shirt trick, I keep a low wattage bulb lamp on in my bedroom (40 I think it is), on the complete opposite side of the room from the TV. It is so calming as compared to having the lights off and the TV glare.
Ahhhhhhhh....Nice!!! 
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