YIKES old runningblog buddies. Yikes. I can't believe I have not run a step in a week!
I got really sick last Thursday night/Friday morning. I thought it was a virus, or food poisoning. So, I took Friday off, and then Saturday, and then .... you see the pattern here. I still don't know exactly what it was, but my doctors think it was a severe GI inflammation/reaction caused by Celebrex (I have a few bad blood markers right now - so I am being monitored). I was not really able to eat, and was so tired and dizzy, for 5 days. I am finally eating again, and am regaining some strength. This morning I actually thought, "maybe, just maybe, a little jog??" - I ended deciding to wait until was a little stronger. I really felt so bad this weekend, I don't want to go back there. I lost 7 pounds in about 3 days!
So, I was on Celebrex as part of my downward spiral into middle age. I have autoimmune arthritis, my body is attacking my own joints. The Celebrex is supposed to help with pain, and I am now on Methotrexate (a disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)) which should slow the degeneration of my joints. Degeneration! crud! They have changed my anti-inflammatory to a GI safe one, which I probably won't take for a little while, and I only need to take it as needed anyway - I will try to avoid it when possible.
Anyway -- no modification to my running routine yet, but it will likely happen sometime in the future, it is a degerative (and chronic - sounds bad, huh? chronic!) disease, with no cure. BUT -- on the bright side, I am healthy, I can take drugs to slow the process down, AND, I think I am going to check into some diets that also have an impact on lowering inflammation ... so I can at least have some control over this.
So, that's what life is like in the 5th decade. Hmmm ... It is sort of funny, but a friend told me one time, "the 50's suck, all you have to do is survive them, the 60's are much better :)" -- oh boy, can't wait :)
Miss you bloggers, hope the pavement and trails are being kind to you. I will be joining you again very soon!!
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