Starting A Log

Well, when I did my SHPE I obviously forgot about some things so instead of relying on memory for my pain I'm going to start logging it all here so that I have a record for the VA when I need it. Better to have it than to not have it.

Yesterday, 4AUG2018, I had a killer migrane. Not my normal ones, but the type that are so bad I have to shut off all lights, eliminate all sound, and seclude myself in the darkness and silence just to bear it even with the medicine I get from my unit Doc. These are the worst ones when they happen, and they happen too often.

Then, late last night my left wrist starting aching for no damn reason. It still hurts today 5AUG2018, but it is less, and accompanied with pain in my lower left forearm (near the elbow) depending on how I bend/move/adjust my arm. The pain in my lower forearm was probably there last night too - it's just so low in comparison that I didn't notice it since the wrist was so much worse last night compared to today.

This has happened before but I forgot it until it happened again. Hence why I'm starting this log. Because I just know that without some kind of time-stamped date showing that this happened while in the military, the VA will claim that it "isn't service connected" if what my ex-military friends have said about their own stuff is true at all.

I'm not going to be logging my normal nearly daily headaches... those are already a known factor in my medical records. Just the really bad ones where I have to literally lay in the dark and do nothing for hours. Those are the worst. Then I'll log any other pains that are happening that aren't "normal" or "already accounted for" in my medical record.

Well - maybe I should mention them. Just in case.

I get morning headaches, or at least I did before I used my CPAP machine, that thing is a wonder! I sleep so much better with it, wake up without the "normal" morning headaches I had... and I'm not tired and literally passing out at 1730/1800 like I used to. Instead I'm back to my once normal habit of sleeping for about six hours a night, and being good for the whole day.

Well, at least when I don't have a migraine that's so bad that I can't sleep at all. I get those too - migraines that literally keep me up at night, making me exhausted at work and performing terribly because of it. When I don't have those though, I'm at least getting real sleep for once.

My sinusitis is still acting up though. I still get sinus headaches in addition to the migraine ones mentioned, and pain, as well as tenderness in the nasal passage all the time. Thankfully the nasal spray they gave me at least has been helping keep my nose clear throughout the day instead of being stopped up practically all day. Well either that or having a constant leakage so bad that I had to plug my nose with tissue because no matter how much I blew my nose there was always more... Having to deal with one or the other literally every day was terrible.

Here's hoping I remember to log the stuff as it happens now... because that's going to be the hard part.