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I have decided to start blogging again because I need a place to express my thoughts. Also, I can tell my husband is getting low on patience of dealing with my illness and hearing about it.

Where to begin...

Three weeks ago, I was feeling fine and finishing school then I started to itch. I thought I had been bitten by a spider or the dog had fleas but this itch would eventually get worse. Two days later I realized I was having an allergic reaction to something and my dad came over to help me. My husband was deployed on the Bush (only for 2 weeks) and it was only me taking care of my almost 2 year old daughter. My dad saw the rash on my arms and gave me a steroid shot, prednisone, and Zantac. The itching seemed to subside but there were more symptoms to follow.

Here I am almost 3 weeks later weak, tired, and still sick. I feel like my dysautonomia has come back full force and I really thought I was over it. I have been eating very little for the past 4 days because my stomach is not working right. It is either really inflamed from from the steroids or something else is wrong. I am taking carafate, zantac, liquid antacids, and benedryl. Nothing seems to be really helping. A couple of days ago I had an extreme pain in the upper right quandrant of my stomach that spread to my right shoulder. You would think it was a gallbladder attack but I had my gallbladder removed 5 years ago. My dad gave me a GI cocktail and the pain seemed to subside about 2 hours later. I am still experiencing the shoulder pain off and on today but it is not nearly as bad.

I am dreading texting/calling my boss today asking her for time off because I do not know what she will say. I have already missed the past 2 weeks and I am not better. I just finished my masters and I should be excited about starting a new job but my illness is holding me back.

The worry has start to set in and I don't want to go down the road that I did 5 years ago. 5 years ago I got severely sick after coming home to visit my parents in VA from Spain (navy husband) which was eventually diagnosed as dysautonomia. Since then I slowly recovered and even had a baby girl named Olivia. I had a few setbacks but nothing that extreme. The last set back I had was in 2011 where i got hives after eating a chicken salad sandwich. They went away though and were nothing like I am experiencing now.

Now, I still get itchy at night and have this rash on my arms. My heart races when I stand up and i always feel like I have pressure in my chest. I get tired doing simple things and my blood pressure is all over the place. It mainly seems high but mostly the diastolic blood pressure. I am feeling weak, hungry, and in pain. My emotions are all over the place as well.

Ok, that is all that I can muster up right now but I will write later. I am not losing hope in fighting to get through this battle of the war of dysautonomia.