Sunday morning, I had such intense pain about halfway through Sunday school, that I thought I was going to have to leave. The pain wasn't touched with 800mg Advil, which usually works. After church, I laid down and slept for 3 hours. I was so terribly exhausted that I didn't know what to do and the pain wasn't going away. Monday and Tuesday were no different. The pain was excruciating. I had trouble sleeping because of it. It's that kind of bone-crushing pain that you feel all the way to your bone marrow. Sometimes, it was all over my body. Sometimes, it would migrate from my arms to my legs and back in a matter of minutes. Yesterday, my hips hurt so bad I didn't know what to do and was so tired I was asleep well before 9.
Today, I had a teleconference with my holistic practitioner. We were concerned that we couldn't find a reason to tie the setback to anything. The more we talked, the more we were able to put the pieces together. I was doing okay right up until I took my meds during our Sunday school breakfast. About 30-45 minutes later, I was having pain that almost brought me to tears. There was one thing different about that morning and those meds. Sundays are when I start new meds. Although this is round 2 of the parasite protocol, and I had taken Alinia before, it had been weeks since I had been on it. Apparently, this time, my body reacted to it more strongly than the previous round. I don't remember such intense pain the last time I took it. So, although the pain was terribly hard to deal with, it can be considered a good thing because the medicine is doing its job.
Sometimes you may be able to figure things out on your own, but a lot of times it helps to talk about things out loud with someone else. Just talking through it can help you put the pieces of the puzzle together. What I thought might be me recovering from the air show was, in all actuality, my body responding in a more intense way to a medication I had taken weeks before. It all makes sense.