For example, on Sunday I went swimming.
Now, swimming lowers my blood sugar much more than running does (strange, right?). Usually, if I have ice cream first, I'm fine. Now that's a good excuse to have ice cream. (And I just realized that that was completely irrelevant, but it's still part of my swimming routine.)
No matter whether I'm in the pool for exercise or playing (with my sister or little kids--no one's too old to push their sister's head under the water), swimming makes me cold. I know that this happens, so I come prepared with a long-sleeved shirt and a sweater.
Of course, it happened last Sunday. It was about 80 degrees that day and the pool was 86. This is totally normal for me. But I couldn't get warm (usually I can't until I take a ridiculously hot shower).
Even after my shower, I was still cold. No fever supposedly, but I was freezing.
I woke up the next morning feeling fine. I went for a run on Monday night, and I was freezing after that, too. The only thing that bothered me was my ankle (which has taken a rather strong dislike to running).
It happened again on Tuesday night, for no reason.
On Wednesday I was freezing all day. The doctor I was shadowing has a very cold office, but I couldn't get warm. Lo and behold, I had a "fever" of 99.8. And I had to go to a wedding.
I took an Aleve for the fever and the mild headache that had been nagging me all day. It helped neither, and the headache went away on its own after a few hours. I came home with the same fever I'd had apparently all day.
My ride threatened that I shouldn't go to work on Thursday, but I told her that I'd only been having fever at night. I actually called to tell her that I didn't have fever on Thursday morning (99.6, no real chills after I got dressed--and no, I'm not proud of lying to her). I dressed a little warmly, partially because it was cold and partially because I didn't want to freeze all day again. So I was hot all day. And I came home with a fever of 100.3. Gee, no wonder I was hot.
The highest temperature I've seen today is 99.6. Nothing I've had is really high and I feel fine, minus the weird body temperatures. I'm still cold, which is just getting annoying.
What is it? Do I have a virus? Is something autoimmune bothering my ridiculous body? Is my body rebelling against exercise?
I know better than to run when I have fever, so I haven't since Monday night. I'm not thrilled, because I'm afraid I won't be able to force myself back into it.
I dissect everything--why my knees hurt, why my blood sugar is high, why I'm tired. It's annoying that the obvious answers are "I have fibromyalgia", "I have diabetes", and "I have fibromyalgia", respectively. But I need to find the deeper reasons, the things that annoyed those conditions, so I can keep it from happening again. It's unfortunate, because exercise somewhat annoys the fibro, eating annoys the diabetes, and everything annoys something in my crazy, messed-up body. It's like an overtired three-year-old; everything will make it scream and cry and whine. It doesn't know what it wants.
All I know for sure is I want some chicken soup and maybe some weight loss out of the deal because of the appetite I seem to have lost.
"Shrouded in proof, you're the mystery/ You're the truth that lives within the world we see" ~Skillet
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