Forget the day number thing. I've missed enough days that it feels kind of dumb.
Well, I found out why I've been so tired. I have Mono, AND Addison's Disease, AND Hypothyroidism. Triple whammy. And, it's not healthy to push myself to exercise when dealing with this level of exhaustion and illness. So I'm temporarily postponing the 100 days of exercise thing. I'll try to keep up with the blogging, but I'm not promising anything. Basically I need to give myself license to rest and just rebuild and focus on getting better. Dr. Doug Leber (a friend of a friend) diagnosed me using electro-dermal scanning, which has been proven to be very accurate and is widely used in Germany and Europe, but (naturally) is not widely recognized here in the States. And Dr. Leber is only in town for a short visit, then he's heading home to Texas. And my local N.D. is insisting on doing all her own tests, so it will be early December before I get an action plan from her. Which is kind of scary because having Addison's means my adrenal glands are not working. They're dead or dying. And the adrenals are very important, they control blood sugar, mineral balance in the blood, energy and how the body responds to stress, and more. I need to be on adrenal hormone replacement. Most Addisonians need to be on adrenal hormone replacement for life. If I get in a stressful or emergency type situation when I'm not on hormone replacement, I'm at risk for having an Addisonian Crisis, which can lead to coma or even death as my body can't depend on cortisol and/or adrenaline from the adrenals, to deal with the crisis. And the mono and other problems I'm dealing with are already a further stress on the adrenals. Lord, help me to have patience! It's hard to believe I have to wait at least another month and a half before getting the medication I need. Well, maybe we'll be able to find a way around this. There has to be some way of making this doctor see the urgency of the situation. We did send off a blood spot and saliva test that we ordered independently, before we saw the doctor. Maybe when we get the results of that back, it if it's clear enough that my cortisol levels are dangerously low, the doctor will agree to start me on some kind of replacement, even before she gets the results of her tests back and figures out a grand master plan of treatment.