Fibro Wednesday is upon us once again

Hello my lovelies,

I have been really quiet for the past few days as my fibro has taken over and caused a flare up. So I have spent a lot of time resting and not being online.

I have decided that I am going to blog about my weightloss starting today. I am hoping that losing weight will help my symptoms. So in order to keep a log of the difference I will be trying to blog everyday with my symptoms and my eating habits.

I have been reading up on things that are harmful to us who suffer. I am going to try going off Dairy and Caffeine. I will substitute my dairy products for Soya instead. Which means I can still have my yoghurts and cereals without touching Dairy products. I have also been reading about the effects of sugar in my diet so instead I will look in to a more suitable alternative to sweeten my decaf drinks. For ex honey which is what I use in my herbals teas so this will perhaps help. I will let you know the outcome of that.

I cannot say that I will be doing more exercise, however as you know I do walk my inlaws dog every other night so at least I am getting that amount of exercise. Perhaps in time I will be able to do more. For now I know my limits. I am currently 175lbs. I will weigh again next wednesday. If you would like me to do a Vlog about this on my Youtube Channel please let me know and from next week on I will do that.

I am currently feeling like I have gone 2 steps forward 1 step back. Last Monday I went shopping in the afternoon with Lynne, then Tuesday night I was silly and did a long walk with Toby, ended up at my mums house, although it was nice to get a snuggle with her, the next day I spent the whole day long at my lovely Lindsay's house, then Friday I went to the Market and then walked Toby in the evening. The next day I could not get out of bed, I was in so much pain and staying awake was so hard. That persisted right through until Monday. I was talking to people over the weekend that I don't even remember being on the phone to. I was texting people gobbledigoock it was crazy. I was laughing so much reading back over what I had sent. I was dreaming I was putting on makeup and woke up actually doing the actions. So today I was up and about again and had a wee short trip in to town. I wasn't overdoing it, I was being sensible. I came home and could not stay awake and kept dozing off. So I need to rest tomorrow/today, it is currently 1:10am so it is in that Limbo stage lol.

Anyway I have uploaded one video for my fibro update so far I will film the other one later today. The first one is http://youtu.be/ozO3wKfO6wM at this link.

I think I have rambled enough for tonight. I will chat to you all tomorrow. Love you all. Goodnight. xx

I am sleep typing lol

Hello my lovelies,

I went out today again on my own whoop whoop!! I got a bus to central station and a train in to lisburn to meet my bestie Lindsay and her cutie pie of a baby girl. I was so anxious getting ready and actually on the bus going to the train station. I hate that so much of my independence has been taken away from me with this illness. I spent the most part of the journey texting between lynne and lindsay and that helped keep me calm and not focus on what I was doing.

We went to the local shopping centre, and I was so good, I have bought no makeup today!! My ban is going so well, I am very proud of that!! Anyway Linds and I stopped in to Costa, I had a gorgeous Raspberry Iced Tea and she had yummy Vanilla Latte, anyway thats not so exciting lol. We got the most gorgeous sandwiches from a place called Daltons, Oh man if you are ever in Lisburn I urge you to go there and try the sandwiches. I had this gorgeous brown sub called Big Smokey it had bbq sauce crispy bacon chicken and brie aww man it was so yummy.

Anyway after scaring Danny and chatting with Kurtis it was home time I was out for 6 hours, even though a few of those hours were spent sitting on a sofa, I got home and totally fell apart the pain was ridiculous and I could not stay awake I fell asleep while Thomas massaged my back after changing my pain patches, I woke up two hours later, couldn't even eat dinner. I am just watching Teen Mom2 and updating my blog as I didn't do one yesterday. I can hardly focus on what I am typing so I didn't get any filming or planning done tonight hopefully will sleep well tonight and get some work done tomorrow.

I was thinking of doing a video on doing my nails with my sensationail products perhaps that is what I will do for this weeks beauty episode on Friday.

Anyway guys hope you are all doing well. I am getting my hot water bottle ready, a cup of hot chocolate and going to bed with my Kitties and my Ipad and hope for sleep.

God Bless, Love you all,

Lyndsey xxx

Monday Blues Again

Hello my lovelies, I am in so much pain this evening that it I could cry. I have had quite a busy weekend. Between filming, visiting family and going to the Fair yesterday I was really exhausted and hardly slept last night at all.

But I still got up today and actually made my first solo trip in to town on my own in over a year. I was meeting my friend Lynne. The one you will see in a lot of my videos lol. We were doing a little shopping and looking for something for Lynne to wear to her special dinner that she does not know anything about it except that it is happening. Anyway I spent too much time walking ooooops and now in even more agony than I started in.

I have to say though getting out is great for the mind as it makes you feel like every so often you can do normal things. I am going to rest the next day or so and that will help me. I always need to take a few days to rest up after being out and about walking. I just need to learn my proper limits so that I get a happy medium with out being laid up for a few days after being out.

I have been uploading a few videos between yesterday and today. I have shared some vlogs with everyone from my Sunday afternoons out. I always try and save up energy to get out on a Sunday with Lynne and we decided to vlog to show you the very exciting stuff we get up to lol.

We have been shopping to Nutts Corner Market one week and another vlog of being at Planet Fun as well yesterday. It was great fun. We got on the Great Wheel, the Waltzers and the MadMouse Rollercoast. Lynne is not normally one for going on rides like that, but I managed to encourage her to step out of her comfort zone and she actually loved it. The ride to me looks identical to the Primevil Whirl in Animal Kingdom Disney World. I am sure it is built identical. I love it!!

Anyway after all that I am exhausted. I am on a Make up Buying ban because I have so much to check out and review over the next month before I can really justify buying anymore.... Boooohooooo I am finding it so hard. I have so many things I want to buy!! The Rimmel Wake Me Up Founation, Barry M Gelly Nail Polishes, Sensationail Gel Polish and another new type of Gel like Polish I have seen now. Man I could go nuts buying.

I really need to get some storage though before I can buy anymore make up. I want some acrylic drawers for my desk for the products I use most. The others are in big plastic drawers I got in Poundstretchers which hold loads of stuff. But I still have some stuff in really cheap boxes I got from the poundshop, they were great for me and my beads and stuff.

As some of you know I am a jewellery maker though I gave up trying to make a business from it. I was thinking of making some tutorials for you all to check out. Are any of you jewellery makers that would appreciate seeing some jewellery making designs and stuff??

Anyway I am heading off for the night. I have some more videos to upload but think I will leave them for a few days and not over load you with videos lol.

Love you all,

Lyndsey xxx

Overwhelmingly tired today but still had a nice day anyway.

Hey my lovely friends,

Last night I never slept a wink, I just lay there tossing and turning. But this morning I still managed to have a lovely time with my sister. She came to see me bringing gorgeous biscuits and also the most yummy mexican wraps for my dinner tonight. Oh my days were they delicious!! Anyway we had coffee, we chatted and I got my beautimous facial hair waxed :-) Had a nice afternoon with my darling husband. I also got to see my lovely in laws for a while and have a cuppa with Lynne too. In an absolutely shattered state this morning but I pushed through and enjoyed the day. Surprisingly at 23:13 I am still wide awake and not falling asleep yet. Anyway I don't have a lot health wise to blog about today lol.

I am currently sitting on my recliner watching Greys Anatomy and researching make up looks for Mondays Beauty video. Did you see my video on Gel Nail Polish? If so what did you think of it?

I am absolutely loving doing my videos and I really hope they are as good as I want them to be. I always worry that people will think they are rubbish but hey I can only do my best. It has been a really good outlet for me with my conditions to have something to focus on. I have found that sitting every Sunday and planning the week ahead and what I want to film, what I want to research and where I need to go to get bits and pieces for it. It gives me a routine and feels like I have a 'job' albeit unpaid but it keeps my mind active and stops me from wallowing and falling deeper in my depression. I have a wipe board on my wall that I write everything that I need to do each day and also have a to do list on the side of that. I mark everything off as it happens, but I do have days that I cannot do what I have planned so I mark it off as too ill to work. It also helps me keep my pain and sickness diary up to date also.

I feel like this post has kind of been a whole ramble of things lol, but hey what can you do, this is how my brain works all rambled.

Sending loving prayers and gentle hugs to all my followers.

Lyndsey xxx

Walks like a duck quacks like a duck it must be a duck!! Wrong!!

Hey hey everyone, my first ever blog post ooooh how exciting for you all!!

As if you don't get enough of me lol. Well I have had this in the works for a while but hadn't actually done anything to set it up but I was just watching Greys Anatomy (ep 19 of season 9) and it really hit me.

The storyline I am talking about is a lady comes in with her son saying he is sick. She has been told by a doctor he has a virus but she is not convinced so she has come back to ask for more help. They do tests, it shows up that he has strep. She gets a prescription and leaves with her son. The next day she is back again, saying her son is getting worse not better. She has looked up on the internet and has this while big list of things it could be. She is going crazy not knowing what is going on but knows that there is something wrong with her son. The doctors are adamant that it is strep as that is what the test results said and they couldn't find anything else wrong with him. Nothing came up on the ct scan or on other blood tests. In doctor Greys words, 'if it walks like strep and talks like strep it must be strep' going on symptoms and blood test results. Ok so hours pass the mum is going crazy asking for help and they say sorry we cannot help we will have to discharge him. Short time later they are looking at his charts on their savvy new tablets they carry around and the results change from positive strep to negative which means it isn't strep. So any way they figured out quickly what was wrong with him and it was one of the things the mum had mentioned.

You may be wondering what my point is, or perhaps you have fallen asleep with boredom lol. My point is this.... We 'chronic pain and fatigue sufferers' spend so much time back and forward to the doctors trying to get help and for a lot of us it takes so long to finally get the right diagnosis. A few years ago I went through a period of having swine flu then glandular fever only to find out it was actually ulcers and a germ in my duodenum. Even once we find out what is wrong, when we go to the doctors we find ourselves continually being told that what is wrong with us is actually just a symptom of our already diagnosed illness. I have been told lots of times that it is just my Fibro, just my fibro, or before that it was all down to my underactive thyroid! Even though I knew it wasn't.

The reason I am talking about this is because I want you to remember that you know your body better than any doctor! So if you think something is wrong, chances are then something is wrong! Do not give up the fight no matter how tired and frustrated you get! It will be worth it in the end to finally get help for what you are suffering with.

Anyway guys it is 1:20am and I have to go to bed. I have a new beauty upload for you all later today. Hope you are looking forward to that. :-)

Love you all.
Lyndsey Milligan