And I’m so glad.  there have been two predictable times in the last month when I’ve had horrible migraines and been in bed for a day or two.  But not “bedridden” like I’ve been in the past. Just went to bed early/slept in and took it very easy.  Otherwise I’ve had days where I feel great and I’ve had days where I felt enh but I’ve gone from living with my pain, on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the worst), at a 7 with sometimes getting worse and sometimes getting a little better, and a 5 being a GREAT day, to days that are more like 2 or 3 and sometimes getting to a 5.  7 is where I’d rate the couple of bad days I’ve had.  Granted this is my scale and my threshhold for pain is apparently way higher than most people and I ignore more pain than most people can handle but . . . for me this is a huge improvement!

I got a Trocanter Belt (it arrived Friday!) and I’ve been wearing it yesterday and today.  Not sure if I can explain this well in the written word, but there is an upside down triangle in the lower back from the Sciatic points on top down to the coccyx that drops in during pregnancy and as my stomach muscles have tightened again after pregnancy it’s pulled back into place.  With the twins it dropped in very low and then the c-section left my muscles trashed and it’s never pulled back up.  So my lower back looks literally sunken in.  This belt is given to women who break their hip in pregnancy and it holds the whole hip/sciatic/lower back area in place.  I wore it yesterday and where I’m normally hobbled over in pain by the end of a long day–especially on Saturday–I was fine yesterday. And it was a really long day.

I woke up sore today and started my day–wasn’t feeling well–bending over–and put on the belt . . . upright, feeling much better!

Add in the supplements, the support for my liver, adrenals, hormones, etc.  It’s really worth the effort. I’m down to taking muscle relaxants only a couple of nights a week.

This next week I have to go do a thyroid panel and send in a Cortisol test and I’ll get a lot of answers in two weeks at my appointment.  I’m really excited.