sept 29 2009

Happy birthday, Helen.

Cardiologist did ultrasound, heart okay. He actually suggested that my general 'constellation' of symptoms, the larger eye/neurological thing, could be an "MS variant". I didn't know about variants, but I've often thought this condition might be vaguely MS-like, and that the wearing away of the fatty insulation around nerve fibers (which is what MS is), and resulting excess "noise" in the nervous system, might explain the neurological "overload" I experience, the sense of "current" (electrical).

I'm trying to arrange a CT scan to look into that left side of my face where an infection, or something, is going on. Antibiotics in the meantime.

Big arthritis flare-up, worsening. It's settled mostly in my right wrist. It's swelled and covered with rash (it's psoriatic arthritis, rash comes with it). The wrist's much wider now including the bone, so will it ever go back to normal? I wonder if I bought some bad glucosamine. I'll get a different brand soon. Connection between infection and worse arthritis? They seem to coincide. Three immune system factors at same time: EI, arthritis, apparent infection. I can't even form a proper question in my head about this. What's it all mean?

I thought of looking up information on the biochemistry of vision, since light is affecting my nervous system and brain in a very unusual way. Something's wrong somewhere in all those steps between light hitting the retina and the signal reaching the brain, right? As always though, the moment I start I have to stop, because of the eyes, and I can't remember much of what I've learned.