Miscellany

I've been on the Crestor for a couple of days now, and I seem to be tolerating it well so far. Whenever you take a new drug, the docs always tell you about the millions of different side effects it can cause. Since I am a hypochondriac, this is never a good thing, as I wind up experiencing half of them. So eventually I got smart and didn't read the drug information sheets until after I've taken a drug for a while, so I don't make anything up.

But you got to wonder what all these drugs I'm taking are affecting my body and my mood. Whenever I am not feeling good, I have to wonder if my pains and aches are part of the healing process, or if it is just all the drugs in my system.

Taking all of these drugs sometimes
make me a little loopy.

For example, I've had this nerve pain above my left rib cage whenever I stretch my left arm. I had this once before in January, and it went away after a week or so. My intuition is that it is probably trapped fluid and not a muscle strain, since it comes and goes throughout the day. Or maybe, they are swollen lymph nodes. Anyway, I get a lot of these little things which bother me, but go away before you start to get too worried about them. It is nerve-wracking sometimes.