This week I learned that taking the renavite might be important...Hahaha. 
I think the renavite may have something to do with my fingertips hurting.  According to something I read, neuropathy pain can be helped by using a multivitamin and folate and a B vitamin.
I had not been taking my renavites regularly.  I am taking twice the dose now.  But only for a few days.  I think I am going to increase my folic acid also. 
I am also using capsaisin.  I have not used it in a couple of days though.  On Sunday I did not have to do a tx but I realized something on Saturday.....  unscrewing and screwing those lines hurts my fingers a lot.  So, what I have decided to do is use my tools whenever necessary.  On Thrs or Frid I decided that I would no longer be "tapping" taht kidney on my palm the way I was taught to.  I fugured that over time that would cause too much damage to an already fragile area.  So, now I "tap" the kidney on the machine. 
So, today I am not having any pain or tingling in my left thumb or index finger.   I am hoping that I can soon find out what works. 
I also realize that I have not been taking my benadryl as diligently as I was when I first started HHD.  I write that for two reasons,  One is because my inflammation(the crackling)  is not acting up too much without it.  But Two, I think that my arm is more swollen up without it.  So, I am back to taking Benadryl again.  The reason I stopped taking it was because it made me so sleepy.  I would take it before I began my treatment in the past.  But it would make me so sleepy during txt.  that I didn't really like taking it.  See, once I would finish with my txt I couldn't go back to sleep.  So, I stopped taking it. 
But now I realize that I still need to take it, if not for the crackling, at least for the swelling in my arm that I am suffering with.  (I noticed that since I stopped the Benadryl, I was having a lot of pain in my arm, during txt and even after txt was over.) 
So, I figure that I had better start taking it again.  This time, though, I am going to take it after I am finished with txt.  and before I go to my other bed.  This way I can get some sleep when I really need it.
Monday, November 5, 2007
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