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Skin troubles?

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My skin has been breaking out more often lately. I’m not sure what’s going on.

I’ve always had very clear skin and I didn’t have to use too many products to maintain my skin. However, just in the last month or so I’ve noticed that my skin is breaking out more often.

I started a new medication in August for my Migraines. It’s an anti-convulsive. Acne is listed as one of the infrequent side effects … perhaps that’s what’s going on? Either that or it’s hormones.

Anyway, it’s not too bad yet, but I want to try to get the blemishes under control before things get worse. Maybe later I’ll do a little research into what kind of acne treatment might suit my skin. I have very sensitive skin so I need to use products that are gentle on my skin – that’s anything from soaps, cleansers, to cosmetics.

Any suggestions?





On my own for the day

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My husband is out of town today. Normally he has Monday’s off, but this week, he changed shifts with someone at work and he ended up having today off.

As it happens that worked out well for him, because on Sunday evening we found out that a close friend of ours father had passed away. The visitation and funeral is out of town … in my husbands home town, so early this morning he got his things together and drove out of town for the day.

I didn’t go with him because I haven’t been feeling very well for the last week or so. I’ve had awful abdominal pain .. maybe yet another Crohn’s flare. Although oddly enough I’m feeling a little bit better today (hopefully that continues!). He went early so that he could see his parents and he had to go over to his aunts. We’re storing our pop up trailer on her property and she didn’t like where it was parked so he had to move it to the back of her yard.

Anyway … because of all the phone calls last night making arrangements for todays trip our PVR is pretty full! All the new and returning TV shows started again last night and we didn’t get a chance to watch very many of the ones we taped. We only watched House, Chuck and Weeds (from Sunday night). Tonight I’m taping a bunch of shows and I don’t think my husband will be home until 10:30 or later. I’ll probably watch a few shows that I don’t think he’ll be that interested in … but I think our PVR will be at about 90% by the time he gets home! LOL So early in the TV season and it will already be full. Oh boy.

So I guess tonight I’m eating alone, walking the dog on my own, and spending most of the evening on my own too. Sigh … Oh well .. at least this trip out of town should cut out the trip we were planning for this coming weekend to take care of the trailer.

When Chris does get home I’m going to try some acnepril. I’ve been breaking out lately so I figure this is worth a try. I’ll let you know in a couple of weeks if it’s helping.

Ok … off to feed the dog!

I have awful sleep habits

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Do you have good sleep habits?

Mine are horrible! I’ve never been an early to bed early to rise type of person. Oh and I can go to bed early and get up early in the morning if I have to – but if I don’t have to … well, I stay up late, typically midnight or later and get up when I have to and not before.

By this I mean, If I have to work at 7:30 a.m. I’ll go to bed at midnight and get up at 5:30 in the morning in order to be to work on time and I’ll get by on that 5.5 hours sleep just fine. But if I have a chance to sleep in, if I don’t have to work, or if I’m working later I’ll sleep later and I’ll go to bed later.

Since I’ve been off work on medical leave my sleep habits are worse than ever. I often go to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and sleep until 10 or 11 in the morning. I guess it could be worse, but if I ever want to get back on a more regular schedule I need to start getting to bed earlier and getting up at least by 9. right?

maybe if I were to take a sleeping aid like Melatonin or something it might help me go to bed a bit earlier each night until my sleeping hours were little more acceptable.

What are your sleep habits like? Do you go to bed early or late?

Forgetting to eat? Yep

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This is a strange thing for me to have to say but I think I’m going to have to start eating MORE.

I was just saying on my main blog that ever since I started taking a new medication for my migraines (that’s working for the most part) I’ve been losing weight.

The medication has a lot of side effects and I think I’ve been experiencing most of them. LOL Tingling hands and feet, brain fog, weird vision – ie bright peripheral flashes, trouble finding words, slurring, tiredness, anorexia (lack of appetite), taste perversion (food and drink tastes funny or bad) and of course weight loss. The weight loss may be a simple result of all the side effects making me feel so weird, and of course of having less of an appetite and then when I do try to eat or drink anything it tastes weird, different or just not as good as it used to taste.

The company that makes this migraine medication (actually it’s a drug for epilepsy) actually tried to get it approved as a diet medication but that didn’t work out because of all the other side effects I think.

Anyway … as it stands … I did have some extra weight on me when I started taking this medication but now, as a result of all of the side effects and the weight loss I know I won’t be doing a search for diet pills that really work any time soon … because I’ve lost at least 12 pounds in the last three weeks. Maybe more – the last time I was weighed was at my doctors office and most doctors scales seem to be set a little higher so I might have really lost 15+ pounds.

If this keeps up I’m going to be skinny! So … I think I’d better start eating more often … small snacks every couple of hours just to make sure I’m eating. I’m actually forgetting to eat – that’s not good!

Our Car insurance went up – and we thought it was going down Grrrr

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A week or so ago I wrote a post about how we’d just saved a lot of money on our car and home insurance by making a few adjustments on our policy.

What I didn’t know what as that when we bought our new car near the beginning of August and my husband arranged everything with our insurance company. I thought that our car insurance rates had gone down a little bit – especially after we’d made a few adjustments to our policy a week a later. Boy was I wrong!

I guess with some changes to Ontario Insurance Laws that went into effect in early September and the fact that our car is newer – even though it’s a small 4 door 4 cylinder sedan – safe, efficient and that my husband and I have PERFECT driving records – our car insurance went up by about $60 a month.

GRRRRR

Once I saw how much money they took out of our bank account for the monthly policy payment we gave them a call. Of course their computers went down shortly after we started our talk. Uh huh. Before their computers crashed they did say that our payments had been adjusted upwards to cover the slightly higher expense of the new car coverage and that it will go down in the new year when our new contract starts.

I’m going to be calling them back on Monday to clarify exactly how much we’ll be paying when the new contract starts and their computers better not go down again! If I’m not happy with our conversation I think I’ll be spending sometime checking out prices at other car insurance companies next week and see if we can get a better price. If I do find one, hopefully it will be a company that also has house insurance and gives a discount when you combine car and house coverage. Our currant insurance company gives a 20% discount for combining insurance coverage.

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