I was doing okay, and I am still pretty good. Had a rough one yesterday, but it's my own fault. Pain meds and some rebounds from taking less. I was staggering them where I had more days where I wasn't taking much for pain if anything, but I'm trying to cut back slowly, since I started to take it everyday for a few months there. Soo.... a little bit of a mess I am in.

Not a huge deal, as I am not taking large amounts, but enough to feel it strongly in a negative kinda way if I take lower amounts during the days. I'll figure it out, but I'd rather not take my herbal every single day the way I have been, so yeah, probably will end up being a goal around the beginning of the coming year, God-willing. Maybe I'll have cut back by then, but it is very easy to forget how much these medications and such can change your body over time...

Otherwise, my girlfriend is going through some cancer treatments, and we'll see how it went in a few months. She's pretty weak though since she already had lyme and chronic fatigue etc. (all the usual stuff that people get piled on with no real known internal cause or red flags to check), so I've been helping where I can. Busy as heck the last month or two, and that has been the key reason with it being my main priority pretty much as far as what is in the material world or whatever one would say. Mostly more of the same otherwise. I think I mentioned getting the medicinal MJ since you may have asked about it a while back. It helps a little bit in some ways - kind of depends on strains, but overall it takes the edge off some of my muscles and some tightness or aching occasionally. Doesn't do much for pain, but it's mainly great for my sleep so far. Out of everything, that's what it's improved the most...where no regular pharmaceutical could even come close to helping... I can see the medicinal use for it there for me, but it feels like more of a "well, all traditional medicine is failing you, so we'll give you this to maybe ease some of your pains and add some euphoria, since we ran out of options for you" kind of thing. That's sort of what my prescribing doc said...

Anyway, we'll see how far herbals, traditional meds, and other stuff can take me. Still tons to explore and try. I do not expect to feel like I used to, but I think I can improve my overall health if I continue to search.