It’s been a little more than 2 weeks since I started on the Vitamin D, but the last 10 days were very hectic so I’ve only just found the time to sit down and write something coherent.

Since starting on the vitamin D tablets as mentioned in my last post I’ve had a lot going on. I did some nights shifts, I spent 4 days living out of my camper van at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, I squeezed in a 5k run and some serious music geekery with a friend and then another day of work in London before shooting back off to Wiltshire via Dorset to support my lovely fella as he rode in the Vets Motocross des Nations. That involved 3 days in a tent and then a kamikaze train journey from Wiltshire back to London in time to grab a flight to Verona to do a day of sightseeing and see the brilliant David Gilmour play at the beautiful Verona arena. The Lamberti Tower is where I got the photo above, just to prove I’m still smiling and not an exhausted husk of a human being. It was back to London first thing the next morning in time for a few hours of recovery time before going back to work on Wednesday. Occasionally I don’t make life easy for myself, but it’s almost always fun 🙂

So apart from doing my best to exhaust myself I’ve somehow managed to take the vitamin D tablets every day except for one – that was the day I arrived back from Verona. My way of dealing with the cognitive problems caused by MS is to be a creature of habit. It works well for me and ensures that I (usually) take medication, remember where I need to be and don’t lose things. As soon as something throws that routine out then all bets are off and I put stuff in stupid places and forget appointments and medication. I’m sure everyone can relate to that to some extent but I can promise you that the gaping chasm of confusion and inability to process even simple things that MS causes is far worse than everyone’s daily scatterbrained actions caused by being too busy. Even though I have been taking Copaxone injections every day for 11 years now it only takes a small change in my routine for me to completely forget to take a dose. Bearing that in mind, I’m pretty pleased that I have so far only forgotten to take the vitamin D on one day. But has it made any difference? So far, it’s difficult to tell because I haven’t been doing my normal day-to-day things recently. But what I can say is that I’ve felt generally less fatigued than usual, and the tightness and stiffness in my left hamstring has disappeared completely. As I mentioned in my previous post, that tightness had been around for ten days or so with no improvement despite doing regular stretches. It hung around for another week and then disappeared almost overnight. I have certainly been tired quite a lot from time to time due to the rushing about, but that’s different to fatigue and in general I’ve felt pretty good compared to the norm over the previous couple of months. There may be other factors at work – the shifts for my new job are undoubtedly still having a positive effect, and doing so many fun things has also boosted my general happiness which always has a physical effect as well. I will keep on with it and keep noting any effect both positive and negative.

Apart from that there isn’t much to add. I have been offered a 6-month fixed-term role in my job so I will get perks such as holiday pay and sick pay. No word yet on when that will start but it will be nice to take some time off without worrying about losing money, so I hope it happens soon. Less worry and more time off is always good! Talking of worrying about money, a trip to LA to visit some wonderful friends is the next big thing looming in the middle of October. I hope it’s possible get something cheap like pot noodles in LA because I’ll need to spend as little as possible. Eeek!

Thanks for reading 🙂
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