Overall my health is doing overall well. Recently I have noticed within the past couple of weeks I have had some cramping in my stomach (near the belly button). On October 19, 2024 I went out to dinner and had some burger sliders and a brownie sundae to celebrate passing a designation and had some loose bowel movements. What is odd is I felt the cramping the day of October 19 when I had my exam. I wasn't stressed about the exam or anything and was strange that my pain occurred at the same time. My sleep has been fairly decent, although maybe once a week I wake up in the middle night to take a hot shower and go back to bed. For me what usually keeps me up is looking at my cell phone (I think even though I wear protective blue light glasses) it can create issues with my sleep. A couple of days this week I had some exceptional sleep and slept for probably 9 hours. Even with the extended sleep I had some minor cramping but not super noticeable. What is interesting is I wrote a blog post almost 10 years to the day of cramping and a mini flare up
here.
As I write this I feel just a tinge in my stomach and really nothing really to complain too much about. My bowel movements are still solid and able to still eat well without any issues. After my bowel movements the cramping does go away. My weight this morning was 166 pounds (recently it got as high as 170 pounds). My nutritionist would like to see me get down to 162 pounds which is on the low end but I think is doable.
My usual path will be to continue trying to get to sleep and not eat anything too heavy and should be fine. I am always grateful I am still in a good position and am grateful Humira is still working after 12+ years of being on it! My nephew who will be 3 soon is ready to go Trick-Or-Treating tomorrow night so we will have fun and I rarely eat candy on Halloween too.
