Warning, whine session & Question about foot arch cramps.

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Last week, I was, for a change, actually comfortable in bed. But, I forgot my

sleeping socks. I have to wear socks to sleep or I wake up with a scratchy

throat, regardless of how warm it is. Feet must be covered!

However, because I can rarely get comfy in my cocoon of 1001 pillows propping up

every painful body part, I just said, " Phooey! " And rationalized, how silly it

is to believe that no socks can make a person ill, and it was just not worth it

to get up and get the socks and then risk another sleepless night.

Yeah, well. I woke up with a scratchy sore throat. Grumble. That was last

Monday.

With the crazy heat wave in the 100's here in California, I have been overheated

again and again, and it's just not conducive. And then, going from an air

conditioned office out into super heated world doesn't help either. Every

business you go into is blasting Alaska weather, and then outside into the

desert. Back and forth, back and forth.

Gradually onsetting over the past week, until now, today I woke all achy. Every

muscle aching and in spasm. My nose is running like a faucet, my head hurts

from sniffling and blowing my nose. My eyes are puffy and itchy and red. I am

having fever and chills, and today a cough has joined the party. But oddly, I

have absolutely no phlegm. Just normal saliva, etc.

To try to treat myself, because until I do something or until this goes away I'm

stuck with the suffering through it, I just started taking herbal

anti-bacterial/anti-virals today. That should knock things down within a week or

two, but eh, it would probably knock itself off in a week or two. So, just

taking the herbals for good measure, to make sure nothing progresses further.

The back of my throat is not red, again oddly. So, I haven't bothered going to

the doc. I don't think they'd say much. There is no colorful phlegm for them

to investigate, nothing for them to look at. Although, they may be able to

catch a fever on the thermometer, not much else to go on. The shivers and

chills, and aches and pains are all them taking me at my word. I have no proof.

Finally, I had to break down and take some anti-histamines and pseudoephedrine

last night. I hate to take that stuff at night, because it keeps me wide awake

and tossing all night, but I just couldn't take the sneezing, and runny nose.

Note: Not that the meds helped all that much. I even used that steriod nose

spray thing. Note: Another useless product. Sad they had to go and take the

herb ephedra off the market (thanks to the bathtub drug makers). Ephedra would

have cleared all this up like magic.

Anyhow, nothing I have done has helped.

Then, since last Monday, a whole week noe, every night I have been having

strong/bad, painful cramps in the arches of my feet, and only the arches. My

legs and my toes are fine. Just the arches. My feet do this curl up thing then

eek eek pain.

I try to stand and stretch and walk a little, and massage, and put some

eucalyptus cream on them to maybe heat them up (like I read to do on the

internet). I tried the heating pad - yes in the 100 degree heat! Grumble.

But, nothing is ending these cramps.

I'd blame the heat messing with my electrolytes, except that it wasn't so crazy

hot until the end of last week. So, while I probably am dehydrated today, and

now, especially after high heat yesterday, I can't blame dehydration for the

rest of the days, either.

I eat a banana every morning (for potassium, and magnesium), and I take calcium

with magnesium, so I think the electrolytes should be in order.

Does anyone, pretty please, pretty pretty please have some miracle cure for foot

arch spasms? Maybe I should hard soles wear shoes to sleep? (I'm not even sure

that would help, but it might stop my feet from curling).

Any ideas? On any of it?

Jade