It's the day before I head home for Xmas vacation. I've been SOOOO damned excited, & waiting very impatiently for it to be today. Though the excitement is also combined with my usual anxiety about international flights-- namely, I worry about missing them. This worry is slightly more complicated because Korea's public transportation doesn't run 24/7, even to the airport, so worrying that I'll be able to catch a bus to get to the train station OR take some buses (or mostly likely a cab) 2 metro stops away because that's where the airport shuttle is to get me there in time.
This was SOMEWHAT allayed by people saying that Gimpo is SO small & not busy compared to Incheon that you really only need arrive 25-30 minutes before your international flight! Naturally though, I still worry, what if this time is the exception? But more than that, it's been everyone trying to get me to take the airport shuttle, instead of taking 2 metro trains. The shuttle ride only takes 45 minutes to the train's 90.
No, it's that the shuttle buses go first to Gimpo, then on to Incheon, & come from a big suburb S of us, so everyone said to buy a ticket, you need to get there at least an hour before you need to leave, because that's when the tickets sell out, & you don't want to have to wait another 15-30 minutes or whenever the next one leaves/has tickets still available. I've gone back & forth, but am determining it'll take the same amount of time including waiting in lines to buy tickets & running with the crowd to get on the bus, only to probably have to stand the whole way anyway. At least 1/2 my metro trip I should have no issue getting a seat, & won't have to deal with trying to buy an extra ticket. Not to mention I'm SUPER short on money now with the holidays, so paying an extra 6,000-9,000 won isn't ideal. Still, I worry.
Which means, every night I lay in bed either anxious or super excited, & can't sleep. Even with melatonin, it's a struggle. & then, every morning just this week, I wake up @ 9 to go to the bathroom, then can't sleep again for another hour, so I've only just gotten back to sleep for maybe an hour or so when the alarm goes off. As a result, I'm really tired tonight, but still have to workout, pack, shower, & then try to get A LITTLE sleep before I get up to leave. Thankfully, I've been able to scoot wake up time from 4:30 to before 6 so I can ideally be at the train station just before 6 to catch the train. & I can't sleep on planes. Soooooo, I'll be a SUPER DUPER sleep deprived mess!
All of this has resulted in a big old breakout (though I suppose it COULD be the cream that was in my lunch this week, it'd be the first time I've had an issue with milk. Not discounting it, but seems less likely given that I reintroduced dairy months ago & it has been fine since then.) Now my hands are in slightly bad shape too because last night I cleaned. I always clean very thoroughly before a trip abroad so when I come home, everything's clean & nice. My place was trashed, because I put it off knowing I'd be doing it last night. Maybe that's why I got my first-ever bleach burns. I did spend 3 hours cleaning the tiny kitchen surfaces & entire small bathroom. I always clean with bleach & baking soda, but last night I guess it was a bit too much. Maybe because it's winter too.
Here's hoping ALL of this starts clearing up, healing, & preventing my sleep asap. Because I intend to enjoy every second I'm home & not here!
Friday, December 22, 2017
Saturday, December 9, 2017
So, here I am,
face broken out AGAIN because of whatever is in the supplements they doctor gave me because my test showed I was short on them. I stopped taking the fiber supplement, thinking it MUST be a grain, but the psyllium husk, which is what mine is, is from a shrub, and the granules are made from the husk of that.
I started breaking out slightly last week. But then came the Xmas party. You know, the one where they'd have paleo options for me. Wellllll, sort of. She DID have turkey, but with cranberry sauce (some with citrus, some without, which is a big trigger for me), IN BUNS. With wheat it's in for a penny, in for a pound. So even picking the filling off the bread was useless really, though I kept doing that.
The other problem was the veggies: roasted squash (fine) with bell peppers (NOT fine). I knew I'd break out from that, but hopefully not too badly.
Tuesday I went back to the doctor to do the second week in the SIBO course (there are 2), & she decided to up my fiber to twice/day, plus gave me these big chewables of L-Carnitine, which taste (& smell) fishy but are flavored with mint, also twice/day.
So I was anticipating a breakout from the Xmas party fare, but Wednesday after the workout it went from a few of the painful pustules to red, scaly skin on the forehead, redness on the chin with more pustules, plus a little redness next to either nostril, all of which slightly burns. Annnnd, it still hasn't cleared up much. I had 2 turmeric milks & used the raw honey & turmeric masks Thurs, both of which really help with inflammation, but didn't yesterday so while it was a little better on Friday, today (Saturday) not so much. So, maybe it was/is the L-carnitine + the peppers & wheat & citrus? Because that shit makes a good mess of my skin, takes a couple days to show up (though not nearly a week), & then takes weeks to clear up.
The other issue is that from what I've read online about SIBO, I'd have to stop eating broccoli, & a bunch of other stuff, no dairy... given how restricted my diet already is, that's seriously too much. I had zucchini this week, which is fine, & carrots, which are too, but God. & THEN online they say SIBO almost always comes back, & it sounds rather like a no-win battle. So why the hell am I even doing this?? Well, I didn't know that until I looked online. & this is from Dr. Josh Axe's site, not a all-these-doctors-agree thing.
Sooo, this is sucking. Why is health so hard here, as well as everything else?
To make matters worse, I'm really out of money because I needed a winter coat & new hat, then got a sweater, so that's an extra $150 I was out of. Plus Costco cost more since I had to pay the membership. Hence, I have around $20-$30 to get me to Thursday. & that, I believe, is when they deduct my public transport usage (though maybe it's my phone, too). Sooooo, such good times.
In other news? Hmmm, not sure that there really IS much other news. OH! Well one bit of good news. As background, I skipped my workouts Tuesday & Thursday, Tuesday b/c I got NO sleep & had to be up early for the doc, Thursday b/c my skin broke out & I hoped that skipping would help, but those are leg days, & I'm rehabbing my weak right quad, so I do twice the workout on that leg, minus HIIT, so the workouts take 1.5 hours. I'm focusing on improving my balance & flexibility too, so Friday I did my 9 minute balance workout, then another 10 minute yoga balance video, followed by a 25 minute one for strength & flexibility (my legs were really tight yesterday too). Then, just to help ameliorate my slight unhappiness about skipping 2 days, I did the 30 minute HIIT yoga video that I used to do after HIIT, that was always rather hard. & this time (I guess because no HIIT preceding it? that or I HAVE improved!), it was a good challenge, but nowhere near as hard as it always was.
Just in case you're interested/want to try it, I'll post it below. Good for strength, balance, & flexibility, though you've got to be pretty experienced with yoga to follow her speed. & I finished it all up with a 15 yoga leg stretch I do after my leg workouts. So, I'm hoping I've actually just made some improvements in my strength & endurance, though I suppose the absence of HIIT is what really helped, lol.
I started breaking out slightly last week. But then came the Xmas party. You know, the one where they'd have paleo options for me. Wellllll, sort of. She DID have turkey, but with cranberry sauce (some with citrus, some without, which is a big trigger for me), IN BUNS. With wheat it's in for a penny, in for a pound. So even picking the filling off the bread was useless really, though I kept doing that.
The other problem was the veggies: roasted squash (fine) with bell peppers (NOT fine). I knew I'd break out from that, but hopefully not too badly.
Tuesday I went back to the doctor to do the second week in the SIBO course (there are 2), & she decided to up my fiber to twice/day, plus gave me these big chewables of L-Carnitine, which taste (& smell) fishy but are flavored with mint, also twice/day.
So I was anticipating a breakout from the Xmas party fare, but Wednesday after the workout it went from a few of the painful pustules to red, scaly skin on the forehead, redness on the chin with more pustules, plus a little redness next to either nostril, all of which slightly burns. Annnnd, it still hasn't cleared up much. I had 2 turmeric milks & used the raw honey & turmeric masks Thurs, both of which really help with inflammation, but didn't yesterday so while it was a little better on Friday, today (Saturday) not so much. So, maybe it was/is the L-carnitine + the peppers & wheat & citrus? Because that shit makes a good mess of my skin, takes a couple days to show up (though not nearly a week), & then takes weeks to clear up.
The other issue is that from what I've read online about SIBO, I'd have to stop eating broccoli, & a bunch of other stuff, no dairy... given how restricted my diet already is, that's seriously too much. I had zucchini this week, which is fine, & carrots, which are too, but God. & THEN online they say SIBO almost always comes back, & it sounds rather like a no-win battle. So why the hell am I even doing this?? Well, I didn't know that until I looked online. & this is from Dr. Josh Axe's site, not a all-these-doctors-agree thing.
Sooo, this is sucking. Why is health so hard here, as well as everything else?
To make matters worse, I'm really out of money because I needed a winter coat & new hat, then got a sweater, so that's an extra $150 I was out of. Plus Costco cost more since I had to pay the membership. Hence, I have around $20-$30 to get me to Thursday. & that, I believe, is when they deduct my public transport usage (though maybe it's my phone, too). Sooooo, such good times.
In other news? Hmmm, not sure that there really IS much other news. OH! Well one bit of good news. As background, I skipped my workouts Tuesday & Thursday, Tuesday b/c I got NO sleep & had to be up early for the doc, Thursday b/c my skin broke out & I hoped that skipping would help, but those are leg days, & I'm rehabbing my weak right quad, so I do twice the workout on that leg, minus HIIT, so the workouts take 1.5 hours. I'm focusing on improving my balance & flexibility too, so Friday I did my 9 minute balance workout, then another 10 minute yoga balance video, followed by a 25 minute one for strength & flexibility (my legs were really tight yesterday too). Then, just to help ameliorate my slight unhappiness about skipping 2 days, I did the 30 minute HIIT yoga video that I used to do after HIIT, that was always rather hard. & this time (I guess because no HIIT preceding it? that or I HAVE improved!), it was a good challenge, but nowhere near as hard as it always was.
Just in case you're interested/want to try it, I'll post it below. Good for strength, balance, & flexibility, though you've got to be pretty experienced with yoga to follow her speed. & I finished it all up with a 15 yoga leg stretch I do after my leg workouts. So, I'm hoping I've actually just made some improvements in my strength & endurance, though I suppose the absence of HIIT is what really helped, lol.
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