Well, that explains all the back pain I’ve been having!

My Valtrex prescription ended up only being $118 (instead of $190 they misquoted on the phone). Walmart was about $80 cheaper. I have no idea how CVS and Rite Aid can remain in business.  Unbelievable.

Those fuckers are huge horse pills, I hate that. They said a common side effect is dizziness and I have a little of it but not too bad. Between only getting 3 hours of sleep last night (bed very late, up very early, yuck) and cooking dinner from 4:30 until 7:45 tonight, I’m fried.

But dinner was good, the kids loved it. When I was cooking, I made a game of giving them the Myers-Briggs test. When I was working at QI, I had a management course and they had a test where you get 15 sets of 4 words and have to choose one.  Many of the words were not easy words, so I had to define them.  So they learned about 25 new vocabulary words, learned about their personalities and the differences between us, and had fun for an hour and a half because it was a game!

It was hard though, having no sleep today and cooking for 3 hours, my back has been hurting but at least now I have an explanation.  Some people have very severe pain, I just have light pain (most of the time) and bad itching. I have itchy spots on other parts of my body but they so far are not bad and usually short-lived before moving on (usually to a new location), not any worse than how my skin usually is. I hope it isn’t too late starting the meds because I’d hate to spend $118 for nothing. It feels very strange, like a sunburn on my lower back, itching around my waistband from my sides to just barely onto the front of my body. and if it’s itchy and you scratch or touch it, it usually hurts immediately, but not always, it’s unpredictable. I had a flash of pain that felt like I got stabbed in the back with an ice pick, but it only lasted the duration of a camera flash. And you feel like heat and movement, like there are tiny worms in there sometimes but not always.  It’s constantly both itchy and hurting a little bit. The back pain is annoying, like I strained it, but I haven’t needed to take anything for it. I hope it doesn’t get much worse. I have spots on my body that if I press on them, feels like a bruise. It’s very strange. I don’t like it, but it is somewhat interesting. It feels a little bit like the body that I am inhabiting is not the same one all the time. It’s as different sometimes as the difference between what your body feels like when you are drunk compared to sober. It’s not very attractive to look at, so I won’t be finding any playmates in the near future LOL

My doctor was surprised that I got it so young.  They usually do not vaccinate for this until you’re 50.  If I were you, I wouldn’t wait that long.