There are times when I feel that our bodies should have come with owner’s manuals. If mine did, I’d have been sifting through the pages for the list of warning signs and their meanings. Instead, I was left to my deductive reasoning.
The issue started so subtly that it could have easily gone unnoticed. It was one of those, something-is-different sort of things. However slowly, it grew in intensity over the a couple of weeks…until it finally became obvious that I had a big problem on my hand. In my quest to pull together the chain of events, I’d been searching my emails, tweets, receipts, and text messages for days trying to piece together hints on what happened when. Initially sure that one of the newly added nutritional supplements was the cause of the subtle changes (which were not thought to be bad, just different), my focus was on when I’d started each one (in staggered-like fashion), when frequency of each had been increased, and see if there was a correlation to the growing intensity of my body’s messages. I then searched the internet for side effects (good, bad, and indifferent) previously observed. There was nothing noted quite like what I’d been experiencing.
I was perplexed. What else could it be?