I wake up shaking like a leaf – my left leg is going nineteen to the dozen, and it seems very strange. I was so frustrated with my voice last night (I was slurring like a drunkard) that I decided to switch my DBS off to see if my clarity of speech would improve (it did, to a degree), and my tremor was unbelievably under control, which was a complete surprise (until I remembered that I had had some cannabis). I left my power off overnight to see if some of the residual slurring would be eradicated – it wasn’t, and during the night my tremor had returned with a vengeance (because the cannabis wore off). I switch my neurostimulator back on, and immediately I feel the surge of electricity throughout my brain and body (a kind of pleasant/unpleasant sensation) and everything calms down somewhat.
My son and I have a chilled kind of day, venturing out a couple of times with the dog, and once to North Walsham train station to collect some rail tickets for my son’s trip to Dorset later this week (only to find, once I’d driven there, that I’d forgotten to note down the code required to enable me to collect the tickets – a wasted journey!).
I try turning my DBS off again this evening, but my tremor returns immediately. I try taking some cannabis to see if it would calm it, but I don’t achieve the sense of calm that I got yesterday so I end up switching it back on.