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  🩺 Symptoms & Overall Day Summary Today sucked. I didn’t feel well from the minute I woke up—actually, since 2:00 AM when the diarrhea started. It didn’t let up all day. I took three Imodium and still had loose stools, and my stomach was sour from morning to night. I didn’t take any of my supplements because I just felt like crap. Just trying to stay upright and hydrated was a task. On top of the GI mess, I had  two full-blown hypoglycemic episodes . The first was scary—I felt totally out of it, couldn’t focus, and couldn’t even understand what people were saying. My CGM showed I dropped to  63 mg/dL at 12:34 PM . Even after eating and sipping IQ Mix, my glucose barely climbed. It finally leveled off at  84 mg/dL by 6 PM . What made this worse?  Sulfur burps . Not just a few—they lasted all day and were gross. I normally only get them the day after my Zepbound injection, not six days later. So I don’t know if it was the medication, or the  chicken lo ...

 Today was a rest-and-recovery kind of day, prompted by a rough episode of vertigo that hit hard last night. I took all my regular medications, plus diazepam, which I reserve for days when vertigo makes normal functioning impossible. On these days, I can't work—not because I don't want to, but because I physically can’t. I lose pay, time, and momentum. And what’s worse: there’s no predictable pattern to it. Living with Neurological Vertigo My vertigo isn’t caused by otoliths or displaced ear crystals. This isn’t a textbook case of BPPV.  Mine is neurological , and after decades of testing and tracking—with my doctors digging into everything from blood sugar to weather shifts to hormone swings—we’ve never found a trigger. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, uninvited and unexplained. And it's  exhausting . The spinning, the nausea, the instability—it doesn’t just rob me of physical balance, it  steals time , productivity, and emotional bandwidth. Living with ...