2021-02-22, Monday - flare after TT 16:00-?22:00
Sleep: 21:30-7:25 9h55-1h20=8h35, OK apart from the hungriness from too eating too late (after the 18:00-19:15 church service, have to watch for that one…).
Nap: 10’ directly after the acupressure.
Work:
**4h10**
8:15-R8-8:25-E-55 (30’cor!)-R8-9:00-Re8-9:20-E-9:40-R7-10:30-all10:40-R8-50. 12:10-R8-12:40-R7-12:45. 17:05-BOL-17:40 18:15-E-18:25 18:35-R8-45-E-19:00. = 8:15-10:50 2h35+1h35=
Activities: Table tennis 5:1, as unstrained as possible, seemed OK, but I’ve had better weeks. The 6th game was again stretching it a bit.
Treatment: Well, felt really oiled directly after the cryo & acupressure, but even cycling home wasn’t full energy, table tennis was good, but sort of strained. She focussed on face, arms, chest and face yesterday, and only a bit for the jaw, and we found that esp. arms & chest needed doing more intensely on Thursday, while my thighs were better.
Hacks: Twist-open-fifth/2nd is not only good for the thighs, but also for the lower back while standing, the effect of even small dancy moves are increased the more I twist. Sometimes I have to watch out that I don’t cramp tho.
Tricks:
Pain: Ache due to/after table tennis 16:00-
Gut: 3:15 hungry - can’t think why. Doubt tofu. Vanilla soy yoghurt (a lot)? Can’t find anything about that. in this overview: Here Are the Top 10 Most Acidic Foods to Avoid | Yuri Elkaim of the foods I sometimes eat only cow dairy is acidic, whilst glutenous grains can be a problem and legumes, nuts and oils are only mildly acidic. But of these I only ate grains , legumes & nuts in the evening, and not much either. Praps not enough and too late. Grains: 3 slices of wholemeal bread, first too dry, causing a small esophagus block for 5’. OK eating glutenless grains - wholemeal oatmeal - now like this suggests: 10 Foods That Can Help Fight Acid Reflux, So Eat These If You Have Heartburn isn’t helping. Can’t get hold of the others at this moment in the middle of the night (OK, beans perhaps): 1) Almond milk, 2) oatmeal, 3) yoghurt, 4) kimchi, 5) ginger, 6) aloe vera juice, 7) fennel, 8) rice, 9) green beans, 10) bananas. (Ginger and fennel don’t work for me, they exacerbate.) So I’ll resort to taking my gastritol or gastricumeel. Why didn’t I think of that earlier… 
Diagnoses: GERD = Gastroesophageal reflux disease, which I do occasionally have. Of what is said to cause acid stomach here, I only use aspirin 100mg in the mormings Stomach burning: Causes, treatments, and home remedies Stomach burning: Causes, treatments, and home remedies.
Whilst here the quick overview of what causes heartburn includes tomatoes, didn’t realize that, but it fits (Common offenders include fatty foods, spicy foods, tomatoes, garlic, milk, coffee, tea, cola, peppermint, and chocolate.) 11 stomach-soothing steps for heartburn - Harvard Health after. What I didn’t do is chew sugarless mintless gum. Interesting to read that amitriptyline loosens the LES (lower esophageal sphincter), so it w’dn’t’ve been surprising getting heartburn and reflux when I was using that last summer. Not eating within three hours of lying I didn’t, it was less than 2 hours, and often is. I’d have to try eating at 6:30 * sigh *.
Yep, It says where my jaw pain came from somewhere up above… in all these verbal gushes… 
It’s slight tenseness after tooth problems, no bruxism. Thinking the tooth pain I’d had since 2017 was psychosomatic/trigeminal or fibro and wanting to check that with my neurologist, I’d first checked it a 2nd time with my other dentist last summer, but he found 2 root inflammations in a total x-ray after all. One tooth was killed off with no aftermath (that pain was only 6 months old), but the extraction of a wisdom tooth (2017) bothered me for a month or two, then directly next to it a major filling had to be done too, then lacquering it got the pain down more, my physio did the rest, so it had been behaving for a few weeks. Now the work stress has gone up again, it’s starting up and getting worse which is ‘understandable’… My wife said the other day she could see the tenseness in my face, if anywhere (most people w’dn’t see it). So my physio’ll have to focus it again more, plus I have to get my relaxation back and work better, whatever that means. Actually I thought I at least I was managing a high work load well and it was just still not being able to stand working, which I need to with this amount of work, so I focussed on that, and have improved that by using my twisted-stretching position. Now I need to work both on reducing and un-tensing which is a contradiction…
(forgot that one, 2 weeks ago holding the jaw muscle (masseter) up was enough). After lunch it hurt more.
No-one sees me in home office, but while playing table tennis, at the grocery check-out, in the bus and in church services. I’m pretty sure lots of people are staring, my table tennis pal is used to a lot, but had to comment the new movement the other day too (he’s slightly self-conscious that way, cringes a bit inside, poor soul). But you wdn’t guess - yes you would - “I don’t care, I self-care”! (Darn, can’t find a meme!) So I don’t even look. So it’s a great social phobia confrontation exercise too, it’s a real all-rounder this one… 
hot spelt cushion.
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Sh’d’ve let table tennis be.
the next cryotherapy/acupressure-prescription,
getting to the endocrinologist, I’d sent him stuff.
annual MRI for my spinal tumour
heart checks coming up
got aspirin in a gut-“protect” version (aspirin reduces gut cancer by 20%, he also said)
Ashwagand(h)a: he doesn’t know it, didn’t read what I’d sent him, didn’t protest when I suggested it.
he thought the suggestion of melatonin good, prescribed it in an extended version
he fears my tooth ache (the jaw tissue is slightly thicker there, I noticed today) could be something more serious, Traumeel is OK, but need to tell dentist, otherwise with ENT.