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The good news and the bad news...
Oct. 18th, 2014 02:05 pmThe good news: by staying on a strict ketogenic diet - < 30 grams of carbohydrate a day - I managed to avoid my worst symptoms for ten days.
The bad news: a side effect of a ketogenic diet can be dry eyes. Imagine waking up with your lids feeling glued to your eyes, and then feeling like your eyes are sandpapered all day - to the point that you have a hard time keeping your eyes open *or* closed. And staring at a computer monitor, checking log files and performance indicators? Forget it! Driving anywhere is a moderate risk - you can probably keep your eyes on the road, but you can't be sure....
I lost as much time to work last week as I ever lost to fatigue. And I was nearly as miserable due to the dry eyes.
So: I did some carb loading yesterday. And my eyes are significantly better today. But I'm also feeling the beginnings of my symptoms returning. Oh, it's not horrible - if this was the worst day ever, I'd be doing pretty good. But experience tells me this is more likely a "good" day.
So: Monday I see an eye doctor. And hopefully, we can do interventions to keep my eyes from injury. And in the beginning of November, I do my four day EEG and hopefully, we find something, and hopefully, we can fix it with something that doesn't dry the ever living (expletive) out of my eyes.
The bad news: a side effect of a ketogenic diet can be dry eyes. Imagine waking up with your lids feeling glued to your eyes, and then feeling like your eyes are sandpapered all day - to the point that you have a hard time keeping your eyes open *or* closed. And staring at a computer monitor, checking log files and performance indicators? Forget it! Driving anywhere is a moderate risk - you can probably keep your eyes on the road, but you can't be sure....
I lost as much time to work last week as I ever lost to fatigue. And I was nearly as miserable due to the dry eyes.
So: I did some carb loading yesterday. And my eyes are significantly better today. But I'm also feeling the beginnings of my symptoms returning. Oh, it's not horrible - if this was the worst day ever, I'd be doing pretty good. But experience tells me this is more likely a "good" day.
So: Monday I see an eye doctor. And hopefully, we can do interventions to keep my eyes from injury. And in the beginning of November, I do my four day EEG and hopefully, we find something, and hopefully, we can fix it with something that doesn't dry the ever living (expletive) out of my eyes.
