Back in December I acted the part of rockstar programmer and pulled 3rd place (out of 78) in a global tech competition at work. I had come up with a basic idea, found a team that helped me refine it, then coded a simple mobile app in 12 hours. Pulling third was a major confidence boost, I felt great, although the fibro was still flaring up.

Fast forward a couple of weeks, the start of the new year, an old problem starts to act up, a tooth ache. I haven’t been to the dentist in years, not since I maxed out a couple of credit cards five or six years ago having dental work done. This tooth was the first one I had worked on, almost eight years ago, but never finished. It was time to return to the dentist. The tooth deteriorated over the past eight years, it was infected and had to go.

I went on a strong round of antibiotics, my fever shot up, I became very sick. I was out of work through most of this. The one day I go back I rockstar it, solve multiple issues, then the sickness got worse. After that I slowed myself down, forced myself into a slow pace while I recover. After a full week of antibiotics and rest, I was starting to feel better. Additional dental work was done, infection was dead, then I scheduled to have the bad tooth pulled.

Tooth has now been pulled, that was the easy part, and I am recovering. Right now I don’t feel my best, two days of a purely liquid diet and some strong medications have left my head in a balloon. I’m certain part of it is that it was a molar that had to be extracted, another part is that the infection has damaged the jawbone. The damage is going to take time to heal and the even through the infection is no longer active, it has to be flushed out of my system. I am definitely not rockstarring it right now, but I believe I will be once I’m recovered.

I’m feeling hopeful that once I’ve recovered from this, my fibromyalgia will be easier to manage. I won’t be cured of the fibro, there is no cure. I am hoping that this stops or minimizes the reoccurring low grade fevers, and it may even resolve a percentage of body aches. I have read reports of other fibro sufferers seeing a significant reduction in flareups and symptoms. Depending on how bad the infection was, it will take my body roughly three months to detox and recover. I look forward to seeing how well I’m doing come end of April, I have plans to do some rockstarring haxing in May.