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selenaySince Tuesday evening, my digestive tract has been in full-on rebellion. Argh. I made it to physio on Wednesday, went to work afterwards and then faced with the prospect of Eating Lunch made a tactical withdrawal and went home.
Yesterday I didn't even bother with the work thing.
By the evening, I was feeling quite a lot better and rather hungry. Supper treated me well and I was feeling confident that I was better.
I decided to work from home today because I was feeling wobbly and light headed still, so being on the roads with a storm on its way in seemed like a silly idea. Breakfast seemed OK...until about an hour later when breakfast suddenly seemed like a stupid plan.
Argh.
Problem is, there is a variety of possible causes:
1) Exhaustion from sustained back pain and lack of sleep making my digestive tract partially shut down
2) My meds finally upsetting my stomach enough to cause issues
3) Exhaustion from blah blah causing an IBS flare (although I don't think it's 'true' IBS that I have)
4) An actual stomach bug
I have to admit, 4 seems the least likely. Sleeping for most of Wednesday afternoon and a lot of Thursday has made my back even more painful than normal and having to eat in order to take my meds is not making me feel happy.
I'd be able to cope with either my stomach or my back, but both together is just making life suck. Also, the not feeling safe to drive thing means that today's planned trip to the doctor to discuss meds and insist on investigations and referrals has been postponed to Monday.
The bright spot is that the girls think it's lovely having Mummy home all day. I just have to get through their little fluffy brains that standing on Mummy's tummy is not a good plan.
Yesterday I didn't even bother with the work thing.
By the evening, I was feeling quite a lot better and rather hungry. Supper treated me well and I was feeling confident that I was better.
I decided to work from home today because I was feeling wobbly and light headed still, so being on the roads with a storm on its way in seemed like a silly idea. Breakfast seemed OK...until about an hour later when breakfast suddenly seemed like a stupid plan.
Argh.
Problem is, there is a variety of possible causes:
1) Exhaustion from sustained back pain and lack of sleep making my digestive tract partially shut down
2) My meds finally upsetting my stomach enough to cause issues
3) Exhaustion from blah blah causing an IBS flare (although I don't think it's 'true' IBS that I have)
4) An actual stomach bug
I have to admit, 4 seems the least likely. Sleeping for most of Wednesday afternoon and a lot of Thursday has made my back even more painful than normal and having to eat in order to take my meds is not making me feel happy.
I'd be able to cope with either my stomach or my back, but both together is just making life suck. Also, the not feeling safe to drive thing means that today's planned trip to the doctor to discuss meds and insist on investigations and referrals has been postponed to Monday.
The bright spot is that the girls think it's lovely having Mummy home all day. I just have to get through their little fluffy brains that standing on Mummy's tummy is not a good plan.
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Date: 2011-01-21 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-21 06:26 pm (UTC)You may have a point about minor stomach bugs, though. I suspect that I'm running low on resources to tackle this stuff right now *sigh*
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Date: 2011-01-21 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-22 12:49 pm (UTC)Maybe your doc can suggest something difference - slower release or something. Good luck and stay tough!
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Date: 2011-01-24 04:07 pm (UTC)Hope it settles quickly.
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Date: 2011-01-25 01:50 pm (UTC)My shiny new family GP starts in two weeks. If I can just hold out until then!
She offered to swap me to some non anti-inflammatory meds (for my inflammed SI joint) that would have repercussions for my stomach and make me dizzy into the bargain. I decided to stick with the naproxen because the other option didn't sound helpful. Argh.
At least it's not an infection. That's apparently good news.
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Date: 2011-01-25 01:52 pm (UTC)She told me to drink peppermint tea to calm things down and suggested the emerg if things don't settle soon. Not what I was hoping to hear...