Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I'm behind. I'm blaming it on the fact that I feel like someone's taken a sledgehammer to the side of my head and then decided to pummel the rest of my body to a pulp.
It started in the middle of the night the night that I wrote my last post. I woke up around 3am feeling ridiculously nauseated. I got up, hovered around the "porcelain throne" for a bit and finally took some Pepto Bismol to try to settle things down. It quickly became obvious that any food that I'd eaten that day (and possibly the weeks before!) were not going to stay in my body. Didn't matter how or from which end of the body - that food just wanted out. After a couple of hours of this I crawled back into bed to get another 90 minutes of sleep. After dealing with the body-wracking chills, I mean. Even with my electric blanket on high I couldn't get warm. Uggh.
I went to work (I have no days off - what few I have left I have to save because we're going to TX for Christmas) where my tummy was still pretty tender and food didn't want to really stay put. I took it easy but eventually ended up leaving an hour and a half early. I came home and that's when the headache really started - and hasn't stopped.
My entire body aches. Not just aches, it's like it's pulsating with pain. Between the body aches and the massive headache (it wasn't an actual migraine, but good-freaking-doG it was migraine-strength) I finally broke down and took a percocet. Which did nothing. Last night I started coughing. I have post-nasal drip, only it's more like sludge rather than drip, and this "phlegm" is sitting in the back of my throat. It won't slide down into my stomach and it won't allow me to cough it up. I try clearing my throat and even that doesn't help. It's really freaking obnoxious!!!! Last night I took some NyQuil - both to try to sleep and to get rid of this phlegm - and it did seem to help a bit.
This morning, though, I still feel like crap. The phlegm is still there, making me cough, and the cough makes my head hurt even more. I swear I'm falling apart. At least the food I eat has decided to stop making multiple appearances. I guess I should focus on those kinds of positives, no?
Le sigh.
It started in the middle of the night the night that I wrote my last post. I woke up around 3am feeling ridiculously nauseated. I got up, hovered around the "porcelain throne" for a bit and finally took some Pepto Bismol to try to settle things down. It quickly became obvious that any food that I'd eaten that day (and possibly the weeks before!) were not going to stay in my body. Didn't matter how or from which end of the body - that food just wanted out. After a couple of hours of this I crawled back into bed to get another 90 minutes of sleep. After dealing with the body-wracking chills, I mean. Even with my electric blanket on high I couldn't get warm. Uggh.
I went to work (I have no days off - what few I have left I have to save because we're going to TX for Christmas) where my tummy was still pretty tender and food didn't want to really stay put. I took it easy but eventually ended up leaving an hour and a half early. I came home and that's when the headache really started - and hasn't stopped.
My entire body aches. Not just aches, it's like it's pulsating with pain. Between the body aches and the massive headache (it wasn't an actual migraine, but good-freaking-doG it was migraine-strength) I finally broke down and took a percocet. Which did nothing. Last night I started coughing. I have post-nasal drip, only it's more like sludge rather than drip, and this "phlegm" is sitting in the back of my throat. It won't slide down into my stomach and it won't allow me to cough it up. I try clearing my throat and even that doesn't help. It's really freaking obnoxious!!!! Last night I took some NyQuil - both to try to sleep and to get rid of this phlegm - and it did seem to help a bit.
This morning, though, I still feel like crap. The phlegm is still there, making me cough, and the cough makes my head hurt even more. I swear I'm falling apart. At least the food I eat has decided to stop making multiple appearances. I guess I should focus on those kinds of positives, no?
Le sigh.
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