The Bitch Thread

[graceanne]

I don't know - I got the flu shot a month or so ago. I don't think it's the FLU.
Yeah, I've had quite the run of bad luck.
things can only get better though, right?

Lord! Don't say that, you wanna jinx yourself? Haven't you seen those movies where they say things like that just before they're hit by lightening or something? *eyes sky wearily and moves away from brioche*

 

[Bandit58]

Wouldn't I have to take the plastic pad off? I don't want to damage anybody, or be damaged.

Ours has a rubber type pad on it and I've never been "damaged" apart from a few small bruises which soon fade. It creates maximum sting with minimal damage cos it's wide and flat which disperses the force somewhat. Remember your safe words and you should be fine

 

[DVS]

It turns out that the three day headache I had is the beginning of a COLD. Not just a cold, but a COLD.
It gets worse - tomorrow I go on a field trip, Thurs night I interview parents, Fri Morning I interview the rest of the parents.
So I can't take time off to get better. Friday my first interview is at *shudder* 8:15. But there is an upside: unless someone demands a rescheduling, I am done by 10 am, at which time I can take my sick body home and rest.

If you take over the counter remedies, try Zicam. I'm just getting over a cold and I get panic attacks if my nose is stuffed up. Zicam is the first product I've found that works well, but doesn't give me a durgged up feeling or a jjittery feeling. Actually, I didn't notice any side effects for the basic Zicam at all. It is great stuff.

Now, there is a decongestant that is also very good. Kept my nasal passages very clear...BUT you can't use it for more than three days. They don't say why, but I think I found out...I lost my voice! It did such a good job dying me out that it dried my vocal chords up, too. I'm on my 5th day of not having a complete voice, but it's coming back, now. I stopped using the decongestant spray about that time.

I'm not sure that's what caused my voice to go, but I usually don't get larengitus (sp) with a cold. I do get broncitis, though, and it is possible, I guess. And, it's been very cold here, this early winter (15-18 degrees for a high) and maybe that had something to do with it.

Anyway, the basic Zicam will also shorten your cold. The quicker you catch the symptoms coming on, the better off you are. I was lucky I think, because mine didn't last more than a week. I still have some small problems, but I have allergies so it's difficult to really tell where the cold left off and the allergies take over.

There are several different ways you can take Zicam. They have a flavored oral spray, some sort of flavored gum or something to chew, some quick desolving tabs that are flavored, and what I used, which was the thick nasal spray. Well, it's not really a spray. You do spray it into your nose, but you don't sniff it up, so you don't end up tasiting crappy nasal spray in your throat.

They say the cold starts and multiplies in your nose and this stuff enters your system that way to fight the bug head on (or would that be nose on?). You just squirt the stuff into your nose, hold your nostrils together for 5 seconds and that's it. They say, if you need to blow your nose, try not to, for at least 30 seconds. The stuff is thick. I had to blow my nose every time, after 30 seconds, but it still worked. Maybe, if I hadn't had to blow my nose, it would have worked even better.

Anyway, I'm NOT a very good patient, when I get sick. And, literally nothing I've ever taken worked for me. But, this Zicam is close to a wonder drug for colds, if you ask me.

As a disclaimer...I didn't try any of the other methods. The oral spray, the gum or the quick melting tabs. But they all say they will do the same thing, which is strange to me, because of what the instructions I got about the nose being the breeding ground. The other methods were all taken by mouth, so I don't see how they could work as well at shortening the cold as the method I used. Makes sense? Other than that, I be they help with the daily symptoms as well, though.

good luck. I am one who understands your hatred of the cold. It doesn't sound like the flu to me, though. Oh, and by the way...the flu shots are created from the virus that was around in previous years. It's suppose to cover several of the possible variations but, because there can be new flu bugs out there, just because you got a flu shot doesn't mean you can't get one of those other bugs. But, if you take the flu shot, your chances of catching one are much less than someone who didn't. At least that's what I've heard from doctors.

Take care...vitamin C, fluids, chicken soup and other good healthy foods, lots of rest and dress warm, when you have to go out into the nasty weather.

 

[southernQT]

i've got the perfect thing for females to bitch about...periods. i think that all men should be turned into women for a month or two and let them experience what we go through every month for years. god, i hate being female sometimes

 

[Aithne123]

i've got the perfect thing for females to bitch about...periods. i think that all men should be turned into women for a month or two and let them experience what we go through every month for years. god, i hate being female sometimes

I totally agree! Every month I say to my roommate at least twice, did I mention I hate being in my period? It's the one thing I hate about being a woman. We really got screwed on this one, and the whole childbirth thing
Aithne

 

[brioche]

If you take over the counter remedies, try Zicam. I'm just getting over a cold and I get panic attacks if my nose is stuffed up. Zicam is the first product I've found that works well, but doesn't give me a durgged up feeling or a jjittery feeling. Actually, I didn't notice any side effects for the basic Zicam at all. It is great stuff.

Now, there is a decongestant that is also very good. Kept my nasal passages very clear...BUT you can't use it for more than three days. They don't say why, but I think I found out...I lost my voice! It did such a good job dying me out that it dried my vocal chords up, too. I'm on my 5th day of not having a complete voice, but it's coming back, now. I stopped using the decongestant spray about that time.

I'm not sure that's what caused my voice to go, but I usually don't get larengitus (sp) with a cold. I do get broncitis, though, and it is possible, I guess. And, it's been very cold here, this early winter (15-18 degrees for a high) and maybe that had something to do with it.

Anyway, the basic Zicam will also shorten your cold. The quicker you catch the symptoms coming on, the better off you are. I was lucky I think, because mine didn't last more than a week. I still have some small problems, but I have allergies so it's difficult to really tell where the cold left off and the allergies take over.

There are several different ways you can take Zicam. They have a flavored oral spray, some sort of flavored gum or something to chew, some quick desolving tabs that are flavored, and what I used, which was the thick nasal spray. Well, it's not really a spray. You do spray it into your nose, but you don't sniff it up, so you don't end up tasiting crappy nasal spray in your throat.

They say the cold starts and multiplies in your nose and this stuff enters your system that way to fight the bug head on (or would that be nose on?). You just squirt the stuff into your nose, hold your nostrils together for 5 seconds and that's it. They say, if you need to blow your nose, try not to, for at least 30 seconds. The stuff is thick. I had to blow my nose every time, after 30 seconds, but it still worked. Maybe, if I hadn't had to blow my nose, it would have worked even better.

Anyway, I'm NOT a very good patient, when I get sick. And, literally nothing I've ever taken worked for me. But, this Zicam is close to a wonder drug for colds, if you ask me.

As a disclaimer...I didn't try any of the other methods. The oral spray, the gum or the quick melting tabs. But they all say they will do the same thing, which is strange to me, because of what the instructions I got about the nose being the breeding ground. The other methods were all taken by mouth, so I don't see how they could work as well at shortening the cold as the method I used. Makes sense? Other than that, I be they help with the daily symptoms as well, though.

good luck. I am one who understands your hatred of the cold. It doesn't sound like the flu to me, though. Oh, and by the way...the flu shots are created from the virus that was around in previous years. It's suppose to cover several of the possible variations but, because there can be new flu bugs out there, just because you got a flu shot doesn't mean you can't get one of those other bugs. But, if you take the flu shot, your chances of catching one are much less than someone who didn't. At least that's what I've heard from doctors.

Take care...vitamin C, fluids, chicken soup and other good healthy foods, lots of rest and dress warm, when you have to go out into the nasty weather.

Zicam, huh?Never heard of it. I use Cold Fx and Sambucol.

Check this out.
They seem to work pretty well.

Period huh? I hate my period. I bleed too much and get cramps and am chronically iron deficient as a result. I also gain 3.5 pounds of water before it, and hang on to this lovely bloating for 2 weeks.
My mother, curse her, has never had cramps.
What really amused me was a letter to Ann Landers once from a crampless woman who had always been scornful of women who had these cramps, thinking they were whiners and malingerers.
She had a surgery and the doctor told her she would experience some menstrual type cramping afterward, and she was a changed woman. She wrote in saying that she couldn't believe women suffered through this every month.
I showed it to my mum.
Years ago, when Tylenol didn't get rid of them, she told me that I was psychologically blocking the Tylenol and didn't want it to work.
That was before we found out about prostaglandins and anti-inflammatories.
Man, she used to be a bitch.

 

[Aithne123]

Period huh? I hate my period. I bleed too much and get cramps and am chronically iron deficient as a result. I also gain 3.5 pounds of water before it, and hang on to this lovely bloating for 2 weeks.
My mother, curse her, has never had cramps.
What really amused me was a letter to Ann Landers once from a crampless woman who had always been scornful of women who had these cramps, thinking they were whiners and malingerers.
She had a surgery and the doctor told her she would experience some menstrual type cramping afterward, and she was a changed woman. She wrote in saying that she couldn't believe women suffered through this every month.
I showed it to my mum.
Years ago, when Tylenol didn't get rid of them, she told me that I was psychologically blocking the Tylenol and didn't want it to work.
That was before we found out about prostaglandins and anti-inflammatories.
Man, she used to be a bitch.[/QUOTE]

I too am one of the evil women who have never had a cramp in their life. Sorry. But, to make up for that, my body spots 1-2 weeks before I start every month. So, it's almost like being in your period 2-3 weeks out of the month. Birth control stopped it for about 2 years, then it started again. I've been on a new one that worked for about 6 months, but I'm spotting again. Yay!
Aithne

 

[brioche]

I too am one of the evil women who have never had a cramp in their life. Sorry. But, to make up for that, my body spots 1-2 weeks before I start every month. So, it's almost like being in your period 2-3 weeks out of the month. Birth control stopped it for about 2 years, then it started again. I've been on a new one that worked for about 6 months, but I'm spotting again. Yay!
Aithne

Every once in a while, my body decides it doesn't like the birth control pills and goes on a five week period. It just kind of drags out from one set of pills to the next.
That's always a gas.
There is a pill in the States, Seasonale, where you only get your period 4 times a year. It's done with normal birth control pills, you just don't take the week off most of the time. I'm going to see if my family doc will approve of doing it here.
My hematologist doesn't have a problem with it - apparently I am EXACTLY replacing what my body is using, but the cells that are being put into service are immature as a result. They have been for a year. This would reduce the drain and give me an opportunity to get ahead.
It's funny - the first time I saw him he was really, really hostile to me. He seemed to think that I had no reason to be there.
Then he had some tests done, allowed that there were SOME issues, and brought me back in three months.
Then he had some more tests done and accepted that there was an issue.
Since then all the options have been eliminated for one reason or another.
He admitted that he can't do anything more to help me last month.
I don't have to see him for a whole year.

If the Seasonale thing won't work I'm going on the shot. I need to stop my periods one way or the other.

 

[Aithne123]

Every once in a while, my body decides it doesn't like the birth control pills and goes on a five week period. It just kind of drags out from one set of pills to the next.
That's always a gas.
There is a pill in the States, Seasonale, where you only get your period 4 times a year. It's done with normal birth control pills, you just don't take the week off most of the time. I'm going to see if my family doc will approve of doing it here.
My hematologist doesn't have a problem with it - apparently I am EXACTLY replacing what my body is using, but the cells that are being put into service are immature as a result. They have been for a year. This would reduce the drain and give me an opportunity to get ahead.
It's funny - the first time I saw him he was really, really hostile to me. He seemed to think that I had no reason to be there.
Then he had some tests done, allowed that there were SOME issues, and brought me back in three months.
Then he had some more tests done and accepted that there was an issue.
Since then all the options have been eliminated for one reason or another.
He admitted that he can't do anything more to help me last month.
I don't have to see him for a whole year.

If the Seasonale thing won't work I'm going on the shot. I need to stop my periods one way or the other.

I really wonder why some people become doctors, since they obviously don't want to help people. Have you heard of Yasmin? It's another brand of birth control my doctor has mentioned. From the website " Using a combination pill like YASMIN® with drsp™ can help with irregular periods, lessen blood flow during menstruation, and may cause less iron to be lost. Therefore, iron-deficiency anemia may be less likely to occur. Pills like YASMIN® with drsp™ can help give you shorter, lighter periods, regulate your cycle, and even help reduce cramps." Just a thought. Hope everything works out for you!
Aithne

 

[brioche]

I really wonder why some people become doctors, since they obviously don't want to help people. Have you heard of Yasmin? It's another brand of birth control my doctor has mentioned. From the website " Using a combination pill like YASMIN® with drsp™ can help with irregular periods, lessen blood flow during menstruation, and may cause less iron to be lost. Therefore, iron-deficiency anemia may be less likely to occur. Pills like YASMIN® with drsp™ can help give you shorter, lighter periods, regulate your cycle, and even help reduce cramps." Just a thought. Hope everything works out for you!
Aithne

Oh, no. I'm on the pill, and it does lessen the blood flow considerably (that's the blurb they all have on the back.) I am on a combo pill, with levels that rise and fall, giving the closest approximation to one's own cycle.

Before I went on the pill, I had my period for seven straight days of heavy flow. I went through a pack of 28 pads each cycle. I often leaked at night, and using just a tampon wasn't an option. (It still isn't). I once put in a regular tampon and had to change it less than an hour later. Granted, that was a heavy day.

My cramps were horrible. I was on Anaprox DS, which is sometimes given to cancer patients, for the pain. There was always a day when I couldn't bear to pull pants over my abdomen and stayed in bed. Every few months, I'd vomit copiously at the same time (like 5 times in 4 hours) and have hot and cold chills due to the hormone imbalance I have. I once had this happen at work, as a teen working at McDonald's. I wouldn't leave the bathroom until my Dad was right there in the store. I was throwing myself against the tiles for the coolness and then flinging myself back up shivering when the hot sweats started. Man, that was a trip.

So, I've been on the pill for over 10 years, and I bless it. But more needs to be done, apparently.

 

[brioche]

I had to go to the hospital for my outpatient psych treatment today and the parking charges for just over an hour was 10 FUCKING BUCKS. The MAX used to be six, then eight, and now it's twenty. Meanwhile, they don't even have people anymore, you take a ticket on your way in and pay at a machine. Probably so they can't hear you bitching! Fucking place. Next time I'm going in early and parking at the university. Their max is under 10 for ALL DAY. By afternoon it's around six.

AND he told me that I need to "push my boundaries." Which is basically psych talk for making yourself sick with worry. Now I have to insert myself into new social situations for the next three months. Damn social phobia.
This would not be an issue if they'd gotten me into the group sessions for it.
I've only been waiting for THREE YEARS after all. "Oh, do the OCD one first, we do social phobia more often..." "Really? You haven't been contacted yet? I know you're on the list..." "I am looking at the list right now and you're on it..." "I'll look into it."
Fuckers.

 

[graceanne]

Every once in a while, my body decides it doesn't like the birth control pills and goes on a five week period. It just kind of drags out from one set of pills to the next.
That's always a gas.
There is a pill in the States, Seasonale, where you only get your period 4 times a year. It's done with normal birth control pills, you just don't take the week off most of the time. I'm going to see if my family doc will approve of doing it here.
My hematologist doesn't have a problem with it - apparently I am EXACTLY replacing what my body is using, but the cells that are being put into service are immature as a result. They have been for a year. This would reduce the drain and give me an opportunity to get ahead.
It's funny - the first time I saw him he was really, really hostile to me. He seemed to think that I had no reason to be there.
Then he had some tests done, allowed that there were SOME issues, and brought me back in three months.
Then he had some more tests done and accepted that there was an issue.
Since then all the options have been eliminated for one reason or another.
He admitted that he can't do anything more to help me last month.
I don't have to see him for a whole year.

If the Seasonale thing won't work I'm going on the shot. I need to stop my periods one way or the other.

Wow. I'd find another doctor. It's not like he's not getting paid. Dick. But then we all know how I feel about doctors.

I also have really heavy periods. I don't bother with tampons cause it's a waste of time. I do not have the patience to change a tampon every hour. It makes me cranky. But my periods are still only five days, so they're not that worried about it.

 

[Bandit58]

Hmmmm I went to get a prescription for my birth control pill today. It's not for birth control, it's to regulate my periods and to control heavy bleeding. I paid $48 last time for 3 months supply, so this time I decided to go to the new discount chemist that has opened up recently in the mall. They asked me if I'd like the generic brand, I said yes if they have one for the type of pill I'm on.

The exact same medicine cost me $30 it's just a different name on the pack. No one told me there was a generic brand for this pill, so twice I've paid $18 more than I could have

 

[DVS]

Hmmmm I went to get a prescription for my birth control pill today. It's not for birth control, it's to regulate my periods and to control heavy bleeding. I paid $48 last time for 3 months supply, so this time I decided to go to the new discount chemist that has opened up recently in the mall. They asked me if I'd like the generic brand, I said yes if they have one for the type of pill I'm on.

The exact same medicine cost me $30 it's just a different name on the pack. No one told me there was a generic brand for this pill, so twice I've paid $18 more than I could have

In the U.S., most insurance companies REQUIRE the generic brand, if there is one. A doctor can specify a name brand, but it's not that easy to get the insurance to pay for it.

My insurance costs for a name brand (of course, if a generic isn't available) is $35. A generic is anywhere from $11 to $14.

Insurance does have it's benefits, in some cases. I take a name brand allergy pill 24 hours a day. Because it's taken every 12 hours, I get 60 pills for $35. There's not generic for it, because the manufaturer's patton is still in force.

There is an OTC brand, that used to be prescription only until about a year ago. It's about $1 a pill. Although, that pill puts me to sleep, where the one I take now doesn't. My insurance company wants me to take the OTC instead of the name brand I get from my doctor. They say it's the same thing as what I'm taking. Imagine that...

 

[graceanne]

And then their's asacol, which doesn't come in generic and is 250 dollars for a months supply.

Don't get me started on meds.

 

[Red Sonja]

So this is how my week is going...

Sunday night Dh announces that he is bringing home the Xmas tree, so I should cue the music... and rearrange the living room to set the thing up. I hate moving furniture, don't you? But since dear son is now 12 and my height it isn't as awful a task as it used to be... or so I thought.

I first move the coffee table, and then move the love seat to where the couch is, and the couch to where the love seat is. Next I move the end table out of the way so that the tree can sit where it is. I then go downstairs and begin bringing the ornaments up out of the basement.

As I walk into the now rearranged room, I trip over the coffee table, and begin to fall, I fling the box of ornaments to my horrified son, and cannot catch myself... I fall head first into the endtable.

My head throbs. My daughter comes from running from the dining room where she has been working on homework and asks am I okay. With all the effort I can muster, I say... "Yes, now leave me ALONE!" (This is not the fun spanky kind of pain, in case anyone was wondering)

I go to the bathroom, and discover that I have cut my forehead. I grab an icepack and sit on the couch. After about 15 minutes, it occurs to me that I should verify that I do not have a concussion. I go to the bathroom and have my daughter turn the light on and off. Yes, the pupils are dilating properly. I pop two acetaminophen, and finish rearranging my house.

Dh comes home with the tree. He looks at me and is horrified. Why didn't I call him? Oh I couldn't have gotten in touch with him anyway though as his cell phone was out of batteries. However, I rush to a mirror and realize.. Oh my god, I now resemble a KLINGON. My entire forehead is swollen. I am afraid. I have an 8 a.m. appearance on Monday, what if I still look like a Klingon.

On Monday, I do look like a Klingon but there is no bruising. I attribute this to clean living and lots of pineapple juice. My head still hurts. I go to bed Mon. night, and wake up today, to two blacker than black eyes. They are almost swollen shut.

YAY!! At least the stupid tree is up. And I don't have anything scheduled for court for a while...

This is why I am convinced that when I die... it will be in a completely stupid fashion... y'know cutting toward myself while cutting a pan of frozen brownies I stab myself in the gut... something like that... I just know it.

 

[greenmands]

Red Sonja, I hope you get to doing better soon. Sorry to hear about the mishap.

 

[graceanne]

Oh, my gosh. You poor thing. *hugs*

My day was just fun. Started out great - my sister was on time picking up her kids so she went ahead and took A(my seven year old) to school, too. So I let the baby sleep in, cause he's been crankier than all get out recently. After he woke up I drove K his lunch (he forgot it) and then went to my friend's house. She's crippled with RA and hasn't been doing so well. I made her something to eat, brushed her hair and rebraided it, and got her meds for her. Then we went home. Supposedly to relax, right? Nope. Within an hour my four year old comes running to me (I was going potty) and says "Mama! D has an ormamen (ornament) in his mouth!" So I ran in to find him gagging and small pieces of one of my ornaments around his feet. So I threw him in the car to take to the ER - but realized quickly that I have NO IDEA how to get to the ER. So I called K and went over there and he got in his car and I followed him (since he coudln't think of how to explain how to get there). We spent two hours in the ER - D's fine. But while we were there D bumped into E (the four year old) and knocked her into a bed - split open her lip. She's fine, too. But I have a headache. Then I had to find my way home -which in itself wasn't a problem except traffic is a bitch out there. It took me twice as long to go pick up A as it should have. I just got home.

I should have stayed in bed today.

 

[Bandit58]

Oh dear sounds like the ER in this thread

My day was great too. Got up to ring the hospital to find out when to go pick up Master, and find out He is on a drip until 1pm so I rush out to do a few things at the shops. It is a stinking hot morning and the mall is packed with people, there are queues a mile long at the post office, and by the time I get home I am hot and tired.

Unload the shopping and jump in the car to go to the hospital, to find a very grumpy Master still hooked to the drip. Half an hour later someone comes to disconnect it, we pack His things and go to the desk to get the discharge notes only to find that they are still waiting on the results of His blood test. The machine that does it has broken down and they do have another but it is v-e-r-y slow and the results won't be back by at least 3pm. Cue the grumpy Master having a dummy spit and in the end deciding to sign the "discharged against medical advice" form. Almost as soon as we got home He was much calmer and happier - I can just imagine the state he'd be in if they kept Him in until the results came through.

As it was we didn't get a phone call until about 7pm to tell us that whatever they were testing for was a little on the high side and that He has to go for another test in 3 days. He is fine apart from an upset tummy from the pain meds they gave Him, I can see it will be a few days before His appetite returns

Edit - He's also pissed that He isn't allowed to have sex for 3 days!

 

[brioche]

Sorry to hear of all the trouble.
I have now come to the conclusion that today was a good one for me.

 

[Red Sonja]

Oh, my gosh. You poor thing. *hugs*

My day was just fun. Started out great - my sister was on time picking up her kids so she went ahead and took A(my seven year old) to school, too. So I let the baby sleep in, cause he's been crankier than all get out recently. After he woke up I drove K his lunch (he forgot it) and then went to my friend's house. She's crippled with RA and hasn't been doing so well. I made her something to eat, brushed her hair and rebraided it, and got her meds for her. Then we went home. Supposedly to relax, right? Nope. Within an hour my four year old comes running to me (I was going potty) and says "Mama! D has an ormamen (ornament) in his mouth!" So I ran in to find him gagging and small pieces of one of my ornaments around his feet. So I threw him in the car to take to the ER - but realized quickly that I have NO IDEA how to get to the ER. So I called K and went over there and he got in his car and I followed him (since he coudln't think of how to explain how to get there). We spent two hours in the ER - D's fine. But while we were there D bumped into E (the four year old) and knocked her into a bed - split open her lip. She's fine, too. But I have a headache. Then I had to find my way home -which in itself wasn't a problem except traffic is a bitch out there. It took me twice as long to go pick up A as it should have. I just got home.

I should have stayed in bed today.

What a nightmare, graceanne! I'm sorry to hear that. I think yesterday was Monday cleverly disguised as Tuesday.

 

[Red Sonja]

Oh dear sounds like the ER in this thread

My day was great too. Got up to ring the hospital to find out when to go pick up Master, and find out He is on a drip until 1pm so I rush out to do a few things at the shops. It is a stinking hot morning and the mall is packed with people, there are queues a mile long at the post office, and by the time I get home I am hot and tired.

Unload the shopping and jump in the car to go to the hospital, to find a very grumpy Master still hooked to the drip. Half an hour later someone comes to disconnect it, we pack His things and go to the desk to get the discharge notes only to find that they are still waiting on the results of His blood test. The machine that does it has broken down and they do have another but it is v-e-r-y slow and the results won't be back by at least 3pm. Cue the grumpy Master having a dummy spit and in the end deciding to sign the "discharged against medical advice" form. Almost as soon as we got home He was much calmer and happier - I can just imagine the state he'd be in if they kept Him in until the results came through.

As it was we didn't get a phone call until about 7pm to tell us that whatever they were testing for was a little on the high side and that He has to go for another test in 3 days. He is fine apart from an upset tummy from the pain meds they gave Him, I can see it will be a few days before His appetite returns

Edit - He's also pissed that He isn't allowed to have sex for 3 days!

I just hate doctors and hospitals. They really forget who the customer is... I think the no sex thing would piss off just about anyone. I'm sure though that he will be in a lovely mood for you all 3 days.

 

[brioche]

I had indigestion all last week, which was unusual.
Now I have dizziness and nausea and - um, not quite the runs, but needing more fibre...And the nausea and dizziness are all day.
Also splitting headaches just before bed. Two nights in a row. I was almost crying last night 'cause I couldn't find my migraine meds.
I may also have a fever, but it's hard to tell at my school because we are having problems with the heating. It would be a mildish one if there is one.
Any ideas what the hell's wrong with me?
It's not an ear infection, I know that, and I don't think it's a sinus infection...
And this wierd twinging feeling just below my bra strap on my left side, kind of under the boob...
I'm trying to figure out if I'm actually sick or not.


Edited to add: Not to say this is as important as what some of y'all are going through, but I need ot know if I actually am sick because I leave my job in less than ten days and still have to pack.

 

[graceanne]

I had indigestion all last week, which was unusual.
Now I have dizziness and nausea and - um, not quite the runs, but needing more fibre...And the nausea and dizziness are all day.
Also splitting headaches just before bed. Two nights in a row. I was almost crying last night 'cause I couldn't find my migraine meds.
I may also have a fever, but it's hard to tell at my school because we are having problems with the heating. It would be a mildish one if there is one.
Any ideas what the hell's wrong with me?
It's not an ear infection, I know that, and I don't think it's a sinus infection...
And this wierd twinging feeling just below my bra strap on my left side, kind of under the boob...
I'm trying to figure out if I'm actually sick or not.

Ok, remember that I'm NOT a nurse or dr. But isn't your apendix or your gall bladder there?

 

[brioche]

Ok, remember that I'm NOT a nurse or dr. But isn't your apendix or your gall bladder there?

Nope, right side. Phew. Cause some of the symptoms matched appendicitis.

Or the gallstone one

But they're both the right side.