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06 December 2006

This is a whimpering thread! This is a thread for everyone who is sick to complain about how awful they feel.[More:] The doctor says I have a virus. I have been sick since last Monday, and she says it could last for weeks. She says that there is nothing she can give me to make me feel better, and there is nothing I can do except sleep. I have tried all of the OTC stuff, even the stuff the make you sign a log for, and nothing is helping. I can't believe it is almost 2007 and we are still totally at the mercy of viruses.
I just want the remnants of the cold I had for Thanksgiving to go away. *pouts*
posted by me3dia 06 December | 15:00
I went to the gastroenterologist today and either have an ulcer or a malfunctioning gall bladder! Huzzah! I have an endoscopy on Tuesday to find out why I'm broken.
posted by mike9322 06 December | 15:19
We're getting too alike, mike. I gotta head to a radiologist tomorrow for an ultrasound to see whether they have to open me up to retrieve nasty cysty things. Gah.
posted by gaspode 06 December | 15:21
Augh, sorry to hear that, pode. Good luck.

I am so frustrated with my health lately. I know it's related to the damn job that I'm just getting more and more fed up with. My job search starts soon.

Heh, at least I get to miss a day of work for my endoscopy. Sad that I'd rather be sedated and have a long thin tube run through my innards than go in there.
posted by mike9322 06 December | 15:32
Last weekend I woke in the middle of the night with a toothache. Not a run of the mill "dull ache in a cavity" toothache - no. This toothache was a sharp, intense, relentless spike of pain running up my cheek and into the cheekbone. For a good hour, I was in tears, pure agony. I have never felt pain like this. Ever. I took some Advil. Then I took some more. By the time I was done with the Advil, I had taken about 9 of them (that's about 1800 mg) and it didn't even touch it. The pain was so bad that I was gray, and crying, and sweating, and unable to think.
I ended up sticking an ice cube against the gum, and staying up all night Saturday night and all day Sunday, and dozing whilst jamming ice in my mouth Sunday night and waking again when the pain returned as the gum thawed out. Monday I had the tooth taken out. Gone, vamoosed, yanked. No hope of repair, not without a root canal, a crown, and some gum surgery. Seems that my teeth grinding (thank-you-very-much-antidepressants) had cracked the tooth and exposed the nerve, and the crack ran all the way up the root into the socket. Ick. I mean, ICK.
And so Monday, yesterday and today I have been pain-free but unable to eat what I want because I have an after-care plan I must follow. And so I whimper, but also in gratitude that I am pain-free.

And I am sorry to hear of endoscopies and radiologists and colds and stuff. At least I was able to stop the madness with one trip to the dentist...
posted by disclaimer 06 December | 16:10
I've been suffering from pretty much daily sinus headaches for about four weeks now. I'm always tired, cranky and my life sucks trucks. I finally went to a specialist this week. They examined me and sent me for CT scan since there was nothing obvious visually. I find out on Monday what the next steps are.

I feel okay today, thankfully. I'm hoping it lasts.
posted by tommasz 06 December | 18:11
I'm pukey today. But it's not illness; it's anxiety.

I've never actually puked from stress before, so I'm trying to treat it as a happy milestone.

*whimper*
posted by mudpuppie 06 December | 18:48
Feel better all ye under the weathers!
posted by chewatadistance 06 December | 19:54
Almost everybody else in the family had pukey flu. I've just had what my dad always euphemizes as "plumbing trouble" -- roiling gas and diarrhea. At least it's all going out that direction!

I won't gripe about my other ongoing medical troubles. Having no health insurance sucks is all I'll say.
posted by stilicho 07 December | 00:48
i feel bloaty.
posted by ethylene 07 December | 01:00
I feel bloaty
Oh so bloaty
I feel bloaty and swollen and fey
And I envy
Any girl who isn't me today
posted by arse_hat 07 December | 01:31
you're so silly
oh so silly
quite the dilly as arsehat's can be
and your willy
does a dance that makes me laugh with glee
posted by ethylene 07 December | 02:00
Bloody phlegm.

That's all I have to say.
posted by Elsa 07 December | 10:05
went to taco bell || So I watched Exorcist II: The Heretic last night.

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