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Jamie is having a really bad head ache, mild stomach cramps and hot flashes. She wants to know if anyone has any suggestions?
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Benadryl or hydroxyzine or phenergan might help the nausea, I'd recommend that. Or I suppose I could call in some suppository form of phenergan if she is puking, because she only pukes if she is really, really bad off so I don't know if she can keep medications down.
She would have taken her celebrex vioxx or bextra if she had it, so if she didn't find any, that might be something to consider adding.
No fever? Can she touch her chin to her chest? Neck sore? Rash? Other symptoms?
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Man that sounds liek how I began pnuemonia. Both times. I hope she doesn't have that, it really sucks.
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Sounds like food poisoning to me, too. However, mackillian also has a history of abdominal migraines. And I do know of people who have headaches that will cause them to puke.
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Actually, the first time Christy was pregnant, she had stabbing headaches accompanied by nausea. We had no idea she was pregnant at the time and took her to the doctor for the pain; they completely misdiagnosed the pregnancy and sent her home with a lecture about stressful living.
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There's no way I could be pregnant, unless you can be pregnant and have a period at the same time. Just sayin'.
I still feel like total crap, but not quite as badly as before. My body hurts along with my head, but the headache isn't blistering. My adbominal cavity DEFINITELY hurts, along with the rest of my body.
I can't exactly get up yet. *sigh*
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Try soy products. Always helps me when I have period stuff. (Those symptoms are always hormonal for me; we keep Trader Joe's chocolate soy milk, the only kind I like, around-- which is hard to do when you're two states away from the nearest Trader Joe's.) Chocolate Tofutti Cuties especially help.
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Ugh. Food very over. And Nathan cooked some sort of Thai thing for dinner and the house REEKS of it. >_<
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I know, sweetie. (((hugs))) I mean when you're able to think about food.
You know, you may be hormonal with a virus on top. Poor thing.
When you can swallow stuff without it coming back up, really, take echinacea. In the meantime, keep hydrated, but take it in small sips, one every 15 minutes or so.
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I'm still at the stage of the body only willing to be in a select few positions without getting really icky. I took a phenergan an hour and a half ago. Nausea mostly gone, mucho pain still. Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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Have you thought of endometriosis? If the pain is severe and you think it might be intensifying the other symptoms, it is a possibility.
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I haven't had an abdominal migraine in a LONG time and never with vomiting. So I have no idea what's going on. I'd suspect food poisioning, but no idea what could've caused it since Nathan eats all the same stuff and he's fine.
Ow. Must not breathe deeply.
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O_o It could be hormonal? That'd be like having hormones from Hades or something. Another thing that's odd is the BC I'm on has made stuff funky in terms of periods anyway. It seems my body now has a period when it decides it wants to (the past week) AND when the BC tells it to. This is when I hate being a girl.
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Hey, mack, I'm with you. Well, except I have the periods from hell, well, always, regardless of BC or not. I usually also start dilating - I hate the shifting pelvic bones! They hurt! Then there are the cramps, the headaches, the back aches. And the vomiting - two days ago, it was so bad it went out my nose, and I end up with the broken blood vessels around my puffy puffy eyes and my eyes hurt so bad because of the excess fluid buildup because of the pressure from vomiting.
Yeah, it could be the hormones. If that's the case, I have major sympathies. Well, no, I have major sympathies anyway. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Quid...ugh, that sounds so horrible. I didn't even vomit a LOT (enough that it sucked), but it was the sweats and chills and the head/body/abdominal pain that's getting me now.
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Yeah, like I have sympathy for boys who don't have to go through it, just read it!
Mack, take it easy and drink whatever fluids you can. Herbal tea? Ginger tea? Crackers tend to help the stomach calm down. Bananas are . . . wait, that's for the other end. Um, I don't know. I tend to avoid food altogether until it feels a little bit normal again.
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I'm the same way as you, quid. I don't want ANY food until I'm fairly certain it won't be coming out the wrong way.
Apparently Nathan is the opposite. As soon as he heard me finish throwing up, he ran up to the door, knocked, and asked if I wanted something to eat. Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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Jamie, if you're having trouble keeping even water down, have you tried sucking on an ice cube? Or maybe a popsicle? That might help with the thirsty without triggering vomiting.
Feel better, sweetie. That sounds so sucky! *hug*
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So far I've kept sips of water down every 15 minutes or so. My whole body hurts right now and there's nothing I can do to make it stop Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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When my periods are this bad, every joint tends to hurt as well. I seem to recall that it's hormone related - I don't remember which one. Like during pregnancy, a woman's ligaments will stretch, and that can result in looser joints than normal, and that can cause pain and discomfort. Whereas I have loose ligaments anyway, but it's always worse during my period, and they always cause more pain as a result.
Now, I'm not saying that this is definitely it, but if you've started new BC, it could be. If it is, you'd probably want to talk to the doc about changing to another type with less side effects for you.
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