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The Good News Is, It Wasn't AFib
Feb. 12th, 2018 06:48 pmWoke up this morning with a severe headache, dizziness, and acid/nausea. I couldn't tell if the headache was causing the nausea, or the nausea was causing the headache, but it was bad. Seriously bad. :P My assumption was that something I'd eaten yesterday had messed me up, and I suppose that might still be what it was, but it was severe and over the day it just got worse. After a brief bit of drawing that wiped me out, it was back to bed.
I slept all day, but not particularly well– even asleep I was still aware of how miserable I was, and I would drift in and out. My stomach got more acidic, and my headache got worse; Laurie called in to B&N for me because I could barely make coherent sentences.
By the evening, however, hunger began to win out over nausea. Starting with some chicken and rice soup (the brothy kind, not the creamy kind) and some Advil, I managed to get enough energy from that to do a protein bar, and then suddenly I wanted ALL THE CHOCOLATE.
I didn't actually eat ALL THE CHOCOLATE, but I did have a few bits of dark chocolate to get some caffeine and sugar into my bloodstream... and then it was back to sleep. A cold wet washcloth pressed into my face felt like a gift from heaven, but it didn't stay cold. XD
Now, a few hours later, I am up and mobile, if shuffling around like a zombie. Stomach is still acidey as a mofo, so I chewed on some Tums, but so far all that does is made it feel acidic and slippery. >.> Trying to hydrate with tea and will probably do a bit of vanilla ice cream later as well.
I hope whatever this is, goes away by tomorrow. I've got a lot of stuff I need and want to get done this week specifically, and spending my time hiding in a dark room so the lights will stop poking my eyes is not conducive to productivity.
Poking around various medical websites trying to figure out my symptoms was not helpful. It definitely wasn't AFib: my heart rhythm is strong and steady. It wasn't a stroke, I can still move and talk and so on. But beyond that, my symptoms suggest a sugar overdose, low blood sugar, dehydration, liver failure, or possibly a calcified pineal gland. >.> I also thought of psychosomatic stress reaction, since the last time I had a headache this severe was when I was 12 and life was incredibly awful.
So... I dunno. Whatever this is, I want it to go away. I've got things I want to do!
-The Gneech
I slept all day, but not particularly well– even asleep I was still aware of how miserable I was, and I would drift in and out. My stomach got more acidic, and my headache got worse; Laurie called in to B&N for me because I could barely make coherent sentences.
By the evening, however, hunger began to win out over nausea. Starting with some chicken and rice soup (the brothy kind, not the creamy kind) and some Advil, I managed to get enough energy from that to do a protein bar, and then suddenly I wanted ALL THE CHOCOLATE.
I didn't actually eat ALL THE CHOCOLATE, but I did have a few bits of dark chocolate to get some caffeine and sugar into my bloodstream... and then it was back to sleep. A cold wet washcloth pressed into my face felt like a gift from heaven, but it didn't stay cold. XD
Now, a few hours later, I am up and mobile, if shuffling around like a zombie. Stomach is still acidey as a mofo, so I chewed on some Tums, but so far all that does is made it feel acidic and slippery. >.> Trying to hydrate with tea and will probably do a bit of vanilla ice cream later as well.
I hope whatever this is, goes away by tomorrow. I've got a lot of stuff I need and want to get done this week specifically, and spending my time hiding in a dark room so the lights will stop poking my eyes is not conducive to productivity.
Poking around various medical websites trying to figure out my symptoms was not helpful. It definitely wasn't AFib: my heart rhythm is strong and steady. It wasn't a stroke, I can still move and talk and so on. But beyond that, my symptoms suggest a sugar overdose, low blood sugar, dehydration, liver failure, or possibly a calcified pineal gland. >.> I also thought of psychosomatic stress reaction, since the last time I had a headache this severe was when I was 12 and life was incredibly awful.
So... I dunno. Whatever this is, I want it to go away. I've got things I want to do!
-The Gneech
