TMI? Not in this Deathmobile!
On Friday morning, I was fine. I went to work as normal. Halfway through my shift, I nearly fainted and had to sit down for a good twenty minutes, while my coworkers brought me things to settle my stomach and calm my breathing. I ate a small handful of pickled ginger (like what you get on the side of sushi), and I was fine in a matter of minutes. Within a few hours, the initial weird dizzy nausea had returned, so I called in sick to work Saturday, and then again today.
Symptoms over the last few days have included:
dizziness
a vague and wandering nausea
having to sit down like, ohmygodrightnow after several minutes standing or walking
paleness
excessive sweating
that taste in the back of your throat when you have a nosebleed
a pounding headache, for only two or three minutes at a time, once or twice a day
the inability to sleep for long periods in the middle of the night
What the fuck?
People at work were asking if I was pregnant. Being that this is physically impossible, it has also been suggested I could have swine flu, but I really don't think that's it either.
The nausea isn't terrible. I have, a few times, thought I was on the verge of vomiting for twenty minutes or so, only to have the urge subside as quickly as it came. Puzzling.
The sweating is bugging me probably more than anything, but it may have been more connected to the "extreme" heat wave (88 degrees) that we had over the past two or three days, and the fact that I don't have an air conditioner.
The paleness is troubling, in that while I don't feel especially bad, I look like death. Like sweaty, inappropriately dressed death. Death with a capital D.
I have school tomorrow that I can't miss without a slightly more viable illness, and I refuse to go to the doctor unless a weird lump grows off my body and begins tapping me urgently on the shoulder. No insurance means unless bones are broken or it's clear I'm going to die, I'm not goin'. However, this sickness is an insistent little fucker, and I'm thinking of just taking shots of apple cider vinegar until it dies an acidy little death in my gut.
So what's wrong with me? Is it going around? Do you have it too? Do I just need to put on some makeup and have a cheeseburger? Am I a hypochondriac drama queen?
What do you think?
JE
Symptoms over the last few days have included:
dizziness
a vague and wandering nausea
having to sit down like, ohmygodrightnow after several minutes standing or walking
paleness
excessive sweating
that taste in the back of your throat when you have a nosebleed
a pounding headache, for only two or three minutes at a time, once or twice a day
the inability to sleep for long periods in the middle of the night
What the fuck?
People at work were asking if I was pregnant. Being that this is physically impossible, it has also been suggested I could have swine flu, but I really don't think that's it either.
The nausea isn't terrible. I have, a few times, thought I was on the verge of vomiting for twenty minutes or so, only to have the urge subside as quickly as it came. Puzzling.
The sweating is bugging me probably more than anything, but it may have been more connected to the "extreme" heat wave (88 degrees) that we had over the past two or three days, and the fact that I don't have an air conditioner.
The paleness is troubling, in that while I don't feel especially bad, I look like death. Like sweaty, inappropriately dressed death. Death with a capital D.
I have school tomorrow that I can't miss without a slightly more viable illness, and I refuse to go to the doctor unless a weird lump grows off my body and begins tapping me urgently on the shoulder. No insurance means unless bones are broken or it's clear I'm going to die, I'm not goin'. However, this sickness is an insistent little fucker, and I'm thinking of just taking shots of apple cider vinegar until it dies an acidy little death in my gut.
So what's wrong with me? Is it going around? Do you have it too? Do I just need to put on some makeup and have a cheeseburger? Am I a hypochondriac drama queen?
What do you think?
JE