May 04, 2010 15:55
Dealing with a tripling of my methotrexate dose on top of food poisoning/stomach flu has been...interesting. I really have no idea which are side effects, which are symptoms, and how much of the headache and fatigue should be laid at the feet of things like having no coffee for two days and being so completely exhausted and ill before I even started taking the MTX.
But I managed it. I suspect I'm going to be pretty wiped out for at least a week. What I really needed to recover from SEAF was lots of food and restful sleep, and that's exactly what I haven't gotten. However, now that I'm done taking the MTX for this week, I can start taking OTC digestive remedies, which I think will help a lot. Fever came back last night while I was sleeping - I didn't manage to take my temp, but I did stumble out of bed to take more Tylenol. By this morning, I felt a lot better, though by no means healthy.
I'm still mostly on the couch, but I'm having brief spurts of energy. I managed to unpack a few bags from this weekend and I'm going to put on some laundry. The big goal is to shower - being clean will help a lot, I think.
I've been too sick to knit. That's a lot of sick. :(
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