I Need Advice On What To Do Now, Please
THE PROBLEM:
Last Friday, 4/21, my body was apparently too overwhelmed with everything I'd been putting it through, and thus, I got a stress/tension headache. I was O.K. later that night, but throughout the whole weekend, I had a pretty high temperature, and I felt really woozy. My throat was fine, so it wasn't any kind of strep or anything--just a fever, but at the time I definitely didn't know how long it'd last.
TEMPORARY RELIEF:
I've been taking Advil, because it's the first medicine that my mom recommended to me. The problem with Advil is that it takes two hours to kick in, and after that, hardly lasts another three. Once those hours are up, I am in two hours of headachey-fever-ish pain, until it kicks in, so it's NOT working for me that much.
What eternally frustrates me is how I can't predict what's going to happen with me. For instance, I took some medicine at ten o'clock this morning, and I was great until about three o'clock: my temperature was only 98.1--normal! But as time wore on, it rose to 101.9, which ISN'T good. And when my temperature's that high, I can't think straight, so, in my head, I want to go home and rest. Sounds reasonable, right?
REST DOESN'T WORK:
Medicine, water, and sleep should be the answers to getting all better. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE is telling me to just "stay home and get some rest!" Well people, I'd love to do that, if only it worked in this situation! I left rehearsal early because my fever was so high, but when I got home, I tried to sleep/rest, but I would just lay there on my bed and not feel any better. I stayed home from school today, even though I slept from 9 PM - 8 AM. I would have slept more, but more sleep just ISN'T what I need. It's too temporary! I don't know what to do.
Thing is, I'm not tired, I just feel SICK. And although resting does help, I'm not sleeping, so it doesn't feel like it's doing anything. If I could have, I would have slept all the way until three o'clock today, so I was prompt and ready for today's rehearsal, but no, my body wouldn't let me: I would have layed there in bed for seven hours doing nothing, when I could have been doing other things. It seems as if the hierarchy of what I'm capable of looks like this:
So, what am I supposed to do? Sleeping more DOES NOT help, taking the medicine is only TEMPORARY, and I am limited to hardly doing ANYTHING productive because of this. How freaking long will this last, and why is it happening? No one but me realizes how awkward it was to have to leave rehearsal today, being the most critical band member--the pianist--and having fifty people wonder what I was doing, why I was doing it, and then questioning if I was quitting since they didn't KNOW I had a temperature of a hundred and two. I wanted to keep playing, but staying would have been disastrous. And ironically enough, when I left, I bet things didn't get much better.
Help?
Last Friday, 4/21, my body was apparently too overwhelmed with everything I'd been putting it through, and thus, I got a stress/tension headache. I was O.K. later that night, but throughout the whole weekend, I had a pretty high temperature, and I felt really woozy. My throat was fine, so it wasn't any kind of strep or anything--just a fever, but at the time I definitely didn't know how long it'd last.
TEMPORARY RELIEF:
I've been taking Advil, because it's the first medicine that my mom recommended to me. The problem with Advil is that it takes two hours to kick in, and after that, hardly lasts another three. Once those hours are up, I am in two hours of headachey-fever-ish pain, until it kicks in, so it's NOT working for me that much.
What eternally frustrates me is how I can't predict what's going to happen with me. For instance, I took some medicine at ten o'clock this morning, and I was great until about three o'clock: my temperature was only 98.1--normal! But as time wore on, it rose to 101.9, which ISN'T good. And when my temperature's that high, I can't think straight, so, in my head, I want to go home and rest. Sounds reasonable, right?
REST DOESN'T WORK:
Medicine, water, and sleep should be the answers to getting all better. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE is telling me to just "stay home and get some rest!" Well people, I'd love to do that, if only it worked in this situation! I left rehearsal early because my fever was so high, but when I got home, I tried to sleep/rest, but I would just lay there on my bed and not feel any better. I stayed home from school today, even though I slept from 9 PM - 8 AM. I would have slept more, but more sleep just ISN'T what I need. It's too temporary! I don't know what to do.
Thing is, I'm not tired, I just feel SICK. And although resting does help, I'm not sleeping, so it doesn't feel like it's doing anything. If I could have, I would have slept all the way until three o'clock today, so I was prompt and ready for today's rehearsal, but no, my body wouldn't let me: I would have layed there in bed for seven hours doing nothing, when I could have been doing other things. It seems as if the hierarchy of what I'm capable of looks like this:
- Fully capable: resting/trying to sleep in bed
- Somewhat capable: using the computer for LJ, watching TV, etc.
- Not capable: going to school and THINKING
So, what am I supposed to do? Sleeping more DOES NOT help, taking the medicine is only TEMPORARY, and I am limited to hardly doing ANYTHING productive because of this. How freaking long will this last, and why is it happening? No one but me realizes how awkward it was to have to leave rehearsal today, being the most critical band member--the pianist--and having fifty people wonder what I was doing, why I was doing it, and then questioning if I was quitting since they didn't KNOW I had a temperature of a hundred and two. I wanted to keep playing, but staying would have been disastrous. And ironically enough, when I left, I bet things didn't get much better.
Help?