Woke up just before my alarm went off at 7am for work. When I first woke up I felt good, I woke up on my right side which I’ve haven’t been sleeping on lately (but it is how I usually slept before all this). I quickly rolled back to my left worried I might make my RUQ pain worse. As I moved I felt nauseous. I didn’t know what time it was so I tried to go back to sleep and then my alarm went off. I got up at 7:15. Still felt nauseous. I got dressed in the same leggings and shirt I’d been wearing all weekend. I drank a mug of warm water and I tried to eat a slice of toast with margarine and jam but could only managed half of it. I dry heaved spontaneously while getting my things together and scared my husband. I took two ginger gravol (I don’t these are medicated, but also non-drowsy) I debated calling in but it was my coworkers flex days and I had things I needed to do so I finally shuffled out of the house at 7:50 (I start at 8). Walk to work was slow but fine. Got to work at ten after.
Morning was quiet but the nausea continued. I’m in my own world trying to tell myself I don’t feel that bad and when people talk to me and expect engagement in return I realize how out of it and down and tired and sore I am. I can’t give them a normal response. My first instincts are to grunt or shake my head or cry. I shouldn’t be at work.
I spoke with my boss (and cried) and he’s very supportive but I’m just at a loss of what to do or how long this will last. I called UMAC to get a follow up appointment but the first date Dr Walzack is available is Dec 19. This weekend I had booked weekly appts with the acupuncturist for December. And I see Dr Nero tomorrow.
I decided even though I was physically feeling better around 10/10:30 that I should go home and rest. I stayed until noon, took the rest of the day as vacation and took vacation and appointment time for tomorrow morning so I only ha e to go in to work for the afternoon tomorrow. I cried a lot on the way home and that made my RUQ hurt. In the endometriosis group I joined on Facebook a couple of people had normal blood and ultrasound but then had a HIDA scan that showed their gallbladder wasn’t functioning. So that’s in the back of my mind. But if it’s not that, and if it’s not Endometriosis, then what is it? I am definitely physically better than last month, and now that my menstrual cycle has ended I feel better than a few days ago, but I am still nauseous every day to some degree and either uncomfortable or in pain everyday.
I got home around 12:20. The naturopath office had emailed saying they got the test results from my stool sample to the US back and I should come in for follow up so I’ve made an appointment for Thursday the 29th.
That day (Thursday) is a day I have two meetings with the ministry so if I don’t work any other day this week but Thursday, that is the day I really need to be there and be present for.
I drank some water and laid down on the pull out couch for about half an hour when I got home. Laying down feels good but not having a task makes me that much more attune to all the aches and pains. My RUQ aches, and to a lesser degree my diaphragm and uterine areas as well. I have twinges in my rectum and sort of to the sides like to the left and right of my perineum but inside.
Went to couch at 1:00 to finish movie that I started last night. At 1:30 I ate leftover chicken and dumplings and drank some water. At 2:45 I moved back to laying on the pull out to try and sleep. I read for a bit and fell asleep around 4/4:30 until 5:30.
Got up at 6:15. Ate some popcorn and half a cucumber at 6:30. Sat on the couch and did a lice check on one child and brushed out the matted tangled of another I had been neglecting to brush for a while.
At 8:00 I had diarrhea.
8:20 drank ginger tea and ate some chicken breast with cucumber dill sauce (non dairy) and some more cucumber and a stone wheat thin cracker. I don’t think the cracker sat well. Maybe too dry. Had general pangs of pain from diaphragm to pelvis. Watched tv with a heating pad.
put some progesterone cream on and Went to bed at 10:30
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