Miscellaneous stuff
I was the sickests I've been in probably a decade for the past couple of weeks. I had an awful, nagging, never-leave-you-alone cold with a cough that could rattle the windows of my house. It was terrible.
I'm not one to be sick - ever. I have my grandfather's constitution - which got passed from my mom to me. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been on medication for anything in the last twelve years. What this all means is that when I do get sick, I'm a terrible patient. I whine and complain and I'm in denial that I actually need to rest.
Thankfully, however, this cold/flu was SO bad that I couldn't deny it at all. It laid me out for a full two weeks. It was just last Thursday that I actually started to feel like myself again.
I saw my mid wife during the throws of my sickness and she diagnosed me with a viral infection. Ugh. Eventually, she persuaded me to take some antibiotics (I hate them, so I put it off as long as possible). I felt better in a couple of days after the meds kicked in.
It was during this appointment that I told her about another symptom I'd been having - all over itchiness. My whole body itches all the time. I get woken up by it, I can't fall asleep because of it. It's particularly excruciating when I'm still and/or at night. It feels like I have poison ivy all over my body, all the time. It sucks.
She referred me to get some blood work done to make sure that my liver is functioning (I guess itchiness can be a sign of liver failure). Everything was fine there (thankfully), so she told me to use Dove soap from now on. There's no marks or rashes or blemishes on my skin that would indicate I need to see a dermatologist, but still the itching persists.
My mom told me that her prenatal vitamin had made her itchy - it was a reaction to the niacin in the pill. My mid wife told me to stop taking the prenatal vitamin (you don't really need it after your 3rd month) - but no change.
I hate to complain about a stupid symptom when such amazing things are happening in my body, but this one sucks. It's hard to gracefully scratch your boobs in public. It's tougher to get away with going braless when you're chest has swelled to a double D.
So I'm not sure what to do about all of this, except wait and hope that another solution to the problem arises. In the meantime, Brian bought me a great backscratcher and I'm putting it to good use!
I'm not one to be sick - ever. I have my grandfather's constitution - which got passed from my mom to me. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been on medication for anything in the last twelve years. What this all means is that when I do get sick, I'm a terrible patient. I whine and complain and I'm in denial that I actually need to rest.
Thankfully, however, this cold/flu was SO bad that I couldn't deny it at all. It laid me out for a full two weeks. It was just last Thursday that I actually started to feel like myself again.
I saw my mid wife during the throws of my sickness and she diagnosed me with a viral infection. Ugh. Eventually, she persuaded me to take some antibiotics (I hate them, so I put it off as long as possible). I felt better in a couple of days after the meds kicked in.
It was during this appointment that I told her about another symptom I'd been having - all over itchiness. My whole body itches all the time. I get woken up by it, I can't fall asleep because of it. It's particularly excruciating when I'm still and/or at night. It feels like I have poison ivy all over my body, all the time. It sucks.
She referred me to get some blood work done to make sure that my liver is functioning (I guess itchiness can be a sign of liver failure). Everything was fine there (thankfully), so she told me to use Dove soap from now on. There's no marks or rashes or blemishes on my skin that would indicate I need to see a dermatologist, but still the itching persists.
My mom told me that her prenatal vitamin had made her itchy - it was a reaction to the niacin in the pill. My mid wife told me to stop taking the prenatal vitamin (you don't really need it after your 3rd month) - but no change.
I hate to complain about a stupid symptom when such amazing things are happening in my body, but this one sucks. It's hard to gracefully scratch your boobs in public. It's tougher to get away with going braless when you're chest has swelled to a double D.
So I'm not sure what to do about all of this, except wait and hope that another solution to the problem arises. In the meantime, Brian bought me a great backscratcher and I'm putting it to good use!
posted by GirlRy @ 6:56 AM
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