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Aug. 28th, 2006 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emothyI totally didn't go to work today. I was in the MOST PAIN EVER OMG.
(Not really TMI) Last month, instead of regular period pains, I got this screwy backpain, and was having trouble even walking around at work. I felt like a cripple, wandering around in pigeon steps, and having to press my back up against things to pressure it and take some of the pain away. It was so unusual I didn't even think to connect it to my period, I just thought it had come along at the same time coincidentally.
So that week I go the doctors anyway, because for such a long time now I've been getting pain trouble, and sometimes it does keep me from working for a while, having to go sit down and curl up tight to make the pain ease up a little if I can. And he prescribes me this stuff, mefanamic acid or something. It's probably not spelt that way but it's commonly used to make your cramps less severe so that the pain will lessen. You can only take it during your period, not before or anything, so I hadn't tried it until today.
Well I think its pretty safe to say I'm allergic to that stuff! I managed to actually swallow the capsules whole (which is a big deal!) in between nibbling on some bread, but they came back up pretty soon after. And between 6.30am and 9.30am I was in excruciating pain that nothing could solve. With stomach cramps heat can help a little, putting weight or pressure on your stomach, curling up into a ball, exercise and etc. My mum did everything she could for me, rubbing my back where it hurt, two hot water bottles front and back, warm tea, poking my back in places to try and put pressure on parts. I was telling her to hurt me just to give me other pain to focus on, biting my lip as hard as I could to distract me with a different pain but it didn't even come close!
I'd even had a little backache building in the small of my back for days but I had assumed it was from leaning over a little and pricing things at work that had done it. Not so! It's definitely period related, and I don't seem to get stomach cramps really at all now. Totally my fault for wishing them away only to get something so much worse with no relief!
So yeah, sickness and pain and no going into work today. I feel better now but I do still get little aches now and then. I just hope it only lasts the one day.
I'm gonna do some research online now though, especially to see if what my mum had is more likely because she had it, or even hereditary.
(Not really TMI) Last month, instead of regular period pains, I got this screwy backpain, and was having trouble even walking around at work. I felt like a cripple, wandering around in pigeon steps, and having to press my back up against things to pressure it and take some of the pain away. It was so unusual I didn't even think to connect it to my period, I just thought it had come along at the same time coincidentally.
So that week I go the doctors anyway, because for such a long time now I've been getting pain trouble, and sometimes it does keep me from working for a while, having to go sit down and curl up tight to make the pain ease up a little if I can. And he prescribes me this stuff, mefanamic acid or something. It's probably not spelt that way but it's commonly used to make your cramps less severe so that the pain will lessen. You can only take it during your period, not before or anything, so I hadn't tried it until today.
Well I think its pretty safe to say I'm allergic to that stuff! I managed to actually swallow the capsules whole (which is a big deal!) in between nibbling on some bread, but they came back up pretty soon after. And between 6.30am and 9.30am I was in excruciating pain that nothing could solve. With stomach cramps heat can help a little, putting weight or pressure on your stomach, curling up into a ball, exercise and etc. My mum did everything she could for me, rubbing my back where it hurt, two hot water bottles front and back, warm tea, poking my back in places to try and put pressure on parts. I was telling her to hurt me just to give me other pain to focus on, biting my lip as hard as I could to distract me with a different pain but it didn't even come close!
I'd even had a little backache building in the small of my back for days but I had assumed it was from leaning over a little and pricing things at work that had done it. Not so! It's definitely period related, and I don't seem to get stomach cramps really at all now. Totally my fault for wishing them away only to get something so much worse with no relief!
So yeah, sickness and pain and no going into work today. I feel better now but I do still get little aches now and then. I just hope it only lasts the one day.
I'm gonna do some research online now though, especially to see if what my mum had is more likely because she had it, or even hereditary.
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:11 am (UTC)