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January 05, 2005
13 Weeks 2 Days
I barfed. You are forewarned.
Well, I made it 13w2d without throwing up. And then last night I finally did. Though I don't think it was particularly morning sickness related, even though I still get a tad icky at night before bed.
I'm guessing the main culprit was the splitting headache I had. Or the licorice just didn't agree with me, but I've been eating that on and off for weeks now, and it's not given me any issues. Interestingly enough, all that came up was a few pieces of semi-digested licorice, and nothing more than some swallowed spit. No stomach acid or anything, which is usually the norm. Lotus thought I might be dehydrated, but I'd had the better part of a large glass of water just earlier.
Anyway, I'm still leaning towards the headache being the cause. And god what a blistering one that was. If you ever get the kind of headaches that make you feel like you will go insane or homicidal from the pain, then you know how I was feeling last night. I can actually sleep through quite a few headaches, but this was one of the ones that I would classify as needing medication if I were to even fall asleep at all. I had to get out of bed because I was almost tempted to smother PreZ because he was fast asleep and doing that calm sleep breathing, and I was so damn tired that hearing him sleep was driving me up the wall.
The only thing worse than not having any pain meds in the house when you have a blistering headache, is having pain meds that you can't take. Aleve (naproxen sodium) and ibuprofen are on the no-no list, as is aspirin which is contained in the migraine tablets I have. The migraine tabs did contain stuff I could take... acetaminophen (Tylenol) and codeine. Tylenol is the one thing we don't have in this house. Mostly because it just doesn't do anything for either me or PreZ when we have a headache/are in pain. We used to have a bottle of the stuff, but it went untouched so long I ended up giving it to Kit when he was out of pain meds at his place. Of course Tylenol would be the only thing I found on various websites that I can safely take. Irony is such a bitch.
As for why the other ones are all no-no's, I think they're reported to cause possible birth defects or labour complications. That definitely makes you think twice about using pain meds, period. Most of them are of the "use only on doctor's orders", but the ibuprofen and naproxen sodium also come with an "absolutely not in the third trimester, unless your doc says so" type warning. Fun stuff. I think I need to start looking at less toxic painrelief for general non-pregnant use too, as this is just kind of creepy.
It also doesn't help when it's the wee hours and most sites seem to be of the "talk to your doctor" variety... yeah, that's a great option at 3 or 4 in the frelling morning!
This was the first (bad) headache in the 13 weeks, and seeing as I used to be quite headache prone, I'm not complaining, as it could be much worse in its frequency.
Posted on 04:40 PM to: Pregnancy
Comments
I'm pretty headache-prone myself, and I've found that having some basil(preferably fresh, but dried one will also do) somewhere near, where I can smell them, really helps. it will not work, though,if there's cigarette smoke in the room, if you've used incense or those air freshener sprays or if you've used too much perfume. Hope it will help you
Stille
Posted by: Stille at February 28, 2005 08:12 AM