Sunday, March 19, 2006

More Fun with Nausea

I've tried at least four different kinds of medication to deal with nausea, hoping with each switch to find that magic thing that will keep me from spewing the contents of my stomach everywhere, or from dry-heaving the lack of contents until I can't do anything besides gag, shaking, over whatever receptacle was close enough to get to, if I was lucky enough to get to one.

I have actually made food choices based on what things will taste like coming back up. I'm worried that I will develop dislikes of foods I had previously enjoyed because I've thrown them up. I adore spinach dip, but there's nothing quite like picking spinach out of your braces...twice.

This latest medication does a fairly good job at keeping me from feeling nauseous, until the actual moment is upon me, and the maddening thing is that I haven't figured out what the triggers are for sure. I don't know why I'll be feeling fine one day and then suddenly the next, bleahrgh....


Is it just activity level and stress? How on earth am I going to be able to control that? Sigh. Being able to wear smaller clothes is nice and all, but I need to be able to retain nutrients and things that will help me feel better. I've been advised to get a juicer. Does anyone have experience with those things? Will drinking lots of fresh juices make me healthy and give me unparalleled bushy eyebrows? Maybe my system won't like nutrition in juice form and will just spew it up again. Then I'll have invested money in a contraption that takes up space and is useless, rather like the pile of prescriptions in my medicine cabinet which have been tried, and rejected as just not performing well.

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