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The nausea from my restarting the birth control? Overwhelming. I was sick all morning today, and then randomly (which had never happened before) also sick all evening. Except for then I was all OMG, DILEMMA. I couldn't figure out whether the huge increase in nausea in the evening was because of the pill or because as I'd been nauseated all day to various degrees, all day I hadn't eaten more than a bowl of oatmeal in the afternoon.

So I was afraid to cook something because thinking about food is making me nauseated enough by itself, but I was afraid not to just in case it is something like low blood sugar which I can fix, because this is frakking miserable. It may have been this severe before, but never this long-running. I'm pretty sure it's due to the combination of the amoxicillin for the root canal (which--along with my mouth in general from holding it open--hurts, btw, because I had an appointment on Tuesday where they drilled out the old filling, poked around a bit, and then temp-filled it back up and then refused to give me any pain medication) and the birth control, because there's no other explanation for the night nausea, as the bc usually only makes me sick about 8 hours after I take it (maybe earlier, but before that I'm prolly asleep still).

But I did. Choked down half of one of those big rectangular crackers, and have now moved on to trying a bit of protein in the form of a scrambled fakey-egg type thing.

Unfortunately, it appears to not have been low blood sugar. The nausea has subsided a bit (but that may be because by now, the night wave has been going on for 4.5 hours), but it's nowhere near gone. So there is now half of a microwaved fakey-egg thing in a bowl next to me, because I don't know if it's worth trying to force the rest of it down when it's obviously not helping and just typing about the prospect of it is making me ill.

I'm almost to the point of trying to find a doctor I can call right now for a script for Compazine or some such (even though the Minimed presenting doctor talked about how that was one of the medicines that can induce Parkinsonian symptoms, LOL), because I've got homework to do and sleep I should be getting and I can't concentrate (or really do anything but sit here with my hands over my face) when every time I move my head even a little, I have to internally debate whether I need to run to the bathroom because I'm going to throw up or not.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I should add migraine to the list of possibilities. I've only really ever had one really bad one (I'm more of a tension/hay fever/cluster headache kind of girl), but I seem to remember the nausea being like this. I don't have the tunnel vision that usually comes with them, though, nor an actually headache, so idk. Added to the differential anyway.

Edit again: Gah. As I expected, nothing's open but the ER, and I'm not going to bother them for dumb nausea, especially since ~~it's gotten tolerable~~ I'm not constantly feeling like I'm urgently going to vomit anymore unless I make the mistake of moving any part of my body. Though during my searching, interestingly enough, I found that in July one of those urgent care centers is going to be opening only a bit more than a 1/2 mile walk from my house. Were it 8 months later and 6 hours earlier, I'd be golden.

As it stands, I really can't see going to school in the morning having been this sick for this many hours (we're up to five now, not even counting the couple in the morning) all night. But I have to, as I already missed one day in this four-day week, and like I griped about then, am already at least one day over the semester limit to still get credit without makeups.

IDK. I'm prolly going to go wake my mother up (which I hate to do, because she's got to get up even earlier than I do) to see if maybe there's something in the house left over that could help with the nausea. This is not cool.

AND. Has just remembered that I need to take another amoxicillin something like nowish (or earlier). Yeah. That's going to happen.

Edit again again (because this is turning into an all-night saga, as sitting on the couch with the laptop is something I can actually do--or maybe because moving away from the laptop is looking like it's going to make me hurl): So I did actually get up for a moment, and asked my mother, and she pointed me to this Trimethobenzamide stuff in the very back of one of the medicine cabinets. God knows how old it is, but I remember taking it once before, so I figured I'd try it. It was in the wrong prescription bottle, though, so I googled it to make sure this was the stuff I wanted. Tis the stuff I wanted, but, erm, evidently this stuff was banned by the FDA in April for not working.

That's not enough of a deterrent for me, though, because if there's even the slightest chance of this working, I'm trying it. I'm just trying to make sure that there wasn't another reason attached that they're not reporting, just in case it causes hair loss or cancer or something. Aparece que no, it's just the not working.

So yes. I'm going to take this, then prolly go lie down (my bedroom's closer to the toilet anyway, if the path is a little more treacherous due to the fact that I've got piles of clothes on the floor in my room still from the last time I was trying to sort things out/clean up. LOL, hopefully saga end for the night.