A Lesson Learned

Remember a few days ago I wrote about getting the bug that is going around?  If not, you can read it HERE.  Anyway, by now I should have been up and running…and by this morning I was so frustrated and wondering, “Why aren’t I???”

When I first felt sick, my knee jerk reaction was to get the Tamiflu prescription filled. (Background – it was given to me when Rich fell ill in Vegas.  The doctor gave it to me “just in case”.)  Probably the worst thing to give me aside from a credit card with no limit and the OK to get a “little something” for myself.  After watching the news the past week or so, I was so amped up about the flu epidemic.  I couldn’t get sick, I didn’t have time!!

Fast forward to yesterday.  I was so excited to get back into my routine – dropping the boys off at school and then off to work for me!  At work I sat through a benefits seminar, where I first started to feel “weird”.  I went back to my desk and jumped right onto a conference call.  Conference call ended, still felt a bit odd, but chugged along.  It was during conference call #2 that I realized something had to be up.  I felt YUCKY – nauseous and woozy.  A coworker thought it may be low blood sugar, so I ate my clementine and drank a lot of water.  Nope, that didn’t help.  I needed to go home.

On the way home I called my mom and explained my symptoms.  “Could it be from the Tamiflu?” Hmmmm…Mom may be on to something.  I called the doctor, and lo and behold – it was from the Tamiflu.  I had to call Mom back and tell her “You were right!”.  Once home I sequestered myself to my room, wondering why the heck I feel this terrible.  I didn’t even want a glass of wine, that’s how terrible I felt.  One thing I hate more than any sore throat, cough, runny nose, etc. is the feeling of nausea.  That’s what I felt like and it wouldn’t go away 🙁  Darn medicine.  Well, I couldn’t blame the medicine…I could only blame myself for self-medicating and then following that up with over-medicating.  Nice, right?

This morning comes and I still feel the same way and at this point I am so frustrated, aggravated, annoyed.  After seeing the doctor and receiving a medication for nausea, I feel like a new woman.  I still have to wait on the blood work results, but I can’t tell you how much better I feel.

I definitely learned a lesson – do not self-medicate.  Wait to talk to the doctor.  Read the inserts that come with the medications.  Also, I don’t bounce back as fast as I used to.

Thankfully I feel great now, but geez…never again!!