redbird | That was no fun at all

I had a miserable afternoon and not much sleep last night.

The main problem was pain in my torso, from around my navel up to my breasts in front, and in my back, mostly along the spine. I couldn't find a really comfortable position for several hours. Sleep was effectively impossible, walking hurt, halfway-plausible positions for sitting were only plausible for a few minutes.

I took aspirin before dinner, after a few hours of just being uncomfortable. No noticeable effect. I also didn't eat much dinner, and wound up getting out of bed later and having a bowl of milk and cereal before my disinclination to eat returned and overrode my hunger.

Then, still in pain, somewhere around midnight I decided to try ibuprofen.

Five minutes later, I was leaning over the toilet, throwing up small amounts of liquid. Really not fun. I don't know if that was connected to the ibuprofen, or just random timing. Either way, it ruled out any further painkillers.

The pain continued, and I continued to look for tolerable positions. I think it was somewhere between 3 and 4 a.m. by the time I settled into a fitful sleep.

This morning I'm feeling better, but of course tired, and glad I didn't get to the stage of making plans with anyone.

cattitude suggests that the problem is lack of exercise, so (while I am not ready to head out to the gym today), I'll do a few crunches here (in 3s or so, not 15s as I usually do) and maybe even bicep curls.

I expect to be basically home today, but will probably be screening calls even if I'm awake.

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The hot bath managed to transfer some of the pain from my breasts to my lower back--my tub isn't as large as yours, so I couldn't really get comfortable.

Tea is good, and is helping. Have I mentioned that the Ti Kwan Yin from the set you gave me at New Year's is very nice? (I haven't tried any of the others yet.)

Do you have a heating pad? Then you can lie comfortably on your bed & heat up the sore parts (sequentially if they're bigger than the heating pad, as my back pains have sometimes been). I've found that even if the pain doesn't go away completely, the heat is still comforting.

But really, muscle pain and lack of apetite followed by vomiting sounds like a viral infection (stomach-flu variety) to me. Not much you can do for those unless the vomiting is severe enough for you to head to the doctor's for Composine. Hot fluids & rest is about it, which you are already doing.

I'm glad you're feeling better and hope there are no recurrences.

That was no fun at all

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No Fun At All (In spades, it sounds like)