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Upset stomach woes
Feb. 2nd, 2017 11:31 pmI'm more prone to upset stomach than I'd like to be, and what's worse is, nothing fucking works against it. I used to take Pepto Bismol for it, and that worked a treat for the first couple decades of my life. Then one day it just stopped working. I kept trying, but even extra-strength Pepto, whether in pills or liquid form, doesn't work anymore. Antacids don't work. All that works is just waiting it out, and when the hunger gets to be too much, going ahead and eating anyway. I even tried Mylanta (well, off brand), and along with being the nastiest thing I've ever tasted in my life, it didn't work. These ginger pills I have used to work for about a couple months, and now they don't work either. Nothing fucking works. When I get an upset stomach, all I can do is wait for it to decide to stop.
What's worse, when I get upset stomach now, I tend to also get diarrhea AND painful gas. Lovely. So these days whenever I get upset stomach, I take an anti-gas pill and some anti-diarrheals. They don't stop the stomach being upset either, but I do seem to recover slightly faster when I use them.
Oh yes, and often these upset stomachs are a mystery to me, because I usually have no idea what caused it. Though the one I had earlier today was, I am sure, caused by overeating the night before. I had a bowl full of hamburger/beans mix with faux cheese to make "nachos" with, then an unknown amount of time later (possibly as little as 2 hours) had a huge steak from the food boxes. A steak that, if I'm honest, was already greying on the outside and smelled like it was about to go off. But it tasted alright, and I cooked it all the way through. (I can't stand it when steak is pink in the middle.) I was so stuffed, it's no wonder I got an upset stomach.
Speaking of that upset stomach, a new development in the Hell that is my relationship with my stomach. The tale started with me looking up herbal and home remedies for upset stomach. Some I've done before and won't do again - like drinking baking soda mixed with water. Tastes nasty, doesn't work for me. What I did instead earlier today was ate some apple sauce with cinnamon, as apples and cinnamon were both mentioned as working for some people. Also took one of those OTC pills that supposedly reduces creation of stomach acid.
Well, for whatever reason, what I did was a bad idea. I spent the whole trip to Winco fighting nausea and the urge to vomit, and that didn't pass until some time about a quarter of the way through the Winco trip. I was seriously considering running to the bathroom to pray to the porcellain god until that point. But for whatever reason, it just stopped and became a regular upset stomach.
Now I appear to possibly have slept it off. Eating ginger-flavored rice and a banana for now until I'm certain.
What's worse, when I get upset stomach now, I tend to also get diarrhea AND painful gas. Lovely. So these days whenever I get upset stomach, I take an anti-gas pill and some anti-diarrheals. They don't stop the stomach being upset either, but I do seem to recover slightly faster when I use them.
Oh yes, and often these upset stomachs are a mystery to me, because I usually have no idea what caused it. Though the one I had earlier today was, I am sure, caused by overeating the night before. I had a bowl full of hamburger/beans mix with faux cheese to make "nachos" with, then an unknown amount of time later (possibly as little as 2 hours) had a huge steak from the food boxes. A steak that, if I'm honest, was already greying on the outside and smelled like it was about to go off. But it tasted alright, and I cooked it all the way through. (I can't stand it when steak is pink in the middle.) I was so stuffed, it's no wonder I got an upset stomach.
Speaking of that upset stomach, a new development in the Hell that is my relationship with my stomach. The tale started with me looking up herbal and home remedies for upset stomach. Some I've done before and won't do again - like drinking baking soda mixed with water. Tastes nasty, doesn't work for me. What I did instead earlier today was ate some apple sauce with cinnamon, as apples and cinnamon were both mentioned as working for some people. Also took one of those OTC pills that supposedly reduces creation of stomach acid.
Well, for whatever reason, what I did was a bad idea. I spent the whole trip to Winco fighting nausea and the urge to vomit, and that didn't pass until some time about a quarter of the way through the Winco trip. I was seriously considering running to the bathroom to pray to the porcellain god until that point. But for whatever reason, it just stopped and became a regular upset stomach.
Now I appear to possibly have slept it off. Eating ginger-flavored rice and a banana for now until I'm certain.