My tummy hurts.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m making a doctor’s appointment tomorrow (evidently I just missed them today at 4.) I just kind of realized today that I’ve had a tummyache every single afternoon for… a while. More than a week. Possibly a lot more than a week. Tums don’t touch it, and neither does dark beer (usually very effective at knocking out stomach ailments for me.)

Urrrrgh. I started writing down what I eat this morning. I haven’t had anything carbonated or anything dairy all day, just in case that was it - no dice. I feel like if I could just get in one good burp… it is teh suxx0rs.

Your mundane and pointless afternoon.

ETA - oh yeah, and I mentioned it at work and now everybody thinks I’m pregnant. Thanks.

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We keep a case of ginger ale in the house for such medical issues.

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I tried crystallized ginger. No dice. Also peppermint tea.

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Um, not to be too nosy, but when was the last time you had a bowel movement?

Try a heating pad on your sore tummy, and I hope the doctor gives you an answer.

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The mail has been moving in the ordinary, regular fashion. It never hurts in the morning, just usually after lunchtime (although today it started at 11, which is why I realized there’s a pattern - I’d been brushing it off as eating too much lunch, I think.)

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Well, that’s good then. Let us know what the doctor says.

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Ummmm not to be an annoying cow-orker, but … is there any possibility?

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Vanishingly low, I’d say. (I mean, anything can happen, I know, but still.)

ETA - I’m one of those “perfect use” pill people - I never miss a pill and take it at the same time every day.

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Me, too. And I have two kids. :smiley:

Good luck at the doc, and hope it’s not something real serious. I’ll be thinking about you.

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Onset of IBS or Crohn’s?

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Don’t you EVEN SAY that. (I was hoping for gallbladder if it’s serious, after those threads about getting your gallbladder out.)

Just in case, I took a pregnancy test to shut my boss up - negative.

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I have no good advice, but stopped by to wish you luck!

Let us know what the doc says.

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Let’s see, my extensive education at Television Medical University has trained me to recognize these symptoms:

vomiting = pregnancy
coughing = lung cancer
headache = brain tumor and/or alien abduction

Dunno what you’ve got, though. Keep us posted.

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Ha ha ha. I’ve got some chronic nausea issues that seem to come and go. This morning it was pretty bad and I was complaining about it on facebook. So, of course the first question was, are you pregnant? Um, no, I’ve been nauseous off and on for about 4 years now. I think this baby is long overdue.

So anyways, yeah, I (metaphorically) feel your pain.

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Okay, weird question. I used to get tummy aches from having my waistband on my pants too tight and sitting all day -

Is your waistband too tight?

Also, Orange Juice used to give me terrible cramps…

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No, no, no. Coughing is only in costume dramas and is consumption.

Poysyn, funny you should say that - my waistbands have been getting painfully tight in the afternoon since this started (I guess I’m, um, inflating?) so I had to switch my work wardrobe to all skirts that don’t have that issue. So today I froze.

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What are you eating? In my advancing age (I’m 30) I find that I can’t eat much without some damn Beano, especially anything with beans (hummus is a special culprit) and some raw veggies (i’m looking at you, broccoli). I get bloated, tummy-achy, and like I really need a good belch or, um, otherthing.

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I would like to site the case of Patient 1013-86, “Cigarette-Smoking Man” from The X-Files.

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Whenever someone near me goes into a coughing fit, I ask them if they are auditioning for Camille. Very few people get it.

Until you hear otherwise from you doctor, I shall recommend the remedy my mother inflicted on us for every intestinal issue. Buttermilk.

Here’s hoping it’s something stooopit and insignificant.

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Well, we know it’s never lupus…