12/11/09: Ugh...

I feel like I have been the walking textbook of contagious disease. At least I am finally back to walking...

It's been crazy, that much I know. Last week I ended up with the first migraine I'd had in over two years. Surprising.

Over the weekend - felt great and fine.

Monday morning, nice and early I was hit with something but for the life of me, couldn't figure out what it was...

Food poisoning didn't make sense. Nothing I ate made anyone else sick. And the lapse between the last meal and onset of symptoms was far too great. But the flu didn't make sense either. No exposure to it and while some symptoms were present, others were not.

Went home sick Monday. Tuesday felt much better but still could not eat and so ended up with a overall feeling of lethargy. Went home sick Tuesday, too. Made it through more of the day, though.

Tuesday night after sleeping for hours and hours and hours I thought I could eat. So hubby obligingly went and got me the meal du jour. I ate it. It was good. I was happy.

Wednesday morning way before bright and early I knew that was a wrong choice.

Wednesday I just stayed home and vowed to go to the doc. My PCP couldn't see me, her schedule was full - but another doc in the practice had availability. GREAT! Just don't make me pay the urgent care fee - I'll be happy to see anyone for my normal copay.

Wednesday morning, as I was trying to get to sleep in between hourly trips to the restroom, it occurred to me - this might be gastroenteritis.

Wednesday afternoon it was confirmed.

I was told it was viral which meant I could take some OTC's to relieve the most annoying symptom of all. I was also given a scrip for phenargen so that I could start to ingest water and watered-down-gatorade. I was also told to stay home on Thurs as it was quite contagious.

Thursday, feeling better and finally rested, I started to come down with a cold that I knew was lurking in the sidewings. Apparently with enough energy to consume, NOW the cold feels like it can make it's presence known. So today is the stuffed up, coughing, aching (which has been there all along), can't breathe day. Oh well. I'll take this over the last thing if I've got no other choice...

Since Monday at 6:30 am I have lost 10 pounds. SOOOOO not how I wanted to lose 10 pounds! We'll see where I end up when things "normalize". Is this my 10 pounds for the month leaving me with the option of eating-what-I-want-over-Christmas?

Wow, dude, that's just not right! Hopefully the cold won't linger too long.

Sorry you had such a bad virus. Is gastroentritis common with a band? Or just coincidence? Hope your cold clears up soon too and that the 10 pounds is permanent.

Loseit - thanks for the sympathy. The cold isn't nearly as bad as colds I have had in the past - and I guess with how I felt last week - I'm ready to feel good...and so therefore I do.

Jewel - I am not banded yet so these are not related issues in my case. I don't know much more than what I'm about to say but I hear and read that if you have gastroenteritis with the band you should be really working on NOT throwing up as that can cause issues. From what I've read, it does not seem that this is common with the band...

As for the 10 pounds - wasn't permament, but it does appear that 5 pounds are gone. It's now that time of the month for me when weight loss just WILL NOT happen, and in fact, the numbers are usually elevated right about now - so we'll see where I am in about a week...