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That was a fun Christmas.
I've been having stomach problems for a week or two now. I thought it was because of the CBD oil, but it turns out it wasn't that (probably). On Thursday morning I woke up with a tight, full feeling in my lower right belly. I thought it was constipation. I took something for that on Friday and the full feeling didn't fully go away, but was a lot less. But it returned on Saturday.
It got worse over the course of the day. During dinner I had to go lie down, the warm room and the smells got to me. When I took my temperature I had a fever. The first thing I did was take a rapid Covid test, which was negative. After that I called the urgent care service (out of hours doctors' office) and got an appointment for 10pm.
It turns out my ongoing stomach issues were cause by acid reflux, so I'm on stronger pills for that again. My large intestines were irritated, I need to eat lots of fibers and fruit for that (hasn't helped yet) and to top it off I have an "impressive" UTI, which causes the full, tense feeling.
I don't have the urge to pee often, or pain when urinating, so I never thought of a UTI. I got a course of antibiotics and I'm allowed to take paracetamol for the pain. During the night it got a lot worse before it got better. At one point it felt like I was being stabbed by a frozen ice pick. And I didn't get much sleep. I stayed in bed most of the day yesterday and felt wiped out. Though a shower and dinner made me feel a bit better and the tense feeling wasn't as bad.
This morning I woke up at 5am and the tenseness was worse, with cramping. Luckily the paracetamol worked well. I'm still tired, but not as tired as yesterday. I'm going to take it easy today and not do much.
I've decided that if that tenseness doesn't improve significantly by Wednesday I'm going to call my own doctors' office. I have to take my last antibiotics on Thursday morning and I don't want to end up at urgent care again during the weekend, especially since I'm going to my sister from Friday until Monday.
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