beth, I hope I didn't rain on your...well, the phrase doesn't work well here, but I'm really sorry you're feeling crummy and I'm glad the pho helped.
Teppy, I hope the benedryl helps. It does suck that these things tend to happen in the wee hours.
Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
libkitty - May 21, 2008 9:21:47 pm PDT #36 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
SailAweigh - May 22, 2008 2:06:37 am PDT #37 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
New thread in the morning. Mmmmm, almost (note I said almost ) better than coffee.
Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:40:04 am PDT #38 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I swear, only to me does this weirdness happen.
Last week, I had several nights with very little sleep, because I was coughing and codeine keeps me wide awake. Still, an allergic reaction to the most common medication for a severe allergic reactions is pretty over the top.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2008 3:13:41 am PDT #39 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Top 50! 40 even.
It's the small pleasures in life that make it worth it.
Steph L. - May 22, 2008 3:38:36 am PDT #40 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Still, an allergic reaction to the most common medication for a severe allergic reactions is pretty over the top.
Right? But I searched MEDLINE last night, and, while it's not *common* for people to have an allergic reaction to methylprednisolone, it's happened enough for there to have been articles writen on it.
The articles describe some cross-reactivity with other steroids, but not all. So I'm going to call my doctor this morning and tell him what's going on, and find out what he wants me to do (other than stop the methylprednisolone). I could already tell it was helping my wrist pain, so I'd like to keep taking another steroid, if possible.
I've taken this steroid pack before, maybe 4 or 5 times in the past 15 years, and never had this reaction. Weird weird weird.
I don't have a *rash*, per se, or hives, but I'm itchy all over and flushed and my skin feels hot all over. That's not my normal state of being, and then only thing new in my daily routine in the past 2 days has been the steroid, so it seems fairly obvious that that's the culprit. Dang.
WindSparrow - May 22, 2008 3:44:16 am PDT #41 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I hope the next round of stuff offers you some relief, Teppy.
Cashmere - May 22, 2008 3:45:30 am PDT #42 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Teppy's an episode of House!
Steph L. - May 22, 2008 3:48:10 am PDT #43 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Teppy's an episode of House!
God, I *so* am. I probably have worms in my brain. (That was the very first episode of House, and I knew then that I could never watch another, because my hypochondria kicked in and I was CONVINCED that I had brain worms, because the patient got them from eating ham [trichinosis, dontcha know], and I eat ham, so therefore I MUST have brain worms! I knew it would only get worse with every successive episode, so I saved myself the trauma early on and forswore it.)
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2008 3:48:25 am PDT #44 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Teppy's an episode of House!
Well we can rule out lupus, then.
Nora Deirdre - May 22, 2008 3:58:17 am PDT #45 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Golly, a new thread! Did not see that coming. Top 50, whee!