Posted in Just Our Day-to-Day Life

I am not certain whether the cure is much better than the disease.  The pills the doctor is having me take for the diverticulitis are making me feel worse instead of better.  Can you tell from my lack of posting lately that I haven't felt well?  I miss blogging, but it seems like absolutely everything is such an effort lately.  I'd rather just curl up and sleep.

The pain is subsiding a bit, but the pills are making me extremely nauseous and just in general feeling sick.  Before I just hurt---now I feel sick.  They taste horrible, but I can put up with that.  I must say though, that I have never had a pill that tasted worse.  You don't even have to lay it on your tongue to taste it.   As soon as you hold it inside your mouth, just holding onto it before putting it on your tongue, it already can be tasted.  How is that even possible?  A not so fun side effect is that it makes the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet burn like I have a severe sunburn.  It just starts to feel better, and it's time to take another pill. 

At least the pain is going away.  Tomorrow I go in for a bunch of lab tests---tons of blood work.  One that I am really interested in is the thyroid function.  I had Hashimoto's years ago, and had half my thyroid taken out.  The fact that I am not losing anymore weight lately, and wasn't losing as much as I thought I should before that, make me wonder what the other half of my thyroid is up to. Without health insurance, I couldn't have it checked for quite some time.  It would be nice to have an excuse for the weight not coming off more quickly :-) 

Please pray that I feel better soon.  One more day of these pills and they will be gone, and hopefully I'll perk up again???  I sure hope so!  Too much to do to feel like just lopping around on the couch all day.