I, sickness & Self medication

Hello People!

Greetings to everyone, I'm sure you're good, just be fine.

The week has been a tough one for me, I turned to a regular customer to a chemist shop nearby to collect drugs I prescribes for myself🤦.

This is how it works with me;

I seldom fall sick, so anytime a slight symptom of fever comes, I usually tackle it with simple medicine like paracetamol or Panadol and it'll disappear. I've been using this method and it's been working very well, Sometimes I can stay up to 4-5 months without taking a pill.

On Tuesday, I was feeling a deep headache, I decided to give it time for it to disappear maybe it's because of stress, I waited till evening and it became more severe, I quickly rushed to the chemist store for a Panadol which I bought four pills. I took two pills that evening and within 1hour I was back to normal.

The next morning, the feeling came again with same intensity of last evening, I took the remaining two pills and for sure, I was fine again within an hour.

Tuesday's evening, the headache came again coupled with cold and stomach pain, I was like "which kind thing be this?". For stomach pain, I don't know the medicine to buy because I don't suffer stomach pain often, but for headache and cold, I know the drugs to get.

I went to the chemist shop again, I told her what to give me and she brought it as I prescribed for her. I got home, I took it and within some hours I was sweating.... that showed that my prescriptions worked👏👏.

On Wednesday, all the symptoms returned with a full come back, my head was banging like it want to fall off, my stomach was biting, my body was shivering as if I'm in a freezing land, goosebumps all over my body.

I had to rush to the chemist shop again, at this time I surrendered, I didn't want my prescription again🤣, I told her to give me a mixed drugs on all the symptoms in my body and I emphasized on not adding chloroquine.

Mehn, I'm heavily allergic to
chloroquine. I can't sacrifice
my peace for that.

She mixed the drugs and I paid, I got home, there was food but the solid food was not okay with me, so I went for tea. I brought out the medicine and I got tired instantly when I counted and it was 12pills. I had to swallow them because I had no option.

After taking the medicine, I was still shivering on cold, I used a sweater to cover myself, entered bed, covered myself again with bedspread. I picked my phone to engage here but the interest was not there. At the other side too, I wasn't ready to give in to sleep because if I do, I'm gonna miss money. So I forced myself to engage here, I read some articles and....I slept off.

I woke up around 11:00am sweating and I was glad because the symptoms have reduced. I got up and decided to fetch water to bathe and that was when I called back the symptoms again. I jumped on my bed again to sleep hoping it'll disappear before I wake up but that never worked.

It became so severe in the evening to the extent that I was vomiting. I was just wondering on the kind of sickness because I've not seen it in this manner before. My brother got back around 7pm, he saw me lying down and I told him what I've been passing through since morning, he quickly made noodles for me to eat but I didn't eat, I told him to go and buy a medicine that will make me to stop vomiting because I've been doing that almost every 20mins.

He came back and I managed to take the drug because I wanted to stop vomiting by all cost. To eat the food he's been forcing me to eat became a problem for, there was no appetite for food, I kept telling him I'd eat very soon. That's how I slept off on same position to wake up today's morning feeling a little better.

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I'm feeling much better now(at the time of typing this). This is why you didn't see me in your post yesterday.

For rusty not to run away from me, I must make myself available, I can't stand his "forever gone" on my account.

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Thanks for reading.

25th August 2022