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May. 17th, 2011 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enamouredSo, health issues! I've been seriously considering birth control for a while now, not because I'm in any way sexually active but because in the past six months my period has been giving me issues that I have not had with it since, God, I first started.
Today I ended up leaving work early because after break I threw up and started feeling faint. I've always dealt with nausea during previous periods, but little in the way of actually throwing up--well, not since I was about eleven and I remember my first few periods being marked with killer cramps and barfing in the middle of the night, and being allowed to stay home (and subsequently spending the time after I stopped feeling like death warmed over playing Super Mario 64 and eating baloney sandwiches).
But in the past six months I've thrown up around the second day or so at least three times and after that's over I usually feel ridiculously weak and lightheaded. Before, the nausea and throwing up and everything happened when I was home, fortunately on my days off or right before I had to go in, so I had time to call out. This was the first time it happened when I was away, and as if it wasn't bad enough that I was shaking and feeling horrible locked in this stall one of the front end girls heard me and... I don't know, there's something particularly awful about someone else hearing you throw up. I felt just as bad about leaving because I'd only been back about forty-five minutes after my break and I wasn't supposed to leave until five.
I've just had it with the vomiting, and the gas, and the cramps. I just have no idea where to start, though. I'm definitely going to try to schedule an appointment with my doctor soon, but since I'm still on my parents' insurance, I don't know how to approach the topic with them, because they're a little old school and I'm sure that they'd assume something else is up. I don't know; sometimes I'm grateful that I'm still covered with their program and other times I wish I had my own plan so that I wouldn't have to worry about it.
Today I ended up leaving work early because after break I threw up and started feeling faint. I've always dealt with nausea during previous periods, but little in the way of actually throwing up--well, not since I was about eleven and I remember my first few periods being marked with killer cramps and barfing in the middle of the night, and being allowed to stay home (and subsequently spending the time after I stopped feeling like death warmed over playing Super Mario 64 and eating baloney sandwiches).
But in the past six months I've thrown up around the second day or so at least three times and after that's over I usually feel ridiculously weak and lightheaded. Before, the nausea and throwing up and everything happened when I was home, fortunately on my days off or right before I had to go in, so I had time to call out. This was the first time it happened when I was away, and as if it wasn't bad enough that I was shaking and feeling horrible locked in this stall one of the front end girls heard me and... I don't know, there's something particularly awful about someone else hearing you throw up. I felt just as bad about leaving because I'd only been back about forty-five minutes after my break and I wasn't supposed to leave until five.
I've just had it with the vomiting, and the gas, and the cramps. I just have no idea where to start, though. I'm definitely going to try to schedule an appointment with my doctor soon, but since I'm still on my parents' insurance, I don't know how to approach the topic with them, because they're a little old school and I'm sure that they'd assume something else is up. I don't know; sometimes I'm grateful that I'm still covered with their program and other times I wish I had my own plan so that I wouldn't have to worry about it.
