Painkillers

Local time: Tuesday 6.11pm

One thing I was going to write about earlier but forgot: on Sunday I had a pretty bad spate of nausea, such that sitting or standing was making me dizzy and wanting to vomit, while lying down made me instantly want to shut my eyes and sleep but spun the world so much that I'd still feel like vomiting. Which I did eventually do.

And which clued us in to the problem: some heavy duty painkillers (we weren't told what they were, just that I should take them if the pain became bad) I'd taken the day before and that morning, in a futile attempt to sleep better since the surgery aches had been keeping me awake. We immediately stopped the dosage of that painkiller, and that evening I had a normal bowel movement to relieve the indigestion, then slept off the nausea.

The next morning, I felt basically normal again except that my stomach was still a little grumbley. All good now.

We returned the rest of our stock of those pills to the clinic. Scary things.