Rude Awakenings
Apr. 27th, 2007 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindI just got jolted out of bed by the worst bout of acid reflux I've had in a very long time.
Now, note, when I say "acid reflux", I'm not talking about the mild, achy "heartburn" sensation in the commercials. You know, the stuff that's so vague and undifferentiated that it's often confused with something mild, like a cardiac arrest.
I'm talking about reflexively leaping out of bed with one all-consuming thought: OH MY GODS I'M CHOKING ON STOMACH ACID IN MY MOUTH. Only less internally articulate, more of an OH FUCK FUCK FUCK OW.
Generally, after one of thse attacks, I can just cough a little and go back to bed. This one demanded that I sit up straight for... let's see, it's been half an hour now, and a glass of soy milk to try to neutralize some of the acid in my mouth and esophagus.
Nice thing to happen the night before my physical. I'll remember to tell the doctor about it.
Glad I don't have to get up at Oh My God Hundred tomorr... THIS morning.
Edit, 06:44 070427: It occurs to me that what I call "acid reflux attacks", most people would call "throwing up but clamping down on it".
Now, note, when I say "acid reflux", I'm not talking about the mild, achy "heartburn" sensation in the commercials. You know, the stuff that's so vague and undifferentiated that it's often confused with something mild, like a cardiac arrest.
I'm talking about reflexively leaping out of bed with one all-consuming thought: OH MY GODS I'M CHOKING ON STOMACH ACID IN MY MOUTH. Only less internally articulate, more of an OH FUCK FUCK FUCK OW.
Generally, after one of thse attacks, I can just cough a little and go back to bed. This one demanded that I sit up straight for... let's see, it's been half an hour now, and a glass of soy milk to try to neutralize some of the acid in my mouth and esophagus.
Nice thing to happen the night before my physical. I'll remember to tell the doctor about it.
Glad I don't have to get up at Oh My God Hundred tomorr... THIS morning.
Edit, 06:44 070427: It occurs to me that what I call "acid reflux attacks", most people would call "throwing up but clamping down on it".
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Date: 2007-04-27 06:46 pm (UTC)The doctor will ask all the necessary questions to diagnose, and common sense can tell you whether you had coffee too late at night, slept too soon after a big meal, had something acidy that was hard to digest, had recent stress which has a history of causing this reaction, or whether you turned Dragon in your sleep and chowed down like we know Athelind can do...!
If it's the latter, leave a note for the dragon telling him to follow up the 17-course meal with some digestive helper stones, err boulders.