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Yay, Doctor!
Sep. 15th, 2006 09:53 amWhole great piles of newness at the surgery.
First thing is that they keep a rotation doctor specifically for 'emergency appointments', so they don't have this shitty system whereby you have to turn up for the first thing in the morning clinic to get seen the same day. Apparently you can call in and get an appointment the day you call for it now. Neat!
So I got to see a new lady at the practice, who was youngish and quite nice. She listened, poked my abdomen a bit, and basically told me that I was caught in a vicious cycle. Ibuprofen apparently does shitty things to your stomach lining, but the anti-inflammatory nature of the drug tends to help the migraines at least a bit. So I had a migraine on Wednesday, took the ibuprofen, and my stomach couldn't take it anymore. And of course, the lack of food, the stress over being sick and the sleep deprivation caused by the stomach upset triggered off another migraine (or possibly just perpetuated the original one), for which I took ibuprofen. Etc, etc, etc. Oopsie.
So now I have a month's worth of Lansoprazole (I remember this stuff; much like the stuff protohubby takes for his own digestive issues, it's something that we prescribed for chemotherapy outpatients back in the days of working at Bart's medical oncology department for the havoc the chemo was wreaking with their digestive workings). And, what's more, I have a prescription for a paracetamol/codeine mix called Co-Dydramol. Yes, after years of complaining to doctors about my migraines and about how no over the counter medications have helped (except Excedrin PM, and please remind me to pick some of that up when I'm in the US), someone actually prescribed me painkillers! And all it took was nearly giving myself an ulcer. Huh.
And finally, my poor deathgnome is discovering that she is not quite ready for certain parts of Giddeus yet. I was tromping along, minding my own business, with an actual map, and crossed a river ... and suddenly, I'm being aggroed by not one, but two Giant Pugil. The amount of damage those fuckers did per hit was ... prodigious as they proceeded to eat my face. My face was defeated. My face deleveled. Thankfully it didn't take much to get back to level 15 again. I'm not doing that again for another few levels. And currently I'm trying to save up for a really good fishing rod after a terrible run of luck broke two separate rods. Anyway, it means I am forsaking the quest for XP briefly as I go to kill enough goblins and Yagudo to earn quick, easy gil. Oh, and Crawlers; between the 600 gil per three crawler calculi and this one asinine quest for a smooth stone (don't ask) that nets me 200 gil per shot, I think it might be worth focusing on Crawlers too. Ah, the multi-faced game of deathgnomy doom.
First thing is that they keep a rotation doctor specifically for 'emergency appointments', so they don't have this shitty system whereby you have to turn up for the first thing in the morning clinic to get seen the same day. Apparently you can call in and get an appointment the day you call for it now. Neat!
So I got to see a new lady at the practice, who was youngish and quite nice. She listened, poked my abdomen a bit, and basically told me that I was caught in a vicious cycle. Ibuprofen apparently does shitty things to your stomach lining, but the anti-inflammatory nature of the drug tends to help the migraines at least a bit. So I had a migraine on Wednesday, took the ibuprofen, and my stomach couldn't take it anymore. And of course, the lack of food, the stress over being sick and the sleep deprivation caused by the stomach upset triggered off another migraine (or possibly just perpetuated the original one), for which I took ibuprofen. Etc, etc, etc. Oopsie.
So now I have a month's worth of Lansoprazole (I remember this stuff; much like the stuff protohubby takes for his own digestive issues, it's something that we prescribed for chemotherapy outpatients back in the days of working at Bart's medical oncology department for the havoc the chemo was wreaking with their digestive workings). And, what's more, I have a prescription for a paracetamol/codeine mix called Co-Dydramol. Yes, after years of complaining to doctors about my migraines and about how no over the counter medications have helped (except Excedrin PM, and please remind me to pick some of that up when I'm in the US), someone actually prescribed me painkillers! And all it took was nearly giving myself an ulcer. Huh.
And finally, my poor deathgnome is discovering that she is not quite ready for certain parts of Giddeus yet. I was tromping along, minding my own business, with an actual map, and crossed a river ... and suddenly, I'm being aggroed by not one, but two Giant Pugil. The amount of damage those fuckers did per hit was ... prodigious as they proceeded to eat my face. My face was defeated. My face deleveled. Thankfully it didn't take much to get back to level 15 again. I'm not doing that again for another few levels. And currently I'm trying to save up for a really good fishing rod after a terrible run of luck broke two separate rods. Anyway, it means I am forsaking the quest for XP briefly as I go to kill enough goblins and Yagudo to earn quick, easy gil. Oh, and Crawlers; between the 600 gil per three crawler calculi and this one asinine quest for a smooth stone (don't ask) that nets me 200 gil per shot, I think it might be worth focusing on Crawlers too. Ah, the multi-faced game of deathgnomy doom.
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