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rachel at phoenixfeather.net
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May 06, 2005
Wisdomless Day 2
Health

So my mouth still feels pretty much fine. A little sore yes, but ya know I had 4 teeth taken out what more can I ask for.

On the downside I seem to be having side effects from the codine. Called the docs office this morning when I woke up with a rather bad headache. The headache keeps moving around my head and its really piercing and evil. Once I got out of bed I almost feel over I was so dizzy.

Doc took me off the codine. We are trying out 4 advil, 4 times a day to see if it will be enough. If not they will prescribe something else.

This is not uncommon for me. I have a tendency to feel worse from the drugs prescribed me than the orignal pain that they are supposed to effect. I don't know if that is totally the case here, the codine i'm sure is working on the pain, its just also causing additional pain.

Anyway, hopefully I'll be feeling better soon. But as far as the teeth go, I'm very please at how I'm doing. woo hoo!!!

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Codeine tends to make my body unhappy too. And Vicodin was never a happy scene. Darvocet seems to work best with least side effects for me. You might try that if the Advil fails, but probably, the Advil will do just fine. Follow nurse Athena's advice - take your dose every 4-6 hours like clockwork and never miss a dose. Once the pain and swelling gets a foothold, it's far harder to push it back down than to keep it maintained.

Posted by: Ammy at May 6, 2005 01:15 PM

Advil seems to be doing the trick so far, but i do plan to keep it up. Half hour to next dose.

Still very dizzy though, so we called the doctor and they don't think I'm getting enough sugar or the right blood flow. So up go the feet along with the head elevation. Icecream and juice comes out and we will see what we can do.

I just hate that even when I close my eyes the world is just spinning. *sighs*

Posted by: rachel at May 6, 2005 03:36 PM
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