I will not Internet diagnose myself into a frenzy

Feb 01, 2010

I've been having some discomfort--can't even really call it outright pain--along my midsection for the past hour or two. I'm feeling very shivery and chilled, too. Took me laying under the electric blanket on high for half an hour before I was sort of warmed up. My head is doing the maybe-migraine dance, switching from dull pain on the right to dull pain on the left, then nothing, then a little more lest I think I can forget I have migraines still. Just not as bad as before, thankfully. Actually, thank you DS for that one!

All I can think of is Colene's post about one of the symptoms of a bowel obstruction being pain around the navel. I've had this before, for a couple hours several weeks ago, and nothing came of it, so like as not it's nothing, just some DS weirdness. Or, the first symptom of the stomach flu that is making the rounds hereabouts.

OK, that's sad when you hope you have the stomach flu, because the alternative might involve another surgery.

So for the moment, I am resisting the urge to search for one of those bowel obstruction posts and read a long list of symptoms that will convince me to go the ER for naught except gas.

And if on the off chance it is a bowel obstruction, you can tell me later that you told me so.

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