Holy hell.

[synnoveaevael]

So last night, I came home and putzed about. Ate half a pint of Ben & Jerry's. Decided I needed more food, so during WoW, I made some spaghetti.

Angel hair pasta and cracked open a fresh jar of Marinara sauce. Yes. Jarred sauce.

It was tasty. Like usual.

Continued to play.

Became flushed. Felt... strange. Then it hits.

HEARTBURN.

Agonizing. I ate Mylanta pills, Gas-X, and finally a wanna-be version of Zantac.

I felt like I'd drank battery acid. It was awful. My back hurt so bad, my stomach was twisting, it SUCKED.

I went to bed. Around midnight. Could not sleep. Rolled around sweating and freezing. My goosebumps had goosebumps. I didn't have the AC on.

Finally went to sleep around 2:30am. Threw up THREE times in between.

Not for nothing? Throwing up angel hair pasta BLOWS.

After the third time, I felt... Like nothing had ever been wrong. I got all the pasta and sauce out of me and I was fine.

WHYY did this happen? The pasta was fine. The sauce was brand new out of the jar. I'd had the ice cream the night before and I was fine.

What gives?? Can you really get heartburn so bad you throw up three times? Get feverish?

Last time I had red sauce & pasta I got a mild case of heartburn. I've had red sauce since, but usually with bread. So I guess I can't eat straight pasta & red sauce? It's too much for my stomach?

I don't think I have an ulcer or anything. But goddamn, I was wondering last night.

*sigh*

Crap. I have to go. Some lady is dying, Brian sat on the prepwork too long, and now I have to rush doing documents I have no clue about. I get to teach myself how to do a living trust today!

Joy.

Comments

[funny-face74.livejournal.com]

when joey was little, he had acid reflux (and an ulcer) so bad that he would say "momma it hurts" and then puke. it would happen at least once a day.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

he had an ulcer when he was little??

man. i guess it was just bad heartburn. was fucking SICK.

[funny-face74.livejournal.com]

yeah...weird, huh?

i hate heartburn. i get it a lot.

ew.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

crazy! poor kid!

i don't get it often, but i think my body makes up for it when i do..

[fairyrune]

Acid reflux, maybe?

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

the thing was, i only had a tiny burp once.

what's the difference between acid reflux and heartburn?

[fairyrune]

Acid reflux is really bad, chronic heartburn where the acid comes up into your esophogus. I think. Lemme check.

[fairyrune]

Yep, that's about it:
http://www.healthcentral.com/acid-reflux/understanding-acid-reflux.html?ic=4025

[grigoricennui.livejournal.com]

Acid reflux is a recurrent condition. Heartburn is a symptom of Acid Reflux or actually GERD (Generic Eusophigal Reflux Disease). AR has a specific cause or something (that I don't really understand).

J.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

yeah, i don't think i have them. i think it may have been severe heartburn.

[fairyrune]

Right right right right. What J. said.

Maybe try something like Priolsec OTC? If you go to the doctor, you might have to battle your insurance company for what he wants to prescribe.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

well. it only happened like, twice. with pasta.

so i think avoid plain pasta and red sauce and i avoid a prescription, right?

i took an walmart version of zantac after the whole thing was over and i slipped into a coma. and i'm fine today.

so. yay?

[fairyrune]

Weird. Maybe you are allergic to something in the sauce?

But yay for being fine!

[depotmode.livejournal.com]

I second this...you may have an allergy to something.

Stomach troubles suck. I'm with you on that.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

but it's the one i always use! the only one i use! feckers!!!

yeah, you know ALL about that. gr.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

maybe? it's the same kind i *always* use. hell, it's the ONLY kind i use. fecker. maybe i got a bad batch?

but jes. :D

[fairyrune]

It's possible. If there was an issue at the canning factory, who KNOWS what sort of stuff could have been growing in that jar.

Throw that fucker the hell out!

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

shitter.

totally. gr.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

well, it's not chronic. i don't know how bad it came into my throat. cause ya know. i puked. ;)

[grigoricennui.livejournal.com]

AR/GERD don't involve fever/stomach cramps. It had to be either some viral condition you're going through, allergic reaction to that type of sauce (if you've never had it before....is it Jasmine sauce by any chance? :) ), or food poisoning from yesterday.

J.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

i'd vote virus, if there was a 18 hour shivering virus that ended in puking up only your dinner.

no jasmine in the sauce, hehehe :)

[fairyrune]

::pets you::

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

*purrrrs*

SPEAKING OF PURRING! oh i have the cutest cat ever.

i finally go to get out of bed, and i'm standing there and suddenly i hear *bangbangbang* on my door.

i open it, and there's juliet going "MROW!?" and comes marching in, jumps on my bed and starts purring like a retard. i'm like, wts cat?

i pet her and she is just SOO HAPPY TO BE ALIVE!! she's telling me all about it.

juliet's not very vocal. so she's talking and purring at the same time and it was SOOO CUTE!!!

i love my cat.

[fairyrune]

OMG TEH CUTE!

Today, I was all dressed and everything when I went upstairs to get my breakfast and lunch out of the fridge. Elmo follows me back downstairs, and runs toward the bathroom.

I was like, "Sorry cat, too late! You missed it!"

He was so confused!

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

she has been so uber cute lately <3

he was like "WAAAIIIT!!!!!"

po' lil' man. he snoozed. he loosed.

[fairyrune]

Well, she loves her Mommie.

He was! It was hysterical.

I imagine he went and peed on something after I left, though.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

she does. i have been luvin up on that cat so much she RUNS from me :D

prolly. he is elmo. pisser of couches.

[dexterette.livejournal.com]

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Hope you're feeling better!

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

i feel fine today!

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Broccoli Dog expresses what I can't.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

werd, yo.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

[squarewave.livejournal.com]

I have been having some Breyer's Ice Cream after I had a plate of spaghetti and chicken with no problems.

Pasta sauce can be highly acidic, along with the cream in ice cream, yea, that can put you at problems.

Perhaps it was just a one time incident. How are you feeling now?

Re: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

i feel perfectly fine now. i did have issues a while back when i had pasta and red sauce, but there was no puking.

[rivendellelf23.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world. I have acid reflux and it SUCKS. I can't eat late because my stomach will retaliate.

Seriously though, jarred tomato sauce causes some SERIOUS issues because there is natural acid in the sauce. Natural acid + stomach acid = Heartburn from hell.

There were times where I would have to make myself sick to give myself relief. I'm probably going to start taking Prilosec OTC for the 14 day course. That shit is weird. You take it for 14 days and PRESTO Heartburn is gone for a few months. I have to do it again after four months.

Tis the suck. Pepcid AC works WONDERS. :-)

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

hmmm... i ate around 8:30. not super late though. hmmmmm... weird body.

i hope this is an isolated incident cause i don't need to lose my teeth that i just spent a small fortune on due to stomach acid. hehehe :)

that shit sounds slammin'! two weeks for months of relief?!! if i had AR i'd sign my ass up!

[grigoricennui.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of that 14 day course. That's awesome. My stomach is usually pretty shitty to me, but it's stopped of late, and I can't explain why. I totally should look into that when it comes back,though. :)

J.

[golden-lotus.livejournal.com]

a piercer friend of mine got sick from drinking too much wine with his italian dinner...
so he had to tell me with great detail about how much angel hair he puked and how the puked pasta got tangled up in his tongue ring and made him puke more.

ew.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

yep. i can see that happening. fucking gross, yo.

[saigon-ch.livejournal.com]

Could it be a problem digesting gluten?

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

i don't know. i didn't have any gluten today and it happened again :(