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[nonethefewer]

Dear self:

You have a touchy tummy.  A sensitive stomach.  A bad-tempered belly.

If you eat dairy, or too much fried food, or anything too non-bland, you'll feel ill.

If you get in a car and don't focus on the road, or you don't sleep well, or you get really anxious, you'll feel ill.

I am not even getting into the whole "low blood sugar"/"not eating enough" crap.  Just, no.  That's too large for now.

Stop writing it all off as just this one thing.  Stop reading while someone is driving, thinking it's just in your head this time, when it's every time.  Take your damn Lactaid pills with you always.  Eat a goddamn fruit or vegetable sometimes.  Sleep better.  Notice trends, damn your eyes.

Sinsrsly,
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Comments

[rosefox]

*applauds you*

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was reading in the cab on the way to the airport after drinking creamered coffee and eating hash browns, then nearly falling over from ohgod, that pushed me into this.

(And then low sleep, and then anxiety, and then and then.)

[rosefox]

I dunno what-all your stomach symptoms are, but have you talked with a doctor about them?

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

It's nothing special, just intense quease.  Dairy focuses on southbound traffic, too much fried food makes me feel kind of sticky and stomach-focused and fleh, anxiety gives me this silverish pinging in my stomach which turns into no food allowed, and the car thing feels like I focus on a foundation and said foundation has turned to water.

The car thing frustrates me most.  I am fine on airplanes with turbulence*, on the bus, in the subway, on a trolley (front section, back section, standing on the join), on a roller coaster, and in a gotdamn kayak.  If I am in a car and am both not driving and not focusing on the road, though, I get queasy.  ARGH WHY

* My stomach drops if we go down too fast, see also elevator, but that's not an issue-thing so much as a biology-thing.

[rosefox]

If intense quease happens to you weekly, or even more often, that is definitely outside the typical human experience, and perhaps worth looking into.

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Do dramamine or other motion sickness medicines work to prevent you from getting carsick? Just asking in the interests of you not needing to cut down on the reading.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Alas--

Oh dear lord your userpic is SLAYING ME DED.

--dramamine makes me tired.  Like a milder form of Benadryl, in sneepions.  So I could take it, and then get a half-hour overlap of "not queasy" and "awake".

[argonel.livejournal.com]

If I were cruel I would subject you to the rest of my userpics, or even worse full size photos of my ferrets. I have built up a resistance over time, because I get that expression almost every morning and sometimes from multiple ferrets when I go to work and leave them behind.