I should also mention that the cranky pants are on and as ill-fitting as ever. Everything is setting me on edge. I’m a fun girl to be around.
I also wanted to pass something along. I had read some anecdotal information that eating sour things could help with nausea. It seems odd, I know. I mean, there you are with this sour, upset stomach and the LAST thing you’d think you should put in your stomach is something sour and acidy, right? But, I tried it. I had my usual afternoon upset metformin tummy and I drank a glass of orange juice. (Mmmm, Sonic orange juice. Normally, I hate ice in my orange juice, but I crave Sonic’s OJ with those little ice pellets.) It worked, at least for a little while. The urge to hurl passed. I thought it might just be a coincidence, but I’ve tested it a couple of times now, with everything from sour pickles, to ice water with LOTS of lemon (basically, unsweetened lemonade. It would probably be easier to just suck on the lemon), to Odwalla’s Mo’ Beta. I haven’t tried sour candies yet, but I’m hoping they work just as well for the convenience factor. Pickles just don’t travel in my purse as well as a sour jolly rancher! So, that’s my tip for the day for my metformin buddies. Hopefully, it’ll work for you as well. I would suggest that the first time you try it, you’re comfortably at home, in case it DOESN’T work for you as well as it did for me. I’d hate to be responsible for any public accidents.
When I had morning sickness nausea (probably less horrific than metformin illness as at least it was a sign that the residual pain in my ass from the PIO shots wasn’t for nothing) I ate a lot of clementine oranges. Maybe that will work.
Oh, the joy of IVF meds! Really don’t have any advice to give you except you’ll make it through – we all do somehow or the other.
Yeah, apparently it has something to do with your brain being unable to handle sour and nausea. Not sure how that works, but it does. I actually got the idea from a blog post I stumbled on that had hundreds of comments on how to deal with morning sickness. I figured if it worked for that, it couldn’t hurt to try on the met.
I think the cold of the drinks helps too.
Interesting… I will take a mental note of that…Hope the headache is better!!
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The reasoning behind this is ’cause of pH. You get stomach aches ’cause your pH is to acidic. Oranges and many “sour” things are very alkaline in the body, thus balancing out the pH.
- Dee