I’m in a rather unusual position right now: I’m hoping to get a fever. My health hasn’t been great for the past couple of weeks and the last few days my temperature has been slightly elevated, without ever breaking through into proper fever territory.
I can speculate with a fair amount of certainty on the origin of the problems. The hot weather certainly isn’t helping, and I haven’t been eating right. I’ve been eating less, as I’m trying to lose weight, but the last couple of weeks I haven’t really been paying enough attention to what I’ve been eating when I’ve been eating.
Add to that the fact that, aside from its effects during the day, the heat has kept me from sleeping really well for about a week now, and you get an ideal scenario for the immune system to be a bit less effective than usual. And so I’m hoping for a fever to basically burn out whatever is causing this.
Especially as today saw a new development, a major headache. I’ve had some minor ones recently, but this was a true “walk slowly, or you won’t be able to keep coordinated” headache. It was also capable of burning through 2 grams of paracetamol, taken as 2 doses of 1 gram each less than three hours apart. Granted I could take even more, but at that sort of dosage level I’d probably just end up feeling spaced out.
So hoping for a fever is all I’m left with. Well that and just lying down with my eyes closed for a while as soon as I finish posting this.
Oh my, I hope you will get better soon, Jarsto! I know exactly how you feel about the heat (funnily enough, I just blogged about it myself) and it really isn’t making one feel better. I too haven’t been eating much during the last days as it was just too hot, but at least I tried to get my three liters of water down every day.
As crazy as it sounds, I hope you get your fever and that after one or two days yoou’ll be over whatever makes you sick.
*hugs*
Now that you mention it I may not have been drinking enough either, I’ll have to keep an eye on that the next few days. And yeah, the heat hasn’t been helping me to eat enough, let alone enough of the right thing *sigh* why is it that healthy food always takes more time/effort than junk?
No real fever yet, but I’ve been spending a lot of time in bed today, which seems to be helping. Now all I need to do is remember not to sleep so much during the day that I’ll upset my normal rhythm…
You should definitely keep an eye on how much you drink; I found it essential to get through these heat waves without completely falling apart. I usually mix apple juice with sparkling water because drinking pure water all day long just flushes stuff out of your system but doesn’t replenish it.
And rest can work wonders as well … take it easy during the weekend (if you can) … I keep my fingers crossed for your health.
(Now go and drink something!
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