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Suggest Treatment For Itching, Nausea And Vomiting After Taking Pain Medication
Question: Took pain medication last night, but woke up feeling itchy and sleepy. Bent over and had to vomit. I felt better and came to work, but then I had a sudden urge to vomit and felt sleepy. Felt better after vomiting, but noticed the nausea and feeling sleepy sensation again a few minutes ago. I can't figure out what could be causing this.
Brief Answer:
Most probably a viral gastro-intestinal infection.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and thank you for using HCM,
I read carefully your query and understand your concern.
From the symptoms you are describing looks like you may be having a viral gastrointestinal infection. In general it starts with 1-2 days of vomiting, sometimes patients have fever, and then it continues for 5-7 days with diarrhea.
The feeling of sleepy comes because of dehydration.
Can you tell me what was the pain medicine that you took last night?
So, this is the diagnoses that is possible to be in 90% of the cases. We would have to see who that will go to consider other labs.
Meanwhile, if I was your caring doctor, I would recommend to drink plenty of fluids (small and frequent amounts), avoid milk, but yogurts are fine and helpful, Pepto-Bismol should help, and you can take another one if you vomited withing 10 minutes...try taking it with small amounts of water, since taking more would stimulate you to vomit again.
Hope this is helpful.
Let me know if you need more clarification.
Take care,
Dr. Papaqako
Most probably a viral gastro-intestinal infection.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and thank you for using HCM,
I read carefully your query and understand your concern.
From the symptoms you are describing looks like you may be having a viral gastrointestinal infection. In general it starts with 1-2 days of vomiting, sometimes patients have fever, and then it continues for 5-7 days with diarrhea.
The feeling of sleepy comes because of dehydration.
Can you tell me what was the pain medicine that you took last night?
So, this is the diagnoses that is possible to be in 90% of the cases. We would have to see who that will go to consider other labs.
Meanwhile, if I was your caring doctor, I would recommend to drink plenty of fluids (small and frequent amounts), avoid milk, but yogurts are fine and helpful, Pepto-Bismol should help, and you can take another one if you vomited withing 10 minutes...try taking it with small amounts of water, since taking more would stimulate you to vomit again.
Hope this is helpful.
Let me know if you need more clarification.
Take care,
Dr. Papaqako
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
Clarification -- I took Percocet last night (prescribed after a surgery I had in December 2014). So far, it is the only pain medicine that has ever caused whatever pain I have had to fade into the background (and makes me drowsy enough to be able to sleep). From time to time, I have a deep dull ache in the muscle that was used from my back to reconstruct my right breast after the mastectomy I had in 2013. After dealing with the pain for a full 24 hours, I needed to get to sleep and took the pain pills.
Brief Answer:
Still on the same suggestion of diagnoses as the most probable
Detailed Answer:
Hello again dear,
Seems like you have been using the medicine for some time now, so in that case its very rare that the stomach upset to have come from the use of it.
So, my first suggestion still stands.
Keep an eye on the normal course of the diagnoses mentioned above, and if it is not getting better, or if worse, then consider a visit to your local doctor, where he can do a physical exam and evaluate further.
Meanwhile, most important is- stay hydrated.
Hope this is helpful.
If you don't have other questions regarding this issue, please close and rate the question.
Take care,
Dr. Papaqako
Still on the same suggestion of diagnoses as the most probable
Detailed Answer:
Hello again dear,
Seems like you have been using the medicine for some time now, so in that case its very rare that the stomach upset to have come from the use of it.
So, my first suggestion still stands.
Keep an eye on the normal course of the diagnoses mentioned above, and if it is not getting better, or if worse, then consider a visit to your local doctor, where he can do a physical exam and evaluate further.
Meanwhile, most important is- stay hydrated.
Hope this is helpful.
If you don't have other questions regarding this issue, please close and rate the question.
Take care,
Dr. Papaqako
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
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