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Day 6: Oh, This Hurts!

Woke up today with a 100.2 F fever and one of the worst headaches I've ever had! It hasn't let up all day. . It's a pretty close rival to the severe pain, when vertical, after a spinal tap that didn't seal - and if you've ever had one of those, you know it's excruciating! It hurts and throbs all over. Seems to emanate from my neck and the base of my head. It throbs worse whenever I move, but I can't find a position where it goes away at all...so I've just been lying still in bed most the day, sleeping of and on with difficulty. I took 500mg of Acetaminophen at 7am and again at 11am, when I made myself get up and slowly eat  something, so I could take my steroid meds. I'm going back to the doctor tomorrow, a few days early (he'd said come back in 10 days), unless things get worse tonight and then I'll try to find a clinic open on a Sunday. I just want to make sure, with this new development, that there's nothing more seriously wrong. It could be related to the structural adjustment and alignment stretches I did last night, since I've read that it's not uncommon to have a headache and flu-like symptoms after a chiropractic adjustment due to the toxins released when things are straightened out. It could be that, but it will be good go in and make sure it's not something more.

I have amazing friends who've been helping me! They came by to check on me early this afternoon. One of them, a nurse, gave me a little check-up (my fever had gone down) and prayed with me, while the other changed my light bulb that had gone out in the kitchen and they washed all my dishes by hand that had piled up these past several days! My nurse friend is going to come back this evening and spend the night here, so that I'm not alone. I feel very loved!

Fever is back up to 100.1 F at 6:15pm. I'm not sure there's any change in movement...if anything, my slight ability to twitch my eye and the corner of my mouth are gone, because I'm so wiped out and weak from this headache.
I took more Acetaminophen and the fever was down to 98 F by 9pm. A hot shower on my head felt really good and the pain was mostly gone right after... but then it came back, but not as bad as it had been all day. My US doctor texted and said it was a good idea to go back to the doctor tomorrow, just to check, and he recommended I take some Ibuprofen, alternating with the Acetaminophen  so I took 400mg around 10pm.
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