“Struggling to eat and sleep after 24 hour flu and overuse of ibuprofen?”
On Monday this week, I woke in the middle of the night with a fever and intense body aches, and headache. Felt this way all day Monday. I was taking 400-600 mg ibuprofen around the clock for about 30 hours and then the pain and fever were resolved. However, I was stupidly taking the ibuprofen on an empty stomach, and it caused a terrible stomach pain that lasted all day Tues and Weds. I got some relief from the stomach pain on Weds night when I started taking papaya enzyme and aloe juice BID. However, I'm still having terrible difficulty eating. I ate nothing at all Monday, only oatmeal and a microwave veggie bowl on Tuesday, only some rice on weds, and yesterday I had potatoes at breakfast and dinner. Eating is very difficult. I feel tremendous anxiety putting food in my mouth and trying to chew and swallow. I've lost 9 lbs in this time. I have a headache again and I feel the anxiety and headache are related to poor intake. I don't know how to overcome this. It doesn't help that I'm tossing and turning all night and not getting much sleep.
Female | 45 years old
Complaint duration: 5 days
Medications: No regular meds
Conditions: No pertinent PMH
3 Answers
DoctorDoctor
May be. You can take NyQuil both for cough and sleep
Take antacid TID small amount non spicy food
It's possible that the ibuprofen caused some stomach inflammation or ulceration. As long as the pain has resolved then you should be in the clear to advance your diet slowly. Next time, take an antiacid (e.g. pepcid or prilosec) at the same time as the ibuprofen. If you block acid at the same time then the ibuprofen will not cause any damage to your stomach and maybe the pain will not happen.
