[LMB] Semi-OT: allergies, health & Palli/Ivan

[Katrina Allis]

Megara:
> And tramadol doesn't bother you???  I have *never* been so drunk as I was
> the time I took one tramadol.  Talk about rooms whirling about...  A very
> bad time to decide to watch the DVD of Batman Begins <g>.
>

That sounds a lot more fun than the one time I was given tramadol.  I
switched rapidly between being hot and cold, was nauseous, heart raced,
hyperventilated, couldn't keep still (in the shaky-lack of fine motor
control kind of way) and had a thoroughly unpleasant time on it.

Fortunately, I was exactly the right place to have a bad reaction to a
painkiller - the A&E department of my local emergency department and they'd
given me the drug in the first place.

Now that I think about it, I feel really sorry for my mother, who got to
watch her 17 year old daughter, who was then in great pain, lie in full view
of everyone in a bed under the wall clock (there weren't enough curtained
alcoves) for five hours.  I felt too awful to really be very aware of this
at all.

There's a reason I wear a medic alert bracelet and it says says allergy to
tramadol (it's easier than going into all the details) and Von Willibrand's
Disease - Bleeding Tendency.  Because if I never have to have tramadol again
or the haematoma under the open wound (which is what let us know about the
type 1 vw in the first place), my life will be infinitely better.

Katrina - who hasn't been in serious pain for a good three years and has
been free of the previous pain for about eight years