Everything burns

I’m sorry I just want to vent I’m in hell, 9 days post op and everything burns. I was prescribed pain meds which I’m almost out of I would say they lasted this long because I use them conservatively , numbing lollipops (they burn) and told to take liquid Tylenol but I have to do the kids version or the kids tablets (which my gf was making fun of me eating chewable bubble gum tablets like candy) because it takes a whole blister card of 6 to get anywhere close to the 1000 mg equivalent of 2 extra strength Tylenol technically 6.25 tablets is 1000 mg, but the adult one burns. I also had 7 days of a steroid post op and that one was awful! Drinking liquid even plain unsweet tea feels like acid. It feels like my cat is scratching the inside of my throat when I try and eat. And it actually hurts under my tongue and on the sides of my tongue more than anything but I don’t have any sores under my tongue I just have huge veins.

I’m just frustrated, I can’t eat anything. Like even the conservative things they encourage you to eat/drink burns like hell. It’s a cross between the feeling I get when I get thrush (thank you bactrim that ironically I developed a sensitivity to because that was there go to for treating my tonsillitis and chronic UTI) and a feeling like when my acid reflux acts up (which it might I can’t take my acid reflux meds right now because they are tablets and I can’t swallow them.) I started crying during lunch because we ordered Freddy’s and I picked something without any ketchup or anything and chewed carefully and I was in hell so she finished mine and I got subway which I had to go in and specifically order just food that wasn’t acidic, I got a tuna sub with a ton of cucumbers, and olives, extra mayo, no tomatoes or anything, I wanted jello but it’s acidic, popsicles are acidic, fruit juice and I’m not even drinking like acidic fruit juice, but like easy bland fruit juice burns like hell. My gf thought she was being nice and ordered me subway the other day and instead of olives they gave me pickles and a ton of it and my food was ruined. I can eat Taco Bell but only burritos so she ordered me Qudoba and instead of ordering me a burrito with queso she got me the same thing she had, and I can’t eat that, there was meat in it which was too spicy, too hard to chew, brown rice (can’t eat it’s too scratchy) beans, salsa which I had to pick all off and I don’t like that to begin with because cilantro is the devil. Pickled onions which again I picked all off, lettuce which the crunchiness is too much and not normally something I order anyways, and then she’s like “why do I bother to order you food?”

Posted Jul 4, 2025, 1:30 AM UTC

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