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TIFU by Napping After Taking Antibiotics

I have a mild lung infection so on Tuesday my doc gave me a week run of antibiotics to try kill it off. My cat has been very worried about me and keeps nipping at my hands or licking my face until I lay down, so after my evening dose yesterday I laid down on the couch and let him curl up on my stomach and have a little nap together.

We chilled for a few hours until it was time for bed. As soon as I stood up I noticed my back hurt pretty bad but I blamed that on the couch. Once I got upstairs to bed though it was obvious that everything hurt. My chest felt like I'd been punched, my back was screaming, my stomach hurt. I took some medicine and told my husband to go to bed and I'd come up when I felt better.

I did not feel better. I proceeded to flop about like a fish in agonizing pain until I realized it was 1 AM and I was getting worse. I called the emergency health line and the triage nurse said, "hey so bad chest pain is dangerous go to a damn hospital." Paraphrased. Pulled my husband out of bed and got to emergency by 2 am. I was at pain level 8 or 9 by that point, and they gave me an IV (but no meds) which like. Also fucking oww.

Unfortunately the hospital was understaffed and also randomly overrun with dying people (the nurse was frazzled) so I only saw a doctor at 9 am. At that point I'd been awake over 24 hours and like 10 hours in "please end it all" pain so I was barely coherent. The doctor listened to my story, gave me a few painful jabs in the stomach and told me, "you can't lay down after you take antibiotics, that's how you badly damaged your stomach lining and esophagus with stomach acid."

Got some pain relief finally and just about cried from that, then they removed my IV and like, fucking OWW, way worse than putting it in.

Got home at 11 am, lay down on the bed fully clothed, and just woke up feeling like a zombie.

On the plus side my heart is in A+ condition.

TL;DR: Turns out you can cause actual damage to your insides if you lay down right after taking antibiotics. I didn't know that and spent 7 hours in the hospital in various kinds of horrible agony.

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