Health: "Two-Weeks' Notice"
Aug. 15th, 2011 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynOkay. So, for those of you who haven't seen me much, I'm deathly ill. For some value of deathly that surprisingly seems to mean that my doctor was shocked that I did not have pneumonia. I felt like shit, full stop, no question I needed to seek medical attention. But I wasn't thinking it was that bad. I just wanted cold meds that last more than 4 hours at a stretch so I could fucking sleep and those usually require a prescription for the good ones. I knew I wasn't getting better because I could only sleep for about 90 minutes at a time.
So I got sent for chest x-rays, got antibiotics like I'd been sniffing suspicious white powder, and proceeded to not get significantly better in two weeks, despite the surprise-to-the-doctor diagnosis of not!pneumonia. I believe what I have is a long string of Greek which translates to "Fuck if I know why you're coughing but it sounds like shit."
I still cannot lay down. Even an incline causes my breath to gurgle alarmingly. Once I start coughing, I cannot stop for 3-15 minutes. I cough hard enough that I have to hold onto something or I risk falling to the ground because I cannot stand. Cough medicines do work to suppress the coughing, but do nothing for the drowning sensation if I lie down. This caused me to return to the doctor today.
Even more alarmingly, while taking antibiotics, I have picked up a sniffle and a fever. So no one has any clue what's actually wrong with me, but as long as it goes away, I don't care what caused it. Actually as long as I could sleep for 8 hours straight every night, I'd be willing to put up with feeling under-par for another two weeks while waiting to truly heal.
This is about all I've been doing. I've been sick. For TWO FUCKING WEEKS. And there isn't a lot of hope that the current "see if this helps" will do anything.
So I got sent for chest x-rays, got antibiotics like I'd been sniffing suspicious white powder, and proceeded to not get significantly better in two weeks, despite the surprise-to-the-doctor diagnosis of not!pneumonia. I believe what I have is a long string of Greek which translates to "Fuck if I know why you're coughing but it sounds like shit."
I still cannot lay down. Even an incline causes my breath to gurgle alarmingly. Once I start coughing, I cannot stop for 3-15 minutes. I cough hard enough that I have to hold onto something or I risk falling to the ground because I cannot stand. Cough medicines do work to suppress the coughing, but do nothing for the drowning sensation if I lie down. This caused me to return to the doctor today.
Even more alarmingly, while taking antibiotics, I have picked up a sniffle and a fever. So no one has any clue what's actually wrong with me, but as long as it goes away, I don't care what caused it. Actually as long as I could sleep for 8 hours straight every night, I'd be willing to put up with feeling under-par for another two weeks while waiting to truly heal.
This is about all I've been doing. I've been sick. For TWO FUCKING WEEKS. And there isn't a lot of hope that the current "see if this helps" will do anything.
