I've been sick so long I'm not sure I recognize "better." I'm supposed to tell the doctor today if this last-ditch antibiotic and prednisone combo is working, and, if not, set up a head CT. Don't wanna. I think I'm better, but am I fooling myself to avoid the scan and getting an ENT appointment? I guess I'll wait until the afternoon, when I usually crash. My sense of smell is improved, anyway. I know that the dog really needs a bath. He has been hanging over the hole of some wee beastie for several days and perhaps there has been carnage and decay.
Happy Birthday, Raq and Kathy!
Happy Birthday to Raq and Kathy!
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HAHAHA! Awesome! Totally made my morning.
Speaking of. I had the MOST bizarre dream this morning. Alarm clocks and construction trucks backing up did not help any. At one point I/we in the dream had the power to push the water in the canal way up stream (which I announced in the dream as futile without a barrier to keep it there, and sure enough, the water surged back). But then we didn't use said powers to lift heavy equipment, so there we all were scrambling, all hands lifting, what seemed like a jack hammer, trying to get in a screw head to screw some heavy piece of machinery into place. It was bizarre. I think it was a combination of installing the programmable thermometer plus watching LOST right before bed, and reading an article on the dikes in the Netherlands. Either way, the last super-snooze button didn't allow me to finish the task. The dream was gone. Hate it when that happens. And I'm still gronkified.
Happy birthdays Raq (localista wishes that you are enjoying the gorgeous sunshine today) & Kathy!
Oh Ginger, complete healing~ma to you.
Steph, (and others of the pharmacological wisdom) when you are around, I have a question about antibiotics.
The history: two week old uti. I treated it myself for the first week with cranberry and propolis. Then, a friend got me a course of Cipro...I don't have insurance and even less money. But after 4 days of the Cipro, it's obvious this particular strain is resistant. I called an old doctor of mine who prescribed Bactrim, side unseen.
Question: Is there any reason to fear taking one antibiotic right after the other?
I'm taking acidophilus and other probiotics to assist my deforested gut.
eta: I'm thinking that typing 'histiry' means my hysteria is showing.
Question: Is there any reason to fear taking one antibiotic right after the other?
I've done this before, and I don't remember there being any problem with it. My probiotic says not to take it within 4 hours of an antibiotic, so you may want to be careful about that.
Going from one antibiotic to another to find one that works is pretty standard, Bonnie. That's what they've been doing to me for the last six weeks. Between the antibiotics for the sinus infection and the antifungals for the mouth, I doubt if I have many microbes left. They should come up with a giant dose of good bacteria to give to you after antibiotics. My doctor did recommend probiotics and emphasized that pill form was important, because most of the probiotics in yogurt and its ilk are destroyed in the stomach.
The tongue is better, at least. It still hurts a little, but looks much less like alien special effects. Sore tongue and prednisone munchies are not a good combination.
God, Ginger. I really hope this disappears SOON.
Thanks women.
I feel better about it now. I'm so resistant to taking things for their own sake that doing two antibiotics at once is a little scary.
sj, I really appreciate the probiotic tip. I've never read that but, now that you mention it, it makes so much common sense!
Much obliged to all.
I had the MOST bizarre dream this morning.
Me too. Well, not bizarre so much as disturbing. In my dream there was a news story about a crunchy granola mom/writer (think...Annie Lamott?) and her decision to remove the cochlear implant from her 9 y.o. son that he'd had since he was very young. Basically making him deaf over his objections. And she had some sort of all-natural, pro-deaf rationale for this (in crazy dream logic). And the dream was just making me so upset that even after I woke I had to parse it through my head to figure out that it wasn't a news story I was remembering.
People really do that, though.
