Did I mention I was going to be featured on Mystery Diagnosis? No, I did not, because it is not true. But I feel like I should be.
I took a trip to Disneyworld about three weeks ago. During some parts of the trip I was fine, but towards the end I got dizzy sometimes (and I do not get motion sick, so that wasn’t it) and got some usual cold symptoms. Then I started getting a sore throat when I got home, but I had been to Disneyworld and God only knows how many strep throat germs are there.
So I went to PriMed, the doc-in-a-box here, and was basically told nothing at all after blood work, strep tests, x-rays, and the works, given an antibiotic, steroid shot, breathing treatment, and sent home with four prescriptions.
Sick for about a week with no relief, I dumped the cough syrup the doctor prescribed and began taking a Tylenol cough syrup which also helped with the fevers I got, and it actually helped my choughing. I’ve lost my appetite almost completely and haven’t been sleeping like I should. (One night I didn’t sleep at all.)
Yesterday I went to Physical Express, which is the doc-in-a-box in the next town over. I’d never been there before, but they were absolutely fantastic. They did the usual tests, but were much more interested and thorough. They gave me a stronger antibiotic, took me off of the old prescriptions, and gave me an hour-long IV drip for dehydration. They also arranged a follow-up appointment at their office and referred me to an ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist, which is where people on Mystery Diagnosis go). They think I have cryptic tonsilitis, but they said that I definitely have an infection in my throat and that my tonsils will probably have to go, but that was for the ENT to decide.
So if I haven’t been posting, this is why. If I never ever post again, I died. The end.
Sorry you’ve been sick. Heres to hoping you don’t die.
Thanks for your concern! I’m much better now, although I still have a little bit of a cough. I am going back to the ENT to see about getting my tonsils out, but I don’t think it’ll be necessary any more.
My son had his tonsils and adnoids taken out when he was about 3 years old. When he was 6 months old he had open heart surgery. Between the two, the T&A (stop giggling) was a harder recovery on him. It was outpatient surgery and that meant WE had to provide all the love and support and nurturing to this child in pain. He wouldn’t take his medicine because it hurt to swallow. The only thing we could get him to willingly eat was grits. So we snuck his medicine in that and while he was feeling better, we could get him to eat other stuff.
We also couldn’t brush his teeth for a few days and his breath was KICKIN, because they cauterize those suckers out.
End of useless story.
I haven’t gotten my tonsils out–yet. The ENT said that I still need to be careful, and if I get any more throat infections I’ll need them.
Grits are love in food form. I didn’t even think of T&A that way until you mentioned it, which is odd because I’m really an old pervert in an eighteen-year-old body.