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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Or the sand. Gotta make sure there's no sand in there. Sorry for my little personal hiatus. Back in March, I started experiencing late-night temperature spikes. Start about 10pm and peak about midnight. Then gone by morning. This lasted about tendays and the worst was the last night when it peaked at 104�. Then no more. Two weeks later, I had my next appointment with my gastroenterologist, told her about that as part of the news since the last appointment. She got worried and sent me to the infectious disease doctor, who ordered a culture, which came back positive for staph infection, and he prescribed Vancomycin -- 500mG/2x daily. After about three weeks on the Vanco, with another culture still showing staph, I was starting to experience quite a few of the side effects. So the doctor switched me onto Daptomycin -- 350mG/1x daily. Brief resurgence on my part before the same side effects started kicking in again. I don't usually do antibiotics, so my body tends to not like them and fight them. I have now had nausea, constipation, diarrhea (at the same time!), extreme loss of energy, muscle cramping, pain, and weakness, chest pains, headaches, fever, dizziness, trouble sleeping, shakiness, I'm peeing more, sweats, and severely decreased appetite. Thank God I'm still getting most of my nutritional needs intravenously. Still, I've lost over five pounds of good weight -- mostly arms and upper body, but some legs, too. So as an incidental benefit of all this I'm grouchy, short-tempered, spend all night and most of the day just laying around, as I have no energy... Oh, and depressed. Yaya. And here's the best part! My girlfriend, whom I haven't seen in a year, is getting into town for a week-long visit on Thursday. This is NOT how I wanted to be for her, goddammit... I was feeling great when I bought her ticket. Which reminds me, my libido's gone away again, too. Just perfect. Oh, and I found out more of what my possibly impending surgery is going to entail. Double dose of depression. I thought they would be going in and repairing the site of the fistula, not fucking hacking stuff out and reworking my plumbing. Still, I'm a long way from when I drowned in my own fluids last October. My fighting spirit has rebounded nicely. I'm going to focus on being the best I can be while Jen's here, then I'm going to recover from that, then I'm going to focus on thwarting the surgeons by making the fistula close up on its own. So, yeah. Jason. Liz. At least three of us here have something going on that baffles the doctors, whose meds often seem to be doing more harm than good, and have no choice but to just persevere. I'm with you, too. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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