oh my gosh, I am SO sick - Page 9

Bri369 · ‎11-03-2018

@gidgetgh glad you're feeling a little better and got some sleep. Getting some rest makes so much of a difference...

Preds · ‎12-17-2012

Yay for sleep @gidgetgh . Glad you are feeling a tad better. Hope you rest and feel even better today.

Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

aprildreams · ‎03-17-2010

@sherylsiu I am an RN...and we are the worst at self treating. May 2016, I had a "migraine headache" and off and on it hurt for 3 or 4 days....I took tylenol...on the 4th day my dil came by and took a look at me and said we are going to the doctor. Within 2 hours I was in ICU with 3 blood clots in my brain.....caused by a sinus infection I had self treated. I had a very rare blood clot called a CVST. Google it. I tell all my friends if they have any head pain, sinus pain, earaches....get to the dr. Not worth the risk.

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@gidgetgh I have a grandson who kept getting pneumonia when he was in grade school. This went on till almost the 6th grade. My daughter knew the symptoms well. He would not have the normal signs of congestion. One night she took him to the emergency room and the doctor told her he didn't have pneumonia. He wouldn't give him an xray. Finally, she looked at him and basically wasn't going to leave till he got one. It ended up he did have pneumonia and the xrays showed it. The attending nurse took her aside and told her....good for you.....you know your child! You did the right thing.

The moral of the story......."to thine own self be true" Any doctor or professional that would give you something you didn't need shouldn't be in that profession. You did what you thought was right for you. Good for you!

Ketra · ‎02-16-2018

@tsavorite wrote:
@Ketra wrote:
@gidgetgh I hope the meds work and you start feeling better soon. I have constant active EBV and Thyroid autoimmune disease so I know what you are going through. It’s not fun!
I take thyroid meds, but I have found a significant improvement when I take 20 UMF Kiva Manuka honey when I first start feeling sick and contine to take 2 heaping tablespoons a day (1 morning, 1 night) until I’m better. The stuff works miracles! It’s even recognized by the National Institute of Health (NIH). When you feel better you can read:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6613335/

Thank you for posting about this!

I see it listed on Amazon...is that a good place to purchase this??

@tsavorite You’re welcome. Yes, I purchase it from Amazon and sometimes from Kiva directly when Amazon runs out.

50Mickey · ‎05-21-2010

@gidgetgh . I think we might have the same thing. Mine started Monday afternoon with a slight sore throat and drainage from my nasal passages. I don't have a sore throat now but I can't shake the fever and chills and pounding headache. No appetite and no energy. It seems like a mild case of flu. I had the flu 2 years ago and it was much worse than this. I am off tomorrow to Urgent Care if I am still running a fever. I have a feeling that this is a viral infection and therefore antibiotics will not help. Don't understand why your Dr. didn't do a rapid strep test and a flu test. The last time that I had the flu on 2018 I had the flu shot but it was not a good year for the vaccine.

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

@50Mickey wrote:
@gidgetgh . I think we might have the same thing. Mine started Monday afternoon with a slight sore throat and drainage from my nasal passages. I don't have a sore throat now but I can't shake the fever and chills and pounding headache. No appetite and no energy. It seems like a mild case of flu. I had the flu 2 years ago and it was much worse than this. I am off tomorrow to Urgent Care if I am still running a fever. I have a feeling that this is a viral infection and therefore antibiotics will not help. Don't understand why your Dr. didn't do a rapid strep test and a flu test. The last time that I had the flu on 2018 I had the flu shot but it was not a good year for the vaccine.

@50Mickey - he didn't think my fever was high enough to do the flu test. I still think I might have had a mild case.

As for the strep test, I don't do well with the throat swabbing so they'd have to do bloodwork. Which would have been fine with me but he decided to just go ahead with the antibiotics.

I hope you get to feeling better soon.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

tsavorite · ‎03-09-2010

@gidgetgh hope you are feeling abit better today since starting the antibiotics. My Internist's office called with my lab results today and thyroid levels are the same...good but the EBV is active again....not super high like my last major bout 2yrs ago but high to enough to be active again. They didn't say anything about antivirals...this was the staff calling and they were closing (at noon) so I haven't had a chance to speak to the doctor.

Planning on calling them Monday....going to request he let me at least try a antiviral medication since this is something that is reactivated AGAIN. Last time took me 1 1/2yrs to begin to feel like it might have calmed down and now here I am again 6mo's or so later and it's back again.

I suspect what my previous doctor dx me with chronic fatigue is this EBV reactivated over and over.

I am not very hopeful he will prescribe as that should have been done today...but I will directly ask and see on Monday. If he won't then I will ask him to refer me to a specialist infectious disease & chronic fatigue.

I did explain to him about this stuff last week and that my quality of life is poor due to the fatigue and constantly being sick. It's hard to function when you feel like you have the flu and your throat is raw painful and feels like the glands are swollen up.

I am just down and disgusted about it....I will try and get my act together for Monday.

I have nobody in my life that understands....or is interested to be truthful.

At least my other lab work was all healthy and normal....and now I know what is really going on with me....chronic EBV. Thanks again for sharing your struggles with this.

Sage04 · ‎07-10-2011

@gidgetgh, I hope you are feeling better. Iḿ up and about and doing well after all the rest I got. First time I´ve ever had upper respiratory infection. It was awful. Appetite isn´t back to normal, but that´s ok.

Feel better because this really is something not to fool around with.

@tsavorite, hope everything comes together for you. So glad you have @gidgetgh to talk to because she understands.