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amanda_lodden) wrote2008-05-13 06:02 pm
amanda_lodden) wrote2008-05-13 06:02 pm
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Oh, so *this* is what "better" feels like
For the last couple weeks, I've been telling people that I was feeling better. It was true, but "better" is a relative term. Certainly, I felt better than when I was feverish and couldn't stay awake more than two hours at a time.
However, I did not realize just how much more improvement I had yet to go until my doctor got the sinus x-ray results and called to say that I still had a bit of an infection and he'd called in a prescription for a stronger antibiotic for me. I'm 4 days into the new antibiotic.
In those four days (actually, in the last three days, since the first day it hadn't really kicked in yet), the difference in how I feel has been amazing. I still left work early on Monday, but it was to go shopping and then to a doctor's appointment regarding the thyroid cysts (end result: nothing to worry about, couldn't have caused the symptoms that caused us to run the initial thyroid tests. I'm to have another ultrasound in 6 months to see if anything has changed; if not, no worries. If there are changes, then we re-evaluate.)
There was some gardening on the not-crappy days, some shopping, some car maintenance, lots of running errands, some laundry, and today I cooked dinners for the week. I think I've done more since Saturday than I have in a month.
The downside is that it's the same antibiotic that caused me to not sleep in February, and I've had a few nights of tossing and turning a bit. There's a good chance that by the time I've finished the full dose, I'll be cranky and bitchy from lack of sleep. However, last time that went away as soon as I stopped taking the antibiotic and caught up on sleep, so it should only be a little bit of irritation before it's all good again.
However, I did not realize just how much more improvement I had yet to go until my doctor got the sinus x-ray results and called to say that I still had a bit of an infection and he'd called in a prescription for a stronger antibiotic for me. I'm 4 days into the new antibiotic.
In those four days (actually, in the last three days, since the first day it hadn't really kicked in yet), the difference in how I feel has been amazing. I still left work early on Monday, but it was to go shopping and then to a doctor's appointment regarding the thyroid cysts (end result: nothing to worry about, couldn't have caused the symptoms that caused us to run the initial thyroid tests. I'm to have another ultrasound in 6 months to see if anything has changed; if not, no worries. If there are changes, then we re-evaluate.)
There was some gardening on the not-crappy days, some shopping, some car maintenance, lots of running errands, some laundry, and today I cooked dinners for the week. I think I've done more since Saturday than I have in a month.
The downside is that it's the same antibiotic that caused me to not sleep in February, and I've had a few nights of tossing and turning a bit. There's a good chance that by the time I've finished the full dose, I'll be cranky and bitchy from lack of sleep. However, last time that went away as soon as I stopped taking the antibiotic and caught up on sleep, so it should only be a little bit of irritation before it's all good again.