Posts Tagged ‘health’

I mean, I feel like I should post an update to this.

The pinched nerve in my back is… strangely back, and I’m waiting for NSAIDs with Benadryl to help.

Maybe they will. Maybe they won’t. At the least it became something to try because of how bad the pain is.

In the meantime, I’m submitting my family’s wish lists to the wish list sites that I’ve participated in for I don’t even know how many years any more. I may link the sites here for people who may want to utilize them, as there are people who only really use the blog site they’re on to participate in this wish list gifting (what do you call it? is there a more formal name for it?) who otherwise do not participate on the site. I’ll probably also compile and post our wish lists up here as well for people that read my blog, as there are some people who I know do that and don’t participate in other blogging sites. This has become a lot of fun and I simply love it!

I see that we are on two days of regretting this.

The good news is that the back pain that I had for… whatever reason has more or less gone away, for which I’m thankful. I will probably still have that looked at and ask about it when I see my local pain management clinic for my migraines, and I have a standard appointment for that coming up. I see no reason why not to…

What we’re currently dealing with is reactive airways from deep cleaning half of the house, which I do approximately every four months. I think I’m going to bite the bullet on this one and have someone else do it, because my lungs can not handle even the tamest of cleaning products. I have been coughing virulently for two days now, this being the second, and although my cough is better than it was the day before this isn’t something that I accidentally want to walk into again, even though I was wearing a N95 mask to do this, which I always do when cleaning anything. Even though the medication that I take for heart problems has cured almost all of my asthma, sometimes I forget that I actually do still have it to some degree and that my airways can become really reactive when exposed to the wrong thing, even when other people are able to be exposed to it just fine. I think that’s the kicker. I’ve been taking the benzonatate that I’ve been prescribed by my pulmonologist to stop most of the coughing, which has surprisingly worked really well, and started taking Benadryl because my face began to swell yesterday and I swear that I have never had that happen.

At one point, when it was so bad that I could not sleep, I coated my throat in the lidocaine gel that I had been prescribed for the mouth injury that I had awhile back, which you can do (the label even instructs you on how to do it if you need to). That really helped as well, and I think I’m just going to keep doing that from time to time until this subsides or I bite the bullet again and have to see a doctor over this. Everyone else in this house is predictably fine. It’s just me that’s usually sitting here, sometimes laying down, coughing and…

I cleaned the house and was allergic to the cleaner.

I know how to clean, and I deep clean the house ever few months in addition to cleaning the house.

Today I found out that I am allergic to something in the cleaner that I used today.

I guess it’s going to be fun hunting the source of that down, although I am not opposed to delegating cleaning like this to someone else and paying them for it if necessary. I’ll get into all of the symptoms and side effects of this tomorrow, perhaps when I feel a little bit better. I suppose we’ll have to see on that.

Somehow I nearly managed to miss writing here.

The cellulitis infection that I’ve been… dealing with is almost completely gone, so there’s that.

The remnants of it that are still in my mouth do randomly hurt, which lidocaine and Orajel has been fixing.

The only downside has been the fact that I’ve been prescribed lidocaine gel for the infection that’s supposed to last me five days, but I can only call in refills that are on the prescription every ten days, like make that make sense. That means that I’ve gone five days without having lidocaine, mostly relying on the Orajel that I have. I’m still not quite sure why that is, although even getting my insurance to approve lidocaine gel was a Herculean task given their recent refusals to approve anything related to lidocaine at all. So there is that…

We’re on day… what of this? I’ve lost count.

I’ve been prescribed sufficient pain medication to get me through the healing process of… whatever happened to my mouth, as well as an antibiotic and anti-fungal to take along with those to get rid of the fact that it was badly infected. I feel like slow but steady progress is being made, although I want to have it checked out by the local wound care clinic if it doesn’t manage to heal before then, depending on when they can get me in to be seen. The referral has already been made by my primary care physician, I have five refills on the prescription of oral lidocaine that I was prescribed, and I have enough Tramadol to get me through what should be the worst of this. Or so I’m hoping, at any rate. If this takes an unusually long time to heal for me, I’ll make another appointment with my primary care physician to discuss another course of Tramadol… he knows that whenever I actually mention being in pain, it’s bad, and has no problem prescribing me pain medication like this for as long as it’s necessary by whatever may deem it necessary. I just love the man.

On top of that, he has an emergency number that lets patients contact him after hours, and he answers it!

The only bad thing about his practice is that it’s nearly impossible to get through during the actual day.

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