Posts Tagged ‘health’

01
Feb
2022

I need to come up with clever subject lines.

categories: personal; word count: 200 words

As probably predicted, I am still trying to get off of the prednisone train.

However, I absolutely needed it yesterday when Fioricet did not work.

I was actually at about a nine out of ten on the pain scale.

And I still hate this medication… I really, truly do. My body just does not like it any more.

In other news, our dryer died a peaceful death of old age last weekend. We contacted an appliance repair specialist about it that was supposed to come out to our house to see if it could be repaired (and if so, how much that would cost), but they never showed, and they never even called to let us know that they would not be showing. So we have to follow up on that. This afternoon, someone is supposed to bring a new dryer to our house so that we can actually dry our clothes without having to hang them after they’ve been washed. Good times… I guess. I guess we’ll be seeing how that goes in several hours when it should arrive.

We usually run two dryers here, so the jury is still out on whether this one can actually be repaired.

22
Jan
2022

Here we’ve got Omicron, screwing up more shit.

categories: personal; word count: 207 words

Since more and more hospitals are going back to doing only necessary surgery, the work-up for severe diastasis recti that I was undergoing seems to have to be shelved. Since I don’t intend on having any more children, it wouldn’t have been a significant bother for me to undergo surgery to correct it, and I could lower my dose of prednisone if needed such that it would be as safe as it was ever going to be — assuming, of course, that I ever took it again, which I don’t want to because my body has finally gotten to the point where it can no longer manage oral steroids without sometimes significant problem. I mean, if they do it at any point during this pandemic, they do it. I’d ideally like it to be done as soon as possible so that I can get it done and heal from it, but if it’s not safe to do because COVID-19 cases are once again climbing and we have a mutation out there that more people are susceptible to… then I’ll wait. Even though I won’t like it…

And the saddest thing of all is that this could have been picked up on years earlier than it was even noticed.

16
Jan
2022

I am never taking this stuff again, I swear.

categories: personal; word count: 227 words

The amoxicillin that I finish taking today has given me some of the worst migraines of my life, so I’m going to ask at the next consult of mine that requires the use of them if… something else other than amoxicillin can be given. Usually Fioricet helps to a point, making things bearable even when it does not fully help, but we’ve been at the point now where it is not helping at all. Without consulting my medical history, someone asked me “if I could take aspirin” or “if I could take Ibuprofen”, not knowing that my asthma reacts to those and that I would have to be on albuterol, Benadryl, and prednisone to even have a shot. If this keeps up though I’m going to single-dose prednisone to make life bearable until I am actually done with this antibiotic. Although I concede that amoxicillin helped with the gum and jaw infection that prednisone… gave me, I do not want to have to take the poison to “get rid” of the poison. This is literally the name of the chronically ill game, I swear.

I hate the side effects of prednisone, don’t get me wrong, but I really hate being in severe pain. It is what it is.

And I actually mean it when I say “I’m never taking this stuff again”. I’m asking for another antibiotic.

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