Saturday, 28 February 2009

has a week really passed?

it's been about a week since my last blog and I'm still not better....in fact since last weekend I've gotten worse, been to hospital and back again!

I'm ok, the hospital trip was to get a second opinion really. I got the antibiotics on monday and then tuesday afternoon I felt worse, headache got worse and felt nauseous, spent tuesday night almost throwing up and then almost fainted in the bathroom, then my body just seemed to stop wanting to work...I felt heavy and tired and couldn't find the energy to move. Wednesday morning we phoned the doctor and he asked me to go in and see him and he then sent us to the JR to get a second opinion. Because I've got this history of all my blood tests and my ESR being high, he was being cautious...which I appreciate because I was supposed to get better, not worse!

So ended up spending 5 hours in the JR, had some blood tests and a chest xray, and the conclusion was that it's definitely sinusitus and it's possible that the antibiotics made me feel worse so they switched me to different antibiotics and gave me anti-sickness tablets too. unfortunately the new antibiotics still have part of the old antibiotics in (the old ones were amoxicillin, new ones are part amoxiclav and part amoxicillin) so my stomach is still gurgling a bit and I'm not eating lots of things.

So at the moment I'm looking for the little things, the little improvements...like today I don't feel as off balance when I stand up...tiny thing but I'm holding onto it because I want to be better by monday so I can go to uni again...I don't want to think about missing another week :(

that's all to say...sorry my last few posts have been just about me being ill but like I said, nothing much else has happened!
Much love xxx

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I miss you.

Lucy said...

Aww.. Lovage!! Hope you start to feel better soon.. :)

x

taitle said...

hang in there :)

Sarah :) said...

thankyou all you lovely people :) xxx

Paul Garrett said...

I am a radiologist in Philadelphia, a friend of Colin Miller's. Some of the GI complaints may be related to the antibiotics. I suggest keeping up with fluids and electrolytes (Gatorade in the States). Also yogurt with active cultures and possibly pro biotic tablets may help. Humidifiers and hot showers can help sinusitis. good luck

Sarah :) said...

Thankyou for the advice :)