― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I suggest getting a bunch of sudafed with expectorant (the blue gel-looking pills) to work on the sinus thing and hopefully get things draining. The dizziness can be caused by the sinus infection screwing with your eustacian tubes -- are you having any weird hearing difficulties? Sometimes it'll sound a little muffled through one ear and your balance gets thrown off. You probably need antibiotics and such.
The other thing it could be (with the swollen lymph nodes and tiredness) is mono. That's pretty much an exact match for your full set of symptoms...
― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
And yeah, I have been having weird, muffled hearing.
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Good! I wasn't trying to creep you out, or anything, and a tiny knot under the skin isn't even that horrible of a thing -- but, you know, there's no reason to let stuff get permanently damaged if you can avoid it.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
(unless it means I'm going to be GETTING teh smooches)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Hey *I* have mono. *YOU* have mono. *shrug*
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― jennpb (jennpb), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
it's......SINUSITIS, I think, which apparently does give you fatigue, so says my doc. anyone else ever get crazy sinusitis like this?
I am on antibiotics for 2 weeks and no improvement.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Roxy your symptoms sound like how I felt when I was coming down with mono. Weird back/kidney pain and all...take a look down your throat with a flashlight and if your tonsils are really swollen (is this what the swollen throat feels like?) they have the potential to get much worse. See a doctor!
― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Michael, did you eventually get cured? Were you also fatigued? My sister is a pharmacist and she tells me some people who thought they had chronic fatigue syndrome have in recent years found out it was sinusitis all along. What antibiotic worked for you? any other tips?
if there is a plus side to being sick for 2 months in summer, it's that I have saved so much money from not going out, I don't know how much cash I waste on booze etc but it seems a gargantuan amount as I have gone completely insane buying clothes/records (2 or 3 every day in work)/dvds/books, and am still somehow way above my usual wealth.
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 September 2005 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 September 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 10 September 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I think we need photos of the marbles.
― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
sinuses blocked every day, big lines under eyes, no energy, weak every day. it's......SINUSITIS, I think, which apparently does give you fatigue, so says my doc. anyone else ever get crazy sinusitis like this?
Ronan, yes, sinusitis generally is incredibly fatiguing. Ten years ago, I had one really terrible sinus infection (which I let go for a while because I didn't realize what it was and I don't think I even had a doctor at the time). I have had bouts with sinus infections on and off since, though none quite as bad as that initial one. I have very bad allergies to begin with, so I am reluctant to tell you about my ongoing sinus symptoms in this context, since I don't want to suggest you are going to have the same problems.
A couple home remedies:
As an extra treatment, try inhaling the steam from eucalyptus leaves. (Put a towel over your head to help funnel the steam up to your nose--just be carefull if you are doing this over a gas burner.)
Nasal irrigation. If you try that, don't do it until you aren't massively clogged up.
If you don't have any pollen allergies, Goldenseal should be helpful.
I strongly recommend not smoking anything until you feel very recovered.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― billy cumflaps, Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Wiggy, you're right. Suggesting that Roxy cheat on the no-coffee/alcohol regimen was wrong and bad. I am a hardened hedonist. Don't listen to me.
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
From what I've read (and my own experience fits with this), if you get repeated sinus infections, your sinuses can get to a point where they are so damaged that it's very hard to avoid more or less constant sinus symptoms of some sort.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been inhaling the steam from boiling water alot, and that helps albiet briefly. I didn't use eucalyptus though, I must try that. It's so annoying, for one day last week my sinuses cleared and I felt great and then back again the day after. It's a horrible sickness.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Sunday, 11 September 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I stopped drinking caffeine last year (because I wanted to get pregnant). Now I crave caffeine and alcohol but mainly because I know I shoudln't drink any. I think I'll have an infuse (?) with caffeine and a dash of rhum right after I delivered my baby. :-)
The list of foods I can't eat is much too long. But I heard from another woman that her gynocologist even prohibited her more foods (like salads and so on). Mine's more relaxed about it.
― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Sunday, 11 September 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Ronan, I don't know about Benadryl, but you can certainly buy Zirtek here. I've been taking it for years now for insect bites and so on.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 11 September 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Time to revive this long-time favorite: frequent pissing, skeleton hurts, tinnitus, tender uterus, barky cough, hot but not sweating, splitting headache on left side, eyeball pressure, pain in old pelvic fracture, fatigue, depression, panic, shortness of breath, tiredness w/chest congestion and heart-ish pain upon slight physical exertion, wavery feeling in back of head, head felt squeezed when walking in park, tremulous tingles along spine, hynagogic hallucinations, gingivitus
― emilys., Monday, 28 May 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
general malaise, excessive wikipedia reading
― bene_gesserit, Monday, 28 May 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
my heart feels all racy tonight
wth
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 11 October 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
:(. has it improved? are you in love?
― BLOCKY 4 LYFE (sunny successor), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
getting a weird taste in my mouth /throat starting to cough and not stopping, unless i consciously stop myself. Then not being able to get my breath back and wheezing like I've got whooping cough, asthma or something.
I mean am I dying or something, since this is happening a couple of times a day at least. Thought it might be a reaction against something(s) in the flat but seems to be hitting me elsewhere now.
Having had flu/cold that i can't shake for ages.
― Stevolende, Friday, 19 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
my knees, hips, ankles and elbows feel like they have been clubbed with a tire iron. they really do.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 December 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
on brain fog as symptomatic of something deleterious on a grander scale
having a thought wriggle away, and attempting to snag it immediately back(the brain doing a routine thing, a little movement to snatch at the thought, like it has during incalculable distracted moments in the past)coming up with nil, the mind starting to reach further and more desperately for the thoughtmounting conscious obsessive terror about the loss of the thought and the circumstances that lead/are leading to its loss, including this right nowthe thought slipping further and further behind an ever-increasing mass of suffocating cloudsrepeat more often every day
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
varicose vein in my right leg at 34. It hurts like fuck and it feels like my leg/foot is going to explode. then it stops for a few weeks but comes back after a while. why? will i die?
― nuumerykah (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
Varicose veins aren't usually painful. Is the vein varicose even when it's not painful?
Might be phlebitis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebitis
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
for the last 2-3 weeks: waking up early every morning in urgent need of a piss, sometimes in the middle of the night too.
gonna have to go to the doctor's next week i guess. sigh.
― gong mad (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2015 05:52 (nine years ago) link
my tonsils have been up for a few weeks now, like I'm permanently on the verge of flu. think it's because I've been drinking too much, exercising too little and sleeping in rooms with aircon but it can go away now I'm home thanks.
aside from the concern around the consistent need to do so, periods of early morning/nighttime pissing are so f'ing tiresome.
― Fizzles, Friday, 22 May 2015 07:38 (nine years ago) link
decent Horizon ep the other night suggested that the effects of steady booze consumption may be akin to low level perma-flu
― gong mad (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2015 08:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I'm reaching an age now where i really notice the beneficial effects of staying off booze more days of the week than not. productivity, clarity of thought, springiness of step, sleep, whatever - it all seems to add up.
― Fizzles, Friday, 22 May 2015 08:34 (nine years ago) link
so want a cure for this semi-perm hay fever bouts I have been having for the last 3-4 years. Maybe I should drink more idk..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 May 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I went to doctor with lingering coldy symptoms recently and he strongly emphasised drinking less.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 22 May 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
But doctors pretty much always emphasise that.
there are no diabetes threads it seems so can anyone calm me down about my big numb toe. i can still move it for the most part, i don't notice it most of the time but it's been like this for a couple months. there just isn't much feeling in the middle of it. there's no tingling.
i have nerve-y problems (disc is out of place i think?) that i just started getting PT for but that's all in my neck/upper back. i took a blood test 6-8 mos ago and i was below prediabetes levels so i haven't been too worried, but i eat a lot of starches and plain old sugar tbh so i'm always a little worried, and now i'm a lot worried.
― qualx, Thursday, 3 December 2015 07:33 (eight years ago) link
Diabetic neuropathy won't usually affect one toe in isolation, or cause significant loss of sensation without pain or tingling/burning. It can precede the diagnosis of diabetes but that's not typical.
One numb big toe makes me think sciatica (S1 radiculopathy) but that's usually accompanied by the classic pattern of pain shooting down the back of the thigh. Another option would be neuropathy of the digital nerve to that toe, most likely compressive from tight footwear. In the latter case, if you can figure out what caused it and avoid further compression, it should recover within a couple of months.
― Plasmon, Thursday, 3 December 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Spent much of last weekend pissing out of my arse.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 3 December 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link