achoo, coughcoughcough, OW, mnnnngh
May. 25th, 2011 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merielleMan, fuck this thing where I turn up with some sort of deeply unpleasant infection right as I'm getting ready for Wiscon.
I've had a pretty bad allergy-cold-sinus-something for more than a week, and now I have a pretty gnarly sinus infection. Every time I cough or sneeze, which is distressingly often, I feel like someone's driving barbecue forks into my skull. OW. Thankfully, we have good health insurance and a nice local clinic that's always good about squeezing us in, so I have drugs and will have time for two doses of antibiotics before I get on the plane. :( I think I may have to resort to the use of some of the badass painkillers I still have after the epic kidney stone fuckery of 2009 to survive the flight. I hope not. But I think it's going to be wise to travel with ibuprofen for regular pain and some darvocet in case of emergency.
Every GP I've ever seen in central TX has strong opinions about how to deal with sinus infections. They all seem to have a sekrit 5-step recipe for OMG perfect recovery! So far, none of them has worked for me. This guy actually has his own handout! It says Sudafed, cough syrup with guafenisen, and Afrin nose spray, along with the usual ibuprofen or acetominaphin for pain, salt water gargles, and nasal saline. Really specific! I don't know if he's right, but in the immortal words of Barry Corbin in WarGames, "Hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good." So I'll try his regimen.
I am officially sick and tired of one-to-three-times-a-year sinus infections. I mentioned to this doc that every time I get any sort of sniffly anything, no matter what I do, I seem to get an sinus infection, and that a couple of my friends have had super successful sinus surgeries to fix little anatomical quirks that prevent good drainage. He gave me a referral to a local otolaryngology practice he recommends. (I know, it's slightly pretentious to say, "otolaryngology" instead of "ENT" - and I just did it twice. But I *like* the Greek-rooted specialty name! It's such a cool, chewy word!) (At least I didn't say, "otorhinolaryngology.") I'm going to do some research on the docs he likes to check out if patients actually like them, and then I'm going to see if someone can rearrange the inside of my face to make my life suck less.
I've had a pretty bad allergy-cold-sinus-something for more than a week, and now I have a pretty gnarly sinus infection. Every time I cough or sneeze, which is distressingly often, I feel like someone's driving barbecue forks into my skull. OW. Thankfully, we have good health insurance and a nice local clinic that's always good about squeezing us in, so I have drugs and will have time for two doses of antibiotics before I get on the plane. :( I think I may have to resort to the use of some of the badass painkillers I still have after the epic kidney stone fuckery of 2009 to survive the flight. I hope not. But I think it's going to be wise to travel with ibuprofen for regular pain and some darvocet in case of emergency.
Every GP I've ever seen in central TX has strong opinions about how to deal with sinus infections. They all seem to have a sekrit 5-step recipe for OMG perfect recovery! So far, none of them has worked for me. This guy actually has his own handout! It says Sudafed, cough syrup with guafenisen, and Afrin nose spray, along with the usual ibuprofen or acetominaphin for pain, salt water gargles, and nasal saline. Really specific! I don't know if he's right, but in the immortal words of Barry Corbin in WarGames, "Hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good." So I'll try his regimen.
I am officially sick and tired of one-to-three-times-a-year sinus infections. I mentioned to this doc that every time I get any sort of sniffly anything, no matter what I do, I seem to get an sinus infection, and that a couple of my friends have had super successful sinus surgeries to fix little anatomical quirks that prevent good drainage. He gave me a referral to a local otolaryngology practice he recommends. (I know, it's slightly pretentious to say, "otolaryngology" instead of "ENT" - and I just did it twice. But I *like* the Greek-rooted specialty name! It's such a cool, chewy word!) (At least I didn't say, "otorhinolaryngology.") I'm going to do some research on the docs he likes to check out if patients actually like them, and then I'm going to see if someone can rearrange the inside of my face to make my life suck less.
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Date: 2011-05-26 12:13 am (UTC)The surgery doesn't sound all that bad. He's going to fix a broken nose (didn't know it was broken!) and remove a few super-thick mucus membranes in some of my sinuses. Should be back at work in 3 or 5 days.