ms.peachy
11-17-2008, 03:35 PM
Att: this is a "poor me" thread, so if you don't wanna hear it, don't read it.
Yeah so, I've been sick for weeks now. Basically since Nov 5 - I can pinpoint it to then because I was up all night watching the election, then slept all da, and woke up in the late afternoon feeling dicey. But I told myself it was just because my sleep schedule had been thrown off, and I'd be right again by the next day. But the next day I felt worse, and worse the day after that. It was pretty clear I had a miserable cold. But OK, it's just a cold, people get colds, no big deal, just rest and drink lots of tea, right?
Except I also have what is normally very mild asthma (I use an inhaler like four times a year, maybe). Apparently though this cold kicked my asthma into high gear, and so after the cold went (more or less) away, I was still having periods of really constricted breathing, getting winded doing really strenuous things like walk downstairs, and generally feeling pathetic and weak. So I go to the doctor, and he puts me on this other inhaler thing that I have to use twice per day, and he said I should be feeling some relief within 48-36 hours. (Which, when you are trying to breathe, is a rather long time, if I do say so.)
This was last Wednesday. I was due to go visit a friend on Friday who has recently had a baby, so I asked the doctor if I should cancel. He said "If you are feeling up to it, go, you're not contagious." So Friday I did feel somewhat better, not 100%, but I did want to go see my friend because she has been having trouble establishing breastfeeding and her husband was out of town on business and I knew she was finding being a new parent on her own difficult, so I wanted to do what I could to help her.
So the visit was OK but by the time I got home I was WIPED OUT. I didn't leave the house all weekend, and by last night I was starting to feel achey and a bit feverish, like you know how you feel when you are maybe getting the flu. And of course my lungs are still shit, and I am completely exhausted. And I am not sleeping well because when I lay down I cough too much to get comfortable, and I can't get to sleep in a sitting position, so I feel very weird and sleep-deprived, even though I am getting plenty of 'rest' in that I go nowhere and do nothing. Oh except of course deal with the demands of a two year old.
I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon for something else that was booked a while ago, with a different doctor (but still a gp) so I am going to ask her tomorrow if I should be worried that there is soething seriously wrong with me, because I have never felt this sick for this long in my life, and it sucks ass.
Yeah so, that's my big moan that I'm throwing out there, thanks for listening.
Yeah so, I've been sick for weeks now. Basically since Nov 5 - I can pinpoint it to then because I was up all night watching the election, then slept all da, and woke up in the late afternoon feeling dicey. But I told myself it was just because my sleep schedule had been thrown off, and I'd be right again by the next day. But the next day I felt worse, and worse the day after that. It was pretty clear I had a miserable cold. But OK, it's just a cold, people get colds, no big deal, just rest and drink lots of tea, right?
Except I also have what is normally very mild asthma (I use an inhaler like four times a year, maybe). Apparently though this cold kicked my asthma into high gear, and so after the cold went (more or less) away, I was still having periods of really constricted breathing, getting winded doing really strenuous things like walk downstairs, and generally feeling pathetic and weak. So I go to the doctor, and he puts me on this other inhaler thing that I have to use twice per day, and he said I should be feeling some relief within 48-36 hours. (Which, when you are trying to breathe, is a rather long time, if I do say so.)
This was last Wednesday. I was due to go visit a friend on Friday who has recently had a baby, so I asked the doctor if I should cancel. He said "If you are feeling up to it, go, you're not contagious." So Friday I did feel somewhat better, not 100%, but I did want to go see my friend because she has been having trouble establishing breastfeeding and her husband was out of town on business and I knew she was finding being a new parent on her own difficult, so I wanted to do what I could to help her.
So the visit was OK but by the time I got home I was WIPED OUT. I didn't leave the house all weekend, and by last night I was starting to feel achey and a bit feverish, like you know how you feel when you are maybe getting the flu. And of course my lungs are still shit, and I am completely exhausted. And I am not sleeping well because when I lay down I cough too much to get comfortable, and I can't get to sleep in a sitting position, so I feel very weird and sleep-deprived, even though I am getting plenty of 'rest' in that I go nowhere and do nothing. Oh except of course deal with the demands of a two year old.
I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon for something else that was booked a while ago, with a different doctor (but still a gp) so I am going to ask her tomorrow if I should be worried that there is soething seriously wrong with me, because I have never felt this sick for this long in my life, and it sucks ass.
Yeah so, that's my big moan that I'm throwing out there, thanks for listening.