CreativeType's Journal

I've been sick for a couple weeks and havent really been keeping up with things like this. I was feeling kinda run down and having trouble breathing during the week a few week ago. Then over the weekend it escalated and included coughing and and lots of head stuffiness. I saw the doctor on the Monday and he said by looking at my mouth and nose and listening to my lungs it looks like allergy. Everything inflamed. So we started some treatment- nebulizer twice a day with pulmicort and albuterol, netti pot twice a day with saline and pulmicort. By wednesday I was worse and we added 5 days of prednisone. By Friday he said it must be infection because two days of pred should mean 40-60% better, and I was no where near that. We did a chest xray on friday and i went for bloodwork on the following monday, then start 4000mg (for 3 weeks) of augmentin on monday after the bloodwork. Here i am, about a week and a half later, feeling better but not completely. In the bloodwork we are checking my IGG levels and some other stuff to see if my immune system is acting normal. I'm supposed to get a CT scan in a couple weeks to compare to old ones I've had in the past to see if anything has changed. When I was at the doctor that last time on the Friday I told him I felt like my health had declined over the last couple years. Granted I had been diagnosed with the food allergies several years ago... and maybe my immune system is on high speed. Don't know. So we're going to look at some stuff and see. Meanwhile, still on nebulizer twice a day with pulmicort, but no more albuerol. Should be able to stop it soon. Doing the netti pot once a day now. I'm kinda of tired of doing all this stuff. I'm someone that gets up and gets ready for work in as little time as possible. Now t takes longer because I have to do the neb treatments. Not a huge deal, just getting kinda annoying. COurse that could be the steroids talking. I know they make me grouchy. Oh and puffy. This Friday I got for my third xolair shot. I haven't had allergy shots since before the last xolair since i've been sick. I dont think theyre doing anything yet.

I need to update my medic alert bracelet but havent gotten to it yet because it isnt a straight forward thing. I need to somehow add food allergies but dont know what to put...there's so much else on there already it's hard because I'm tight on room and allergic to everything. maybe that's what it should say. Allergic to everything. Do not feed the bears.

I saw my best friend from high school today. I haven't seen her in years- she looks exactly the same. What a trip. I feel like I must come off as really different..kind of a beaten down version of my old self. 

I cut off all my hair this past weekend. I dont know.