Oh yes. I went back. I didn't want to do it, but this is ridiculous. See, I finished my lovely amoxicilin on Thursday (my birthday gift to myself), but Friday and Saturday my throat was kind of stratchy. I thought it was because it was suddenly very hot. No. Sunday I had a very sore throat..I just took some dayquil and the pain was dulled some.
Yesterday, it was very painful still, but I decided to see what happened when I got up this morning. It still hurt. But I haven't found anything that can soothe it. I tried hot tea, dayquil, gargling warm salt water, cough drops..none of that. NO FUN!!!!!
So today I went back to my apt. after class and grabbed a new bottle of water and my empty prescription bottle just in case and went back to the health center. Of course all that is available is urgent care, my favorite. I sat so I was facing the clock, which was hard since there were lots of other sick people. Plus it was lunch time for the doctors so it was reallllllly slow. I got in there at 12:40. After an hour they called my name to 1. check my ID and 2. ask if the address they had for me was current. I considered saying "NO I haven't moved in the 2 weeks since I was last here" but was nice and didn't. Then not too much longer after, a nurse came and took me to a room to take my temp and blood pressure. I guess they made a note that I don't do so well with machine blood pressure things, since he just put the thing on my arm and manually did it. Then I was sent back to the waiting room.
I had to stand for a while this time as all seats were being taken by fellow students. At 3 they came to get me and took me to a room and asked me to take my shirt off and replace it with a lovely paper shirt. Then I sat in the room feeling a draft, and read my book for 20 minutes before a doctor came in. I told her the same thing I told the info booth and nurse. She checked my ears and throat, but said she only saw that it was a little red. I explained that I had taken all sorts of things but nothing was soothing my pain. So she took a throat culture (NOT fun) and wrote me a prescription for....LIDOCAINE!
Yeah that stuff they give you at the dentist's office..I'm supposed to gargle a tablespoon every 4-6 hours and I can swallow a small amount but not too much apparently. Sounds simple, but this stuff has the consistancy of honey...try to gargle that...it wouldn't slide off my tongue so at the moment, my tongue is numb but not my throat. And I can't eat for an hour which sucks since I didn't really eat much for lunch. Soon though....and I have to figure out a new approach come like 8pm when I am to take this stuff again...if only I could dilute it with water to make it a little easier...
But anyway I am tired of not feeling well and not being able to swallow stuff and all that. I need to like get over this. My body is just breaking down..the 19 year lease is up. Time for a new one I guess. But this I am having such a hard time getting over this...So starts week 3 of not being well...
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