This has gone on for too long, i cant be sick like this! I am a single mom and a college student at a high-end academy and mid-terms are next week! ANY advice or suggestions/ideas would be reatly appreciated!
I have tried so many things and i am on so many medications! I went out grocery shopping for my mom saturday evening and halfway through i started feeling funny; kinda nauseous and light-headed. By the time i got back to her place an hour later, i thought i was going to throw up. I went into town sunday afternoon to the adult urgent care after hours clinic, and i was turned away even though they were still open for another hour, they were finishing up with their "last patient" and they wanted to get home. So i made an appointment for monday at 11am, showed up and saw the doctor- he did tests for strep and bronchitis, both came back negative- all he could tell me was that i have "flu-like symptoms" and he prescribed me Azithromycin (anti-biotic) and Cheratussin (which has some codeine in it). I woke up at 4:30am this morning feeling like i was on fire and grabbed a very cold sprite o try to cool my body temp down, after i drank about a third of it, i noticed that my mouth heated right back up so i decided i needed to take my temperature again- it was 102.8 (my body temp normally runs at 97.6, so i had cause to worry). I was up visiting my mom and barely made it to her bedroom (major dizziness; i almost fell over a couple times). When i told her, she wanted to take me to the Emergency Room ASAP-i tried to convince her to let me wait until the motrin ive been taking kicked in. She started the car and we went into the E.R.-where they took me back right away. My blood was drawn and i was tested for Mono- another Negative (Thank God!). All they could tell me was that it is Viral and I will be contagious until my fever breaks. He wrote me a note excusing me from school for up to two weeks; but i cannot take that much time off and i cannot let my daughter catch this infection! (feels like my front side has been used as a punching bag from coughing so much!)
My lungs are on fire, i cant stop coughing, my ears hurt badly (i have only one ear i can hear out of-my mom had measles in her first trimester with me and i was born deaf in one, so whenever the other starts to get infected, its an immediate trip to the doctor!)
So i need to get rid of the bad fever, constant coughing, horrribly sore and swollen throat, earaches, and i need to get better!
Any ideas?
Thanks!
