I got sick around early may this year.
I went down the shore, made out with a
girl, the next day I felt sick, and then
it got worse, I had a terrible sore
throat, and felt very dizzy, naseua,
fatigued, headache. I went home, took
a week off, and got some medication. I
went to the emo (emergency medical office)
and I came back negative on a mono spot,
but positive for strep. I took
augmentum and other antibiotics. *edit*
:!: [they didn't seem to work and the
doctors concluded that it may be viral and
antibiotcs won't do it and i'd have to get
better on my own. About a month later,
my glands were still swollen and my
parents got scared and rushed me off to
er, the doctor concluded that I just have
big glands, gave me some sterroids and
another antibiotic. To remove swelling
and fight any bacteria. I felt fine
after that but not right away. Now it's
back.] :!: *edit* then after that they
checked for it and it was gone(the strep),
but my glands are still sowllen and now I
have reoccuring sore throats, often
sometimes I feel tired I work sometime 16
hours a day. But I always get 6-8
hours a sleep during the week and about
8-10 hours a sleep on the weekends.
Some days I feel tired even at my earl
work starting at 7 am I have to go lie
down and take a nap, or drink a bunch of
coffee to wake me up. My eyes get
itchy, my tounge gets sore, my tounge is
white, my glands are still wollen, I woke
up with a nose bleed this morning, im
coughing. The doctors gut feeling said
it's could be chronic tonsillitis and
wants to remove my tonsils, :shock: and
that's not on my agenda. But he
checked for another kind of mono that I
forgot about, could the first mono spot
come back as negative, and then come up
later on and I should check for it? I
don't know whats going on and no doctors
can seem to tell me anything either.
:( if you guys can help that'd be great,
thanks you so much!
Joe
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janeysuz
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 79 Location: neworleans
Strep Posted: 07-11-05 10:46am
I work in a hospital and must've gotten
exposed to the nastiest strep ever it took
6 months on augmentin to get rid of....You
see when you get strep it can take cover
in the tonsils, it's what they call a
pharmacologic refuge, as it doesn't get
good drug penetration...That's why they
sometimes wind up removing them, and the
bacteria can lurk there, but I didn't want
that so I just kept on the augmentin until
I was sure I was good, and have been ever
since...Maybe you should re-test for strep
and maybe try the long term antibiotic
approach
if you got mono there's no much you can do
except try to de-stress and allow your
immune system to take care of
it...Shiitake mushrooms help w/t-cell
immunity, but mostly lower stress and did
you know that though corticosteroids
reduce gland inflammation they
specifically reduce t-cell immunity needed
to fight viruses...Not a good combination
for very long
yousound stressed, you might want to whine
to mommy to take care of you and go couch
potato for a month and get yourself on top
of things, no more skanks either
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jokou
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 3
Posted: 07-11-05 14:07pm
Yeah definetly no more skanks, well she
wasn't much of a promiscuous person.
But she could have been! Okay she
porlly was.
So you think it could be this chrnoc strep
that's hard to penetrate with drugs. If
a strep test comes back negative...
Well I don't have white patches on my
glands really though. They're just
swollen and red.
The doctor I went to they say is one of
the best, that doctors go to, ver
thorough, but I don't like his plan it's
too narrow, either mono or tonsilitis.
I kind of want a second opinion on this.
Because I was feeling better a week or so
ago, now it feels liek I have a small cold
now.
Possibly from a weaken immune system?
Thank you all again ^^
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janeysuz
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 79 Location: neworleans
Other Culprits Posted: 07-11-05 17:26pm
Cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, others can
cause symptoms
also you can be tested for early (capsule)
and late (nuclear) antibodies for mono
you also might have something unrelated,
just got run down and picked up a new
bugaboo
take it easy, listen to your poor bod,
it's screaming at you isn't it? Slow
down some, without your health you've got
nothing else
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jokou
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 3
Posted: 07-12-05 13:58pm
I was just put back on augmentin xe I
think... After the first 2 tablets my
throat feels better.
But it's just how it is. In the morning
my throat feels like sh*t. Then in the
day my thoat is not sore or at least
unbearable. Then at night it feels like
sh*t again, and back to the morning. So
I just dont get it! >_<
i don't know, maybe I will get htese
things ripped out before I do it myself.
