This is exactly what I think about my sinuses: I hate them with a firey, burning passion!
This is the 8th sinus infection since May (that's 7 months, for those of you who don't like to count, lol...). And I am getting VERY tired of them. They drain all my energy and make me crabby and irritable.
Hopefully over Christmas Break, I can make it back to the ENT to see about getting this fixed once and for all. I'm betting that I'll have to get surgery to drain my sinuses and fix my deviated septum, so that I will stop getting them so frequently. Cuz honestly, going from 2 sinus infections a year maybe to 8 sinus infections in 7 months is ridiculous. I've been on almost every sort of medicine available for sinus infections and not one of them seems to help in the least bit.
I think I never really got rid of the first infection and therefore, my sinuses are still infected and the infection just subsides and flares up agian when it gets aggravated by something. (Or whenever life wants me to know that I am human and can't stay awake for days getting everything done, or whenever life wants me to know that it hates me with a firey, burning passion...)
Anyways, back to work after some lunch. I just needed to vent to someone who doesn't think they have all the answers, like the girls at work....."Try TheraFlu!" "Take Tylenol Allergy and Sinus Medicine!" "You need to go to a doctor and get on some antibiotics!" "Stand on your head and drink water and it will help your sinuses drain!" "Get lots of sleep!" "Don't take Mucinex, that makes all the mucous come up and you want it to stay down right now!" "Are you sure it's a sinus infection and not allergies?" "Try Zicam! It works wonders!"
UGH! YES I'M SURE IT'S A SINUS INFECTION, I'VE ONLY HAD 8 SINCE MAY!!! THERAFLU TASTES NASTY AND DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BUT GIVE ME AN UPSET STOMACH! I'VE BEEN ON EVERY KIND OF ANTIBIOTIC OUT THERE AND NOT ONE OF THEM HELPS THE SINUS INFECTION!!!! I SLEPT FOR 14 HOURS YESTERDAY, IS THAT LOTS ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?! MY DOCTOR EFFING TOLD ME TO TAKE MUCINEX!!! ZICAM DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BUT MAKE ME PUKE!!!!
Oh people at work who think they're being helpful....thanks for the tips...the only one that sounds semi promising is the Tylenol Allergy and Sinus stuff. I might have to go get some when I get off tonight...
And now, lunch and at 5:00pm, back to work.
Awww, hopefully you can get that appointment and get something figured out. The people at work are just trying to be helpful in the only way they know how. it is hard to offer people advice when they are sick, especially when you don't know what they're dealing with. I've never had a sinus infection, so I can't imagine they're fun :( Hope you get to feeling better- whatever it takes or you at least make it through until break. <3
ReplyDeleteyeah, they just don't listen when you tell them you've been on every antibiotic for sinus infections and not one has worked and they still tell you to go to the doctor to get on antibiotics. it's just irritating that they think they know everything and then refuse to listen when you tell them you've tried nearly every remedy out there. hopefully, the doc can fix it. cuz i'm getting so tired of being sick!
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