Another bronchitis here - I’ve coughed so much my ribs hurt. Oh, and I also have an elbow injury that is driving me doolally. Falling apart, I am. :mad:
Nose faucet. It started as a cold last week, which I’ve shaken… but my right nostril is completely blocked, and leaks.
I don’t have the best right nostril in the first place, constricted due to a deviated septum and enlarged turbinates, according to the ENT, and the Afrin (generic version) rebound has wiped me out. Today I’m trying not to use the Afrin, so that things can begin to recover from rebound.
And of course, allergy season has started, and I’m sure I’ll be affected by that as well… again, only in the right nostril… and the ichy eyes.
As much as I’d like to pit H1N1 in my case it seems to have been nothing more than the sniffles. Also, the psittacosis epidemic turned out to be a bust.
Bubonic Plague hasn’t prooved very fruitful either, mainly because I run like Hell if I think I see a diseased rodent.
So this just leaves good ol’ depression, insomnia, failure in my right eye, the inabilty to hold still, and various other symptoms which either indicate long term heavy metal exsposure or a brain tumor or both.
Damn decongestants. They’re giving me nosebleeds.
Hate this @!#?!@ diabetes! I feel like a damn pincushion!
I think I’m coming down with a cold – I already have that sore, dry throat – it feels like someone’s in there lighting matches. And I can’t find the freaking cough drops!!! :mad:
I’m finally about 95% better, but now a bunch of my students are coming down with it–and these are the good students who had been showing up to every meeting, turning everything in, and getting good grades. I don’t think they’re faking it. The professors are disappearing as well.
I phoned into work last week and told my boss that I was sick.
"How sick are you "
“Well I’m having sex with a sheep even as we speak”
But to be serious I pit clinical depression.
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. It’s been over 6 weeks now. Woke up one morning and immediately hit the floor as the room spun widely around me. Have been suffering excruciating headaches and dizziness pretty much every day since then. The headaches of course make me miserable and teary and difficult to deal with, but I guess techinically that isn’t a symptom.
Been to the doctor multiple times, had MRI, codiene, Valium, different medications for both the dizzy and the nausea. I’ve been doing repositional exercises, aromatherapy, massage, ear candling, alcohol. Still feel like crap. At this point I will willingly be dizzy every day for the rest of my life if someone can figure out how to stop the head pain. I figure it will be like a roller coaster or an adventure. Just please sweet Jesus make the headaches STOP!!
I Pit something stuffed with my wrist - VERY painful (hence being up at 4.50am rather than being asleep :() I broke it in 4 places about 7 years ago and that was nasty… guess I “broke” it permanently. That and jarring it really badly at the driving range - damn 8 iron!
And more seriously, like Lust4Life, I Pit major depression and anxiety.
Pitting that damn nighttime cough that wakes me up at least once every night.
As if I didn’t have enough shit causing me to sleep badly, Og decided that it’d be fun to add something else into the mix.
Thought it was a medication side effect. Quit the meds. Cough stopped. Doc didn’t believe that was causative (the nighttime-only bit makes it sound like gastroesophageal reflux) so I tried restarting the meds. Cough came back immediately. Stopped the meds again. The cough is STILL HERE two weeks later. Dammit. So far, the only thing that works reliably are narcotics, which aren’t a good long-term option.
Meds to treat it, if it’s GERD, aren’t touching it. Neither are tweaks to the asthma meds. I think it’s just the universe fucking with me in yet another fun and entertaining way.
Well, I came in to ask if an anxiety attack counts, but I guess it does.
I pit anxiety attacks.
I’m having one.
Breathe, girl, breathe.
I’m not sick, exactly, but I sprained my ankle yesterday. I have an Ace bandage and an Aircast on it, and naproxen works well for the pain. It just sucks to not be able to get up and move around without some heavy logistical planning.
I just got over Bronchitis. It was the first cold I have had in years. I forgot how nasty they can be. It was so bad that I would go through a half a box of Kleenex until the Sudafed kicked in. Then you get that dry head feeling for 4 hours until you need to take it again. At night I would get up coughing at least twice and take a Dextromethorphan pill. They also last only 4 hours. It took 7 days but I kicked it. bad thing was I gave it to my son when I stopped over his house. 
I have an ear infection.
No, I am not 5 years old. I’m in my mid 30s.
But I somehow picked up a bug that led to sore throat --> clogged ears --> massive ear infection in right ear.
I’m now past the ER-visit, 6 vicodins in one night, fever delirium, antibiotic nausea, ruptured eardrum part of it. That was last weekend. But the damn thing is STILL clogged, I’m still mostly deaf in that ear, my equilibrium still sucks, and the tinnitus in my right ear is making me batty.
Enough already.
I also pit this autoimmune thing I gave going on. I am so tired and generally feeling like s*** all the time, it’s so frustrating. I can’t train for the triathlon like I want to, I can 't do most things like I’d like to - then add to it the treatment sucks too!
I pit my feet, I have calcium pyrophosphade deposition syndrome in them. Sort of gout, but with the calcium that is supposed to sort itself into my bones to prevent osteoporosis. I pit my knees, they have osteoarthritis. I pit my hip sockets, they have femoral acetabular impingements - bone spurs growing in the sickets and crunching away at the cartilage. I pit my sacrums, both sides have impingements grinding away when I move. I pit my lumbar spine for crunching against my spinal nerves, and other nerves in the area and making life and movement interesting I pit my pancreas for letting my islets of langerhans go on vacation without leaving adequate temporary workers in place, and I pit whatever part of my body did a cosmic reset last spring that caused a very acute hypertensive crisis that hasnt gone away and forces me to hork down handsfull of 3 different meds just to get my BP down to the precrisis level.
On the plus side, I have lost 75 lbs thanks to the procedure that yanked out the tormenting uterus and ovaries, and released a number of adhesions left over from the endometriosis …