Sick as a goddamn dog.

[Handley_Page]

I've still been getting over my double hit cold. Alka Seltzer cold and cough work well. See if you can be perscribed something with codeine for the evenings. As for the junk in your lungs, boil some water in a bowl and sit over it with a towel over your head. Breathe in the steam and cough and spit the junk into the bowl.

Don't forget to add salt (or a few menthol crystals) to the boiling water for the nose.
And yes, it really does work

 

[PennLady]

Four days later and still miserable.

Clinic didn't give me antibiotics because I tested negative for strep. They told me to just tough it out with tylenol and musinex.

I've been coughing so much that my chest and stomach hurt. The musinex and the tylenol help with the phlegm and the headaches, but I still have the fever and the fucking cough.

Fuck doctors.

You could go again -- you might test positive this time. One thing with health stuff is sometimes you have to fight for it, which I know is the last thing you feel like doing. But if you aren't seeing any improvement, go again.

 

[carlieplum]

Go see an off-campus doctor. The rapid strep test is notorious for false negatives. As a mom with kids, I can tell you if you look like you have strep and the rapid comes back negative, our pediatrician ALWAYS sends out for a blood test and the blood test comes back positive more often than you would think.

Still remember the time I went to the campus clinic and they told me I just needed Motrin and rest. I drove home because I knew that couldn't be right. Within two hours of leaving the clinic, my dad had me at the ER because my fever was 106 and I was hallucinating. I wound up on IV antibiotics. Thank goodness I didn't just go back to my apartment and take some Motrin.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

If you have puss bags in the back of your throat, you have strep. Guaranteed.

But by now it should have subsided, if you have followed my directions.

 

[AirRichard101]

The length of time of high fever worries me. Aspirin is dangerous to your digestive system in prolonged use or high doses, take other fever reducers or at least, enteric coated aspirin. The white spots do suggest strep as others have said. In today's medicine, the clinicians should be aware of false negatives and do other tests when they have the strong indicators you exhibit. They should naturally be leery of contagion on their campus too.

One thing I learned when strep put me in the hospital, don't take the fever reducer within 3 hours of any medical exam, it will cloak the severity of your fever. Toughing out something this bad for too long can lead to things worse than a failed class like permanent bad health.

ETA: Some people have strong immune systems and can fight off strep, some can be permanently harmed, even die. Even the majority NEED antibiotics to fight it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The docs are too fuggin dum to go ahead and prescribe the antibiotic. I mean, what else can it be but infection!

They do the same with broken toes. They test and xray and wish on stars, and there aint shit you can do for a broken toe.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I haven't been taking any NSAIDS for a few days now. The cough and the aches are still here, but the fever, white spots, headaches, and dizziness are gone.

I think I'm beating it.

Thanks for everyone's concern.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Another thing that probably helped, I slept for 12 straight hours last night. I haven't really had the chance to do that in a while.

 

[SweetWitch]

Another thing that probably helped, I slept for 12 straight hours last night. I haven't really had the chance to do that in a while.

If the aches don't subside in a few days, you need to be concerned about the secondary condition of rheumatic fever. It can attack the heart or the joints. Be mindful.

 

[sheablue]

Once I went to a campus doctor and was diagnosed with Cat Scratch Fever. It turned out I had osteomyelitis, a chronic bone infection. Thanks, Ted Nugent of the medical community.

 

[carlieplum]

Campus doctor gave a friend of steroid cream for her itchy skin and cough syrup with codeine for the persistent cough. Didn't have any advice for the night sweats. (Those would be the three primary symptoms of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, my friends.) Thankfully she went home for spring break and saw a real doctor while it was still treatable and is doing fine.

Not to be a nag, but if you aren't significantly better this much into being sick, you need to be seen by somewhere other than the campus clinic.

 

[carlieplum]

And SweetWitch is totally right about strep turning into secondary infections that can be really serious.